Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 04/13/2008 9:32:43 AM PDT by Mike Bates
Angie's List, which compiles and makes available consumer reports on local businesses, has bought into Al Gore's global warming hysteria lock, stock and oil barrel.
April's Angie's List magazine is devoted to "green" issues. Although the magazine's only about five-dozen pages, it manages to squeeze in two pictures of profoundly loopy former president Jimmy Carter, who "installed solar panels on the White House roof," something that apparently is to be applauded.
But not by anyone who paid attention. An April, 1979 Associated Press story began:
"A new solar water-heating system being installed at the White House costs thousands of dollars more than originally estimated and it probably won't pay for itself in energy savings, officials say.
"Intended by President Carter as a showcase for nonpolluting, energy-saving solar technology, the news system is uneconomical, White House officials say." The story ended with a Carter spokeman admitting that the main purpose of the project was - surprise, surprise - symbolic.
In 1986, the White House roof was again worked on. It was determined the solar panels weren't effective and it wasn't worth the cost to put them back on.
April's issue also boasts the article "Even small actions can add up quickly" by Angie Hicks, modestly identified as "THE Angie of Angie's List." Angie wants readers to know that a poll found that a third of Angie's List members "say your next car will be a hybrid." Presumably, this is one of those small actions that can add up quickly.
But wait a minute. John Christy is a member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which was awarded a 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for warning of global warming. Mr. Christy’s pointed out that if every American immediately switched to the hybrid Prius, the change in global temperatures would be measured in terms of a thousandth of a degree, if that.
From the looks of it, Angie's List is advancing an agenda other than consumer education. Jimmy Carter and Al Gore will be proud.
smells of green makes me want to boycott it.
So by your definition, anything that smells of environmental awareness is “Al Gore’s global warming hysteria”.
My neighbor is rapidly unplugging from the electrical grid (solar panels, solar heat) not out of care for the enviroment, but because he want to see how far he can go with the new technologies.
My brother bought a hybrid car, not out of environmental concerns, but because he genuinely likes the car.
Very few atmospheric scientists deny that global warming is occurring. Many atmospheric scientists doubt global warming is caused by man.
.......Bob
My definition of what?
Angie’s list is where women pay a plumber $100 an hour to let their dog crap and then brag about it.
The dog craps and then brags about it? Mine just craps and sleeps. Sort of like my brother-in-law, except that he also eats.
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