LesNessman
7/18/2008, 12:34 PM
Media Flocks to Gore Speech on Energy; Mostly Ignore His Use of Gas-Guzzlers to Get There
By Amy Ridenour
July 18, 2008 - 00:06 ET
Apparently complacent about criticism from the Tennessee Center for Policy Research that his family's energy use at his Nashville home is more than 19 times greater than the average American household's, Al Gore has committed conspicious energy consumption once again.
In Washington D.C. Thursday to deliver yet another speech warning Americans about global warming caused, Gore believes, by excessive use of fossil fuels, Gore handed yet more evidence to critics who believe he's a hypocrite.
He did so by traveling to his speech in what almost certainly was an unnecessary entourage of three luxury gas-guzzling vehicles -- two Lincoln Town Cars and a Surburban SUV -- one of which was kept idling outside for twenty minutes, apparently to keep the interior cool for the driver, Mrs. Gore and the Gores' adult daughter.
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/amy-ridenour/2008/07/18/media-flocks-gore-speech-energy-mostly-ignore-his-use-gas-guzzlers-get
And these don't help his cause either:
"Myth of Consensus Explodes: APS Opens Global Warming Debate"
(excerpt)
"Considerable presence" of skeptics
The American Physical Society, an organization representing nearly 50,000 physicists, has reversed its stance on climate change and is now proclaiming that many of its members disbelieve in human-induced global warming. The APS is also sponsoring public debate on the validity of global warming science. The leadership of the society had previously called the evidence for global warming "incontrovertible."
http://www.dailytech.com/Myth+of+Consensus+Explodes+APS+Opens+Global+Warmin g+Debate/article12403.htm
(This plus the 31,000 scientists who have signed a petition denying man-made global warming receive barely a blip on the media radar).
"Australian Researchers Warn of Global Cooling"
http://www.dailytech.com/Australian+Researchers+Warn+of+Global+Cooling/article12250.htm
"So Much For Flooded Cities: Greenland Ice Loss Not Increasing"
(excerpt)
Longest-term study yet of the continent says nothing to fear.
For global warming activists, Greenland is the most potent weapon of fear in their arsenal. With Antarctica cooling, and the floating ice at the North Pole incapable of affecting sea levels, Greenland alone can contribute the vast amounts of melted ice capable of flooding cities. Greenland -- which began gradually melting at the end of the last ice age some 20,000 years ago -- continues to slowly shed ice today.
The only problem? It's melting far too slowly. At its current rate, Greenland will take thousands of years to significantly affect sea level.
http://www.dailytech.com/So+Much+For+Flooded+Cities+Greenland+Ice+Loss+Not+ Increasing/article12277.htm
By Amy Ridenour
July 18, 2008 - 00:06 ET
Apparently complacent about criticism from the Tennessee Center for Policy Research that his family's energy use at his Nashville home is more than 19 times greater than the average American household's, Al Gore has committed conspicious energy consumption once again.
In Washington D.C. Thursday to deliver yet another speech warning Americans about global warming caused, Gore believes, by excessive use of fossil fuels, Gore handed yet more evidence to critics who believe he's a hypocrite.
He did so by traveling to his speech in what almost certainly was an unnecessary entourage of three luxury gas-guzzling vehicles -- two Lincoln Town Cars and a Surburban SUV -- one of which was kept idling outside for twenty minutes, apparently to keep the interior cool for the driver, Mrs. Gore and the Gores' adult daughter.
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/amy-ridenour/2008/07/18/media-flocks-gore-speech-energy-mostly-ignore-his-use-gas-guzzlers-get
And these don't help his cause either:
"Myth of Consensus Explodes: APS Opens Global Warming Debate"
(excerpt)
"Considerable presence" of skeptics
The American Physical Society, an organization representing nearly 50,000 physicists, has reversed its stance on climate change and is now proclaiming that many of its members disbelieve in human-induced global warming. The APS is also sponsoring public debate on the validity of global warming science. The leadership of the society had previously called the evidence for global warming "incontrovertible."
http://www.dailytech.com/Myth+of+Consensus+Explodes+APS+Opens+Global+Warmin g+Debate/article12403.htm
(This plus the 31,000 scientists who have signed a petition denying man-made global warming receive barely a blip on the media radar).
"Australian Researchers Warn of Global Cooling"
http://www.dailytech.com/Australian+Researchers+Warn+of+Global+Cooling/article12250.htm
"So Much For Flooded Cities: Greenland Ice Loss Not Increasing"
(excerpt)
Longest-term study yet of the continent says nothing to fear.
For global warming activists, Greenland is the most potent weapon of fear in their arsenal. With Antarctica cooling, and the floating ice at the North Pole incapable of affecting sea levels, Greenland alone can contribute the vast amounts of melted ice capable of flooding cities. Greenland -- which began gradually melting at the end of the last ice age some 20,000 years ago -- continues to slowly shed ice today.
The only problem? It's melting far too slowly. At its current rate, Greenland will take thousands of years to significantly affect sea level.
http://www.dailytech.com/So+Much+For+Flooded+Cities+Greenland+Ice+Loss+Not+ Increasing/article12277.htm