March 21, 2007
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March 21, 2007

Albert in Wonderland

Marc Sheppard
Mr. Gore went back to Washington today to retell his fantasy that the debate on the science of climate change is over.  In spite of virtually daily news to the contrary, the eco-obsessed former Veep just testified before House panels that the consensus is more unanimous than on anything other than, perhaps, gravity.  As expected, he then proposed costly, unproven solutions like pollution taxes, immediately frozen CO2 emission levels and unworkable cap and trade scams which have failed miserably in Europe.

Gore remained stubbornly resolute when Energy Committee ranking member Dan Burton (R-IN) cited numerous reports suggesting that the CO2 / Climate relationship may be the exact opposite of that currently touted by eco-maniacs.  The eco-crusader reaffirmed that placement of each in their cause-and-effect relationship was beyond any scientific debate.

These words, spouted from the hypocrite recently exposed for using 12 times the average amount of energy in his own home, are, of course, nonsense.

As recently reported on the Channel 4 program The Great Climate Change Swindle, fossil records have shown that warmer oceans have produced more atmospheric CO2, not the other way around.

One contributor to that program, Professor Philip Stott, addressed the subject when speaking at the annual Tenant Farmer's Association meeting last week.  According to the Farmer's Guardian, the professor emeritus of biogeography at the University of London ridiculed:
"the idea that politicians can control the earth's climate and says the current global drive to reduce CO2 emissions is not only futile but is diverting attention and resources away from issues that really matter."
Stott went on to chide those obsessed with reducing farmers' carbon footprint while shifting focus and funds away from more practical areas, such as food production and mitigating the impact of climate change. This is crucial, as there is little debate that climate shifts will impose many real challenges upon agriculture; yet opportunists such as Gore continue to focus on the more politically expedient blame-game in order to further their lefty causes.

Reminding us that this is "big-picture" problem, the professor then exposed the obvious flaw in putting all of our carbon-credits in one government controlled basket:
"Climate is governed by everything from the tilt of the earth, to volcanoes, ocean currents, sun spots, cosmic rays, solar sunspots, meteors and reflection from the land. So to put it all down to one factor - human CO2 emissions - is just not credible and the idea that politicians can control the climate is nonsense."
And, fittingly, concluded:
"It's Alice in Wonderland stuff."
Next: On to the Senate -- where Wonderland's Albert, who now claims that "Earth has a fever," is likely to find more than one simpatico Mad Hatter.

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