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Al Gore

Albert Arnold “Al” Gore, Jr. (born March 31, 1948) is the unqualified but leading cheerleader for the "global warming" hoax and its leftist agenda of increasing government regulation over energy production and use. He was given the Nobel prize for his Chicken Little-like claims about a "global warming" crisis that subsequently did not occur.

Gore has spread alarmist propaganda, proclaiming the end of the world. Gore likes to say that "The Earth has a fever" [1] and is making millions of dollars through his hucksterism.[2] He has no degree in atmospheric sciences, meteorology, physics, chemistry, biology, or climatology. Gore took two science classes as an undergraduate, scoring a "C+" in one and a "D" in the other.[3][4] Charlie Munger mentioned that Gore is "an idiot" but became wealthy through a simple investment formula.[5]

Gore was the Democrat Party's candidate for president in the 2000 election, running on a ticket with Sen. Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut. Gore contested the results in Florida.

Prior to that Gore was the 45th Vice President of the United States (1993–2001), a successor to Dan Quayle and followed by Dick Cheney.

Previously Gore, who merely rode on the coattails of the famous political name built by his segregationist father, held positions in the House of Representatives and the Senate spanning 1977–85 and 1985–193 respectively, as his father had done.

During the 2000 presidential election, Gore claimed that his father lost the 1970 Senate election in Tennessee because he supported civil rights;[6] Al Gore, Sr. voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964[7] to appeal to segregationist sentiment in a tough re-election bid that year and lost in 1970 over issues like school prayer.[8]

Background

In his early life, Gore attended Harvard University and (briefly) Vanderbilt University. At Vanderbilt Divinity School, he failed five out of eight classes and then dropped out.[9]

He served in the United States Army and worked as a war correspondent during the Vietnam War.[10] He was married to activist Tipper Gore, but the two announced on 6/1/2010 that they were separating after forty years of marriage.[11]

Political career

Al Gore followed his father, Albert Gore, Sr. a Democrat Senator from Tennessee, into Congress. His father was a supporter of the New Deal and the opponent of Brown v. Board of Education who was finally defeated by Bill Brock in 1970, despite having sent his son to Vietnam in order to bolster the Gore senatorial campaign.[12]

Al Gore supported Clarence Thomas for the Supreme Court and, along with his wife, opposed offensive lyrics in rock music. Gore is the author of The Assault on Reason.

Gore ran for president in 1988 but was defeated in the presidential primaries by Michael Dukakis of Massachusetts. Gore then continued to serve in the Senate.[13]

Russian collusion

Billionaire Armand Hammer worked for the KGB for most of the 20th century. Hammer's main protégé in Washington, D.C., was Senator Al Gore, Sr. Hammer subsidized the elder Gore for decades and played a significant role in the rise of Senator Al Gore, Jr. as well. This was known to U.S. counterintelligence and was no secret in Washington.

Rep. Al Gore, Jr., invited Hammer to President Ronald Reagan's 1981 inauguration as his personal guest.

Questions lingered about the Gore-Hammer relationship after the oligarch’s death in 1990, though the liberal media ignored it through the eight years when, as Bill Clinton’s vice president, Gore was in the White House.

When Gore ran for president in 2000, the MSM never pried into Gore’s Kremlin linkages. The New York Times published a piece about the questionable Gore-Hammer business relationship, illuminating that both Gore Sr., whom the FBI once wanted to prosecute as a Soviet agent, and Gore Jr. repeatedly helped Hammer in exchange for sweetheart deals and cash. The New York Times never once mentioned the KGB.[14]

One month before the 2000 election, the Russian press agency Ekho Moskvy ran a sensational piece. Duma deputy Aleksei Mitrofanov demanded Russia’s Federal Archive Service provide him with any documentation they possessed regarding the secret relationship between Armand Hammer and Albert Gore, Sr: “I already have this information. My purpose is to get it officially,” Mitrofanov stated. Mitrofanov wanted to illuminate

“the mechanism of supporting Armand Hammer and Albert Gore, Sr. by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union…they were financing Gore’s coming out against the Vietnam war, as well as his assistance in closing an FBI investigation against Hammer.

All this is very interesting, especially in connection with the ongoing presidential campaign in the United States…the incumbent President [Clinton] also started his political career on money given by Hammer or, in fact, on Soviet money. Everybody knows that Hammer got his most profitable contracts in the Soviet Union from Politburo decisions.”[15]

Mitrofanov concluded by stating that Albert Gore, Jr. also started his career on Hammer's money.[16]

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From left to right: Fred Phelps, Al Gore, and former Kansas Gov. Joan Finney.

In 1988 Gore courted the support of controversial activist Fred Phelps of the Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kansas. In appreciation for Phelps' help and support of Gore, Phelps was provided tickets to the inauguration of President Clinton in 1992 and 1996.[17] Phelps later changed his opinion about Gore when he joined Bill Clinton on the 1992 presidential ticket. Phelps turned on him and claimed Gore was a "conservative" icon of the Democrat Party that sold out on some critical social issues. Phelps also demonstrated against Clinton and Gore during the 1997 inaugural.[18] [19]

Vice President

In the 1992 Presidential Election, Democrat nominee Bill Clinton selected Gore as his running mate. They won the election, and Gore was sworn in as vice president on January 20, 1993. Clinton and Gore were elected to a second term in 1996. Gore had little influence in the Clinton Administration, and almost nothing of significance is attributed to him. Although the only vice-president to be born in Washington, D.C., he went on an inauguration tour of the Jefferson Monticello, he pointed to four busts of George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, and Marquis de Lafayette asking the curator who are these guys.[20]

Taxed Social Security

Among his notable achievements, the one he is least known for is casting the tie-breaking vote to tax elderly Social Security benefits who earn as little as $22,000 per year.

