The Great Global Warming Swindle
| March 13, 2007 | Posted by Dave S. under Global Warming, Off Topic, Science |
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| March 13, 2007 | Posted by Dave S. under Global Warming, Off Topic, Science |
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On the one hand, you have an important point that Gore’s choices for investment may simply reflect his genuine beliefs. Even if those investments were only for making a profit, not for solving the problem, there is nothing illegitimate about investing money where you think it might grow. It doesn’t show that Global Warming is false.
On the other hand, in many cases where money and profit are involved, we can and do raise questions about potential bias and a person’s ability to be or to remain objective.
If someone employed by the tobacco industry says smoking is not harmful, their objectivity may be called into question.
In the video it was clear that even the hint of accepting money from industry was used to severly question the objectivity of anyone questioning global warming.
Yet, who raises the same question about the money that flows to those willing to affirm global warming? Even if they began as true believers, if the evidence is against that view, would they be free and fully able to admit that? Is their objectivity compromised by the potential personal loss, if global warming goes bust?
Its not an easy question, but it makes no sense to only ask it for one side of a controversy. The weight we give to “expert opinion” can be affected by conflicts of interest. Its relevant to trials, for example.
BFast,
We who are so trusting and well meaning follow a corrupt and hypocritical elite.
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20000522/silverstein
Read the above and ask did Al Gore divest his shares? I don’t mind he owns oil stock as a rich, connected son. I do mind his mud slinging against others as if he’s the Pope of Green-rich. He deserves an Oscar for a real life act, not his movie.
Regarding GIM. He did not disclose the information to the public. The Tennesee paper published after the Follywood drooling.
Bush’s ranch in Crawford is more environmentally friendly than his home that chews up 20 times amount of electricity. 19 of us produce less pollution than him total.
He’s paying “Carbon offsets” to his own company. He didn’t inform the media he founded the business, nor did he inform them his purchases benefit his company. It made for a nice, one-line snippy sound bite.
I’d say that is an ethical issue.
What are Carbon Offsets? How many trees for a plane ride? Instead of flying his private jet, take a commercial airliner like the rest of us ‘uncaring’ Americans who question global warming. He’d reduce CO2 much more by curtailing his exorbitant lifestyle. By cutting down his glorious crusade, he reduces his ‘carbon footprint’ and can buy more trees.
Sigh…
What’s wrong with this picture?
I’d say a whole lot.
Truth is we do not know if we’re in a cycle of warm/cold trends, if the sun generates trends, or if the earth’s atmosphere reacts to reduce warming by increased storms. If history is an indication, our globe has gone thru many climatic episodes. There were by ‘consensus’ prior to now; no ‘men’, cars, factories, smokestacks around to cause the global warming. Yet it happened. Gore does not address these issues. They sluff it off like evolutionist sluff off lack of experimental data for macro-evolution.
Polar bears? They’ve increased numbers! There are more today than in the past by tens of thousands.
The hypocrisy continues…
Gore’s father was an Exective for Occidental Petroleum in which little Jr. received 250,000 shares as executor of his estate. Some reports have it up to 500,000 shares. He’s rich due to oil money. Did he divest his shares?
He’s hedged his bets. He has money from both directions. Oil rises, or Green rises. Either way he is covered. Smart business. I like it. But I hate the deception upon which it is built.
He is a Snake oil salesman… fear mongoring potential future catastrophe and ills to the sheep, while holding the magic Elixir.
I do not trust such men to determine my freedoms or preach to me how our nation should act based upon his own actions and hypocrisy. It is obvious he has little morals. He is intentionally making money off of all this in the disguise that he is some “savior” to the left.
Plus, almost any consensus being belched out from the UN is reason to be entirely skeptical. Overall, we need to get off of oil for the security of our nation. But Gore is a bonafide slicked down, SUV driving, Armani wearing, hypocrite and so is Follywood.
Here’s a suggestion or plea…
Be honest. We don’t know if the world is experiencing global warming due to men’s industry. This may be a cyclical. The Sun may contribute to these cycles. We are not sure.
We do know there is pollution which our activities do create. We do know for the future, we need to care for this world. And we also know that the freedom of the West depends upon independent energy resources.
And by the way. I am starting a company to help invest in such ventures. Would you like to invest with me? And I am selling all my stock in Occidental since they treated the indigenous people of Columbia terribly.
Instead, we get hypocrisy and ideological partisan politics.
Bush has upped spending on solar power, biofuels, cellulosic, battery research, hyrdrogen fuel cells, and more. He did this without the vitriolic hate expounded on by those like Gore. He did this openly with known oil connections. Gore on the otherhand along with others categorize oil as the villain, though he benefits directly by hundreds of millions.
That is the definition of a hypocrite. The worst kind. Do as I say, not as I do.
And we, all 300 million Americans benefit daily due to cheap refined oil products in every single thing from plastics and makeup to gasoline. This nation is built upon the capacity for cheap energy. Our farmers produce the worlds bread basket that feed millions in Africa due to cheap energy. We need to be realistic. Stop making it partisan and hateful. Leaders like Gore are irresponsible and act as if they hold the light. When in fact they still benefit from the very dark oil in the ground.
Thanks, DaveScot, for drawing attention to this video. It answered many questions for me, including this one:
“If green house gas warming is such a threat, why do alarmists draw so much attention to carbon dioxide and almost none to methane?”
If the greenhouse effect really drove warming, methane would be the greater greenhouse threat and a reasonable point of focus for change. Why focus on cars, etc. far, far, far more than cows, etc., if the aim is to minimize greenhouse warming?
The story and the CO2 drum beat was like an alibi that doesn’t quite add up.
But if the actual objective is to change human energy sources (e.g. Thatcher) or to oppose industrialization (e.g. environmental extremists), then it makes perfect sense that the focus would be on reducing carbon dioxide, not methane.
Wow… cool video! One question though, the video said that volcanoes produce more CO2 than human activities do. Is this correct? It seems like everything I’ve read says that humans release more than 100 times the CO2 that volcanoes do. Does anyone know of a link that can confirm this. Thanks.