Sunday, March 04, 2007
Defending Al Gore?!?!
Instapundit points out that Donald Sensing is defending Al Gore. Sensing begins "Never thought I’d see the day . . . when I’d be defending Al Gore." Well, if he'd thought about it just a little bit more, he wouldn't have seen that day. Not yet, anyway. Sensing continues on to defend Gore's energy usage on several counts, but he lightly skips over the whole point of most criticism of Gore.
Yet, Gore flies around in private jets and maintains high energy consuming residences like any other rich guy. That's hardly the actions of someone facing "the worst crisis" ever. Donald, it's not the energy he consumes, it's the Grand Canyon size chasm between what he says and what he does. Gore is a self-serving hypocrite of the first magnitude.
Is Gore a moralist preacher, as Glenn Reynolds and Eric Scheie have said? Well, yes. He demands severe cutbacks in first-world lifestyles and business practices in order to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.Given that Gore believes "global warming is the worst crisis we have ever faced", one would think he would be taking drastic action in every way possible. For Gore, global warming ranks worse than Black Death, the threat of nuclear annihilation, HIV, hunger, the fascism of Hitler and Mussolini, communism, etc.
Yet, Gore flies around in private jets and maintains high energy consuming residences like any other rich guy. That's hardly the actions of someone facing "the worst crisis" ever. Donald, it's not the energy he consumes, it's the Grand Canyon size chasm between what he says and what he does. Gore is a self-serving hypocrite of the first magnitude.
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/technology/technology.html?in_article_id=440049&in_page_id=1965
Greenhouse effect is a myth, say scientists
The programme also highlights how, after the Second World War, there was a huge surge in carbon dioxide emissions, yet global temperatures fell for four decades after 1940.
The UN report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was published in February. At the time it was promoted as being backed by more than 2,000 of the world's leading scientists.
But Professor Paul Reiter, of the Pasteur Institute in Paris, said it was a "sham" given that this list included the names of scientists who disagreed with its findings.
Professor Reiter, an expert in malaria, said his name was removed from an assessment only when he threatened legal action against the panel.
"That is how they make it seem that all the top scientists are agreed," he said. "It's not true."
Greenhouse effect is a myth, say scientists
The programme also highlights how, after the Second World War, there was a huge surge in carbon dioxide emissions, yet global temperatures fell for four decades after 1940.
The UN report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was published in February. At the time it was promoted as being backed by more than 2,000 of the world's leading scientists.
But Professor Paul Reiter, of the Pasteur Institute in Paris, said it was a "sham" given that this list included the names of scientists who disagreed with its findings.
Professor Reiter, an expert in malaria, said his name was removed from an assessment only when he threatened legal action against the panel.
"That is how they make it seem that all the top scientists are agreed," he said. "It's not true."
After I wrote this post, I saw that The Anchoress had a post that linked to a site where 17,000 scientists dispute global warming evidence.. This group is lead by the Past President, National Academy of Sciences, U.S.A.
I wonder how many are considered "fringe."
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I wonder how many are considered "fringe."
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