Posted on 08/18/2007 6:27:20 AM PDT by george76
Though Austin Chronicle writer Robert Bryce is likely not a household name, his column published in Thursday's Energy Tribune is a must-read for all anthropogenic global warming skeptics.
In "Al Gore's Zero Emissions Makes Zero Sense," Bryce not only skewered the Global Warmingist in Chief's schlockumentary "An Inconvenient Truth," but he also deliciously mocked all the sycophant devotees of the former vice president that have failed to recognize the obvious as they tour the country professing imminent planetary doom at the hands of a naturally occurring gas that happens to be a necessity to all forms of life.
With that in mind, Bryce marvelously began with one of the world's greatest truisms (emphasis added throughout):
It is the nature of civilization to use energy and it's the nature of liberalism to feel bad about it.
Honestly, have you ever heard any statement that better describes this whole debate?
Fortunately, Bryce wasn't even warmed up yet:
Here's my review: it is an overly simplistic look at a complex problem and it concludes with one of the single stupidest statements ever put on film. Yes, that's harsh criticism. But it's the right one, given that just before the final credits, in a segment addressing what individuals can do about global warming, the following line appears onscreen: "In fact, you can even reduce your carbon emissions to zero."
This statement is so blatantly absurd that I am still stunned, weeks after watching Gore's movie, that none of the dozens of smart people involved in the production of the movie - including, particularly, Gore himself - paused to wonder aloud something to the effect of, "Hey, what about breathing? Don't we produce carbon dioxide through respiration?"
The answer, is yes, we do. Thus, by including the claim that you can "reduce your carbon emissions to zero" the film's producers might as well have hung a sign around Gore's neck that says "I'm an idiot."
Does that mean all of the folks that are buying Gore's snake oil must also be wearing such a sign around their necks?
Regardless of the answer, the reader is encouraged to review the entire piece for more chuckles.
It’s distracting to have the article in blue font.
Just one? Every statement Algore makes is stupid. That’s why he’s so popular with the left.
I hate to have to tell you that CO2 is not a pollutant, but an essential gas. If you removed all the CO2 from the atmosphere, you would die quite soon.
Dear Al Gorebull,Please do what you can to clean up that polluted site on your property that made your family rich.I know it is so bad that it has been declared a Superfund site under Government specs.I am sure you would not drink any water from the ground there,and i suspect you would not hang around there very long without a good respirator mask.If and when that happens,when pigs learn how to fly,get back to us.Sincerely,an American citizen.And while you are at it,please put the fork down and step away from the table.Methane gas does not only come from farm animals.
You had me going for a bit there too. Our net plutonium emissions (we probably emit less if we are getting fatter, neutral if aren't, and emit all our stored plutonium when we die) is quite irrelevant to anything. Likewise carbon (all forms). Likewise, as you said before, CO2 since that is much smaller than the CO2 from the coal plant I use to cool my house.
Big Al's broader definition of carbon neutrality is hopelessly flawed as well many reasons like tree planting too far north (warming), ethanol offsets that don't account for all energy inputs, etc
During the World Trade Organization conference in Cancun a few years ago, the head of a major Mexican environmental group told a friend of mine: "We don't care at all about the poor. We don't want them to become rich or middle class, because then they will become consumers and that means you have to take more resources out of the ground to meet their demands, and that's bad for the Earth. It's better to keep them poor."
That's their real agenda.
He means you can reduce your net carbon emissions to zero, by buying some of the handy carbon offset credits that he sells.
now that’s funny!
Thanks.
their real agenda.
bump for tomorrow!
And yet, the movie Inconvenient Truth with a level of science that makes the every Kindergardner look like a nobel lauriet, won an Oscar despite the padded white room logic.It's called Scientific Research By Academy Award.
gore is an idiot...making a complete fool of himself...never mentions the sun...the lefties continue to be fools...
“that none of the dozens of smart people involved in the production of the movie - including, particularly, Gore himself -
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I am having second thoughts about the entire article, since the author so blatantly contradicts himself here.
Unless that was sarcasm too subtle for this modest civilian.
Good catch.
Impressive fission/fusion powered muscles. :)
I understand that in Europe, this problem has been addressed. Unless that family or friends of the deceased pay a fee to maintain the gravesite, the grave is recycled after a certain amount of time. I’m not sure what is done with the bones.
Personally I could care less what is done with my remains. I’ll be with God.
ROFL!! Great post!
They can go first, and do us all a favor.”
Oh, no! They are much more important than us, so we must go first! Otherwise who would teach us of our evil-doing? /psychotic raving-AKA lib-speak.
That is precisely the goal of the Culture of Death and its leftist political arm—reduce human carbon emissions to zero by eliminating the human race. To Gore and other environmental extremists, human beings are a cancer killing the earth’s biosphere.
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