The SF Chronicle has today published an editorial, which, of course, is the “feeling of the paper itself,” discussing how the latest climate change bill, the one proposed by Kerry, Lieberman, and Graham, melted down, based on the”As the World Burns, How the Senate and White House missed their best chance to deal with climate change” by Ryan Lizza in the New Yorker. The original article, of course, shows the politics behind the legislation, and what went wrong. The legislation was basically a lose lose for the American people. Sure, it would allow things like more oil drilling and nuclear power, at least on the surface. Good luck getting those permits in reality. It would create a carbon tax, which wouldn’t be called a carbon tax. It also cut deals all over the place, deals that would mean higher costs to the American population.
Here’s where it gets interesting, though
Lizza asked Al Gore what the former vice president thought tanked the bill. Gore cited GOP partisanship, the recession and an “unhealthy level” of special-interest influence.
Gore’s too modest. He deserves some of the credit too. Gore has warned that global warming will cause the sea to rise 20 feet and that the next generation could live a decade without winter. Yet Gore and his co-believers don’t act as if they believe their own schtick.
Czech President Vaclav Klaus and author Bjorn Lomborg have challenged Gore to a debate. He won’t bite. If the health of the planet really were at stake, you would think Gore could give up an hour or two to argue his case.
After all, Gore found time to fly to the U.N. climate change conference in Copenhagen last year so that he and other true believers could talk to each other about the evils of greenhouse gases. Then-British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Prince Charles arrived in separate private planes.
When the big shot proponents of a doomsday scenario won’t get a handle on their own emissions, they shouldn’t expect their D.C. cohorts to spew out anything heavier than hot air.
And that is the climate alarmist movement in a nutshell. The leaders fail to live the lives they tell everyone else to live. Purchasing carbon offsets just doesn’t cut it. And this trickles down to all the Disciples Of Gore, who want everyone else to change their lives in a big way, just not themselves. Do As I Say, Not As I Do. “I can’t give up my big SUV, I have work, gotta take the kids to soccer, and drive to Al Gore rallies. Those other people should have to drive a micro-mobile.”
And then Gore flies off to Trinidad and Tobago, for “An Evening With Al Gore” on November 4th. Tickets run from $275 (USD) for general seating to $550. He is supposedly getting a speakers fee of $150,000. Climate alarmism has been good to Al.
But, not all alarmists do nothing. Some do their tiny, minuscule, itty bitty part to have no impact on the environment by making jewelry from recycled beads! I congratulate them for finding another way to suck the money from other alarmists pockets.