In 1993 President Clinton sought to increase taxes on Social Security benefits of the elderly and disabled.[21] The final version of the bill passed by the Democratically controlled Congress increased taxes on beneficiaries from the first 50% to 85%[22] of benefits (or "annuity payments" as they were originally called). Vice President Al Gore cast the deciding tie-breaker vote in the Senate to make the tax increase law. The Clinton-Gore tax increase on Social Security benefits imposed a 70% income tax rate on a retired couple making as little as $22,000 per year.[23]

Enron scandal

In July 1997, Enron CEO Ken Lay met with Vice President Al Gore and President Bill Clinton and in the Oval Office. Clinton, Lay, and Gore discussed approval of the Kyoto protocols on carbon emissions.[24]

An internal Enron memo says the treaty will, "do more to promote Enron's business than will almost any other regulatory initiative outside of restructuring the energy and natural gas industries in Europe and the United States." Lay told Enron employees Bill Clinton solicited Lay's views "in advance of a climate treaty to be negotiated at an international conference" And Lay said Clinton agreed to support Lay's proposal of a carbon emissions trading exchange from which Enron planned to profit hugely while American consumers paid steep price increases for electricity and natural gas.[25]

The Republican Senate rejected the Kyoto treaty by a 95-to-0 vote on August 15, 1997.[26]

Al Gore and uncharitableness

The political magazine the American Spectator declared:

“ The last two Democratic Party nominees for President have come up short on the charity scale. Al Gore has been famously stingy when it comes to actually giving his own money to charities. In 1998 he was embarrassed when his tax returns revealed that he gave just $353 to charity...[27] ”

2000 Presidential nominee

Gore famously used inflammatory and violent rhetoric throughout his campaign.[28]

As is often the case for incumbent Vice Presidents, Gore was nominated as his party's candidate in the 2000 Presidential Election. He lost to George W. Bush in the Electoral College after a close vote, in which Gore garnered more popular votes than Bush, but fewer electoral votes.

Gore challenged the election results and pursued a recount based on his far-fetched claim of violation of the Equal Protection Clause, which the U.S. Supreme Court rejected by a 7–2 vote, in Bush v. Gore.

On December 13, 2000, after an extensive court battle (Bush v. Gore), Gore accepted Bush's election to the presidency.[29]

Later activities

Gore started an investment firm to invest in environmentally sustainable technology and industries and a cable channel (Current TV), and is an adviser to Google. He was also mentioned as a possible 2008 presidential candidate.

In 2012 Gore sold his liberal television network Current TV, which had a focus on environmental and social issues, to oil-rich billionaires and the Al Jazeera network. It suffered from low ratings and unprofitability (i.e., not able to meet costs, such as paying workers) under his management.

Climate hucksterism

In 2017, Gore stated that he could consider becoming a Roman Catholic due to Pope Francis's position on climate change.[30]

In January 2018, Gore alleged that the "bitter cold" weather the U.S. was seeing that winter was "exactly what we should expect from the climate crisis."[31]

Despite his climate change promotion, many of Gore's actions do not line up with his philosophy,[32][33][34] as seen in a 2017 study that found that Gore's mansion used 21 times more energy in the previous year than the average American home.[35][36] He continued making false claims.[37]

Schlockumentary film producer

Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for his work on climate change.[38] Gore starred in the 2006 film about "global warming" entitled, An Inconvenient Truth, which won an Academy Award. In 2007, the British High Court directed teachers to inform students to whom they show the film that it "is a political work and promotes only one side of the argument" and to draw attention to eleven specific inaccuracies. Furthermore, the court advised, "If teachers present the Film without making this plain they may be in breach of ... the Education Act 1996 and guilty of political indoctrination."[39] Despite the errors, the judge also concluded "four main scientific hypotheses, each of which is very well supported by research published in respected, peer-reviewed journals and accords with the latest conclusions of the IPCC.” [40]

Gore released a new movie, An Inconvenient Sequel, in 2017.[41] It did not perform well in theaters, placing itself at 15th place on its opening weekend.[42][43][44] Climatologist Roy W. Spencer, the principal research scientist at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, released an ebook criticizing the film for having distortions and factual errors.[45] Other climate alarmist movies did poorly in theaters that year.[46]

Clinton Global Initiative and mob activism

Speaking in Manhattan to the fourth annual Clinton Global Initiative, Gore wants to use "civil disobedience" to combat the construction of coal power plants without the ability to capture carbon.[47] Civil disobedience or the call for intentional violation of laws is an extremist point of view. It is believed that he was speaking in regards to Western nation coal plants. No mention of China and their coal production. The gravest threat from coal pollution comes from China, in which two plants are constructed per week and 500 more plants over the next 10 years.[48]

Sexual Assault allegations

Not long after his marital separation became public, Portland, Oregon police announced that they had investigated Gore on sexual assault charges over an encounter with massage therapist Molly Hagerty in October 2006.[49]

