More Distractions in the Global Warming Debate
Really bad solutions to a greatly overstated problem.

Global warming and cooling take place constantly -- in most places, warming and cooling occur every day (and night).  The amount of warming predicted over the next century varies from about one degree (or less) to Al Gore's wild exaggeration of 20 degrees.

Some of the "solutions" proposed to fight this problem are ridiculous, and yet there are people who take these ideas seriously.  This page exists for the purpose of exposing these ridiculous red herrings and encouraging people to filter the global warming "news" with a great deal of skepicism.



Section 1 -- Al Gore:

The global warming scare is easy to dismiss because it is being propagated most prominently by former U.S. Vice President Al Gore, who is known to have difficulty with the truth.  Examples of Mr. Gore's previous lies and deceptions can be found in The Gore Lies, published by the National Review.  The global warming scare is also being spread by the American news media, which has a history of bias, dishonesty and sensationalism, especially when dealing with environmental matters.

Unfavorable reviews of Al Gore's movie, An Inconvenient Truth, can be found on the bottom half of this page.

In case you have forgotten the unnecessary strife and turmoil stirred up by Al Gore after he lost the 2000 presidential election, you can dig in the archives on this page.

Al Gore to become world's first 'carbon billionaire'.  Former US vice president Al Gore, who has campaigned relentlessly on green issues, is on track to become the world's first "carbon billionaire" amid claims of profiting from the climate change agenda.

Al Gore:  Earth's Interior 'Extremely Hot, Several Million Degrees'.  For several years as uneducated sycophants in the media gushed and fawned over every utterance from former Vice President Al Gore, NewsBusters has informed readers of just how absurd the junk science he's peddling really is.  Last Thursday [11/12/2009], NBC "Tonight Show" viewers got a perfect example of how the Nobel Laureate basically makes things up, and that his poor grades in college were quite an indicator of just how little he understands about science.

Al Gore, Ignoramus.  Al Gore has made an enormous amount of money by pretending to know something about science.  He is by no means the first such charlatan, but he must be one of the most successful. ... It is a remarkable fact that Al Gore has had a significant influence on public policy relating to science when he is, in fact, utterly uneducated in scientific matters and is of very limited intelligence.  On the other hand, he's gotten rich, so I guess the joke is on us.

Civil unrest has a role in stopping climate change, says Gore.  Al Gore has sought to inject fresh momentum into the Copenhagen build-up, saying he is certain Barack Obama will attend and predicting a rise in civil disobedience against fossil-fuel polluters unless drastic action is taken over global warming.  Amid increasing incidents of climate protesters disrupting the operations of fossil-fuel industries and airports in Britain and elsewhere, Gore suggests the scale of the emergency means non-violent lawbreaking is justified.

The Very Convenient Gore.  Former Vice President Al Gore is on the cover of November's The Costco Connection, the "lifestyle magazine for Costco members."  It's hard to figure who looks worse in this odd coupling — the global-warming guru or the supersize warehouse store, which would not be a retail powerhouse were it not for the family minivan. ... It certainly is incongruous to read Gore renouncing "dirty and expensive carbon-based fuels," at a store that sells big-screen TVs and discounted gasoline.

The man who doubted Al Gore.  [Scroll down slowly]  Most ordinary people reasonably imagine in the face of such a weight of "authority" that the case must be closed.  It isn't.  For a start, the weight of authority is based on the political doctoring of studies that are in any case designed to countenance no other conclusion than that man-made carbon dioxide drives the climate.  Moreover, the very fact that the theory's promoters are so reluctant to actually engage in scientific debate (No time to talk.  Must act!) is highly suspicious.  However, once you get people believing in "authority," then you're pretty much home and dry.  Authority relieves us of the anxiety of uncertainty and the pain of thought.

Another disappointing year for global warming hopefuls.  Big Al has been promising me a warmer globe — which he, not being a resident of our far-northern clime, mistakenly assumes would be a bad thing — for more than a decade.  The doom-saying gig has won him a Nobel Prize and an Oscar.  But I have to ask:  When is this guy going to deliver?  Admirable though his entrepreneurial spirit may be, how long are we expected to wait before sadly declaring that the product he's pushing doesn't exist?

Clearly It's Al Gore Who's In Denial.  In the past we've questioned former Vice President Al Gore's honesty [*]; his use of intimidation tactics and character assassination to promote his lies [*]; his proclivity for championing policy based wholly on erroneous facts [*]; and, ultimately, his very soundness of mind [*].  So comments he made to an Australian reporter last weekend which betrayed an evident disconnect with reality, while certainly mind-boggling, were by no means astonishing.

Albert — the Not-So Great — Gore.  Think what you want about George W. Bush, but he did do this:  he saved us from a Gore Presidency. ... The Stormtroopers of the Global Warming Party do not want to "discuss" whether the planet is warming or cooling or whether the process is natural or man made.  Their "science" is just as immutable and absolute as, say, the Aryan Science of the Nazis or the weird genetic theories of Lysenko in Stalinist Russia.  That is to say, the science of global warming is driven exclusively by political ideology — intolerant political ideology.

Global cooling hits Al Gore's home.  It was delightfully appropriate that, as large parts of Argentina were swept by severe blizzards last week, on a scale never experienced before, the city of Nashville, Tennessee, should have enjoyed the coolest July 21 in its history, breaking a record established in 1877.  Appropriate, because Nashville is the home of Al Gore, the man who for 20 years has been predicting that we should all by now be in the grip of runaway global warming.

Ignoring Science:  A new scientific paper says that man has had little or nothing to do with global temperature variations.  Maybe the only place it's really getting hotter is in Al Gore's head.  Because he must be getting flustered now, what with his efforts to save the benighted world from global warming continually being exposed as a fraud.

Al Gore's Hypocrisy is Astounding.  Here's the first thing you shouldn't do in front of Al Gore:  Be skeptical about catastrophic, human-caused global warming.  He will rip your reputation apart, just as he once did to reputable, honorable scientists in congressional hearings.  Here's the second thing you shouldn't do in front of Al Gore:  Ask him whether he himself might have the kind of conflict of interest that he takes for granted in others.  For heaven's sake, do not get into the question of whether he might make a lot of money with the passage of a global warming cap-and-trade tax that he has been fighting for.

Al Gore to Become World's First Global Warming Billionaire.  Al Gore [testified] before congress.  A congresswoman asked him about his skyrocketing income.testified "I put my money where my mouth is," Gore said, who clearly felt attack.  "Do you think there's anything wrong with being in business in this country?  I'm proud of it, I'm proud of it."  It is fascinating to hear Gore ask a conservative congresswoman whether she believes there is something "wrong" with making money.  After all, aren't Gore and his buddies the ones who declared war on Big Business decades ago, and who turn automakers and oil companies into 'the mortal enemy'?

Will Widespread Global Cooling Reports Freeze Al Gore Media Credibility?  It is "an inconvenient truth" for Al Gore that the world is currently experiencing some of the coldest weather in decades. ... Unfortunately for Al Gore's credibility there have been widespread reports of unseasonably cold weather from many sources including a story yesterday in the Minneapolis Star Tribune about a "year without summer."

What Has Al Gore Wrought?  Al Gore has managed to convince most Americans that global warming is a serious problem.  He has gone on an elongated mission culminating in his masterpiece of propaganda entitled an "An Inconvenient Truth."  There is one major theme that he attempts to purport through all of this:  no credible sources disagree with his position. ... He has a perverse need whereby no one asserts a contradictory position.  Gore has built on that for almost twenty years, even though there is a large body of credible individuals who assert that facts do not support Gore's theories.  This is probably why he has never agreed to debate anyone on the matter.

No Wonder Climate Alarmists Refuse to Debate.  When you hear the names Al Gore and James Hansen in the same sentence you immediately assume the subject to be manmade global warming panic.  But there's another distinction which links these two — they both steadfastly refuse to defend their positions in formal debate.  And a recent performance by one of their own in just such a venue reminds us why.

Gore's Global Warming Riff Keeps Melting.  What a strange week.  First, we saw what just might be an official transformation of the institution of science into a bordello, as its constituent members cheered on proven nonsense about "global warming."  Then the American Association for the Advancement of Science applauded alarmist-in-chief Al "there is no debate" Gore for admitting to them that this non-existent debate needs their help.  Topping it all off was former president Bill Clinton, refusing to be outdone, expressing concern that we might actually come back from our economic woes, which would only cause global warming.

A scientist forces Al Gore to back down.  For years, Al Gore has predicted that man's sins of carbon dioxide will bring calamity and apocalypse.  He cited an increase in natural disasters.  Gore quietly dropped the contention that the increase is connected to manmade global warming this week after being called on it by Roger A. Pielke Jr., a professor of environmental studies at the University of Colorado.

The Politics of Fear.  This week, former Vice President Al Gore was forced to withdraw a slide from his PowerPoint presentation. ... The slide in question was part of Gore's peripatetic minstrel show of environmental doom, made famous in his Oscar-winning horror-documentary "An Inconvenient Truth."  After a montage of images of people suffering from famines, floods, fires and other biblical plagues across the globe, the slide purported to show data demonstrating that global warming "is creating weather-related disasters that are completely unprecedented." ... Caught fudging the facts, again, the former vice president had no choice but to drop the graph.

Gore Pulls Slide of Disaster Trends.  Former Vice President Al Gore is pulling a dramatic slide from his ever-evolving global warming presentation.

Raked Over Coal.  When it comes to sheer crackpottery on environmental issues, no national figure can measure up to the lofty standard set by the former Tennessee senator and vice president.  This is a man who is leading a caravan of humming hybrid drivers to nowhere and is willing to criminalize those who disagree with him to get there. ... Expect his global warming claims and solutions to grow loopier and more extreme as he desperately — and bitterly — tries to cling to his waning, and almost wholly undeserved, relevance.

Gore's church losing followers.  In 1971, perhaps entertaining thoughts of entering the full-time ministry, Al Gore, raised in and baptized into the Southern Baptist Church, entered the Vanderbilt Divinity School.  His sojourn was relatively brief.  In three semesters, he enrolled in eight classes.  He received an "F" as his grade in five of those classes.  So, having failed out of school, he entered the family business, which was politics.  But he apparently never lost his desire to enter a ministry, and since he couldn't make the grade in the conventional sense, he did the next best thing.  He started his own religion.  The result was the Church of Global Warming.

Do Either God or Al Gore Exist?  Human beings like to believe they're totally rational creatures.  To take an extreme example, atheists are convinced they can prove that God doesn't exist. ... A great many people who are deeply skeptical when it comes to God are zealots when it comes to man-made global warming (aka climate change).  Al Gore, who isn't any more intelligent than Joe Biden and got worse grades in college than George W. Bush, is the high priest of what we might call the weather religion.

Gore highlights new US push on climate change.  Al Gore will exhort US lawmakers to renew US leadership on battling climate change next week, as "green" groups push for quick, sweeping action from President Barack Obama and a friendly Congress.  Gore will testify before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Wednesday [1/28/2009] as Democrats — who now control the White House and enjoy sizeable majorities in the Senate and House of Representatives — seek to wield their new power.

Al Gore, Ugly American.  Does Al Gore have nothing better to do than butt into other countries' politics?  In his grand bid to save the planet, he's damaging real nations and undercutting U.S. ties.

Here Comes Al Gore, Our Global Warming Groundhog.  Gore's appearance in the dead of bone-chilling winter is almost five years to the day since he came out of hibernation in New York and called President Bush a "moral coward" for his climate change policies.  That very day the mercury in Central Park registered the coldest day the Big Apple had seen in 47 years!  Not much has changed — in the weather or Gore's message.  This time around, it might not be so bone-shatteringly cold, but it certainly has been a chilly winter.

With Al Due Respect, We're Doomed.  The lawmakers gazed in awe at the figure before them.  The Goracle had seen the future, and he had come to tell them about it.  What the Goracle saw in the future was not good:  temperature changes that "would bring a screeching halt to human civilization and threaten the fabric of life everywhere on the Earth — and this is within this century, if we don't change."

Gore Warns Global Warming Will Bring Civilization to a 'Screeching Halt'.  Former Vice President Al Gore told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Wednesday that if action is not taken by the United States to curb greenhouse gas emissions, the world as we know it could disappear.  "If we stop global greenhouse gas emissions today, according to some scientists, we will see an increase in temperatures that many scientists believe would be extremely challenging for civilization," Gore testified on Capitol Hill.

