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Al Gore wrote a scathing rebuke of the oil spill in the Gulf and how it just goes to show that global warming is bad. Wait, what? Meh.
Let's see what Albert has to say!
"the amount of man-made CO2 being spilled every three seconds into the thin shell of atmosphere surrounding the planet equals the highest current estimate of the amount of oil spilling from the Macondo well every day."
Thin shell? The atmosphere is at least 300 miles thick, up to 800 miles if you count the exosphere. Note: Never argue pizza with Al Gore
His statistic is highly dubious as, a.) it offers no numbers, and b.) the 'highest' estimate can be whatever you want it to be.
"Just as the oil companies told us that deep-water drilling was safe, they tell us that it's perfectly all right to dump 90 million tons of CO2 into the air of the world every 24 hours. "
Over 700 rigs and one has a deadly accident. Gosh, how unsafe! Let's shut it all down.
"the head of the American Petroleum Institute, Jack Gerard, says, "Nothing has changed. When we get back to the politics of energy, oil and natural gas are essential to the economy and our way of life." His reaction reminds me of the day Elvis Presley died. Upon hearing the tragic news, Presley's manager, Colonel Tom Parker, said, 'This changes nothing.'"
Exactly - Parker meant that his death does not diminish his legend one bit. Gerard is 100% correct. Does Gore really think we can just magically change into a non-oil world? That would be a centuries-long process, when this oil spill will only be remembered by a terse reference on billymeade.com
"I am far from the only one who believes that it is not too much of a stretch to link the ongoing wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and northwestern Pakistan - and even last week's attempted bombing in Times Square - to a long chain of events triggered in part by our decision to allow ourselves to become so dependent on foreign oil."
Here's the breakdown:
Notice how less than a quarter of our oil comes from OPEC. NONE of our oil comes from Afghanistan or Pakistan.
"The obscene practice known as 'mountaintop mining,' for instance, is not only defacing the landscape of Appalachia but also destroying streams throughout the region and poisoning the drinking water of many communities."
Mountaintop mining has been around since the 60s, and got really big in the 70s. Funny how hippies and Al, who was a federal public official for 30 years, didn't care until Bush brought it up in 2008.
It's hard to believe there are communities in VA that have been drinking "poisoned" water for 50 years. Scratch that, it's not that hard to believe.
"Thirty million of the 90 million tons of CO2 being spilled each day end up in the oceans as carbonic acid, changing the pH level by more than at any time in the last many millions of years, thus inflicting every form of life in the ocean that makes a shell or a reef with a kind of osteoporosis-interfering with their ability to transform calcium carbonate into the hard structures upon which their life depends-that threatens the survival of many species of zooplankton at the base of the ocean food chain."
Oy vey. I'm not going to waste my sweaty fingers, but: Bullshit.
It should be noted that at this point, Al has completely abandoned the oil spill and now is just letting us know what awful people we are for driving to work each day and heating our homes, while he gets to fly in a private jet at his whimsy.
Here's his brilliant points, AND MY COUNTERPOINTS!
* The melting of virtually all of the mountain glaciers in the world-already well underway-threatening the supplies of fresh water for drinking and agriculture in many parts of the world.
How is this threatening? The water is there no matter what form it takes.
* The prospective disappearance of the North Polar Ice Cap, which for most of the last three million years has covered an area roughly the size of the continental United States. Approximately 25 percent-30 percent of this ice cap (measured by the area that it used to cover) has disappeared in the last 30 years during summer. The thickness of the remaining ice has also sharply diminished.
Ice has melted over the last 3 million years?? Fuck!
* The melting of the two largest masses of ice on the planet-on top of Greenland and Antarctica (especially West Antarctica, where the bottom of the ice rests under the sea atop submerged islands) is already accelerating far beyond earlier estimates-threatening catastrophic increases in sea level worldwide.
NO!!!!
* As the seas rise more rapidly, many millions of climate refugees will be forced to flee from areas they have long called home. Indeed, thousands have already been forced to move from low-lying island nations. The government of the Maldives has included a new line item in this year's budget for a fund to buy a new country. That option will not be available to Bangladesh.
Maldives was destroyed by a tsunami, not by Kim Kardashian's Ford Explorer. Low-lying nations have been capsized since the dawn of low-lying nations. Sucks, yes. Oil spill's problem? No.
* Deeper and longer droughts in mid-continent regions, as soil moisture evaporates more rapidly with higher temperatures.
Deeper and longer than what? When you decided to make money off of it?
* More and larger forest fires as drier vegetation becomes kindling for lightning-which, according to researchers at the University of Tel Aviv, is also predicted to increase at the rate of 10 percent with each additional degree of temperature.
Seriously? SERIOUSLY? After bitching for decades about deforestation, now you're mad that there's too much forest to burn? Barf.
* The migration of tropical diseases to temperate latitudes, as new ecological niches invite the intrusion of viruses and bacteria and the mosquitoes, ticks, and other 'vectors' that carry these diseases. This process is also already underway.
Lies.
* An accelerated extinction rate which, according to E. O. Wilson and other biologists, threatens to reach levels not seen since the dinosaurs were wiped out 65 million years ago.
HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
* The increased destructive power of tropical storms coming off the ocean (hurricanes, cyclones, and typhoons-all different names for the same phenomenon). Though the number of these storms is not predicted to increase, their destructive power is-due to increases in wind speeds and moisture content.
A prediction made since the 90s and still not come to fruition.
* Increased large downpours of both rain and snow-with a steady shift from snow to rain-resulting in an increased frequency of large floods on every continent.
Ah, the Warmers' Battle Cry: Global Warming, which we just said was going to melt everything... will actually cause more snow.
BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE!
"This last phenomenon-long understood by scientists to be one of the most confidently predictable consequences of global warming-hit home for many of my neighbors last week when Nashville, the city where I live, suffered what the Army Corps of Engineers described as 'a 1,000 year rain event' that caused horrendous flooding, mostly in neighborhoods that had no flood insurance"
So, periodic events happen periodically? Balderdash!
I thought we hated insurance?
"The record snowfalls last winter in the northeastern United States also fit into the same pattern. Indeed, the Northeast has long been included among the regions of the world predicted to experience the most dramatic increases in precipitation."
Except in my own movie where I predict the Northeast being underwater by 2030.
"Bizarre changes in precipitation patterns are now being observed in many regions throughout the world. Last month, British scientists working near the North Pole were astonished by an unprecedented April rainfall. David Phillips, a senior climatologist in Canada, described the event as "bizarre," adding, "This is up there among fish falling from the sky or Niagara Falls running dry.""
This couldn't possible be due to the Iceland volcano disrupting weather patterns in the upper-north hemisphere? Nahhhhhhhhhh, just the location and dates match.
"Carbon dioxide, on the other hand, is invisible, odorless, tasteless, and has no price tag."
Nope! But I'll gladly sell you a carbon credit for a cheeseburger today.
"we are vulnerable to the illusion that we have the luxury of time before we begin to respond."
He's right. I hope we figure this out before the next 3 million years passes.
"one of their internal documents, which was leaked to an enterprising reporter, ... stated: 'reposition global warming as theory rather than fact.'"
Global warming (Al Gore's version) is NOT a scientific theory.
Now I know, I know, that Jesus has clouded my judgment, but if the Global Warming Agenda ever expects to be taken seriously, the left needs to stop relying on Al Gore as their messenger.
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