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Jun 02, 2010

Al and Tipper Gore in Splitsville

By Alan Caruba

For anyone who has followed Al Gore’s Green Brick Road to the land of Global Warming, there has to be more than a bit of schadenfreude---taking pleasure in other’s misfortunes---on hearing the news that he and his wife of forty years, Tipper, have separated. However, that feeling is fleeting for reasons that have to do with lots and lots and lots of money.

There is always a moment when one gets an opportunity to peer into the mind of someone and discern that something is seriously amiss. For me it came when I read the 1993 softcover edition of his book, “Earth in the Balance.”

Deep into the text, Gore wrote, “Within the context of the Strategic Environment Initiative, it ought to be possible to establish a coordinated global program to accomplish the strategic goal of completely eliminating the internal combustion engine over, say, a twenty-five year period.”

There a special kind of crazy to propose eliminating the engine the powers automobiles, trucks, motorcycles, boats and most everything else that transports humans and goods across the face of the Earth.

There is a special kind of crazy that hates oil so much it actually thinks it should not be refined as gasoline, but there are people in government who, unable to accept the genius of the internal combustion engine, have mandated that gasoline be mixed with ethanol.

Ethanol is a chemical otherwise known as moonshine. Every gallon of gas costs more while producing less mileage. Ethanol is so corrosive it cannot be transmitted via pipelines. It requires that acres of corn be turned into a useless fuel instead of food.

I break out in a sweat when I think this loony ran for president of the United States and it took a Supreme Court decision to cede the election to George W. Bush, a Midland, Texas boy whose daddy was in the oil business.

While serving as vice president under Bill Clinton, Gore was a driving force for the United Nations Kyoto Protocols that we now know were based on the lies about global warming. Those same lies are the basis for the Cap-and-Trade legislation under consideration in the U.S. Senate.

Al Gore’s big, big problem these days is something dubbed “Climategate”, the revelation that the “science” of global warming is entirely fabricated and utterly false.

After his election defeat Al Gore put in a call to David Blood, an 18-year veteran of Goldman Sachs. As stated in a new book ‘Killing Wealth’, “Together they began talking about the potential for the largest swindle in history.” In 2003, “Mr. Gore and Mr. Blood had established Generation Investment Management and created a $1 billion fund to invest in the ‘green technologies’ that would save the planet.”

Thereafter, in collusion with a handful of climate scientists, Gore led the most sophisticated and diabolical campaign to convince people and entire governments that “the Earth has a fever” due to too much carbon dioxide. It would require, he said, green technologies to save the Earth from global warming.

These are, by the way, the same technologies that have reaped millions in subsidies and grants from the U.S. government for those desperate to convince everyone that a zillion wind turbines or acres of solar collectors were a better source of energy that a few coal-fired or nuclear plants.

This is the same global warming scheme that enriched a number of university scientists like Michael Mann of the University of Virginia and government hacks like James Hansen who, as director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, started the hoax with his 1988 testimony about global warming before Congress. Their data has since been debunked.

There was, Gore told everyone, a climate crisis and, in the process he grew rich, hailed the first “carbon billionaire” for his various investments.

The problem was that, beginning around a decade ago, the Earth began to cool in a perfectly natural way. In November 2009, the Climategate revelations put the skids to the UN’s climate conference in Copenhagen and nations that had bought into green technology began to realize it was an idiotic idea that killed jobs and undermined their economies.

As bad as the bursting of the housing “bubble” has been, the next bubble will be a very green one. And, at the heart of it will be the Nobel Peace Prize winner, Al Gore and his partner in crime, the UN climate change program. People will wonder why his famed documentary, “An Inconvenient Truth”, filled with inaccuracies, won an Oscar and was force-fed to children in schools around the world.

Breathing down his neck is Senator James Inhofe (R-OK) who has called for the U.S. Justice Department to investigate possible fraud by the perpetrators of the “global warming hoax.” Inhofe is Gore’s nemesis. “Every assertion that he made in his science fiction movie has now been disproven...” Should political power in Congress pass to Republicans and when President Obama has left the White House, Gore will have no protection against an investigation that will rival Watergate.

The investigation will involve agencies of the federal government, NOAA, the Environmental Protection Agency, and others as co-conspirators along with the scientists that participated in the global warming fraud. It will likely put a number of people in jail and among them is likely to be Albert Arnold Gore, Jr.

If Al Gore and Tipper are legally separated, it will likely provide a measure of protection for the millions he has secured through a fraud that dwarf’s Bernie Madoff’s Ponzi scheme.

This, I suggest, is probably the real reason for the separation. It is as coldly calculated as his global warming lies. Even their forty-year marriage must be sacrificed.

