Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 07/21/2008 11:11:42 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
On Thursday, former U. S. vice-president Al Gore delivered a major address calling on his country to abandon all fossil fuels within 10 years. By 2018, U. S. electricity and fuel should come entirely from "renewable energy and truly clean, carbon-free sources," he said. Tickets to the event encouraged attendees to "please use public transit, bicycling or other climate-friendly means" to reach the lecture hall.
So how did Mr. Gore and his retinue arrive? In two Lincoln Town Cars and a full-sized SUV that sat idling with the air conditioners blasting while the Gore party was inside.
It was 34 C (93 F)in Washington. Al Gore can't be expected to get into an overheated vehicle after he's worked up a sweat telling others how to save the planet.
Remember, too, the Nobel prizewinning environmentalist lives in a Tennessee mansion that produces a carbon footprint 20 times that of the average American home. A sizeable chunk of his personal fortune comes from royalties on a zinc mine which had to be temporarily closed five years ago in part because the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency ruled it one of the worst-polluting mine sites in America. Illegal toxins were frequently discharged into nearby rivers.
Mr. Gore's Live Earth benefit concert last summer flew scores of rock bands to stages around the world in carbon-spewing private jets. To cover the emissions from his own frequent use of private jets, Mr. Gore set up a company that buys carbon offsets, so that in effect he is paying himself for his carbon indulgences, writing off the expense on one hand, while pocketing the proceeds on the other.
Apparently if the world is ever to reach the carbon-free future Mr. Gore dreams of, it will have to get there without Al's help.
But take heart, there is increasing evidence that man-made carbon dioxide may not be causing global warming. Indeed, there is increasing debate in the scientific community whether there is even any warming occurring at all. Mr. Gore might just be able to keep going from jet to limo to estate guilt-free (if not carbon-free) for as long as he wishes.
On Tuesday, the Associated Press reported that seven mountain glaciers in northern California were advancing. They joined glaciers in southern Norway, Sweden, the New Zealand Alps and the Hindu Kush mountains of Pakistan. Indeed, worldwide, there are nearly half as many glaciers advancing as retreating.
How did the AP explain this? Well, all the shrinking glaciers it mentioned in its story were melting due to global warming, while the growing ones were "benefitting from changing weather patterns." Glacier melt is proof of a climate crisis, while--on the same planet, under the same global conditions --glacier melt is chalked up as a mere natural phenomenon.
Facts that don't fit the global-warming dogma -- call them inconvenient truths -- are to be dismissed as unimportant. Only those that feed the environmental hysteria are proof of something ominous.
So I'm sure they're entirely inconsequential, but here, anyway, are some anecdotes that cast doubt on the notion that emissions from our SUVs and power plants are dangerously harming the climate.
Greenland isn't melting. And while Arctic sea ice may have thinned in the past three decades by about 3% per decade, according to the U. S. National Snow and Ice Date Center, Antarctic ice (which is about 20 times as voluminous as the Arctic kind) has grown by 1% per decade,
Also, after last summer's record melt in the Arctic, this summer's melt in Antarctica was the smallest on record. And NASA satellites have found that Arctic Sea ice coverage this year is more than one million square kilo-metres greater than last year's, greater than the average of the last three years and 10-20 centmetres thicker than in 2007. According to observations by the Danish Meteorological Institute, we "have to go back 15 years to find ice expansion so far south."
Snow coverage in North America this winter was greater than at any time in recorded history. China had its worst winter in a century, and the southern hemisphere its worst in the past 50 years.
And while global temperatures increased slightly in June, through the end of May, the nine-month decline in temperatures beginning in September was greater (0.8C) than all the warming of the 20th century (0.6C).
All of this may prove nothing (although if these signals pointed toward warming, you can bet they'd be billed as proof a coming climate catastrophe). But they should at least give Mr. Gore comfort that he need not sacrifice his high-carbon lifestyle just to prove he can walk the walk.
