So tell me, Al, what caused all those *other* storms in Earth's history?
Once you get past the self-loathing of knowing that you built your empire on ambulance chasing and falsehoods, Gore's position isn't such a bad place to be in
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Is there a better example of a modern ambulance chaser-writ-large than former Veep and Nobel Prize winner Albert Gore? It's quite a testament to the man's less-than-obvious flair for the dramatic and hyperbolic that he has been able to far surpass the "cottage industry" stage and create an actual worldwide movement out of his alarmist, unprovable warnings and admonitions about the invisible, silent threat that is ManBearPig Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW).
It's so easy, too. All Gore has to do is wait for any day that feels a little warm or a little cool, or a day when the sun shines or is obscured by clouds, or when there is hail or sleet, and say that it was caused by his personal bugaboo, AGW. His *real* money is made, though, when a storm comes.
That's right, a *storm.* Just like Earth has had for, oh, the entirety of its existence. Remember thunderstorms, tornadoes, cyclones? Thought so -- because they happened when you were growing up, just like they did when your parents were growing up, just like they did in the days before the internal combustion engine (called the "greatest threat facing our planet" by Gore in his 1980 book Earth in the Balance).
Read on.
Al Gore is in the catbird seat -- and it's a brilliant place to be (as long as one is either completely nuts, or okay with having every bit of their popularity built on dishonesty). All he has to do is wait for a natural event, the likes of which has taken place with regularity since the world's beginning -- and which, therefore, has a 100% chance of occurrence -- and, when it happens, dash to the site (or to the nearest microphone) to claim that the event's occurrence further proves not only the existence, but the increasingly dire threat that ManBearPig Global Warming presents to the world as a whole.
Seriously, how much more plum a position can a person be in? Take the absolutely horrific tragedy in Myanmar, with a storm which has left at least 20,000 dead (and fears of up to 50,000 casualties persist). People are still dying, the casualty count is still on the rise, and here comes Al Gore strolling up to the microphone to inject himself into yet another tragedy. "We’re seeing consequences that scientists have long predicted might be associated with continued global warming," he told NPR today, plugging his one-man, worldwide, multi-billion dollar ambulance-chasing empire, and putting more money in his pockets on the backs of those whose lives have been lost in this natural disaster.
A parasite is the easiest thing in the world to be. It requires no effort; in Gore's case, all he has to do is sit on a corner which has a 100% chance of ambulance passage and wait -- and when one goes by, he just jogs down the street after it, shouting "I told you so!" while adoring press and politically-correct governments the world over shove microphones in his face and fight over the opportunity to kiss the hem of his cloak.
Like I said, it's an absolute plum position to be in -- once you learn to tolerate the gentle self-loathing that every person who builds their kingdom on others' suffering must deal with, and once you get past the indignity of knowing that your entire basis for respect and legitimacy is built on opportunistic falsehoods.
Once you can get past those, though, it's a great place to be. Just ask Al Gore.
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So tell me, Al, what caused all those *other* storms in Earth's history? 17 Comments (0 topical, 17 editorial, 0 hidden) Post a comment »
Galveston is in Texas.
Texas is a source of oil.
Oil is the root of global warming, poor hygiene and bad breath.
Ergo, they clearly brought that hurricane upon themselves.
The modern liberal is defined as one whose sense of guilt has exceeded his capacity for restitution - making it not only forgivable, but morally superior to raid someone else's larder to pay his bottomless debt.
Has come a long way, and Al Gore is avoiding the implications of the record. It completely takes away from his fear mongering. Hurricnaaes were both stronger and more frequent in the 4000 ya range than lately, including this century.
But it seems AGW has in many ways reached a critical mass.
IOW, even if AGW is shown to be phony, it almost does not matter.
man walked the Earth, mush less before the first Chevy spit out its first fume.
http://gamecock.blogtownhall.com/2008/03/05/the_sun_and_john_coleman_vs_...
Mike DeVine’s Charlotte Observer columns
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that all those dinosaurs drove SUV's, and they were REALLY big! The biggest was the Ford Extinction.
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http://gamecock.blogtownhall.com/default.aspx?mode=post&g=33126b6c-041f-...
Mike DeVine’s Charlotte Observer columns
http://thehinzsightreport.com
www.theminorityreportblog.com
www.race42008.com
"One man with courage makes a majority." - Andrew Jackson
"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it."
-Thomas Paine: The American Crisis, No. 4, 1777
...that IPCC and serious climate scientists don't predict more tropical storms.
I guess Al didn't get the memo.