The global warming fraud has been undermined by Climategate and by the forces of Nature that are determined by the Sun, the oceans, and the clouds that circle the Earth and remain a mystery to the greatest climatologists of our times. See post here.

Caruba blogs daily here. An author, science and business writer, he is the founder of The National Anxiety Center, a clearinghouse for information about “scare campaigns” designed to influence public opinion and policy.

See also this Washington Examiner story on the Gore’s.

Jun 01, 2010

Cause for Alarmists

By Paul Chesser, American Spectator

Southern California’s public radio station, KPCC, and its syndicated program “Marketplace” will host a daylong townhall Webcast next Wednesday to salve the wounded psyches of global warming paranoiacs everywhere. The symposium is entitled “Climate and Sustainability: Moving By Degrees,” and is “aimed at bringing together journalists and the public online and at Southern California Public Radio’s (SCPR) Crawford Family Forum to decipher fact from fiction, to learn how our scientific understanding has evolved, and to understand where politics, science and business agree and diverge on how to create a sustainable future.”

That’s right: this public radio station has its own venue where it can stage its own version of news, which it will do by inviting only those scientists, activists and journalists who are sympathetic to The Inconvenient Cause. Those attending:

Dr. Michael E. Mann, Pennsylvania State University

Dr. Benjamin Santer, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Stewart Brand, founder of the Whole Earth Review

Andrew Revkin, award-winning New York Times Dot Earth blogger

Joe Romm, Center for American Progress and ClimateProgress.org blogger

Mindy Lubber, President, Ceres

Naomi Oreskes, author of “Merchant of Doubt”

Dr. Stephen Schneider, Stanford University

Elizabeth Kolbert, award-winning staff writer at The New Yorker

According to the Yale Forum on Climate Change and the Media:

Program managers say the Marketplace workshop, in concert with the Gary Comer Global Agenda, is designed to address “the need for public understanding and tough reporting around energy, climate, and the economy. “They say the disappointing Copenhagen international talks last December and “high-profile scandals and corrections” involving leaked e-mails and IPCC’s mistaken Himalayan glaciers report have left the public “confused and bewildered,” with public opinion largely out of sync with scientific understanding.

Who’s bewildered? It’s the climate realists who’ve historically received the “tough reporting” from this bunch while the Society of Environmental Journalists have carried the alarmists’ water. But despite all the media’s efforts to frame the narrative, Copenhagen failed, Climategate clarified, and the public is in sync with reasonable doubt. When they promote their questionable agenda to call for massive increases in energy costs (cap and trade), that’s not confusion; that’s discernment. Read more here.

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IMPORTANT:Hearings Planned On Mass. Greenhouse Gas Limits
BOSTON (AP) - A series of public hearings are being planned for the public to weigh in on the state’s goal of setting a greenhouse gas limit by 2010. Massachusetts’ 2007 Global Warming Solutions Act requires state Environmental Secretary Ian Bowles to set a 2020 greenhouse gas emissions target of between 10 and 25 percent below the state’s 1990 greenhouse gas emission level. The 2007 law also requires Bowles to come up with a plan to meet that goal. Bowles wants an even more ambitious goal of no less than 18 percent lower than the state’s 1990s greenhouse gas emissions.

The first public hearing is set for Tuesday at the Berkshire Athenaeum in Pittsfield. Other hearings are planned for Worcester, Lowell, Lakeville, Springfield, Boston and Woods Hole. See more here.

Hearings on Massachusetts’ proposed range for the 2020 greenhouse gas emissions limit and draft implementing plan will be conducted under the provisions of M.G.L. Chapter 30A on:

Tuesday, June 1, 2010
5:30-7:30 p.m.
Berkshire Athenaeum
One Wendell Avenue
Pittsfield, MA

Thursday, June 3, 2010
5:30-7:30 p.m.
MassDEP Central Regional Office
627 Main Street
Worcester, MA

Monday, June 7, 2010
5:30-7:30 p.m.
Pollard Memorial Library
401 Merrimack Street
Lowell, MA

Tuesday, June 8, 2010
5:30-7:30 p.m.
Lakeville Public Library
4 Precinct Street
Lakeville, MA

Wednesday, June 9, 2010
5:30-7:30 p.m.
Springfield Public Library
220 State Street
Springfield, MA

Monday, June 14, 2010
1:30-3:30 p.m.
McCormack Building
21st Floor, Rooms 1 & 2
One Ashburton Place
Boston, MA

Tuesday, June 15, 2010
5:30-7:30 p.m.
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Clark Building, 5th Floor Conference Area
Quisset Campus
Woods Hole, MA

Tuesday, June 22, 2010
6:00-8:00 pm
Tobin Community Center
1481 Tremont Street
Boston, MA

Testimony may be presented orally or in writing at the public hearing. Written comments also will be accepted until 5:00 p.m. on July 15, 2010. Written testimony may be submitted by e-mail or mail to: climate.strategies@state.ma.us, Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection, Bureau of Waste Prevention, One Winter Street 6th Floor, Boston, MA 02108, Attn: Lee Dillard Adams.

