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.

[Christopher Lincoln]

You've got the idea.

[palmer]

Sorry, I shouldn’t say “create” carbon, we create CO2.

[P.O.E.]

My wife complains more about my methane emissions than my carbon ones.

[babyfreep]

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

I don't wanna think of that yucky stuff. ;-)

[LiteKeeper]

YEAH!!!

[B.O. Plenty]

Even suicide will take a while to reduce emissions to zero...

the decomposion process takes weeks, and emits all kinds of noxious gasses in the process...including....yeeeeesssss...CO2.

[Loyal Buckeye]

Compliments of another Freeper.

[Chode]

that and Geez... Not AGAIN!!!

even the cop is laughing at him.

[RepublitarianRoger]

Then everything we learned in school about “fossil fuels” was wrong? Coal deposits are definitely from plants.

You said that "ALL that CARBON in ALL that oil & coal was once in the atmospere. We're just putting it back!" With the exception of natural gas, all fossil fuels, coal deposits from plants, and of course the plants themselves, are all solids. So I'm saying that unless you are going all the way back to the Hadean Eon in which nearly everything on Earth was not yet congealed into solid form (i.e. the entire planet could be considered "an atmosphere,") then your statement that "ALL the carbon in ALL that oil and coal was once in the atmosphere" is false. It was clearly not in the atmosphere to begin with. Most of it, as your statements about fossil fuels and planets indicates, is from solids.

[Erasmus]

Does that mean all of the folks that are buying Gore's snake oil must also be wearing such a sign around their necks?

Not at all. It's on top of their heads, like a neon tiara.

[goodwithagun]

Does body decomposition have any negative effects on Mother Earth?

[RepublitarianRoger]

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

Can't even cut it to zero while dead. See my post #18.

[TexasCajun]

"Hey! ...I'm An IDIOT!! OK. "

[goodwithagun]

Goron doesn’t need Carbon Credits, he needs Carbohydrate Credits.

[cgbg]

It sounds like Manbearpig wants to take the flock on a little Kool-Aid drinking journey to South America.

I won't say "just think of it as evolution in action".

:-)

[Red Badger]

Okay, I get ya!

For the plants to have grown, they needed CO2. So it had to have been in the atmosphere at some point. Maybe not ALL at the same time, but at some point every carbon atom had to be part of a CO2 molecule.............

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

It is the nature of civilization to use energy and it’s the nature of liberalism to feel bad about it.

That was my pull quote, too. But I see the need to correct it:

It is the nature of civilization to use energy and it’s the nature of liberalism self-hyping journalism, and its fellow travelers whom it calls "liberals," to feel bad self righteously criticize about it everything that its own civilization does.

[scripter]

Ping

[Leftism is Mentally Deranged]

He meant that we have to all offset our breathing by buying “carbon credits”, or by paying the coming carbon tax.

[cgbg]

Now I see what would have been Hillary and Bill's defense if they were tried for Vince's murder:

"We helped save the planet by reducing his carbon emissions to zero."

:-(