The Green Tsunami: A Tidal Wave of Eco-Babble Drowning Us All (8 page)

In England, Al’s film was shown in public school classrooms.
English parents, skeptical of the outrageous claims Gore made in his
film, demanded the schools stop showing his movie. When that failed,
the parents filed a formal lawsuit with the London High Court and
demanded Gore prove his environmental claims or admit they were
false. Evidence from both sides was weighed at trial and the esteemed
judge ruled, “The Armageddon scenario that he depicts…. is not
based on any scientific view.”

The judge ordered whenever Al’s movie was shown to English
school children, each impressionable child must be given a 77-page
booklet detailing the nine specific central errors contained in “An
Inconvenient Truth”. As Republican political analyst, Karl Rove, says
with a chuckle, “Al doesn’t tell Whoppers, he tells double-patty with
cheese, super-sized Whoppers.” However, do you recall reading about
the trial in any national or local newspapers? .

“An Inconvenient Truth” has turned out to be, at the very least,
“An Inconsistent Truth”. The public was sold a marvelous fictional
account of impending disaster that rivals anything published since the
fables of C.S Lewis, H. R. R. Tolkien and Harry Potter combined.
Governments have accepted the eco-babble as fact and spent billions,
if not trillions, of dollars to perpetuate environmental myths.

As we revisit Al’s fantastic claims, more and more of them are being
revealed as the hoax they truly are. First and foremost, the globe is not
warming. In fact, as previously referenced, in 16 of the last 18 years the
Earth’s temperature has remained more or less unchanged. Recently
it has, almost unbelievably, started to cool. That cooling trend is now
the major concern of virtually every climate scientist around the earth,
the exact opposite of Al’s global warming scenario.

Second, remember Al’s claim that the Himalayan glaciers were melting and would disappear by the year 2035? Turns out that story was
printed in 1999 in “New Science” magazine and was an off handed
quote attributed to a pair of environmental hikers, not scientists, not
scientific observers, but two hikers. The story appeared in print and
fit neatly into Al’s “Global Warming” scenario, so he included it in
his movie. For years, it was considered an indisputable fact. Now, the
Himalayan glacier myth has melted but the glaciers are still there, as
icy and cold as ever. “New Science” magazine has since retracted the
story, but not Al or the mainstream media.

No doubt, we all remember those hopeless white polar bears in Al’s
movie seen floating on a small chunk of ice. While there is good news
for polar bear fans, there is bad news for the environmental alarmists. According to the America’s Fish and Wildlife Service latest polar
bear census, the polar bears are multiplying abundantly. As a matter
of fact, the natives who live in the Arctic wilds are asking the bears be
removed from the “Endangered Species” list so they can be hunted,
lest they over-populate the area and threaten the local citizenry.

One of the grandest claims made in Al’s film was rising ocean levels
causing another ocean crisis. Because the glaciers and ice fields were
melting, coastal cities around the world would be flooded within the
predictable future. Las Vegas would become a beach front community
and perhaps Pittsburg, PA as well. Rising oceans would surely inundate the populated islands in the South Pacific and the Caribbean.
Flooding of the islands would forever change civilization as we know
it. All, of course, are foolish predictions that simply haven’t happened
the way Al told us they would.

The oceans of the world are very accurately measured by ocean
buoys that are strategically placed all over the planet. A colleague of
mine, Lord Christopher Monkton (who served as Margaret Thatcher’s
environmental advisor), sent me an email reporting that the oceans
of the world “will rise about 1 inch (you read that right, one inch)
during the next century” (yes, a one inch rise in the next 100 years).
Lord Monckton is nothing short of a genius and his website is an
encyclopedia of common sense environmentalism that doesn’t mince
words. You will find it listed in the back of this book.

