Ahh, those wacky guys at Minnesotans For Global Warming have done it again. They’ve just released a new Christmas Album called “It’s A Climate Gate Christmas”.
Ahh, those wacky guys at Minnesotans For Global Warming have done it again. They’ve just released a new Christmas Album called “It’s A ClimateGate Christmas”.
Source: Minnesotans for Global Warming
Damn it. Just as ClimateGate was getting into high gear, along comes a new global warming scandal – NASAgate.
Damn it. Just as ClimateGate was getting into high gear, along comes a new global warming scandal – NASAgate.
Texas Republican Congressman Ted Poe goes off on NASA because they’re following in the footsteps of the CRU and refusing to release their global warming data as requested under a Freedom of Information Act request.
Let’s give Poe credit: This is the first time we’ve heard the term “NASAgate.” But we suspect it won’t be the last.
Source: Bluegrass Pundit
And that brings us to Al Gore’s brilliant new poem, Our Choice, which bears a striking resemblence to “A Horse.” Same themes, same images, same style. Which, of course, is completely understandable since Al Gore bears a striking resemblance to the rear end of a horse.
Of course, we realize that “worst song ever written” is subjective. But almost every “worst song” list ever compiled contains America’s “A Horse With No Name” because of its insipid, meaningless lyrics.
And that brings us to Al Gore’s brilliant new poem, Our Choice, which bears a striking resemblence to “A Horse.” Same themes, same images, same style. Which, of course, is completely understandable since Al Gore bears a striking resemblance to the rear end of a horse.
Nevertheless, Gore’s acolytes at Vanity Fair raved about the poem:
“The result is a surprisingly accomplished, nuanced piece of writing. The images Gore conjures in his (untitled) poem turn a neat trick: they are visually specific and emotionally arresting even as they are scientifically accurate.”
Decide for yourself. Listen to “A Horse With No Name” while you read the poem. Six of one, half dozen of another.
“Our Choice”
One thin September soon
A floating continent disappears
In midnight sunVapors rise as
Fever settles on an acid sea
Neptune’s bones dissolveSnow glides from the mountain
Ice fathers floods for a season
A hard rain comes quicklyThen dirt is parched
Kindling is placed in the forest
For the lightning’s celebrationUnknown creatures
Take their leave, unmourned
Horsemen ready their stirrupsPassion seeks heroes and friends
The bell of the city
On the hill is rungThe shepherd cries
The hour of choosing has arrived
Here are your toolsLa, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la
La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la
La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la
La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la
La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la,
La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la
La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la,
La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la
OK, we lifted the la-la part at the end from “A Horse With No Name.” But only because it seemed to fit.
Source: Vanity Fair
Global warming skeptics have said that meeting the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s harsh emission goals would require a return to life the Stone Age.
Global warming skeptics have said that meeting the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s harsh emission goals would require a return to life in the Stone Age.
This seemed preposterous until we saw a photo of Rajendra Pachauri, Director General of the Energy and Resources Institute and Chairman of the IPCC. Suddenly, it all makes sense.
Pachauri and the Geico caveman. Separated at birth?
All the former Vice President’s Men in Climategate: Where are Woodward and Bernstein when we need them?
Where are Woodward and Bernstein when we need them?
Source: Competitive Enterprise Institute
No one has mastered the scam of getting global warming funding better than Penn State’s Michael Mann, one of the prime players in the East Anglia CRU email revelations.
Here’s how the global warming scam works:
Announce that you’ve discovered something called “global warming” that will destroy the earth. Make up statistics “proving” that it’s true. Apply for lots of government grants that allow you to research the problem even further.
No one has mastered this scam better than Penn State’s Michael Mann, one of the prime players in the East Anglia CRU email revelations.
