Hell, who cares if you burn a bazillion tons of CO2 during that cross country private jet flight … all you’ve got to do is flip some cash to the Carbon Credit police and off you go… conscience free … hassle free … and all for the good of Terra Firma.
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In same Global Warming “terrorism/brainwashing vein,good column by Rick Bell @ Cal.Sun..”Suzuki Takes Eco-Crisis to Treehouse Fans”
OT here,but another good story re:Garthy full of himself Turner(link @ Bourque) He is refusing to move out of his Cons.office on the Hill..headline:Garth Defies Tory Eviction Notice.
With all the talk of things ordinary people must do – turn the heat down in our homes, walk or bicycle or take public transit, etc etc – there’s one major item no-one seems to be discussing. During the course of the 20th century, thanks to cheap energy and the advertising industry, we became extremely clean and odour-free. Most people bath or shower at least once a day, many people twice or more a day. Producing all that hot water requires a tremendous amount of energy. We must return to the ways of our ancestors and stop bathing more than once a week and stop laundering our clothing so often. I know clothing is mainly made in China and is very cheap, but laundering wears it out and uses energy-intensive hot water.
It angers me that the high priests, such as Suzuki and Gore, are not raising this issue. People, stop bathing and laundering your clothes, it’s a gigantic energy use sinkhole.
…in fact, if everyone stopped bathing altogether in the winter, and only bathed in rivers and lakes when the ice is out, the energy saving would be astronomical. Most cities have rivers or lakes or canals that could be set up to receive bathers. A couple of times in my life I’ve been in remote situations where bathing simply was not possible. After about ten days people reach a level of dirtiness and odiferousness that does not seem to get any worse and, if everyone’s in the same boat, it’s bearable, almost unnoticeable, once you’re used to it.
Make hot water heaters illegal.
One only has to go to Germany where the streets are clean but the people only bath once a week. I didnt realize till now that this is how they made their “grin ‘ouse gaz” targets. And the French too with their disheveled hairdos- they cant be much for showers.
I did notice the other night while sipping my 1975 stoney hill chardonnay that the ice cubes melted more quickly in relationship to time spent passing gas and chewing cold cuts.Knowing that I can purchase carbon neutral credits will now ensure that I can continue this simple task guilt free.A simple critism Mr C’junk to your otherwise enlightening article,celebritys,royalty and others of the silk curtain socialist elite ‘do not fart’!It is ‘passing wind’.
Two-tiered environmental policy! One for the rich, one for the poor. How do the lieberals justify that?
Can I just buy a carbon credit sticker to paste on the bumper of my SUV. It can cover up my old “Nuke the Gay Whales for Jesus” sticker.
Those who don’t live within walking/biking distance of a river or lake can always turn to the old reliable metal washtubs that our ancestors used. Place outdoors on the south side of a building & let the sun’s rays warm the water. There’s the further advantage of water conservation since all family members use the same bathwater, starting with the youngest family member & ending with the papa.
Yep, back to the old days.
And Kate’s dog can drink her bath water just like in the picture!!
On the other hand, we have a considerable amount of politicians who are drinking each others bath water.
I find having a 60 gallon water heater tank best though, as it keeps my dishwasher, clothes washer, 3 showers, and tub well supplied.
Collecting rain water by the barrel and letting it heat in the sun doesn’t seem quite efficient. Besides I don’t mind if I keep some of my friends at BC Gas in the ‘green’.
Perhaps we can all borrow Kate’s tub when she and her dog are done?
Seen this before? The likes of Suzuki, Gore, et al, have passed this way before. Climate sinners! Take heart. You want to buy indulgences? Gore-Suzuki, at al, will sell them to you. You will save your climate-soul. Ease your conscience; pay out, sinners. Then go back to your emissions.
But, you ask: Is there a catch? Not as long as you keep paying, and paying, and paying…
It’s a money machine. Easy money: Suzuki collected $835 from children at the school in Calgary for his “Foundation”. …-
Chaucer’s (1343-1400) Canterbury Tales: The Pardoner.
