Al Gore warns of pole shift

StaggerOn.org ^ | 08-01-2006 | StaggerOn.org

[rockbobster]

Al Gore warns of pole shift

Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore has been touring the world and making presentations of an impending global pole shift.

"The world is in a greater danger now than ever before", Mr. Gore said, "and the time for us to take action is drawing short".

"Any time between now and the year 2012 the earth will shift on its axis, causing massive flooding, worldwide suffering and death."

Mr. Gore also urged action on the part of his audiences, including massive migration of humans from one continent to another to shift the load on the earth and bring it back into balance.

"This truth might be inconvenient, but future generations are counting on us to take action now", he insisted, "and much better to relocate your home now than for your children and grandchildren to lose theirs in the future".

Mr. Gore has also been promoting his newest book, Earth Coming Unbalanced.

[Notwithstanding]

Even with this (and many other) free ads (peddled as journalism by the drive-by-media), Gore LOST

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(I love to see that in print)

[Las Vegas Dave]

Kyoto is one thing. Gore also strongly urges us to behave responsibly individually -- in fact, the entire final credits of "Inconv...Truth" are replete with such advice. That's as much a moral issue. It's important to act responsibly. For our kids.

BWAHAHA, your liberal thinking is hilarious!

If the RATS gain control of congress, they will pass KYOTO and several other taxes down the throats of us all, the KYOTO tax, BTU tax, and other taxes will raise taxes on gasoline to the tune of 90 cents per gallon for starters. And don't forget your HillaryHealth care TAX (which in 1994 dollars was estimated @ $750/month per working person), in 2008 dollars, MUCH more than $750 per month!.

If this happens your pizza delivery job may be by bicycle!

Enjoy your stay at Freerepublic!

[hershey]

AlGore will demand that half the world head north or south, depending. It's like that SNL sketch with the fat guy on the couch with a woman impersonating Renee Zellwigger. He gets up for another Twinkie and her end of the couch flies in the air. Maybe we'll have to relocate entire nations along the equator. AlGore will have to think about it.

[fatima]

Well then make more sense to these posts darn you Allegra so he can go somewhere.:)

[hershey]

Actually this is right up AlGore's alley.

[bikerman]

No! We are all DOOMED.

[defenderSD]

I don't think Kyoto will ever pass the US Congress, because our congresscritters are fairly smart. They know that if they actually tried to IMPLEMENT Kyoto, then we would immediately go into a severe economic recession and half the folks who voted for Kyoto would be voted out of congress in the next election. They want their jobs in congress more than want Kyoto, and of course they don't want a bad recession either.

[Ichneumon]

Please explain how humans can initiate or prevent a pole shift.

He never said that they could. You might want to read posts more carefully before you attempt to respond to them.

[defenderSD]

Hi LR, you could be right about that. One thing for sure, history has shown that global cooling is a much bigger threat to life than global warming. Having spent a lot of time in both Chicago and Phoenix, I'll take a little global warming (if it actually happens) instead of global cooling any day.

[Beckwith]

Gore and Environmentalism

The Pigeon River is in North Carolina and east Tennessee. The Champion International paper mill has pumped tons of chemicals and byproducts into it for years, turning it the color of coffee and adding a sulfurish smell. Gore campaigned against this pollution and lobbied the EPA to crack down. But in 1987, as Gore started running for president the first time, he was pressured by 2 politicians whose support he craved for the North Carolina Super Tuesday primary. Terry Sanford (then a Senator) and Jamie Clarke (North Carolina congressmen) lobbied him hard to ease up on Champion. Gore did, writing to the EPA, again and again, asking for a more permissive water pollution standard. Sanford and Clarke endorsed him, and Gore won the state handily.

Another example is a Gore family property that has been mined for zinc and germanium for decades. The Vice-President and his dad, the late Senator Albert Gore, Sr., obtained the land in a very favorable deal with the late Armand Hammer of Occidental Petroleum. Gore, Sr. was heavily supported by Hammer financially, and carried his water in the U.S. Senate.

Back in 1972, when zinc was discovered across the river from the Gore family land in Carthage, TN, Hammer sent engineers out and offered $20,000 per year for a mineral rights lease on some property owned by a church that had been willed the land. Instead, they wanted to sell and Hammer won a bidding war to buy the land for $160,000. He then sold it to Gore Jr. and Sr. for the same amount, and immediately started leasing the land back from him for the same $20,000. Lynwood Burkhalter, who in the 70s was president of the company that assumed this lease from Occidental Petroleum, called the payments "extraordinarily large."

Mining is, of course, a very messy business environmentally. The mine itself hasn't been that bad. Republicans have claimed that it's polluting the local drinking water, but according to the Wall Street Journal those problems "are actually very minor." However, the Journal notes that the plant in Clarksville TN, which processes the Gore minerals, is a federal Superfund site contaminated with cadmium and mercury, posing "a threat to the human food chain."

