There is a lot at stake for former Vice President Al Gore with the Global Warming* issue. Without the threat of Global Warming, he is rather out of a job. Who would hire Al Gore to come speak about the threat of normal weather? Without Global Warming, who would ever buy a carbon credit from the corporation he is affiliated with? Without Global Warming, Al Gore just becomes another washed up Vice President who did not make it to the ultimate status prize of the presidency.
I can understand why Al Gore keeps insisting that Global Warming is a serious threat to the planet. All of Al Gore's current prestige and status and livelihood are tied to this fabricated crisis.
President elect Barack Obama's buy-in is more difficult to understand, but buy-in he did. Obama meets Gore, urges urgent action on global warming: (My emphasis throughout)
U.S. President-elect
Barack Obama on Tuesday reiterated the need to address global warming
as he discussed the problem with former Vice President Al Gore. Flanked
by Gore and Vice President-elect Joe Biden, Obama told reporters in
Chicago, ‘‘All three of us, I think, are in agreement that the time for
delay is over, the time for denial is over.’’
‘‘We all believe what the scientists have been telling us for years
now: that this is a matter of urgency and national security, and it has
to be dealt within a serious way,’’ he said. ‘‘That’s what I intend my
administration to do.’’
Obama met with Gore ‘‘to listen and learn from Vice President Al Gore
on the extraordinary work that he has done around the issue of climate
change,’’ for which the former vice president won a Nobel Peace Prize
in 2007.
Obama is still bent on his environmentally friendly energy program, his green jobs plan--even though they won't solve our energy problems or help our economy.
When people realize what his energy plan will cost, both in Cap and Trade costs and increased utility costs, they might HOPE things will CHANGE back to cheaper un-green energy. From geophysicist David Deming:
"Let the politicians take note. People will not like what you have in
mind. California is arguably the most liberal state. Yet last month
they defeated, by nearly a 2-to-1 margin, a law that would have forced
California utilities to obtain half their electric power from renewable
sources. What the Obama administration proposes is much more radical.
Their cap-and-trade proposal will dramatically increase the energy
costs of the average consumer and likely drive our crippled economy
into a severe depression.
Why a president, facing the economic crisis our country seems to be headed toward, would embrace such expensive, inefficient green energy and crippling cap and trade proposals is beyond me. It is beyond geophysicist Deming too, who stated in his commentary, Global warming freeze:
This is an absurd spectacle. Our advanced civilization is being
systematically mismanaged by technologically illiterate lawyers
responding to political pressures from irrational fanatics. Would
someone please tell these people it is impossible to overturn the laws
of thermodynamics?
We cannot improve our economy by artificially forcing people to use expensive, unreliable and inefficient energy sources.
As Deming concludes, "To the extent global warming was ever valid, it is now officially over." Now we just have to get the politicians to look at the facts, because I cannot afford to pay triple WE energies bill charges!
*The term Global Warming is morphing into the term Climate Change because world temperatures have not cooperated over the past 10 years. Many examples cited in Global warming freeze? point out that current data shows warming "is now officially over."
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Links:
Brookfield7, Fairly Conservative, Vicki Mckenna,
Jay Weber, The Right View Wisconsin, Mark Levin, CNS News
