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An Inconvenient Truth: A Fifth Anniversary Tribute
Al Gore’s manmade disaster remains a monument to arrogance, folly, and hypocrisy.
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This month is the fifth anniversary of the release of Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth. The documentary film became a sensation among the political left, the easily impressionable segments of the public and a majority in Congress that was all too eager to enact legislation to solve the global crisis.
The film won an Oscar for Best Documentary Feature and the audio version received a Grammy. For his efforts to save the planet, Gore received the Nobel Peace Prize. This is a very good haul for a film that grossed a rather paltry $23 million in domestic box office receipts.
There is no denying that Gore and his film deserve the lion’s share of the credit (or blame) for launching the wild hysteria to combat “manmade global warming” that swept the nation in 2006.
The U.S. House of Representatives created an entirely new committee “The Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming” because “global warming is an urgent problem that requires action now” such as hastening the nation’s “transition away from a fossil fuel-based economy.”
Congress passed legislation banning incandescent light bulbs by 2014. Americans will soon exclusively use CFL (curly-fry light) bulbs that will keep a home as dimly light as a Third World hospital room.
On several occasions Congress was unsuccessful in enacting “cap and trade” legislation that would be a financial windfall for some groups but would also kill thousands of American jobs. Common sense prevailed as the legislation failed to move in Congress but, the Environmental Protection Agency has threatened to implement the legislation via regulatory edict.
After the film was released, a number of strange bedfellows jumped onto the manmade global warming bandwagon. In one public service announcement, Nancy Pelosi and Newt Gingrich, who sat together on a sofa like a pair of love-struck lab partners before they were to head off to the senior prom, demanded a solution to global warming.
A year later the always-evolving Gingrich would abandon his newfound fossil-fuels-are-evil buddies and publish a book titled Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less in which he advocates pumping as much oil from the ground as is humanly possible.
Going Green became the catch phrase. There was a rush to purchase hybrid vehicles such as the two-seat Honda Insight, the impractical compact that is not much larger than a circus clown car, and the overpriced Toyota Prius that has been plagued with numerous battery and service problems.
The Discovery cable network launched Planet Green channel whose star celebrity is Ed Begley, Jr. That’s right, who? That came on the heels of NBC Universal airing “green” theme programming on its stable of cable and broadcast channels during the month of April. Even Time magazine offered a “Going Green” column. Green expos, exhibits, conventions and bazaars popped up around the country. Green was in.
Not content with his role as Chicken Little, Gore went on to co-found a “carbon credit” company that has made him millions. He even used the carbon credit service for himself. He deems his extravagant, high-energy use home as being “carbon neutral” because he purchases “carbon offsets.” From himself.
This review comes five years after the film’s original release but, I confess the timing is only a mere coincidence. My primary goal in watching the film was to determine if I was correct in what I remembered of my 2006 viewing. I began to have doubts.
That is because practitioners of manmade global warming hysteria have attempted to correct me again and again in recent years by claiming Gore’s film was not about manmade global warming but, instead, was about “climate change.” I had been told this so many times that I had begun to doubt what I saw five years ago.
The catch-all phrase “climate change” happens to be politically convenient because it allows manmade global warming enthusiasts to deposit every single climate event (highs, lows, and the status quo) into their CSI evidence bag as proof that man — particular Western man and more specifically, American society — is evil and is the cause of most of the world’s ills.
About the Author
Mark Hyman hosts “Behind the Headlines,” a commentary program for Sinclair Broadcast Group. You can follow him on Twitter at @markhyman.
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Ken (Old Texican)| 5.17.11 @ 7:13AM
Every time someone bashes Dubyah Bush, I say a quiet little prayer of thanks that Al-Clown never sat in the oval office as president.
Mike D.| 5.17.11 @ 7:46AM
Man you ain't kidding. Whenever I think of the word Gore, witless dolt comes to mind.
Bill Hussein O'Stalin| 5.17.11 @ 12:02PM
Al Gore has an inconvenient Jor-El complex.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jor-El
Dee See| 5.17.11 @ 7:17AM
---great article!
