Al Gore is a Hero

[Chana3812]

http://www.seeingtheforest.com/archives/2007/02/a_far_too_conve.htm (http://www.seeingtheforest.com/archives/2007/02/a_far_too_conve.htm)

February 26, 2007

A Far Too Convenient $mear: Part One - Updated - Rush Update

Co-written with (mostly written by) James Boyce

Did you honestly think that the Right Wing $mear machine was going to let Al Gore stand up with the terrific team who created and direct the movie and receive an Oscar for "An Inconvenient Truth?"

Did you really believe they would stand by and watch a Democratic leader validated for his life's work?

No chance in hell. As we have said here before, They destroy our leaders (http://www.seeingtheforest.com/archives/2007/01/how_long_did_th.htm). Note to Senator Obama: spare us the hope and bi-partisanship talk and help us fight back.

Here's what we know, what we think, what we're trying to find out and how you can help.

Last night, Al Gore got very favorable national press and worldwide television exposure.

This afternoon, a group calling itself "The Tennessee Center For Policy Research" sent out a press release (http://tennesseepolicy.org/main/article.php?article_id=367) denouncing Vice President Gore for the size of his household electrical bills.

Let's start right there. How did they get the utility bills? They also didn't have the courtesy to ask Vice President Gore about them (despite their hollow claim of being non-partisan.) And why would a "think tank" possibly care about what Al Gore spends on gas?

Actually, let's start with a more basic question. Who are these people? Well , a quick check of Alexa reveals their web site gets no traffic. (http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?url=www.tennesseepolicy.org) Are they legitimate? Well, again, they claim to be non-partisan but only link to (http://www.tennesseepolicy.org/main/page.php?page_id=5) far-right and conservative groups so regardless of what their status is with the IRS, this is a conservative, strongly-leaning Republican organization.

We will be digging through IRS documents tonight because if you follow the money, you always find the answers. We will let you know who their donors are as soon as we can.

This group drops the pebble in the lake and now the machine really goes to work.

Front page of Drudge Report at 5:16 (http://www.drudgereport.com/)reports this press release from a group no one has ever heard of, who may or may not have stolen Al Gore's utility bills. Now, the lie has legs.

In the last twenty minutes, the Tennessee Center for Policy Research has updated its website TWICE (http://www.tennesseepolicy.org/main/page.php?page_id=35) - both with radio interviews. The damage is being done as we watch.

But guess what? We're going to fight back. All of us.

Why? Well, first of all, Al Gore turning his lights on doesn't make him a hypocrite, it makes him a human.

Second, we've seen this game a few too many damn times. The trick is for them to create doubt and distraction. They need to create doubt all around the country about Al Gore. But there is no doubt.

Al Gore is a hero.

Even heroes need help - join us, add to the comments, let's find out everything we can about these guys and stop them in their tracks. Now.

NOTE: this post is a work in progress and will be updated frequently.

[DSM]

Al Gore's Mansion Uses 20 Times the National Average of Power (http://www.shortnews.com/start.cfm?id=60582&rubrik1=Current%20Events&rubrik2=Curiosities&rubrik3=All&sort=1&sparte=4)
http://www.shortnews.com/start.cfm?id=60582&rubrik1=Current%20Events&rubrik2=Curiosities&rubrik3=All&sort=1&sparte=4

Another phoney left winger?

[AuGmENTor]

See I was gonna let this thread die a quiet death, as Chana is ready to use personal verbal assaults to defend this moron. There is a whole seperate thread (http://www.yourbbsucks.com/forum/showthread.php?t=14628)where you can see just what this guy is all about. Of course, the left is spinning it saying how wrong it is that they were in his utility bill, without adressing the core issue of the raw amount of the bills. More or less saying that Gore isn't a hypocrite for tuning on his lights, he's human. Title of this thread should read, Al Gore is a ZERO. It's only one letter different, but oh so much more accurate!

[MrDark71]

LOL...zero about covers it .

[AuGmENTor]

Careful Dark, you be branded an "idiot" asked to contribue something intellegent and be tossed into the cage of dummies. The only argument the left has. Misdirection.

[AuGmENTor]

Hey, I didn't write this piece. So if it's labled unintelligent, go bash the guy that wrote it!

http://www.investors.com/editorial/editorialcontent.asp?secid=1501&status=article&id=259542253407130

Solar Eclipse Of The Facts
INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY

Posted 3/23/2007

Environmentalism: The same day that Al Gore lectured Congress about man-made global warming, NASA made a startling announcement: The sun is hotter and more active than thought.

