Appearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Gore delivered a short slide show that amounted to an update of his Oscar-winning documentary "An Inconvenient Truth," lecturing some of his former colleagues that even if the world halted greenhouse gas emissions now, it could experience a temperature rise of between 2.5 to 7.5 degrees Fahrenheit by 2100.
"This would bring a screeching halt to human civilization and threaten life everywhere on Earth, and this is by the end of this century," Gore said.
Meanwhile, in related news, Washington was covered in ice:
When it comes to winter weather, President Obama just joked, "folks in Washington don't seem to be able to handle things."
They need, he added, some "flinty Chicago toughness."
The president, joking with reporters before a meeting he's having right now with business leaders at the White House, said he was amazed this morning to hear that his daughters' school (the private Sidwell Friends) is closed today because of icy streets and sidewalks in the nation's capital.
"My children's school was canceled today, because of what ... some ice?" he said. As one of his girls pointed out, Obama added, "in Chicago, school is never canceled. ... You'd go outside for recess. You wouldn't even stay indoors."
Clearly, the staff of the Obamessiah didn't get the memo from the staff of the Goracle that the planet is just this side of charcoal (neither did the schools). Remember now, global warming causes freezing temperatures...Seriously, though, when is the Goracle going to realize that he's a total and complete buffoon? How can he seriously walk through snow and ice to present the idea that the planet is doomed from global warming? The science does little to support his claim (unless you cherry pick a handful of studies, like Gore has done), and there are literally tens of thousands of scientists -- real, actual SCIENTISTS rather than lawyers/politicians -- who disagree with Gore.
As is seemingly always the case, our elected 'leaders' in Washington are way behind the curve, because while the rest of America and the world has stopped buying the global warming hysteria, the Senate is just warming to the idea:
The chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, John Kerry (D-Mass.), appealed to hear more of the Goracle's premonitions. "Share with us, if you would, sort of the immediate vision that you see in this transformative process as we move to this new economy," he beseeched.
"Geothermal energy," the Goracle prophesied. "This has great potential; it is not very far off."
Another lawmaker asked about the future of nuclear power. "I have grown skeptical about the degree to which it will expand," the Goracle spoke.
A third asked the legislative future -- and here the Goracle spoke in riddle. "The road to Copenhagen has three steps to it," he said.
Sen. James Risch (R-Idaho) begged the Goracle to look further into the future. "What does your modeling tell you about how long we're going to be around as a species?" he inquired.
The Goracle chuckled. "I don't claim the expertise to answer a question like that, Senator."
It was a jarring reminder that the Goracle is, indeed, mortal. Once Al Gore was a mere vice president, but now he is a Nobel laureate and climate-change prophet. He repeats phrases such as "unified national smart grid" the way he once did "no controlling legal authority" -- and the ridicule has been replaced by worship, even by his political foes.
Watch out for another massive power grab that will do nothing but hamstring an already strained American economy! Gore's idea is to restrict oil, coal, and nuclear power, and instead focus on 'green' energy sources like wind power. That's a great idea...let's dismantle the existing infrastructure of safe and abundant resources that power and secure our nation and have the potential to power and secure our nation for centuries to come. Then, we'll hope and pray (to the Goracle, of course) that one of the alternative energy sources that right now can't even turn a profit without massive government subsidies magically starts working for us. Then we'll start building a new infrastructure to transmit that magical energy source all over the country. Never mind the gaps in between those parts of the process, and never mind the fact that global temperatures have been going down for a decade...Great plan, Goracle.
There's my two cents.
Sources:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2009/01/28/ST2009012802716.html
http://www.kusi.com/weather/colemanscorner/38574742.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/28/AR2009012803318.html
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/theoval/post/2009/01/62036182/1
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090128/ap_on_re_us/winter_storm
http://www.kentucky.com/787/index.html
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