Gore's Religion Soon To Collapse
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We are living in the final days of the GW hoax:
March 23, 2007
What Al Gore Really Wants
By Robert Tracinski
Al Gore made his triumphant return to Washington on Wednesday to give
testimony before Democrat-controlled committees in the House and
Senate. He returned, not as a failed presidential candidate, but as an
environmentalist prophet. As Senator Barbara Boxer gushed, "You have
acted for us. You have acted more than anyone else."
Gore's transformation is remarkable. The stilted, insincere candidate
from the 2000 election campaign is gone. The new Gore believes in
global warming the way the pope believes in Catholicism--indeed,
possibly more so--and he comes across as sincere and impassioned.
While the sincerity may be doubtful (as we shall see below) the
passion is definitely real. But what is it a passion for?
What does Al Gore really want?
To be sure, Gore's testimony had the faults of all sermons. It tended
to pile too many analogies on top of one another and to veer into the
maudlin. Gore made repeated appeals to the ideals and virtues of "our
grandparents"--showing what hidebound conservatives all of these
liberals really are under the surface--and under hostile questioning
from Republican Rep. Joe Barton, Gore produced a metaphor so maudlin
and simplistic that it ought to disqualify him from being taken
seriously on any scientific subject:
The planet has a fever. If your baby has a fever, you go to the
doctor. If the doctor says you need to intervene here, you don't say
"I read a science fiction novel that says it's not a problem." You
take action.
And this is also where Gore's honesty comes into question: the line
about a "science-fiction novel" is a reference to Michael Crichton's
State of Fear, a thriller in which global-warming alarmists are the
heavies. By pretending that the only opposition to his claims comes
from a single novelist, Gore is attempting to evade the fact that
there are many distinguished scientists who reject his global warming
hysteria. As an antidote to this evasion, I strongly recommend viewing
the British documentary "The Great Global Warming Swindle," which
interviews some of these scientists and explodes the myth that global
warming is "settled science."
But Gore's exaggerated scientific claims are just cover for his real
agenda.
Most reports on his testimony have neglected to mention the most
important thing Gore said. Here is my transcription of the crucial
passage, starting about four minutes into Gore's House testimony:
America is the natural leader of the world, and our world faces a true
planetary emergency. I know the phrase sounds shrill, and I know it's
a challenge to the moral imagination to see and feel and understand
that the entire relationship between humanity and our planet has been
radically altered. [Emphasis added.]
Get that? The real issue here isn't about carbon dioxide or global
temperature readings or coal-burning power plants or federal fuel
efficiency standards. It's about mankind's relationship to nature.
This is not new; it is what has motivated Al Gore from the beginning.
His 1992 book Earth in the Balance is subtitled "Ecology and the Human
Spirit." In that book, he wrote about the alleged loss of "a sense of
purpose in life." Projecting his personal crisis onto civilization in
general, Gore diagnosed modern man's desire for material prosperity as
a dangerous neurosis: "We retreat into the seductive tools and
technologies of industrial civilization, but that only creates new
problems as we become increasingly isolated from one another and
disconnected from our roots." So the solution is to curtail industrial
civilization and get back to our pre-industrial "roots." Global
warming is just the scientific excuse for this quasi-religious agenda.
So what does this mean? Listen to what Gore claims are the factors
that require us to change our relationship with nature. From his House
testimony:
We quadrupled human population in less than one century, from 1.6
billion in 1900 to 6.5 billion today.... Having multiplied by four the
number of people on this planet..., that in itself causes a big change
in the relationship between humanity and the planet.
So Gore's global warming hysteria is really just a rehash of the old
"population explosion" scare. In the 1970s, environmentalists
predicted that an expanding global population would lead, by the end
of the century, to mass starvation and shortages of oil and other
natural resources. This claim was famously proven wrong--so as a
fallback, the environmentalists have to claim that "overpopulation" is
leading to a warmer climate, a proposition that is slightly harder to
disprove.
But it's not just the size of the human population Gore is worried
about. He goes on to name a second factor that requires us to alter
our relationship with the earth:
Our technologies are thousands of times more powerful than any our
grandparents had at their disposal. And so even though we're more
skillful and more effective in doing the things we've always done,
exploiting the earth for sustenance, providing for our families, and
going about productive lives, the side-effects of what we're doing
sometimes now outstrip the development of extra wisdom to make sure
that we handle these new powers in a way that doesn't do unintended
harm.
So that very fact that we are "much more skillful and more effective"
at "exploiting the earth" to live "productive lives"--in short, the
fact of our enormous, unprecedented prosperity--is the reason we have
to fear that we are doing "unintended harm."
