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Politics : Manmade Global Warming, A hoax? A Scam? or a Doomsday Cult? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Don Hurst who wrote (3660)

1/26/2014 1:44:04 PM

From: longnshort

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OP-ED: Does anyone still believe Al Gore?

By Drew Johnson, Guest columnist

Posted: 01/23/14, 7:30 PM EST | Updated: 2 days ago

It’s getting tough to take environmentalists seriously. More and more, the leaders of the environmental movement -- the “Kings of Green” -- are emerging as a pathetic mix of liars, frauds, hucksters and hypocrites who are more concerned with lining their pockets off environmental hysteria than actually protecting Mother Nature.

Few would care if their dirty deeds didn’t impact others, but unfortunately, they do.

Schemes and fibs by environmental extremists like Al Gore, Tom Steyer and leaders at Google are killing jobs, increasing the price of energy, devouring tax dollars and threatening America’s energy independence -- all in an effort to make a quick buck.

It’s hard to imagine that Al Gore, the most famous environmentalist of all, has any credibility left after many of his predictions have proven false and he has been unwilling to reduce his own carbon footprint.

In his movie “An Inconvenient Truth,” former Vice President Al Gore erroneously warned that Arctic polar ice caps would disappear by 2013. This year, Arctic ice coverage spanned more than 2,000 cubic miles -- an increase of more than 50 percent from just a year ago.

Several years ago, I discovered that Gore is more than happy to talk the talk when it comes to environmentalism, but appears unwilling to walk the walk. Public records proved that Gore devoured as much as 20 times more electricity at his Nashville estate than the average American household.

Despite his hypocrisy and poor record of environmental fortunetelling, Gore continues to push for a carbon tax, a sinister scheme that would cost tens of thousands of American jobs and squeeze the poorest Americans most as a result of price hikes to most every good and service imaginable.

Not that Gore is worried about the little people. He managed to cash in on the wave of global warming hysteria that he created, amassing a fortune of more than $200 million.

Gore isn’t alone in attempting to exploit environmental concerns for selfish reasons.

Tom Steyer, a billionaire hedge fund manager who made much of his fortune by investing in fossil fuels, now spends his days attacking the Keystone XL pipeline in hopes of blocking its construction.

While Steyer claims that his opposition to Keystone is environmentally related -- he has funded a series of dubious ads claiming as much - the reality is that the environmental charlatan is heavily invested in a competing pipeline and stands to make a mint if his pipeline doesn’t face competition from Keystone XL.

There is one big difference between Keystone XL and the TransMountain oil sands pipeline in which Steyer is invested: Most of the petroleum produced as a result of Keystone would be utilized by the U.S. and Canada, while much of the oil sands carried by the Transmountain scheme would be shipped to China.

Allowing the completion of the Keystone XL pipeline would produce lower gas and energy prices for Americans, create tens of thousands of new jobs, generate millions in new tax dollars and reduce American petroleum imports from unstable and unfriendly nations by 40 percent -- not that Tom Steyer cares about any of that.

Another leading player in the environmental movement is Google. The search engine giant heavily lobbies government to encourage risky and irresponsible environmental ploys like cap and trade policies, and believes the federal government should take money from America’s taxpayers to fund unproven gambles on green energy.

Google has even authored an initiative hoping to shutter coal-powered electricity production facilities and dictate what types of cars Americans can drive.

Google is proud of its perceived environmental-friendliness. After all, it translates into dollars from customers who share the company’s supposed concern for the environment.

Beneath Google’s green facade, however, the company’s executives are hiding a dirty secret. Google maintains a fleet of fuel-devouring planes that company officials use to fly to far-flung vacation hotspots such as Hawaii, Belize, Tahiti, Key West, Milan and Paris. Since the beginning of 2010, the planes owned by Google’s executives have burned through an average of 100,000 gallons of jet fuel every month.

To make matters worse, the planes have been housed at a taxpayer-funded NASA hangar and filled up with government-purchased jet fuel, saving the company millions of dollars in the process.

Al Gore, Tom Steyer and Google have all figured out how to exploit environmentalism for power and money, and they’re not alone. Plenty of companies and individuals have figured out ways who manipulate the public’s legitimate concern for the environment to make a quick buck, improve public perception, increase market share and lure lawmakers into passing legislation that benefits them.

The next time you find out that a business or individual professes to do something for environmental reasons, take a closer look; there’s a good chance that what’s best for the environment is the last thing on their mind.

Drew Johnson is a senior fellow at the Taxpayers Protection Alliance (www.protectingtaxpayers.org), a nonpartisan, nonprofit educational organization dedicated to a smaller, more responsible government.

http://www.pottsmerc.com/opinion/20140124/op-ed-does-anyone-still-believe-al-gore

To: Don Hurst who wrote (3660)	1/26/2014 1:50:44 PM
From: longnshort	5 Recommendations Recommended By d[-_-]b FJB J.B.C. Magnatizer Stephen O Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4326

al gore grew up as a spoiled rotten kid, the son of a US Senator, lived in a hotel his whole life, had a black nanny who they made wait in the car in the parking lot while the family ate out. went to a expensive private high school and was a terrible student but because daddy was a senator the school passed al. Daddy also got al a cushy job as a reporter way behind the lines in nam. Al and the dems tried to steal the election when they found out their butterfly ballot scam fell apart, he lost every recount. al's father voted against the civil rights act. both al and his father hero was nathan Forrester, the found of the KKK there fixed your bogus history

To: Don Hurst who wrote (3660)	1/26/2014 3:50:55 PM
From: jlallen	3 Recommendations Recommended By FJB J.B.C. longnshort Respond to of 4326

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL!!! I don't know what is more pathetic....Al Gore or that fact that you believe your own drivel.

To: Don Hurst who wrote (3660)	1/26/2014 5:10:01 PM
From: Id_Jit	2 Recommendations Recommended By FJB J.B.C. Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4326

What exactly have you done with your life other than select a ridiculous alias? Well, let's see: Some university. Professional Musician. Tech School. - I am a Technologist. First company I worked for involved various jobs ranging from technician, management, writing technical bulletins, instructing (writing and giving technical seminars), installations, and various other duties. Second company I worked for I became very highly respected in a very narrow but demanding field. Now retired. My family of five are all over achievers. AND Your achievements are??? As to my ridiculous alias... Did it ever occur to you that you are trying to argue with a self-professed IDIOT? Id

To: Don Hurst who wrote (3660)	1/26/2014 5:44:32 PM
From: Jorj X Mckie	2 Recommendations Recommended By FJB Id_Jit Respond to of 4326

Al Gore became a member of the United States House of Representatives, the United States Senate, Vice President of the United States for eight years where he continued the rise of the stature of that position in our Government, ran for the Presidency of the United States, won the popular vote but courageously and most graciously conceded that stolen election for the good of our system of government, then raised the level of understanding of the dangers of Global Warming/Climate Change to our world, our only home, and won a Nobel Prize for those efforts. What exactly have you done with your life other than select a ridiculous alias? Al Gore certainly did accomplish much in his life. His influence on the Doomsday Cult of Global Warming has harmed uncountable thousands, if not millions already. If his cult isn't stopped, he will be responsible for billions of deaths. There are other world leaders who have done a lot in their lives. Stalin, Mao, Hitler.....all accomplished a lot in their lives. Yassir Arafat got a Nobel Prize too. Doing more in one's life is not only, not a negation of a person's criticism, it actually may justify more aggressive criticism. Those overacheivers like Gore, should stick to keeping their own side of the street clean and let us take care of ours.