Updating Gore on Greenland's Glaciers:  During his testimony before a Senate committee yesterday on the manifold dangers of man-made global warming, Al Gore colorfully declared:  "Like a beating heart, and the permanent ice looks almost like blood spilling out of a body along the eastern coast of Greenland."  The Nobelist and Oscarist appears to be a bit behind on his science.  Earlier this month, researchers at the American Geophyiscal Union's annual meeting reported that Greenland's galloping glaciers have slowed back down to their usual stately amble.

Gore Out of Balance.  Testifying last week before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee with yet another one of his infamous slide shows, Al Gore observed that the carbon dioxide (CO2) in Venus' atmosphere supercharges the second-planet-from-the-sun's greenhouse effect resulting in surface temperatures of about 870 degrees Fahrenheit.  Gore added that it's not Venus' proximity to the Sun that makes the planet much warmer than the Earth because Mercury, which is even closer to the Sun, is cooler than Venus.  Based on this rationale, then, Gore warned that we need to stop emitting CO2 into our own atmosphere.  Incredibly, not a Senator on the Committee questioned — much less burst into outright laughter at — Gore's absurd point.

Church of England Gives 150 Million Pounds to Gore's Investment Firm.  Did you need any more proof that climate alarmism is indeed an environmental religion?  The Church of England has invested 150 million pounds with Generation Investment Management, the green fund started by Nobel Laureate Al Gore.

Global Warming -- A Political Context.  For [Al] Gore and the EDF [Environmental Defense Fund], the planetary environment, not human life, appears the supreme standard of value.  Therefore, everything, most importantly Science and Economics, must be pried away from the benefit of man and pressed into total service of the State.  Given just a decade or two of such "sustainable" policies, bolstered by Gore's religion, the world will be well on its way to a new Dark Ages, and the human misery it breeds.

The Money and Connections Behind Al Gore's Carbon Crusade:  Former Vice President Al Gore's crusade against carbon dioxide emissions could make him millions of dollars.  With help from friends at Goldman Sachs, Gore has established a network of organizations to promote the "climate crisis" — and keep himself in the spotlight.

Obama Wants a Climate Czar — but Al Gore has no Consensus.  Former Vice President Al Gore had quite a year.  He produced an Oscar-winning film warning of the coming global warming Armageddon.  The film and his activism led to a Nobel Prize.  Flush from those victories, Gore "took the Hill," as he testified before a hushed hearing room in his old Senate haunt, predicting more dire consequences if global warming isn't stopped. ... That was the highlight of his life and probably his last hurrah, because ever since, an inconvenient truth found in science is showing that global warming is not man-made.  In addition, scientists are finding more global cooling than heating — and that too is not man-made.

Al Gore, the Oilman Who Hates Oil.  The mainstream media has relentlessly hailed Al Gore as a visionary for urging America to get off oil but has essentially ignored the fact that Gore is personally invested in the most cutting edge oil extraction technologies.

Tennessee zinc mine closes again.  Lagging economic conditions have shuttered a Middle Tennessee mine with a history of pollution and ties to former Vice President Al Gore.  Production at the Mid-Tennessee zinc-mining complex in Smith County stopped Oct. 9, six months after starting again for the first time in years.  Gore's family profited from the mining operation for years, receiving more than $500,000 in royalty payments for the mineral rights to his property.  Neighbors also received royalty payments in exchange for access to zinc under their land.

Gore urges civil disobedience to stop coal plants.  Nobel Peace Prize winner and environmental crusader Al Gore urged young people on Wednesday [9/24/2008] to engage in civil disobedience to stop the construction of coal plants without the ability to store carbon.  The former U.S. vice president, whose climate change documentary "An Inconvenient Truth" won an Academy Award, told a philanthropic meeting in New York City that "the world has lost ground to the climate crisis."

Al Gore, the United Nations, and the Cult of Gaia (1999):  U.S. taxpayers are being forced to subsidize a new form of state religion which holds that natural resources have to be protected for the sake of Gaia, a so-called Earth spirit.  This religious movement, which has cult-like qualities, is being promoted by leading figures and organizations such as Vice President Albert Gore, broadcaster Ted Turner, and the United Nations.  Gore, who as a member of the U.S. Senate participated in the 1992 U.N.-sponsored Earth Summit, is the most prominent member of what appears to be an environmental cult built around the concept of reverence for the Earth.  Gore has written openly about the Earth having sacred qualities and he has praised primitive pagan religions and goddess worship.

Bag Man for Eco-Extremists.  When Gore started his [global warming] campaign in the early 1990s, a contemporary Gallup poll of scientists showed that only 18 percent thought there was any evidence to support Gore's theory.  Even a survey conducted by Greenpeace found only 13 percent of climatologists willing to declare GW "probable."  Nevertheless, Gore repeatedly claimed that (literally) 98 percent of scientists agreed with him, and he exhorted reporters to ignore skeptics.

A False Frenzy on Global Warming.  In a remarkable speech before the San Diego Chamber of Commerce, [John] Coleman was very serious about global warming as the consummate fraud.  He began by saying that we should give credit where credit is due.  There is, he said, an intrinsic connection between Al Gore's campaign for global warming and $4 per gallon gasoline.  "It comes down to … the claim that carbon dioxide in the exhaust from your car and in the smoke stacks of our power plants is destroying the climate of planet earth.  What an amazing fraud; what a scam."

Gore Ducks Questions About Food Crisis, Ethanol and Climate Alarmism.  A remarkable thing happened Thursday [4/24/2008]:  a press member wanted to ask Nobel Laureate Al Gore about the growing international food crisis and how it relates to ethanol and global warming hysteria.  Not surprisingly, the man who cast the tie-breaking vote in the Senate fourteen years ago mandating the use of ethanol wasn't available….

The Democrats' Ex-Presidents:  Like all Greens, [Al] Gore is an authoritarian, his prescriptions having the aura of the people's block committee and the reeducation camp.  So it's just as well that the warming thesis has run into cold facts recently.  If we are in truth moving into a "quiet sun" period — a period of dramatically reduced solar activity (as indications suggest we are), then every last puff of CO2 on earth will do nothing to stop the mercury from dropping like a stone.  It'll be interesting to see how Gore deals with this.

Save Me from Al Gore.  Propaganda was in full force this past weekend when former Vice President Al Gore launched his 24-hour global concert — Live Earth — to bring attention to what he calls a "climate crisis."  For Climate Guru Gore, this is not a potential problem; not the start of a scary trend towards global heating; not even a potential crisis.  It is a complete and utter crisis! Global warming and its causes, according to Gore and his ilk, are no longer debatable, but are scientific facts and it's up to us to stop this impending doom.

Earth Daze, Courtesy Of Al Gore.  Al Gore sees no climate improvement since he made "An Inconvenient Truth."  Actually, things have gotten worse.  As the environmentalists celebrate Earth Day, the rush to replace fossil fuels threatens global famine.

Gore Ducks, as a Backlash Builds Against Biofuel.  In an interview last year, Mr. Gore expressed his support for corn-based ethanol, but endorsed moving to what he called a "third generation" of so-called cellulosic ethanol production, which is still in laboratory research.  "It doesn't compete with food crops, so it doesn't put pressure on food prices," the former vice president told Popular Mechanics magazine.

[Wrong again, Al.]

The hot air cult:  You don't have to be religious to qualify as a fundamentalist.  You can be Al Gore, the messiah figure for the global warming cult, whose followers truly believe their gospel of imminent extermination in a Noah-like flood, if we don't immediately change our carbon-polluting ways.  One of the traits of a cult is its refusal to consider any evidence that might disprove the faith.

Ad to challenge Gore's planet-saving image.  He has a mighty big carbon footprint.  Al Gore's opulent lifestyle and his virtuous plea to save the planet from global warming don't mesh, according to the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), which announced plans yesterday [3/7/2008] for a new national advertising campaign to showcase the contrast before the American public.

Al Gore:  enviro-tyrant.  [Al Gore] seems to think he is the spokesman for the human species, the legitimate representative of every human being who has ever lived or who will ever live in the future.  He thinks he and his supporters "control the destiny of all generations to come," a boast that even the worst dictators in history never dared to make.  Al Gore is an enviro-tyrant with delusions of global domination.

Greens Going for the Green.  Even with the human tragedy of Cyclone Nargis still unfolding in Burma, environmentalists aren't wasting any time linking the disaster to global warming.  Or at least one isn't:  Al Gore.

When Political Correctness Becomes Conventional Wisdom:  Con artists like Gore have enriched themselves on this issue, taking home Oscars, Nobel Prizes and millions of dollars.  Meanwhile, evangelical leaders are setting up their flocks for extreme fleecing by leftist politicos like Barack Obama, who will appeal for Christian votes by talking in glowing, biblical-sounding terms about "being good stewards of God's creation."  Climate change scientists have no evidence for their theories that cannot be refuted by experts of equal or greater stature.

Al Gore Denies Global Warming is His Meal Ticket.  Al Gore, who famously claimed to have invented the Internet, now denies  — in the face of powerful evidence to the contrary — that he is in a position to make an immense fortune from global warming-mitigation efforts.

Gore's warming plan will blister U.S..  If Gore and his Bali disciples prevail, growth in the United States and other developed nations will grind to a quick halt, while developing nations such as China and India remain free to pollute at will. … A generation from now, Americans may well look back at Al Gore as the Benedict Arnold of his age, someone so determined to save the earth he was willing to ruin his country.

Crouching Gore, Hidden Oil Stocks?  Al Gore's long, former relationship with Occidental Petroleum is well-documented, and all but ignored in the mainstream media.

Gore's wealth soars in 7 years.  Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore left the White House seven years ago with less than $2 million in assets, including a Virginia home and the family farm in Tennessee.  Now he's making enough to put $35 million in hedge funds and other private partnerships.

Al Gore's Convenient IPO:  What's an Emmy worth?  If you're former Vice-President Al Gore, it's worth just north of $1 million a year and roughly another $48 million in stock.  That's a hefty sum for a guy who of late has traveled the globe as a goodwill ambassador for mankind, stressing the need for humanity to wake up to the dangers of global warming.  Where's Gore getting the dough?  From a tiny, lightly watched cable TV channel called CurrentTV.

Global Warming, Inc.:  Al Gore, Silicon Valley, and venture politics.  Al Gore no longer needs to make claims about creating the Internet, because the former Vice President deserves much of the credit for creating an entire new industry — the global warming business.

Al Gore is like Jim Jones, and we're drinking his Kool-Aid.  This postmodernist environmental movement … bears little resemblance to its forerunner, the ecology movement of the 1960s.  Back then, Captain Kangaroo simply told us to never throw trash out the window. … Now, schoolchildren scold their parents because they haven't traded in their incandescent lightbulbs for the depressing yellow light of compact fluorescent bulbs.  Environmentalism, which used to simply include anyone concerned about pollution, somehow morphed into radical environmentalism.

Al Gore, Ignoble Laureate.  The front-runners for this year's Nobel Peace Prize are a couple of global warming alarmists.  With dozens of wars raging, the committee couldn't find a single person laboring honorably for peace?

Gore Milks Cash Cow.  The most conspicuous doubter in France is Claude Allegre, a former education minister and a physicist by profession.  His new book, "Ma Verite Sur la Planete" ("My Truth About the Planet"), doesn't mince words.  He calls Gore a "crook" presiding over an eco-business that pumps out cash.  As for Gore's French followers, the author likens them to religious zealots who, far from saving humanity, are endangering it.  Driven by a Judeo-Christian guilt complex, he says, French greens paint worst-case scenarios and attribute little-understood cycles to human misbehavior.

The Money and Connections Behind Al Gore's Carbon Crusade.  Al Gore's campaign against global warming is shifting into high gear.  Reporters and commentators follow his every move and bombard the public with notice of his activities and opinions.  But while the mainstream media promote his ideas about the state of planet Earth, they are mostly silent about the dramatic impact his economic proposals would have on America.  And journalists routinely ignore evidence that he may personally benefit from his programs.  Would the romance fizzle if Gore's followers realized how much their man stands to gain?

Al Gore is criticised for lining his own pockets after £3,300-per-minute green speech.  [Scroll down] But a source told The Mail on Sunday:  "Many guests looked tired and began to talk among themselves during his speech.  Heads began to twitch with tiredness.  Al uses his position for great personal gain.  He goes from event to event delivering a similar speech, earning a large fee, and a lot of the time he doesn't actually inform the audience.  He refused to speak to journalists and security would usher away VIP guests and the Press.  He was being very precious and demanded his own VIP room before the event, where he held his own exclusive reception.