The Pardoner
The Pardoner rides in the very back of the party in the General Prologue and is fittingly the most marginalized character in the company. His profession is somewhat dubious—pardoners offered indulgences, or previously written pardons for particular sins, to people who repented of the sin they had committed. Along with receiving the indulgence, the penitent would make a donation to the Church by giving money to the pardoner. Eventually, this “charitable” donation became a necessary part of receiving an indulgence. Paid by the Church to offer these indulgences, the Pardoner was not supposed to pocket the penitents’ charitable donations. That said, the practice of offering indulgences came under critique by quite a few churchmen, since once the charitable donation became a practice allied to receiving an indulgence, it began to look like one could cleanse oneself of sin by simply paying off the Church. Additionally, widespread suspicion held that pardoners counterfeited the pope’s signature on illegitimate indulgences and pocketed the “charitable donations” themselves. …-
http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/canterbury/canalysis.html
The reds & pinkos have just painted themselves green
3w.americanthinker.com/2007/02/global_warming_as_european_imp.html
February 26, 2007
Global Warming as European Imperialism
By James Lewis
The great Global Warming scare is only the latest eructation of European imperialism. Euro-imperialism used to be known as socialism. Before that, it was just called British or French imperialism, because those countries were very proud of it. There was no need to lie. The only reason today’s huge European effort to control the world isn’t called “imperialism” any more, is that its supporters hate that word. The reality of imperial control is fine with them.
According to one dictionary, imperialism is
“the policy of extending the rule or authority of an empire or nation over foreign countries, or of acquiring and holding colonies and dependencies.”
That is exactly European policy today with regard to Global Warming.
But that’s only the dictionary. The media don’t follow the dictionary definition of imperialism. They follow Vladimir Lenin’s definition instead. For Lenin, imperialism had to be a capitalist plot. Only capitalists could exploit colonies for their resources; the fact that this is plain unvarnished nonsense was part of its charm. It’s like the slogan that Blacks can’t be racists. It makes no sense, but to certain people bigger nonsense means more profundity.
So Lenin told the world that a proletarian power can only conquer other nations to liberate them, not to exploit them. So it must be true that the Soviet Union was not imperialist, regardless of the Hungarian and Czech invasions, the wholesale carting of East German industries to Russia after 1946, and 70 years of the immiseration of Russia, Eastern Europe, China, and North Korea (even today). Assuredly, Moscow’s centralized control of worldwide communist parties didn’t count as imperialism. Got that? The Soviet Empire could not be imperialist, no matter how it acted; US leadership was imperialist regardless of the facts. If you don’t get that, you’re just not thinking like a media clone.
Everybody in the media knows the US attacked Saddam in Iraq to steal the oil. That’s imperialism. It would have been a lot easier to keep our troops in Kuwait in 1992, because Kuwait has plenty of oil and is easier to control than Iraq. We could have cut a deal with Saddam and divided it in half. But thinking is not the strong suit for these folks.
There’s another little word missing in the Global Warming discussion: Europe.
All self-respecting capitals of 19th century Europe had their empires. There was the Habsburg Empire, Napoleon’s French Empire, Bismarck’s Reich (Empire – later the Nazi Reich). Queen Victoria reigned over the British Empire, on which the sun never set. The Dutch had an empire in the East Indies. The Belgians owned the Congo (and behaved brutally even by European standards). Even the Swedes and Danes had empires. The Russian Tsars were Emperors (the word “Tsar” comes from “Ceasar.”) The Turks had the Ottoman Empire. Spain and France tried but failed to get theirs in South America; and the Germans were just boiling mad that the British Navy ruled the oceans so they couldn’t get an empire in Africa. Poor disunited Italy had to wait until the 20th Century to catch up with its empire, too late for the respectable 19th century club . They all felt deserved their own colonies. Imperialism was in.
So the next time you tour Europe to goggle at the public buildings, the equestrian sculptures, the museums, the Eiffel Tower, Nelson’s Monument, the castles and the palaces, just remember one little word: “imperialism.” Many of those famous tourist spots are mementos of bloody conquest and violent domination of subject peoples. That will help anchor your Europhilia in reality.
