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.
Does anyone still take Tucker Carlson (and Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham) seriously? I doubt if Fox is covering it, but the Dominion lawsuit has unveiled some shocking but not surprising admissions.
Mr. Basura,
Sir, I will admit the three people you mention are a bit over the top, however have you seen MSNBC, CNBC, CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS, and Rachel Maddow, Jake Tapper, and the like? Most study’s say the media is 80/20 supporting the Progressives/Socialists. An argument is to made the Carlson and Hannity types are a counter to the over the top legion of people on the left. Approve of Carlson or not his showing the unedited video of 1/6 is eye opening, if folks bother to open their eyes. Carlson proved the Senate and media not only edited then produced the videos of 1/6 but withheld the unedited ones during discovery in criminal trials. The Progressives are working overtime to discredit him to take the attention away from the unedited videos, apparently it is working.
Thanks for the comment. Stay warm.
Whadda bout, whadda bout…. The rights favorite refrain.
I don’t think Basura is on the right.
The article was about Al Gore, and it was B who started the whattaboutism. JS
Sorry if that’s an “Inconvenient Truth” for ya.
Basura, thanks for the comments. Unfortunately, it’s fallen on a deaf ear. I can see AB is up to the old one-side version, but I don’t recall any of the owners of the media he mentioned testifying and admitting to the Big Lie, and if he believes what the Swanson heir is showing then he truly believed they were just tourists visiting the capital on 1/6, what a disgrace! And after Dominion wipes out Fox I’m sure that conservative/fascist will bail them out.
And prior to the first Earth Day (Apr 22, 1970) all strange weather was attributed to nuclear testing. Since testing was ending, a new Protest Brand was needed to sustain all those who make their living off donations or tax monies sent to various non-profits.
Google Earth Day 2023 and you’ll see this year’s indoctrination (teacher’s kits) including how to vote to save the Earth. Also now Sustainable Fashion.
Thank you for sticking to the topic at-hand.
I think some people need to write their own “guest” column, rather than bring up anything to attack the author or cheer such instigators on.
Echo chambers are so boring. Thanks for actually wanting to have a conversation.
Is this what your referring to DC
The Harvard Gazette
SCIENCE
Exxon disputed climate findings for years. Its scientists knew better.
Research shows that company modeled and predicted global warming with ‘shocking skill and accuracy’ starting in the 1970s
Alice McCarthy
Harvard Correspondent
January 2023
Projections created internally by ExxonMobil starting in the late 1970s on the impact of fossil fuels on climate change were very accurate, even surpassing those of some academic and governmental scientists, according to an analysis published Thursday in Science by a team of Harvard-led researchers. Despite those forecasts, team leaders say, the multinational energy giant continued to sow doubt about the gathering crisis.
In “Assessing ExxonMobil’s Global Warming Projections,” researchers from Harvard and the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research show for the first time the accuracy of previously unreported forecasts created by company scientists from 1977 through 2003. The Harvard team discovered that Exxon researchers created a series of remarkably reliable models and analyses projecting global warming from carbon dioxide emissions over the coming decades. Specifically, Exxon projected that fossil fuel emissions would lead to 0.20 degrees Celsius of global warming per decade, with a margin of error of 0.04 degrees — a trend that has been proven largely accurate.
“This paper is the first ever systematic assessment of a fossil fuel company’s climate projections, the first time we’ve been able to put a number on what they knew,” said Geoffrey Supran, lead author and former research fellow in the History of Science at Harvard. “What we found is that between 1977 and 2003, excellent scientists within Exxon modeled and predicted global warming with, frankly, shocking skill and accuracy only for the company to then spend the next couple of decades denying that very climate science.”
DC
If you have the facts on your side, you state the facts, if not you attack the author, if you have the law on your side you state the law, if not you attack the author. If you have the right on your side you state your opinion, if not you attack the author.
“Old Man Shakes Fist at Environmental Science.”
Funny…. But my estimation is you should stick to wrestling and running for the school board. My opinion.
If the subject was Al Gore, I plead guilty to what-about–ism. If the subject was credibility, I may have been on the right track to point to the testimony in the billion dollar lawsuit filed by Dominion against Fox, including testimony from owner Rupert Murdock, from Carlson about “detesting” Donald Trump while he continued to extol him on air. and evidence about other Fox personalities, greatly differing from the positions they voiced to their viewership. Whichever way the case is decided, it is clear Fox is not credible, and they were playing their viewers as chumps.
