Posted by
jarhead on Friday, October 12, 2007 4:09:41 PM
So Al Gore has won the Nobel Prize. Good God how silly and how diminishing of an award that once meant something. Let's examine the inconvenient truth.
1. His film can only be shown in British schools after disclaimers are made to children regarding numerous statements that are misleading at best and certainly not based on any evidence or accepted science. Begs the question-why make such inaccurate statements if you are truley trying to convince the public of a real problem? Either you don't know what you're talking about or you have no respect for your audience and you beleive anything you say will be taken as truth and not questioned.
2. Mr. Gore admonishes the rest of us to conserve and cut back while he jets about the globe in private planes, owns homes whose consumption of precious resources the rest of us could only dream of and wouldn't know an electric car from an exercise bike.
3. He appears to be eating enough food products to feed the starving of the Darfur region.
The judge in the British case that put the restraints on the showing of his film also made the point that his case for global warming is now largely accepted science which of course is not at all the case. The U.N. commission in testimony hastily held before congress this year made some amazing admissions:
1. The gentleman whose expertise is glaciers when asked what all the various changes in glaciers meant, including some that are expanding, answered that he DIDN'T KNOW what it meant. I personally heard the testimony. If a leading scientist in the field of glaciation doesn't know what all this means how in the hell can a washed up, near do well political hack like Gore possibly claim to know more?
2. The panel when asked if dessenting opinions had been included in their final report responded that such opinions had been received and were stored back at the U.N. if anyone wanted to see them. Seems from that that the report and the commission are focused on what they were hired to do which is report on global warming and not muddy the waters with any other thinking of equal stature but NOT in line with the desires of those who pay their grants.
There are a number of scientific groups including Climatologists who are not at all convinced we have a looming climate catostrophe aviodable only by human intervention. Witness:
1. There is evidence that the we are actually moving into a cooling phase. Perhaps one like the one in 1975 that had the fear mongers warning of a new ice age.
2. Greenland melting, as Gore predicts in his movie, was reality less than 2000 years ago. The Vikings settled Greenland at that time and named it Greenland because it was a forested island that supported agriculture and the raising of livestock. They subsequently disappeared out of Greenland as the tempuratures cooled and Greenland became too inhospitable for them to survive. Less than 2000 years ago. Warmed up and cooled off and no cumbustion engines. Now how did THAT happen??
3. There was a mini ice age in the 1300s in Europe that is well documented. Our views of warming and cooling cannot be myopic or narrowly focused. We really must view the warming and cooling trends of our little globe over a much large time frame to truley understand what's going on.
That said it is always good to conserve. I certianly do the best I can, not only to save me money, but also to do my best to take funds out of the hands of those who fund Global terrorism in the Middle East. But to take mandatory actions that could seriously harm the world's economy is nonsense. And to take such direction from a man whose personal excesses could only be described as criminal ,if indeed we have the crisis he promotes, is incredibly foolish. Rewarding such a hippocrit is even more foolish.