Hagerty, a massage therapist to the stars, has accused the former vice president of repeatedly groping and kissing her during a late-night, alcohol-fueled attack in a Oregon luxury hotel suite in October 2006. Detectives investigated the claims in 2006 and 2009 but decided not to pursue the case. However, Portland Police Chief Michael Reese said on July 1, 2010, that "we have determined there were procedural issues with the 2009 investigation that merit reopening the case." Officers took the accuser's statement but didn't proceed further and didn't clear that decision with higher-ups. In addition, prosecutors were not made aware of the 2009 investigation until recently."[50]

Criticism

Ann Coulter claims Gore exaggerated his military service record: "Al Gore endlessly bragged to the media about his service in Vietnam. 'I took my turn regularly on the perimeter in these little firebases out in the boonies. Something would move, we'd fire first and ask questions later,' he told Vanity Fair. And then we found out Gore had a personal bodyguard in Vietnam, the most dangerous weapon he carried was a typewriter, and he left after three months."[51]

In 2007, Al Gore received criticism for his high electricity use. When it was discovered that Gore's electric utility bill is 20 times higher than the average American's[52] many of his detractors accused him of not living up to his own standards. In the year since the 2007 criticism, energy use at Gore's mansion increased 10%.[53] Gore's defenders claim that the majority of that power came from "green," or environmentally friendly, power sources such as solar and wind power. These power sources are much more expensive than traditional power sources such as coal and nuclear power.

Also, some conservatives have pointed to Gore's use of a private jet while spreading the message about the dangers of "global warming."[54]

Attention has also been called to Gore's profits from mining royalties, specifically the mining of zinc adjacent to his property that he leased in Tennessee, which has released millions of pounds of potentially toxic substances into the environment.[55] The mine has been closed since 2003. New owner Strategic Resource Acquisition is planning to re-open the mine. From The Tennessean (3/12/07):

"Last week, Gore sent a letter asking the company to work with Earthworks, a national environmental group, to make sure the operation doesn’t damage the environment.

'We would like for you to engage with us in a process to ensure that the mine becomes a global example of environmental best practices,' Gore wrote."

However, this was after he had already made $500,000 from the mining operations.[56]

Al Gore's fondness for using buzzwords became the focus of a prank played on Gore by students at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1996. MIT students distributed a bingo card containing meaningless buzzwords Gore was known for peppering his speeches with, including "infobahn," "knowledge worker," "vector," "high confidence," and "information marketplace." Sure enough, during Gore's speech at MIT, a commotion erupted in the audience when enough buzzwords were said to complete the Bingo card.[57] Gore's current favorite buzzword is "unified national smart grid," which he promotes in conjunction with his catastrophic global warming prophecies, earning him ridicule as "The Goracle" in a Washington Post article by Dana Milbank.[58] Bjorn Lomborg has additionally criticized Al Gore for framing global warming using buzzword terms as some sort of transcendent generational quest, as when Gore called the so-called "climate crisis" the "chance to experience...a generational mission, the exhileration of a compelling moral purpose, a shared and unifying cause, the thrill of...the restless human need for transcendence."[59]

Fabrications and blunders

  • On February 20, 2000, Gore claimed he has “always, always, always” supported Roe v. Wade. However, in 1977, he voted for the Hyde Amendment, which says that abortion “takes the life of an unborn child who is a living human being,” and that there is no constitutional right to abortion. He cast many other votes favorable to the pro-life cause and earned an 84 percent rating over the course of his entire U.S. House career (1977 to 1984) from the National Right to Life Committee.[60]
  • On February 4, 2000, Gore claimed, “We had a huge event with 3,000 people at Ohio State University.” In reality, “Officials at that rally said the room where it had taken place did not hold more than 1,200 people, and, given the area needed for the staging erected for the occasion, they estimated the crowd at 500,” according to known liberal media source the New York Times.
  • On February 2, 2000, on Good Morning America Al Gore claimed, “We won in every single demographic category” in the New Hampshire primary. In reality Bill Bradley carried male voters and voters aged 18–29, according to exit polls.

Gore's comment that he "took the initiative in creating the Internet" was criticized in the St. Petersburg Times (Florida):

This was not the first time Gore has overreached. A year ago Gore told reporters that he and his wife, Tipper, at the time when they were college sweethearts, were the inspiration for the novel "Love Story." That came as news to the befuddled author, Erich Segal. [3]

Gore wrote an opinion piece in the New York Times in which he said "[he] genuinely wishes global warming was an illusion," claiming it is very real. This despite mountains of fraud uncovered by ClimateGate. Fred Thompson replied, "Hey, Al... the genie says you still have two wishes left." [61]

