**UPDATE** — March 19: WSJ notes that the media is catching up to Al Gore’s environmental hypocrisy. Better late than never, right? (h/t – Michigan-Matt)
Al Gore Jr. received more than $500,000 in royalties from the owners of zinc mines who held mineral leases on his farm near Carthage, Tenn. Now the mines have a new owner and are scheduled to reopen later this year.
Before the mines closed in 2003, they emitted thousands of pounds of toxic substances and several times, the water discharged from the mines into nearby rivers had levels of toxins above what was legal.
State environmental officials say the mine has had a good environmental record and there is no evidence of unusual health problems in the area. [GP Ed. Note – I’d hate to see a bad environmental record!]
But the mine’s reopening again raises concerns about threats to the environment.
And if you want to read a great and intelligent smackdown of the Gore Environmental Hypocrisy — check out Charles Krauthammer’s column in TIME Magazine this week.
Remember the Leonardo DiCaprio and Al Gore global-warming pitch at the Academy Awards? Before they spoke, the screen at the back of the stage flashed not-so-subliminal messages about how to save the planet. My personal favorite was “Ride mass transit.” This to a conclave of Hollywood plutocrats who have not seen the inside of a subway since the moon landing and for whom mass transit means a stretch limo seating no fewer than 10.
Leo and Al then portentously announced that for the first time ever, the Academy Awards ceremony had gone green. What did that mean? Solar panels in the designer gowns? It turns out that the Academy neutralized the evening’s “carbon footprint” by buying carbon credits. That means it sent money to a “carbon broker,” who promised, after taking his cut, to reduce carbon emissions somewhere on the planet equivalent to what the stars spewed into the atmosphere while flying in on their private planes.
In other words, the rich reduce their carbon output by not one ounce. But drawing on the hundreds of millions of net worth in the Kodak Theatre, they pull out lunch money to buy ecological indulgences. The last time the selling of pardons was prevalent–in a predecessor religion to environmentalism called Christianity–Martin Luther lost his temper and launched the Reformation.
Gore buys absolution, however. He spends pocket change on carbon credits, which then allow him to pollute conscience-free.
What is wrong with this scam? First, purchasing carbon credits is an incentive to burn even more fossil fuels, since now it is done under the illusion that it’s really cost-free to the atmosphere.
Second, it is a way for the rich to export the real costs and sacrifices of pollution control to the poorer segments of humanity in the Third World. (Apparently, Hollywood’s plan is to make up for that by adopting every last one of their children.)
Al Gore: Using his private jet to fly to a city near you to lecture you on never doing the things he can do.
-Bruce (GayPatriot)
He runs his own private carbon offset scam, so it’s all good. Plus, he’s made a movie to asuage his guilt.
What have YOU done? ;P
I tie up extra carbon by gaining weight.
Oops… guess Gore does that too. 😉
ya, gore is a tubby ole queen and the word is spelt a-s-s-u-a-g-e. must be the way that gore pollutes and consumes excessively, he is a republican in disguise. but then again when one sells mineral rights one loses control.
btw, UP THE REPUBLIC!!!!!!!
and the word is spelt a-s-s-u-a-g-e.
Not surprisingly, an a-s-s would be pompous enough to make a big deal out of a typo. It would seem that’s the best Markie can do.
and what proof you you have for the assertion that he is trying to assuage guilt?? TIA
markie is the first Useless Idiot. So yeah pointing out typing mistakes is what he is good at.
I agree with Markie, Gore isn’
t trying to assuage his guilt. He feels none. He’s so righteous in his cause that even his polluting his some how good for mankind and the planet.
and god says in proverbs 10: 10:2} Treasures of wickedness profit nothing,
but righteousness delivers from death.
10:3} Yahweh will not allow the soul of the righteous to go hungry,
but he thrusts away the desire of the wicked.
{10:6} Blessings are on the head of the righteous,
but violence covers the mouth of the wicked.
{10:7} The memory of the righteous is blessed,
but the name of the wicked will rot.
so, rot suckers.
markie, the fact that you’ve decided that you can make the judgement of who is who in place of Yahweh is a bit like the Islamic Jihadists who never stop to wonder if rather than they being the vengeful arm of god, America is. How does it make you any different from any of the other religious bigots so sure that they are the angels and the person they don’t like is the one that the bible is talking about and condemning?
C’mon Markie. The global BS racket is completely based on guilt. Come to think of it, so is liberalism.
And TGC, look out for some heat coming from frigid DC this Wednesday, because Algore is scheduled to appear before both the House Energy and Commerce Committee and the Senate Environment & Public Works Committee to explain his “facts” regarding global warming.
And lest anyone think Algore’s going to get softballs from these Demoncrat-led committees, Rep John Dingell (D-MI) is a big global warming skeptic, so do not expect him to go too lightly on questioning.
