History won't be kind to Al Gore
JJ
Henry Lamb
History won't be kind to Al Gore
Posted: July 18, 2008
1:00 am Eastern
Al Gore has certainly secured his place in history. His
Academy-Award-Nobel-Prize-winning prediction that climate change will raise
sea levels by 20 feet will be studied by future history students, along with
the predictions of Malthus and Paul Ehrlich.
With Gore-like zeal, in the 19th century, Malthus predicted that the world's
population would soon outstrip the world's food supply. In the 20th century,
Paul Ehrlich predicted, "By 1985, enough millions will have died to reduce
the earth's population to some acceptable level, like 1.5 billion people."
He also predicted that by 1980, life expectancy in the United States would
drop to 42, and that the U.S. population would drop to 22.6 million by 1999.
The grand prize for idiotic predictions in the 21st century has already been
claimed by Al Gore. His insistence that the earth will fry, that the seas
will rise and that life as we know it must undergo a "wrenching
transformation" will be studied by his grandchildren with the same
appreciation that his and Ehrlich's ridiculous predictions deserve.
Is it possible Ehrlich and Gore really think their predictions are valid?
Or, are they just following the instructions of Dr. Steven Schneider, who
tells fellow scientists:
"We have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified, dramatic statements,
and make little mention of any doubts we may have. Each of us has to decide
what the right balance is between being effective and being honest."
(Discover magazine, October 1989)
Students of Malthus generally agree that he was sincere in his predictions,
actively engaging his detractors in debate and revising his conclusions
accordingly. Malthus was sincerely wrong. The same cannot be said about
Ehrlich, or Gore. Ehrlich jumped on the environmental bandwagon early. His
book "Population Bomb" was published in 1968 and was an instant best-seller.
He rode the wave of book sales and popularity for a decade, making speeches
and writing articles offering excuses for failed predictions and promising
even worse consequences for what he called environmental abuse.
Al Gore saw an opportunity to re-claim the political spotlight when he
chaired the June 28, 1988, Senate hearing that called Jim Hansen to testify
that the current heat wave was caused by global warming. Gore, having been
defeated in the 1988 presidential primary by Jesse Jackson in the South and
by Michael Dukakis in the North, turned his attention to the environment,
and to global warming in particular.
It was Hansen's testimony at Al Gore's hearings that propelled the United
Nations' efforts to get into the global warming business. Before the end of
1988, the U.N. Environment Program and the World Meteorological Organization
established the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to take charge of
global research and action.
Gore's selection as vice president in 1992 provided the perfect stage for
what was until then his most influential performance. He publicly ridiculed
then-President George H.W. Bush into attending the 1992 United Nations
Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro where the U.N.
Convention on Climate Change was adopted.
Throughout the Clinton administration, Gore was "Mr. Environment." He
directed negotiations at virtually every U.N. Climate Change meeting during
the 1990s working toward the Kyoto Protocol. When the negotiations stalled
in Kyoto in 1997 because the U.S. Senate adopted a resolution directing the
president not to accept the Protocol unless it applied to China and India
and other developing nations, Gore flew in to save the day. Despite the
Senate's resolution, Al stood before thousands of U.N. delegates in Kyoto
and announced that he had instructed the U.S. delegation to be "more
flexible" in their negotiations. At the last moment, the Protocol was
adopted, without participation by developing nations.
Al's crushing defeat in 2000 left him rudderless for a few years, but he
re-emerged with his "An Inconvenient Truth." This spectacular movie won an
Academy Award. Gore received the Nobel Peace Prize. Once again, Prince
Albert ascended to the global warming throne, despite the fact that the
film's assertions were not supported by science, according to more than
31,000 scientists.
Ignoring his critics, and refusing to confront and debate the scientists who
clearly refute his hyperbolic hallucinations, Al is now seeking to reclaim
the global spotlight. He denigrates those who reject his unfounded
predictions, and calls instead for massive national commitment to abandon
fossil fuel and launch a "go-to-the-moon" type campaign to convert all
electricity generation to wind, solar and other "alternative" sources in the
next 10 years.
Gore has been spouting his predictions of climate disaster for more than a
decade, while in reality, the global climate has actually been cooling.
The media and uninformed politicians gobble up Gore's gloomy forecasts, just
as they embraced Paul Ehrlich's forecasts of people dying in the streets.
History has proven Malthus to be sincerely wrong. History has proven Paul
Ehrlich to be ridiculously wrong. History is proving Al Gore to be wrong as
well.
But Gore must continue to peddle his predictions. His financial future is
tied to his salesmanship. The more he cries "the sky is falling," when the
science says it is not, the more Al looks like a midway barker making
whatever claims he thinks will separate the public from its money.
Peter Puk
> http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=69909
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> Henry Lamb
> History won't be kind to Al Gore
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current affairs and the law. Why, Henry Lamb doesn't even possess a degree
in journalism, so that makes him an authority on global warming.
Everyone in the world listens to the super science of world net daily, that's
why nobody believes in global warming any more and no one is doing anything
to fight it these days.
Another victory for the right.
dumnewfeyeguess
waste an 8:1 ratio of drinkable water to burnable gas. The will also think
Tim Horton was a great God as we built so many temples in his name.
"JJ" <x...@anon.com> wrote in message news:W3Yfk.78297$kx.58213@pd7urf3no...
snowman
The will also think
> Tim Horton was a great God as we built so many temples in his name.
Lol
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