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Posted on 05/02/2007 11:22:17 AM PDT by presidio9
H aven't we heard enough from Al Gore, the U.S. windbag turned Hollywood celebrity who presumes to lecture Canadians on their environmental responsibilities?
The failed U.S. presidential candidate spends a lot of time in Canada, perhaps because he finds it fertile ground for self-enrichment.
The multi-millionaire with a carbon footprint the size of a Sasquatch was in Toronto at the weekend, preening himself among adoring fans.
He was introducing a showing of his Oscar-winning movie An Inconvenient Truth, that apocalyptic vision of a world in meltdown that has earned him the soubriquet of "the world's most famous environmentalist."
Gore, whose political experience should have taught him to keep his nose out of other nations' business, had the gall to dismiss PM Stephen Harper's new climate policy as "a complete and total fraud." Much like his own claim to have invented the Internet, I suppose.
If any other American busybody dared to meddle in Canadian affairs, he'd be dismissed as an interfering, imperialist bully. But since Gore claimed to have discovered the secrets of a doomed universe, he's become the darling of hand-wringers everywhere.
This is the same guy, remember, who under Bill Clinton conspired to keep the U.S. out of the Kyoto accord. The pact he helped kill in his own country is the one he now claims is all that stands between the planet and oblivion. No wonder few Americans take him any more seriously today than they did then.
So enamoured is Gore of his new-found fame, however, that he feels impelled to inflict his dodgy opinions on anyone else who'll listen.
Many do. The movie is doing well (it's earning him millions), and most who see it take it as gospel, disregarding those scientists who find much of it hogwash.
Gore himself backtracks shamelessly when challenged on his cataclysmic scenario of rising seas inundating towns and cities. He told George Stephanopoulos on ABC that scientists "don't have any models that give them a high level of confidence" in such a scenario.
They "don't know," he said, "they just don't know." And this is the movie being hawked around Canadian high schools!
John Baird, our environment minister, suspects Gore never read Canada's new policy. And, given the time he devotes to his fawning fans, it wouldn't surprise me.
Among Gore's adulators, of course, is Liberal leader Stephane Dion, the former environment minister who presided over unprecedented increases in greenhouse- gas emissions and seems determined to contribute even more hot air in opposition. But at least Dion is playing on home ground and the rhetoric, however overblown, is part of a legitimate process.
Gore, on the other hand, seems to detect no hypocrisy in his intrusive efforts to foist on other countries climate-change policies he himself failed to endorse in his own.
Now that's a really inconvenient truth.
The inconvenient windbag takes his show on the road...
“Maybe you folks can figure out what to do with him.”
Perhpas demonstrate to him that icebergs still exist - or introduce him to some hungry polar bears.
oopsie.
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They can drop him off somewhere in Nunavut and let him walk back.
Calling AlGore a “U.S. windbag” does not imply hatred for the United States. However, it may imply hatred for Al Gore, which I’m sure a lot of people share with the author.
A sasquatch could eat, sleep, p!ss, sh*t, and hunt within AlGore’s carbon footprint.
In December. ;-)
Why do they keep calling it Al Gore’s movie? He didn’t write it. He didn’t direct it. I don’t think he even produced it, and he certainly did not personally take home an Oscar for it. He narrated it. Does this mean that all of those Disney documentaries Rex Allen narrated in the ‘60s were Rex Allen films?
Who financed it?
It looks like it was mainly an eBay m/billionaire named Jeff Skoll. He’s a Canadian and is using his wealth to push liberalism in our country, if his production company’s credits are any indication: An Inconvenient Lie, Syriana, Good Night and Good Luck, Fast Food Nation, etc.
Al’s not a “foreigner,” he’s a citizen of the world. As a member of the latter’s ruling class he has the right to tell anybody how to run their lives anywhere, anytime. Good heavens, the fellow’s almost French!
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