Posted on 10/15/2007 6:27:16 AM PDT by Kaslin
Alfred Barnard Nobel was a Swedish chemist, engineer, and innovator born in 1833. As the inventor of dynamite, he amassed a great fortune through the manufacture and sale of armaments. The Nobel Prize was established through his will in1895. Every year since 1901, the Nobel Prize has been awarded for achievements in physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature and for peace.
It is one of the most impressive accolades any public servant can receive. The fact that the documentary “An Inconvenient Truth,” its Academy Award, and Vice President Gore’s activism led to this incredible honor is tantamount to the Nobel Committee endorsing his work. Giving him the Nobel Peace Prize places Vice President Gore in the company of greats like Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1964, Mother Teresa In 1979, Lech Walesa in 1983, and Nelson Mandela in 1993.
Through this award, the international community is saying to us, “Environmental concerns are very important and America needs to step up to the plate of international leadership!” Although we would hardly place Gore in the same category as King or Mother Teresa, the award adds cache and credibility to the former Vice President’s agenda.
Ironically, last week, I asked my readers to consider taking practical steps to frame the debate on the environment. I suggested that we consider weaning the nation off of foreign oil as a way of starting down a balanced approach to both pollution and reducing CO2 emissions. There are a myriad of approaches to energy reform and environmental policy reform that conservatives can take that will help move these issues forward in a balanced manner. My greatest concern is that we will wait too long to attack this issue.
Little did I know that the Nobel Prize would be awarded to Gore and the IPPC days after my last column. If the Peace Prize causes the voting public of our nation to move environmental issues to the top of the list of public concerns, they will mandate that a solution be found and implemented.
Fortunately for the nation, environmental activists have not yet gained enough public attention for them to unveil their “solutions”. As these activists wait for their “moment,” conservatives should use the time we have to develop incentive-based approaches to reducing CO2 emissions. Even increasing the use of nuclear energy as a source of power within the US should not be taken off the table.
Many writers have noted that this present global warming scare is not new. In fact, in the spring of 1975 Newsweek published an article on climate change. The following words were written by sensationalistic journalists:
“There are ominous signs that the Earth’s weather patterns have begun to change dramatically and that these changes may portend a drastic decline in food production – with serious political implications for just about every nation on Earth. The drop in food output could begin quite soon, perhaps only 10 years from now.”
According to many news reports, the Earth was moving into another ice age. Just 30 years later, not only did the ice age not appear, but now we are told the world is on the verge of unprecedented global warming.
In my discussions with scientists, I have once again discovered a difference between the words of the scientific community and the alarmist rhetoric of writers and activists. In fact, scientific journals of the 1970s were saying that there would likely be warming because of greenhouse effects, sooner than the return of an ice age. Unfortunately, the complexity of the real scientific story was not easily reduced to a thirty second sound bite or a catchy headline.
Telling the full story with all of its scientific nuances, would have not produced headlines. For this reason the science was compromised, conclusions were framed in a sensationalistic manner, and the public was entertained – not informed. It would have been better to say that there are big cooling cycles coming, interspersed with smaller warming cycles.
Why the flip-flop in the media? I am not sure. Could they be misleading us again? I certainly hope not. In an interesting study of the media’s coverage of “climate change,” R. Warren Anderson and Dan Gainor examined how major media outlets covered the issue of climate change over the last 100 plus years . What they discovered was that there have been four climate change scares; a concern over global cooling beginning in 1895, followed by fears of global warming in 1929, only to be replaced by alarm over global cooling; now we are back to global warming. With each succeeding crisis, the call for a government solution has grown louder and louder.
Any greenhouse warming, if it does occur, is limited to primarily increasing nighttime temperatures, which provides beneficial moderation of nighttime low temperatures, but no increase in daytime high temperatures. Dr. Patrick Michaels, Professor of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia, has demonstrated this phenomenon very effectively.
And then there is the Peruvian Queiccaya ice cap which no longer exists is a great example of Cry Wolf - that ice cap was a relic from the ice age and should be gone. Algore is every bit the modern day Snake Oil Salesman.......
Te Arafat Pieces Prize.
That sounds good but ignores the real facts of the matter which are that the goal of the leftist/Marxist environmental movement has nothing to do with CO2 and everything to do with getting control over our lives. Should we manage to suppress CO2 emissions to zero we would simply find ourselves with yet another crisis requiring that we give up money and freedom to our leftist masters.
No thank you. Let's just continue to point out that the sky is not falling and the whole CO2 issue is just another left-wing scam that is unsupported by the scientific facts.
I ironically notice the electgore2008 website is run by a nonprofit.
Dunno, but Kofi Annan managed to do the same thing...
High co2 levels are actually good for the planet, the more vigorous plant growth increases the production of oxygen, as well as absorbtion of other man made pollutants, negating any enviromental impact human activity may cause, but more importantly, absorbing the much more deadly pollutants "mother earth' dischages from time to time through volcanic eruptions.
Just ONE single volcanic erruption can spew more pollutants, sulfer dioxide, etc than 100 years of human industrial activity in just a few hours.
The Nobel Peace Prize hasn’t been an “incredible honor” for many, many years.
bttt
In fact ice records of high co2 levels which existed long before man’s industrial activity probably co-incide with increased global volcanic activity, which caused a cooling period following, most likely because of the large amount of volcanic soot in the atmosphere blocking out the sun.
CO2 is plant food.
More food, more plants.
More plants, less CO2.
Nature has a way of dealing with this very nicely without us mucking about with a superiority complex.
Gore classic sayings "We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur." -- Vice President Al Gore, 9/22/97
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "For NASA, space is still a high priority." -- Vice President Al Gore, 9/5/93
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children." -- Vice President Al Gore
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. I mean in this century's history. But we all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century." -- Vice President Al Gore, 9/15/95
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it." -- Vice President Al Gore
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "[It's] time for the human race to enter the solar system." -- Vice President Al Gore
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made." -- Vice President Al Gore
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change." -- Vice President Al Gore, 5/22/98
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice president, and that one word is 'to be prepared.'" -- Vice President Al Gore, 12/6/93
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things." -- Vice President Al Gore, 11/30/96
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future." -- Vice President Al Gore
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "The future will be better tomorrow." -- Vice President Al Gore
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "We're going to have the best-educated American people in the world." -- Vice President Al Gore, 9/21/97
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I stand by all the misstatements that I've made." -- Vice President Al Gore to Sam Donaldson, 8/17/93
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "We have a firm commitment to NATO, we are a *part* of NATO. We have a firm commitment to Europe. We are a *part* of Europe." -- Vice President Al Gore
Then there was the photo-op where Mr. Green had tons of water released in order to float his boat. When I think of Algore, I automatically think Snake Oil.
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Thesaurus Check Bitte!
Snake oil is a very appropriate association.
LoL! Gore is a lunatic. You’d think he’d learn to keep his mouth shut.
Thank you for again posting those charts and quotes that the GreenieWarms refuse to answer. How anyone can view those charts and then have the gall to point to human activity as sole cause of either warming or cooling is simply beyond me.
Gore’s War on Weather joins all the other nebulous ‘war ons’.
Gore’s War on Weather joins all the other nebulous ‘war ons’.
Good title for what it has now become - another political ploy by the left to have the public appeal to their (leftist) agenda.
Which is a silly goal anyway.
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