Search for financial gain is driving the push for green technology

Against the backdrop of the Gulf oil spill, President Obama delivered a speech in June, which once more made the case for the reduction of U.S. dependence on fossil fuels.

“I will continue to make the case for a clean energy future wherever and whenever I can,” the president said. The country’s use of fossil fuels, he continued, “will jeopardize our national security, it will smother our planet and will continue to put our economy and our environment at risk.”

While Obama isn’t the first president to take on fossil fuels (in his 2007 State of the Union address, former President George W. Bush talked about the need to generate electric power through “clean coal technology, solar and wind energy”), the current administration has taken a far more aggressive position on the subject than any previous White House. Last Thursday, for example, the administration released a plan requiring federal agencies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions over the next ten years.

But this war against fossil fuels is being waged not just by President Obama and the executive branch of the federal government. In many ways, the president is simply the front man for the social, political and business elite that are driving the campaign for renewable energy to replace things like coal and natural gas.

Although fossil fuels account for upwards of 80 percent of the nation’s energy consumption, lobbyists, executives, environmentalists and politicians have come together to force a reduction in their use, as well as pass mandates for things like solar wind panels and electric cars.

What many of them fail to disclose is their vested financial stake in this new technology — technology that remains fundamentally uncompetitive with traditional sources of energy. In the words of Dan Kish, senior vice president at the Institute for Energy Research: “At the end of the day, the stuff they want us to buy is just more expensive.”

So who are some of the individuals behind the war against fossil fuels?

John Doerr and Al Gore, for starters. As The Daily Caller has reported, both men are major players in the green industrial complex. Doerr, perhaps the most famous venture capitalist in the Silicon Valley, has donated heavily to Democratic causes, lobbied for green energy initiatives, and then received stimulus dollars through the Department of Energy (DOE) in the form of grants for companies in which he has investments.

Gore has spent the last ten years lobbying for carbon taxes, the use of green technology, and legislation that would require it — all while standing to profit financially if such policies were implemented because he is a partner at Doerr’s venture capitalist firm. Like Doerr, Gore will benefit financially if the start-up companies he invests in do well – which is almost a guarantee if the federal government continues to shower them with tax dollars.

Then there’s General Electric (GE) CEO Jeffery Immelt and Duke Power CEO Jim Rogers. Both were involved in the creation of the U.S. Climate Action Partnership (USCAP), a lobbying organization comprised of businessmen that counts getting Waxman-Markey passed in the House last summer as one of its accomplishments.

Both GE and Duke make products that are essential in any transition from an energy industry based on fossil fuels, to one that uses renewable energy. It’s no wonder Immelt and Rogers are so invested in “energy independence.”

Jason Jay Lee isn't first terrorist inspired by Al Gore's screeds

Wednesday, a gun wielding, bomb toting, eco-terrorist-who claimed to have been "awakened" by Al Gore's Oscar winning film, An Inconvenient Truth-was shot and killed by police after holding several people hostage inside the Discovery Channel headquarters in Maryland.

Sadly, it's not the first incident of someone going berserk after taking in Gore's work.

This time it was Jason Jay Lee. In a manifesto posted online, Lee stated, "Focus must be given on how people can live without giving birth to more filthy human children since those new additions continue pollution." He also declared we must "Find solutions for global warming, automotive pollution, international trade, factory pollution, and... the destruction of the planet!"

Lee's rant sounds similar to other eco-screeds that surfaced in the Nineties. One uttered, the "assault on the earth is breathtaking, and the horrific consequences are occurring so quickly as to defy our capacity to recognize them, comprehend their global implications, and organize an appropriate and timely response. Isolated pockets of resistance fighters who have experienced this juggernaut at first hand have begun to fight back in inspiring but, in the final analysis, woefully inadequate ways."

Still another warned, "One of the effects of the intrusion of industrial society has been that over much of the world traditional controls on population have been thrown out of balance. Hence the population explosion, with all that it implies...No one knows what will happen as a result of ozone depletion, the greenhouse effect and other environmental problems that cannot yet be foreseen."

