Gore, if he weren't so fundamentally dishonest, would make me laugh.
Gore's Carbon credit proposal, and the entire "An Inconvenient Truth" was a scam to do two things
Get Attention
and
Get More Attention
Bulled by the Gore - Another Inconvenient Truth
A quick note - whenever I use the term (sic) it means IÂ’m abusing terminology and have drifted far enough from the truth to possibly be confused with a politician.
The World is heating,
This you know,
Because Al Gore told you so,
Carbon traps to him belong,
He is right and you are wrong.
Of course the world is heating up; we can measure temperatures around the globe, and sure enough, the average has risen over the past century. This is not a news flash for anyone with a single iota of awareness; even the ability to read confers the revelation that recorded values have steadily increased over the entire period for which we have accurate readings. Wow, in a few more years weÂ’ll end up just like Venus.
But we aren’t turning into Venus. Because Venus orbits the sun at a mean radius of about 0.723 astronomical units and the Earth’s mean orbit is at 1.000 astronomical units, Venus receives about 90% more sunlight per unit surface area than the Earth. This is sort of like why your cake won’t bake in an oven set at a temperature of 140° Fahrenheit (60 Centigrade) even if you leave it in for a full day; it just doesn’t get enough radiant energy.
Anybody remember Pangaea? That was the supercontinent during the dinosaur era (sic). It was warmer than right now. The carbon from that era, now trapped in fossil fuels, the same carbon released when we burn said fuels, was not trapped then. Yet despite the indisputable fact that it was a lot warmer, with far less polar ice and more free carbon, the world did not turn into Venus.
Whew, panic over, no cause for alarm, we wonÂ’t boil away, even in Texas.
And I didn’t have to use some fancy “model” which could be disputed. Just a little common sense and knowledge of dinosaurs which every school child knows. The dinosaurs which were killed by global cooling, also known as an Ice Age. A “Little” Ice Age (sic) during the medieval era caused widespread famine in Europe. Some erudite physicists even have looked at the energy output from the sun and come to the conclusion that we are in a cool cycle. Which might lead some to wonder whether we are concerned with the wrong end of the thermal spectrum.
Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice.
(Frost, because IÂ’m sure youÂ’re sick of sic).
How do we tell which is right?
Certainly not by listening to politicians. Those are the guys who first pressed DDT as a panacea for all insect problems, then banned it completely. Mueller, the Nobel prize winner, was demonized by politicians. The same politicians who had allowed DDT to be used to spray cotton against boll weevils, rather than restricting it to use against malarial vectors, commonly called mosquitoes. Just because Carson, author of Silent Spring, had managed to obtain a public uproar against the unrestricted use of DDT. So the politicians reacted in typical ill-informed style and banned the substance, so much easier and more popular than regulating it, and malaria skyrocketed in developing countries which could no longer obtain the modest amounts needed to contain the Anopheles mosquitoes. Good thing the war on terror faces human opponents rather than Plasmodium falciparum (sic).
Wait weÂ’re getting sick (sic) again.
The point being that Al Gore’s “Stance” on Carbon Neutrality is nothing more than a political ploy; he achieves no appreciable environmental effect from his “green credits” and his proposed plans for making others do the same amount to nothing less than rationing with a loophole for the rich to consume as much as they like.
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