Further on the subject of eco-terrorism
DO SEE:
ALAN WATT 'Fabian War: Survival Abolished'
pt 3 ---new on youtube.
CHECK IT OUT ------then get back to us.
---------------------------WOW!
REALLY
Teaghan| 5.17.11 @ 7:57AM
'70s, Global Cooling. '80s/'90s, Global Warming
2000s, Climate Change. I guess that one just about covers it all and Gore laughs a big belly laugh all the way to the bank from his private jet and then back to his mansion in his limo. And the feel good libs willingly slurp it up. God helps us.
Louis Jenkins| 5.17.11 @ 8:09AM
Gore? Gore who? I just about had forgotten about the man. Now if we can forget about the EPA the world would be perfect.
Smokey | 5.17.11 @ 8:27AM
Inconvenient D-bag
benny havens| 5.17.11 @ 8:28AM
5 years ago Gore stated that in ten years the oceans would rise 20 feet. So by now they should be up 10 feet.
Ned| 5.17.11 @ 10:55AM
You must have missed the announcement, benny... Barry BS *fixed* that already... no doubt with the power of his awesome rhetoric...
benny havens| 5.17.11 @ 9:10PM
LMAO
I forgot about that.
Melvin| 5.17.11 @ 8:30AM
Come on now guys, yur goin to ruin Al's, "CHACKRA," wouldn't be very hospitable to have a former Vice President runnin around with a ruined Chackra would it?
Steve B | 5.17.11 @ 8:54AM
For this piece of dreck Gore got the Nobel Peace Prize - beating out another nominee that year, Irena Sendler, a Polish woman who saved 2,500 Jewish children during the Second World War. She was tortured and left for dead by the Gestapo, and later imprisoned by the Communist government.
Occam's Tool| 5.17.11 @ 3:10PM
He Gored us quite nicely.
Worthless. Lawyer. Schmuck. But I repeat myself, thrice. (With apologies to RCV, who breaks the mold in that, as on many things.)
Gary Wood| 5.17.11 @ 9:13AM
I'm feeling ya Ken! When I think of how close it was that this witless putz came to being president, I thank God for a few adults on the Supreme Court!!
Elmo| 5.17.11 @ 9:28AM
"Elmo like windfarms. Tell me, Mr. Gore, where do wind turbines come from?" "Why, China, Elmo, the biggesth coal consthumer in the werld!"
G.S. Patton| 5.17.11 @ 9:29AM
You really don't know where to begin with this subject or Big Al ...... The list is too long and laced with the same old propaganda ...... from the same old tired bunch of revolutionary narcissistic utopian hippies..... global cooling, global warming, climate change.... If there ever was a political "Sham-WoW" infomercial, this has been it.
Publius| 5.17.11 @ 10:09AM
G.S.,
Gotta go with the more appropriate Mood Ring, which slightly edged out spray on hair.
Bob Grant| 5.17.11 @ 11:54AM
I guess you could say the AWG e-mail scandal and 5 dollar-a-gallon gas put a Slap Chop on Al Gores' credibility.
Occam's Tool| 5.17.11 @ 3:11PM
The shamwow really is a "sham." Wow!
hunter| 5.17.11 @ 10:09AM
In word masters Joe Bidens own words, what a big f....n idiot!
stmichrick| 5.17.11 @ 10:22AM
Al Gore is the proto- big time leftist/enviro whose task in life is institutionalizing emotional impulses and turning them into part of the national debt.
Nothing more, nothing less.
Paul from SA| 5.17.11 @ 10:44AM
And all their solutions to global warming involve me giving my money to environmentalists.
They are the most guilty of polluting the planet.
Why not make it illegal to pollute? Then the rich polluters would go to jail, stop telling us how to live and our planet would be cleaner.
AgentRose| 5.17.11 @ 10:58AM
This is more than folly! It is a composite of lies and deceit. The Gore scientific establishment as the communists and socialists claim "science" but they ignore the building blocks of science which are an open mind to investigate and oppenness to new evidence. They had conclusions BEFORE the evidence!
