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I don't much care for the guy either, but in fairness to the former Vice President he does pay a voluntary "carbon tax," contributing a monetary amount to environmental groups and sources of renewable energy in order to offset his 'carbon footprint.' It's the same thing that many 'green' celebrities do, also. When Fox News and the cadre of conservative bobbleheads ran with this story, they always conveniently omitted this point.

More importantly, the Tennessee Center for Policy Research--who initially broke the story--is a right-wing organization which has its own ideological stake in the issue; one of its largest contributors is Exxon-Mobil.

Lastly, the Academy Awards are not a judge of scientific value. They are rarely even an accurate judge of artisitic value.

The carbon tax that Gore paid is only for his company and not for his personal fuel consumption. And the company gets to write it off.

Faith, unfortunaltely, everyone has an agenda.

Not quite, anon. The offsets are paid by him personally, through Generation Investment Management, for which he sits on the executive board. What you mean to say (assuming what you mean to say is what is true) is that he pays personally to his own company.

Faith, that is what I meant to say, and it's pretty much the same thing. The only reason he pays it is to benefit himself, not the environment.

But is it? Let's say the Chirwoman of the American Red Cross donates money to her own organization. While there may be personal benefits (more money in contributions during her tenure), I think you'd be hard-pressed to say that her only motive was personal gain.

It's always troublesome to assert a cause based solely on a correlation.

True, but the fact of the matter is the premise for Gore's company is falsified, so any moneys going to the company are essentially fraudulent, and therefore only beneficial to the owners and not to the cause.

And to think, had Al Gore not created the internet, this comment-box debate would never have been possible.

Remind me never to write about politics again.

Reminder: Never write about politics again.

I'm just thrilled that you wrote and entire blog without using the f word once!

love you,
mom

If the increase in CO2 was caused by higher ocean temperatures, then the ocean would be getting more basic. Instead, the ocean is becoming more acidic from absorbing the CO2 that's being pumped into the atmosphere.

stupid shit - that's all I have to say about that.

Good spring training so far for the birds on the bat, lets hope for another good year for the Cards - and of course drink some beer.

Britain's Channel 4 has produced a devastating documentary titled "The Great Global Warming Swindle." It has apparently not been broadcast by any of the networks in the United States. But, fortunately, it is available on the Internet.

Distinguished scientists specializing in climate and climate-related fields talk in plain English and present readily understood graphs showing what a crock the current global warming hysteria is.

These include scientists from MIT and top-tier universities in a number of countries. Some of these are scientists whose names were paraded on some of the global warming publications that are being promoted in the media ? but who state plainly that they neither wrote those publications nor approved them.

One scientist threatened to sue unless his name was removed.

While the public has been led to believe that "all" the leading scientists buy the global warming hysteria and the political agenda that goes with it, in fact the official reports from the United Nations or the National Academy of Sciences are written by bureaucrats ? and then garnished with the names of leading scientists who were "consulted," but whose contrary conclusions have been ignored.

There is no question that the globe is warming but it has warmed and cooled before, and is not as warm today as it was some centuries ago, before there were any automobiles and before there was as much burning of fossil fuels as today.

None of the dire things predicted today happened then.

The British documentary goes into some of the many factors that have caused the earth to warm and cool for centuries, including changes in activities on the sun, 93 million miles away and wholly beyond the jurisdiction of the Kyoto treaty.

According to these climate scientists, human activities have very little effect on the climate, compared to many other factors, from volcanoes to clouds.

These climate scientists likewise debunk the mathematical models that have been used to hype global warming hysteria, even though hard evidence stretching back over centuries contradicts these models.

What is even scarier than seeing how easily the public, the media, and the politicians have been manipulated and stampeded, is discovering how much effort has been put into silencing scientists who dare to say that the emperor has no clothes.

Academics who jump on the global warming bandwagon are far more likely to get big research grants than those who express doubts ? and research is the lifeblood of an academic career at leading universities.

Environmental movements around the world are committed to global warming hysteria and nowhere more so than on college and university campuses, where they can harass those who say otherwise. One of the scientists interviewed on the British documentary reported getting death threats.

In politics, even conservative Republicans seem to have taken the view that, if you can't lick 'em, join 'em. So have big corporations, which have joined the stampede.

This only enables the green crusaders to declare at every opportunity that "everybody" believes the global warming scenario, except for a scattered few "deniers" who are likened to Holocaust deniers.

The difference is that we have the hardest and most painful evidence that there was a Holocaust. But, for the global warming scenario that is causing such hysteria, we have only a movie made by a politician and mathematical models whose results change drastically when you change a few of the arbitrarily selected variables.

No one denies that temperatures are about a degree warmer than they were a century ago.

What the climate scientists in the British documentary deny is that you can mindlessly extrapolate that, or that we are headed for a climate catastrophe if we don't take drastic steps that could cause an economic catastrophe.

"Global warming" is just the latest in a long line of hysterical crusades to which we seem to be increasingly susceptible.

? Thomas Sowell is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305. His Web site is www.tsowell.com.