American Spectator discovered that Mann is so proud of all his government grants that he actually lists them on his online resume. Here’s a list of Mann’s funded proposals:
2009-2013 Quantifying the influence of environmental temperature on transmission of vector-borne diseases, NSF-EF [Principal Investigator: M. Thomas; Co-Investigators: R.G. Crane, M.E. Mann, A. Read, T. Scott (Penn State Univ.)] $1,884,991
2009-2012 Toward Improved Projections of the Climate Response to Anthropogenic Forcing: Combining Paleoclimate Proxy and Instrumental Observations with an Earth System Model, NSF-ATM [Principal Investigator: M.E. Mann; Co-Investigators: K. Keller (Penn State Univ.), A. Timmermann (Univ. of Hawaii)] $541,184
2008-2011 A Framework for Probabilistic Projections of Energy-Relevant Streamflow Indices, DOE [Principal Investigator: T. Wagener; Co-Investigators: M. Mann, R. Crane, K. Freeman (Penn State Univ.)] $330,000
2008-2009 AMS Industry/Government Graduate Fellowship (Anthony Sabbatelli), American Meteorological Society [Principal Investigator: M.E. Mann (Penn State Univ.)] $23,000
2006-2009 Climate Change Collective Learning and Observatory Network in Ghana, USAID [Principal Investigator: P. Tschakert; Co-Investigators: M.E. Mann, W. Easterling (Penn State Univ.)] $759,928
2006-2009 Analysis and testing of proxy-based climate reconstructions, NSF-ATM [Principal Investigator: M.E. Mann (Penn State Univ.)] $459,000
2006-2009 Constraining the Tropical Pacific’s Role in Low-Frequency Climate Change of the Last Millennium, NOAA-Climate Change Data & Detection (CCDD) Program [Principal Investigators: K. Cobb (Georgia Tech Univ.), N. Graham (Hydro. Res. Center), M.E. Mann (Penn State Univ.), Hoerling (NOAA Clim. Dyn. Center), Alexander (NOAA Clim. Dyn. Center)] PSU award (M.E. Mann): $68,065
2006-2007 Acquisition of high-performance computing cluster for the Penn State Earth System Science Center (ESSC), NSF-EAR [Principal Investigator: M.E. Mann, Co-Investigators: R. Alley, M. Arthur, J. Evans, D. Pollard (Penn State Univ.)] $100,000
2003-2006 Decadal Variability in the Tropical Indo-Pacific: Integrating Paleo & Coupled Model Results, NOAA-Climate Change Data & Detection (CCDD) Program [Principal Investigators: M.E. Mann (U.Va), J. Cole (U. Arizona), V. Mehta (CRCES)] U.Va award (M.E. Mann): $102,000
2002-2005 Reconstruction and Analysis of Patterns of Climate Variability Over the Last One to Two Millennia, NOAA-Climate Change Data & Detection (CCDD) Program [Principal Investigator: M.E. Mann, Co-Investigators: S. Rutherford, R.S. Bradley, M.K. Hughes] $315,000
2002-2005 Remote Observations of Ice Sheet Surface Temperature: Toward Multi-Proxy Reconstruction of Antarctic Climate Variability, NSF-Office of Polar Programs, Antarctic Oceans and Climate System [Principal Investigators: M.E. Mann (U. Va), E. Steig (U. Wash.), D. Weinbrenner (U. Wash)] U.Va award (M.E. Mann): $133,000
2002-2003 Paleoclimatic Reconstructions of the Arctic Oscillation, NOAA-Cooperative Institute for Arctic Research (CIFAR) Program [Principal Investigators: Rosanne D’Arrigo, Ed Cook (Lamont/Columbia); Co-Investigator: M.E. Mann] U.Va subcontract (M.E. Mann): $14,400
2002-2003 Global Multidecadal-to-Century-Scale Oscillations During the Last 1000 years, NOAA-Climate Change Data & Detection (CCDD) Program [Principal Investigator: Malcolm Hughes (Univ. of Arizona); Co-Investigators: M.E. Mann; J. Park (Yale University)] U.Va subcontract (M.E. Mann): $20,775
2001-2003 Resolving the Scale-wise Sensitivities in the Dynamical Coupling Between Climate and the Biosphere, University of Virginia-Fund for Excellence in Science and Technology (FEST) [Principal Investigator: J.D. Albertson; Co-Investigators: H. Epstein, M.E. Mann] U.Va internal award: $214,700
