Relax - The Planet Is Fine. Oh and Al Gore is a LIAR!
Monday, March 31 2008 @ 09:37 AM EDT
Contributed by: BMcDonald
Watch this little clip from a recent 60 minutes segment where Al Gore totally lies about the number of people that disagree with him on man-made global warming. He backhands literally thousands of respected scientists by doing exactly what any corrupt politician does. He uses the tried and true method of condescension and ridicule to marginalize everyone that disagrees. The tiny, tiny group Mr. Global Warming Guru Gore backhands with his ridiculous assertions that ALL OF THEM are nothing but morons, equals over 31,000 respected scientists at this point, with more signing on all the time. Even the founder of the Weather Channel, John Coleman, is about to sue Al Gore for the massive fraud he's perpetrating.
The much vaunted IPCC report only had 2300 or so signatories and only a tiny, tiny handful were actually climate scientists. The vast majority of those signing onto the IPCC report are nothing more than bureaucrats who would love nothing more than a new governmental position whose sole reason for being will to regulate your lives in totally unprecedented ways and tax the hell out of every single person, place and thing that can be claimed to have a carbon footprint. And since just about the entire planet is forced to use carbon based fuels, and we toxic human beings exhale CO2 constantly, that pretty much covers everything on the planet. I can guarantee you that those that force us to use their carbon based energy sources are NOT going to give up their monopoly any time soon. If you really think all of this hysteria and all the carbon taxes that are on our doorstep will ensure clean energy alternatives will sprout and flourish, I have a bridge in Saudi Arabia I'll sell you real cheap.
So the truth is, the group of scientists supporting Al Gores fraud is the tiny, tiny handful. The big pile of people supporting Al Gore's point of view are the ones making money hand-over-fist by selling you on the scam. It will lead to nothing but giving the government more power to tax the crap out of you and control more of your lives.
As Leslie Stall rightly points out at the beginning of this clip, the truth is that the group that disagrees with Al Gore is substantial. The sad truth is that Al Gore is someone that is profiting handsomely from this fraud and has every reason in the world to lie about it. And it may be a good time to remind everyrone what the hallmark of a good liar is. They do not appear to be lying! They are very, very good at sounding authoritative and sincere.
The only kind of people that resort to ridicule as a substitute for a reasoned response are people that can't defend their position. It is done to silence serious debate as quickly as possible. And people like Al Gore know full well that most people think he's an honest guy so they will fall for it every time. All Al has to do is characterize anyone who disagrees with him as a nut job, no more sane than people that think the earth is flat or compare them to holocaust deniers and most people just accept it because, well, Al Gore wouldn't lie to you.
The last thing Al Gore is interested in is an honest, open debate because he will utterly loose. And if you didn't' notice, Leslie Stall, while mentioning their are A LOT of people that disagree, leaves the lies of Al Gore to stand, as if they are the truth and the final word. The rest of the interview pretty much painted Al as a great guy, leaving the viewer with the dominant impression that you can trust what he says. YOU CAN'T.
Al Gore has become a superstar for crying-out-loud and has become extremely wealthy over this fraud. They gave him a friggin Nobel Peace Prize to boot! Does the words "conflict of interest" mean anything to you? You can't trust someone who make the obscene amounts of money Al makes promoting this thing. He has cashed in big time. The movie has cleared $50-million. He charges $100,000-$150,000 a lecture. He's co-founder of Global Investment Management, which invests in solar and wind and so on. So he is literally shilling for his own companies. And he's on the board of Lehman Brothers who want to be the primary brokerage for emission permits. Some estimates of the coming "carbon taxes and credits" will amount to TRILLIONS. Man-made global warming is already a massive, massive industry.
Al Gore and Company have also launched a massive $300 Million dollar campaign to sell everyone on the lie that puts forward such notable climate experts and Al Sharpton and Pat Robertson. And Nancy Peolsi and Newt Gingrich. If you believe this is an honest attempt and conveying the truth of climate change . . . I just don't know what to say. All these people in these commercials are politicians, opportunists and liars.
The following interview by Linda Frum with Professor Richard Lindzen of MIT puts the situation into and "adult" context and presents a much more accurate assessment of who agrees on what. By far, the people promoting the man-made global warming fraud are doing so through ridicule, fear and intimidation. The ad campaign we are about to be subjected to is just another example of it, where we will see celebrities all agreeing that it's a huge problem. Like Al Sharpton and Pat Robertson are global climate change experts! The people promoting the man made global warming hysteria are making enormous amounts of money and stand to make even more obscene amounts if we let this go any farther. Governments all over the world are already imposing massive carbon taxes and regulations to restrict what people can and can't do, all based on this ridiculous "carbon footprint" idea. I wouldn't be surprised if it doesn't lead to a regulation that we all must wear a "carbon emissions monitor" around our necks to make sure we don't exhale too much CO2!
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Professor Ricahrd Lindzen says, "Money is partly to blame for the global warming hysteria."