Comes the Bolshevik Revolution in 1914, and suddenly no progressive intellectual wants to be an imperialist any more. But here’s the kicker: nothing changes but the words. Europe still sees itself as the center of the world and the most advanced human civilization. Each European capital has the right — nay, the duty — of imposing its language, its utter conviction of superiority, its educational system and its ruling class on properly obedient colonial peoples. Today that pervasive sense of superiority still inspires the European Union — the new empire-to-be — and it is a lifelong obsession among French politicians like Dominique De Villepin. French foreign policy is shot through with old-fashioned imperialist ideology. It’s why they’re so nasty.
Even though Moscow had all the trappings, the world-conquering mission, the bullying of neighbors, the goose stepping Red Army, the KGB, the worldwide espionage (which got Stalin his atom bomb), the egomania, the global export of self-glorifying ideology — it could not be imperialist because the USSR was not a nation, verstehen Sie? It was the harbinger of Peace on Earth. It was Socialism in One Country, until Stalin found it regrettably necessary to appeal to Russian patriotism to stop the Nazi Blitzkrieg. Russian peasants wouldn’t die for the Party, but they would risk all for Mother Russia. In any case, the True Believers never dropped the pretense that Soviet imperialism of the worst kind could not be imperialism, because the USSR was not a nation, but a hope.
Today’s European Union also denies being a nation. Like the USSR, the EU is something never heretofore seen. It is a Platonic Ideal realized in flesh and blood. It is the Transubstantiation of the Da-Sein to the Nichts-Sein. It is the socialist meme applied to Brussels rather than Moscow. And it’s something Americans better get straight, because we will be flooded with EU-propaganda for the next fifty years arguing that the European Union is not an imperial enterprise, contrary to all appearances.
Now Europe has two practical problems, imperialism-wise. One is that it’s pathetically weak and occupied with bitter arguments behind the scenes, between the French, the Germans, the Brits, the Low Countries, and now the Poles-Czechs-Greeks-Spaniards-Italians-Serbs-Austro-Bulgo-Hungarians. (See: Airbus, Concorde, German subsidies for French farmers, etc., etc., etc.). The EU is not a union; it’s a vendetta.
The second weakness is that Europe has relied on the United States for its real defense since 1946. And still does. So the European Empire can’t resort to the imperialist shtick of expansionist warfare. Instead, its tax money goes to universal health care, welfare payments for the fast-growing offspring of Muslim immigrants, the latest vote-buying schemes, plus sex, drugs and rock n’ roll to distract the people. The Romans called it “bread and circuses” — keep the common folk well-fed and staring at the boob-tube, and you can do whatever you want.
Bottom line: Europe needs the United States but despises us. Not because of anything we do — anti-Americanism goes back long before we were a power to reckon with. It’s a major historical theme. You can see it in European literature — in the Sherlock Holmes stories, for example, where a disproportionate number of its sex-obsessed villains come from the American West and the colonies. Thomas Jefferson as Ambassador to Paris was outraged to hear that the French intellectual class was convinced that American animals are invariably smaller than European ones — because they were degenerate offspring of the Euro originals. That conviction of innate superiority has always been part of the European psyche, and nothing has changed today.
So Europe needs to control America in order to carry out its imperial mission. Don’t ask why; that’s the wrong question. Europe needs to control us because they do. The explanations change from time to time. Today the explanation is that the US is just not as peace-loving as the hopelessly weak and gutless elites of Europe. In the 19th century it was the opposite: The US was not warlike enough compared to the Prussians, the Russians, the French and the English. Europeans felt sure about it. They were the proud aristocrats. We were their weakling rejects, remember?
So how does one control America from Brussels? One way is to shout at us until we give in, a method pioneered by the Soviets and other bullies. A closely related method is to apply all the principles of agitprop, learned during the Soviet phase, from spontaneous popular demonstrations (these days it’s polls) to the voices of “world renowned scientists” to put their stamp of approval on the Global Warming scam. Give Al Gore a Nobel Prize, and stack international gathering spots like the UN and Davos with party members.
We can’t forget how close the European Left came to exporting Eurosocialism to America: Harry Hopkins, FDR’s closest advisor, turns out to have been a Soviet source, perhaps an agent of influence, perhaps a spy. (It’s hard to know exactly.) Ronald Reagan turned against Stalinists when he saw how they tried to control the unions in Hollywood. Henry Wallace was almost elected Democrat candidate for President over Truman. Al Gore Sr. was a close friend, ally and financial beneficiary of Armand Hammer, the millionaire KGB paymaster in the United States, who boasted of owning his personal US Senator from Tennessee.