2001-2002 Advancing predictive models of marine sediment transport, Office of Naval Research [Principal Investigator: P. Wiberg (U.Va), Co-Investigator: M.E. Mann] $20,775
1999-2002 Multiproxy Climate Reconstruction: Extension in Space and Time, and Model/Data Intercomparison, NOAA-Earth Systems History [Principal Investigator: M.E. Mann (U.Va), Co-Investigators: R.S. Bradley, M.K. Hughes] $381,647
1998-2000 Validation of Decadal-to-Multi-century climate predictions, DOE [Principal Investigator: R.S. Bradley (U. Mass); Co-Investigators: H.F. Diaz, M.E. Mann]
1998-2000 The changing seasons? Detecting and understanding climatic change, NSF-Hydrological Science [Principal Investigator U. Lall (U. Utah); Co-investigators: M.E. Mann, B. Rajagopalan, M. Cane] $266,235K
1996-1999 Patterns of Organized Climatic Variability: Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Globally Distributed Climate Proxy Records and Long-term Model Integrations, NSF-Earth Systems History [Principal Investigator: R.S. Bradley (U. Mass); Co-Investigators: M.E. Mann, M.K. Hughes] $270,000
1996-1998 Investigation of Patterns of Organized Large-Scale Climatic Variability During the Last Millennium, DOE, Alexander Hollaender Postdoctoral Fellowship [M.E. Mann] $78,000
That’s almost $6 million you’ve paid for Mann’s models, reconstructions and tricks over the last 13 years.
The earth has a fever! And Michael Mann has 6,000,000 reasons to diagnose it.
Source: American Spectator via PlanetGore
Two warnings about this video: For our readers: Contains language that you may be consider objectionable. For Al Gore: Contains truths that you may consider objectionable.
Two warnings about this video:
For our readers: Contains language that you may be consider objectionable.
For Al Gore: Contains truths that you may consider objectionable.
Don’t try to top someone as quick witted as Red Eye’s Greg Gutfeld. You can’t help but laugh when destroys global warming believer Rob Tannenbaum with one scathing line.
The lesson to be learned here: Don’t try to top someone as quick witted as Red Eye’s Greg Gutfeld. You can’t help but laugh when destroys global warming believer Rob Tannenbaum with one scathing line.
Sadly, Gore’s credibility peaked in 2005 and so did hurricanes. The Atlantic hurricane season ended today after producing the fewest named storms in 12 years. It was the first time in three years that no hurricane struck the U.S. mainland.
An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore’s Academy Award-winning science fiction movie, attempted to scare the bejeebers out of you by claiming that global warming would inevitably lead to increased frequency and intensity of hurricanes.
Sadly, Gore’s credibility peaked in 2005 and so did hurricanes.
As Bloomberg reported on December 1:
Atlantic Hurricane Season Has Fewest Named Storms in 12 Years
The Atlantic hurricane season ended today after producing the fewest named storms in 12 years. It was the first time in three years that no hurricane struck the U.S. mainland.
The story continued:
The calmer season was expected and reflected the development of a mid-year eastern Pacific warming pattern called El Nino, said Gerry Bell, lead seasonal hurricane forecaster at NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center, in Camp Springs, Maryland.
Unfortunately, the Insurance Journal reported a different reality: In its December (2008) forecast, the Colorado State University team predicted 14 named storms. That included seven hurricanes and three big ass major hurricanes.
Ahhh, but alas. It was not to be.
