In his own way, Al Gore (no relation to SLL’s guiding light) is a genius. Play up environmental gloom-and-doomism and government action as our salvation, and then make sure you have your finger in every “green” pie out there, especially those with crony ties to the government. From John Stossel at theburningplatform.com:
I was surprised to discover that Al Gore’s new movie begins with words from me!
While icebergs melt dramatically, Gore plays a clip of me saying, “‘An Inconvenient Truth’ won him an Oscar, yet much of the movie is nonsense. ‘Sea levels may rise 20 feet’ — absurd.” He used this comment from one of my TV shows.
The “20 feet” claim is absurd — one of many hyped claims in his movie.
His second film, “An Inconvenient Sequel,” shows lower Manhattan underwater while Gore intones: “This is global warming!”
My goodness! Stossel doubts Al Gore’s claim, but pictures don’t lie: The 9/11 Memorial is underwater! Gore is right! Stossel is an ignorant fool!
But wait. The pictures were from Superstorm Sandy. Water is pushed ashore during storms, especially “super” storms. But average sea levels haven’t risen much.
Over the past decade, they have risen about 1 inch. But this is not because we burn fossil fuels. Sea levels were rising long before we burned anything. They’ve been rising about an inch per decade for a thousand years.
In his new movie, Gore visits Miami Beach. No storm, but streets are flooded! Proof of catastrophe!
But in a new e-book responding to Gore’s film, climate scientist Roy Spencer points out that flooding in “Miami Beach occurs during high tides called ‘king tides,’ due to the alignment of the Earth, sun and moon. For decades they have been getting worse in low-lying areas of Miami Beach where buildings were being built on reclaimed swampland.”
It’s typical Al Gore scaremongering: Pick a place that floods every year and portray it as evidence of calamity.
To continue reading: Al Gore’s Hype
Poor al gore, the climate whore,
Caught his little weenie in the door,
His shark has been jumped,
His pooch has been humped,
Time to geld this political boor.
Once again IP727 you score,
I must say I couldn’t agree with you more