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John Stossel inconveniently busts Al Gore and exposes the phony motivation driving the new religion of
global warming activism.
Got an email from Stossel recently and I was so impressed with what he said and how he said it, I secured his permission and let him have the entire slot today.
Actually I was so envious of how well he made his case that, for a brief time, I regressed to freshman year at J-school.
So, take it away John:
“This Friday on “20/20″ (at our new time, 8 p.m. EDT) I say “Give Me a Break” to our Nobel Prize-winning former vice president.
Al Gore says, “The debate is over,” and those who disagree with his take on global warming have been “purchased” in order to create “the illusion of a debate.”
Nonsense.
It’s as if Gore and his allies in the environmental movement plan to
win the debate through intimidation.
I interview some scientists who won’t be intimidated, even though one has had his life threatened for speaking up.
Gore’s much-applauded movie, “An Inconvenient Truth,” claims global warming is man’s fault and a coming crisis! While the earth has certainly warmed over the last century, plenty of independent scientists say they cannot be sure that man caused the warming or that warming will be a crisis.
They say the computer models that are used to predict the disasters don’t include important variables, because scientists don’t fully understand them.
For example, warming may cause cloud formations that reflect sun and cool the earth. The computer models cannot know. These scientists call global warming activism more of a religious movement than science.
Misleading By Misinformation
Mr. Gore’s movie is filled with misleading messages.
It suggests polar bears are disappearing and that “sea levels worldwide would go up 20 feet.” I interview children who are scared. They believe the polar bears are already going extinct and that the oceans will soon rise even higher than 20 feet, drowning them and their parents. [blogger's note: I remember a similar instance back in '69, only we were told we'd all freeze to death in 20 years!]
But polar bear populations appear to be steady or increasing, and a 20 foot rise is a theoretical possibility that wouldn’t happen for millennia.
The IPCC, the group that shared last week’s Nobel Prize with the former vice president, says in 100 years the oceans might rise 7 to 24 inches, not 20 feet. Now a British judge has ruled that British schools must disclose to students nine inaccuracies in “An Inconvenient Truth” if they play the movie in class.
Mr. Gore suggests that we can stop global warming by doing things like changing light bulbs and driving less.
Nonsense.
The only practical thing we can do today that would make a difference in CO2 output is to launch a major shift toward nuclear energy. But the environmental movement rarely utters the word nuclear.
Exposed! What Gore & Co. Stand To Gain
I suspect that next year’s government boondoggle will be massive spending on carbon-reducing technology. It reminds me of George Mason University economics department chairman Don Boudreax’s suggestion that such schemes really mean “government seizing enormous amounts of additional power in order to embark upon schemes of social engineering — schemes whose pursuit gratifies the abstract fantasies of the theory class and, simultaneously, lines the very real pockets of politically powerful corporations, organizations, and ‘experts.’”
He is so right. The abstract fantasies of the theory class will soon send huge chunks of your money to politicians, friends, activist scientists and politically savvy corporations.
The debate is over? That makes me say GIVE ME A BREAK!”
**BREAKING NEWS**
My good friends at JunkScience.com have the scene-by-scene breakdown on how much footage would have to be excised from Gore’s film, if all the scenes containing the “nine factual errors” were cut.
Here’s a hint, 25 minutes of the 98 minute film would have to be cut. Yowza! Nothing like losing a third of your film due to things that just aren’t true!
Does Gore owe you a reimbursement if you paid full price at the theater? Bought the DVD and/or the accompanying book? Hmmm . . . wonder how much of his carbon offset investment company he would have to sell off to pay everyone back?
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By Walter |
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