Our old buddy Al Gore is at it again. This time doing his best to sound the alarm that Democracy in the U.S. is being undermined by Congress appeasing special interest groups in return for campaign funding rather than tackling climate change. You see, since losing back in 2000, old Al has moved on to a rather profitable little career, hyping non-existent man-made climate change, which he has now transformed into a rather lucrative little enterprise for himself. Conning all within earshot and bribing those, who I can only assume would otherwise be respectable scientists, he can't con, Al has done his best to paint an image of events that long ago, if his predictions had been anywhere near right, should have taken place. But I'm here to tell you, sitting here in Florida that should by now be underwater, that Al's little premise is nothing more than a money making little scheme that has worked out quite nicely for him. Gore is part of that same cadre of malcontents who just a short 40 years ago, or so, were warning us of the coming new ice age. When that didn't quite pan out for them, they just altered course and began to make the claim that man was causing the planet to warm unnaturally. Al Gore continues to sound the alarm, saying that there was now incontrovertible proof that climate change is directly responsible for the extreme and devastating floods, storms and droughts that displace millions of people a year all across the globe. At least that what's our stellar former vice president and global warming campaigner stated at a recent conference in Scotland. Speaking to an audience of business leaders, political leaders including Scotland's first minister Alex Salmond and green energy entrepreneurs in Edinburgh, Gore said the world is now at a "fork in the road".
The former US vice-president, failed presidential; candidate and climate campaigner also argued that America has suffered a "breakdown in democratic governance", because members of Congress are obsessed with appeasing special interests in return for campaign funding, rather than confronting climate change. The perpetual modern day "Chicken Little" made it clear that is it his opinion that US democracy had been undermined. "In the language of computer culture, our democracy has been hacked," he said. In a near hour-long "speech" to the Scottish low-carbon investment conference, Now is that a title or what, Gore said the evidence from the floods in Pakistan, China, South Korea and Columbia was now so compelling that the case for urgent action by world leaders to combat carbon emissions has become overwhelming it cannot be ignored. "Observations in the real world make it clear that it's happening now, it's real, it's with us," he said. Failing to take immediate action meant the world would face a catastrophe. Gore added that nearly every climate scientist actively publishing on the subject now agreed there was a causal link between carbon emissions and the sharp increase in intense and extreme weather events seen across the globe. "Every single national academy of science of every major country on earth agrees with the consensus and the one's that don't agree with it do not exist. This is what they say to governments: 'The need for urgent action is now indisputable'. "The environment in which all storms are formed has changed. It's influence is now present according to the leading scientists in all storms, and they speak of relative causation." What he should have said is the the ones who don't agree are at best ignored and at worst personally attacked and, if possible, have their reputations destroyed.
A report on the event by the Environmental Data Interactive Exchange, some European Web site, said Gore had praised Scotland’s efforts in the field of renewable energy, including efforts to harness wave and tidal power. “Although developments in this sector remain at an early stage, let me tell you that the whole world is rooting for you,” it quoted him as saying. “Frankly, we already have everything we need around the world to address climate change and renewable energy issues. All that is lacking in many areas is the political will to carry those solutions through. “In that context, of course, it’s important to remember that political will is itself a renewable resource,” he said. Gore acknowledged that global economic problems had created a “time of apprehension,” saying some politicians were “paralyzed” by arguments about the heavy cost of investing in renewable energy. But sounding eerily like Barry "Almighty", he said, plenty of jobs were on the horizon. “Jobs are going to be especially important in this process, of course, and you are going to see the creation of lots and lots of jobs.” The Scottish daily Herald reported on an exchange between Gore and a member of the audience during a short question-and-answer session. It said Edinburgh city councilor Cameron Rose had challenged the “consensus” argument, pointing out that some respected scientists disagree. “Mr. Gore responded with an analogy that a man with chest pains would take the health advice of 98 doctors and ignore the two that said there was nothing to worry about,” the paper reported.
In his best used car salesman pitch, Gore made the claim that there is now overwhelming evidence that the globe's hydrological cycles were changing: as the atmosphere and oceans warmed, more water was evaporating and getting stored in the atmosphere. The amount of water vapor over the oceans had increased by 4% in 30 years, particularly around the tropics and sub-tropics. In turn this fed even heavier and more violent storms and flooding incidents, which in Pakistan displaced 20 million people earlier this year, and which forced out 8.5 million from 13 provinces in China. This destabilization of global weather patterns then fed into a complex cycle of more intense and prolonged droughts in drought-prone regions, which in turn caused more frequent and more vicious wildfires, increased desertification of agricultural land, and was now affecting river levels in the Amazon. There were 387 million people affected by droughts in the first six months of this year. China, Iraq and Iran also recorded their highest ever temperatures during this period. The city of Mohenjo-Daro in Pakistan recorded a temperature of 53.5C, while in the United States, 200 cities broke their highest temperature records this summer. In Texas, 252 out of the state's 254 counties had experienced major wildfires during 2011. Gore then proceeded to cite a recent report from something called the global insurance Munich Re, that climate change was "the only plausible explanation" for the rapid increase in extreme weather events. "They're paid to get this right. It's their job," he said. I would ask, paid by whom exactly?