NASA detailed new observations of solar explosions from a powerful space telescope that recently beamed back X-ray images of the sun's outermost layer. Scientists expected to see a calm region but instead saw a bubbling mass of swaying and arching spikes, some more than 5,000 miles long . The tangled magnetic fields dump energy back into the corona, causing huge temperature flares.

The sunspot intensity shocked NASA astronomers, who held the press conference in Washington as Gore testified nearby that the planet has a 'fever' caused by carbon-spewing humans. Of course, the media were too busy genuflecting before The Goracle on the Hill to cover the NASA news.

'If your baby has a fever, you go to the doctor,' Gore intoned. 'If the doctor says you need to intervene, you take action.'

Yes, action such as 'completely eliminating the internal combustion engine' and riding bicycles, taxing factories into bankruptcy and building windmills. In short, creating a 'carbon-free economy' and impoverishing everyone in the process.

But what if the doctor has misdiagnosed the cause of the fever? What if the remedy Gore is prescribing is dead wrong?

He and the rest of the greenhouse gasbags won't even entertain the simplest explanation for global warming. Like a solar eclipse, they've blotted out debate on the sun's factor, despite growing evidence to support it.

As we have pointed out, global temps closely track solar cycles as measured by sunspot intensity. The Danish Meteorological Institute first reported the correlation in a study going back centuries. Historic data reveal that whenever the sun heated up, the earth heated up, and vice versa.

The sun causes global warming? What a concept!

But Gore shamelessly buried the inconvenient truth of the study in the footnotes of his book. If he acknowledged the sun's role in global warming, how could he justify taxing industry and launching his massive wealth-transfer scheme?

Here's another fact he won't talk about on his way to a Nobel Prize: Mars is also warming. NASA says ice caps near that planet's south pole are melting. A growing number of scientists say solar irradiance is heating both Mars and Earth simultaneously.

And here's another inconvenient fact: The sun's radiation has increased by 0.5% per decade since the late 1970s, while carbon output has waxed and waned with global recessions. If warming were caused by carbon output, you'd expect to see temps fall in slumps and rise in booms along with carbon output. Data show no such link.

The Hoover Institution ran the numbers. 'The effects of solar activity and volcanoes were impossible to miss. Temperatures fluctuated exactly as expected, and the pattern was so clear that, statistically, the odds of the correlation existing by chance were less than 1 in 100,' according to a study earlier this decade by Hoover fellow Bruce Berkowitz.

'Yet try as we might,' the study added, 'we simply could not find any relationship between industrial activity, energy consumption, and changes in global temperatures. We tried adjusting for delayed effects. We tried adjusting for cumulative effects. Nothing — the relationship wasn't there.'

The study concluded that even if you completely shut down factories and power plants — as Gore recommends — 'there would not be much effect on temperatures.'

Ouch, so much for that theory. If the planet has a 'fever,' it more than likely got it from the sun, not furnaces and engines.

[AuGmENTor]

Alarmist global warming claims melt under scientific scrutiny



June 30, 2007
BY JAMES M. TAYLOR
In his new book, The Assault on Reason, Al Gore pleads, "We must stop tolerating the rejection and distortion of science. We must insist on an end to the cynical use of pseudo-studies known to be false for the purpose of intentionally clouding the public's ability to discern the truth." Gore repeatedly asks that science and reason displace cynical political posturing as the central focus of public discourse.



If Gore really means what he writes, he has an opportunity to make a difference by leading by example on the issue of global warming.

A cooperative and productive discussion of global warming must be open and honest regarding the science. Global warming threats ought to be studied and mitigated, and they should not be deliberately exaggerated as a means of building support for a desired political position.

Many of the assertions Gore makes in his movie, ''An Inconvenient Truth,'' have been refuted by science, both before and after he made them. Gore can show sincerity in his plea for scientific honesty by publicly acknowledging where science has rebutted his claims.

For example, Gore claims that Himalayan glaciers are shrinking and global warming is to blame. Yet the September 2006 issue of the American Meteorological Society's Journal of Climate reported, "Glaciers are growing in the Himalayan Mountains, confounding global warming alarmists who recently claimed the glaciers were shrinking and that global warming was to blame."

Gore claims the snowcap atop Africa's Mt. Kilimanjaro is shrinking and that global warming is to blame. Yet according to the November 23, 2003, issue of Nature magazine, "Although it's tempting to blame the ice loss on global warming, researchers think that deforestation of the mountain's foothills is the more likely culprit. Without the forests' humidity, previously moisture-laden winds blew dry. No longer replenished with water, the ice is evaporating in the strong equatorial sunshine."