(Al Gore Jr., the leading American agitator for Global Warming, was therefore raised to become a member of the American ruling class, and president some day. Which is why the Florida recount came as such a shock to poor Al; it wasn’t supposed to be that way. He was fated to rule America. He’s still shell-shocked. The Nobel Peace Prize, the OscarTM, even worldwide acclaim as the Goracle of Global Warming will never be good enough.)
And then the Soviet Union, through Castro’s Cuba, almost managed to provoke Marxist rebellions throughout Latin America, with the enthusiastic help of our Democrats — leaving a legacy of anti-American hatred that still pervades the chattering classes South of the Border. Those were all different aggressive salients of European Imperialism.
Americans are prone to ask “why do they hate us?” A good answer is that we’re the leading pop culture of the world — which is why teens all over the world imitate American rock music, wear torn jeans, and cuss in English. Europe is elite-driven, and elites despise ordinary people; it’s their main source of self-esteem. So today they say they hate us because of Global Warming, but for many years they hated us for the West’s failure to help the Soviets and Chinese become high-polluting industrial giants. It used to be not enough pollution; today it’s too much.
The underlying psychological drive hasn’t changed. Imperialism has always been primarily driven not by greed but by a lust for glory: The self-glorification of elites with fragile egos. When you do the math, some scholars aver, the British Empire under Queen Victoria cost more pounds than it earned for Britain, but that wasn’t the point. The Empire demonstrated the superiority of the British ruling class. Today, substitute the “BBC Class” for “British upper class,” and you’ve got the same thing.
The BBC Class considers itself internationalist, socialist, and Green (and not just with envy). The Greens are of course Reds with camouflage paint. After the USSR fell of its own internal contradictions around 1989, the Left needed a new shtick. They could not admit that free markets and democracies worked better than their engrained ideology. So they found a different set of reasons to do the same thing. The old way was European imperialism à la Karl Marx. The new way was European Imperialism à la Al Gore.
The big problem with the Global Warming riff is that China and India will never accept it, and they are quickly outpacing the West in carbon dioxide emissions. China was tyrannized in the most horrific way by European Socialism, first as the “Chinese melon” carved up by the European powers, and then under Mao Zedong, killing tens of millions of his people. India never had a Communist revolution (though it was tried), but instead adopted Jawaharlal Nehru’s British Public School Socialism, which Nehru had learned in London. It ruined the Indian economy for decades.
Having been burned badly by Europe’s ideological imperialism in recent history, will India and China swallow the new version, a.k.a. Global Warming? And sacrifice their own growing prosperity to avoid a disaster that never will be? When even Europe itself is just pretending to be lowering CO2 emissions?
India and China would be utter fools if they fell for Europrop again. How many decades of ruin do you need, before you begin to suspect the snake oil salesman?
So watch for Al Gore to run out of steam in a couple of years. Soon the Greens will be looking for another false alarm to scare the chickens with. What will it be? Asteroids crunching the earth? Aliens from outer space? That old stand-by, the international Jewish conspiracy? Regardless, you know who will be wearing the White Hats and the Black Hats. Because the story always stays the same. Only the details are changed.
James Lewis is a frequent contributor to American Thinker, and blogs at 3wdangeroustimes.wordpress.com
“Torture your data long enough and it will confess to anything.”
Now I know why they call it ‘TINSEL TOWN’.
Did they really give Gore’s fiction an award in the “documentary” cataGOREy ???
Does the flake Gore not realize he needs a “revised” edition of his fictional-docudrama ??
The United Nations IPCC, whose Goofs started all this folly, has recently had to admit they made a mistake and have downgraded the threat.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/12/10/nclimate10.xml
“… The IPCC has been forced to halve its predictions for sea-level rise by 2100, one of the key threats from climate change. It says improved data have reduced the upper estimate from 34 in to 17 in.”
A few more “adjustments” and the water won’t even reach the beach blankets.
And to think Canadian public school principals allow Gore worshiping Suzuki to get inside our children’s schools.
One would think we will soon be seeing the Mother-Of-All-Lawsuits.
