It's a joke, right! (Al gets gored!)

Herald Sun ^ | 2 March 2007 | Andrew Bolt

[Aussie Dasher]

ANY day now, global warming will change from the world's biggest scare to the world's biggest joke.

In fact, that moment could have come already. Last Monday, to be exact. That's when we saw a beaming Al Gore waddle on stage to the roar of Hollywood's dream-makers to get his Oscar for An Inconvenient Truth.

It should have been for the former US vice president -- now the world's most famous global warming alarmist -- his finest hour.

Here he was, receiving film's highest honour for his smash documentary, in which he warns that within a century the seas will rise up to 6m while monster hurricanes tear through what's left of our cities.

Never mind that scientists reject such wild claims. Gore was getting the endorsement that counts -- an ovation from the diamond elite of showbiz and the media -- for preaching that only one thing could save us from the apocalypse he imagines.

Use. Less. Dirty. Power.

And how wildly this Use Less preacher was cheered on Monday as he stood there in his hair-shirt tuxedo. Cheered by actors who'd actually flown in by private jet. By actresses who'd driven up in stretch limos. By agents with solarium tans glowing under the brightest lights.

[Aussie Dasher]

Bullseye!!!!!!

[angkor]

Al and the Manbearpig (South Park)

[wafflehouse]

this is a great article

[Fred Nerks]

So what is the moral in this carnival of hypocrisy? It's that global warming is an apocalyptic faith whose preachers demand sacrifices of others that they find far too painful for themselves. It's a faith whose prophets can demand we close coal mines but who won't even turn off their own pool lights. Who demand the masses lose their cars, while they themselves keep their planes. It's the ultimate faith of the feckless rich, where a ticket to heaven can be bought with a cheque made out to Al Gore. No further sacrifice required. Except, of course, from the poor. While Gore's lights burn brightly, for you the darkness is coming.

Andrew Bolt, right on target!

[andyandval]

[Caipirabob]

Better speak not and be taken as a fool, then to speak and confirm it...

Al Gore has it recorded to DVD for all time as proof.

[JoeGar]

Excellent!

[Jim Robinson]

Global warming may be a joke, but it's big business for Giuliani's law firm:

February 27, 2007 01:37 PM Eastern Time
Bracewell & Giuliani Advises Econergy International on Investments in Four Latin American Renewable Energy Projects
HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Attorneys from Bracewell & Giuliani LLP’s renewable energy and Latin American practice groups recently advised Econergy International PLC, a clean energy and carbon developer, on investments in four Latin American renewable energy projects: the Beberibe wind energy project and the Areia Branca and Pipoca hydroelectric projects in Brazil, as well as the Laja hydroelectric project in Chile.

Bracewell assisted Econergy International in signing a $25.8 million investment agreement with Cataventos and Enventure Partners to develop Beberibe, a 25.5 megawatt wind energy project in the state of Ceará, Brazil. Under the terms of the agreement, Econergy International will own 80 percent of the project, which is expected to begin operating in January 2008 and generate more than 92,000 megawatt-hours of wind energy power per year.

Additionally, Bracewell also assisted Econergy with investments in two 20 megawatt hydroelectric projects in the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil: the Areia Branca project and the Pipoca project, which are both slated to begin operating in September 2008. All three of the Brazilian projects are part of federal or state renewable energy programs under which government-owned banks will provide construction financing and government-owned electric utilities will purchase the electric output from these projects for a period of at least 20 years. Econergy is already funding the continued development of Areia Branca.

“These Brazilian investments are the first of their kind for Econergy in Brazil and add to an expanding portfolio for the company as it explores opportunities for future investments,” said Benjamin Israel, partner with Bracewell & Giuliani.

In addition to the Brazilian projects, Bracewell’s team led negotiations with Alberto Matthei & Hijos as part of Econergy’s first transaction in the Chilean market. Econergy has committed to invest $9 million for 50 percent ownership in the 25 megawatt Laja hydroelectric project, which is expected to generate an average of 140,000 megawatt-hours of energy and 69,000 Certified Emissions Reductions per year. Laja is one of the first new construction projects in Chile that does not rely on fossil fuel and has been hailed as the first of a new series of investments that will reduce Chile’s dependence upon foreign-owned natural gas, oil and coal. The project is expected to enter into commercial operations in the third quarter of 2008.

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Bracewell & Giuliani LLP is among the nation's most prominent law firms. With 400 lawyers in New York, Texas, Washington, D.C., Kazakhstan and London, we are distinctively positioned to serve clients concentrated in the energy and financial services sectors worldwide.


In 2005, former New York City mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani joined the firm as a senior partner. His international reputation for leadership and problem solving is a unique asset for our clients, which include Fortune 500 companies, major financial institutions, leading private investment funds, governmental entities and individuals. For more information about Bracewell & Giuliani, visit www.bgllp.com.

http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20070227006123&newsLang=en

[raybbr]

[PogySailor]

Wow, a major smackdown!

[cgbg]

The globe-trotting global warming advocates remind me of the snake-oil salesmen that used to tour the countryside in the 1800s.

They talked a great game but in the end it was all about ripping off the public.

The liberals whine about "greed" because the ugly face of greed stares at them when they wake up every morning and look in the mirror.

:-(

[visualops]

Renewable and clean energy are good goals regardless of the existence or not of man-made global warming.

[Beowulf]

LOL

[Texas Jack]

Better speak not and be taken as a fool, than to speak and confirm it...

I've always liked this one:

"Light travels faster than sound. That's why some people appear bright until you hear them speak."

But, what do we expect. Hollywood stars make tremendous amounts of money pretending to be real people. The better you are at pretending to be a real person, the more accolades are bestowed upon you. ManBearPig fits right in with this self-delusional crowd. After all, he invented the Internet.

[Jim Robinson]

Yeah, I know. And he knows. And he's hedging all bets and covering all bases:

Bracewell has represented many of the biggest names in big oil, refinery, natural-gas and power production, including ChevronTexaco, Reliant Energy and Dynegy. In addition to its four Texas branches, the firm has offices in oil-rich Almaty, Kazakhstan and London.


While there’s probably no Manuel Noriega on the Bracewell & Giuliani client list, the affiliation could come to have its own political baggage: While there over the summer, Mr. Giuliani drew attention for his position that the United States should build more nuclear-power plants to meet its energy demands.

http://www.observer.com/20070205/20070205_Anna_Schneider-Mayerson_pageone_newsstory3-3.asp

[q_an_a]

What is so great about this article is that he ties Gore and his own waste into one neat package. I heard portions of Rush yesterday and never mentioned the part about Gore's company, which has been posted here on Free Republic. So, it is an article like this, with the whole story, that needs the light of day.

[expatguy]

bttt

[poobear]

"But there are at least four problems with such offsets, the first of which is very particular to Gore. And that is Gore buys his offsets through Generation Investment Management, whose chairman is . . . Al Gore."

Imagine if Cheney were the Chairman. Gawd!

[BuffaloJack]

The thing that can hurt the liberals the most is the public doubting the Global Warming Hoax. If the public comes to its senses and realizes that global warming is all BS, then socialism will lose what it seeks most, power and money. The socialists and liberals are beginning to go into a panic mode because they realize that the truth will win and they will lose.