Maybe it's the bitterly cold winter (and spring) we just had in the Northeast. Maybe it's the United Nations, the most corrupt and distrustful organization on the planet. I don't care how many reports the globalists at the U.N. release about climactic catastrophes. I don't trust anything the U.N. says or does.
Maybe Al Gore is the problem. The man who claims he invented the Internet has a serious credibility problem. Maybe it's the news that Al Gore's Tennessee mansion uses 20 times the energy of a typical American home.
Maybe it's the fact that Al Gore travels to his lectures or to pick up his Oscar in a private jet, polluting the environment for thousands of miles. Maybe it's the fact that Al Gore didn't seem too concerned about global warming when he served in the Clinton White House for eight years.
Weather is something I've never been able to get overly excited about. This is the first time in more than 300 columns that I've written about global warming. I look at Al Gore and his limousine liberal pals from the West Coast and I'm leery about people who fan the flames of hysteria for profit and self-promotion.
If Al Gore has you worried about the future of the planet with his "sky is falling" prophecies, take a deep breath and follow my advice. March down to your bookstore or local library and pick up a copy of "The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming and Environmentalism" by Christopher C. Horner.
The 288-page book, recently released in paperback by Regnery Publishing, puts the global warming hysteria into perspective.
Forget all the pseudo-scientific mumbo-jumbo. The book explains climate change as a natural phenomenon in terms any layman would understand. The Earth has gone through extended periods of cooling and heating. There's nothing unusual about what's happening today. Horner points out that the planet is on the tail end of an extended cooling period.
What's different today is that we have people like Al Gore who have latched on to a new brand of militant environmentalism to push their political agenda. The mainstream media elites gladly hop aboard the propaganda campaign and help disburse a lot of hot air on a daily basis.
Horner's book is both informative and entertaining. Let's just say it's a lot more fun than Gore's monotonous "documentary" that swept all the awards from left-leaning Hollywood types. You owe it to yourself to read it before you get sucked too far into the global warming hysteria.
Another good source of information about global warming I recently came across is the Web site, http://www.ClimatePolice.com/
Operated by Joseph Conklin, a meteorologist who has spent years collecting and analyzing surface weather observations, the Web site is a clearinghouse of global warming information that isn't readily available in the mainstream media.
Conklin points out on the Web site that he is not affiliated with any political party and has no relationship with any energy company. He also champions the use of renewable energy to help reduce our dependence on fossil fuels.
ClimatePolice.com is dedicated to "promoting an open exchange and dialog on climate change," according to Conklin. To achieve that goal, "research and articles with alternate views on climate change are the primary sources of news and information for the site."
The book and the Web site offer calm, intelligent, reasonable explanations about climate change. They're a far better resource that the hysterical left's doom-and-gloom predictions.
I'm not a scientist. I gather as much information about a subject as I can and examine it with an objective eye. I also look at people's motivation. Everybody wants to breathe fresh air. And we all want those cute penguins at the South Pole to have plenty of fish to eat. It's the far left that politicized the global warming debate to the point where they've turned off half the country.
Al Gore is fanning the flames of global warming hysteria for his own personal aggrandizement. The far left doomsayers are right behind him. Consider their motives. I don't trust Al Gore.
Liberals have been wrong about every major issue of public policy over the past 50 years -- the economy, national security, education, transportation, Social Security, health care. You name it. So why would they suddenly be right about climate change?
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UNDERSTANDING THE MANIPULATION OF GLOBAL WARMING
Even for those in agreement with the hypothesis of anthropogenic global warming, or for those who merely doubt its human causation, it still remains important to be wary of the certain attempt by financial interests to manipulate or subjugate the issue on behalf of an unstated private agenda. Recently a group of individuals, publishing at GeoKarras.Org have begun to document and reveal the interests, personnel, and finances associated with the Laurie David effort, the film, narrated by Al Gore: “An Inconvenient Truth”.
In various notes, presentations, and media introductions, they show plainly that Laurie David’s environmental activism is waged on behalf of private equity groups with direct financial interests in the regulation of CO2; the stated goal of Laurie David and the Al Gore film she produced. Moreover the consortium associated with the Global Warming Media effort states clearly to its members that the stakes are gigantic, in their words, “a big chunk of 17 trillion dollars”, and they clearly see the employment of CO2 regulation as a means to accelerate the emerging global body politic of globalization. This is exactly what one would expect, the manipulation and subjugation of the idea on behalf of private interests.
In brief, the mechanism of manipulation documented at GeoKarras.Org, reveal Laurie David and her Hollywood cohorts to be associated with fake grass roots efforts funded behind the scenes by members of a European Oil Consortium, or “Transnational Cartel”; to include Anglo-Dutch giants BP and Shell, and their allied multinationals within the United States.
The transnational cartel has also created a parallel policy propaganda organization, “The Alliance for Climate Protection”, which functions as a subsidiary of the larger foreign propaganda front, “The Council on Foreign Relations”, or “CFR”. The Alliance in accounting and functional terms is also subsidiary of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, also a senior institutional associate of the CFR, and NRDC: another fake grass roots environmental front to which Laurie David serves as director.
The lead promoter of “policy” choices on behalf of the cartel is David G. Victor, and his Stanford Research Center on Climate Change. This individual serves simultaneously as lead director of the Global Warming Propaganda activity of the cartel at the CFR, while also pretending to serve as an independent academic researcher at Stanford-his center at Stanford receives subsidies in the area of Climate Change from both BP and Exxon, as well as the Heinz [Teresa Heinz Kerry) foundation.
So there exists a pyramid like structure of fronts and “cut-away” organizations created to disseminate the message of the cartel on this issue-Global regulation of CO2 production, and the trading of CO2 emission credits, so called “Carbon Trading”. Not incidentally both BP and Shell have made extensive preparations and investments in carbon trading.
The sincerity of the effort as an environmental policy is put further into doubt when the outcome of the Kyoto mechanisms; that is taxation primarily of North Americans, and restrictions on North American industry, results in huge indirect subsidies to the exempt industries of China and India, to which the Cartel is closely aligned. This is the subjugation of Global Warming on behalf of a private agenda: de-industrialization of the United States, propulsion of Indo-China into a new industrial and military super-power, restrictions on the economic emergence of developing nations, i.e. Globalization. As these methods of manipulation are not restricted to the area of Global Warming, it is important for all to consider the case study of Laurie David-NRDC, and the cartel, at WWW.GEOKARRAS.ORG
You have attacked all but the basic questions:
Does CO2 affect temperature?
Is CO2 higher than it has been as far back as science can determine?
Has a lot of fossil fuel been transferrd from the ground to the atmosphere?
Is fossil fuel primarily carbon?
Is there any evidence that warming is ocurring?
As for an economic interest, are you ignoring Exxon's stake in clouding the issue?
I personally don't care about the truthfulness of Gore on Global Warming. all I know is that the climate of my country is changing and it is affecting the lives of my countrymen. Our crops are starting to fail because the arrival of rainy season has become unpredictable. The important thing for me is that we do something about the problem rather than argue about its veracity.
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