Posted on 04/01/2008 12:48:39 PM PDT by dvan
On Sunday, CBS News correspondent Leslie Stahl asked Al Gore on the television show 60 Minutes what he thinks of people like Vice President Dick Cheney who doubt that global warming is caused by human activity.
"I think that those people are in such a tiny, tiny minority now with their point of view, they're almost like the ones who still believe that the moon landing was staged in a movie lot in Arizona, and those who believe the earth is flat," replied Gore. "That demeans them a little bit, but it's not that far off."
However, Lord Christopher Monckton, a policy advisor for former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher during the 1980s, says the former vice president can enjoy his "flat earth fantasies" for a few months, but in the end, the world will be laughing at him.
"The alarmists are alarmed, the panic mongers are panicking, the scare mongers are scared; the Gores are gored. Why? Because global warming stopped ten years ago; it hasn't got warmer since 1998," he points out. "And in fact in the last seven years, there has been a downturn in global temperatures equivalent on average to about [or] very close to one degree Fahrenheit per decade. We're actually in a period ... of global cooling."
Monckton contends Gore is now "panicking" because he has staked his reputation as a former American VP on "telling the world that we're all doomed unless we shut down 90 percent of the Western economies." He also contends that Gore is the largest "global-warming profiteer."
Gore's group The Alliance for Climate Protection is currently launching a new $300 million ad campaign that demands reforms in environmental law to help reduce the supposed "climate crisis." But Monckton points out that in the U.K., Gore is not allowed to speak in public about his "green investment company" because to do so would violate racketeering laws by "peddling a false prospectus." He says that fact came about after a British high court found Gore's movie, An Inconvenient Truth, riddled with errors.
Monckton challenged Gore to an internationally televised debate on climate change last year.
“Please watch “ The Great Global Warming Swindle†available online”
Bought it last year.
I show it to my chemistry and physics students at a private prep school.
My sister teaches at a public school and shows Algore’s poop, but then follows with TGGWS.
Some our grads from last year emailed thank yous for the ammunition we gave them to counter the junk they got in freshman college science courses.
You know Algore isn’t the genius behind this. Yhe organization is similar in form to that of a banana republic. Algore would be the nominal head and main mouth.
How inconvenient!
BUMP!
Well, here in Oklahoma the world is pretty much flat.
Yes! lol
Algore and scam ...who’d a thunk it.
Don’t worry. Within a few years it will be all about global cooling.
Global warming stopped in 1998.
Thank goodness for my pet rock, it solved everything.
We have lost this battle....on to the next battle to lose....
This is what we now know... we are in the wrong business! Scaring folks is the way to go...
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