Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 01/20/2009 3:32:15 AM PST by neverdem
In 1971, perhaps entertaining thoughts of entering the full-time ministry, Al Gore, raised in and baptized into the Southern Baptist Church, entered the Vanderbilt Divinity School.
His sojourn was relatively brief. In three semesters, he enrolled in eight classes. He received an “F” as his grade in five of those classes. So, having failed out of school, he entered the family business, which was politics. But he apparently never lost his desire to enter a ministry, and since he couldn’t make the grade in the conventional sense, he did the next best thing. He started his own religion.
The result was the Church of Global Warming. With Gore as its high priest, the church was not long in establishing tenets of faith, nor in immediately branding those who refused to worship there as apostate.
The tragedy is that Gore, in his tenure in the family business, learned well how to work the political system, and when he turned to evangelizing for his new church, he was able to effectively use what he learned as a politician to grant government sanction to that church, sanction that would have been vehemently opposed had he attempted to grant government sanction to the church in which he grew up.
Now, what began as government sanction is well on its way to becoming government policy. The establishment of the Church of Global Warming immediately attracted as acolytes those leftists orphaned by the collapse of the old Soviet Union, those who saw, and continue to see, free-market capitalism and individual liberty as grave threats. So convincing were they developing plausible pseudo-science and both faulty and falsified data that they were able to bring into the church those political leaders — read United Nations — who have long sought the destruction of the one bulwark standing against the encroaching tide of totalitarianism. The success of Gore’s evangelical fervor can be seen in the apparent commitment of President-elect Barack Hussein Obama to some sort of cap-and-trade program, a program designed by Gore to create a personally lucrative market for a product that will be created by legislative fiat. The legislative fiats already in place, spurred by Gore and his followers, have played a major role in helping to bankrupt the American automobile industry, have driven up the cost of food, have hamstrung domestic energy exploration and production, and are threatening to destroy, through onerous taxation, the American livestock industry.
It is possible, however, that the Church of Global Warming has reached its zenith. Despite its best efforts to brand as heretics those who would question the basic tenets of the church — that global warming is man-made, that it is immediately imminent, and that the only salvation lies in the church — there is increasing evidence that those tenets are, and always have been, wrong. A man named Khabibullo Abdusamatov, who heads a space-research laboratory in Russia, has suggested that the world is headed for global cooling, a hypothesis seconded by one of his countrymen, Dr. Oleg Sorokhtin, another respected scientist.
The Russian scientists have been joined by many others who have examined the tenets of the Church of Global Warming not on data presented in the church’s doxology but rather in the study of sunspots, something mankind has been doing with considerable interest since the early 17th century.
The history of that study has indicated that there is a regular cycle to sunspot activity, and that those cycles correspond to global climate conditions. In the Maunder Minimum, the period from 1645 through 1715 and named after the man who identified it, there were few sunspots, and that 70-year period became known as the “Little Ice Age.”
Sunspot activity, it appears, is on the wane, and the result has been a gradual cooling of Earth’s climate. Indeed, 2008 may be the first “coldest year” of the 21st century.
Not unsurprisingly, the Church of Global Warming has been quick to claim that the drop in temperatures is simply proof of the basic tenet of their faith, that man-made global warming does exist, hoping, no doubt, that what they have perceived and read about sunspot cycles will enable them to ignore temperature drops when sunspot activity increases and leads to rising temperatures.
It is, however, interesting to note that the Green politicians in Europe, the elders of the Church of Global Warming who, like Gore, see the movement as a chance to enrich themselves, are suddenly finding themselves without support as record-low temperatures have eviscerated their propagandist efforts to evangelize, and take control of, the population.
Like Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker, the Church of Global Warming has presented itself as an answer, a place of refuge, a shelter and a protection from the “sins” of the world, particularly the “sins” of the free world. Like Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker, the Church of Global Warming is also designed to enrich its own coffers by separating its followers from their hard-earned dollars. The difference is that Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker relied on voluntary donations. The Church of Global Warming resorts to theft by taxation, all the while explaining that its fail-safe computer models, the holy scripture of the Church, prove the future.
Somehow, those computer models show just what the Church wants them to show, not entirely unlike the man who only recently conducted a study of the diminishing daylight in the Northern Hemisphere. That study, which he began conducting in the fall of 2008, indicated that the hemisphere was losing two minutes of daylight each day, and, according to the computer model, would result in complete darkness in the hemisphere by June 2009.
Unfortunately, there was a flaw in the computer model. It turns out that suddenly, the Northern Hemisphere is now gaining daylight with each passing day.
And the much-anticipated global warming is somehow being replaced by global cooling. Without any help at all from mankind.
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Sernoffsky can be reached at:
dansernoffsky@ldnews.com
Let's be a little more clear, here. He didn't "fail out of school". He flunked out of Divinity School. It's not like he flunked out of Harvard Law School.
Still ain’t that bad. Gore flunked out of Divinity School. Martin King got caught, posthumously, cheating his way thru Divinity School.
Lately I’ve been thinking that the best way to destroy an ideological movement is from the inside.
Maybe there's good in having all of the Clintonistas in the Obama administration.
It shouldn't require that much of a stretch to prove that evil capitalists, especially those in the United States, are causing global cooling.
I actually like Al Gore a bit more, now that I know he flunked out of divinity school.
Are you suggesting it’s ok to fail out of school? That it’s no big deal to receive an F in five of eight classes enrolled?
The title is misleading. The article furnishes no evidence that the no. of believers is on the decline. Indeed, it seems to me that they’ve all moved to Minnesota.
William Sidis called it in the 1930’s — and tied revolution to periodic sunspot activity. Revolution is more likely in the north when the sun cools and crops die; revolution in the south is more likely when the sun warms and crops die.
he flunked out of divinity school because he wanted to start his own religion
Maybe there's good in having all of the Clintonistas in the Obama administration.
Unfortunately their ultimate goals are the same except for who'll be leading us into the destruction of our country. OTOH if their internal power struggles slow down the passage of "the program", that would at least give us a chance for a turnaround.
Yet the libs went on and on and on in 2000 about how much smarter Gore was than W.
That’s a great picture.
“Goremons” <-— (Ha ha ha, ha ha ha!)
:-P
>> The title is misleading. The article furnishes no evidence that the no. of believers is on the decline. Indeed, it seems to me that they’ve all moved to Minnesota. <<
Like many editorial cartoons, this piece presumes you’re aware of the underlying news story, which it certainly could’ve at least mentionned: recent polls have shown a collapse in the number of people who believe in man-made global warming.
Absolutely is was a big deal and it was absolutely NOT ok. Big Al consequently lost his student draft deferment and then become eligible to be drafted. Of course, daddy made it all ok as Big Al wound up in the army in some sort of staff function, don't recall just what and am not going to bother googling it, not worth the trouble.
>> Revolution is more likely in the north when the sun cools and crops die; revolution in the south is more likely when the sun warms and crops die. <<
The principal effect being cloudiness vs drought, but the secondary effect is the one being discussed so much lately: global warming. (Obviously, if there are more clouds, it gets cooler.)
Hey Gore, science is for the big guys.
Stick to politics, where no intelligence is needed.
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