I don’t watch Fox, believing them to be Controlled Opposition, so some of what you’re saying is plausible. I also believe that there is/has been corruption on both sides (of the same coin) of the Aisle, some which may amount to treason, and the MSM is complicit, if not outright co-conspirators. I think 6 companies control 90% of the media, and some of the most prominent anchors and producers are married to members of Congress.
Frankly, I don’t trust any of them. They become multi-millionaires on a salary of $170 thousand, while their constituents struggle with buying gas and groceries. This has been the case for most of my life. Few investigate or question anything anymore, and those that do are banned from getting their arguments out to the public. Liberals used to be against oppression of free speech.
I hoped that Trump was truly different—so rich that he couldn’t be bought. He had some good accomplishments, many for which he will never be given credit from what I believe is a controlled media. Was he sincere about draining the swamp of its grift but deliberately side-tracked by impeachments and other distractions, or is he one of “them,” merely playing to conservatives? He was the ONLY one who gave evidence against Epstein when Epstein first went to jail for child exploitation, but those who don’t do their own research only remember pics of Trump and Epstein together, preferring to believe that Trump is like him over believing he interacted with many of the elite, didn’t drink or do drugs, and kept a mental record of the others activities and proclivities. I don’t need Trump to be vindicated, but the lack of ANY critical thinking on one side, swallowing whole the preferred narrative, is disheartening for the future of the US. Call it mob mentality or cognitive dissonance, it’s escalated to violence. That goes for those who think Trump can do no wrong too.
I hope some day we will know the truth about everything. It used to be that Americans could find common ground, even when they leaned in different political directions. Note the “Man of the Street-” type interviews where people are all for ideas when told that Obama did it and then get that deer-in-the-headlights look when it’s revealed that Trump actually did it. How can we ever be at peace with one another when any mention of the “mean Tweeter” ends any and all debate? I can credit Bill Clinton with a good economy while still finding the Lewinsky scandal distasteful. (Full disclosure, I find NO redeeming qualities in his wife, so to some extent I can understand the TDS.) Nixon had some good qualities, but people will only remember Watergate. You get the picture.
What bothers me enough to comment, is not so much getting off-topic but the knee-jerk reaction of some to jump on AB no matter what topic he chooses for his column. The Left can’t be content having the man with the “most votes in history” now in office and Trump gone. For them, Trump will never be gone. Civility is long gone in political discussion, and, even in friendly little Wayland, MI. Only Group Think is acceptable in most of social media, though Mr. Young does allow dissent here. Liberals, including most journalists, USED TO question authority, protest against wars, and hold politicians accountable. For example, why was Lori Lightfoot elected a FIRST time if everyone was so racist and misogynistic that she wasn’t re-elected? Will no one admit that she did a poor job as a leader in decreasing murders in Chicago? Does EVERYTHING have to be about checking the right boxes in the first place and then crying “racism” when a poor job is done? THIS is what the Right finds problematic, and the hypocrisy of Al Gore and climate celebrities crying doom and gloom while adding more of a carbon footprint than the average citizen would in a lifetime. “It’s ok when we do it, but you will eat bugs, own nothing, and be happy.”
Now that we’ve totally hijacked this article, LOL, I do appreciate your candor and civility and hope this little forum can improve in authentic debate and move away from the “gotchas” and name-calling and “triggers.” Perhaps that’s too Pollyanna for 2023, but one can hope.
Good day.
Presenting another side is indeed preferable to your previous comment. (Fun with Alliteration! LOL) Any study can be slanted to show anything, including those I could find to debunk man-made climate change. Here’s a good article that agrees that we should care about the environment, while cautioning against exaggerating:
https (colon) //www (dot) forbes (dot) com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2019/11/25/why-everything-they-say-about-climate-change-is-wrong/?sh=4b41f36b12d6
Video (2 min–caution, F-bombs) of Jake Chansley, AKA Jake Angeli, repeating Trump’s words to go home peacefully. He also prayed, in an earlier video, for the officers and thanked them for allowing him in:
https (colon) //twitter (dot) com/ChuckCallesto/status/1634039108958932995
He may be mentally ill, but instead of compassion, well, you know how he’s been treated. He truly had every reason to believe that he was being given a tour.