A convenient £50m for green Gore.  Who would have thought that saving the planet could be such a lucrative business?  Al Gore, the former US vice-president turned environmental campaigner, has made more than £50m in just seven years from his books, speeches and shrewd investments in technology and green ventures. … Today Gore commands between £50,000 and £85,000 a speech, holds stock options in Google worth £15m and has made as much as £4m from advances on his book deals.  He is also advising a US venture capital company on how to invest a $600m green technology fund.

The Cult of Gore:  If Gore learned anything from eight years as the understudy to Slick Willie Clinton … it was the value of fads.  That, and the truth that Hollywood + rock stars = lots of media coverage and leftwing support.  The most obvious target that would ensure not only the backing of the younger generation but play on the peoples sense of fear … was the environment.

Al Gore Goes Elmer Gantry.  The result of all the hoo-hah was the eminently forgettable Live Earth extravaganza, which just flopped like a beached Great White whale.  Which is a very fitting metaphor for Mr. Gore himself, helplessly stranded on the muddy shoals of life, never to be President, even though Dad and Mom Gore groomed him from birth for that sure destiny.

Al Gore now arbiter of good journalism.  Is there no discipline, no craft, no field of human endeavor this man has not mastered?  Politician-cum-statesman.  Atmospheric scientist.  Peace monger.  Internet inventor.  Logician.  And now lecturer on the shortcomings of journalism.

Gore As Religious Figure:  I can understand the appeal of the global Warming religion, I really can.  For those who have disavowed conventional religion and have decided that man is the ultimate power — by which they mean themselves in particular, not just humanity in general — the thought that they alone can save the planet is heady stuff, indeed.  Who needs a god when they have placed themselves at that pinnacle?

Gore's Deceptive Rolling Stone Interview.  In case any doubt remains as to who deserves the title of undisputed Globaloney Champion of the World, Al Gore's Rolling Stone interview should put the question to rest.  Interviewed in the magazine's third 40th Anniversary Issue of the year, self-proclaimed planet savior Al Gore warns that:  "It is a mistake to think of the Climate Crisis as one in a list of issues that will define our future.  It is the issue.  Everything else must be viewed through that lens."

Gore Dodges Repeated Calls to Debate Global Warming.  As over 150 heads of state and government gather at UN headquarters in New York to discuss climate change, former Vice President Al Gore, the most prominent proponent of the theory of the human-induced, catastrophic global warming, continues to refuse repeated challenges to debate the issue.

Magazine Madness:  Where did reporters get the idea that Gore was prone to self-serving fibs?  Perhaps from Gore's self-serving fibs.  In October 2000, National Review compiled a collection of Gore-isms, some of which are memorable.  No "attack machine" was responsible for Gore's claim, for instance, that he was the author of the Earned Income Tax Credit — which was enacted two years before he became a member of Congress….

Right warning, wrong crisis.  According to the renowned climatologist Al Gore, the world is facing a crisis.  Unless that crisis is resolved, the world is in serious trouble.  The crisis, of course, is "global warming," and solving the crisis is simple.  All it will take is the destruction of the United States, or at least the liberty and the technology that have made the United States what it is.

Update:  Maybe he is a climatologist after all.
 A Degree of Folly in Al Gore Doctorate.  University of Minnesota President Bob Bruininks announced at the university's February Board of Regents meeting that Al Gore is being considered for an honorary doctorate in climatology for his 2006 movie, "An Inconvenient Truth."  Considering the multitude of misleading and inaccurate assertions Gore delivered in the film, Gore is better fitted for a dunce cap.

Why Did Global Warming Become a Moral Matter?  The global warming issue is now regarded as a "moral" matter by its advocates.  None other than The High Priest of Global Warming (Al Gore) has decreed it as such.  Of course, there is some obvious humor in this because the liberals will also tell you that you "cannot legislate morality".

Al Gore's Hell on Earth:  Al Gore calls it, "The Assault on Reason," but his brand of environmentalism sounds a lot more like a new form of faith.

Alarmist global warming claims melt under scientific scrutiny.  In his new book, The Assault on Reason, Al Gore pleads, "We must stop tolerating the rejection and distortion of science.  We must insist on an end to the cynical use of pseudo-studies known to be false for the purpose of intentionally clouding the public's ability to discern the truth." … Many of the assertions Gore makes in his movie, "An Inconvenient Truth," have been refuted by science, both before and after he made them.  Gore can show sincerity in his plea for scientific honesty by publicly acknowledging where science has rebutted his claims.

Manmade Global Warming:  The Real Assault on Reason.  [Al] Gore's cataclysmic forecasts of worldwide famine, rising sea-levels, vanishing species, et al, are themselves the very epitome of the same agenda-driven, illogical, expert advice cherry-picking, closed debate, unfounded fear-mongering he devotes the majority of his recent Bush-bashing book to deriding.

Somebody should turn the lights on.  Behind global warming guru Al Gore is global warming guru mastermind Maurice Strong. … The latest ambition of this deadly duo is to ban the incandescent light bulb worldwide … Problem is Gore and his shadow don't intend to stop with banning the incandescent light bulb. … Gore's shadow Strong is a self-professed depopulationist.

Forecaster Blasts Gore on Global Warming.  A top hurricane forecaster called Al Gore "a gross alarmist" Friday [4/6/2007] for making an Oscar-winning documentary about global warming.  "He's one of these guys that preaches the end of the world type of things.  I think he's doing a great disservice and he doesn't know what he's talking about," Dr. William Gray said in an interview with The Associated Press at the National Hurricane Conference in New Orleans, where he delivered the closing speech.

Gore's flying visit questioned.  A group of scientists is questioning the worth of Al Gore's flying visit to New Zealand.  The former US vice-president will arrive for half a day next month to promote his film on global warming, "An Inconvenient Truth."

Gore the Guzzler.  A Tennessee think tank has revealed an inconvenient truth … about what [Al] Gore actually practices, as opposed to what he endlessly preaches.  The Tennessee Center for Policy Research, using public records, calculated the Gores' energy use for the past two years at their new 20-room, 10,000-square-foot home in suburban Nashville.  In all, the main house and the pool house used an average 18,414 kilowatt-hours (KWH) of power a month last year; that's 14 percent more the 16,200 monthly KWH they devoured in 2005.

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 The Left-Wing Echo Chamber.  Death threats.  Harassing phone calls.  Threatening e-mails.  Such was a day in the life of Drew Johnson a few weeks ago.  His crime?  Johnson is president of the Tennessee Center for Policy Research, a free-market think tank that broke one of the juiciest stories of 2007. … Unfortunately for Johnson, it meant enduring days of attacks from liberals — even though the facts of the story came directly from public records.

How Gore's massive energy consumption saves the world.  Al [Gore] buys his carbon offsets from Generation Investment Management LLP, which is "an independent, private, owner-managed partnership established in 2004 and with offices in London and Washington, D.C.," that, for a fee, will invest your money in "high-quality companies at attractive prices that will deliver superior long-term investment returns."  Generation is a tax-exempt U.S. 501(c)3.  And who's the chairman and founding partner?  Al Gore.  So Al can buy his carbon offsets from himself.

Gore isn't quite as green as he's led the world to believe.  For someone who says the sky is falling, he does very little.  He says he recycles and drives a hybrid.  And he claims he uses renewable energy credits to offset the pollution he produces when using a private jet to promote his film.  (In reality, Paramount Classics, the film's distributor, pays this.)  Public records reveal that as Gore lectures Americans on excessive consumption, he and his wife Tipper live in two properties:  a 10,000-square-foot, 20-room, eight-bathroom home in Nashville, and a 4,000-square-foot home in Arlington, Va.  (He also has a third home in Carthage, Tenn.)  For someone rallying the planet to pursue a path of extreme personal sacrifice, Gore requires little from himself.

Gore Exempt From His Own Global Warming Rhetoric?  As the self proclaimed spokesman for global warming former Vice President Al Gore has made an Oscar-winning documentary on the subject, been nominated for a Nobel Peace prize and regularly preaches about energy conservation although he himself doesn't do it.  On the day after his renowned documentary (An Inconvenient Truth) won an Academy Ward, Gore was exposed by a research group in his home state of Tennessee as a hypocrite for his own extravagant energy use, the very kind he travels around the world chastising.

An Inconvenient Challenge:  A study by the Senate EPW Committee reveals that [Al] Gore, as the leader of the nationwide crusade against man-made global warming, consumes 191,000 kilowatt-hours of electricity per year in his Tennessee mansion.  The average American household consumes a total of 11,256 kilowatt-hours per year.  That's 12 times less electricity.

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 Gore-ging on Energy, One Year Later Gore's Home Energy Use Climbs 10%.  [Last year, a] TCPR report revealed that Al Gore's Tennessee mansion used more energy each month than the average American household uses in an entire year.  ... A year down the line his energy use hasn't gone down.  It hasn't even stayed level.  It actually increased by 10%.  How will the media handle this bloated increase despite Gore's claims of trying to improve?

Al Gore proves the futility of his policy recommendations.  The morality play on offer from greenies and their media buddies holds that "we can't drill our way" to cheaper oil prices, but "conservation" and "new technologies" for "alternative energy" are the answer.  Thus, I am thankful to Al Gore for proving that even in a high profile demonstration project these "solutions" won't work.

A bad day for the red-hots.  [Al Gore] is green down to his skivvies.  But most of his advice is for everyone else.  He likes the extravagant life of the grasshopper, and if the ants will only work harder he can continue to burn through enough energy at his Nashville mansion to light six typical homes of worker ants.

For Americans, $4 gasoline is the issue.  Some eight years ago, Vice President Al Gore proposed a 50-cent hike in gasoline taxes to raise prices to force Americans to repent and sacrifice their SUVs at the altar of environmentalism.  That's another reason why he never became president.  Gore has a King Kong-sized "carbon footprint."  He uses the equivalent of 125 barrels of oil a year to provide electricity for his home in Tennessee, or about what 20 normal families use.  So much for his argument that we are in imminent danger of global warming.

Junk Science:  Al Gore's Epic Hypocrisy.  [Scroll down]  So while he campaigns for Americans to curtail their electricity use — you should take cold showers, forego air conditioning and dry your clothes on a clothesline — Gore is plugging in and turning on more than ever. … During a time of an alleged crisis, the profile of his personal power consumption is more akin to "greed" than "green"; moreover, the environmental impacts of the Tennessee Valley Authority's "green power" program from which Gore buys high-priced energy are murky, if not downright trivial.

Global Warming Hypocrites.  I've come to the conclusion that many of these people are mentally ill.  They won't accept any rational opposition, scientific or otherwise, that refutes the global warming theory.  Drew Johnson reported that after his organization first revealed Al Gore's electric bill to the general public, his group received a number of death threats.  Their computers were hacked.  Phoned obscenities were common.

New Ads Hit Gore's Energy 'Hypocrisy,' Critic Says.  A national advertising campaign contrasting Al Gore's "energy-consuming lifestyle" with the need for energy in developing countries was launched by a conservative think tank Tuesday despite charges from global warming activists that the new effort merely recycles old attacks on the former vice president.

'Global warming' Gore attracts heat.  The latest angry anti-Gore round boiled up when radio talk show host Steve Gill, a regular Gore basher, fired up listeners over the family's new 100-foot houseboat that's docked on Center Hill Lake.  As he often does, Gill labeled Gore a hypocrite who preaches energy conservation to curb what Gill refers to as "so-called global warming," but who doesn't practice it.

Climate Debate Leaves One Cold.  We can only hope [Al Gore's] heated rhetoric about global warming causes less damage to the environment than all the greenhouse gasses he generates while jetting around the planet to give speeches. … If Gore really believes humans are damaging the earth, he should stop flying (burned jet fuel is a major source of greenhouse gasses), stop driving his car (more greenhouse gas emissions) and sell his Nashville mansion (which sucked up nearly 221,000 kilowatt-hours of electricity in 2006, more than 20 times the national average).

Return to Liberal La-La Land.  Observing recent events has landed me back in Liberal La-La Land.  I use the term to describe the fantasyland that I enter when watching most network news reports or when seeing things that don't make much sense.  One example I have given in the past is Al Gore preaching about conserving energy to decrease global warming, while flying around the world on private jets and traveling in gas guzzling limousines.

