Just another Deflated Wind Bag
By Repair Man Jack Posted in AGW | liberal hypocrisy | Liberals | The Goracle — Comments (14) / Email this page » / Leave a comment »
It was easy for Al Gore to describe our national climate change emergency as our nation’s Thermopolyae. It was even easier, given that he was just three hours away from chilling out in his heated swimming pool, drinking something mixed in with Jim Beam. It’s different when Al does that. He buys lots of offsets.
Just how Spartan would the rest of us have to be to meet the standard Al Gore sets for Non-offset buying Americans? Representative Barton inquires.
“ You just gave us an idea for a straight CO2 freeze, if I heard you correctly. I think that's an idea that's flawed. If you take that literally, we can add no new industry, nor new cars and trucks on our streets, and apparently no new people. People are mobile-source emitters. Every person emits 0.2 tons of CO2 a year, so an absolute true freeze would be no new industry, no new people, and no new cars. ”
Science Magazine has remarked "CO2 is a combustion product vital to how civilization is powered; it cannot be regulated away." In other words, a truly effective carbon tax would be an across the board tax on every activity that any human being undertakes for a living. It’s just flat-out tough to take the carbon out of the carbon-based life forms.
Senator Clinton brought this out as she questioned Al Gore the way she would any of her other Presidential Primary opponents.
“At Al Gore's Senate appearance, Hillary asked Al whether he prefers a carbon tax or economy-wide cap and trade.
Al said he wants ‘both.’ No doubt like Samuel Gompers, at any given point when asked what is it that he wants, he will respond, ‘More.’”
Spoken like a man who owns the offset-selling company.
Al Gore wants us to push the envelope on complying with Kyoto. Bill Clinton signed us on, after all, and all Harry Reid has to do is convince the senate to ratify it. He wants us in there by 2010, so that our kids won’t be asking us all sorts of annoying questions. I can’t help but wonder what he thinks our kids will ask us about Social Security and MediPander?
Like any cheesy salesman, Al Gore exaggerates the need for his product (The Kyoto Accord) while grossly underestimating its lifecycle costs.
“Al Gore is now claiming, per Amory Lovins, that the US can alter its economy as he described at no cost. This is way out of line with mainstream economics. Even the Stern Report, which quite probably underestimated costs, says early action will cost 1 percent of global GDP. Most studies suggest limiting CO2 concentrations to 550 or 650 ppm - well above the environmentalist favored target of 450 ppm - will cost 2 to 5 percent of global GDP.”
I’m no expert on global GDP, but I’ve seen the US GDP recently ballparked at $13T. So we can only miss the necessary reduction by 100ppm, at a cost of $130B to $650B. That’s over $100B to solve a problem that may or may not exist, that would have ramifications that have not been honestly represented. Oh, and by the way, that expenditure would buy us a remedy that would not effectively do the job it was designed to perform.
Somehow I see Rudyard Kipling watching a Brigade of Light Cavalry, charging a heavily fortified hill near Sevastopol, and shaking his head in sorrow and disgust. It’s hard to believe a smart, ambitious guy who invented the Internet would ever fall for such a bunco scheme.
Somewhere, in the corner of the hearing room, I also see a sad, crumpled bag that once held a very hot wind. Hollywood has been good to Al Gore, but yesterday reality wasn’t. He’s done. Hillary has nothing to fear from any place East of Chicago in the 2008 Democratic Primary. The inconvenient truth here is that AL Gore’s bag of hot air has just deflated.
Gore is a fraud and a political whore. Inhofe has more science on his side than the touts for AGW, who should read Richard Feynman's treatise on "cargo cult science." Illiterate ideologues like Boxer and Waxman wouldn't understand, but bad scientists like big government money [and support each others shoddy academic product to bolster the Ponzi pile] and if they mau-mau enough, they think they can con the big-government Demo=rats into funding, using the Judas-goat moron Goracle as their cash-goat.
You sir, owe every brazen strumpet who let her John take it out in trade an apology.
Kyoto Now! (Because only pollution from the US hurts the planet)
And yes, I wouldn't call Al Gore a whore. Any woman who is willing, for whatever reason, to sleep with some of the guys I knew on my Navy ships is a fine person and is undeserving of any comparison with Gore, whose meaningful contribution to the world is taking credit for other people's work. At least the ladies of the night put in their own work to get paid.
Fides non in bonus intentions , tamen in bonus factum
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But AlGorge isn't 'done'. There is already way too much of his money tied up in plots to get more of ours. He's going to be increasing his personal ability to offset his carbon expeditures for a long time to come. Plan on a resurgance of his demands for tax increases every time another natural disaster hits anywhere in the world. After all.... our very survival as a species is at stake, and we're dooming ourselves AND OUR CHILDREN if we don't act NOW!!!!
Hillary will take him down a peg or two whenever she gets the chance, I think... if for no other reason than she's having enough problems with OhBoyOhBoy and doesn't need the distracion of having to joust with the Gorical as well.
Interesting thought.... that may force Gore's hand. If he feels she is turning him into a side show, he may decide he has to take her on directly, sooner rather than later. And he can come out to the left of even Edwards and snatch up that element of the Dems (who already don't like Hillary) pretty easily.
I'm down with the hole 'divide and conquer' thing. Methinks this gets better all the time!
>>>>we're dooming ourselves AND OUR CHILDREN if we don't act NOW!!!!
One of these days some politician will get what he truly deserves for using THE CHILDREN as beaurocratic human shields.
Kyoto Now! (Because only pollution from the US hurts the planet)
There's a wonderful book by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle titled 'Inferno' - it's a modern revisit to Dante's hell and an entertaining and interesting read, cmplete with Mussolini as the tour guide.
In one portion, they reach one of the rings of hell where all the politicians, lawyers and advertisers are imprisoned.
All I can say is their punishment is malodorous and appropriate.
Read the book.
is the high water mark of AGW.
It will continue to devolve from here, and jsut turn into mutterings in a year or two.
in our future and a succession of other fashion statements, but it will end the same way the Sixties "counter culture" did; when you could buy a pair of bell bottoms and a tie dyed shirt at Sears. Gotta love capitalism!
In Vino Veritas
Mr. Gore likes to say "Just set standards - like the CAFE standards -- they'll adjust and make money at it." Everybody's happy. It'll just work.
Except the world expends untold effort complying with stupid regulations that don't help the environment one bit, effort that could go toward actual progress.
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See the Academy
I was just wondering why all the leftist solutions to every problem involve new taxes and guilt? And they all seem to rest the major blame for every problem on capitalists and republicans. just a thought.
Back in the day when it got really hot and there was a draught and all the crops died in the village, the people would say the gods were mad at them and sacrifice a couple cows and chickens to assuge their guilt. Same thing here, only difference is we must sacrifice our gasoline.
and an excellent read it is
I think Al Gore may be really truly insane.
Will we be left with this?
Extent of glaciers during previous ice age
Gee, thanks, Al!
It's a steal!