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Posted on 11/13/2007 8:17:21 AM PST by connell
Algore, The Goracle, is adored by his minions of Gorons!
Because the left deals only in feeeeeeeeeeeelings. Facts mean nothing.
There’s a lot of money in global warming. Scientists who know better still can’t help themselves when it’s about government grants coming their way to “research” and find solutions to problems that are non-existent. And for the UN it’s a gold mine of wealth and increased power waiting to tap.
Al Gore:
Beware of the half-truth — you may have gotten the wrong half.
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I notice an interesting pattern about rats who multiply their wealth by two orders of magnitude. SHE needs lessons from Al as SHE started from a low base. I wonder when SHE will catch up to Al.
It's a lot more than government grants. Carbon Offsets
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Come on, Al, run. Save us from impending doom.
If you really mean what you say, run. Put yourself in position of power to do something besides accept Academy Awards. No political power to effectuate “climate change” in that.
Prove to us it’s real, Al. Put it all on the line for the sake of humanity. You owe it to us. We are the world.
It’s an easy way to make money, setup a phony crisis then create companies that exist to solve it. A quick look to see who’s investing in their stocks would most likely tell us all we need to know. Not saying Ecobusinesslinks is doing that but it doesn’t change what a scam global warming is.
Gore needs to be put in a lock box!
Bingo! You nailed it. Environmentalism is a religion, and reality shall not be allowed to get in the way of devotion to the cause.
~~ AGW™ ping~~
Lawrence Solomon's "The Deniers" (a series of articles on the view of scientists who have been labelled "Global Warming Deniers"):
Other References:
Either way, anybody that actually buys them, uncoerced by government, is an idiot.
The power generation sector has been juggling these 'carbon offsets' for years. It all began with the EPA and the Clean Air Act. Most US utilities have a mixed generation of fossil, hydro and nuclear. The fossil plants (we call them dirt burners) were targeted by the government 30+ years ago because of the smoke being released from the burning of, mainly, coal. (remember acid rain?)
Well, the first thing the government did was to require that all dirt burners install some version of a 'scrubber'. These scrubbers simply filtered the air before it reached the smoke stack, however, because there is no free lunch, the particles that were scrubbed from the air were mixed with water to form a slurry and pumped to a silt pond.
Finally, some genius government employee or politician came up with the idea of carbon offsets (there's Renewable Portfolio Standards, RPS, Renewable Energy Credits, REC's, etc). Each utility was allowed a certain amount of carbon emissions based on their base load (after all, the citizens still need power), however, they were required (encouraged?) to build non carbon emitting electrical generation facilities, e.g. wind farms, to try to 'offset' their carbon emissions.
Utilities without existing renewable resources or nuclear facilities discovered that it was much more cost effective to buy carbon credits from other utilities that had a surplus rather than invest in renewable or nuclear.
In other words, just like AlGore's carbon offsets, it's a joke and I wouldn't be surprised if he didn't get the whole idea from his days when he was in Washington and watching the utility farce play out.
Free thinking is dangerous, must trust The Goracle (beep)
Free thinking is dangerous, must trust The Goracle (beep)
Free thinking is dangerous, must trust The Goracle (beep) ....
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