Gore Going Insane?
Posted by
Brian Sussman in
Nationally Published Columns on Aug 9th, 2011 |
Despite his Nobel Prize, Oscar and a net worth likely surpassing $100 million, Al Gore is a miserable failure. He lost his one big shot at the White House, his family is a mess and his marriage to Tipper, his college sweetheart, ended in ruin due to his affair with actor Larry David’s wife.
The other aspect of Gore’s life that sucks is his insistence that mankind’s burning of fossil fuels is warming the planet. The science he relies on for this belief is riddled with holes, and on a weekly basis more and more well known scientists are voicing their skepticism or denial regarding the theory of anthropogenic global warming.
Last week Gore’s mental instability was on display for all to behold at the liberal Aspen Institute where he stood before a crowd and said, “They pay pseudo-scientists to pretend to be scientists to put out the message: ‘This climate thing, it’s nonsense. Man-made CO2 doesn’t trap heat. It may be volcanoes.’ Bullshit! ‘It may be sun spots.’ Bullshit! ‘It’s not getting warmer.’ Bullshit!”
Here is a link to the audio of
Gore’s bombastic tirade.
The entire article was posted at
The Colorado Independent and written by Troy Hooper, but I’ll also post it below:
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The former vice president dropped in on an Aspen Institute media forum titled “Networks and Citizenship” on Thursday and railed against corporate evildoers who put profit above society.
Gore referenced the book “Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming” by Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway, which tells of how petroleum, steel, autos, utilities and others enlisted lobbyists to cloud the climate debate.
Gore recalled how not long ago tobacco giants “succeeded in delaying the implementation of the surgeon general’s report for 40 years – 40 years! In every one of those 40 years the average number of Americans killed by cigarettes each year exceeded the total number of Americans killed in all of World War II: 450,000 per year. My sister was one of them. … It was evil, evil, evil.”
The model of media manipulation used then, Gore said, “was transported whole cloth into the climate debate. And some of the exact same people — I can go down a list of their names — are involved in this. And so what do they do? They pay pseudo-scientists to pretend to be scientists to put out the message: ‘This climate thing, it’s nonsense. Man-made CO2 doesn’t trap heat. It may be volcanoes.’ Bullshit! ‘It may be sun spots.’ Bullshit! ‘It’s not getting warmer.’ Bullshit!” Gore exclaimed.
“When you go and talk to any audience about climate, you hear them washing back at you the same crap over and over and over again,” he continued. “There’s no longer a shared reality on an issue like climate even though the very existence of our civilization is threatened. People have no idea! … It’s no longer acceptable in mixed company, meaning bipartisan company, to use the goddamn word climate. It is not acceptable. They have polluted it to the point where we cannot possibly come to an agreement on it.”