Global Warming:  Caused by Pepsi, Coke, and Al Gore?  Something tells me that if Al [Gore] and his ilk have their way, the American economy will suffer enormous damage, and the impact on energy and transportation costs will slap every man woman and child across the face.  The lower the income, the harder the slap.  Yet at the same time, internet-inventing folk like Al Gore will still find a way to consume as they please.  They will convince themselves and their fellow jet-setters of their own heroics, and will never miss a wink of sleep in the process.

The Strange World of Al Gore:  This hatred of humanity, of civilization, of industrialization, of expanding frontiers of science and technology lies at the heart of Al Gore's philosophy.  Is this insane or just stupid?  Either way, it does not merit a Nobel Prize or an Oscar.  And it is contagious.  Gore's moronic embrace of Global Warming is widely accepted even in the face of raging blizzards in Colorado, frozen orange crops in California, and chill conditions throughout the Midwest and Northeast.  There's plenty of cold weather elsewhere in the world.  We call this "winter."  Despite obvious and empirical evidence to the contrary, some people keep insisting the Earth is filled with signs of a sudden and calamitous warming.

Forty Years of Perverse "Social Responsibility":  Instead of helping destitute families get abundant, reliable, affordable electricity, Rainforest Action Network, Environmental Defense and other pressure groups block efforts to build coal and gas generating plants, because they would release greenhouse gases. … Up to 95% of people in Sub-Saharan countries have no electricity, Al Gore personally uses more electricity in a week than 25 million Ugandans do in a year — and agitators are telling Africans the biggest threat they face is hypothetical climate change.

Al Gore, Media Scholar?  Al Gore's new book "The Assault on Reason" has definitively established one fact:  Al Gore is still the sorest loser in American politics. … Like many liberals with the itch to micromanage our lives, Gore clearly believes the American people are ignorant to the point of endangerment.  So he's become a media scholar, and unloaded his communications theories in a book excerpt hyped by his friends at Time magazine.

Diagnosing Mr. Energy (Al Gore).  The latest Al Gore flap concerns the extravagant electricity and natural gas consumption at the former vice president's mansion in Nashville.  Last year, electricity consumption there — one of several homes owned by Gore — was more than 20 times that of the average American household.  As many pundits have noted, this appears to be yet another example of hypocrisy on the part of Gore, who has plenty to say to everyone else about energy conservation.

Mr. Gore owns several houses.  This energy hog is only one of them.

Al Gore:  The debate is over.  There is no longer any serious debate over the basic points that make up the consensus on Al Gore.  He is an enviro-fascist hypocrite who lives in a Tennessee mansion that uses 30 times the energy of the average American home, yet he has taken it upon himself to lead a worldwide wacko movement that wants to force us to radically alter our way of life in the pursuit of zealous extremism to achieve dubious results in addressing a problem that may not even exist.  The debate is over.

Al Gore and the Global Warming Scare.  The truth is that the Earth's temperature is always changing to some extent, up or down.  Within historic memory, the canals of Venice froze solid during the medieval Little Ice Age, and Greenland was verdant enough, during a warm spell, to earn its (currently) wildly inappropriate name. … There is nothing we can do about this, and no reason why we should try — let alone spend hundreds of billions of dollars trifling with titanic forces we can't even comprehend.

Al Gore's Weather of Mass Destruction:  An Incoherent 'Truth'.  Before we finalize Gore's beatification, could we pause for a moment and at least examine the merit of his positions?  This generic requirement was suggested by Martin Luther King Jr. when he observed, "Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance or conscientious stupidity." … It is all too evident that Gore is ignoring any information that stands in the way of his alarmist, global warming theology.

Al Gore's Untimely Global Warming Speech:  Former Vice President Al Gore unwittingly marked the 20th anniversary of 1984, the anti-utopia described in George Orwell's 1949 novel, by delivering a twenty-first century version of Orwell's feared "newspeak."  Gore chose January 15, 2004, one of the coldest days in New York City's history, to rail against the Bush administration and global warming skeptics for their insistence that science should guide public policy, rather than the other way around.  Global warming, Gore told a startled audience, is causing record cold temperatures.

Gore's Global Warming Speech Gets Icy Rebuke:  The National Center for Public Policy Research, one of Gore's many critics, said "the speech is full of demagoguery, misleading statements, formulations intended to deceive, unsupported allegations of wrongdoing and hypocrisy.  …From a scientific and environmental perspective, Al Gore's speech today should be ignored.  No serious policy person could give the speech Al Gore gave today," said Amy Ridenour, the center's president.

Mario Lewis quote

Mario Lewis was quoted in World Magazine, October 27, 2007, page 12.

10 Questions For Al Gore And The Global Warming Crowd.  The most ironic thing about the global warming argument is that Al Gore and Company have declared that it's settled, but they have to use scary stories about cities being flooded a hundred years from now and fake tales about polar bears drowning to sell it.  If they're on such rock solid scientific ground, why doesn't the science speak for itself?  Does anyone remember Sir Isaac Newton or Albert Einstein trying to get people to buy into their scientific theories by coming up with doomsday scenarios?  No, of course not.

Science and Global Warming:  What Do We Know?  Wholly implausible scare scenarios are routinely disseminated to and through the media, even though they are contradicted by real-world scientific evidence.  Some of these scientifically unsubstantiated assertions appear in former vice president Al Gore's movie "An Inconvenient Truth." ... Gore's cinematic assertions are repeated as "truth" by a largely sympathetic media that seldom bothers to do their own research or mention contradictory scientific facts.

The New Math on Global Warming:  The eco-movement and Al Gore have been repeating the mantra that "the earth has warmed 0.6°C. in the last century."  They claim this has been due to more human-emitted CO2, and project Big Warming on that basis.  When we plug in the 1,500-year cycle, however, we have to take away from the scary computer models the 0.5° of warming that occurred before 1940 — and thus before much human-emitted CO2.  The earth has warmed only a net 0.2°C. of net warming since 1940.  Human-emitted CO2 gets the blame for only half of that — or 0.1°C. of warming over 65 years!  We've had no warming at all since 1998.

President of Czech Republic Calls Man-Made Global Warming a 'Myth' — Questions Gore's Sanity.  Czech president Vaclav Klaus has criticized the UN panel on global warming, claiming that it was a political authority without any scientific basis.

Rage, rage against dimming of the light.  Global warming advocates frequently claim that the way for society to reduce carbon dioxide emissions is for individuals to make sacrifices to their lifestyle in the name of reducing their carbon footprint.  Thus people are encouraged to feel guilty about everyday components of their life, such as holiday air travel, driving cars to work, using electrical appliances and so on.  Judging by prominent global warming advocate Al Gore's power bill, (20 times that of the average American), one may be forgiven for thinking such activists are perhaps more interested in reducing your consumption rather than their own.

Gore to recruit 10m-strong green army.  Al Gore yesterday launched a drive to mobilise 10 million volunteers to force politicians to act on climate change — twice as many as the number who marched against the Vietnam war or in support of civil rights during the heyday of US activism in the 1960s.  During the next three years, his Alliance for Climate Protection plans to spend $300m (about £150m) on television advertising and online organising to make global warming among the most urgent issues for elected American leaders.

Goreacle's complicated truth:  Well, here's a surprise.  Al Gore last week linked the deadly cyclone in Myanmar to global warming.  "We're seeing consequences that scientists have long predicted might be associated with continued global warming," he told National Public Radio in reference to the tragedy.

Al Gore Feeds on Myanmar's Tragedy.  With the potential death toll in Myanmar from Cyclone Nargis rising into the hundreds of thousands, last week's attempt by Al Gore to use the tragedy to promote his "climate crisis" agenda becomes all the more reprehensible.

RI Students Must Watch 'Inconvenient Truth' to Graduate.  To receive a degree from Roger Williams University in Rhode Island, students are being forced to watch "An Inconvenient Truth," the documentary on global warming produced by former Vice President Al Gore.  The science class requirement has prompted one conservative student to declare that "we should stop calling these schools 'bastions of knowledge' since they're really bastions of leftist thought."

Poor Al Gore.  How can one criticize a man so manifestly bent on saving the human race?  There would seem only one honor left for him to receive.  What else could so perfectly crown this lifetime of public service as … the presidency of the United States?  You can bet your bottom dollar that he wants the job — wants it so much his chest aches.  After all, he has pursued it all his life. … There is, in fact, only one serious obstacle.  And there she sits, like the Rock of Chickamauga:  Hillary Clinton.

All blunder, no thunder.  Nowadays Gore lives in a shack down by the ol' Mississippi and earns a living hauling dead possums out of drains.  Or he may as well, for all the influence he's turned out to have.  (Actually, Gore appeared at Harvard University this week to talk about global warming.  The weather promptly dropped to near-record lows, causing the university's Sustainability Celebration Committee to send out an email promising they would serve "hot cider and soup" so nobody would freeze to death.)

Gore's Gruesome New Prize.  To celebrate the 100th birthday of the late Dr. Roger Revelle, the oceanography institute he once directed is today presenting an award in his name to his most famous disciple — Al Gore.  And, while this charlatan should never seriously be considered for any scientific tribute, the specific intent of this one makes Gore a particularly unworthy maiden recipient, and he knows it.

Snow job

Eight Reasons Why "Global Warming" Is a Scam:  When Al Gore lost his bid to become the country's first "Environment President," many of us thought the "global warming" scare would finally come to a well-deserved end.  That hasn't happened, despite eight good reasons this scam should finally be put to rest.

Al Gore vs. Seven Climate Scientists.  The dissenters against Anthropogenic Global Warming have long desired an open and honest debate with Al Gore.  But Mr. Gore has never consented.  Here's the next best thing:  a video presentation of edited arguments from seven renown climate scientists that demolish the rationalizations presented in Gore's movie "An Inconvenient Truth."

Gore to publish new book.  Former Vice President Al Gore said Tuesday [3/24/2009] he plans to have a new book out by November, building on his movie and traveling slideshow about global warming.  Mr. Gore said his book, "Our Choice," will rally supporters to act on climate change and support renewable energy projects as way to combat global warming and bolster international economies.

Aussie Scientist: Gore is 'trying to make money out of scaring people witless'.  Outspoken academic geologist Ian Plimer says people are embracing his latest book on the science behind climate change because they are "disenfranchised" and increasingly frustrated with the "selective evidence" being presented about global warming.  The professor of mining geology at Adelaide University this morning launched Heaven and Earth: Global Warming the Missing Science.

10 Questions for Al Gore.  [#7.] When you left public service in January 2001, your personal net worth was perhaps $2 million.  In 2007, your personal net worth was reported to be on the order of $100 million.  How much of this fortune is related, directly or indirectly, to your advocacy of legislation to reduce "global warming"?

Gore lies to Congress about personal finances.  When Tennessee Rep. Marsha Blackburn confronted Al Gore with his profiteering from global warming legislation at today's House Energy and Environment Subcommittee hearing on the Waxman-Markey climate bill, Al Gore said that every penny he ever made from his business activities went into non-profit efforts.  That is a flat-out lie, according to [a] March 6, 2008 Bloomberg report that indicates that Al Gore invested $35 million of his own money in various for-profit endeavors.

Al Gore lies to Congress:  Part 2.  It's a good thing Al Gore didn't have to raise his right hand and take an oath to tell the truth before he testified on April 24 to the House Energy and Environment Subcommittee about the Waxman-Markey climate bill.  GreenHellBlog.com first reported on April 24 that Al Gore lied to the Subcommittee about his personal finances during questioning by Tennessee Rep. Marsha Blackburn.  It turns out that Gore also lied to Louisiana Rep. Steve Scalise, who had asked Gore about his connections with the Wall Street firm of Goldman Sachs.

Cap-And-Trade:  Al Gore's Cash Cow.  At the cap-and-trade hearings, it was revealed that not everyone will suffer from this growth-killing energy tax.  A congresswoman wanted to know why sea levels aren't rising but Gore's bank account is.  When Gore left office in January 2001, he was said to have a net worth in the neighborhood of $2 million.  A mere eight years later, estimates are that he is now worth about $100 million.  It seems it's easy being green, at least for some.

Al Gore's Inconvenient Enron.  [Scroll down]  Of course, Gore wasn't the home-state governor of this Fortune 15 company either, so I guess his supposed lack of familiarity (keep reading) would make sense.  But one might ask what nickname Gore had for close family friend and (ahem) benefactor, the Soviet stooge Armand Hammer?  Maurice Strong?  The gang at his own personal Enron — scam-artist and buddy-run Molten Metals?