There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life. - Frank Zappa
I really don't like the idea of us conservatives standing in the way of a scientific consensus and yelling "No!" for what are obviously political reasons.
I remember when the tobacco companies hired their own scientists to "prove" that there was no evidence that cigarette smoking caused cancer. Not only did they waste everybody's time, but they probably killed people who were bamboozled into disbelieving the Surgeon General's warnings.
Al Gore is not the issue, as far as thinking conservatives should be concerned. Dozens of scientific societies and academies of science, as well as the national academies of science of all the major industrialized nations, have all endorsed the theory that anthropogenic global warming is occurring. Including the American Meteorological Society, American Geophysical Union, American Institute of Physics, American Astronomical Society, and American Association for the Advancement of Science.
And I sure don't have the credentials to dispute their findings.
The notion that all these world scientists are in some kind of cahoots to perpetuate a hoax on the American public, strikes me as the worst kind of paranoid conspiracy theorizing.
Finally, it's a moot point anyway. All three of the remaining Presidential candidates, including McCain, have endorsed a cap-and-trade system to limit greenhouse gas emissions. So whoever is in the White House in 2009, action will be taken on this issue. Denial is simply moot as a policy. Even Bush admitted that, this past month. So did Newt Gingrich.
As conservatives, we can be in the forefront of proposing ways to curb AGW that minimize government intrusion on the free economy and continue to stimulate economic growth in the private sector. By encouraging new technologies. By working vigorously to see other nations do their fair share.
Or, we can stand to one side and keep shouting "Hoax!" and be totally ignored by the American mainstream, as they implement solutions we are NOT going to like.
If you think that we injected politics into this, you are even more naive than I thought.
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We pulled him out of bed, threw some clothes on him, stuck a microphone in his face, and forced him to mouth the words "Global Warming is responsible for the storms that killed 20,000+ in Myanmar," just so we could drag him into this.
You got it. Love it when Lefties inject themselves into situations, look dumb, and then have their surrogates or apologists gripe and moan about how the beclowned individual who put himself into that situation is being "drug into it" and "attacked."
walked the earth....
get it?
Mike DeVine’s Charlotte Observer columns
http://thehinzsightreport.com
www.theminorityreportblog.com
www.race42008.com
"One man with courage makes a majority." - Andrew Jackson
Nixon saying: "We're all Keynesians now"? Just about the time that Friedman's economics was starting to demonstrate that Keynes was full of s***? Science, filtered through the MSM to the people and back through the MSM to the politicians, is almost always out of phase.
Science is now saying that the Pacific may be into a cooling phase. Instrumentation tells us that the Atlantic is already cooling. But Algore feels safe in claiming that warmer oceans are causing stronger storms because of the time lag in assimilation of scientific evidence.
The fact is that there are many scientists who are global warming sceptics, especially among the independant thinkers. I am a scientist - a geologist. Geologists were the ones who came up with the "greenhouse effect", which drives the global warming theory. It originally was offered as an explanation for the varying oxidation states of sedimentary rocks through geologic time (millions of years, not just since the industrial revolution). The driving factor in the theory was increased or decreased volcanic activity and the resulting increase or decrease of debris and gases in the atmosphere. It was immediately picked up and adapted to a political agenda by the "ecology" movement of the mid-60s, and thereafter applied to the "nuclear winter" concept that was the talk of the world for a while. Yes, it has been around for a long time.
The list of scientific groups that have endorsed global warming theory that is spouted by so many, has to be considered in light of the context of todays academic environment. The university environment is filled with young people who want to be cool and so parrot the usual eco-liberal mantra and filter all of their learning through it. Many of their professors are old 60s and 70s radicals. Funding for global warming confirming research is readily available, driving that side of the debate at the expense of the opposition. Science is no more free from social pressure, opportunism, spin and politics than any other sphere of human activity. Don't buy the party line - it is seriously biased. Do your own research. There is plenty to read out there from both sides, technical or non-technical.
I have been in the middle of the debates over the spotted owl and salmon in the northwest for over 25 years. Some incredibly erroneous ideas have become dogma around those issues, to a large extent driven by bad science and politics. This has lead to hysterical and unjustifiably costly government regulations that nearly obliterated an industry and way of life that defined the region (logging). The global warming theory is growing in much the same way, only it is worse because the core scientific underpinning of the theory is highly doubtful and the huge negative economic impact of applying the proposed government regulations dwarfs that of the owl and salmon issues.
The man is shameless, and the fact that he would use the deaths of tens of thousands to further his own bogus cause shows that he is heartless as well.
A "parasite" is the most accurate term I can think of.
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