Last night was supposed to be the Green Oscars. How much energy went into making all those gowns, hairdos, jewelry etc. Why didn’t those females wear last years clothes. In the old days one had a Sunday go to meeting dress and one pair of shoes. The reason June was so popular for weddings was that was the month for the yearly bath. I never watched the Oscars but might next year to see how many women wear old clothes.
cal2:
The French don’t need to bath. They spritz the air with perfume and then walk through it…bathing daily is not in vogue. I smelled it first-hand!
So, our new motto is “Stink and Save the Climate”
Warren Kinsella on Goldenberg’s confession that the Chretien Liberals knew that Kyoto was unachievable, “This guy may think it’s true, but I can tell you that Jean Chrétien certainly didn’t look at it that way. At all.” WK.
So what are ya saying Warren ??
a) If JC thought Kyoto was a Hoax but sghned it anyways he was dishonest.
OR
b) If he believed the Kyoto Hoax he is dumber than we thought.
Got to be one or the other…. No, maybe both.
This reminds my of Monty Python in so many ways!
And if you think this
//www.cbc.ca/money/story/2007/02/26/gasshortage.html
is a problem, multiply it by a Billion times and you have the Gore/Suzuki Kyoto problem.
Al Gore may have won an award last night but let’s wait for the look on his smug mush when he’s proven
to be sprouting bullshit.
The folks in Tinseltown should be the last people to
be talking about saving anything on the planet with
their displays of excesses.
Both Gore and Suzuki are opportunists and will go down as idiots in the course of time.
Can anyone here do math? If Gore produces 1000X the average GHGs, and he convinces 10000 people to cut their GHGs in half, then it’s still over 45% reduction.
Canada is the second coldest country in the world, we were the coldest until the USSR broke up and the warm bits left the cold and rude bits behind. buckets of water heating in the sun doesnt work for anyone more than 30 miles east of suzuki.
Get real, the suzukites will have us all on “substainable development” as Borat Dion would say. thats a combination of subsistance and attainable.
For a country with its midpoint at Baker Lake NWT how can anyone figure we shouldnt heat.
“Hell, who cares if you burn a bazillion tons of CO2 during that cross country private jet flight … all you’ve got to do is flip some cash to the Carbon Credit police and off you go… conscience free … hassle free … and all for the good of Terra Firma.”
AH HA!!! You have discovered the real “Inconvenient Truth”. So now, go stand in the corner until you learn to respect, and not question, those *superior* to you.
anon: Yes we can do the math … Gore will go on polluting without feeling any pinch … while those 100000 suckers he duped will pay for it. You seem to forget that he’ll continue to own multiple mansions and fly wherever he goes … even if it’s for a new pair of shoes in Paris. In the English language its called hypocrisy and duplicity.
Actually “anon”, if, using your proportions, Al Gore strangled himself with a rope he would have acheived a 9% reduction. In reality it would be a 40% reduction:
GHG (0) = 10,001 X
GHG (1) = 1,000X + 50% of 10,000X
GHG (1) / GHG (0) = 60%
Even better if he buried himself in sand he’d create a “carbon sink”.
“Why Al Gore can Fart … but You Can’t”
Well, just take a look at the bloated animal carcass! He looks like he’s been on a vodka and strudel binge for six years running. In other words, an flabby overweight drunken piece of blowhard shit.
Manbearpig wants to eat all the food you can’t.
Hawkins: ???
GHG(i) = 10,000 + 1,000 = 11,000.
GHG(f) = 5,000 + 1,000 = 6,000.
GHG(f)/GHG(i) ~ 55%, reduction of 45%.
Warning: puke alert if you visit this site:
http://tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070225/ENTERTAINMENT2004/70225026
“”An Inconvenient Truth,” the story of Al Gore and his passionate, decades-long quest to warn the world about global warming, won an Academy Award for best documentary feature tonight in Los Angeles.”
Decades long quest?? WTF?? I guess that means Al Gore invented global warming before he invented the internet.
“For the first time, the Oscars have officially gone Green, “which means that environmentally intelligent practices have been integrated into every aspect of the planning and production of the Academy Awards,” Gore added. “And you know what? It is not as hard as you might think. We have a long way to go, but all of us can do something in our own lives to make a difference.”