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 The Incredible Disappearing Nobel Prize-Winner.  I've clipped and accumulated about a hundred news articles, decreasing in size and moving further back in the pages week to week, about the first political hostages of the Obama administration, the two reporters who work for Al Gore's TV network.  They were captured, held hostage, fake-tried and sentenced to 12 years in a labor camp in North Korea.  I've also taken notes on the TV news coverage.  At first, mention was routinely made that they were "employees of Current-TV, the company created and owned by Al Gore."

New Movie Seeks to Refute Gore's 'Inconvenient Truth'.  A new documentary on climate change is highly critical of the claims made by former Vice President Al Gore in his film, "An Inconvenient Truth," and seeks to refute the main points Gore made. ... On the scientific side, Gore is criticized from several angles.  His claim that global warming has contributed to the spread of malaria in Africa, for example, is contrasted with evidence that malaria flourished in the 19th century United States, which was one degree cooler than today's malaria-free America.

Climate lawsuits are coming, Gore & Browner warn.  Former Vice President Al Gore and current White House climate change czar Carol Browner are warning companies and lawmakers that the courts will step in to regulate greenhouse gases if Congress fails to act.  "All of the discussion has been about the president and the Congress," Gore told journalists at a U.N. press conference Tuesday.  "We have a third branch of government:  the courts."

Dan Quayle:  Evidence of a Double Standard.  Whenever I'm in a debate regarding left-wing media bias, I find it useful to mention the treatment of Vice President Dan Quayle as opposed to the treatment of Vice Presidents Al Gore and Joe Biden by members of the Fourth Estate.  While Gore made statements that bordered on the absurd — he claimed he created the Internet — the liberal establishment even now heaps praise and accolades upon him, including an Academy Award for his documentary on global warming.

Al Gore Still Lying about An Inconvenient Truth.  There is an opinion of the U.K. High Court which thoroughly trashes Al Gore's movie for "educational" purposes, finding that not one of the eleven money claims from the movie on which it sought evidence could be supported.  Gore and his spokesman have ritually held that the Court "affirmed thousands of other statements in the movie" (really?  name one), that the court "supported" or "found in favor of" the movie, and so on.

An Inconvenient Journalist.  Al Gore notoriously refuses to debate the scientific merits of his book and movie about global warming, both titled An Inconvenient Truth.  At a conference of environmental journalists, however, he briefly deigned to answer questions.  The journalist who directed Not Evil, Just Wrong, a documentary that criticizes Gore's alarmism, took advantage of the opportunity to ask Gore about the British judge who found that there were at least nine scientific errors in Gore's film.

Confronting Al Gore with An Inconvenient Question.  The Society of Environmental Journalists spent much of their conference in Madison, Wisconsin questioning why mainstream journalism was dying.  Then they answered their own question when they decided it was their role to protect Al Gore from An Inconvenient Question.

Who Else Will Challenge Gore's 'Truth'?  Last week at the Society of Environmental Journalists conference in Wisconsin, former Vice President Al Gore took questions from journalists about global warming for the first time in years.  I attended to ask him about factual errors in his movie, "An Inconvenient Truth."  You wouldn't know it from the sparse media coverage, but the British High Court found so many errors in Gore's movie in 2007 that British schools no longer can show the film without the equivalent of a health warning.

Not Truthful, Just Gore.  A viral buzz is probably not something you want to have in these days of H1N1 (swine flu) paranoia.  But if you're Ann McElhinny and Phelim McAleer this week it's not a malady, but a desired condition.  That's because Sunday marks the formal public introduction to their film documentary "Not Evil Just Wrong," which follows their 2006 joint effort "Mine Your Own Business."

Society of Environmental Homers protect Gore.  It's been years since former Vice President Al Gore took questions from journalsts willing to ask challenging and probing questions about either alleged flaws in the evidence for his global warming views or details of his financial interests in the adoption of government policies based on those views.  But for at least one question at the annual conference of the Society of Environmental Journalists (SEJ), Gore was presented with an opportunity to address his critics and defend his views.  Unfortunately, as this video of the encounter shows, not only did Gore do what politicians usually do — evade the question — but his SEJ buddies made sure there would be no followup questions by turning off the microphone and forcing the questioner to leave.

Al Gore's First (and Probably Last) Q&A.  For a public figure, Mr. Gore has been strangely reluctant to answer questions or debate the more controversial parts of his work.  But over the weekend, he deigned to take a few questions during a meeting of the Society of Environmental Journalists in Madison, Wisconsin.  Irish documentary filmmaker Phelim McAleer was in the line.

Al Gore's Journalistic Shield.  "Environmental journalism" is an oxymoron, and if that wasn't obvious already, it is after the Society of Environmental Journalists last week shielded a politician from one of its own members.  The politician in question was none other than former Vice President Al Gore.

Al Gore Advised Google About Its 'Search Quality'.  By themselves, the following paragraphs from this 6500-word piece don't mean much.  However, given the ongoing concerns about Google's political leanings and how its search algorithms might be manipulated to favor liberal news outlets over conservative points of view, the very idea that Gore might have had any input to this process is worrisome to say the least.

Have You No Shame, Leftists?  [Scroll down slowly]  Then we have an ex-vice president, Al Gore, who has spent the past several years getting rich in a way that would have had Charles Ponzi gnashing his teeth in envy.  First, Gore announced that the earth was heating up and that people in Kansas would soon be up to their knees in the Pacific Ocean.  Then, when Mother Nature pulled a fast one and cooled things down slightly, as is her wont, Gore didn't miss a beat.  Instead, he said we were undergoing climate change.  People didn't know what that meant, but Gore, in those ominous tones he has mastered, said it was every bit as bad as global warming and, so, the money just kept rolling in.

An inconvenient tea party.  Irish filmmaker Phelim McAleer couldn't get Hollywood interested in his conservative answer to Al Gore's "Inconvenient Truth," so he's trying to promote it a different way — by getting tea party protesters to turn out for thousands of screenings across the country Sunday night [10/18/2009].  McAleer is billing the multicity premiere of "Not Evil Just Wrong" as the world's largest simultaneous film viewing, and he says the "cinematic wing of the tea party movement" is just the ticket for making it work.

Is Al Gore Not Evil, Just Wrong?  The speech in Madison, Wisconsin was sponsored by the Society of Environmental Journalists.  Amazingly, these alleged journalists closed ranks and shut McAleer down for daring to challenge the many false and inaccurate statements in Gore's propaganda film, An Inconvenient Truth.

Inconvenient Truths Surface in 'Not Evil Just Wrong'.  "Not Evil Just Wrong" picks up where the High Court left off, picking apart both Gore's film and the environmental movement through case studies and in-depth interviews.  It addresses the economic and societal impacts of environmental regulations, as well as the scientific truth behind today's environmental hype.

Newsweek Editor Calls Al Gore 'An Eco-Prophet'.  "Al Gore's views on climate change are advancing as rapidly as the phenomenon itself."  Such was Newsweek science editor Sharon Begley's sub-headline of her proselytizing piece "The Evolution Of An Eco-Prophet."  Fortunately for the Goracle's loyal followers, Begley didn't ask him how the planet could possibly have cooled the past eleven years despite his warnings about the plague "carbon dioxide."

Al Gore An Enemy of the Environment.  Contrary to a popular myth Al Gore and his followers are among the biggest enemies of the environment.  Contrary to their lies carbon dioxide (CO2) is not a pollutant.  CO2 is essential to biological life.  The CO2 cycle is the basis of carbon based biological life.  Plants are carbon structures and CO2 provides the carbon they need.  Carbon is the second most common element in the human body. ... Plants are the original solar energy collectors.  Plants store solar energy as the chemical bonds of carbon molecules.  The ability of plants to grow depends upon the available sunlight and the amount of CO2 in the air.

Gore's Profits Of Doom.  The oracle of climate disaster has a new book out on global warming that should be on the fiction list.  He asks us to commit economic suicide while he rakes in millions from his green investments.

Why Newsweek is the Punch Line.  [Scroll down]  For example, the November 9th edition of Newsweek (The Thinking Man's Thinking Man) calls Al Gore a "prophet" several times, in multiple articles.  Newsweek contributor Sharon Begley writes glowingly of Gore, praising him for everything from his optimism to his spirituality in her article The Evolution of an Eco-Prophet.  She calls him "fact-filled," largely ignoring the growing scientific dissent with his claims, and essentially admits her unquestioning faith in the "eco-prophet":  "One has absolutely no trouble — none, zero, nil — believing him," she writes.

The Economic Uses of Al Gore.  [Scroll down slowly]  Mr. Gore long ago jumped over to the side where salesmanship, by whatever means, was the trumping priority.  As far back as 1989, he insisted there was "no dispute worthy of recognition" about the danger of manmade climate change.  By now, he titularly heads a vast establishment with a stake in one side of the argument.

Gore heckled at climate speech.  Former Vice President Al Gore's global-warming speech Saturday night at Mizner Park drew about a thousand attendees, as well as more than 200 loud protesters.  Stationed outside the Mizner Park Amphitheater, the protesters jeered at Gore as he took the podium and at those walking into the open-air venue to listen to the speech.

Newsweek Admits 74 Percent of Gore Letters Are Critical, But Fails to Publish Any.  Newsweek has done it again:  a few weeks after acknowledging half its letters were critical of Joe Biden (but publishing none of them), they proclaimed their Al Gore cover was unpopular.  Forty-six percent of their letter writers wrote on the subject of Gore, and 74 percent of them were critical.  Still, Newsweek ran only positive letters.


Section 1½ -- Al Gore's Nobel Prize:

Al Gore's Nobel Prize 'illegal'.  The Nobel Peace Prizes awarded to Mother Teresa and Al Gore violated the terms of Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel's will that created the awards and so are illegal, a lawyer who has written a book on the subject said today.  Only 45 percent of the Nobel Peace Prizes attributed since World War II are in line with the spirit and terms of Nobel's will, according to Norwegian lawyer Fredrik Heffermehl, author of "Nobel's Will."

A "Nobel" Folly.  Take away Al Gore's Nobel peace prize.  Give him another one — literature maybe, or art — but the peace prize has got to go.  This is not a question of his environmental policies.  Agree or disagree, they are not the issue here.  Their consequences, however, are.  We have seen a reaction to the global warming scare that has people scrambling to produce alternate fuels.  This seems like an excellent idea, regardless of climate issues; more energy sources are always better than less.

Al Gore, global warming and convenient untruths.  When Nobel laureate Al Gore collects his peace prize in Oslo on Dec. 10, he should tell the gathered Norwegians exactly what he meant when he remarked about global warming:  "I believe it is appropriate to have an overrepresentation of factual presentations on how dangerous it is, as a predicate for opening up the audience to listen to what the solutions are," Gore said in the May 9, 2006, issue of Grist magazine.  "Overrepresentation"?  Is that anything like "misrepresentation"?

Al Gore and the Mission of the Nobel Prizes:  If Gore is indeed the recipient [of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize], this choice, more than any other Nobel Committee selection, marks the end of a 105-year era.  In direct contradiction of Alfred Nobel's last will and testament, the selection of Gore essentially means the Peace Prize can no longer be said to be an award for improving the condition of humankind.  Looking at Gore's writing, it's far from clear that Gore even believes that humanity is his most important priority.

Gore's prize:  A fraud on the people:  Alfred Nobel felt horrible about the uses to which his invention — dynamite — was put.  So he endowed the Nobel Peace Prize and instructed that it go "to the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between the nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses."  Al Gore has done exactly none of those things.

Not Nobel Winners:  In Olso yesterday [10/12/2007], the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize was not awarded to the Burmese monks whose defiance against, and brutalization at the hands of, the country's military junta in recent weeks captured the attention of the Free World.  The prize was also not awarded to Morgan Tsvangirai, Arthur Mutambara and other Zimbabwe opposition leaders who were arrested and in some cases beaten by police earlier this year while protesting peacefully against dictator Robert Mugabe.

First casualty of peace prize:  Since Al Gore was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize you might have been wondering what global warming had to do with peace.  To avoid endless head scratching, it might help to borrow the scrambled brain of a post-modernist.  Begin by putting inverted quotes around "peace" so that it can mean whatever you want it to mean — even "war", if that suits your argument.

Al Gore:  Leading Us to Peace?  Really?  What it is, exactly, that Al Gore did to enhance "peace" such that he has now won a Nobel Peace Prize?