The first eco-screed noted above was written by Al Gore in his book, Earth In The Balance. The latter was typed in a 120-square foot Montana shack by Ted Kaczynski, a.k.a. the Unabomber. Also found in Kaczynski's hovel, a copy of Earth In The Balance.

Kaczynski apparently was quite taken by Al Gore's missive. His copy of Earth In The Balance was dog-eared, underlined, marked and well worn. He obviously saw himself as some sort of "resistance "fighter.

Kaczynski terrorized the nation for 17 years, killing three people and wounding 22 with his mail-bombs. But it could have been much worse. He managed to sneak a bomb onto American Airlines Flight 444 from Chicago to Washington D.C. It exploded but only caused a small fire; otherwise the Boeing 747 passenger jet might have fallen out of the sky on Nov. 15, 1979, killing all onboard. From his cabin in the Montana woods, the reclusive mathematician anonymously sent out bomb after bomb, followed by letter after letter haranguing victims who had survived his attacks and taunting the media.

Portland police admit alleged Gore grope case closed by mistake

The Portland Police Bureau has just released a statement “in an ongoing effort to be fully transparent and responsive to media inquiries regarding the investigation concerning Al Gore.” In the statement, chief Michael Reese says police never contacted Gore, nor did they contact the District Attorney’s office when accuser Molly Hagerty told her story to detectives in January 2009. Instead, the police closed the case without investigation. Now, Reese admits that was a mistake. “There should have been command level review at the time on the specifics of this case and decisions on whether the investigation should go forward.”

Police did contact the District Attorney’s office in late 2006 and early 2007, when Hagerty’s lawyer first got in touch with investigators. But at that time, Hagerty refused to tell her story, so there was little authorities could do. Then, when Hagerty told her story — in great detail — police did nothing. Only now, after the National Enquirer reported the story, have they re-opened the case.

Al and Tipper Gore moving to shield assets as problems multiply

Buying an $8.8 million California mansion months before announcing their divorce wasn't the only puzzling real-estate transaction for the Gores.

A month after snagging the Montecito estate in October 2009, Al and Tipper Gore transferred nine properties in Carthage, Tenn., from their own names into a limited liability company.

The transfer on Nov. 30, 2009, came after an Oregon masseuse lodged a January 2009 police complaint accusing the former vice president of sexual abuse.

The woman claims Gore came on to her like a "crazed sex poodle."

Experts say that transferring property is usually a way to protect assets from legal claims.

The Gores bought the California estate through a trust, which can be another way to shield assets, said Manhattan divorce lawyer Sherri Donovan.

Masseuse who wants $1 million for more on Gore is leaving way too much money on the table

The Portland masseuse who has accused Al Gore of groping her in 2006 is offering to tell more for $1 million. In my judgment, she's leaving too much money on the table.

The problem is that she apparently sees this as a two-party transaction. One party is Al Gore, who stands to endure more embarrassment than he already has. The other is the masseuse, who stands to pocket $1 million in exchange for her story.

In fact, however, there are other deep-pocketed parties that stand to lose, or gain, much more depending on whether this story has legs or soon recedes into the noisy background of American life.

There is General Electric, which has invested heavily in green technology and propaganda in the belief that the future would be green. That assumption already is in question, given the exposure of the fraudulent science that has powered global warming theory.

Now, Gore, perhaps the best-known public face of the global warming movement, appears to be on the cusp of prolonged embarrassment. At some point, even self-sacrificial Democrats will start jumping off this sinking ship.

General Electric and a lot of other rent-seeking coporate enlistees in the green movement have a lot to lose. They might be willing to make a bid to short-circuit the current embarrassing Gore story.

So, too, might Gore.

In these circumstances, soiled slacks that may contain Gore's DNA ought to be worth more than $1 million.