This Earth Day, Professor Richard Lindzen, an atmospheric physicist and the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology at MIT, wants you to calm down. The Earth, he says, is in good shape. "Forests are returning in Europe and the United States. Air quality has improved. Water quality has improved. We grow more food on less land. We've done a reasonably good job in much of the world in conquering hunger. And yet we're acting as though: "How can we stand any more of this?" A leading critic on the theory of man-made global warming, Professor Lindzen has developed a reputation as America's anti-doom-and gloom scientist. And he's not, he says, as lonely as you might think.
Q You don't dispute that the globe is warming?
A It has never been an issue of whether the Earth is warming -- because it's always warming or cooling. The issue is: What are the magnitudes involved? It's a big difference if it's warming a degree or two or 10, or if it's warming a few tenths of a degree.Q And it's inconclusive how much it's warming?
A Sure it's inconclusive. It's a very hard thing to analyze because you have to average huge fluctuations over the whole Earth, and 70% of the Earth is oceans where you don't have weather stations. So you get different groups analyzing this. And they're pretty close. One group gets over the last century a warming of about .55 degrees centigrade. Another group says it's .75 degrees.
Q Is there any scenario in which global warming could be beneficial for the planet?
A Of course. Canada looks like it will benefit considerably if it were to happen. And it might very well happen -- but it won't be due to man.
Q You charge that the hysteria that's been created around global warming is an enormous financial scam. It's all about money?
A Well, how shall I put it? It's not all about money, but boy, there's a lot of money floating in it. I mean, emissions trading is going to be a multi-trillion dollar market. Emissions alone would keep small countries in business.
Q Are you suggesting that scientists manipulate their findings to get in on the gravy train?
A You have to differentiate the interests of different groups. In the scientific community, your interest is for your field to be recognized so that it will have priority in government funding.
Q So you are not accusing your scientific colleagues of corruption?
A No, I'm accusing them of behaving the way scientists always behave. In other words, some years ago, when Richard Nixon declared war on cancer, almost all the biological sciences then became cancer research. I mean, I don't call that corruption, I'm saying you orient your research so that it has a better chance to get resources.
Q And i thelps if your findings suggest something catastrophic is about to happen?
A In this case it certainly has helped. First of all, the funding increased so greatly that it exceeded the capacity of the existing field to absorb it. You'll notice that Working Group 2 of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change came up with lots of scary things, but everything was always preceded by could, might, may, all these qualifiers. And the reason it was is those studies start out assuming there's a lot of warming. They assume all the science is in, and then they say, 'Well, how will this impact my field of insect-borne diseases, or agriculture, or health?' So they are almost, by definition, going to generate catastrophic scenarios, but they will never be based on anything other than the hypothesis that this will already happen.
Q I read that you betone of your colleagues that the Earth will actually be colder 20 years from now?
A I haven't bet on it, but I figure the odds are about 50-50.
If you look at the temperature record for the globe over the last six years, it's gone no place. That's usually the way it behaves before it goes down. In fact, I suspect that's why you have this tsunami of exposure the last two years, with Gore's movie and so on. I think that this issue has been around long enough to generate a lot of agendas, and looking at the temperature records there must be a fear that if they don't get the agendas covered now, they may never get them.
Q Did you watch Al Gore get this Academy Award?
A No! Bad enough I watched his movie.
Q He would appear to have the support of the majority of your scientific colleagues.
A Not really. This is an issue that has hundreds of aspects. The very thought that a large number of scientists all agree on everything is inconceivable. Among my colleagues, I would say, almost no one thinks that Gore's movie is reasonable. But there will be differences. Some believe it is possible that warming could be a serious problem. Others think it's very unlikely. People are all over the place.
Q Some suggest that Roger Revelle, Gore's scientific mentor, would not have agreed with the movie?
A Well, he's dead.
Q Yes. So that makes it harder for him to speak out.
A It's a horrible story. Before he died, Roger Revelle co-authored a popular paper saying, 'We know too little to take any action based on global warming. If we take any action it should be an action that we can justify completely without global warming.' And Gore's staffers tried to have his name posthumously removed from that paper claiming he had been senile. And one of the other authors took it to court and won. It's funny how little coverage that got.
Q How cynical do you think Gore is?
A It's hard for me to tell. I think he's either cynical or crazy. But
Q That sounds more cynical, less crazy.
A I think his aim is not to be president. It's to be a billionaire.
Q What do you find to be the attitude among your MIT undergraduates on global warming?
A I find that they realize they don't know enough to reach judgments. They all realize that Gore's book was a sham. They appreciate that Michael Crichton at least included references.
Q That's encouraging. Because I find the indoctrination at schools to be pretty relentless. On a recent Grade 7 test my daughter was asked something to the effect of, "How are you going to educate your parents about global warming?"
A I know. It's straight out of Hitlerjugend.
Q Having said that, are there any behaviours we should be changing, as a society, in order to protect our planet?
A Yes. We should learn math and physics so we don't get fooled by this idiocy.