Trump’s Tweets (now that his Twitter acct. reinstated):
https (colon) //twitter (dot) com/realDonaldTrump
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
·
Jan 6, 2021
I am asking for everyone at the U.S. Capitol to remain peaceful. No violence! Remember, WE are the Party of Law & Order – respect the Law and our great men and women in Blue. Thank you!
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
·
Jan 6, 2021
Please support our Capitol Police and Law Enforcement. They are truly on the side of our Country. Stay peaceful!
Did you know all this, or just accept the preferred narrative? Orange Man Bad and all that?
There was some violence on Jan. 6, agreed, but there were flash bangs which caused the crowd to push and shove, and there were Antifa members there, if one cares to do one’s own research. The FBI, however, said in 2021 that there was no insurrection. BUT THIS WAS WORSE THAN PEARL HARBOR AND 9/11 COMBINED!
https (colon) //www (dot) washingtonexaminer (dot) com/opinion/fbi-confirms-there-was-no-insurrection-on-january-6
I’m not trying to slam you but to point out that there are so many lies on both sides that we need to do our own research and draw our own conclusions, while respectfully allowing opponents the right to believe as THEY wish. While it’s understandable for many to want to be with the “in” crowd–those who have the power–I am more impressed with the man or woman who stands alone against the mob. The mob will call that person delusional, racist, or the shameful “conspiracy theorist,” used by the CIA to shut down anyone who questioned the JFK murder narrative. Madonna can say she wants to blow up the White House, and Jane Fonda can say that she wants pro-life people murdered, but consider how the average citizen would be treated. The CO baker, for example, was singled out and demanded he bake a cake that went against his religious beliefs, when there were about 82 bakeries that would have done it. Though I chose the vaccine, I am disturbed that those doctors who were opposed to it were banned from social media and Dr. Gold was even jailed. If they can go after one, they can go after us all. Banks are failing and people are really hurting, while we give billions to a war in which their president now wants OUR soldiers. Meanwhile, distraction after distraction and malice and schadenfreude abound toward conservatives. Shame everyone into toeing the line, and they’ll happily get on the trains. Take away 1A and 2A, and they’ll have no defense.
That should scare all of us.
Good day.
DC, that’s a quite the false narrative you’re pushing here. Trump is corrupt to the core, and nothing his administration accomplished was good. Don’t gaslight us.
JG,
I realize that I wrote some long posts, so I won’t defend point-by-point, but you might want to check where I said I wanted to believe that Trump was different; I wasn’t sure if he was sincere or “one of them;” and I told people to do their own research. Heck, I even said that I believed that Fox is controlled opposition! I praised Clinton’s economy. I admitted that there WAS violence on 1/6….Where, exactly did I present a false narrative?
I am tired of people making drive-by comments without supporting them and not being called out for it. I always try to look at both sides. Someone who can’t find ONE GOOD THING about President Trump shows a terminal case of TDS. (Not to mention not addressing ANY other point I made. T-D-S.)
Accusing ME of a false narrative, telling me he did nothing good ALMOST sounds like YOU’RE trying to gaslight ME, but I wouldn’t accuse you of such, since it hasn’t been over “an extended period of time” and I certainly don’t “question the validity of [my] own thoughts.” I am concerned, however, that you think I am powerful enough to do that to someone else. I should get a podcast or something! Or run for the school board! We need people who listen to both sides, don’t you think?
Good job using a current buzzword, though!
Merriam-Webster definition of ‘gaslight(ing)’:
“psychological manipulation of a person usually over an extended period of time that causes the victim to question the validity of their own thoughts, perception of reality, or memories and typically leads to confusion, loss of confidence and self-esteem, uncertainty of one’s emotional or mental stability, and a dependency on the perpetrator”
“DC,” you can call me Jake. I don’t need to hide from the thoughts I share here. You are continuing to gaslight with your false narrative. When you have the authenticity to own your sentiments, you will be more worth my time.
Hello DC,
The number and length of your statements could be viewed as an extended period perhaps. Course I’m no expert in psychoanalysis.