Page Six says masseuse will put Gore grope on Page One for $1m

Sources tell Page Six the so-far unidentified Oregon woman is ready to publicly reveal herself and heap more embarrassment on the former vice president in return for a seven-figure media deal. And she intends to use the pants she wore on the night of the alleged incident -- supposedly stained with Gore's DNA and stored in a bank safety-deposit box -- as evidence against Gore, who recently split with wife Tipper.

A source told us, "She's ready to come forward and sell the story with even more salacious details. But she wants $1 million. Her attorney is shopping for a deal, and while there are many media outlets interested, there are negotiations going on because the price tag is way too high."

The woman filed a police statement accusing Gore of sexual "abuse" after a massage at Portland's Hotel Lucia in October 2006. The statement described how during the session, he allegedly "began to demand that I go lower . . . It appeared that he was demanding sexual favors or sexual behaviors." She claimed he "angrily complained that I was not doing what he wanted."

She alleged, "He grabbed my right hand hard, shoved it down under the sheet to his pubic-hair area . . . and said to me, 'There!' in a very sharp, loud, angry-sounding tone."

She added, "He had a dramatic display of violent temper as well as an extremely dictatorial commanding attitude besides his Mr. Smiley Global Warming concern persona. I did not want to get hurt, and I did not want to get raped."

Portland police say the investigation was dropped because "there was insufficient evidence to support the allegations" and the woman declined to seek prosecution.

Gore spokeswoman Kalee Kreider, who declined to comment after The Enquirer broke the story earlier this week, did not get back to us last night.

Gore's heat wave in 2006 triggers reappraisal of global warming

Climate scientists began a worldwide review of global warming theory on Thursday after reading reports about a 2006 encounter between Al Gore and a masseuse in Oregon.

The woman claimed in a statement to police that Gore had fondled and groped her during a massage. She described the former vice president as a giggling "crazed sex poodle" who gave her a "come hither" look before pouncing on her in a Portland hotel suite.

The alleged victim was a 54-year-old massage therapist at the luxury Hotel Lucia where Gore was staying on his trip to campaign for Oregon Gov. Ted Kulongoski. Gore -- who registered at the hotel under the name “Mr. Stone” -- ordered the $540 in-room massage for 11 p.m. through the hotel’s front desk.

Human Events _ and this is, indeed, a very human event _summarizes what is known about the 2006 heat wave as follows:

"When the experienced, licensed massage therapist arrived at Gore’s hotel room door, he embraced her.

“The hug went on a bit too long and I was a bit taken aback by it,” she told the police. “If it weren't Al Gore I would have seriously questioned the situation right there because a hug from an unknown male client before a session is a bit odd and unprofessional by typical LMT [Licensed Massage Therapist] business standards.”

The woman said Gore requested she massage his abdomen, and while she did, “he became somewhat vocal with muffled moans etc. he began demanding I go lower and massaging on the abdominal area.” She became “so freaked” that she “decided to clarify things by asking him as he angrily complained that I was not doing what he wanted, for him to show me exactly what he wanted me to do, such as where to massage.”

Then the former Vice President allegedly grabbed her hand and “shoved it down under the sheet to his pubic hair area… and said ‘There!’ in a very sharp, loud, angry-sounding tone.” She refused to perform a sexual act on him and pulled back her hand.

While she was packing up her massage table, Gore pursued trying to have sex with her. The woman says Gore physically attacked her by caressing her “buttocks and breasts” and “forced an open-mouth kiss” and “pressing his body” against her while wearing only a bathrobe.

She told the police that Gore insisted she sit on the bed and listen to the Pink song “Dear Mr. President.” Ironically, the alleged victim voted for Gore for President in 2000.

As she sat on the edge of the hotel bed, she said Gore “flipped me flat on my back and threw his whole body face down over atop me, pinning me down and outweighing me by quite a bit.” She had to “physically struggle and wrench around” to get out from under him” and refused Gore’s repeated attempts to have sex with her.