Anyway, Gore droned on: "They used to say we're changing the odds, we're loading the dice that make it more likely that we'll get extreme weather events. Now the change is we're not only loading the dice, we're painting more dots on the dice. We're not only rolling more 12s, we're rolling 13s and 14s and soon 15s and 16s." Arguing that the younger generation would demand world leaders show the "moral courage" to take action, he heaped praise on Salmond, applauding his "vision and leadership" for championing wave, tidal and offshore wind power in Scotland. At the end of Gore’s hour-long "speech," Salmond, who envisages Scotland as leading the world in wind power, led a standing ovation. Oddly enough, however, The Scotsman and the Herald both reported that hours after Gore had heaped praise on Scotland’s “inspiring” efforts, the head of the Scottish Chamber of Commerce warned in a speech in Glasgow that the cost of subsidizing the renewable sector could bankrupt businesses as a result of soaring power bills. Chamber chairman Mike Salter, an energy industry veteran, noted that the cost of a wind farm project off the British coast made the power it generated 25 percent more expensive than had been estimated 18 months ago – and 25-35 percent more expensive than nuclear energy. “The Scottish Government have committed to have the majority of generation coming from this very expensive source by 2020,” Salter said. “All I say at this time is, ‘have a care.’” “This is indeed a very significant opportunity for Scotland, but only if the cost base is right. If as a consequence, the rest of the economy is disadvantaged then perhaps such a total commitment is misguided. Other lower-cost technologies are available."
Now I hate to be one of the wet blankets here, but unlike our buddy Al Gore and his Scottish chum Mr. Salmond, there are a great many climate scientists and even some environmental activists who have become much more cautious about attributing various weather events and trends to man-made climate change, especially after a series of blows to the credibility of the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), including the “Climategate” data-manipulation scandal and the IPCC’s retraction of an assertion in a key 2007 report that Himalayan glaciers could disappear by 2035. In his speech, Gore referred among other things to recent flooding in Pakistan, where an estimated five million people have been affected, especially in the southern Sindh province. Pakistani government and meteorological department statistics for river discharges during the monsoon season (July-September) show flooding has occurred frequently, including in 1950, 1956, 1976, 1977, 1986, 1988, 1992, 1994, 2003, 2007 and 2010. The deadliest flooding on record occurred in 1950, when almost 3,000 lives were lost, followed by the 2010 floods, which cost up to 2,000 lives. Around 1,800 people died during the 1992 monsoon. Pakistan’s Indus River runs from the Himalayas through Kashmir and Pakistan before emptying into the Arabian Sea. Some 100 million people live in the fertile Indus Valley, and many are at risk when heavier-than-usual rains dump huge amounts of additional water into the Indus. Experts point out that the Indus is also more prone to flooding than many rivers because it carries significant quantities of sediment, causing waterways to silt up and embankments to breach.
Al Gore and his band of fellow "climate change" hoaxers, are strictly in the business of making money for themselves and they have been very successful in that endeavor. But it is all nothing more than a very expensive scam that makes anything that might have been perpetrated by Bernie Madoff pale in comparison. Al and his friends have beome very rich at our expense, and a bigger bunch of hypocrites you'll not find anywhere. They wish to exclude themselves from the manner in which they would like to force the rest of us to live. Gore fancies himself as the high priest of this bizarre little religion that is based on something that is completely fictional. There is absolutely nothing about what Gore professes as being underway that has any basis, whatsoever, in actual fact. It's a myth which Gore and others like him, are working feverishly, in their desperate attempt, to prove is a fact. And has much as this whole theory has been so soundly discredited and shown to be a fraud, there has been no let up in the rhetoric from Gore and his ilk that we continue to face some apocalyptic climate event. And it just ain't gonna happen. But it hasn't prevented government from dictating to us the size of our toilets, the size of our cars and even what type of light bulbs we can have in our homes. We are all under assault here in the name of man-made climate change that isn't actually taking place. This is the same twisted mentality behind all the "green" rhetoric we hear coming from Barry "Almighty." We are going to be required to take a stand against this sort of nonsense or be made to suffer economic consequences the magnitude of which we would never be able to survive.
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