As Gore raked in massive profits from his film career and received
global accolades for his courageous reporting about the earth’s
impending environmental disasters, he began rethinking his career as
an environmental advocate. He decided to purse a second career path,
that of an “environmental investor”. In 2006, Gore was invited to join
as full partner in the Silicon Valley venture capitol firm, Kleiner Perkins
Caulfield & Byers (KPCB), who provided funding for a great deal of
Silicon Valley’s pioneers. Many predicted Al would soon become the
world’s first “Carbon Billionaire”.

Gore’s investments in an astounding array of environmental projects have indeed added to his incredible wealth. Unfortunately, that
cloud of misfortune has followed Al into this newest career being
known now as a “do as I say, not as I do” environmentalist.

Al owns four homes across the country. One is located in Arlington,
Virginia across the Potomac River from the nation’s capitol and
another located in Carthage, Tennessee in the district he represented
as a U.S. Senator. He purchased a third home in Nashville with an
expansive 20 rooms and 10,000 square feet of living space. But it has
become nothing short of an environmental public relations disaster.
The mansion reportedly uses more than 30 times the annual electricity than the average Nashville electric customer with not a single solar
panel in sight.

A few years ago, Al bought his fourth home, best described as a
mega-estate in Montecito, California. The asking price for the mansion
was $8.8 million dollars. Not bad for a former presidential candidate
who was hustling college speaking dates after his loss in the 2000
election. Pictures of the new Gore “California Palace” can be found
online with not one visible solar panel anywhere.

To say that Al’s fortunes have increased significantly in recent years
would be something of a gross understatement. However, during an
August 2011 speech he delivered at The Aspen Institute in Colorado,
the first visible chinks in Al’s always-confident demeanor were exposed.

Al began his talk slowly and somewhat defensively claiming that
“special interest groups were paying pseudo-scientists to pretend to be
scientists and put out the message, ‘this climate thing, it’s nonsense’.
Manmade CO-2 doesn’t trap heat,” he said. And then he shocked the
audience as he shouted into the microphone, “Bull-****!”

“It’s no longer acceptable in mixed company, meaning bipartisan
company, to use the G**-damn word ‘climate’”.
The man who once claimed he invented the internet soon found his
unfortunate meltdown had gone viral.
As the year 2012 came to a close, Gore was finalizing the sale of his
failing television network, Current TV, to a company backed by the
oil-rich, Middle East nation of Qatar, a country that has become sickeningly wealthy by selling Al’s dreaded “fossil fuels” to the rest of the
world. Remember, in his movie “An Inconvenient Truth”, he claimed
fossil fuels were the cause of CO-2 emissions and they in turn caused
global warming. Al, as an investor, not an advocate, is a 20% owner of
the Current TV network. His take of the $500,000,000 deal netted
Al a tidy check for $100 million.
Glen Beck revealed publically that his communications company,
Mercury, offered to buy Current TV from Gore. Apparently, Beck’s
conservative viewpoint didn’t fit Gore’s agenda. According to a press
release from Gore, following the transaction, Al Jazeera television
seemed a better fit. By the way, this is the network in the Middle East
that once posted beheadings by Al Qaeda terrorists, but yet seemed
more aligned with Gore’s philosophy of hard hitting television news
reporting.
The transaction has fallen under a tad bit of scrutiny from the mainstream media. In a recent interview on NBC’s “Today Show”, Matt
Lauer suggested Al was guilty of hypocrisy. Al said he understood the
view point but disagreed with the reasoning.
Al is a wealthy man, but must be unhappy with his film completely
discredited, full of factual errors and his Nobel Peace Prize shared with
a bunch of U.N. sponsored scientists who have been found wanting.
The mainstream media continues to beat his “environmental drum”
as though nothing has happened while our local, state, federal and
international governments continue to use his fanciful conclusions as
the basis for economic policy and massive investments of scarce public
tax dollars.
His phony globalist environmental agenda continues to be foisted
on our local communities in the name of the United Nation’s “Agenda
21” ICLEI programs. However, as American citizens are getting
informed they are beginning to push back.
Recalling the John Birch Society ‘70s slogan, “Get the U.S. out
of the U.N.” coupled with decades of Americans demanding “Get
the U.N. out of America”, now more than ever both have become a
renewed rallying cry across the nation.