Finally, as she was at the hotel door, she told the police that “He pleaded, grabbed me, engulfed me in embrace, tongue kissed me, massaged me, groped my breasts and painfully squeezed my nipples through my clothing, pressed his pelvis against mine, rubbed my buttocks with his hands and fingers and rubbed himself against my crotch, saying, You know you want to do it.”

When she got home, the massage therapist noticed stains on the front of her black slacks which she thought could be “bodily fluids from Gore pushing up against me repeatedly” because “he had nothing on but his hotel issued terry robe with a belt to hold it closed.”

As news of the four-year-old heat wave spread through the tight-knit world community of climate scientists, there was general agreement that a reappraisal of global warming is in order.

"We really thought that greenhouse gases had formed a canopy over the world, trapping heat and resulting in a gradual rise in temperatures," said one scientist, who asked that he not be identified.

"Now, we realize that all of the increase in heat could have come from Al Gore. This puts an entirely new slant on the science."

It wasn't a hot woman who led Gore astray; it was an iceberg

If a famous politician gets rich by fiercely advocating things that aren't true, he also would fiercely protect his fortune

Let's imagine that a well-known American politician, with a large family, decides to spice up his career, as well as his bank account, by investing his reputation and staking his future on a single issue

That's what Al Gore did when he went all-in on man-made global warming.

The payoff was phenomenal. His Hollywood film, An Inconvenient Truth, won an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 2007, even though a British judge ruled that the movie contained at least nine major errors and could not be shown to students without counter-balancing information. Moreover, the BBC alleged that Gore knew that his movie presented false facts, but was afraid that any appearance of uncertainty would simply encourage global warming skeptics.

Retired climatologist Timothy Balls described "An Inconvenient Truth as a "wonderful piece of propaganda" that relies on "visual imagery and gimmickry."

If that is true, said JunkScience.com publisher Steve Milloy, "Gore should win the Nobel Prize for propaganda."

Czech President Vaclav Klaus said he was surprised that Gore won a Nobel Peace Prize, noting that "The relationship between his activities and world peace is unclear and indistinct."

Meanwhile, a conservative think tank in New Zealand came out for stripping Gore’s movie of its Oscar.

The West Australian newspaper reported that the New Zealand Center of Political Research has written to the president of the group that produces the Academy Awards, contending that the alleged scientific errors in the movie disqualify it for the Best Documentary award.

Recently, things have become much thornier for Gore and for other major proponents of man-made global warming theory.

Emails written by climate scientists at East Anglia University, in England, suggest that some of the allegdly scientific data behind the climate center's reports were falsified, and that climate scientists were engaging in a conspsiracy to win acceptance of the global warming argument.

When the questionable data was removed from temperature charts, the famous hockey stick chart showing a recent sharp increase in temperatures no longer showed the uptick.

Nevertheless, Gore has his fortune, and he appears determined to protect it.

The Gores announced recently that they had bought an $8.5 million mansion overlooking the Pacific Ocean in Santa Barbara, CA.

Then the Gores revealed that they are separating after 40 years of marriage, and that Tipper Gore will live in the Santa Barbara mansion. It's her house. And she has played no known role in the global warmng furore.

There already have been calls for Gore to return the Nobel Prize and the Academy Award. If  process servers start coming to the door of Al Gore's mansion in Tennessee, looking for financial recovery on matters related to the global warming hoax, look for the strategic separation to be followed by a strategic divorce.

She'll get the house in Santa Barbara.

The internet, invented by Al Gore, is now supplying pickup lines

(Newser) – Al Gore is known for a lot of things—losing the presidency, "inventing" the Internet, fighting global warming—but charisma ain't one of them. Thankfully, comedian Andy Borowitz and his Twitter followers want to help the newly-single activist woo the ladies. Here are some of the best pickup lines they came up with:

•@BorowitzReport "Here's an inconvenient truth, baby—I want to get into your lockbox!"