Quotes

  • Gore said, "I took the initiative in creating the Internet." [62]
  • Gore falsely claimed that he discovered problems in Love Canal and fixed them. He said:
"I called for a congressional investigation and a hearing. I looked around the country for other sites like that. I found a little place in upstate New York called Love Canal. Had the first hearing on that issue."[63]
"That was the one that started it all. ... We made a huge difference and it was all because one high school student got involved."
"I love Van Jones. I love his work. I love his heart and his commitment and his intellect. I love his mission. He has wisely picked a part of this set of interwoven challenges that should have been addressed much more forcefully by me and others long ago.”[64]
  • During an interview with Slate, regarding the Climate Research Unit at East Anglia University, a question was asked concerning a sense from the Climategate e-mails and from data that was "hidden and hoarded." These truths are the opposite of the case Al Gore made in his book about having an open and fair debate. Gore responded with a lack of command of the most basic details of anything related to Earth and climate. He said,
“ I haven’t read all the e-mails, but the most recent one is more than 10 years old. [...] So an e-mail exchange more than 10 years ago including somebody’s opinion that a particular study isn’t any good is one thing [...] but where the scientific consensus is concerned, it’s completely unchanged. What we’re seeing is a set of changes worldwide that just make this discussion over 10-year-old e-mails kind of silly.[65][66] ”
The most recent emails in Climategate were from November 12, 2009.
  • In an interview aired on the CBS Early Show, Al Gore read his global warming poem to Harry Smith.[67][68]

Former Vice President Al Gore

“
One thin September soon
A floating continent disappears
In midnight sun
Vapors rise as
Fever settles on an acid sea
Neptune's bones dissolve
Snow glides from the mountain
Ice fathers floods for a season
A hard rain comes quickly
Then dirt is parched
Kindling is placed in the forest
For the lightning's celebration
Unknown creatures
Take their leave, unmourned
Horsemen ready their stirrups
Passion seeks heroes and friends
The bell of the city
On the hill is rung
The shepherd cries
The hour of choosing has arrived
Here are your tools
 ''