How many fires did you light this past winter of ferocious global warming?
Grameri| 5.17.11 @ 11:46AM
CARBON CREDIT
I’d like to donate part of my own carbon credit
To one of the Gore households, where I’ll bet it
Could light a guest room for one whole day,
That’s all I can offer because I may
Have to use the rest to sustain my brood
For a year or more, though my guilt-filled mood
Tells me I’m selfish to put food on our table
When one of my betters might be able
To use it more wisely , more justly than I.
I’m torn apart realizing that my
Serving my family first might destroy the earth.
I’m shredded with shame, I’m doubting my worth.
Surely the wisdom of Leonardo Di Caprio
Should lighten my spirit instead of trap me so.
I’ll chew on my fingers, my clothes I’ll rend
Waiting for the world to end.
On the other hand I think this stuff is fluff
And with all of this hot air I’ve had enough…
Mimi Evans Winship
Nunya| 5.17.11 @ 11:49AM
Algore is a waste of skin, and is a lying, cheating, dirtbag . The man hyped up this "global warming" tripe to make himself rich. The history of the "carbon trade/carbon offsets" shows that he had met with executives from Enron (of all places) to determine how they had created a market for electricity and gas trade, and he figured if he could get one going for CO2 he could make BILLIONS. By forcing everyone to buy "carbon offsets" he created the market to trade them, and would have made money on every trade. It was ALWAYS about money, he couldn't give a crap about the environment, his own actions prove that.
Leftists are always telling everyone else how to live, but the rules don't apply to themselves (because they are so much smarter than we are, don't you know)--why do you think Congress exempts itself from so many of it's own laws?
As to the "science" of AGW, it's no better than a religion--meaning, it's an act of faith, not true science (kind of like belief in Gaia). When Algore claimed "The science is settled" every true scientist on Earth should have stood up and said he was an idiot. Scientific method means that NO science is EVER settled. I learned that as a freshman chemistry major. AGW is not science, it's politics--about how we are all going to live.
The Big E| 5.17.11 @ 1:26PM
"When Algore claimed "The science is settled" every true scientist on Earth should have stood up and said he was an idiot."
And indeed they would have, except that they knew that soon, there would be billions of government and non-profit org dollars thrown around on grants to scientists willing to sell the scientific souls and claim "proof" of something that they all knew did not exist. And so that's what they did.
True science in this country may not be quite dead, but thanks in large part to people like Algore, it's on life support, and its prognosis is not good.
Bob Grant| 5.17.11 @ 12:01PM
I do find it rich that billion dollar Gore didn't bother to install solar panels on his estates until the mid 2000's.
He writes his book Earth in the Balance , written 20 some years ago, about the dire environmental consequences we will face unless IMMEDIATE action takes place to reverse course. He doesn't even bother to put up the facade of walking the walk by taking the cursory step of installing solar panels.
Solar panels? WTF? That technology's been around for some 40 years.
Fraud!!!
voted against carter| 5.17.11 @ 12:16PM
Global -" What ever you call it this week",…
IS A SCAM. PERIOD.
The BIG LIE.
If you tell it often enough, people WILL believe it is true.
Or so the theory goes.
Theoretical Rationale = made up stuff
Empirical Evidence = MORE made up stuff
Scientific Consensus = "Scientific" made up stuff
The self-correcting nature of the scientific method = More "Scientific" made up stuff
OH NO!!! THE SKY IS FALLING!! RUN!!
And we ALL know how THAT worked out.
Eco-fascists will control you
100% natural
You will jog for the master race
And always wear the happy face.
Arne Paul| 5.17.11 @ 12:31PM
Wasn't it back in the 1970's that the world was supposedly heading to the next ICE AGE due to man's wanton destruction? Wait a minute! I think it's getting warmer now...Oh, sorry, left the oven door open. Whew! That was close, almost died from man's carbon footprint! I must thank that fat..er...MASKED man. Just Al saying his wonderful compassionate words must shifted the climate around and miraculously saved the day! Hallelujah!
Now if you'll excuse me, I must help Al work on his new theory...