In reality, the 2009 season that ended as December began saw storms that barely qualified as storms. It featured storms that formed and dissipated so quickly that it’s almost surprising they were even noticed. We even had a couple oddball storms that formed far north of the typical hurricane track. It was the first time in several years in which no hurricanes hit the United States. And we even had a late hurricane that barely qualified as one. To sum it all up, 2009 was one of the quietest hurricane seasons in decades.
And so we simultaneously bid a fond adieu to the 2009 hurricane season and to Albert Gore’s tattered credibility.
We know there will be another hurricane season in 2010, but the return of Gore’s credibility is far less certain.
Source: Bloomberg, Insurance Journal
“Next time I see Pat Michaels at a scientific meeting, I’ll be tempted to beat the crap out of him.” So says one of the now infamous global warming emails.
“Next time I see Pat Michaels at a scientific meeting, I’ll be tempted to beat the crap out of him.” So says one of the now infamous global warming emails.
So what does CATO Institute scientist Michaels have to say about that? Stuart Varney interviews him to find out. Then, just for good measure, Varney makes Ben Weiss of the Center for American Progress look foolish.
Correction: Weiss makes himself look foolish.
Global warming emails? What global warming emails? White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs is sticking with the scientists. Even if the scientists are lying sacks of excrement.
Global warming emails? What global warming emails? White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs is sticking with the scientists. Even if the scientists are lying sacks of excrement.
Michael Mann’s famous “hockey stick” global warming graph is discredited an dhere’s how it looks without his “fiddling.”
Despite the fact that Penn State professor Michael Mann’s famous “hockey stick” graph was long ago discredited, it still continues to be cited in study after study. In fact, it’s still the basis for the IPCC’s global warming hysteria.
Unfortunately, there’s a damning comment in one of the ClimateGate emails that says: “I’ve just completed Mike’s Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (ie from 1981 onwards) amd from 1961 for Keith’s to hide the decline.”
What does that mean? Well, here are two graphs that demonstrate the results of that “trick.” The top one shows Michael Mann’s original “hockey stick” chart complete with his tricks that hide the decline. The bottom one, known as the Briffa Reconstruction, removes the tricks and shows that global warming is, in fact, global cooling.
From now on, let’s just refer to it as “Mann-made” global warming.
Source: BluegrassPundit.com
Welcome to the light of day, Michael Mann. We enjoyed your emails.
H/T: Minnesotans for Global Warming
Life imitates the Simpsons: email scandal reveals global warming fraud
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George Monbiot, the Grand Poobah of British global warming society, is horrified by the growing email scandal.
George Monbiot, the Grand Poobah of British global warming society, is horrified by the growing email scandal.
Just a few months ago he warned that global warming denial was spreading like a contagious disease. Now he appears to have come down with a mild case of it himself.
It’s no use pretending this isn’t a major blow. The emails extracted by a hacker from the climatic research unit at the University of East Anglia could scarcely be more damaging. I am now convinced that they are genuine, and I’m dismayed and deeply shaken by them.
Yes, the messages were obtained illegally. Yes, all of us say things in emails that would be excruciating if made public. Yes, some of the comments have been taken out of context. But there are some messages that require no spin to make them look bad. There appears to be evidence here of attempts to prevent scientific data from being released, and even to destroy material that was subject to a freedom of information request.
Worse still, some of the emails suggest efforts to prevent the publication of work by climate sceptics, or to keep it out of a report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. I believe that the head of the unit, Phil Jones, should now resign.
Now we’re waiting to hear something as honest from Al Gore. (Please forgive us for using the mutually exclusive words “honest” and “Gore” in the same sentence.)
Source: Tim Blair
Leave it to a bunch of hackers and a Russian server to reveal that a cabal of environmental theorists may be fudging the figures on the amount of climate change that the world is actually enduring.
“Follow the money.”
That’s the motto investigative journalists chant when they’re delving into the lives of Republican politicians or big, nasty corporations. But that motto doesn’t appear to apply to left-leaning figures or causes like heroic climate change theorists or climate change research programs, which, as it happens is the biggest gold rush of grants, donations, and government funding that has ever hit academia since the Ice Age scare of the 1970s.
