Gore Movie Contains ‘One of the Single Stupidest Statements Ever Put on Film’

NewsBusters ^ | August 16, 2007 | Noel Sheppard |

[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.

[Lorianne]

The auther is wrong and Gore is right. You CAN reduce your carbon emmissions to zero ... by offing yourself.

[Crazieman]

Thats Engvall, not Foxworthy.

[Northern Yankee]

Which is exactly what the enviro-wackos want.

Yep... they all want it, but I haven't heard of a rash of suicides by the enviro-wackos.

They can go first, and do us all a favor.

[Hot Tabasco]

hung a sign around Gore's neck that says "I'm an idiot."

Thats a dumb statement too.......kinda like putting a huge neon sign on the Eiffle Tower that says: This is the Eiffle Tower.

Point being, you don't need a sign to recognize it for what it is.

In all fairness tho, I would support a sign on his back that says "kick me, I'm stupid".

[tcrlaf]

P.T. Barnum is rolling hilariously in his grave at this entire scam!

[expatpat]

Good post

[philman_36]

Thats Engvall, not Foxworthy.
I knew it was one of 'em. I wasn't sure which of 'em actually started it. At least I was in the ballpark. ;)

[raybbr]

But the smartypants Bryce, and Sheppard for promoting his column, aren't necessarily right about this. In fact, they're mostly wrong. Typical science illiteracy. I might even have to email him.

You got some 'splainin' to do. How can a person reduce his CO2 emissions to zero while remaining alive?

[george76]

They will have to kill all the whales too.

hehehe

[tcrlaf]

HERESY!!
The Religion of Global Warming, International Church Of Climate Change shall not be denied!

Seek pennence NOW and send a check for your absolution to The Goracle IMMEDIATELY, or you will be denounced, decertified, and crucified!

/Sarc???
Or IS IT??

[miele man]

Everytime I see this picture, I think that Gore’s daughter must be thinking, “Geez, he really is an idiot. He embarrasses even me”!

[Daffynition]

[burroak]

“In fact, you can even reduce your carbon emissions to zero.”

Since Mr. Gore is leading the Global Warming charge, my suggestion is that he should be the first to cut his carbon emissions to zero.

[george76]

thanks

[longtermmemmory]

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.

[RepublitarianRoger]

ALL that CARBON in ALL that oil & coal was once in the atmospere. We're just putting it back!

Funny, but not really true -- most of it wasn't in the atmosphere to begin with, it was in the solid ground -- unless you're talking about the Hadean Eon, when the Earth was (according to science) still an amorphous mass and hadn't yet solidified. There's a heck of a lot of carbon and other chemical crap that we've pulled out of solid ground and then burned, releasing its byproducts into the atmosphere.

No doubt, we are polluting the atmosphere in this manner. (All I need to do right now is walk out of my California home and look in any direction to see evidence of that.)

But whether this pollution is actually having any kind of measurable warming effect on the entire planet, I seriously doubt.

[windsorknot]

May Al Gore be the first to “reduce (his) carbon emissions to zero”.

[palmer]

If not all the energy consumed by the ingestion of food is burned, we gain weight. A human that has a static weight is carbon neutral

Both statements are incorrect, feces and urine have varying amounts of carbon and calories and our digestion determines whether or not we gain weight more than how much we exercise (yours is a common misconception). Carbon neutrality is quite impossible in any case, since we create carbon when we activate muscles, keep warm, etc.

[Gorzaloon]

We CAN reduce our carbon emissions to zero: we can commit suicide.

No, we have to never be born in the first place.

Cremation is out.

Burial is out. Think of the CO2, Methane, other decay products, plus worm and beetle farts.

[Red Badger]

Then everything we learned in school about “fossil fuels” was wrong? Coal deposits are definitely from plants. Oil and Natural Gas? I’ve heard theories that it may be compressed methane deposits from the beginning, but not convincingly.........