Adios
What a bunch of BS those tweets were sent out after the attack had begun, and to your point this all could have easily been avoided if the guy with a big ego would have just conceded. So once again this is still the results of all the chaos he created. Next week we can dispute AB colum about Hunter Biden or China.
Unless he’s sending his commentaries to the publisher by hand or snail mail, Army Bob’s gems wouldn’t be possible without the help of a computer with its Chinese components. If he’s driving a Detroit 3 product or any number of imports, its price was lower because of Chinese supplied parts including the stamping dies for the chassis, fenders, trunk and hood.
End of the world? No, just a whole new set of unpredictable weather patterns causing everything from wheat production starting earlier and shifting westward to pests like the Pine Beetle no longer freezing in the Rockies, decimating the pine forests and causing erosion. But what the hell, it’s not happening in Dorr Township.
Army Bob still believes coal and oil/gasoline are our country’s future. EV’s and solar panels all are part of a Chinese plot. Never mind Army Bob and like minded “common sense conservatives” argued against and successfully stopped domestic solar panel production and stalled domestic battery technology and production for a decade.
Ironically Army Bb still thinks science is debatable and the only science he believes in is the science that’s used for medicine that can lengthen his life like oncology research and drugs. Climate science? Not so much because in Army Bob’s world science is like a Chinese menu. You get to choose what’s real science and facts are always debatable.
I have never, never understood one supporting the chicoms. One can’t help but wonder why. My opinon.
Hey there David,
Have you Ever, Ever heard the phrase, “Love your Neighbor”? How Bout “Love your Enemy”? I would think such a concept would extrapolate to the rest of humanity, heck even to the rest of the beings on this here planet, possibly even farther. I hear these “CONCEPTS” can be attributed to some deity’s of local regard, not entirely sure on that though. I’m definitely no self proclaimed adept in that arena, not the way that some imply to have that system all locked down. Weird thing is the prevailing attitude signals otherwise from the most righteous camp, perhaps its one of those backwards enigma, dilemma, quandary deals.
OH WELL.
Couchman,
As a believer in the “climate science” are you still saying we are all dead in 2030? I have never stated coal and oil/gasoline are the future, one more untruth from you. If the science is absolute on global warming/climate change why are we not underwater or frozen to death?
Still would like to know about your “battle experience” in the Navy.
Do you still think people who question climate change ending life in 2030 should be denied cancer treatment, a good open caring progressive attitude, heartless even for folks like you.
Part of scientific process is questioning it, always has been always will be a part of the process.
Sorry I’m late to the “conflict.” I was preoccupied with other “battles.”
So… WE are going to ignore the chanting to hang the VP, full on ASSAULT on multiple officers by rabid mobs at multiple locations with bear spray, flag poles and other improvised weaponry? These intentional assaults OBVIOUSLY resulted in numerous significant injuries and more than one fatality.
Barriers and entryways were BREACHED and broken. Just because some of the misled fools “behaved” after the breaking and entering, and they didn’t all spread literal DUNG on things, does not mean this was not an attempted self COUP.
Once the malcontents were inside, the remaining officers had to minimize the conflict to save lives and property. Black Hawks with rapid response special forces were overhead in case OUR representatives did not get out in time.
Enough people were there that any ISOLATED footage can be spun to whatever narrative either party wants to push. Historians understood immediately what was being attempted. They will not be friendly to those who displayed their ignorant dismissive ideology.
As for the “q shaman,” what it looks like to a knowledgeable observer is officers running him through the maze letting him wear himself out (and possibly build more charges) in front of as many cameras as possible to get a good ID on him. Just like the guy (with a group following him) who could have intercepted the VP and his detail, but was “led astray” around the intentional maze by the single HEROIC officer.
The capital building was designed and built by some smart folks in order to deal with exactly this sort of stupidity. It very well may have saved us from a path into another civil war. Some believe we are already down that path and it could take near a decade to “shake out.”
An argument could be made that those who had advanced notice of a planned “siege” intended to give them slack, so that those with malicious intent would “hang themselves” in order that they could be given a “time out” to think about how our system actually functions. It is more than safe to say that things got “well out of hand.”
A large portion of the rest of the world likely understands what happened, they know it’s still happening, and they are waiting for us to consume ourselves.
Tucker is quite skilled at emotional manipulation, misdirection and blatant omission of primary factors.
Of course, this is just my take!