Leave it to a bunch of hackers and a Russian server to reveal that a cabal of environmental theorists may be fudging the figures on the amount of climate change that the world is actually enduring.
According to the New York Times:
The e-mail messages, attributed to prominent American and British climate researchers, include discussions of scientific data and whether it should be released, exchanges about how best to combat the arguments of skeptics, and casual comments — in some cases derisive — about specific people known for their skeptical views.
The emails also refer to a “trick” on how climate temperature statistics can be manipulated to show more dramatic increases.
In a 1999 e-mail exchange about charts showing climate patterns over the last two millenniums, Phil Jones, a longtime climate researcher at the East Anglia Climate Research Unit, said he had used a “trick” employed by another scientist, Michael Mann, to “hide the decline” in temperatures.
A Penn State researcher we know says a “trick” is not a secret, but a scien-terrific term for solving a problem. And perhaps that problem is the possibility that funds to investigate phony climate-change claims would one day dry up.
Source: New York Times
– Written by Sven Waring
The global warming movement has officially jumped the shark. Or dropped the polar bear. Or whatever.
The global warming movement has officially jumped the shark. Or dropped the polar bear. Or whatever.
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Al Gore has lost a little credibility with his attempt to scare the bejeezus out of readers by including a heavily-Photoshopped photo of Earth just inside the front cover.
Sure, Al Gore’s made hundreds of millions of dollars with his global warming scam, but you still have to feel sorry for the poor schlub.
America’s book buyers have decided that “Our Choice,” Gore’s latest book, is more science fiction than science. Instead of flying off the shelves in droves, it’s being left on the shelves in droves. Perhaps Gore has lost a little credibility with his attempt to scare the bejeezus out of readers by including a heavily-Photoshopped photo of Earth just inside the front cover.
What kind of PhotoShopping? Let’s just start with these egregious examples:
To give Gore the benefit of the doubt, we wanted to assume that this artwork was an attempt to demonstrate what could happen if all the ice in the arctic and Greenland were to melt (as is shown in the photo). Unfortunately, for Panama to disappear beneath the waves would require sea levels to rise more than 11,400 feet (slightly more than the 14-inches anticipated by the IPCC report).
That sea level rise would leave only five towns in the entire world above water – Namache Bazaar, Nepal at 11,482 feet; Potosi, Bolivia at 13,420 feet; El Alto, Bolivia at 13,615 feet, Lhasa Tibet at 12,200 feet; and La Rinoconada, Peru at 16,728 feet. Denver, the Mile High City, would be a mile under water.
Sara Palin’s book is a runaway #1 this week on Amazon.com and has been in their Top 100 for 52 days. Glenn Beck’s book is #8 and has been in the Top 100 for 44 days. The global warming-bashing SuperFreakonomics is #10 and has been on the Top 100 for 46 days.
Meanwhile, Gore’s “Our Choice” never reached the Top 20 and has dropped to #123 after just 15 days. Two weeks ago it was #49 and last week it was #59. So it’s dropping even faster than worldwide temperatures and Gore’s credibility.
There’s only one way to reverse this disaster:
More PhotoShopping, Al, more PhotoShopping.
Source: InfoWars.com
It’s a good thing Al Gore won that Nobel Peace Prize, because he disqualified himself for any of the scientific awards with this display of ignorance on the Tonight Show.
It’s a good thing Al Gore won that Nobel Peace Prize, because he disqualified himself for any of the scientific awards with this display of ignorance on the Tonight Show.
Conan: You talk in the book about geothermal energy.
Gore: Yeah, yeah.
Conan: …and that is, as I understand it, using the heat that’s generated from the core of the earth …
Gore: Yeah.
