Gore’s activism not as welcome when gas costs 4 bucks

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[Sub-Driver]

Gore’s activism not as welcome when gas costs 4 bucks By Alexander Bolton Posted: 07/16/08 04:33 PM [ET]

Gore’s activism not as welcome when gas costs 4 bucks

By Alexander Bolton

Al Gore hopes to put global warming back at the top of Washington’s agenda Thursday, but some Democrats in Congress are questioning his timing when they are getting pummeled by Republicans over record gas prices.

Gore hopes to deliver a major speech on the environment at Constitution Hall in Washington Thursday that will “press the reset button on how people are looking at the energy crisis and the climate crisis,” said Brian Hardwick, spokesman for Gore’s Alliance for Climate Protection.

The former vice president-turned-elder statesman has achieved rock-star status within his party, not to mention a Nobel Prize, for his environmental activism. But Democrats’ political troubles over the issue of gas prices and domestic drilling prompt some lawmakers to wonder about Gore’s timing.

[gridlock]

This thread is just dying for a man-bear-pig mentioning from South Park. :-)

If it's rules you want, I would rather look at Catherine Zeta-Jones

[hsalaw]

This is as good as his speech on global warming during a New York blizzrd. He’s a master of timing, is the ManBearPig.

[edzo4]

al will no doubt fly there in a private jet...

a gulfstream v holds 41,300 lbs of fuel

jet fuel weighs about 6.75 lbs per gallon on a standard day

so the aircraft holds about 6120 gallons of fuel

my car gets 22 MPG average

so one tankful of private jet fuel for al would take my car 134,640 miles

the earth is about 24,9000 around

so one tankful of fuel for al gore in a private jet would take my car around the world 5 and a half times

can you say hippocrite?

[Future Snake Eater]

But Democrats’ political troubles over the issue of gas prices and domestic drilling prompt some lawmakers to wonder about Gore’s timing.

Not the message. Not the consequences to the people or the country. Just the timing.

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

He tells the politically unsophisticated folks back home one thing but does another in Washington. He is in thick with the local UMWA Locals and also brings in a lot of federal pork. Here's one of his big projects:

Dedication of the Grundy Flood Control and Redevelopment Project Access Bridge

and

Grundy Ready for Rebirth

and

Grundy, Virginia and the $200 Million Bridge to Nowhere

[redhead]

It’s too late, Alfie. But, we’ll call you if something in your aptitude class comes along. Have a nice day, and, don’t be such a STRANGER next time, okay?? Oh, ooops. Gotta run! Bye!

[Future Snake Eater]

Ask and ye shall receive:

[Future Snake Eater]

Another favorite of mine:

[faithinchaos]

I can look at Catherine-Zeta Jones all day.

Thank you. :-)

[faithinchaos]

LOL!

[meyer]

Gore’s activism not as welcome when gas costs 4 bucks.

I think that most people know that Gore's "activism" concerning gloBULL warming is essentially Bravo Sierra. It's just that when gas hit $4 per gallon, many people became more vocal about it.

[bert]

SSHHHh!

Don’t tell the folks in New Orleans that Grundy got washed away in a flood and they removed 100 million cubic yards of mountain across the creek and rebuilt the town there.

[andyandval]

[agere_contra]

THAT is the bridge to nowhere? The one that cost 200 Mill?

Never mind where it’s going. How on earth did they spend 200 million on that feeble little span? Is it made out of solid silver?

[The Great RJ]

When Al Gore sells his energy guzzling mansion and moves into a 600 sq. ft energy efficient home with no air conditioning, windmill power for his electric appliances, total recycling of “gray” waste water and a composting toilet, then someone might take him seriously. Don’t call for the rest of us to repent when you aren’t wearing a hair shirt yourself.

[Matchett-PI]

Here’s the reset button I’ll push:

In fact, I’ll allow Kerry Emanuel of MIT to re-set it:

“.. “The evolution of the scientific debate about anthropogenic [man-caused] climate change illustrates both the value of skepticism and the pitfalls of partisanship. .. Scientists are most effective when they provide sound, impartial advice, but their reputation for impartiality is severely compromised by the shocking lack of political diversity among American academics, who suffer from the kind of group-think that develops in cloistered cultures.

“Until this profound and well documented intellectual homogeneity changes, scientists will be suspected of constituting a leftist think tank.”