1) Man's carbon footprint continues to wreak havoc. (Because YOU DIDN'T buy carbon credits! Shame! Shame!)
2) The clouds appear a little lower today.
CONCLUSION: The sky is falling! THE SKY IS FALLING!
Now if you buy my super duper extra special carbon credits everything will be fine. They're right there, next to those bottles of snake oil...
Pete| 5.17.11 @ 12:50PM
Can you imagine being one of the few enlightened humans walking around with the burden of the knowledge that we are quickly killing ourselves via our contribution to global warming? No wonder he needs frequent "sensual massages" to stay calm.
skedaddle| 5.17.11 @ 12:52PM
Wow - Al's really gained weight since that movie was made! Shouldn't he go a little easier on the earth's resources - I hear Mother Earth grown from his weight alone.
Mike D.| 5.17.11 @ 1:03PM
well, he's kinda turned more of the resources of the planet into his own shit, or a larger brown footprint so to speak.
Melvin| 5.17.11 @ 1:14PM
It is all the Chakra backing up, giving him the bloated look.
Bob Grant| 5.17.11 @ 1:48PM
The thirsty Egyptian cotton towel sprang from Al Gore's doughy/pasty body to the shock of the female massage therapist. While submitting to the command to "take care of this", she rationalized it would be a change of pace from the Japanese businessmen or IMF presidents she normally deals with.
Bill Diebold| 5.17.11 @ 1:32PM
Mark,
Kudos for your great trip down memory lane. The past couple of years the current squatter in the peoples house has hogged all available liberal bable time and I forgot about gore, all his twisted goron followers, the pilosi/gingrich twins, Ms. nut buster hilary, the Vietnam hero kerry ketchup and the rest of the rascally left wing hypocrites. Oh what good times they had until they found out that the gorpster only fooled them...oh what a rascal he is... Is it true that the Merriam Webster Dictionary defines the word "Fraud" with just a autographed picture of the algore?
The Big E| 5.17.11 @ 1:41PM
You know, we all poke fun at Algore and the stupid little enviro-lemmings willing to follow idiots like him over any cliff, but have you ever done any research into what the serious eco-nuts actually advocate? (By the way, in my opinion, "serious eco-nut" does NOT describe Algore - he was never a true believer as demonstrated by his own actions - he was just trying to ride that particular wave to power and/or prosperity. There are serious eco-nuts out there who actually live in accord with their insane philosophy.)
Let's just check a couple of things some of them have actually said:
The right to have children should be a marketable commodity, bought and traded by individuals but absolutely limited by the state. - Kenneth Boulding, originator of the "Spaceship Earth" concept (as quoted by William Tucker in Progress and Privilege, 1982)
What we've got to do in energy conservation is try to ride the global warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, to have approached global warming as if it is real means energy conservation, so we will be doing the right thing anyway in terms of economic policy and environmental policy. -- Timothy Wirth, former U.S. Senator (D-Colorado)
I suspect that eradicating small pox was wrong. It played an important part in balancing ecosystems. -- John Davis, editor of Earth First! Journal
Human beings, as a species, have no more value than slugs. -- John Davis, editor of Earth First! Journal
The extinction of the human species may not only be inevitable but a good thing....This is not to say that the rise of human civilization is insignificant, but there is no way of showing that it will be much help to the world in the long run. -- Economist editorial
We advocate biodiversity for biodiversity’s sake. It may take our extinction to set things straight -- David Foreman, Earth First!
Phasing out the human race will solve every problem on earth, social and environmental. -- Dave Forman, Founder of Earth First!