•@heymynameisevan "The average temperature has climbed 1.4 degrees Fahrenheit since you walked in here."

•@umajade "How do I love thee? Let me (re)count the ways. "

•@BorowitzReport "Baby, if you want to see how big my hanging chad is, let's go to my place & do a recount."

•@colsonwhitehead "I promise to finish second."

This is cruel

End of an Era

Roxanna Moser

Consider the marriage of Gore,
the blond and the resounding bore.
Appears they've decided
their passion's subsided,
and he's on his way out the door.

It seemed that their union was strong,
but something went terribly wrong.
But the thought that I find
going 'round in my mind
is what on earth took her so long.

CBS identifies cause of Gores' marital cooling - George Bush

Is there anything a journalist cannot or will not twist to bring the topic back to how life would be so much better if only not for that awful George W. Bush? On Tuesday's CBS Evening News, with the help of the Washington Post's Sally Quinn, Sharyl Attkisson managed to blame news, that Al and Tipper Gore are separating, on how they never got over being denied the presidency despite winning the popular vote in 2000. If only Bush hadn't taken it from them.

Attkisson recalled “it's been ten years since that oddly public passionate kiss at the Democratic convention. That was followed by Gore winning the popular vote for President but losing the electoral vote. Family friend Sally Quinn says that may have done the marriage irreparable harm.”

Viewers then head from Quinn, who's married to former Post Executive Editor Ben Bradlee and is now titular overseer of the paper's “On Faith” blog: “He obviously suffered a lot and still is suffering. He'll never get over that and neither will she.”

Just when we thought we were free, the Interagency Working Group has us surrounded with no way out

Al Gore has bought an $8.5 million ocean-front mansion in California in defiance of his own cataclysmic predictions of melting ice caps and boiling oceans, presumably to live closer to the Hollywood producers who have so admired, and rewarded, his fictional writing and film-making.

Many of his colleagues are in disgrace, having made up so much terrifying weather data that they had to use a hockey stick to chart it.

The carbon trading markets, where polluters were to buy the right to poison millions of breathers throughout the world, are all but dead.

Then, just when we thought the global warming alarmists were finally in retreat, we get this:

"There are potential impacts on cancer both directly from climate change and indirectly from climate change mitigation strategies. Climate change will result in higher ambient temperatures that may increase the transfer of volatile and semi-volatile compounds from water and wastewater into the atmosphere, and alter the distribution of contaminants to places more distant from the sources, changing subsequent human exposures. Climate change is also expected to increase heavy precipitation and flooding events, which may increase the chance of toxic contamination leaks from storage facilities or runoff into water from land containing toxic pollutants."

Translation:

If we allow the climate to go on as it is, without interference, we will get cancer.

If we try to mitigate global warming and its effects, we will get cancer.

Just when we thought we were free at last, the alarmists have us surrounded again. This time, the're not giving us any way out.

"This is Science?" asks Climate Skeptic.

"This looks like something a bunch of grad students might have dreamed up in a 10-minute brainstorming session over a few beers. For those who have read Atlas Shrugged, this should look exactly like the State Science Institute’s report on Rearden Metal.

"From the real state science folks at the Interagency Working Group on Climate Change and Health."

Saintly Al Gore has an odd new sugar daddy - Dow

Al Gore, the self-styled squeakiest-clean and deepest-green politician in American history, has some explaining to do this weekend. His environmental organisation has taken money to raise awareness about the need for clean water from a controversial chemicals company involved in the aftermath of one of the world's worst pollution disasters.

Dow Chemical, the US firm which now owns the leaking pesticides factory responsible for thousands of deaths in Bhopal, India, is sponsoring Life Earth events in 150 cities today. The event aims to raise money for clean water programmes. Research by environmental organisations has found dangerous levels of highly toxic chemicals in rivers, lakes and other water supplies close to several other factories owned by Dow and its subsidiaries in countries including the United States, Brazil and South Africa.