The hypocrisy here is just mind-boggling. Just because the pampered darlings of the entertainment industry showed up in hybrid cars instead of the usual stretch limo, this makes them green? In this orgy of righteous self-congratulation, did anybody volunteer to reduce the fortunes they spend on clothes, mansions, vehicles, private planes etc. Do these passionate believers in reducing anthropogenic global warming know where carbon emissions actually come from? Or maybe they just buy carbon credits from China?
“Said DiCaprio, “I’m very proud to be standing next to such an inspirational leader in the fight against global warming. You are a true champion for the cause, Mr. Gore. Now are you sure, are you positive that all of this hard work hasn’t inspired you to make any other kind some kind of major, major announcement the world tonight.” ”
There aren’t enough li’l puker icons in the world to garnish that paragraph.
http://tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070225/ENTERTAINMENT2004/70225026
Ontario makes first step to cut emmissions
http://www.cbc.ca/money/story/2007/02/26/gasshortage.html
denies refineries the “izzy money”
Paul: That’s your counter-argument? Your solution is to whine about how it’s not fair? Are you eight? Do you understand necessity and the greater good? Do you really think this is all a communist scheme? You know that carbon trading is a market idea based on creating financial incentives to reduce emissions, right?
Sorry for you “anon”, but if he hung himself with the rope you’d have 10,000 so 10,000/11,000 = 91% (9% reduction). The socialist planner would use 10,001 units as the starting point for his determination as to whether to allow Al Gore to emit gas and 6,000 units your hypothetical ending point (40% not 45%).
I think I see where you go off the rails “anon”. You think that the socialist planner would allow Al Gore to consume his 1000 units even if he wasn’t helping the green goblins. He’d likely be sent to a re-education camp if he thought he could do that! At camp, he’d be expected to give his loose change to Suzuki’s “foundation”
Which brings us to this:
link>http://dustmybroom.com/
“David Suzuki is a Fascist!”
Pfffftttt Gore has nothing in Chairman Moe for providing REALLY scary fictions:
The excerpt below comes from an interview titled “The Wizard Of the Baca Grande,” which Maurice Strong conducted with WEST magazine of Alberta, Canada May 1990. Strong concluded the interview with a thought provoking, apocalyptic story from a novel he says he would like to write:
“Each year the World Economic Forum convenes in Davos, Switzerland. Over a thousand CEOs, prime ministers, finance ministers, and leading academics gather in February to attend meetings and set the economic agendas for the year ahead.
What if a small group of these word leaders were to conclude that the principle risk to the earth comes from the actions of the rich countries? And if the world is to survive, those rich countries would have to sign an agreement reducing their impact on the environment. Will they do it? Will the rich countries agree to reduce their impact on the environment? Will they agree to save the earth?
The group’s conclusion is ‘no.’ The rich countries won’t do it. They won’t change. So, in order to save the planet, the group decides: isn’t the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn’t it our responsibility to bring that about?
This group of world leaders form a secret society to bring about a world collapse. It’s February. They’re all at Davos. These aren’t terrorists – they’re world leaders. They have positioned themselves in the world’s commodity and stock markets. They’ve engineered, using their access to stock exchanges, and computers, and gold supplies, a panic. Then they prevent the markets from closing. They jam the gears. They have mercenaries who hold the rest of the world leaders at Davros as hostage. The markets can’t close. The rich countries…?” and Strong makes a slight motion with his fingers as if he were flicking a cigarette butt out of the window.
I sat there spellbound. This is not any story-teller talking. This is Maurice Strong. He knows these world leaders. He is, in fact, co-chairman of the Council of the World Economic Forum. He sits at the fulcrum of power. He is in a position to do it.”
Anon: “You know that carbon trading is a market idea based on creating financial incentives to reduce emissions, right?”
POTFLMAO! 😉
The carbon trading market was put in place by vulgar international mercinaries like Moe Strong to profiteer on mindless urban-left guilt and to handicap North American industral/productive capactiy to the direct profit and competative advantage of the emerging industrial powers in India/China/Pacific rim….markets the “progressive” elites Like Strong, the LPC upper echelon, Gore, Soros and other :green elite” have deep investment in…as they cheerlead us to willingly cut our own economic throat sending our jobs and carbon tax money to a nation which is exempt from Koyoto and which produces 48% of the globe’s pollution compared to our 2%.