External links

References

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  2. Jump up↑ http://newsbusters.org/node/11149
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  5. Jump up↑ https://www.cnbc.com/2017/06/23/buffett-partner-munger-says-al-gore-is-an-idiot-but-became-rich.html
  6. Jump up↑ Blacks “Gored” By a Lie: Al Gore Sr., the GOP and the Civil Rights Act of 1964, by R.D. Davis. Black Leadership Network. Retrieved April 26, 2021.
  7. Jump up↑ HR. 7152. PASSAGE.. GovTrack.us. Retrieved April 26, 2021.
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  11. Jump up↑ Gore's Break Up After 40 Years of Marriage
  12. Jump up↑ https://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2000/democracy/gore/stories/gore/
  13. Jump up↑ While serving in the Senate, Gore introduced the High-Performance Computing Act of 1991, signed December 9, 1991, which his supporters claim helped develop the Internet and the National Research and Education Network. [1] [2] When Gore himself bragged about creating the internet, he was referring to prior legislation (see quotations below).
  14. Jump up↑ https://www.nytimes.com/2000/03/19/us/2000-campaign-vice-president-gore-family-s-ties-oil-company-magnate-reap-big.html
  15. Jump up↑ https://observer.com/2018/11/democrats-kremlin-problem-al-gore-maxine-waters/
  16. Jump up↑ https://www.aim.org/media-monitor/bill-clintons-soviet-connection/
  17. Jump up↑ Gore sought help from anti-homosexual group, 'God hates fags' creator preaches 'hate because the Bible preaches hate', By Jon E. Dougherty, WorldNetDaily.com, October 25, 2000.
  18. Jump up↑ http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID={91058469-F6DE-4615-8B2A-73CDF3E8FCAC}
  19. Jump up↑ http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4179/is_20001104/ai_n11753681
  20. Jump up↑ https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4482741/clinton-gore-monticello
  21. Jump up↑ http://www.house.gov/house/Contract/seniorsd.txt
  22. Jump up↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20040408115747/www.ssa.gov/OACT/HOP/hopi.htm
  23. Jump up↑ Congressional Record, Comments by Rep. Christopher Cox, July 27, 2000.
  24. Jump up↑ https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/nation/transcripts/gopresponse_memo.htm
  25. Jump up↑ Robert Schlesinger, "Enron Ties May Also Tar Democrats; Company Lobbied Clinton, Donated To Top Legislators," The Boston Globe, January 24, 2002
  26. Jump up↑ http://talking_points.tripod.com/
  27. Jump up↑ http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=1c5_1238044126&c=1
  28. Jump up↑ https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-2000-08-18-0008180205-story.html
  29. Jump up↑ Leip, David. "2000 Presidential General Election Results." David Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. 2005. 18 Mar. 2007 <http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/national.php?year=2000>.
  30. Jump up↑ Williams, Thomas D. (August 4, 2017). Al Gore: ‘Because of Pope Francis, I Really Could Become a Catholic’. Breitbart News. Retrieved August 4, 2017.
  31. Jump up↑ Multiple references:
  32. Jump up↑ Lowe, Tiana (June 6, 2017). For America’s Loudest Climate Alarmists, Do as I Say, Not as I Do. National Review. Retrieved August 2, 2017.
  33. Jump up↑ Ambrose, Jay (May 16, 2009). Al Gore's Hypocrisy Astounding. RealClearPolitics. Retrieved August 2, 2017.
  34. Jump up↑ Goldstein, Lorrie (July 29, 2017). Al Gore's hypocrisy 'breathtaking'. Toronto Sun. Retrieved August 2, 2017.
  35. Jump up↑ Chasmar, Jessica (August 2, 2017). Al Gore’s Nashville estate expends 21 times more energy a year than typical U.S. home, study says. The Washington Times. Retrieved August 2, 2017.
  36. Jump up↑ Kew, Ben (August 2, 2017). Report: Al Gore’s Home Burns 34 Times More Electricity Than Average U.S. Household. Breitbart News. Retrieved August 2, 2017.
  37. Jump up↑ Murphy, James (September 17, 2018). Al Gore Caught Lying About Climate Change — Again. The New American. Retrieved September 19, 2018.
  38. Jump up↑ https://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,312024,00.html
  39. Jump up↑ Sheppard, Noel. "Court Identifies Eleven Inaccuracies in Al Gore’s ‘An Inconvenient Truth’." [Weblog NewsBusters] 08 Oct 2007. Newsbusters. 9 Oct 2007 <http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2007/10/09/court-identifies -eleven-inaccuracies-al-gore-s-inconvenient-truth>.
  40. Jump up↑ https://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,301067,00.html
  41. Jump up↑ Richardson, Valerie (July 27, 2017). Not so hot: Al Gore’s ‘Inconvenient Sequel’ meets with skepticism even from left. The Washington Times. Retrieved August 2, 2017.
  42. Jump up↑ Richardson, Valerie (August 7, 2017). Al Gore’s ‘Inconvenient Sequel’ meets with cool reception, placing 15th at box office. The Washington Times. Retrieved August 7, 2017.
  43. Jump up↑ Al Gore's 'An Inconvenient Sequel' bombs at the box office, ranks in 15th place. Fox News. August 7, 2017. Retrieved August 7, 2017.
  44. Jump up↑ Concha, Joe (August 7, 2017). Al Gore climate change sequel bombs at box office. The Hill. Retrieved August 7, 2017.
  45. Jump up↑ Richardson, Valerie (August 22, 2017). Gore documentary called ‘bad science’ as sales plummet. The Washington Times. Retrieved August 23, 2017.
  46. Jump up↑ Toto, Christian (December 28, 2017). Hollywood tries to save the Earth, but moviegoers aren’t buying eco-messages anymore. The Washington Times. Retrieved January 5, 2018.
  47. Jump up↑ Al Gore Urges 'Civil Disobedience' Toward Coal Plants Fox News, September 24, 2008
  48. Jump up↑ China's Coal-Fueled Boom Has Costs NPR, May 2, 2007
  49. Jump up↑ http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jdRlS1EbF66_3PpAvC9UlCbBtuqgD9GIKE580 AP; Police release tape from Al Gore sexual assault accuser's interview
  50. Jump up↑ Portland police mishandled Al Gore sex-abuse case, Chief says.
  51. Jump up↑ http://www.anncoulter.com/cgi-local/welcome.cgi
  52. Jump up↑ Al Gore - Electric consumption bill
  53. Jump up↑ https://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCulture.asp?Page=/Culture/archive/200806/CUL20080619a.html
  54. Jump up↑ More Inconvenient Truths About Al Gore
  55. Jump up↑ Tennessee Mine Enriched Gore, Scarred Land
  56. Jump up↑ http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2007/3/17/93301.shtml?s=ic
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  59. Jump up↑ Lomborg, Bjorn. Cool It. New York: Vintage Books, 2008.
  60. Jump up↑ http://www.gargaro.com/lifequotes.html
  61. Jump up↑ Fred Thompson, Twitter feed, March 2, 2010
  62. Jump up↑ Blitzer, Wolf. Transcript: Vice President Gore on CNN's 'Late Edition'. CNN. 9 March 1999. 2 June 2007 <https://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1999/03/09/president.2000 /transcript.gore/>
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  65. Jump up↑ http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/12/08/al-gore-cant-tell-time-thinks-most-recent-climategate-email-is-more-than-10-years-old/
  66. Jump up↑ http://www.slate.com/id/2237789/
  67. Jump up↑ Noel Sheppard. Gore Reads Poem, Harry Smith Swoons: 'Wow...I’m Happy to Hear it in Your Voice', NewsBusters, December 15, 2009.
  68. Jump up↑ Rush Limbaugh. Algore's Idiotic Poem and All the Latest from the ClimateGate Stack, RushLimbaugh.com, December 7, 2009.

Al Gore Articles

February 24, 2010

Al Gore Is Lying Low -- for Good Reason

By Rex McBride

Maybe Al Gore's been advised by legal counsel to lie low. He may be the leader of the anthropogenic global warming (AGW) movement, but he's not defending it in public, not even when it's falling apart and his new fortune is based upon it.

Mr. Gore and his financial backers earned millions of dollars in start-up "green" companies and carbon trading schemes. If the scam worked, he could've become the first "carbon billionaire."

"What goes up can fall down" applies to ill-gotten gains in the stock market or "carbon trading" schemes. In such schemes, it's foreseeable that trusting investors will (a) not only get hurt when the scam collapses, but they'll also (b) pursue legal remedies and sue him for fraud.

Mr. Gore's financial gains were based on the contradictory and error-plagued assertion that man's release of the trace gas CO2 will fry the planet.

Once it becomes clear to everyone that the AGW theory is based on cleverly manipulated data twisted by rigged computer models controlled by several dozen IPCC politicians/scientists, we can expect that investors who lose millions by investing in these companies will eventually haul Mr. Gore and the insider IPCC scientists into court.

Over the years, American tax dollars were poured down the fantasyland AGW "rat hole." Sooner or later, Al Gore needs to answer some hard questions. Unfortunately, we'll have to wait for lawsuits from private investors. Today, legal counsel will advise him to remain silent.