Gore and Peace:  [Scroll down] Al Gore, the latest recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, is a similarly poor choice, one likely not to stand the test of time.  Leaving aside the school-marmish, preachy, superior attitude that makes him such a magnet for parody, Gore is a phony. … And his movie, "An Inconvenient Truth," which offers an exaggerated, one-sided, and often inaccurate view of global warming, is more propaganda than documentary.

Nobel Prize ignores inconvenient untruths to reward Gore:  So-called anthropogenic climate change has nothing to do with science and everything to do with political control of mass populations.  In this edifying work, the primary instrument is the lie.  That is why, in deference to the Orwellian principle, the word "truth" has been conscripted to propagate one of the great untruths of our time.  If you doubt for one moment that global warming is a political, rather than a scientific, phenomenon, ask yourself why a failed American presidential candidate is leading the charge.

Al's Ignoble Nobel:  Al Gore has made an enormous business of his opposition to the oil companies.  He has made literally tens of millions from his crusade (far, far more than any oil company executive presently working).

Al Gore's reputation as Nobel Prize winner rises on cloud of hot air:  They just don't make Nobel Prizes the way they used to.  That's the feeling we get after hearing that Al Gore was named co-winner of the Nobel Peace Prize yesterday for his global warming alarmism.

Gore gets a cold shoulder.  One of the world's foremost meteorologists has called the theory that helped Al Gore share the Nobel Peace Prize "ridiculous" and the product of "people who don't understand how the atmosphere works".  Dr William Gray, a pioneer in the science of seasonal hurricane forecasts, told a packed lecture hall at the University of North Carolina that humans were not responsible for the warming of the earth.  His comments came on the same day that the Nobel committee honoured Mr. Gore for his work in support of the link between humans and global warming.

Gore wins Nobel Peace Prize, but do inconvenient truths lie behind the green gloss?  The Nobel Peace Prize has traditionally gone to individuals who have promoted peace and attempted to end conflict between states or groups.  However, the Norwegian committee this year said it wished to bring the "increased danger of violent conflicts and wars, within and between states because of climate change, into sharper focus".

Connecting the Dots Between Gore, Google and MoveOn.  Al Gore has cancelled speeches and is sending his tux out to be pressed.  Nobody's saying it for the record, but it appears he's about to get on his gas-guzzling private jet and fly to Sweden to be ready to accept his Nobel Peace Prize.  He would be getting the prize for his global warming work, notably his movie "An Inconvenient Truth," which, by the way, a British judge has ruled has at least 11 provable falsities embedded in it.

Gore's Noble Challenge:  Al Gore has finally won his Nobel Prize, reminiscent of the proverbial little nut that stood his ground, evolving into a giant Oak.  Now we can only hope that he runs for President, an office that, given recent history, surely deserves him.  Where else — except perhaps via the Kyoto Protocol on global warming, which Gore negotiated — can someone accomplish so little while spending so much?

Al Gore's Inconvenient Nobel Prize:  The irony is that the very issue that could propel Gore to win the Democrat presidential nomination is also the issue that could prevent him from winning the presidency, because the left-wing loons who control the Dems' nominating process would nominate him in a heartbeat but the American people as a whole would run from him like the plague.

Gore Nobel prize a travesty after court finds his film error-riddled.  Al Gore's Prize is probably the first in history where the recipient's work was found seriously deficient and misleading in a courtroom a week before the award.  Some media articles made reference to this coincidence, but missed the more important point.  It's likely the committee had already made their decision when the court decision was made, but the deficiencies and problems were already well documented.  This suggests either very poor research by the committee, lack of knowledge of climate science, or a purely political purpose to the award.

Global warming opportunity:  Like the Pulitzer Prize, which mostly goes to liberals or to economic conservatives who are OK with abortion and same-sex marriage, the Nobel Peace Prize has become a victim of political correctness and a tool for message-sending.  In this case (as when the award went to President Carter), the Nobel committee wanted to send a message to President Bush.



Section 2 -- Reaction to Al Gore's testimony before Congress on March 21, 2007:

Critics heap scorn on Gore.  For Al Gore, it was an emotional homecoming, his first public appearance on Capitol Hill since he reluctantly certified the disputed 2000 election victory of George W. Bush.  But for some of his Republican opponents, yesterday was also circled on the calendar.  It was an opportunity, as they saw it, to pounce on the former U.S. vice-president, shorn of his Hollywood sycophants and fawning audiences, to accuse him of shouting fire in a crowded theatre, a message of environmental alarm that has garnered him an Oscar, a Nobel Prize nomination and a global following.

Al-Mighty Preacher Running Out of Power.  [Al Gore] knows as well as anyone that the only form of energy that has no effect whatever on greenhouse gases is nuclear energy.  And yet here the Prophet of Doom was bizarrely tentative. ... Since many companies don't even bother to try to build nuclear plants because of community opposition, why would he not embark upon an educational effort to explain to the American people the environmental benefit to be gained from a major program to build nuclear power plants?  Why?  I'll tell you why.  Nuclear power is an ancient bugbear for the environmentalist left, and Gore is now their leader and sovereign.

Al's Warming Lies and the Real 'Inconvenient Truth'.  Gore's biggest rhetorical trick is saying that the Earth has a fever.  He says that 10 of the hottest years in history came in the last 11 years, and this proves we must do something, because, "If your baby has a fever, you go to the doctor."  This is meaningless.  The Earth has been much, much hotter in the past than today.  No giant space nanny fed it medicine.  Moreover, a healthy baby has a constant temperature — that's why a fever is bad.  The Earth does not have a constant temperature.

Gore under the spotlight.  This week Gore appeared in the U.S. Congress and gave testimony to the hearing called by the House Energy and Commerce Committee's Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality.  Gore testified that "a crisis threatens the survival of our civilization and the habitability of the Earth."  Further, global warming "is real and human activity is the main cause."

[Does anyone other than Mr. Gore really believe that industrial activity will eventually make the entire Earth uninhabitable?]

Al Gore's Fevered Imagination.  Gore's testimony at twin House and Senate hearings the same day was long on metaphors.  He mentioned the trials overcome by America's "greatest generation," drew parallels to the Cold War and the Marshall Plan, and fired off soundbites like "Nature is on the run" and "The planet has a fever."

Turning up the Heat on Gore.  Solving the problem isn't really the point.  As Gore makes it clear in his book, "Earth in the Balance," he wants to change attitudes more than he wants to solve problems.  Indeed, he wants to change attitudes about government as much as he wants to preach environmentalism.  Global warming is what William James called a "moral equivalent of war" that gives political officials the power to do things they could never do without a crisis.

The Imperial Mr. Gore:  Chairing the hearing in the Senate, Senator Barbara Boxer allowed Gore to avoid answering Republican questions by letting him run on and on with meaningless observations, thereby using up the questioning senator's allotted time and limiting his ability to seek answers to legitimate questions.



Section 2½ -- Reaction to Al Gore's Big Speech on July 17, 2008:

Gore's activism is less welcome when gas costs 4 bucks.  Al Gore hopes to put global warming back at the top of Washington's agenda Thursday [7/17/2008], but some Democrats in Congress are questioning his timing when they are getting pummeled by Republicans over record gas prices.

Some finding Gore's timing inconvenient.  Al Gore hopes to put global warming back at the top of Washington's agenda Thursday, but some Democrats in Congress are questioning his timing when they are getting pummeled by Republicans over record gas prices.

Voinovich Finds Gore's Energy Speech 'Ridiculous'.  You can consider Sen. George Voinovich (R-Ohio) as definitely not enthused by former Vice President Al Gore's speech Thursday [7/17/2008] on U.S. energy policy.  Voinovich had an initial one-word response — "ridiculous" — to Gore's speech at Washington's Constitution Hall, in which the Democrat called for the United States to end its dependence on carbon-based fuels and begin using renewable energy to produce electricity within the next 10 years.

Energy crisis threatens U.S. survival, Gore says.  The United States should be making all of its electricity with renewable and carbon-free energy in 10 years, former Vice President Al Gore said Thursday.  "The survival of the United States of America as we know it is at risk," Gore said.

Dissecting Al Gore's $5 Trillion Energy Plan:  In a speech yesterday here in Washington, Al Gore challenged the United States to "produce every kilowatt of electricity through wind, sun, and other Earth-friendly energy sources within 10 years.  This goal is achievable, affordable, and transformative."  (Well, the goal is at least one of those things.)

A bad day for the red-hots.  Al Gore picked a bad day to tout his global-warming scam.  Just as he was telling an easily conned columnist for the Associated Press that Earthlings have just 10 years to get in line behind him to save the world from the frying pan, a consortium of 50,000 physicists conceded that maybe Al's evidence of man-made warming isn't so hot, after all.

Will the Media Report Gore's Stake in Electricity Conversion?  Global warming obsessed media are predictably gushing over Nobel Laureate Al Gore's call for America to completely convert all of its electricity production to solar, wind, and other renewable sources by 2018.  As they gush, fawn, and genuflect, will press members dare to point out that Gore is heavily invested in companies which manufacture that which he's recommending America convert to?

They preen that others may sacrifice.  Americans for Prosperity catches on video Gore's supporters arriving in cabs for his speech on global warming in which he calls for higher gas taxes and greater use of public transportation.  But there's more:  Gore himself "brought a fleet of two Lincoln Town Cars and a Chevy Suburban SUV!"

Do as Al says, not as Al does.  On Thursday, former U. S. vice-president Al Gore delivered a major address calling on his country to abandon all fossil fuels within 10 years.  By 2018, U.S. electricity and fuel should come entirely from "renewable energy and truly clean, carbon-free sources," he said.  Tickets to the event encouraged attendees to "please use public transit, bicycling or other climate-friendly means" to reach the lecture hall.  So how did Mr. Gore and his retinue arrive?  In two Lincoln Town Cars and a full-sized SUV that sat idling with the air conditioners blasting while the Gore party was inside.

Al Gore's Doomsday Clock:  Al Gore gave a speech last week "challenging" America to run "on 100% zero-carbon electricity in 10 years" — though that's just the first step on his road to "ending our reliance on carbon-based fuels."  Serious people understand this is absurd.  Maybe other people will start drawing the same conclusion about the man proposing it.  The former vice president has also recently disavowed any intention of returning to politics.  This is wise.  As America's leading peddler of both doom and salvation, Mr. Gore has moved beyond the constraints and obligations of reality.

Gore's nutty idea:  He's a former vice president of the United States, Nobel Prize winner and best-selling author, so the lavish news coverage of Al Gore's latest brainstorm was inevitable.  Less understandable is why an idea so irresponsible — in economic terms, in fact, just this side of deranged — attracted so little ridicule.

Debate Questions for Joe Biden.  "Former Vice President Al Gore has suggested transitioning to '100% zero-carbon electricity in 10 years.'  Given that the U.S. gets 50% of its electricity generating power from coal, but only 2.3% from renewable sources such as wind and solar power, is Mr. Gore's timetable plausible or desirable?"

An Inconvenient Perception:  Voters Say the Gore Plan is Unrealistic and Costly.  Only 33% of American voters believe Al Gore's proposal to switch all of the nation's electricity production to wind, solar and other carbon-free sources in 10 years is realistic.  And, beyond the Democratic Party base, most voters think Gore's plan will make energy prices go up.

Democrats and Energy:  Reality Bites.  This week [Al Gore] laid out his demand for a miraculous transformation in U.S. energy use over a mere 10 years.  As for drilling for more oil?  "Absurd," the Nobel Laureate scoffed.  "When you're in a hole, stop digging."  The same might be said for Mr. Gore.  For while his message hasn't changed, the political realities of the energy debate have.  Suddenly, Mr. Gore's inconvenient speechifying only tightens the vise Democrats find themselves in over drilling.

Gored!  [Al Gore's] speech on global warming is full of misstatements, exaggerations, and outright untruths.  What's worse is that I'm sure he believes every word of it.

The Sixties Won't Go Away.  Al Gore recently prophesized that America within ten years could generate all its electrical needs from "renewable resources and carbon-constrained fuels" — mainly wind, solar, and geothermal power (which currently together account for less than 10 percent of our aggregate production).  In truth, that daydream has about as much chance of being realized by 2018 as Al Gore this year swearing off the use of polluting SUVs and gas-guzzling private jets as he whizzes to his next environmental pulpit.

