Posted by
Damien Blaze on Wednesday, September 24, 2008 8:48:16 PM
Gore urges civil disobedience to stop coal plants...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Nobel Peace Prize winner and environmental
crusader Al Gore urged young people on Wednesday to engage in civil
disobedience to stop the construction of coal plants without the
ability to store carbon.
Wow. I am humbled by Saint Al's commitment to serve humanity. It's not enough that he is "Nobel Peace Prize winner" and "environmental crusader". Al Gore has now entered the holiest of holy professions, "community organizer".
The former U.S. vice president, whose climate change documentary "An
Inconvenient Truth" won an Academy Award, told a philanthropic meeting
in New York City that "the world has lost ground to the climate crisis."
Did I miss a memo? Saint Al is now a philanthropist too? Last time I checked, His Holiness had gotten filthy, stinking rich peddling his global warming nonsense.
"I believe for a carbon company to spend money convincing the
stock-buying public that the risk from the global climate crisis is not
that great represents a form of stock fraud because they are
misrepresenting a material fact," he said. "I hope these state attorney
generals around the country will take some action on that."
Stock fraud?
There are those who think Al Gore should be sued for peddling the outright fraud of Global Warming.
Scientists say carbon gases from burning fossil fuel for power and transport are a key factor in global warming.
Um, yeah... Scientists say whatever will get them more grant money. The list of things that supposedly cause global warming and things supposedly caused by global warming is quite absurd. Apparently even
Global Cooling causes Global Warming.
The reality is that the planet has been hotter in the past, and the planet has been cooler in the past. The carbon dioxide levels have been lower in the past, and the levels have been much higher in the past. Temperatures and carbon dioxide levels simply don't correlate. Global warming exists only in flawed and limited computer models. These models can't even predict the past.
Carbon capture and storage could give coal power an extended lease
on life by keeping power plants' greenhouse gas emissions out of the
atmosphere and easing climate change.
But no commercial-scale project exists anywhere to demonstrate the
technology, partly because it is expected to increase up-front capital
costs by an additional 50 percent.
At a time when America needs to develop every feasible energy source, Al Gore urges civil disobedience to stop coal plants. He proposes expensive solutions to non-existent problems - solutions that will line his pockets with money.