by Robert M. Traxler

“We’re still putting 162 million tons [of greenhouse gases/carbon] into it every single day and the accumulated amount is now trapping as much extra heat as would be released by 600,000 Hiroshima-class atomic bombs exploding every single day on the earth”. — Vice President Albert Arnold Gore Jr. to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. So 600,000 Hiroshima atom bombs is 9 million tons of explosives per Vice President Albert Arnold Gore Jr. every day?

A great orator in the same mold as his late father, a Dixiecrat, Democrat, a strong racist and segregationist southern Senator, Vice President Gore yells, pounds the table and waves his arms in the old southern politician or evangelist preacher manner. Indeed, he is believable until you examine his past rhetoric on climate disasters, which had the world ending four times by now.

I have never been able to understand the progressives’ love for end-of- the-world undeniable truths, unless it is tied to billions of tax dollars going to “environmental corporations,” who then donate it to Democrats. End of the world guaranteed/settled science are now up to four, and a fifth set for 2050. Just why they are not called tinfoil hat conspiracy theorists by the media is puzzling. Could it be that the undeniable science is a religious unquestionable belief system? 

Vice President Gore departed the White House with a net worth of $3 million. His former wife Mary Elizabeth (Tipper) Gore got a big chunk of it, but he is now worth in excess of $350 million. He needs that to fund his private G2E jet and his mansion in Florida. He continues to say, “I live a carbon free lifestyle as much as possible.” He also maintains he does not have a “private Jet.” OK, it is sheltered by his environmental corporation, thus technically not his. 

He says the heat created from greenhouse gases is responsible for the climate disasters the world has seen in recent years; is his mansion and his fleet of limousines in Florida underwater, as he guaranteed in his book Earth in the Balance? Have the ice caps melted? Is the snow gone on the top of Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania as he guaranteed? Are polar bears extinct, are the east and west coasts of the United States under sea water as he said was inevitable and unavoidable unless the world changed its usage of greenhouse gas-producing facilities?

“That’s what’s boiling the oceans, creating these atmospheric rivers, and the rain bombs, and sucking the moisture out of the land, and creating the droughts, and melting the ice and raising the sea level, and causing these waves of climate refugees,” Vice President Gore theatrically exclaimed during the UN forum. 

Al Gore praised China and India for plans to meet net zero, in 2043 to 2073, conveniently forgetting the past promises to cut carbon emissions by 5% per year, promises they violated by increasing carbon by nearly 5% per year. But, according to his own words, we as a planet do not have 20 to 50 years; we are all dead in 7 to 28 years.

Pick a truth, any truth, and be consistent. He disparaged Germany, who went back to coal production to make up for the loss of natural gas and oil from the Russian Federation after they invaded the Ukraine, tossing the people and the nation of Ukraine under the proverbial electric bus. Perhaps they did not pay proper tribute to the climate corporations?

Ask yourself why we should still believe Vice President Gore and his now fourth or fifth end of the world scenarios? The reason smart people just disregard his past record is because they want to. Folks who worship at the altar of climate change just overlook the history, the irrefutable facts that did not come true, and believe the next set of end-of-the-earth predictions.

We must give credit where credit is due: changing the name from global cooling to the hole in the ozone layer, to acid rain, to global warming to global climate change has been a brilliant marketing tool, and the advertising campaigns to force us to donate to the climate corporations have been effective. Indeed, the advertising folks should take note and admire the manipulation of our lifestyles based on marketing a product we now call climate change.

Climate change is a heads I win, tails you lose marketing campaign, a brilliant one; heat is climate change, cold, rain, drought, storms, no storms, it is all climate change.

The progressives will say that they did not say the world will end, they quoted others who said it, but if you disagree you are a damned science denier. Heads they win, tails we lose. If the church of environmental science truly believed their own scripture, they would move manufacturing back to our nation, where products can be made with a small fraction of the pollution we find in China.

Will that happen? Fat chance. The money is just too good from corporations producing products in China, that they then donate a small amount to environmental corporations and progressives to purchase their favor.

My opinion.