Somewhere over Al Gore's rainbow.  In a Washington speech last week, former Vice President Al Gore argued that America can produce "affordable" 100 percent carbon-free electricity within 10 years.  My question:  Why not five years?  As long as Gore sees virtue in proposing completely unrealistic solutions — as in moving America from getting 3 percent to all of its electricity from renewable energy sources in a mere decade — wouldn't five years be twice as good?

The Green Hornet:  Al Gore said the other day that "the future of human civilization" depends on giving up fossil fuels within a decade — and was acclaimed as a prophet by the political class.  Obviously boring reality doesn't count for much these days.

Al Gore's Curiously Cost-Free Plan to Re-Power America:  Of course, great-souled visionaries such as Gore do not concern themselves with piddling and mundane issues such as who will pay for this marvelous no-carbon energy future and how much it will cost.  Not being burdened with a great soul, I decided to don my green eyeshade and make a preliminary stab at figuring out how much Gore's scheme might cost us.


Section 3 -- Proposed solutions that are sure to be worse than the problem.

Global warming alarmists often compare today's atmospheric carbon dioxide content to "pre-industrial" levels.  The only way to eliminate industrial CO2 emissions is to eliminate industry and revert to the 17th century.  Unfortunately, there are some radicals on the far left who don't see that as a preposterous idea.

Geoengineering Madness.  Irony heaps on irony in the climate debate as we are led down the path of certainty about the problem and the cause.  We now have people who blame humans for causing global warming and climate change taking deliberate action to cause cooling and counteract climate change.  So, the solution to human interference is more human interference.  Sadly, this assumes that you know what you're doing that the problem is correctly identified and you're prepared to accept the responsibility and deal with the outcome of your actions.

Paint it white.  Global warming may seem like an overwhelmingly complex problem to tackle.  But one scientist thinks the answer is brilliantly simple:  all we need is white paint.  A lot of white paint.

This is what's known as an exercise in futility.
 Paint rocks white to stop global warming, says scientist.  A Peruvian scientist has called on his country to help slow the melting of Andean glaciers by daubing white paint on the rock and earth left behind by receding ice so they will absorb less heat.

'Global warming', painting your roof white, and the Chattanooga Chu-Chu.  Will painting the town white be a cool thing to do?  Scientists answer questions like this by doing a little math. ... About 75% of the Earth is covered in water or ice.  [Water can't be painted,] and there's no need to paint ice because it's white already.  That leaves 25% of the surface. ... About 40% of the atmosphere is covered in clouds.  They're white too, ... And up to 30% of the land surface of the Earth is covered in snow for up to six months of the year.

SPPI Monthly CO2 Report — May 2009.  Perhaps the silliest of the growing number of remarkably stupid and still more remarkably expensive official proposals to Save The Planet from non-existent "global warming" is the suggestion by Stephen Chu, the US Energy Secretary, that the world should paint its roads and rooftops white to reflect the Sun's rays straight back into space.  Though this particular suggestion is not as bizarre as unfurling giant parasols in space, or moving the Earth's orbit a little further from the Sun, it has been put forward — with apparent seriousness — by no less a personage than a member of President Obama's Cabinet.

Even CNN sounds skeptical...
 White roofs to fight global warming.  America should attack global warming by ... painting rooftops and road surfaces white.  Seriously.  No kidding.  Among those promoting the idea is Energy Secretary Steven Chu, a big-thinking physicist who has a bully pulpit and influence over billions in research and stimulus funds.

Scientists Discuss Replicating Volcano's Effect to Cool Climate.  Scientists discussed the merits and demerits of pumping sulfur into the Earth's atmosphere as a temporary "fix" to global warming at a forum hosted in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 21 by the American Meteorological Society (AMS).  The idea is to artificially re-create the effects of volcanic eruptions to temporarily cool the planet.

The Editor says...
 Rash "cures" of this sort are pointless, futile and especially pointless, since the earth has been cooling for several years already.

Climate cure more costly than the disease.  Democracy, as Arthur Balfour said, is government by explanation:  but the explanations must be good ones.  The Garnaut report was to explain the basis for the Government's climate change policy.  Unfortunately it leaves open more questions than it answers.  This is because the encyclopedia Garnaut and his team have produced does everything except what it was supposed to do:  cost a target for greenhouse emissions reductions.

Crazy-Sounding Ideas May Help Combat Global Warming.  How crazy?  There's the man-made "volcano" that shoots gigatons of sulfur high into the air.  The space "sun shade" made of trillions of little reflectors between Earth and sun, slightly lowering the planet's temperature.  The forest of ugly artificial "trees" that suck carbon dioxide out of the air.  And the "Geritol solution" in which iron dust is dumped into the ocean.

Ghost ship fleet could be a silver lining in clouds of climate change.  A scientist at the University of Edinburgh has devised a new weapon in the fight against global warming:  a fleet of 1,500 unmanned sailing ships creating wakes that whiten clouds to reflect the heat of the Sun better.  The concept involves vessels powered by a radical rotary-sail technology that could patrol selected areas of ocean, spraying tiny droplets of seawater into existing clouds.

Scientists Question Climate Tinkering.  Unfortunately, the solutions could cause problems of their own — beyond their exorbitant costs — including making the arid Middle East even drier and polluting the air enough to increase respiratory illnesses.  Kevin Trenberth, climate analysis chief at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, said mankind already has harmed Earth's climate inadvertently, so it's foolish to think that people can now fix it with a few drastic measures.

Experts ponder the hazards of using technology to save the planet.  Last year, a private company proposed "fertilizing" parts of the ocean with iron, in hopes of encouraging carbon-absorbing blooms of plankton.  Meanwhile, researchers elsewhere are talking about injecting chemicals into the atmosphere, launching sun-reflecting mirrors into stationary orbit above the earth or taking other steps to reset the thermostat of a warming planet.  This technology … would inevitably produce environmental effects impossible to predict and impossible to undo.

Block the Sun with Millions of Flying Cars!  Many of the Science Magazines are talking about crazy ways to stop Global Warming.  Some of the ideas put forth are absolutely insane and others plausibly deniable.  One member at the "Offline EU Think Tank" suggested that we put forth additional R-and-D monies to bring about "flying cars" a couple of decades early and since the traffic is so insane in our cities, where the urban heat islands are, the flying cars will provide shade to the hot concrete and asphalt below.

Aspen trees starved in global warming experiment.  Chain saws scream in a northern Michigan forest, but it's not the familiar sound of lumberjacks.  This time the tree killers are environmental researchers.  They hope that years from now the aspens they remove will be replaced with a healthy mix of maples, oaks, beeches and pines — which should soak up more carbon dioxide from an ever warmer world.

Flawed Climate Bill Will Hurt Economy.  In June, the U.S. Senate will debate Senate Bill 2191, "America's Climate Security Act," sponsored by Sens. John Warner, R-Va., and Joe Lieberman, I-Conn. … In addition to setting up a slew of new organizations and programs, this new government boondoggle would cost the U.S. a trillion dollars over the next decade, according to the Congressional Budget Office.

Global warming fixes not cool.  Let's examine an important question.  Are the major schemes created by global politicians to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, ostensibly to combat global warming, effective?  The answer is no, because they aren't about addressing global warming.  They're about making more money for governments and large corporations.

Germany Buries CO2 Underground in Pilot Research Project.  Scientists have buried CO2 underground in Germany as part of a pilot project designed to put climate change on hold.  Environmental groups, however, are worried about toxic leaks into the earth.  The plan is to pump 60,000 tons of greenhouse gas into porous, salt water-filled rock at depths of more than 600 meters (2,000 feet) over the next two years, said Germany's national geo-science institute, the project's initiator.

Weekly Review.  A group of NASA engineers and American astronomers proposed solving the problem of global warming by moving the entire Earth into another orbit, which they say would add another 6 billion years to the planet's working life.  "The technology is not at all far-fetched," Dr. Greg Laughlin said.  "We don't need raw power to move Earth, we just require delicacy of planning and maneuvering."

Plan to Dump Iron in Ocean as Climate Fix Attracts Debate.  In the coming days to weeks, Planktos, a small California-based "ecorestoration" company, will use a 115-foot (35-meter) research ship to dump a hundred tons of iron dust into international waters some 200 miles (322 kilometers) west of the Galapagos Islands.  Iron — a nutrient naturally carried into the ocean by wind — encourages plankton growth, which can absorb atmospheric CO2, a greenhouse gas.

Orbiting giant sunshade gets thumbs down from climate scientists.  Unconventional schemes for tackling global warming by installing a giant sunshade in orbit, sowing the seas with iron and scattering sulphur into the upper atmosphere are set to be bluntly rejected by UN experts this week.  The oddball initiatives are being fostered by "geo-engineers" — scientists who say headway to reduce the fossil-fuel pollution which drives global warming is so ludicrously slow that bold new ideas are needed to avert climate catastrophe.

Group Calls for Population Control to Stop Global Warming.  Ahead of Earth Day on Sunday, an advocacy group warned that the United States is ignoring "the most crucial factor in reducing global warming" — population control.

Mad ideas crack me up.  Britain's Optimum Population Trust this year said having a large family should be regarded as an "environmental misdemeanor".  Alarmist of the Year Tim Flannery has called for our population to be cut by up to a third, and ABC radio [Australia] even ran a lecture by a green zealot suggesting we "put something in the water, a virus that would be specific to the human reproductive system and would make a substantial proportion of the population infertile."  Not a month goes by without even more crackpot schemes to make us suffer to save a planet that shows no sign of sickness, or gratitude.

The ideology goes in before the science goes on.  What is so striking is how these scientists, who rightly highlight the need for careful scientific analysis in characterizing the climate effects of [greenhouse gas] emissions, unwittingly forsake science when thinking about how to mitigate climate change.  Instead, they jump right from "burning fossil fuels causes dangerous climate change" to "therefore the best way to stop climate change is reducing fossil fuel use."  The question of what the world's people will have to give up if they drastically reduce their use of fossil-fuel energy remains unasked.

The Left's Global Warming Solution:  No More Children!  The environmental left is in a constant state of apoplexy about the environmental cost of human existence.  Back in 1968, Professor Paul Ehrlich published his famous — and entirely erroneous — anti-reproduction manifesto, "The Population Bomb."  "The battle to feed all of humanity is over," Ehrlich claimed.  "In the 1970s the world will undergo famines — hundreds of millions of people are going to starve to death."

Gasoline at $6 vs warming?  It's hard to say which is scarier — apocalyptic global warming scenarios or the economic impact of some of the proposals designed to prevent them.  A recent European Environment Agency (EEA) study reported greenhouse-gas emissions from motor vehicles continue rising due to increased driving, despite heavy fuel taxes that boost prices there above $6 per gallon.  Even with gas prices more than twofold that in the U.S., Europe falls short of its global-warming goals.

Dearly departed encouraged to do their bit on global warming.  The dead in the jurisdiction of Tameside Council are simply not pulling their weight.  The council has now arrived at a rather daring solution. … The officers dared to think the unthinkable.  They proposed that heat from the burning bodies could be recaptured and used to power the boiler and the chapel's lighting system.

The Editor says...
 Well... I guess as long as it's for the chapel, it's okay.  Why didn't Hitler think of this?

Glass Particles in the Sky Studied As 'Global Warming' Fix.  Government scientists are studying the feasibility of sending nearly microscopic particles of specially made glass into the Earth's upper atmosphere to try to dampen the effects of "global warming."  The idea, while "interesting," said one leading global warming skeptic, is "not practical" and, if done on a large scale, could depress the ozone layer and cause other problems.

Nobel Laureate Offers a Solution to Global Warming.  Nobel Prize-winning scientist Paul Crutzen ... demonstrated in the August issue of Climate Change that sulfur dioxide can be released into the Earth's extreme upper atmosphere to deflect incoming solar radiation and lower the Earth's temperature.  Crutzen's proposal was inspired in part by sulfur dioxide releases in the 1991 Mt. Pinatubo volcanic eruption, which lowered global temperatures by 0.5 degrees Celsius for a full year.  That cooling negated slightly more than half of the Earth's total temperature gain over the entire previous century.

The Editor says...
 One volcanic eruption had more influence on the atmosphere than all the human activity in the 20th century.

[More information about volcanos.]

Can the ecohackers save us?  Paul Crutzen doesn't think we're moving fast enough with reductions in carbon emissions.  The professor emeritus at Utrecht University's Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Sciences became one of the most famous geoengineering advocates for his idea of copying the Pinatubo volcano.  Its 1991 eruption sent 10m tonnes of sulphur (which became sulphur dioxide) into the atmosphere, reducing the global temperature by 0.5C the next year.  Crutzen suggested a project to produce a similar effect, using balloons or artillery shells to put 1.9m tonnes of sulphur into the atmosphere to cool the Earth.