There's also a damning quote about cutting down Yew trees to make a promising cancer treatment that we used to include in our Gore quotes section. Except that the really embarrassing part -- which we got from an editorial in the Austin, Texas American Statesman -- turns out to be distorted and out of context. The full quote, which is still a little odd, is:

"The Pacific Yew can be cut down and processed to produce a potent chemical, taxol, which offers some promise of curing certain forms of lung, breast and ovarian cancer in patients who would otherwise quickly die. It seems an easy choice -- sacrifice the tree for a human life -- until one learns that three trees must be destroyed for each patient treated, that only specimens more than a hundred years old contain the potent chemical in their bark, and that there are very few of these yews remaining on earth." - Gore, in "Earth in the Balance", p. 119


Gore and Big Oil

Former Vice President, Al Gore has a long-time relationship with Occidental Petroleum that has been enormously beneficial to the company. Occidental's late chairman, the controversial Armand Hammer, liked to say that he had Gore's father, Senator Albert Gore, Senior, "in my back pocket." When the elder Gore left the Senate in 1970, Hammer hired him for $500,000 a year. Personally and professionally the vice president has profited from Occidental largess. To this day he still draws $20,000 a year from a land deal in Tennessee brokered between his father and Hammer. The total amount is more than $300,000. The personal relationship between young Gore and Hammer was very close throughout the 1980's, including trips on Hammer's private jet and constant campaign contributions.

For most of the 20th century, oil companies have tried unsuccessfully to obtain control of two oil fields owned and operated by the federal government: the Teapot Dome field in Casper, Wyoming, and the Elk Hills field in Bakersfield, California. Despite his public reputation as a staunch environmentalist, Gore recommended that the president approve giving oil companies access to this publicly owned land. It is land that the U.S. Navy has held as emergency reserves since 1912. In October, 1997, the Energy Department announced that the government would sell 47,000 acres of the Elk Hills reserve to Occidental.

It was the largest privatization of federal property in U.S. history, one that tripled Occidental's U.S. oil reserves overnight. Although the Energy Department was required to assess the likely environmental consequences of the proposed sale, it didn't. Instead it hired a private company, ICF Kaiser International, Incorporated, to complete the assessment. The general chairman of Gore's presidential campaign, Tony Coelho, sat on the board of directors.

The very same day the Elk Hills sale was announced, Gore delivered a speech to the White House Conference on Climate Change on the "terrifying prospect" of global warming, a problem he blamed on the unchecked use of fossil fuels such as oil. He said, quoting, "If we ignore the scientific warnings and continue stubbornly on our current course, we better begin to prepare what we would like to say to our children and grandchildren. They might fairly ask, if you knew all that, why didn't you do something about it?"

Gore and Tobacco

At the Democratic national convention in 1996, Gore gave a moving speech about his only sister's painful death from lung cancer. And since then he has pushed the administration's aggressive anti-smoking campaign.

What Gore didn't mention is that he grew up on a tobacco farm, worked on it, and continued to accept checks from that farm for years after his sister died. In 1988, while running for president, he defended tobacco farmers while campaigning in Southern tobacco states (and made the quote up above: 'I've raised tobacco ... I've shredded it, spiked it,... and sold it.') He accepted contributions from tobacco companies as late as 1990.

Gore claimed that "emotional numbness" led him to defend and profit from the tobacco industry. "Sometimes, you never fully face up to things that you ought to face up to."

Gore himself smoked during college.

[fivecatsandadog]

It's the internet's fault. We need to go back to party lines.

[napscoordinator]

Do you really believe in Global Warming? Maybe I just don't have the full story, but I think this is something that is made up by the lefties. I guess will Republicans getting onboard maybe there is something too it, but just a few short years ago all Republicans and especially conservatives were saying this is bunk. Does Al Gore really make sense now? I just don't think so. If I am wrong and have to get on the Global Warming bandwagon with other conservatives fine, but I will not join the liberals.

[bmwcyle]

No but Anne saids he goes both ways.

[roaddog727]

If th Magnetic poles shift, then they shift.

We, Mr. Gore, have nothing to do with it nor can we do anything about it.

Every several million years or so this shift occurs. It's a natural occurrence.

Oh well. Sucks to be us.

Get over it.

[UCANSEE2]

And what if it does flip.

Beside redoing the letters on your compass, what difference will it make?

AC motors reverse their poles 60 times a second. Whoopee.

[sergeantdave]

What drivel. Consensus is not science.

I could get a consensus on FR that Ben Franklins should grow on money trees, but science won't allow it.

And I see you have the UN's Marxist talking points on the precationary principle memorized.

Chew on this for awhile and get back to us with a reasoned scientific explanation:

NASA’s Mars Odyssey orbiter has confirmed that the polar icecaps on the red planet are melting.

“In some low-altitude areas, the ice has already dissippated,” said William Feldmann of the Los Alamos National Laboratory.

NASA has no explanation for the warming but the data shows the planet is coming out of an ice-age.

[thomaswest]

Whenever it gets hot, the MSM screams "global warming"

One-time events do not prove anything.

One-time events are often claimed in ancient scriptures as a basis for faith, but these global warming scares have as little validity as 'divine retribution' scares.

Neither global warming nor hell is mentioned in the Bible, so both are unlikely.

[R. Scott]

"Any time between now and the year 2012 the earth will shift on its axis, causing massive flooding, worldwide suffering and death."

Has he confused a flip of the magnetic poles with a flip of the planet?

[thomaswest]

Whenever it gets hot, the MSM screams "global warming"

One-time events do not prove anything.

One-time events are often claimed in ancient scriptures as a basis for faith, but these global warming scares have as little validity as 'divine retribution' scares.

Neither global warming nor hell is mentioned in the Bible, so both are unlikely.

[sergeantdave]

Here you go, defenderSD -

On June 24, 1974, Time Magazine wrote that, “Climatological Cassandras are becoming increasingly apprehensive, for the weather aberrations they are studying may be the harbinger of another ice age.”

Today, of course, Time has changed its mind again and joined the global-warming hysteria.