“On the left, an argument emerged urging fellow scientists to deliberately exaggerate their findings so as to galvanize an apathetic public...”

“Conservatives have usually been strong supporters of nuclear power. .. Had it not been for green opposition, the United States today might derive most of its electricity from nuclear power, as does France; thus the environmentalists must accept a large measure of responsibility for today’s most critical environmental problem.” ~ Kerry Emanuel - MIT http://bostonreview.net/BR32.1/emanuel.html

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From what I can determine, the Rev. Houghton is one of the scientists (mentioned by Kerry Emanuel above) who was involved in _ deliberately _ misleading people. He admits it:

The Reverend Sir John Houghton, former head of the UK Meteorological Office, Publisher of Al Gore’s book on GW and Former Co-Chair of the IPCC said:

“Unless we announce disasters, no one will listen. .. human induced global warming is a weapon of mass destruction at least as dangerous as chemical, nuclear or biological weapons that kills more people than terrorism.” ~ John Houghton Monday July 28, 2003 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,93466,00.html

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James Hansen of NASA is another:

“Hansen has long employed stagecraft http://planetgore.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MDk2YjVlYTYzZjZkNTRhZWU2NGNkNzcwYTMzMmFlNGQ=
for political gain. On June 23, 1988, he delivered his testimony in an unusually toasty hearing room. Why was it so warm? As then-Sen. Tim Wirth (D., Colo.), told ABC’s Frontline: “We went in the night before and opened all the windows, I will admit, right, so that the air conditioning wasn’t working inside the room . . . it was really hot.” June 27, 2008, 7:00 a.m. http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZjQ2YTllODZiOTA0N2E2MTIzODQwNjUzMjQwYjI2MDI=

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More first-hand admissions:

“We have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified, dramatic statements, and make little mention of any doubts we may have. Each of us has to decide what the right balance is between being effective and being honest.” ~ Stephen Schneider (leading advocate of the global warming theory) (in interview for Discover magazine, Oct 1989)

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[Therefore] “I personally cannot in good faith continue to contribute to a process that I view as both being motivated by pre-conceived agendas and being scientifically unsound. As the IPCC leadership has seen no wrong in Dr. Trenberth’s actions and have retained him as a Lead Author for the AR4, I have decided to no longer participate in the IPCC AR4. - Sincerely, Chris Landsea Expert leaves IPCC 17 January, 2005, Resignation letter
http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/prometheus/archives/science_policy_general/000318chris_landsea_leaves.html

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“The climate modelers have been cheating for so long it’s almost become respectable” (Richard Kerr, discussing adjustments in climate models, Science 1997)

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Personally, I think that these men, along with the others who are making up scary scenarios bear great responsibility for the horrible suffering and nightmares they are causing in little children and adults around the world as a direct result of their admittedly deliberate “scare-mongering”.

Here is merely the latest, among the many examples I’ve read about, result of such reckless behavior:

Climate Change Delusion Driving Boy to Kill Himself http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23992448-5007146,00.html

Let’s hope that more mature, cooler heads will prevail so that this madness may end.

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

They actually spent $1.8 million on that bridge, while the entire mountain-moving project came in at just over $250 million, bridge included.

It's coming out now that rather than rebuild the old town that was torn down in 2000, corrupt local officials gave the re-developers a 99-year-lease for the redevelopment site without any real guarantees that the town would in fact be rebuilt. Needless to say, it won't. So, now the Town Council is pinning its hopes on a new Super Walmart that the Waltons have promised to build at the site but have yet to deliver.

It's been a really sorry spectacle, full of crooked doings, incompetence, and wasted federal taxpayer dollars.

[wastedyears]

It’s great to watch the Democrats self-destruct.

Somebody get the popcorn.

[angkor]

>>>>>His “Inconvenient Pack of Lies” is making the rounds of the cable channels again. I can’t believe how much mileage he has gotten out of that sham.<<<<<<

No surprise there. PBS manages to fit AGW propaganda into virtually every single TV show it produces, no matter how unsuitable.

[angkor]

>>>>Had it not been for green opposition, the United States today might derive most of its electricity from nuclear power, as does France;<<<<<

56 reactors, a single design, all build by Westinghouse (USA).

As for the waste, the French decided:

“We’ll store it temporarily and deal with something more permanent when the science or technology improves in a few decades. Right now we need energy.”