It's impossible to predict how many lawsuits, or what kind, might arise once everyone realizes that the AGW scam dwarfs Bernie Madoff's $50-billion Ponzi operation. New studies appear almost daily that further undercut AGW theory. The biggest daily newspaper in the Netherlands vindicated that country's leading AGW critic in the article "Henk Tennekes -- He was right after all."

Dr. Tennekes was fired in the 1990s from a prominent research position and blacklisted for debunking AGW theory. He upset the same IPCC scientists who control the leading "peer review" climate research journals and who blocked the publication of all contrary research in those journals for decades.

As investors learn the extent of the scam, Mr. Gore's start-up "green" companies will lose considerable value, like flaky dot-com companies lacking a real product. Investors in these "green" companies -- who reasonably relied upon Gore's alarming claims -- may pursue several possible remedies:

- derivative shareholder lawsuits, disgorging from Mr. Gore and other senior officers in these companies any illicit gains from any insider trading that could be proven; and/or

- lawsuits against brokers who did not perform the SEC's necessary "due diligence" research before peddling those shares; and/or

- civil RICO lawsuits against Mr. Gore and any IPCC scientists who participated in blocking the publication of contrary research, cooking the data, all of whose annual income skyrocketed from the public hysteria.

On the state level, it's impossible to predict if one or more state attorney generals will look back on the tobacco industry cases and decide, representing the taxpayers of his or her state, to file criminal and/or civil RICO actions against Gore and the enriched IPCC scientists.

(On the federal level, while President Obama is in office, the Justice Department will not file RICO or SEC actions against their buddy Al Gore. Remember, the president originally hoped that Boxer-Kerry cap-and-trade would generate over $600 billion in new corporate taxes -- "emergency" measures justified by fantasy AGW theory.

Remember the joke about the government taxing air? In the Twilight Zone of Boxer-Kerry, say hello to cap-and-trade.)

If Mr. Gore's "green" companies do crash and significantly injure private investors, attorneys in a civil lawsuit could compel Gore to answer questions like:

(1) When you claimed that "the science is settled," did you mean that it's "settled" that you and the IPCC scientists could make quick millions by manipulating the data and fomenting public hysteria?

(2) What does "peer review" mean if none of the IPCC scientists who controlled the academic journals protested that there was no original data to support your frightening claim of accelerated temperature increases after 1995?

(3) If the very scientists that the public trusted to act as the "check and balance" against careless research -- or worse yet, to protect against research fraud -- did not catch a "tiny" problem like not having original supporting data after 1995, does "peer review" mean that IPCC's scientists would secretly work in concert to cover each other's asses and keep the grants coming?

Such questions need answers.

In "The Dog Ate Global Warming", an article at the Cato Institute, Patrick J. Michaels noted that "[i]f there are no data, there's no science. U.S. taxpayers deserve to know the answer."

Obviously, Al Gore cannot be compelled to answer questions in a criminal court under the 5th Amendment. However, his admissible bank and stock portfolio records would prove his skyrocketing wealth, making him a "deep pocket."

Since 1970, the scope of RICO cases has grown far beyond prosecuting mafia operations. The law firm Nixon Peabody explained:

RICO was written in broad terms. To state a claim, a plaintiff must allege four elements: (1) conduct (2) of an enterprise (3) through a pattern (4) of racketeering activity... Each element of a RICO claim requires additional analysis: an "enterprise" is marked by association and control; a "pattern" requires a showing of "continuity" -- continuous and related behavior that amounts to, or poses a threat of, continued criminal violations; and "racketeering activity" involves the violation of designated federal laws ...

RICO lawsuits are now won in a wide variety of civil disputes -- e.g., insurance companies working in concert to delay/shortchange payments owed to dentists. 

Other RICO cases resulted in court judgments against the Hell's Angels Motorcycle Club, Catholic sex crimes, and Major League Baseball.

It violates federal law to fake taxpayer-funded research and then manipulate or destroy data to enrich oneself. If an insider group secretly conspires to do so, it looks and smells like RICO.

If more AGW-destroying news rolls in, and if Gore's "green" companies lose significant value, then shareholder derivative lawsuits and/or state RICO lawsuits will follow -- more so as the losses grow.

Mr. Gore is in hiding today -- no longer the "courageous" leader of the AGW movement. Apparently, Planet Earth is "no longer in grave danger" or "needing to be saved," but Gore could lose all of his ill-gotten assets.

If the victim list grows and criminal intent is proven, Mr. Gore could do serious time. After a much smaller scam, Bernie Madoff got 150 years.

What if you want answers about the potential misuse of tax dollars that enriched AGW insiders but didn't invest in one of Al Gore's fantasies?

Call Congress and demand that the GAO audit all climate change grants. GAO has the professional audit expertise to follow the money, gather objective facts, and report on any significant fraud or abuse.

July 14, 2009

Clearly It's Al Gore Who's In Denial

In the past we’ve questioned former Vice President Al Gore’s honesty (Gore's Deceptive Rolling Stone Interview); his use of intimidation tactics and character assassination to promote his lies (Gore's Grave New World); his proclivity for championing policy based wholly on erroneous facts (Gore Celebrates Israel's 60th With Whoppers) and, ultimately, his very soundness of mind (Al Gore's Global Warming Therapy).  So comments he made to an Australian reporter last weekend which betrayed an evident disconnect with reality, while certainly mind-boggling, were by no means astonishing.
 