The Editor says...
 Let the volcanos act like volcanos.  Anyone who intentionally pollutes the air with tons of sulfur dust is a madman.

$6.00 Per Gallon Gas:  Not High Enough To Fight Global Warming?  It is hard to say which is scarier — apocalyptic global warming scenarios or the economic impact of some of the proposals designed to prevent them.

Climate bill shaves $533 billion off economy.  A Senate bill to cut U.S. greenhouse gas emissions would raise energy prices and also reduce American economic output by more than half a trillion dollars over two decades, according to a government report released on Monday [8/6/2007].

Risky Business:  Altering the atmosphere.  Back in 1992, as representatives from 154 countries gathered in Rio de Janeiro and agreed to keep greenhouse-gas emissions from getting out of hand, a US National Academy of Sciences report on climate change was receiving its final touches. … Since then, there has been a steady stream of geoengineering proposals to manage climate change:  iron-seeded oceans coaxed to absorb more carbon dioxide; an armour of mirrors for the Earth to reflect the sunlight into space; hazy mists of saltwater sprayed into the atmosphere to increase cloud formation over the oceans; the injection of sulphate aerosols into the troposphere to block incoming solar radiation.  Yet most of the proposals — seemingly cribbed from the pages of science fiction — have rested quietly on the fringes of science for years.

Other risky schemes  to counteract carbon dioxide "pollution" or to mitigate global warming.

Activists, Not Global Warming, are a Third-World Threat.  A coalition of environmental activists called this week for rich countries to do more to control global warming and to help poor nations cope with the alleged effects of climate change.  The irony, of course, is their activism, not global warming, is the real threat.

Connecticut Global Warming Bill Will Pump up Energy Prices.  Energy prices and unemployment in Connecticut are expected to spike if the state legislature passes a greenhouse gas control measure supported by Governor John Rowland.

10 states sue EPA over global warming.  Ten states fired a new legal salvo at the federal government Thursday [4/27/2006] in a long-running court battle over global warming and pollution from power plants.  The states, joined by environmental groups, sued the Environmental Protection Agency over its decision not to regulate carbon dioxide pollution as a contributor to global warming.

[Here's a complete waste of taxpayers' money — ten states are filing lawsuits against the federal government over something that isn't even a problem.]

Global Warming Legislation Introduced in U.S. House Is a "Scam".  "We have reached a point where most Americans recognize that global warming, and legislation like this that proposes to stop it, is a scam" said Heartland Institute Science Director Dr. Jay Lehr.  "It puts money in the hands of radical environmental advocacy groups with nothing better to do than try and figure out what heats the Earth … It's the sun, stupid."  Lehr also warned the misguided global warming legislation will drive up the cost of energy to the average consumer and do little or nothing to help the environment.

McCain and Lieberman Push for New Anti-Global Warming Legislation:  The theory that humankind is causing significant planetary warming remains dubious at best.  What is certain is that laws limiting U.S. energy use will hurt our economy and kill jobs.

Global Lying:  The campaign to stampede the federal government into drastic action to counter "global warming" has never let honesty cramp its style.

Global Warming — Is It All Hot Air?  All of this is part of the anti-technology, anti-energy, anti-growth philosophy of those who label themselves "The Greens."  If they got their way, we'd all be riding bicycles!

The "National Climate Service" scam:  The one thing you learn as you follow the activities of the environmentalists devoted to the biggest hoax of the modern era, Global Warming, is that they are relentless in their devotion to pursuing the hidden agenda of "climate control."  It isn't about the climate at all and never has been.  It is about crippling the economy of the United States.

Global Warming and the Anti-Technology Movement:  Global warming is the Rosetta stone of the anti-West, anti-technology, anti-globalization movement.  Observes Christopher Dickey of Newsweek, "Without global warming, the growing protest movement against 'globalization' would be even less coherent than it already is.  Because this slow-motion apocalypse can be traced to enormous multi-national corporations, who market the fossil fuels that generate carbon dioxide, it is a perfect unifying force for global protest.  And activists know it."

The Seeds of the Global Warming Police State:  A perceptive reader suggested to me recently that when left claims that "the science is settled" in the global warming controversy, what they really mean is that the political science of the issue is settled.  The global warming hysteria reinforces all of their settled anti-capitalist prejudices — and it provides an open-ended justification for the central, dominant, overpowering role they think government ought to play in the individual's life.

Al Gore's Unbeatable Deal!  You may not know it, but your house is leaking energy, which means that you are the victim of colossal waste.  In fact, your waste of energy will cost you a total of $22,000 over the rest of your life.  But I've got a package of home improvements we can install to slash that to a mere $10,000.  What?  The cost of these improvements?  It's a pittance really — a mere $34,000. ... If global warming is a catastrophe, what do you call a politician who advocates something twice as damaging?

Stink over alarmist theory:  You'd think a record of dud predictions would shame Alarmist of the Year Tim Flannery into silence.  But, no. … Undaunted, Flannery this week amped up the hype to warn that global warming was now so terrifying we may have to change the colour of the sky.  As a "last barrier to climate collapse" we might within the next five years have to fire the "gas" sulphur (actually a solid) into the stratosphere to keep out some of the sky's rays.  There are obvious problems with his plan.  First, Flannery concedes "the consequences of doing that are unknown".  Second, some lousy consequences are known — for a start, sulphur is an element in acid rain.

Our leaders are in a carbon-cloud cuckoo land.  Sitting on their cloud-wreathed Japanese mountain top, they solemnly agreed that, to halt global warming, their countries would aim by 2050 to halve their emissions of carbon dioxide.  A tiny indication of the fact that they didn't really have a clue what they were talking about was a slip by Japan's prime minister, Yasuo Fukuda, when he had to be corrected for announcing that the CO2 cut would be measured from "1990 levels".

The 'consensus' on climate change is a catastrophe in itself.  As the estimated cost of measures proposed by politicians to "combat global warming" soars ever higher — such as the International Energy Council's $45 trillion — "fighting climate change" has become the single most expensive item on the world's political agenda.

Last-Ditch Resort:  Move Polar Bears to Antarctica?  If the most dire climate predictions come to pass, the Arctic ice cap will melt entirely, and polar bears could face extinction.  So why not pack a few off to Antarctica, where the sea ice will never run out?  It may seem like a preposterous question.  But polar bears are just the tip of the "assisted colonization" iceberg.

Setback for climate technical fix.  The biggest ever investigation into "ocean fertilisation" as a climate change fix has brought modest results.  The idea is that putting iron filings in the ocean will stimulate growth of algae, which will absorb CO2 from air.  But scientists on the Lohafex project, which put six tonnes of iron into the Southern Ocean, said little extra carbon dioxide was taken up.

Climate scientists defeated in ocean experiment.  Indian and German scientists have said that a controversial experiment has "dampened hopes" that dumping hundreds of tonnes of dissolved iron in the Southern Ocean can lessen global warming.  The experiment involved "fertilising" a 300-square-kilometre (115-sqare-mile) area of ocean inside the core of an eddy — an immense rotating column of water — with six tonnes of dissolved iron.

Obama May Block Sun's Rays to End Global Warming.  The president's new science adviser said Wednesday [4/8/2009] that global warming is so dire, the Obama administration is discussing radical technologies to cool Earth's air.  John Holdren told The Associated Press in his first interview since being confirmed last month that the idea of geoengineering the climate is being discussed.  One such extreme option includes shooting pollution particles into the upper atmosphere to reflect the sun's rays.  Holdren said such an experimental measure would only be used as a last resort.

The Editor says...
 Don't forget, it wasn't so long ago that the anti-nuke activists called this condition "nuclear winter" and characterized it as the worst thing that could happen to the climate.

Shoot pollution particles into atmosphere to cool Earth, says Obama adviser.  John Holdren said that the idea of geo-engineering the climate is being discussed.  Options include cloud-seeding and shooting pollution particles into the upper atmosphere to reflect the sun's rays.  "It's got to be looked at," he said, even if such experimental measures were only used as a last resort.  "We don't have the luxury of taking any approach off the table."

Messing with Mother Nature:  [Scroll down]  So, today I am reading my local paper and see an article where the President's science advisor, John Holdren, has an idea about getting the temperature back down.  He says we should shoot a bunch of dirt into the upper atmosphere.  I don't want anyone to get the wrong idea, I am not anti-science.  I like science.  But I like my science to have been field tested and verified by the scientific method.  These guys who want to start shooting [stuff] into the upper atmosphere are the same guys who wanted to spread coal dust and other dark material over the polar icecaps a few years back because they thought the Earth was getting too cold.  The same enviro-maniacs who demanded we go out and buy a bunch of "green" light bulbs that turned out to be loaded with mercury.

Playing God with the Weather Will Outdo Mother Nature's Worst Nightmares.  Actions without thought or concern for the consequences are the pattern of the day as political agendas trump facts or logic.  Consider the dangerous and baseless proposal to offset global warming by adding particulates to the atmosphere.  It was in the news as a strategy, albeit a last resort, from a member of the Obama administration.

The Editor asks...
 How do you know when it is time to apply the "last resort"?

'Cloud ship' scheme to deflect the sun's rays is favourite to cut global warming.  Ships with giant funnels which travel the world's seas creating more clouds to deflect the sun's rays could help cut global warming, say scientists.

The Editor says...
 Since most of the "greenhouse effect" is due to water vapor, the Cloud Ship "solution" would only intensify the effect.  The additional clouds would prevent heat from radiating back into space.  These so-called scientists should have asked me about their idea before going public.

At last, man-made climate change is a threat.  The lunatic ambitions of the "man-made" climate change fanatics are reaching new heights.  They also pose a serious danger to human survival — the very objective they claim to champion.  Among the latest Frankenstein proposals are "cloud ships" to generate more cloud and deflect the sun's rays.  This scheme envisages 1,900 wind-powered ships cruising through the world's oceans creating bad weather.

There Goes the Sun.  There are more than 6.7 billion of us alive today, and we all depend on the sun.  But it wouldn't take much to screw things up.  "The scariest thing about geo-engineering, as it happens, is also the thing that makes it such a game-changer in the global-warming debate:  it's incredibly cheap," [Graeme] Wood writes.  One man could make unalterable changes to the entire planet's environment.

Man-made volcanoes may cool Earth.  The Royal Society is backing research into simulated volcanic eruptions, spraying millions of tons of dust into the air, in an attempt to stave off climate change.  The society will this week call for a global programme of studies into geo-engineering — the manipulation of the Earth's climate to counteract global warming — as the world struggles to cut greenhouse gas emissions.

Let's Just Rejigger the Globe To Cool It Off.  The controversial idea suggests that if we can't curb our greenhouse gas emissions in time to avert cataclysmic climate change, maybe we should contemplate changing the Earth system itself — fertilizing the oceans with iron to stimulate plankton that would sequester carbon dioxide or spraying the stratosphere with dust particles that would deflect sunlight back into space.  Geoengineering poses not just technical and scientific problems, but also any number of ethical ones, not the least of which is a simple question of hubris.

"It is one of the great weaknesses of reasonable men and women that they imagine that projects which fly in the face of common sense are not serious or being seriously undertaken."
— Margaret Thatcher          

Climate-control plans scrutinized.  On 1 September, the Royal Society, Britain's premier scientific organization, released its first analysis of a host of controversial methods for intentionally altering Earth's climate.  Such approaches, known broadly as geoengineering, could slow or halt climate change by either restricting the amount of sunlight heating Earth's surface or reducing levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

Can Dirt Really Save Us From Global Warming?  This month the Senate is set to take up the climate and energy bill that Congress began work on last spring.  One provision will likely set up a system to pay farmers for something called "no-till farming."  The concept:  When crops are planted without tilling, the soil holds more carbon, which means less goes up into the atmosphere.

Giving meat save planet daftest idea I've heard.  Scarcely a day goes by without a supposed expert advising us of the latest step we must take to save the world from a global warming apocalypse.  But this week's proposal from Lord Stern of Brentford out-trumps them all.  A former civil service economist plucked from semi-obscurity by Tony Blair to become a guru on 'climate change', he now tells us the best way to stave off global warming is to give up eating meat.

No Meat For You.  Britain's climate chief says humans should give up eating meat to protect the planet from global warming.  The alarmists keep making it hard for anyone to take them seriously.


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