Dow's factories at its global headquarters in Midland, Michigan, have been accused of contaminating the region, including the Tittabawassee River floodplains, with high levels of dioxin – one of the "dirty dozen" most dangerous chemicals. In 2007, the highest level of dioxin contamination ever measured by the US Environmental Protection Agency was found in the Michigan Saginaw River. Residents are advised to avoid contact with river sediments and not to eat locally caught fish.

Bill Clinton jokes at Gridiron about spring - "known to Al Gore as proof of global warming"

Former President Bill Clinton made a return to Washington’s public life, speaking to the annual Gridiron Dinner as a stand-in for President Barack Obama and poking some fun at himself, his Oval Office successors and the press corps before getting in pitches for passage of health legislation and aid to Haiti.

Mr. Clinton, known to friend and foe alike as a gifted political orator, showed he hasn’t lost much in that category in the nine years since he left the White House. Presidential speeches to the Gridiron—an organization of Washington journalists—are supposed to be humorous, and Mr. Clinton knew the drill well from his time as a regular dinner guest during his term.

So he got loosened up at Saturday night’s white-tie dinner with a joke at his own expense: “I have been waiting to stand in for President Obama for a long time,” he said, “ and since they turned me down for Dancing with the Stars, I had nothing better to do.”

He said President Obama called to asked him to fill in because the current president was busy in the White House “polishing up his Nobel Peace Prize.” Obama, he said, asked: “You’ve got one of these, don’t you?”–a joke rooted in reports Mr. Clinton is unhappy that the current president got a Nobel Prize after only months in office while Mr. Clinton failed to be awarded one after long efforts to bring peace to the former Yugoslavia and the Middle East.

Weather...climate... who cares? Al Gore refuses to admit that the jig is up for alarmists

If there’s a drought – it’s global warming. When there’s a hurricane – it’s global warming. If there are heavy snows or even blizzards – it’s somehow global warming. And amazingly, the latest round of rainy and windy weather in the Northeast, well that’s consistent with this phenomenon as well, so says former Vice President Al Gore.

Gore, the self-anointed climate change alarmist-in-chief, told supporters on a March 15 conference call that severe weather in certain regions of the country could be attributed to carbon in the atmosphere – including the recent rash of rainy weather.

“[T]he odds have shifted toward much larger downpours,” Gore said. “And we have seen that happen in the Northeast, we’ve seen it happen in the Northwest – in both of those regions are among those that scientists have predicted for a long time would begin to experience much larger downpours.”

But Gore had a specific example in mind. He explained this recent soaking in the Northeastern United States was “consistent” with what global warming alarmists were projecting.

“Just look at what has been happening for the last three days,” Gore said. “The so-called skeptics haven’t noted it because it’s not snow. But the downpours and heavy winds are consistent with what the scientists have long warned about.”

So what did Gore suggest? He proposed to solve these weather events he tied to climate change by revamping the American economy to being powered by “clean renewable energy” and phasing out the reliance of foreign oil.

Al Gore and other alarmists on thin ice

The somnolent American media, which have done as poor a job reporting about climate change as they did on John Edwards, have largely averted their gaze from the inconvenient meltdown of the climate campaign, but the rock solid edifice in the newsrooms is cracking. Al Gore was conspicuously missing in action before surfacing with a long article in the New York Times on February 28, reiterating his familiar parade of horribles: The sea level will rise! Monster storms! Climate refugees in the hundreds of millions! Political chaos the world over! It was the rhetorical equivalent of stamping his feet and saying “It is too so!” In a sign of how dramatic the reversal of fortune has been for the climate campaign, it is now James Inhofe, the leading climate skeptic in the Senate, who is eager to have Gore testify before Congress.

Al Gore, still thinkiing what might have been is

Al Gore, in the New York Times:

It would be an enormous relief if the recent attacks on the science of global warming actually indicated that we do not face an unimaginable calamity requiring large-scale, preventive measures to protect human civilization as we know it.

