In "Al Gore's Crusade," American Thinker's Richard Baehr provides a very thorough review of Al Gore's global warming stump speech.  However, there are a few points in Mr. Baehr's analysis that call for a response. First, near the outset of his article, Mr. Baehr boldly states:  "We have clearly embarked on a process of expelling increasing amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, and nobody thinks this is a good thing."  As Mr. Baehr notes later in his piece, however, the rise in emissions of "greenhouse gases" (a term that implicitly assumes the truth of man—made global warming) is due to the rapid economic development that is occurring across the globe, especially in China and India.  This is a very good thing.  Industrialization is the engine of human improvement.  If this means that more "greenhouse gases" are spewed into the air, so be it.  This is not even a "close call." The enormous benefits of industrialization far...(Read Full Post)