I hope they grill him they way they would a Republican.
Regards,
Peter H.
What sort of carbon footprint is the result of “grilling” Al Gore?
A damn big one, BoBo – have you seen Gore lately? He looks like Rosie O’Donnell’s twin brother.
Regards,
Peter H.
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Pffft. Party comes before global destruction. Dingel will be Algore’s Dingleberry and loving it. Mark my words.
Peter, altho Dingell (D-Mi) is a well known skeptic –as is his wife, the lobbyist for General Motors in DC– the House Speaker has cut Dingell off at the kneecaps by creating Congressman Markey’s (D-Mass) ad hoc committee of enthusiastic global warming cheerleaders… it might not even be necessary to bring the majority of the Dem’s global warming agenda before Dingell’s Committee.
The Speaker has made the global warming agenda another “top” priority of her Democrat Regime and she wants it assembled no later than July 4th… Earth and Energy Independence Day… not US Independece Day any longer under the new Democrat Regime.
Dingell is powerful, but only to the extent that he plays ball with Pelosi. Like Hoyer’s finding out, being outside the loop won’t help you assemble power… the Speaker will just go around you and reach out to her “friends”.
I think TGC has it right… party and politics over policy and inside-the-beltway-power plays anyday for NancyP and the New Democrat Regime.
Gore will do his stint before the conventional House and Senate committees but the global warming enthusiasts will get what they want from Markey and Rangell (Tax) and the Speaker. Dingell knows how to act —he’s been living on the Democrat Plantation for so long, he’s forgotten how motivating intellectual independence can be.
And speaking of top priorities… notice how repeal of DADT has to wait because the Speaker doesn’t think the time is ripe?
And speaking of top priorities… notice how repeal of DOMA has to wait because the Speaker doesn’t think the time is ripe for action?
And speaking of top priorities… oh, nevermind, the GayLeft can’t get their political allies to deliver. (GayLeft: waving arms above head in frantic motions… “Over here, over here… look what Rove did this time!!”)
The one Congressman I’m looking forward to hearing during Q&A is Rep. James Inhofe (R-OK), who routinely issues “global warming lie alerts” from his office. I want to see him ask Algore the questions the MSM won’t ask.
Regards,
Peter H.
Has everyone see this by now?
Dang it. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4520665474899458831
Turns out, Vera’s a ‘careless-carbon-consuming-kilowatt-whore’ who has become ‘eco-indifferent’ about her ‘environmental emissions’.
How ‘eco-centric’ of me!
By the way: If Carbon neutral is this year’s version of last year’s ‘unbiased’; what’s the opposite of Carbon neutral? Carbon Radical? Carbon Partisan? Carbon Extremist? Carbon Copy?
Sadly, Mother Nature has replaced God as the all knowing, all seeing universal power that gives us all life – and apparently the old broad’s hitting menopause because Dr. Gore has diagnosed hot flashes for the next 500 years.
Now that environmentalism is the new religion and the Goracle it’s new high priest, things can only get wackier. With his newly minted Oscar for ‘Inconvenient Truth’ and an ever-growing militant band of eco-nazis – book burnings may be banned as bad for the ozone – but persecution of carbon gluttons, like Vera, is just getting started.
How long before the eco-intolerant are rounded up and sent to the environmental re-education camps, forced out of our plush carbon consuming condos like some kind of megawatt meth addict looking to get our next fix of fossil fuel? Will there be ‘green ghettos’ where residents are forced to rely on solar panels and bio-fuels for heat and electricity? Eating organically grown vegetables and wearing all natural fiber rags to hide our nakedness?
I know, sounds a lot like Paris in August- but at least they can smoke cigarettes and wear haute couture.
Vera may be a carbon-o-holic, but that’s the least of her bad habits.
Cheers!
I think Al Bore of the Borg is out to destroy the planet with all his hot, lying air.
sean writes: “I think Al Bore of the Borg is out to destroy the planet with all his hot, lying air.”
Nawh, sean. He’s doing all of this because it gets him the attention he craves and he really thinks that, in his bifurcated brain, he’s helping “save” the world by leading America toward his direction of political activism.
I like the old days when, once a term was over, the former Veep or Prez quietly went out to pasture. We need to quit electing middle-aged men to those offices… no one under 65 from now on, damn it.
sean writes: “I think Al Bore of the Borg is out to destroy the planet with all his hot, lying air.”
As compared to sean’s daily output on this board, it seems.
Regards,
Peter H.
Hey the SIERRA CLUB named AL GORE their GREAT GREEN HOPE and yet he wrote his book EARTH IN THE BALANCE and his junk film A INCONVENT TRUTH what a bunch of green nit wits