If radical environmentalists were to invent a disease to bring human populations back to sanity, it would probably be something like AIDS -- Earth First! Newsletter
Human happiness, and certainly human fecundity, is not as important as a wild and healthy planets...Some of us can only hope for the right virus to come along. -- David Graber, biologist, National Park Service
If I were reincarnated, I would wish to be returned to Earth as a killer virus to lower human population levels. -- Prince Phillip, World Wildlife Fund
Cannibalism is a "radical but realistic solution to the problem of overpopulation." -- Lyall Watson, The Financial Times, 15 July 1995
We, in the green movement, aspire to a cultural model in which killing a forest will be considered more contemptible and more criminal than the sale of 6-year-old children to Asian brothels. -- Carl Amery
Every time you turn on an electric light, you are making another brainless baby -- Helen Caldicott, Union of Concerned Scientists
To feed a starving child is to exacerbate the world population problem -- Lamont Cole
Some of these people literally advocate genocide on a global scale. And they're supposedly educated, and enlightened. The reality is that radical environmentalism, like every other radical leftist movement, is a cult of Death. And yet, we never take them at their word.
Nunya| 5.17.11 @ 2:56PM
Environmentalism has its roots in "central planning" (aka Marxism), where the government makes the decisions for everyone and everything. It's like a watermelon--green on the outside, red on the inside.
All leftists, whether they know it or not support the tenets of genocide--Hayek's book "The Road to Serfdom" should be required reading in every high school in this country.
Occam's Tool| 5.17.11 @ 3:13PM
Now, Big E, it's not all bad. There are food shortages among the Islamists.
That's about the only silver lining. Caldicott. What a waste of a medical school place.
Occam's Tool| 5.17.11 @ 3:20PM
Prince Phillip is a killer virus of boredom.
Albert| 5.17.11 @ 2:14PM
Intersting. Not one AlGore sycophant (so far) to post here how Mr. Hyman "distorted" Gore's incomperable masterpiece, or how "man-made climate change" really, truly, honestly, IS real and will we all just PLEEEEZE believe in it? You know, like Tinker Bell. So, where are they? Where are all these "settled" scientists to defend their god?
Mike Turner| 5.18.11 @ 1:49PM
Climate science is settled. Only oil company schills and the stupid continue to argue against the facts...
Byron| 5.17.11 @ 2:33PM
I'm still so worried about that cartoon polar bear that can't find a big enough iceberg. And that cartoon coyote that can't ever catch that road runner. How will they survive?
Occam's Tool| 5.17.11 @ 3:20PM
"Roadrunner,
The ALGORE's (rhyme with coyote) after you...
Road Runner,
If he catches you.... you're through...
That ALGORE he's really a crazy clown...."
Looks like Al should lighten up on his bird diet, don't you think?
Dave Trap| 5.17.11 @ 3:40PM
Wasn't Al Gore accused of something similiar to Strauss-Kahn with a massage "the rapist" in a hotel?
LarryK| 5.17.11 @ 3:53PM
Al Gore - GasBag
Mistral| 5.17.11 @ 4:00PM
Al is such a big gore!
Mistral| 5.17.11 @ 4:01PM
He ought to be prosecuted for fraud. If hypocrisy were a criminal offense he would get 100 life sentences with no emissions!
Mistral| 5.17.11 @ 4:04PM
Well his avatar is in power at present.
Mistral| 5.17.11 @ 4:05PM
Algorhythms 000000000000000000
cuban pete| 5.17.11 @ 4:16PM
I believe Coleridge introduced the concept of a "willing suspension of disbelief". Theater goers need to suspend their disbelief when watching a play.
The term is not original with Mrs. Clinton.
PCP Smoker| 5.17.11 @ 9:25PM
Newt Gingrich, Tim Paulenty, and Mitch Daniels. The three idiots who bought into that garbage. Gingrich is on fire and on his way out. Pawlenty already took it back and seems to be going nowhere. Daniels, has a whore for a wife, and is a RINO.
I looove seeing RINOS get bullets right between the eyes.
Dee See| 5.17.11 @ 10:39PM
But even Gore's small potatoes compared
with the likes of embedded White House
czars such as John Holdren and their ON RECORD
recipes for population 'easing' (ie genocide).
CHECK OUT his banner tome 'ECOSCIENCE'
sometime.
Both he and his co-writer Paul Erlich should
be facing life in prison----or we should be offering
Himmler, Yehzov and Beria apologies and resititution.
