All Seriousness Aside

The American Spectator ^ | January 30, 2009 | Paul Chesser

[St. Louis Conservative]

It is like the Peanuts gang laughing in derision after yet another Charlie Brown gaffe. It is like the doubling-over at the double-stumble (video) during fashion week in Paris.

The cackles and guffaws now come routinely. Global warming alarmists, led by inconvenienced (because of cooling weather) Al Gore, are seeing their prophecies of doom dissolve. Now that big ice grows, big winter is bad (like last year), cold temperatures hit record levels, and global mean surface temperature has not continued upward -- despite continued increases in that demonized "greenhouse" gas, carbon dioxide -- the panic peddlers look like flailing jesters.

Look at the recent responses to the self-caricature, Gore. The late nighters already found global warming (targeting both sides) to be fodder for yuks. But after the former vice president gave a repeat command performance before Congress this week, the scorn against alarmists is stronger than ever. The acerbic Dennis Miller, who said Gore probably is otherwise a good guy, called him a "doofus" because of his global warming beliefs. And during Gore's Wednesday testimony one of those independent, go-astray-to-not-get-along Western congressmen dribbled sarcasm during his questioning:

Sen. James Risch (R-Idaho) begged (Gore) to look further into the future. "What does your modeling tell you about how long we're going to be around as a species?" he inquired.

(Gore) chuckled. "I don't claim the expertise to answer a question like that, Senator."

[princess leah]

News flash you won’t see on Television: GOD IS STILL IN CHARGE!

[gakrak]

Amen and Amen.

[catroina54]

why don’t they ever have their globull summits in August ?gOre always chooses the winter months .
Is it possible they’re that stupid ?

[Old North State]

I think everybody should listen to Gore. I remember reading about him and his real name is Gore-Al how his home planet got destroyed by global warming and how his Dad, Jore-Al wrapped him in some super blanket and put him in a rocket to Earth and how he landed in Tennessee but built a Fortress of Stupitude out of ice in the Arctic but now it's melting and he wants to warn us to save Earth. Or maybe I've got that confused with something else, maybe it wasn't Tennessee.

[steelyourfaith]

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !

[savedbygrace]

“All seriousness aside.”

That’s an old Steve Allen line. He’d do or say something totally silly, funny and/or outrageous, then turn to the camera and say, “But all seriousness aside, folks.”

[csmusaret]

We could save the planet if only we could make Al Gore stop emitting CO2.