Of course, we would still need to deal with the national security risks of our growing dependence on a global oil market dominated by dwindling reserves in the most unstable region of the world, and the economic risks of sending hundreds of billions of dollars a year overseas in return for that oil. And we would still trail China in the race to develop smart grids, fast trains, solar power, wind, geothermal and other renewable sources of energy — the most important sources of new jobs in the 21st century.

But what a burden would be lifted! We would no longer have to worry that our grandchildren would one day look back on us as a criminal generation that had selfishly and blithely ignored clear warnings that their fate was in our hands. We could instead celebrate the naysayers who had doggedly persisted in proving that every major National Academy of Sciences report on climate change had simply made a huge mistake.

I, for one, genuinely wish that the climate crisis were an illusion. But unfortunately, the reality of the danger we are courting has not been changed by the discovery of at least two mistakes in the thousands of pages of careful scientific work over the last 22 years by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. In fact, the crisis is still growing because we are continuing to dump 90 million tons of global-warming pollution every 24 hours into the atmosphere — as if it were an open sewer.

Here are some plausible interpretations of Gore's essay:

Jeez, I went long on windmills when I should have gone short.

My side really had balls. Imagine, we got by with comparing temperatures guesstimated by measuring tree rings with temperatures measured by thermometers. That's one way we got those huge temperature swings.

We got by, for a while, with wiping the Little Ice Age (1350-1850) out of our memory banks, but it came back to bite us.

We can't lose our edge. You may have noticed that in January, when lots of people found that their houses had become igloos, we were talking about January being the hottest month on record.

If we show weakness, our critics might start talking about prosecuting us. I might lose my Oscar.

Al Gore: Of course warming stimulates snowfalls

With all the climate deniers spreading lies about the climate crisis in the media, it's vital we arm ourselves with the facts. Thankfully, Repower America put together a great fact sheet explaining the relationship between the climate crisis and extreme weather:

"Fact: Climate change causes more frequent and severe snowstorms

Record snowstorms need two things: temperatures below freezing, and very high humidity. On a planet warmer by a few degrees on average, the Northeast US will still have plenty of days below freezing; the big difference will be warmer seas producing higher levels of moisture in the air — and therefore more severe cold-season storms."

"Fact: We can expect more extreme weather

Scientists tell us that climate change has already led to more extreme weather in the United States and we can expect stronger hurricanes, more wildfires, heatwaves and droughts, to name a few."

"Fact: The world is warming at a quickening pace

Weather in one region over days or months should not be confused with climate or the patterns of weather over decades and centuries. And the science is clear here: the last decade was the hottest on record. And to put this year’s weather in perspective, January was warmer than average for the continental United States."

There's heat, and then there's Al Gore's real heat

Al Gore on Conan O'Brien's show the other day:

Conan: Now, what about … you talk in the book about geothermal energy …
Al: Yeah, yeah.

Conan: and that is, as I understand it, using the heat that's generated from the core of the earth …

Al: Yeah.

Conan: … to create energy, and it sounds to me like an evil plan by Lex Luthor to defeat Superman. Can you, can you tell me, is this a viable solution, geothermal energy?

Al: It definitely is, and it's a relatively new one. People think about geothermal energy — when they think about it at all — in terms of the hot water bubbling up in some places, but two kilometers or so down in most places there are these incredibly hot rocks, 'cause the interior of the earth is extremely hot, several million degrees, and the crust of the earth is hot …
 
My take: "...several million degrees"? Just two kilometers down?
 
Listen up, Al. If the rocks were several million degrees just 1 1/4 miles beneath your feet you'd be running around the world prattling aboutglobal warming. You'd be having visions of the oceans boiling. You'd be investing in windmills while describing carbon dioxide as a dangerous gas that will eventually kill all life on earth. You'd have a preening narcissist in the White House making decisions based on what's good for him, not on what's good for not-Obamas.
 
Besides, you'd be dancing like a hip-hopper as your feet go up in smoke.