Al Gore Is An Ass

I can't believe we let Al Gore lecture us on science. I mean after all, what is Al Gore? He's a Politician, not a scientist. Moreover, he's is not just a politician, he is a liberal politician - a very liberal politician.

What are liberal politicians interested in? Liberal politicians are only interested in power and taxation. They crave power more than anything. Once in power they attempt to enhance their power by legislating taxes and laws that further restrict your freedoms, tell you how to run your life, and try to totally control your life through government. The more they control your life through government and taxation, the more power they derive in the process.

I remember years ago, after reading a book that I fell for hook line and sinker, talking to an elder, wiser friend of mine who asked me a question that made me think. He asked, "If you were writing a book that you want to seem believable, wouldn't you put forth the most compelling arguments you could find to get the largest number of people to buy the book?" He further went on to say that, "Even if your claims seem outlandish, sometimes the more outlandish they are, the more compelling they are, the more people will buy the book, the more money you will make".

This follows another axiom I have come to embrace and that is that when you want to find the underlying motivation for anything, 'Follow The Money'. In other words, who stands to make money from this and How?

Which brings us back to Al Bore and his Inconvenient Farce. To begin with, how did he get the researchers and scientists to corrobarate his claims? They received money for their time. Further, if their claims become more popular to the point that legislation is created to research the claims, they stand to get more money in the form of grants and research money. Millions of dollars are being doled out from the government coffers to research this whole issue of supposed anthropogenic climate change. And if you are a scientist or researcher on the other side of the of the issue and in disagreement with the idea that man is the evil cause of rising temperatures, how much of that money do you think you will get?

So it pays to be on the right side (or in this case "left side") of the global warming issue. The more you claim you have evidence proves man made climate change, the more money you stand to get from the government to do further research and propagate your ideas.

About the only facts that were even close to the truth in the Al Gore propaganda movie were that we have experienced a slight upturn in global temperature since the 1950's. Also, polar ice caps and glacial ice do seem to be retreating. But this is something that has been going on for years before man could have an influence. In fact when you look at a graph of earth temperatures from the 1800's and compare it to a graph from more modern times, they look nearly identical. This has happened before. See Climate Skeptic.com.

Further, the more recent evidence and research is indicating that Global Warming is currently reversing. Scientists are now saying that they are expecting a period of global cooling. You can read more on this in our article Is Global Warming Over?

Perhaps, what is most important here is that one needs to be very careful before blindly adopting a popular point of view on a concept that is not proven, just because a semi popular politician has a movie that captured a wide audience. Also keep in mind that Al Gore has made millions of dollars from his movie and subsequent Nobel Prize.

This is a man who is one the worst offenders to whole living "Green" concept. His personal electricity usage is one of the highest in his state for a residential property. His home uses more electricity that about 50 normal residences. Further, when he travels, he does so on a Private Jet. Just one trip on this jet that took him across country, spewed as much carbon dioxide (the element now being claimed to be the worst "greenhouse gas") and ozone pollutants, as average automobile does in one year.

This is a man who in no way practices what he preaches. He spews the talk, but certainly does not 'walk the walk'. It's too inconvenient for him so he leaves that for the 'commons' like you and me.

If you want to believe that we can reduce the effect of Global Warming by driving smaller cars, driving less, living in a smaller home, using less toilet paper, using no toilet paper, and buying local foods, then by all means, you should do it. I, in many ways, try to do my part by recycling, reusing as much as I can and trying to reduce my electricity use in logical ways. But I refuse to spend more money to do it. Why should I listen to the "Hollywood Elite" (of which Al Gore is now a card carrying member") who travel the world in limousines and private jets, producing more greenhouse gases then I ever will, who are preaching the evils of living a modern, technologically enhanced life? Why should I listen to politicians who live in huge, energy inefficient homes, fly in private jets, drive in motorcades and in general produce a "carbon footprint" 1000 times larger than mine ever will be? I mean, compare a motorcade to your normal commute to work.

In the immortal words of "The Outlaw Josie Wales", "Don't piss down my neck and tell me it's raining". Global Warming is a natural earth cycle that will continue long after we are gone. It is ultimately up to us to "Adapt Or Die". What have they called that in the past? Oh yeah - "Evolution".