Ambrose: A Gore confession
By Jay Ambrose, Syndicated columnist
GHS
Posted May 11, 2008 @[EMAIL PROTECTED]
12:19 AM
http://www.metrowestdailynews.com/opinions/opinion_columnists/x1192319946/Ambrose-A-Gore-confession
Al Gore today said his irresponsible lies blaming global warming for
every catastrophe to occur on Earth in the past few years were
themselves a consequence of global warming, and warned that if we
don't want more people like him mouthing off, we had better cut back
soon on carbon emissions.
"The warming has fried my brain," Gore said, adding that he had
totally lost control of his tongue, which wags mendaciously at every
op****tunity.
"Why, not so long ago, I was arguing in my Oscar-winning movie that we
would have oceans rising 20 feet within the very near future, only I
failed to explain what I meant by 'very near future.' I meant within a
couple of thousand years. I should have modified the phrase better.
"That," he said, with a smile and a shrug of the shoulders, "is more
or less typical of what's been happening, although I didn't exactly
blame Hurricane Katrina on global warming.
"I noted there had always been and always would be hurricanes and that
their frequency depends on lots of things, but then, you know, I added
how warm oceans make hurricanes stronger and what not, and if you
didn't get the impression I meant global warming was behind Katrina, I
missed my bet.
"I made a similar point but was still a little less careful when I was
interviewed on public radio the other day," he said. He shook his
head, and glanced downward, the smile now gone from his face.
"I was talking about the cyclone in Myanmar, and then I tied it in
with a storm that hit Bangladesh last fall and a cyclone that ravaged
China the year before that, and then I said, 'We're seeing
consequences that scientists have long predicted might be associated
with continued global warming'."
"Now, of course, I left myself a way out. I did use the word 'might.'
But if you look carefully at that sentence, the impact on an audience
is, "Watch out, run for it, global warming is causing calamities, just
as science said it would.' The more responsible thing would have been
to make it clear we cannot possibly say as much. I left myself wide
open for the critics who have pointed out how certain scientists said
last year that the hurricane season would be about as fierce as fierce
gets, and then had to find excuses when the season was more mild than
wild.
"But listen," he said, his eyes narrowing and a look of sincere
smugness crossing his face, "none of this means I am wrong on the big
issue, which is that greenhouse gases are causing everything to become
unbelievably hot. Our only hope is to cut back on energy usage per
capita to a level about like we had a couple of centuries ago. If we
don't do this, at some tiny sacrifice in the way of giving up most of
what we call modernity and some millions starving here and there, you
will have more people like me. You will have people whose brains have
been cooked and whose capacity for a realistic, honest sense of
balance has been utterly destroyed.
"You will have people refusing to admit that what's actually happening
doesn't fit their assumptions and engaging in ad hominem attacks on
any scientist with differing explanations from their own. You will
have people predicting sweeping illnesses, famine and more and calling
for solutions that will give us sweeping illnesses, famine and more,
much as ethanol is now causing hunger in the world. So get with it, do
you hear me? Good heavens, get with it!"
Here my re****t ends, and with it a confession for anyone who didn't
catch on: I made up the Gore confession. His global alarmism made me
do it.
--
If you disagree with the theories and dogmas of Marxism or Scientific
Socialism
then you are a tool of Capitalist interests. If you disagree with the
theories
or dogmas of Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming then you are a tool
of
Capitalistic interests. Notice a pattern here? -- Captain Compassion
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority but to
escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane. -- Marcus Aurelius
"...the whole world, including the United States, including all that
we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark
Age, made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights
of perverted science." -- Sir Winston Churchill
Joseph R. Darancette
daranc@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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