During a Melbourne interview discussing his trip down-under to pressure the Rudd government toward carbon emissions trading legislation (h/t Climate Depot), Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s Heather Ewart forced Gore to do something from a distance he has steadfastly refused to do face-to-face --- address his growing hordes of detractors:
HEATHER EWART: When you were last visiting Australia, you were riding high on the success of your documentary 'Inconvenient Truth'. What has happened since then though is there have been a number of respected scientists who have suggested that perhaps you've been a little too alarmist and loose with the facts. Has that dented the credibility in any sense of what you're on about?

AL GORE: I don't agree with that assessment. I think that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which is the world scientific authority on this issue, has been saying exactly the same things that I have been saying.
Of course, as a colossal group of U.N. bureaucrats controlling a substantially smaller group of rented scientists, the only thing the IPCC is the world authority on is the corrupting of climate science for political gain.  As we’ve reported time and time again, the latest IPCC synthesis report, much-hyped-and-hallowed by alarmists and media-drones alike, represents the combined work of only 52 UN scientists -- as carefully cherry-picked as they were micromanaged.  Surely, the 255-page U.S. Senate Minority Report containing the IPCC-countering findings of more than 13 times that number (now over 700 dissenting -- including many current and former U.N. IPCC -- scientists) holds more authoritative weight to climate realists. 
 
Okay, so Ewart wasn’t about to challenge the exalted IPCC’s scientific standing, but she did indirectly challenge Gore’s claim that the U.N panel was on board with the imminent planetary destruction depicted in his film:
 
“There was also, though, a British judge who ruled that there were in fact, I think, nine errors when it was challenged in court?”
And Gore’s response was that of a man in complete denial:
 
“Well, the ruling was in my favor. There have been a number of deniers trying to say that this isn't real. Of course there are always going to be that, but the overwhelming majority of the scientists who've looked at this have said, ‘We've got to confront this.’"
In his favor?  In October of 2007, the British High Court found that Gore’s film “represents 'partisan political views' and must be treated as such by teachers in British schools.”  The judge mandated that teachers wishing to project the film in class must inform students that “some of Mr. Gore's views were not supported or promoted by the Government, and there was ‘a view to the contrary’".
 
The decision was based on Mr. Justice Burton’s assessment that the film included at least nine errors “in which statements were made that were not supported by the current mainstream scientific consensus.”  The judge labeled Gore’s predictions of sea-level rise of up to 20 feet “distinctly alarmist.”  Even the IPCC projected a far less catastrophic global mean sea level rise of between 0.09 and 0.88 meters from 1990 to 2100. He questioned the warning that “low-lying inhabited Pacific atolls are being inundated because of anthropogenic global warming," as there “was no evidence of any evacuation having yet happened.”  Also challenged were the film’s claims that global warming had caused Hurricane Katrina, polar bear drowning, Central Africa's Lake Chad to dry up, and the disappearance of snow on Mt Kilimanjaro.
 
And in two of his challenges, the judge directly quoted the same IPCC that Gore claims says “exactly the same things” he does. The movie warned of global warming "shutting down the [Meridional Overturning Circulation] Ocean Conveyor," the process by which the Gulf Stream is carried over the North Atlantic to western Europe.   But Burton pointed out that the IPCC found such an event to be "very unlikely."
 
The movie also stated that global warming was bleaching coral reefs all over the world.  Burton again cited the IPCC’s report that such bleaching would occur only if coral failed to adapt, a point somehow omitted by Gore.
 
The initial court action was initiated by a father-of-two who accused the Government of "brainwashing" children with propaganda by presenting Gore’s sci-fi film as science.  The judge’s ruling, as described today by attorney John Day, who represented the plaintiff, found "An Inconvenient Truth wasn't fit to be shown in British schools without suitably corrected guidance which drew attention to the errors in the film and its political partisanship."
 
The IPCC agrees with him?  The British Court ruling was in his favor? 
 
From where does he muster the unmitigated gall to refer to tens of thousands of skeptical scientists and a growing majority of unalarmed Americans as the deniers?

May 21, 2009

Lomborg's 'Climate-Industrial Complex'

By Rick Moran

Noted climate change critic Bjorn Lomborg has an article in today's Wall Street Journal that is a must read if you want to understand the forces of business and industry who are hard at work trying to profit off the global warming scare.

Referring to a similar business-government partnership during the cold war - the military-industrial complex - Lomborg dubs these "green" companies part of the "Climate-Industrial Complex" with none other than Al Gore leading the charge to making a buck off the climate change racket:
 

This phenomenon will be on display at the World Business Summit on Climate Change in Copenhagen this weekend. The organizers -- the Copenhagen Climate Council -- hope to push political leaders into more drastic promises when they negotiate the Kyoto Protocol's replacement in December.

 

The opening keynote address is to be delivered by Al Gore, who actually represents all three groups: He is a politician, a campaigner and the chair of a green private-equity firm invested in products that a climate-scared world would buy.

 

Naturally, many CEOs are genuinely concerned about global warming. But many of the most vocal stand to profit from carbon regulations. The term used by economists for their behavior is "rent-seeking."

