The sheer arogance of Al Gore is really something to behold.
If anyone needs an example of conflict of interests, fat Al is the pillar.
The companies he's invested in that would benefit from additional world government regulation of "global climate change" have recieved somewhere close to $500 million from my tax dollars.
This man needs to go for a long long walk off a short pier.
IBD Editorials
More Gore Hot Air
Posted 09/12/2011 06:40 PM ET
Science: Al Gore's Current TV will use 24 straight hours of airtime this week to try to convert global warming skeptics. Will he mention a recent report that shows the climate change scare is grossly overblown?
And we also doubt that anyone else connected with the sympathetic media will. The CERN report, which we covered on this page two weeks ago, has been largely ignored by the mainstream press.
Had the European Organization for Nuclear Research (known by its French acronym, CERN) report bolstered the conjecture that man-made carbon dioxide emissions are warming the planet, the story would have gone above the fold in newspapers and led the network TV news. The tone of the stories would have been dire.
Instead, a report that casts more doubt on the accuracy of the models that the activists and the media use to incite global warming hysteria gets as much attention as a postman's dog bite.
The CERN report is not a trivial matter. It indicates that the sun's magnetic field has some impact on creating cloud cover, which has its own effect on temperatures. Cloud cover is a phenomena the computer models that have been predicting global warming have not adequately accounted for.
While the CERN study doesn't disprove the speculation that fuels the climate change religion, it does show that science still has a long way to go on climate science. It clearly demonstrates that claims saying the science is settled and the debate is over are both exaggerated and premature.
For that sin, the report is relegated to media obscurity.
Meanwhile, Gore will, according to Reuters, "renew his 30-year campaign to convince skeptics of the link between climate change and extreme weather events this week in a 24-hour global multimedia event."
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This don't-miss hectoring will appear on Current TV — a cable network co-founded by Gore — beginning Wednesday. The Big Brother marathon ends Thursday at 7 p.m. ET with a live broadcast of Gore offering, we imagine, his usual litany of exaggerations.
Trewin Restorick, chief executive of the Global Action Plan, promises "There will be a full-on assault on climate skeptics," and we don't doubt it.
With their ability to frighten the public having diminished in recent years as the evidence for climate change has failed to materialize, the global warming alarmists will increasingly resort to bullying, which has always been a part of all left-wing politics.
When facts and reasoned argument don't work, the left inevitably turns to threats and compulsion.
Because he lost — fairly — to George Bush in the 2000 election, Gore is in a sense the man who would have been king. Across the Atlantic, the man who really will be king, the Prince of Wales, continues to appear as if he's descending into madness before he ascends to the throne. In his first speech last week as the new president of the World Wildlife Fund, he said that the world is already in the "sixth extinction event."
Mankind, he believes, is an endangered species.
The cause of this unimaginable catastrophe, according to Prince Charles? In part, man-made global warming.
Nothing new there. Humanity-caused climate change is a horse the world's most famous polo player has been riding for years.
But it's no thoroughbred. It is, like its owner, a nag.
America has its nags, too, most prominently Gore, who needed to do something with all his free time after failing to steal the 2000 election.
They are losing traction, though — and are beginning to panic. The public looks around and doesn't see the effects of man-made global warming, but instead the wreckage of man-made economic disaster.
A country that isn't prospering and can't put itself to work due to a heavy government hand can't afford the luxury of indulging in an environmental fantasy.
A cable marathon won't change that.
If anyone needs an example of conflict of interests, fat Al is the pillar.
The companies he's invested in that would benefit from additional world government regulation of "global climate change" have recieved somewhere close to $500 million from my tax dollars.
This man needs to go for a long long walk off a short pier.
IBD Editorials
More Gore Hot Air
Posted 09/12/2011 06:40 PM ET
Science: Al Gore's Current TV will use 24 straight hours of airtime this week to try to convert global warming skeptics. Will he mention a recent report that shows the climate change scare is grossly overblown?
And we also doubt that anyone else connected with the sympathetic media will. The CERN report, which we covered on this page two weeks ago, has been largely ignored by the mainstream press.
Had the European Organization for Nuclear Research (known by its French acronym, CERN) report bolstered the conjecture that man-made carbon dioxide emissions are warming the planet, the story would have gone above the fold in newspapers and led the network TV news. The tone of the stories would have been dire.
Instead, a report that casts more doubt on the accuracy of the models that the activists and the media use to incite global warming hysteria gets as much attention as a postman's dog bite.
The CERN report is not a trivial matter. It indicates that the sun's magnetic field has some impact on creating cloud cover, which has its own effect on temperatures. Cloud cover is a phenomena the computer models that have been predicting global warming have not adequately accounted for.
While the CERN study doesn't disprove the speculation that fuels the climate change religion, it does show that science still has a long way to go on climate science. It clearly demonstrates that claims saying the science is settled and the debate is over are both exaggerated and premature.
For that sin, the report is relegated to media obscurity.
Meanwhile, Gore will, according to Reuters, "renew his 30-year campaign to convince skeptics of the link between climate change and extreme weather events this week in a 24-hour global multimedia event."
Subscribe to the IBD Editorials Podcast This don't-miss hectoring will appear on Current TV — a cable network co-founded by Gore — beginning Wednesday. The Big Brother marathon ends Thursday at 7 p.m. ET with a live broadcast of Gore offering, we imagine, his usual litany of exaggerations.
Trewin Restorick, chief executive of the Global Action Plan, promises "There will be a full-on assault on climate skeptics," and we don't doubt it.
With their ability to frighten the public having diminished in recent years as the evidence for climate change has failed to materialize, the global warming alarmists will increasingly resort to bullying, which has always been a part of all left-wing politics.
When facts and reasoned argument don't work, the left inevitably turns to threats and compulsion.
Because he lost — fairly — to George Bush in the 2000 election, Gore is in a sense the man who would have been king. Across the Atlantic, the man who really will be king, the Prince of Wales, continues to appear as if he's descending into madness before he ascends to the throne. In his first speech last week as the new president of the World Wildlife Fund, he said that the world is already in the "sixth extinction event."
Mankind, he believes, is an endangered species.
The cause of this unimaginable catastrophe, according to Prince Charles? In part, man-made global warming.
Nothing new there. Humanity-caused climate change is a horse the world's most famous polo player has been riding for years.
But it's no thoroughbred. It is, like its owner, a nag.
America has its nags, too, most prominently Gore, who needed to do something with all his free time after failing to steal the 2000 election.
They are losing traction, though — and are beginning to panic. The public looks around and doesn't see the effects of man-made global warming, but instead the wreckage of man-made economic disaster.
A country that isn't prospering and can't put itself to work due to a heavy government hand can't afford the luxury of indulging in an environmental fantasy.
A cable marathon won't change that.
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