Conan: … to create energy, and it sounds to me like an evil plan by Lex Luthor to defeat Superman. Can you, can you tell me, is this a viable solution, geothermal energy?
Gore: It definitely is. And it’s a relatively new one. People think about geothermal energy — when they think about it at all — in terms of the hot water bubbling up in some places, but two kilometers or so down in most places there are these incredibly hot rocks, ’cause the interior of the earth is extremely hot, several million degrees, and the crust of the earth is hot …
John Derbyshire brought a little reality to Gore’s science fiction in National Review, “The geothermal gradient is usually quoted as 25–50 degrees Celsius per mile of depth in normal terrain (not, e.g., in the crater of Kilauea). Two kilometers down, therefore, (that’s a mile and a quarter if you’re not as science-y as Al) you’ll have an average gain of 30–60 degrees — exploitable for things like home heating, though not hot enough to make a nice pot of tea. The temperature at the earth’s core, 4,000 miles down, is usually quoted as 5,000 degrees Celsius … The temperature at the surface of the Sun is around 6,000 degrees Celsius, while at the center, where nuclear fusion is going on big time, things get up over 10 million degrees.
So the bad news for Gore is that when he says Earth’s core temperature is several million degrees, he’s off by…uhhh…several million degrees.
The good news is that that’s about as close as he’s come on any of his scientific pronouncements.
Why does anyone pay any attention to this moron?
Source: National Review
Despite dozens of years and millions of dollars spent to pound the global warming drum, the Brits aren’t buying it. Not one little bit.
Despite dozens of years and millions of dollars spent to pound the global warming drum, the Brits aren’t buying it. Not one little bit.
Here’s how the Times UK tells the tale:
Less than half the population believes that human activity is to blame for global warming, according to an exclusive poll for The Times.
The revelation that ministers have failed in their campaign to persuade the public that the greenhouse effect is a serious threat requiring urgent action will make uncomfortable reading for the Government as it prepares for next month’s climate change summit in Copenhagen.
Only 41 per cent accept as an established scientific fact that global warming is taking place and is largely man-made. Almost a third (32 per cent) believe that the link is not yet proved; 8 per cent say that it is environmentalist propaganda to blame man and 15 per cent say that the world is not warming.
Tory voters are more likely to doubt the scientific evidence that man is to blame. Only 38 per cent accept it, compared with 45 per cent of Labour supporters and 47 per cent of Liberal Democrat voters.
That sound you hear is Al Gore whimpering over in the corner. You can’t miss him. He’s the fat one with the big ass carbon footprint.
Source: Times UK
Copenhagen, we were told, was our last chance to save the world from global warming. That was then. This is now. And world leaders now agree that no meaningful agreement will be arrived at in Copenhagen.
Copenhagen, we were told, was our last chance to save the world from global warming.
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown set the ominous tone a few weeks ago when he said we had just 50 days to save the world. “If we do not reach a deal at this time,” Brown warned, “let us be in no doubt: once the damage from unchecked emissions growth is done, no retrospective global agreement, in some future period, can undo that choice….”
“… the Copenhagen agreement is almost certainly the world’s last chance to put global emissions onto a trajectory that can keep us out of the danger zone,” European Environment Commissioner Stavros Dimas added.
That was then. This is now. And world leaders now agree that no meaningful agreement will be arrived at in Copenhagen. It hasn’t even come up for debate in the United States Senate. China and India want us to give them billions of dollars so they can continue their wicked ways. And the people of the world don’t believe a word of this nonsense.
There’s only one thing to do:
Call an attorney. Get a will written. Make sure your affairs are in order. And buy some future beachfront property in Denver. Because if the socialists of the world weren’t lying, the oceans will soon be lapping at your feet.
Gordon Brown and Stavros Dimas said so.
Greenland’s icecap has thickened slightly in recent years despite concerns that it is thawing out due to global warming, says an international team of scientists.
How could this be? How is it possible? We’re ruined.