Consider how far the goals of global environmentalists have crept
into our federal government and the astounding number of greenenergy businesses that have been given federal loans from the U.S.
Department of Energy and then quickly went bankrupt.

Solyndra is probably the best known example of green investment
gone awry, though the business was only awarded a $535-million loan
guarantee. To date, 36 firms that received federal assistance for their
“green energy” projects have either gone bust, are preparing to enter
bankruptcy or have begun
laying
off workers instead of
growing
green
jobs.

Sunpower was a solar project that received $1.2 billion, First Solar
received $1.46 billion and Brightsource Energy pulled in $1.6 billion—all from Uncle Stupid in D.C. Not including those three green
investments, thirty three other projects received over $2,812,000,000
of wasted federal tax money. If President Obama’s second inaugural
address is any indication, plans for dozens of “investments” into green
projects are on the federal fast track before he leaves office in 2016.

Tax dollars have also supported electric car companies. The Tesla
and Fisker electric car manufacturers have yet to become household
names. Why? Because both have spent their federal money to create
pricey, battery driven vehicles that buyers simply aren’t buying. Fisker
alone received $529-million to mass produce an affordable all-electric
car. Now they too have gone under, still owing $200 million to the
American taxpayers, while two Chinese companies are in a bidding
war to purchase them.

Speaking of Chinese companies, another one has swooped in and
purchased the bankrupt American battery company A123 for a cool
$260 million. A mere $249 million was awarded A123 in 2009 from
the stimulus/taxpayers “green energy pot”.

General Motors (GM), now known affectionately as “Government
Motors”, received federal bailout money and put their pricey, all electric Volt on the market. Although they have tried every imaginable
marketing ploy, they have been spectacularly unsuccessful at creating
buyers. Production has now been halted.

Millions more of our tax money has been invested in the construction of electric car-charging stations for the non-existent fleet of all
electric cars. Tennessee is a perfect example of lots of charging stations
with a handful of electric cars to service. In some states, gas station
owners have been ordered by local, regional, state and federal officials
to install electric car charging stations right next to their gas pumps.

Also, billions of tax dollars have been used to construct industrial
strength windmill farms and mega-solar plants. Promises at ribbon cutting ceremonies always sound great but delivering on them has been a
long and difficult process. Those nasty unintended consequences that
government has become so famous in assuring never disappoint with
one problem, delay or closure after another.

In California, along a major desert highway leading to the state’s
border with Nevada, several astoundingly large solar projects are under
construction. Three are being built in America’s largest county, San
Bernardino, where they cover an astounding 22,000 acres of desert
land. That translates into 43 square miles.

The Ivanpah Solar Project is one of the three and includes a total of
170,000 garage-door-size solar mirrors. Each is automatically adjusted
every ten seconds by a GPS system that tracks the sun. The mirrors
reflect sunlight into three, 45-story water storage towers where the
water is heated to 1,000 degrees. That hot water creates steam power
that generates the electricity. When completed, the project will be the
largest solar plant of its kind anywhere in the world. That claim is
easily justifiable for one simple reason; no one has ever tried this complicated form of solar power generation before, anywhere.

Will it work? That’s anybody’s guess. But that much feared “law
of unintended consequences” has already raised its ugly head in the
Ivanpah construction project. For 220 million years, the desert has
been home to the Desert Tortoise. No surprise, it is a species found
on the environmentalist’s favorite, “Endangered Species” list. When
it was learned several tortoises had wandered into paths of big and
powerful earth movers and crushed, the project had a big problem. So
far that “turtle crisis” has cost the company building the project more
than $56-million to protect and relocate tortoises whose habitat has
been invaded by the sprawling Ivanpah solar project.