 

The world's largest wind-turbine manufacturer, Copenhagen Climate Council member Vestas, urges governments to invest heavily in the wind market. It sponsors CNN's "Climate in Peril" segment, increasing support for policies that would increase Vestas's earnings. A fellow council member, Mr. Gore's green investment firm Generation Investment Management, warns of a significant risk to the U.S. economy unless a price is quickly placed on carbon.

 

Even companies that are not heavily engaged in green business stand to gain. European energy companies made tens of billions of euros in the first years of the European Trading System when they received free carbon emission allocations.


This "if you can't beat 'em, join 'em," philosophy may produce profits but only makes it clearer that other businesses will suffer the consequences of such draconian government action.

And who is surprised that Al Gore would be first in line with his hand out for government goodies?

Read Lomborg's entire piece for some good background on this phenomenon.

March 1, 2007

Al Gore's legacy of hypocrisy

By Daryl Montgomery and Jack Kemp

You've seen the stories in the US and Great Britain, about Al Gore's large energy usage at what can only be called his estate. As if that weren't bad enough, Gore used to collect royalties from a zinc mine on his property, one cited for polluting. The mining operation was closed in 2003. USA Today reported in 2006:

'Living carbon-neutral apparently doesn't mean living oil-stock free. Nor does it necessarily mean giving up a mining royalty either.

Humanity might be "sitting on a ticking time bomb," but Gore's home in Carthage is sitting on a zinc mine. Gore receives $20,000 a year in royalties from Pasminco Zinc, which operates a zinc concession on his property. Tennessee has cited the company for adding large quantities of barium, iron and zinc to the nearby Caney Fork River. '

The reference to oil stock concerns Al Gore managing around one half million dollars worth of Occidental Petroleum stock in his late father's estate. At the Democratic National Convention in 2000, environmentalist protesters - including Susan Sarandon, Martin Sheen and Bonnie Raitt:

'questioned Vice President Al Gore's credentials as an environmental champion on Tuesday, calling on him to divest his family shares in Occidental Petroleum Corp.

The Los Angeles-based company has come under fire from environmentalists for its plans to drill for oil on land claimed by the U'wa Indian tribe in northeastern Colombia.

More than 1,000 environmental activists and anti-capitalist demonstrators marched through downtown Los Angeles to the Democratic Convention where Gore will accept the party's presidential nomination on Thursday.

"Al Gore: reject big oil $$," said a banner.

"Divest your shares and show us you are an environmental champion on the side of the U'wa," Atossa Soltani, director of the Amazon Watch environmental group, said at the rally.

The 5,000-member U'wa tribe drew attention to their cause by vowing to commit collective suicide by walking off a cliff if Occidental proceeded with its drilling plans. Tribe members believe the land is sacred and oil is the "life blood of Mother Earth."

Gore reported in his public financial disclosure in May that his family's shares in Occidental were valued at between $500,000 and $1 million. "

It's not every high profile political environmentalist that can get Susan Sarandon publicly protesting his qualifications for high office. It takes a very special person - one who is totally tone deaf to his own hypocrisies. Someone who believes he doesn't have to answer to anyone because of his platitudes. This goes hand in hand with assuming everyone owes their vote and support, that he is beyond reproach. And such people are cursed by never seeing this as a problem.

Maybe the U'wa tribal witch doctor put a curse on him. Then again, maybe the witch doctor didn't even have to.

December 9, 2007

Al Gore: Doing good or just doing well?

By Thomas Lifson

More and more people seem to notice that Al Gore is making huge amounts of money while peddling fear of global warming. And he's just getting started. The prospects of serious wealth are unlimited should his recent affiliation with Silicon Valley venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins bring about regulatory advantage or public subsidy for schemes to trade carbon emissions, subsidize  supposedly-green energy projects, or otherwise capitalize on the world's need for massive quantities of energy.

The latest chapter in public awareness of Al Gore's crusade to get rich unfolded in the United Kingdom. The Daily Mail reports:   
 

Al Gore has come under fire for making personal gain from his mission to save the planet - after charging £3,300 a minute to deliver a poorly received speech.

The former American Vice-President was also accused of being "precious" at the London event, demanding his own VIP room and ejecting journalists, despite hopes the star-studded gathering would generate publicity for the fight against global warming.

Many of the audience at last month's Fortune Forum summit were restless as Mr Gore, who has won both a Nobel Peace Prize and an Oscar for his campaigning work this year, delivered the half-hour speech that netted him £100,000.

Obviously, since winning his OscarTM, Al has developed a severe case of Hollywood attitude. That's always a danger when people without any basic values beyond their own self-advancement come into contact with others higher up in the pecking order. Al took away from Harvard not any real knowledge or wisdom (his grades were mediocre), but rather an attitude of intellectual condescension toward those who disagree with him. He took away from Vanderbilt University Divinity School (he flunked out) a major dose of sanctimony. And now he has apparently developed a severe case of ‘tude from his brush with the stars.

Since he has apparently now turned his energies toward finance and business, one wonders what new disagreeable traits lie in his future. Will he trade in his corporate jet for a remodeled 767 like his friends Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page? Will he start buying up trophy properties in resort areas around the world? My bet is that he will start organizing charity fundraisers/gala social events. All to benefit a "good cause" that happens to coincide with his investments in the green biz.

Hat tip: Lucianne.com

Update: Greg Richards writes:

And how has Al Gore advanced his position?  One way of expressing it would be...
"HE PLAYED ON OUR FEARS."

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