Raked Over Coal

IBD Editorials ^ | September 26, 2008

[Kaslin]

Climate Change: Al Gore has rightly been scolded for encouraging civil disobedience to stop global warming. But his little-noticed follow-up statement might be even more foolish — and dangerous.

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When it comes to sheer crackpottery on environmental issues, no national figure can measure up to the lofty standard set by the former Tennessee senator and vice president. This is a man who is leading a caravan of humming hybrid drivers to nowhere and is willing to criminalize those who disagree with him to get there.

While speaking Wednesday in New York at the Clinton Global Initiative, Gore told young people "looking at the future of this planet and looking at what is being done right now" that "it is time for civil disobedience to prevent the construction of new coal plants that do not have carbon capture and sequestration."

After fomenting crimes against property and obstruction of commerce through "rings of young people blocking bulldozers and preventing them from constructing coal-fired power plants," a strategy he advocated last year, Gore encouraged law enforcement officials to investigate a group of energy companies that he has singled out for punishment.

"I believe for a carbon company to spend money convincing the stock-buying public that the risk from the global climate crisis is not that great represents a form of stock fraud because they are misrepresenting a material fact," said Gore, who failed upward into a Nobel Prize.

[Redbob]

Oh good:
VP Oaken Gore wants to have a few more Rachel Corrie moments!

[oyez]

At Wednesday's conference, Gore, ever the alarmist, lamented that the battle against global warming is "losing badly"

What he meant was, "My incoming contributions are decreasing at an alarming rate."

[steelyourfaith]

 

Beam Me to Planet Gore !

[uncle fenders]

I hear that algore is constructing a DEATHSTAR behind the moon :)

But I am sure it will have a couple solar panels and a hybrid death ray !!

[rvoitier]

Yes, didn’t Rush say his globalwarming related company got hosed in the stock market recently?

[rvoitier]

When those nutjobs can explain to me how Mars' polar icecaps are also melting because of SUVs, then I'll consider their position worthy of investigation.

Until then, Don't Mess With Mother Nature.

[Daniel Ramsey]

[rvoitier]

If someone reading this has an 'in' to Rush, like a 24/7 member, please ask him to avail us the computer code to his Gore Countdown to Meltdown applet so we can post it all over the net.

Having everyone aware of when this dope thinks the world will end should shut him and his wacky religion down forever.