This, then, is the essence of Gore's complaint: there are too many
humans and they are too well off.
Gore can fix that. He ends his speech by calling, among other things,
for an immediate freeze on carbon dioxide emissions--which is to say,
an immediate freeze on the generation of additional power--to be
enforced by massive new "carbon taxes." On this proposal, he
piggybacks the whole leftist welfare-state agenda, demanding that most
of the money from these carbon taxes be "earmarked" for "those in
lower income groups."
He concludes by saying that his plan will "discourage pollution while
encouraging work." That's a very pleasant way to describe a global
economic collapse into the unrewarded drudgery of a pre-industrial
lifestyle.
This is what the Democratic victory in the last election has
unleashed, and given Gore's surprising new skill at promoting his
message, it looks like things are going to get worse before cooler
heads can prevail and break the global warming fever.
But Al Gore is not getting it all his own way. In New York's Newsday,
Ellis Hennican describes a three-on-three debate held last week in New
York City, in which opponents of the global warming hysteria--
including that meddling novelist Michael Crichton, along with
distinguished British scientist Phillip Stott and MIT's Richard
Lindzen--took on some of the scare's defenders. The interesting things
about this debate is that the organizers polled the audience before
and after the event. The result? The number of people who thought that
global warming is a "crisis" dropped from 57% to 42%.
That's why folks like Al Gore have to keep claiming that there is an
iron-clad "consensus" on global warming and that the debate is "over"--
because the moment the debate on the scientific merits of global
warming is actually allowed to begin, the alarmists start to lose.
Al Gore is trying to dragoon science in an attempt to win over
converts who don't share his sense of personal spiritual crisis and
don't find his anti-industrial moral vision compelling. But the moment
people see through his charade--and realize that what Gore is really
pushing is a not a scientific campaign against "pollution" but a quasi-
religious crusade against industrial civilization--his campaign will
collapse.
Note: In the third to last paragraph, Richard Lindzen was identified
as "Harvard University's Richard Lindzen." This should have been
"MIT's Richard Lindzen" and has been corrected in the above.
Robert Tracinski writes daily commentary at TIADaily.com. He is the
editor of The Intellectual Activist and TIADaily.com.
Roger Coppock
> We are living in the final days of the GW hoax:
>
> March 23, 2007
> What Al Gore Really Wants
> By Robert Tracinski
>
> Al Gore made his triumphant return to Washington on Wednesday to give
Al Gore is really an object of your obsession
Mr. Denk/McGinn.
James
"Roger Coppock" <rcop...@adnc.com> wrote in message
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Mr gore is now the driving force in the hoax of global warming. You
expected GW to advance on it's own merit? I didn't think so.
Roger Coppock
> "Roger Coppock" <rcopp...@adnc.com> wrote in message
Really? I guess you could believe this
was true, James, you don't read science.
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James
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Lloyd
> "Roger Coppock" <rcopp...@adnc.com> wrote in message
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> news:1174945374.3...@p15g2000hsd.googlegroups.com...
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> > On Mar 26, 12:50 pm, claudiusd...@sbcglobal.net wrote:
> >> We are living in the final days of the GW hoax:
>
> >> March 23, 2007
> >> What Al Gore Really Wants
> >> By Robert Tracinski
>
> >> Al Gore made his triumphant return to Washington on Wednesday to give
>
> > Al Gore is really an object of your obsession
> > Mr. Denk/McGinn.
>
> Mr gore is now the driving force in the hoax of global warming.
If you don't count the National Academy of Sciences, the American
Association for the Advancement of Science, NASA, NOAA, EPA, American
Geophysical Union...
Meanwhile, you pathetic denialists can only quote political blogs.
GOP 4th Reich Microscopic Brains
> "Insignificant Flyspecks" <Insignificant.Flyspe...@Exxon-Turds.info> wrote
> in messagenews:1174963637.3...@p15g2000hsd.googlegroups.com...
Erik J. Helgesen
>That's why folks like Al Gore have to keep claiming that there is an
>iron-clad "consensus" on global warming and that the debate is "over"--
>because the moment the debate on the scientific merits of global
>warming is actually allowed to begin, the alarmists start to lose.
If the debate is allowed to begin, the so-called "skeptics" would have
a hard time presenting any peer reviewed papers that support their
view. Now, tell us: Is there something here that you don't understand?
Science Magazine - The Scientific Consensus on Climate Change
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/306/5702/1686
--
Erik
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