Yeah it’s a righteous system run by green saints….and gold-plated GOP elephants will fly out of Gore’s butt next week. 😉
Please note, with regard to the political agendas of emissions and pollution, that Angry in the Great White North has an excellent commentary outlining how Stephane Dion, when he was environment minister, did nothing to prohibit pbde formulations – which were recommended to be banned by Health Canada – and are now banned by Rona Ambrose.
Dion did nothing – was he influenced by the chief lobbyist for the chemicals, namely, the Liberal John Duffy?
As far as Gore is concerned, Kyoto is the new religious cult, based around apocalyptic doomsday scenarios, wild song and dance based emotive mob hysterias, and the expulsion of one’s assumed guilt and sins, by the payment of ‘indulgences’.
I think “wind” energy should be harnassed to be turned into useful energy that will do work, such as powering a cell phone battery, or even a note book computer.
Another idea is taxing over weight-people. Criteria would be based on a weight to height ratio, which if exceeded, would mean that person has to pay a fat-tax, which would go towards health care.
DRUDGE ALERT
POWER: GORE MANSION USES 20X AVERAGE HOUSEHOLD; CONSUMPTION INCREASE AFTER ‘TRUTH’
Mon Feb 26 2007 17:16:14 ET
The Tennessee Center for Policy Research, an independent, nonprofit and nonpartisan research organization committed to achieving a freer, more prosperous Tennessee through free market policy solutions, issued a press release late Monday:
Last night, Al Gore’s global-warming documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, collected an Oscar for best documentary feature, but the Tennessee Center for Policy Research has found that Gore deserves a gold statue for hypocrisy.
Gore’s mansion, located in the posh Belle Meade area of Nashville, consumes more electricity every month than the average American household uses in an entire year, according to the Nashville Electric Service (NES).
In his documentary, the former Vice President calls on Americans to conserve energy by reducing electricity consumption at home.
The average household in America consumes 10,656 kilowatt-hours (kWh) per year, according to the Department of Energy. In 2006, Gore devoured nearly 221,000 kWh—more than 20 times the national average.
Last August alone, Gore burned through 22,619 kWh—guzzling more than twice the electricity in one month than an average American family uses in an entire year. As a result of his energy consumption, Gore’s average monthly electric bill topped $1,359.
Since the release of An Inconvenient Truth, Gore’s energy consumption has increased from an average of 16,200 kWh per month in 2005, to 18,400 kWh per month in 2006.
Gore’s extravagant energy use does not stop at his electric bill. Natural gas bills for Gore’s mansion and guest house averaged $1,080 per month last year.
“As the spokesman of choice for the global warming movement, Al Gore has to be willing to walk to walk, not just talk the talk, when it comes to home energy use,” said Tennessee Center for Policy Research President Drew Johnson.
In total, Gore paid nearly $30,000 in combined electricity and natural gas bills for his Nashville estate in 2006.
For Further Information, Contact:
Nicole Williams, (615) 383-6431
editor@tennesseepolicy.org
Sure, a marketer’s dream.
Beans! No longer just the musical fruit. Free ringtones with every can.
Kids and men will love it – not sure about the ladies.
I understand Mr. Greenjeans has 3 residences
http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/editorials/2006-08-09-gore-green_x.htm
Have these people no shame?
Goreacle Pays Plenty for His Indulgences….-
Al Gore’s Personal Energy Use Is His Own “Inconvenient Truth” Gore’s home uses more than 20 times the national average
Last night, Al Gore’s global-warming documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, collected an Oscar for best documentary feature, but the Tennessee Center for Policy Research has found that Gore deserves a gold statue for hypocrisy.
Gore’s mansion, located in the posh Belle Meade area of Nashville, consumes more electricity every month than the average American household uses in an entire year, according to the Nashville Electric Service (NES).
In his documentary, the former Vice President calls on Americans to conserve energy by reducing electricity consumption at home.