A copy of the 2020 Framework Implementation Plan is posted on the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection’s (MassDEP’s) web site .

For special accommodations for these events or hearing information in an alternate format, please contact Donald Gomes, MassDEP’s ADA Coordinator at 617-556-1057, BAS/HR, 3rd Floor, One Winter Street, Boston, MA 02108.

By Order of the Office
Ian A. Bowles, Secretary

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Al Gore to Launch The Climate Project in China
PRNewswire - USNewswire

Chinese government endorses the establishment of a diverse volunteer grassroots force to deliver slideshow presentations based on Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis

WASHINGTON and NASHVILLE—Former Vice President and Nobel Laureate Al Gore, the Alliance for Climate Protection, The Climate Project, and the China-U.S. Center for Sustainable Development will host a training session in Beijing, China June 9-11, 2010. The event, held with the support of the Chinese government, led by the Ministry of Science and Technology, will see Vice President Gore personally train a cross-section of 300 Chinese citizens who share a commitment to reduce the harmful effects of climate change.

“I am so honored that I will be returning to China to deliver my slideshow and present the latest updated information about the climate crisis and how we can solve it. China has rapidly emerged as a leader in renewable energy and it is very encouraging to see the Chinese people take a direct role in beginning to help solve global warming,” said former Vice President Al Gore.

The Beijing event will focus on the science of climate change and provide tools for effective communication about the issue. Those trained will become Presenters for The Climate Project. Presenters deliver an updated version of the slide show featured in the Academy-Award winning documentary, An Inconvenient Truth. The upcoming training will also be the first to incorporate slides and material from Vice President Gore’s latest book, Our Choice, A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis.

The Climate Project (TCP), a program of the Alliance for Climate Protection, supports the work of more than 3,000 volunteers in 55 countries around the world. The Climate Project has eight official branches - Australia, Canada, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Spain, the U.K. and the United States and with the new training will now add China.

“The Alliance for Climate Protection is excited about the opportunity for The Climate Project to work in partnership with citizen volunteers and the Chinese government in an educational campaign about the urgency and solvability of the climate crisis,” said Maggie L. Fox, President and CEO of the Alliance for Climate Protection.

“The training and establishment of an official branch of Al Gore’s The Climate Project in China represents a historic and landmark opportunity to build international collaboration between volunteers who can educate their local communities on the urgency of taking action on climate change,” added Jenny Clad, Director of The Climate Project.

The vision for TCP China goes well beyond the initial training event. TCP will also establish a secretariat to provide post-training support to TCP-China Presenters and coordinate future TCP-China initiatives.

Global climate change is recognized as the defining agenda for the 21st century - impacting every natural resource and human habitat. Immediate action on multiple fronts is necessary to more deeply understand the significance of climate change and to identify actions that can responsibly address the global climate crisis. These actions are critically important in both the U.S. and China - the world’s leading producers of greenhouse gases.

About The Alliance for Climate Protection:

The Alliance for Climate Protection was founded in 2006 by Nobel laureate and former Vice President Al Gore. With more than five million members and supporters worldwide, the Alliance is a unique non-profit, non-partisan organization that is committed to educating the global community about the urgency of implementing comprehensive solutions to the climate crisis.

About The Climate Project

The Climate Project, Al Gore’s climate change leadership program, is an initiative of the Alliance for Climate Protection. TCP’s mission is to educate the public about the harmful effects of climate change and to work toward solutions at a grassroots level worldwide. Official TCP branches are located in the United States, Australia, Canada, India, Spain, the United Kingdom, Indonesia and Mexico.

The China-U.S. Center for Sustainable Development

The China-U.S. Center for Sustainable Development (CUCSD) is a public-private collaboration that aims to accelerate adoption of sustainable practices and technologies by connecting stakeholders and forging mutually beneficial environmental, social, and economic partnerships. The Center is guided by a Board of Councilors from China, the U.S. and internationally. Management of initiatives is coordinated through joint secretariats - in China, the Administrative Center for China’s Agenda 21, a government agency, and in the U.S. by the International Sustainable Development Foundation, a 501c (3) non profit organization. For more information, please visit www.chinauscenter.org.

Press inquiries: Carrie Criado, 615-327-7577, press@theclimateproject.org
Kalee Kreider, 615–327-2227, press@carthagegroup.com
Giselle Barry, 202-567-6800, press@climateprotect.org