Gore claims global warming is causing more tornadoes. Yet the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change stated in February that there has been no scientific link established between global warming and tornadoes.

Gore claims global warming is causing more frequent and severe hurricanes. However, hurricane expert Chris Landsea published a study on May 1 documenting that hurricane activity is no higher now than in decades past. Hurricane expert William Gray reported just a few days earlier, on April 27, that the number of major hurricanes making landfall on the U.S. Atlantic coast has declined in the past 40 years. Hurricane scientists reported in the April 18 Geophysical Research Letters that global warming enhances wind shear, which will prevent a significant increase in future hurricane activity.

Gore claims global warming is causing an expansion of African deserts. However, the Sept. 16, 2002, issue of New Scientist reports, "Africa's deserts are in 'spectacular' retreat . . . making farming viable again in what were some of the most arid parts of Africa."

Gore argues Greenland is in rapid meltdown, and that this threatens to raise sea levels by 20 feet. But according to a 2005 study in the Journal of Glaciology, "the Greenland ice sheet is thinning at the margins and growing inland, with a small overall mass gain." In late 2006, researchers at the Danish Meteorological Institute reported that the past two decades were the coldest for Greenland since the 1910s.

Gore claims the Antarctic ice sheet is melting because of global warming. Yet the Jan. 14, 2002, issue of Nature magazine reported Antarctica as a whole has been dramatically cooling for decades. More recently, scientists reported in the September 2006 issue of the British journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society Series A: Mathematical, Physical, and Engineering Sciences, that satellite measurements of the Antarctic ice sheet showed significant growth between 1992 and 2003. And the U.N. Climate Change panel reported in February 2007 that Antarctica is unlikely to lose any ice mass during the remainder of the century.

Each of these cases provides an opportunity for Gore to lead by example in his call for an end to the distortion of science. Will he rise to the occasion? Only time will tell.

James M. Taylor is senior fellow for environment policy at the Heartland Institute.

[somebigguy]

CARBON TAX, CARBON TAX, CARBON TAX, get ready for it.

Another tax will solve the problem, another government stooge comes up with another reason to tax us. Great stuff.

[beltman713]

The carbon tax will have to wait till after Lieberman puts video cameras (http://www.rawstory.com/showarticle.php?src=http%3A%2F%2Fthehill.com%2Flea ding-the-news%2Flieberman-calls-for-wider-use-of-surveillance-cameras-2007-07-01.html) in everyone's homes.

[AuGmENTor]

CARBON TAX, CARBON TAX, CARBON TAX, get ready for it.

Another tax will solve the problem, another government stooge comes up with another reason to tax us. Great stuff.All the while being hailed as a hero by those who don't see through it. It helps that since he is not officially "in" the government, nobody thinks to question his motivation. It must be to save the world.

[somebigguy]

All the while being hailed as a hero by those who don't see through it. It helps that since he is not officially "in" the government, nobody thinks to question his motivation. It must be to save the world.
Yep. Furthermore, what will all this focus on Global Warming get us?

Will we be able to swim in our lakes? Eat fish out of the lake (not me, I'm veggie), Drink our water without filtering it? Clean up the smog that hangs over all our cities? Stop the dumping of toxic chemicals in our rivers and streams? Stop the damage to our environment from GMO foods? Stop the spread of depleted uranium? Stop the run off from factory farms?

No, it won't focus on any of that, and yet the fight against global warming is being hailed as the grand solution to solve all of our environmental issues. Al Gore is our saviour, save me, tax me!!!!

[AuGmENTor]

What sux is there will be no avoiding that tax for me. Ah well, can't win them all...

[somebigguy]

What sux is there will be no avoiding that tax for me. Ah well, can't win them all...
There will be no avoiding that tax by anyone, we all emit carbon just by breathing.

THEY ARE GONNA TAX US FOR BREATHING!!!!!! And our lakes and streams will still be too polluted for any of us to actually be able to swim in them. It is still fairly early in this summer, and there has been nothing but warnings and closures already at all the lakes around my area.

Who pollutes these lakes??? Corporations of course. Does Al Gore put any blame for global warming on the shoulders of the corporations? Of course not. It is all placed on us, we are the targets, we will have to pay taxes just for existing.

And corporations will continue to pollute this world, with only an eye for the bottom line, not a care for us or the environment.