Remember folks, all this is while the RED Chinese
Halocaust and our own globalist TREASON op
are buried, right under the current, ever widening
Fukishima disaster.
RCV| 5.17.11 @ 11:46PM
Just saw the PSA Gingrich did with Nancy Pelosi for Gore's climate change campaign. We should be seeing that a lot before the GOP primaries.
Replica Handbags&wallet; | 5.18.11 @ 9:26PM
I’ve just joined here and wanted to say hi to all of you! I really hope to give something back to this board.
Dr. Benway| 5.18.11 @ 11:49PM
Actually, we've been using CFL light bulbs in SE Asia where I live for some years now. They're as bright as incadescents but more expensive. If someone wants to use them fine. I just don't like the idea of being forced to do something by the government based on questionable science.
Ward| 5.19.11 @ 2:23PM
If Tipper is keeping the home fires burning, that must mean she got the Big House in the divorce.
Marc Jeric| 5.19.11 @ 5:35PM
A perspective is needed here to understand this 40-year old conspiracy pursued by our commies and eco-nazis.
1) It started in the 1970's with the Global Cooling scam, propagated by some rejects of private enterprise. Their recommended remedy was to disarm our nuclear defense bombers and send them to spread soot over the poles and increase the heat and prevent those new glaciers from crushing the New York skyscrapers to dust; when that did not excite anybody the same bunch invented
2) Global Warming hoax, propagated by the same rejects (e.g., Dr. Hansen) in the 1990's; we will all be cooked and die from hunger; somehow we were not sufficiently frightened, and besides we had some 11 years of cooling - so the same bunch of incompetents and commies/eco-nazis invented
3) Climate Change flimflam in the 2000's; so whatever happens we must confiscate all private companies, cars, houses...and eliminate some 3 billion people (prohibition of DDT already killed about 550 million people);
Marc Jeric| 5.19.11 @ 5:39PM
Let me continue: when this latest flimflam failed to result in nationalization of private enterprise, we have entered the new phase of the old conspiracy by introducing
4) Cap & trade power grab now; but the aims are the same - global communist government led by the United Nations; spreading our wealth around; eliminating unnecessary elections...and saving the planet thanks to that bloviating gasbag Gore.
Marc Jeric| 5.19.11 @ 5:46PM
As for us "deniers" and "lackeys of oil companies"; I am a proud signer, together with 31,487 other US scientists, of the "Global Warming Petition Project" (see Internet) which states that all 4 stages of that communist-inspired conspiracy are false! Among all sthese 31,487 US scientists are 9,029 sporting PhD degrees - including myself; and I am no "denier" - I have discovered all the lies, fabrications, 180-degree changes invented by these enemies of freedom and humanity.
West Houston| 5.19.11 @ 7:32PM
Quoting: "human lung inhales oxygen and exhales carbon dioxide, and the engines of civilization have, in effect, automated the process of breathing." (No matter how many times I read that statement I have no idea what it means.)"
Mark,
Actually Gore got this one right. Its not very complicated. Your car burns gasoline with oxygen and puts out carbon dioxide , water and other less desireable byproducts. Your body burns food and oxygen and puts out carbon dioxide, water and other less desirable byproducts.
In the case of ethanol, the fuel can even be the same for both!
Henri Suyderhoud| 5.22.11 @ 3:14PM
From the moment that I saw the Gore movie on a dvd about 4 yrs ago, I knew there was something wrong with it. After making some order-of-magnitude calculations, reading four books on the subject (by climate scientists), some IPCC reports, and attending a presentation by Dr Lindzen of MIT on the subject, I have become convinced that there is no imminent danger, nor will be there in the forseeable long run, a "tipping point" event that will cause great harm to the world at large, at least not from "climate change". I have corresponded some with Dr Lindzen and was asssured that my rough calculations were pointing in the right direction. I am convinced Al Gore misunderstands the science, and has profited greatly from misinforming the public, the Congress, and some Presidents. I welcome your publication and encourage you to continue to hammer on this issue, until there is a changing of the unfortunate tide of unwarreted misinformation on the subject. That is the only tide I fear.