Based on Al Gore’s assurances that the Greenland icecap was melting and that sea levels were rising, we invested all our spare cash in future beachfront property in South Dakota.
The Australian Broadcasting Company reports the story of our personal economic doom and the current shoreline’s salvation:
Greenland’s icecap has thickened slightly in recent years despite concerns that it is thawing out due to global warming, says an international team of scientists.
A team led by Professor Ola Johannessen, at the Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center in Norway, report their findings online ahead of print publication in the journal Science.
The 3,000-metre thick Greenland icecap is a key concern in debates about climate change because a total melt would raise world sea levels by about 7 metres. And a runaway thaw might slow the Gulf Stream that keeps the North Atlantic region warm.
Glaciers at sea level have been retreating fast because of a warming climate, making many other scientists believe the entire icecap is thinning. But satellite measurements showed that more snowfall is falling and thickening the icecap, especially at high altitudes, say Johannessen and team.
The entire IHateTheMedia.com fortune is tied up in that South Dakota land. That’s what we get for listening to Gore.
Source: Reuters via ABC.gov.au
What could possibly bring these two diametrically opposed forces together? Three words: Al Gore, hypocrite.
What could possibly bring these two diametrically opposed forces together? Three words: Al Gore, hypocrite.
Source: PlanetGore
Step One: Help create a phony panic. Step Two: Make a vast fortune selling solutions to that phony panic. Step Three: Laugh your fat ass off.
Step One: Help create a phony panic. Step Two: Make a vast fortune selling solutions to that phony panic. Step Three: Laugh your fat ass off.
The New York Times tells the story of Al Gore’s obscene profiteering:
Former Vice President Al Gore thought he had spotted a winner last year when a small California firm sought financing for an energy-saving technology from the venture capital firm where Mr. Gore is a partner.
The company, Silver Spring Networks, produces hardware and software to make the electricity grid more efficient. It came to Mr. Gore’s firm, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, one of Silicon Valley’s top venture capital providers, looking for $75 million to expand its partnerships with utilities seeking to install millions of so-called smart meters in homes and businesses.
Mr. Gore and his partners decided to back the company, and in gratitude Silver Spring retained him and John Doerr, another Kleiner Perkins partner, as unpaid corporate advisers.
The deal appeared to pay off in a big way last week, when the Energy Department announced $3.4 billion in smart grid grants. Of the total, more than $560 million went to utilities with which Silver Spring has contracts. Kleiner Perkins and its partners, including Mr. Gore, could recoup their investment many times over in coming years.
The story continues:
Critics, mostly on the political right and among global warming skeptics, say Mr. Gore is poised to become the world’s first “carbon billionaire,” profiteering from government policies he supports that would direct billions of dollars to the business ventures he has invested in.
Gore, of course, solemnly says he’s just putting his money where his mouth is.
Which is a lot more difficult than you might imagine when you consider that his head is so far up his ass.
Source: New York Times
Pope Urban VIII threatened to excommunicate Galileo because he insisted that the sun was the center of the universe.
Now, a mere 377 years later, Pope Barack is equally adamant that scientists should blindly follow his global warming religion.
In 1632, Pope Urban VIII threatened to excommunicate Galileo because he insisted that the sun was the center of the universe.
Now, a mere 377 years later, Pope Barack is equally adamant that scientists should blindly follow his global warming religion.
Last month, President Obama gave a somewhat chilling, if somewhat ignored, speech on climate change at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He stated that any scientific debate about the magnitude of global warming is unscrupulous, decrying “those who . . . make cynical claims that contradict the overwhelming scientific evidence when it comes to climate change, whose only purpose is to defeat or delay the change that we know is necessary.”
Then, the president talked tough, saying, “We’ll just have to deal with those people,” language familiar to anyone who knows the vagaries of Chicago politics.
Father, Son and Holy Ghost have been replaced by Barack Obama, Cap-and-Trade.
Get on your knees and pray.
Source: National Review
