Al Gore Makes Australia Pay
Ben Doherty and Marian Wilkinson, writing for Australia’s The Age, report on “Paying dearly to hear Gore’s climate story.” (With added Smart-Alec commentary from Those Jerks @ Carbon Credit Warehouse.com.)
- AL GORE has a story he wants to tell the world. But it will cost you a thousand dollars to hear it. (and billions more to practice it.)
In a passionate attack on the climate policies of Prime Minister John Howard and US President George Bush, the former US vice-president, addressing a very expensive lunch in Sydney yesterday, called Australia and the US “the Bonnie and Clyde” outlaws of the global environment (I wonder which one is Bonnie?) for their failure to ratify the Kyoto Protocol. (Known widely as a political and unscientific document filled with lies of omission.)
- Mr Gore called on Australia to change course on Kyoto and its climate policies, saying if it did “it would be impossible for the United States to withstand the pressure” to join the rest of the world in ratifying Kyoto. (Thus ensuring suffering amongst the masses in the third world and destruction of the US and Aussie economies.)
Labor under Kevin Rudd has promised to ratify the protocol while Mr Howard is adamantly opposed to it and is backing Mr Bush’s efforts to find a “post-Kyoto accord”. (Hopefully it will be one that recognizes the 0-2% effect of human endeavor.)
- Mr Gore made his comments after reporters were asked to leave the lunch venue. (Al, if you can’t stand the heat from your version of global warming, then get off the planet.)
Despite the cost, lunch in the 700-seat room at the Sydney Convention Centre was a sell-out, as is tomorrow’s event in Melbourne. VIP packages, which included a spot close to Mr Gore and a meet-and-greet with him, cost $25,000. (Undoubtedly he needs the money to purchase more carbon credits from CarbonCreditWareouse.com.)
- With Liberal Party members allegedly warned off attending, yesterday’s lunch was something of a Labor Party affair. Mr Gore paid tribute to two Labor Bobs present — Hawke and Carr — praising the former for the hole-in-one he hit while playing with Mr Gore earlier in the day (Ooh, that is so tempting, but sometimes the strange-but-true is funnier), and the latter for his commitment to the environment.
- After his salutations, Mr Gore got down to business. The ballooning world population and the dizzying pace of technological change had helped turn mankind into an environmental “bull in a china shop”, he said.
In fact, birth rates are lower than death rates in many of the industrialized countries, and the technological changes are making energy use more efficient. As for the “bull in a china shop” comment, obviously Al doesn’t watch Myth Busters.
That the world’s population had quadrupled in the past 100 years partly explained this. Technological change had also had a significant impact on “this shell of the environment that surrounds our planet”.
- What it doesn’t explain is that the greatest warming occurred from 1920 to 1940 and was followed by a cooling that lasted until the 1970’s—the time of greatest CO2 input. As for that “shell of the environment” everybody knows you have to break a few eggs to bake a cake.
He went on: “In the last three weeks, the amount of ice melting in the Arctic has been completely unprecedented. In only six days an area the size of the US state of Florida disappeared; in the week before that, an area almost twice the size of Britain disappeared.
- I guess that explains the extra ice that has been thickening the Antarctic came from. And where do these “facts” come from? No news reports of this? I guess it’s just too cold up there for reporters. Also, to say these things are completely unprecedented (if that is indeed true) would be to ignore the climate history of the planet (much like the IPCC and Kyoto try to do).
“It’s melting 10 times faster than previously recorded. Experts are now saying that if we don’t act with urgency, the entire ice cap could be completely gone in less than 23 years.”
- Should we panic because no one was there to record the previous events during the Medieval Warming or the Roman Warming? Also, if the previous rate was recorded at 0.01 centimeters and it increased ten times that, would you be greatly concerned?
Has Al bothered to listen to any of the experts who say that temps at the poles are lower now than they were in the 1930’s?
- “Polish climatologist Rajmund Przybylak…found in the Arctic, the highest temperatures since the beginning of instrumental observation occurred clearly in the 1930’s.”
Even the temps of the 1950’s were higher than those of the 1990’s in the Arctic.
Przybylak also studied the period from 1951 to 1990 and found “no tangible manifestations of the greenhouse effect.”
- 90% of Antarctica has been cooling since the mid-1960’s.”Australian scientists A.B. Watkins and Ian Simmonds report increases in Southern Ocean sea ice parameters from 1978 to 1996, and an increase in the length of the sea-ice season in the 1990’s.”
Mr Gore said that despite all the scientific evidence about climate change (he’s still able to make a buck spreading lies), inaction still ruled among governments and business.
- Al is just being modest here. I read on the web and in the papers everyday about one goofball or another (usually Dems) trying to shove some type of action down our throats.
And, you have to wonder if the reason for governmental inaction isn’t precisely because of scientific evidence.
Raising his voice almost to a shout, he said climate change was not scientific, political or ideological. (And he is right–it’s solar…as science has shown.)
“It’s about survival.”
- Indeed. The survival of Al’s ability to make millions jetting around the globe charging $25,000 per head for a meet-and-greet and $1000 just to attend.