Earth to Planet Gore! Nashville, we have a problem!
Gore is living proof of just how stupid a very large sector of our population really is....
Wow...AlBore is a liar and a hypocrite, not to mention, incredibly stupid...who would’a thunk it?
These phoneys have no intention of living the way they want US to.
“Environmentalism” is about controlling people- NOT “saving the planet”.
Rush playing Algore clips now.
Gore is living proof of just how stupid a very large sector of our population really is....
That anyone would listen to this Bozo and his crackpot theories after he said he invented the internet is amazing!
We need Al Gore. We need to know what “dishonest” looks like.
Fat ALbert Gore isn’t stupid, he is a lying hypocrite that is making big money off the BIG LIE. Shame so many of the sheeple have been indoctrinated to believe the BIG LIE.
Al needs to be tried and hanged for the BIG LIE.
Yep. The standard reply from the unwashed (literally) will be that he’s too important to the cause, so that special considerations need to be made so that the message gets spread.
In other words, their political power at any cost, even when the hypocrisy has moved into the Twilight Zone.
We don’t call him the Goreacle for nothing!
Like most liberals, that equality stuff is okay for Joe Sixpack, so long as he can live like a sultan.
I agree! To bad for this country.
In other words, their political power at any cost, even when the hypocrisy has moved into the Twilight Zone.
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Without any doubt. That is what the socialist libs live for. POWER AND ONLY POWER. They care about nothing else. A sad reflection on Washington has become, but one has only to look at the performance and mindset of the Congress to see it. It does not take any genius to see the rot in the Congress and how useless it has become. A taxpayer-funded coutnry club of egotistical socialists.
The primary evidence that CO2 and the greenhouse effect have anything to do with raising global temperature is missing entirely. It isn't there.
No Smoking Hot Spot (The Australian)
This is a short and easily understandable article showing the plain truth. The hinge pin that links global temperature to the greenhouse effect is missing. It is easily measurable and hundreds of probes have done so.
According to one blogger who covers Mt. Rainier in Washington state:
"With snow still around in July, this year provides special opportunities! It is easier to use snowshoes or cross country skis at Paradise to trek up close to the mountain unless you want to use the mountain climbers’ snowy boot trail up to Camp Muir. On Sunday, July 13th while standing at Inspiration Point on the Stevens Canyon Road, my binoculars found skiers skiing down the mountain through Fuhrer’s Finger to the Wilson Glacier simply because there is still enough snow on the mountain for adventure seekers to do so. Then on Thursday, July 17th I put on my snowshoes so I could easily walk around Tipsoo Lake at Chinook Pass for a better photo opportunity. I was joined by a man using his cross country skis to navigate his way around the lake. The poor tourist stood and watched in sandals and tennis shoes unprepared and surprised by all the July snow."emphasis added
I remember about 15+ years ago when Mt. Rainier was completely bare of snow- totally bare, all the way up to the summit - one whole summer. Locally there was great gnashing of teeth and dire predictions, typically about the "drought" that would result from no snow in the mountains.
Fortunately, everyone muddled through somehow, despite all the snooze media's dire predictions of calamity and the *whether-person's acute stupidity regarding the whole thing.
Now it's almost August, and most of the usually heavily traveled higher hiking paths are still covered with snow! And people are skiing down the mountainside- in mid-July!
Please tell me how I can get in on this carbon credit/global warming scam. Do I have to give up all my ethics or just most of them? Can I just be a little bit of a hypocrite or do I have to go all the way, like AlBore and Hollyweird?
*Whether person- One on teevee who professes to know about the weather, but must actually open a window and stick their head out in order to determine whether it is raining or whether it is sunshining.
Al is the mental patient that has not been caught yet.
I’m waiting for any liberal to comment on my “footprint” because I’m going to tell them that I use Al Gore as a baseline...and because of that I have a moderate sized forest I can burn down and still be under my quota.
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