The average household in America consumes 10,656 kilowatt-hours (kWh) per year, according to the Department of Energy. In 2006, Gore devoured nearly 221,000 kWh—more than 20 times the national average.
Last August alone, Gore burned through 22,619 kWh—guzzling more than twice the electricity in one month than an average American family uses in an entire year. As a result of his energy consumption, Gore’s average monthly electric bill topped $1,359.
Since the release of An Inconvenient Truth, Gore’s energy consumption has increased from an average of 16,200 kWh per month in 2005, to 18,400 kWh per month in 2006.
Gore’s extravagant energy use does not stop at his electric bill. Natural gas bills for Gore’s mansion and guest house averaged $1,080 per month last year.
“As the spokesman of choice for the global warming movement, Al Gore has to be willing to walk to walk, not just talk the talk, when it comes to home energy use,” said Tennessee Center for Policy Research President Drew Johnson.
In total, Gore paid nearly $30,000 in combined electricity and natural gas bills for his Nashville estate in 2006. …-
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Did not check above before posting Goreacle. Cut off my power. …-
What is Suzukis energy bill/month. These idiots are going to be torpedoed on everything they say or do, because they are so insistent that you do it but not me. Listen to their cdn kyotologists followers scream, it’s not fair, if PMSH comes out with a program that one can only have 80 sq ft per person for their home, or legislate the maximum size of a home. Then, legislate that one can only have one home. There goes the cottage holidays. We have to call all these hypocrites every time they exhibit the do as I say, not what I do. I for one have called cbc and complained about the emmissions needed for their talking heads to have a different outfit every day.
The original story for the Al Gore personal energy use is at http://www.tennesseepolicy.org/main/article.php?article_id=367.
Anon: You assume that Climate Change is human caused. I believe that Climate Change is solar caused … so why would I want to buy one single carbon credit from anyone? Why would I even care for one little second about a solution to a problem that doesn’t exist.
If you want to talk general pollution, then I’ll be all ears … but Climate Change … frankly I’m more worried about demographic shift.
Presumably farting will be allowed for those of us whose flatulence, like that of David Suzuki and Al Gore, smells like Chanel No. 5.
Be the first in your dacha to buy your indulgences from Pooty-poot-Putin. Da. Be a good tovarisch, Comrade.
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Merrill Lynch invests in Russia-focused carbon trading firm: Financial Times
SINGAPORE (MarketWatch) — Merrill Lynch & Co. (MER) has secured a foothold in the carbon trading and emissions reductions market in Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States, the Financial Times reported on its Web site. …. RCF invests in projects such as mending leaking gas distribution pipelines, to reduce emissions, the FT said. Such projects are awarded a credit for each ton of carbon dioxide saved under the Kyoto treaty. These credits, known as emission reduction units, can be sold to other Kyoto signatories that need to reduce their emissions under the agreement….-
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We need a Winston Churchill today:
Even though large intestinal tracts of Europe and many old and famous States have fallen or may fall into the grip of the Unflatulatori and all the odorous apparatus of MSM rule, we shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end, we shall fart in France, we shall fart on the seas and oceans, we shall fart with growing confidence and growing strength in the foul air, we shall defend our land, whatever the cost may be, we shall fart on the beaches, we shall fart on the landing grounds, we shall light a few farts in the fields and in the streets, we shall fart in the hills; we shall never surrender, and even if, which I do not for a moment believe, this land or a large part of it were subjugated and bloating, then our Empire beyond the seas, fed and armed by the British Bean, would carry on the struggle, until, in God’s good time, the Old Flatulent World, with all its power and might, steps forth to the rescue and the liberation of the old.
I think it “UNFAIR!” to say Al Gore can fart. He has been holding it in, thats why he is starting to look like a Macy parade float.
And his little snobishness AL GORE can demand we all live a simple life and give up our SUVs while he flies all over the world putting CO2 in the atmpsphear and burning up all that jet fuel and showing up at HOLLYWOD and comming in a gas guzzling 4 mpg limo what a hypotcrit and all around jerk
Guess who he is buying credits from, himself via his carbon credit company. Hypocrite
MAURICE STRONG,AL GORE,DAVID SUZUKI,TED TURNER all wealthy eco-freaks and hypotcrits who produce more HOT AIR just by opening their big fat pieholes