Doom if Saint Al loses carbs (Mark Steyn)

The Australian ^ | October 15, 2007 | Mark Steyn

[2ndDivisionVet]

A COUPLE of days before Al Gore was awarded his Nobel Peace prize, Michael Burton, an English High Court judge and apparently a fine film critic, ruled that Al's Oscar-winner An Inconvenient Truth was prone to "alarmism and exaggeration" and identified nine major factual errors.

For example, the former vice-president predicts a rise in sea levels of 6m "in the near future". "The Armageddon scenario he predicts," declared Burton, "is not in line with the scientific consensus."

I'll say. The so-called scientific consensus of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change suggests rising sea levels across the next century of somewhere between 15cm and 60cm, with about 30cm being most likely. An Inconvenient Truth insouciantly adds a zero to the worst-case scenario.

And nobody minds. His Honour was examining the vice-president's acclaimed crockumentary because the British Government, in its wisdom, has decided to force-feed it to hundreds of thousands of schoolchildren. It would be nice to think it would have to be preceded by a warning that any resemblance between this film and any actual planet living or dead is entirely coincidental, but it seems more likely that the Nobel Peace imprimatur will completely insulate the picture from even the most modest quibbles.

A schoolkid in Ontario was complaining the other day that, whatever subject you do, you have to sit through Gore's movie: It turns up in biology class, in geography, in physics, in history, in English.

Whatever you're studying, it's all you need to know. It fulfils the same role in the schoolhouses of the guilt-ridden developed world that the Koran does in Pakistani madrassas.(continued)

[2ndDivisionVet]

Too funny!!

[Tamar1973]

A schoolkid in Ontario was complaining the other day that, whatever subject you do, you have to sit through Gore's movie: It turns up in biology class, in geography, in physics, in history, in English.

It's a pancea for liberal teachers who want to seat the children in front of the boob tube for an hour and get paid for it.

[Rummyfan]

Whatever you're studying, it's all you need to know. It fulfils the same role in the schoolhouses of the guilt-ridden developed world that the Koran does in Pakistani madrassas.

A most appropriate comparison!

[Aquinasfan]

It fulfils the same role in the schoolhouses of the guilt-ridden developed world that the Koran does in Pakistani madrassas.

Sooooooooo true. Dogmatic freethinker, heal thyself.

[sono]

Global Warm-mongering! LOL

[Rummyfan]

How should I put this? Al Gore is .... clinically insane!

[ozzymandus]

I love Steyn! He should replace Hannity on H&C. Every time he’s on there, he reduces colmes to a stammering lump.

[in hoc signo vinces]

“crockumentary” luv it...

[Steve_Seattle]

Today the Seattle Times ran an editorial applauding Gore's Nobel Prize. It was one of the most moronic editorials I've ever seen on any topic. It praises Gore for his "lonely stand," for "challenging conventional wisdom," and for "taking on" corporate interests.

In fact, Gore is one of the main purveyors of conventional wisdom, and his "lonely stand" is supported by about 98% of the news and entertainment media. As for "taking on" powerful corporate interests, he has done no such thing. Flapping your yapper is easy; anyone can do it.

As for the 9 major factual "errors" in "An Inconvenient Truth," the Times gives Gore a pass. As far as the Times is concerned, Gore can lie all he wants. It is because of editorials like this that I'll never again subscribe to the Times.

[Oatka]

A schoolkid in Ontario was complaining the other day that, whatever subject you do, you have to sit through Gore's movie: It turns up in biology class, in geography, in physics, in history, in English.

Wal-Mart has a bundle of enviro booklets in the employees breakroom. There's some good common sense Green hints but in one section they treat Gore's film as Holy Writ and advise everyone to watch it.

[metesky]

ecochondriacs

Love Steyn and his inventive neologisms.

[Albion Wilde]

I assumed Gore's clammy embrace would do for the environmental movement what his belated endorsement had done for Howard Dean's 2004 presidential candidacy: kill it stone dead. But governor Dean was constrained by actual humdrum prosaic vote tallies...

Steyn slays again.

[manic4organic]

Carbohydrate credits.

[martin_fierro]

[dead]

Bump! Great stuff.

[Richard from IL]

bump

[steelyourfaith]

ping

[Jacquerie]

The average US household consumes 10,656 kilowatt-hours of electricity. In 2006, the Gores wolfed down nearly 221,000kWh.

It takes lots of energy to be an eco-saint.

[Sword_Svalbardt]

Fox has been hammerin’ this point everywhere. But... how much carbon is there when one fat headed ex vice president travels to the Oscars, and then to pick up his Nobel prize?

Answer: By his statistics - too much. Hah!

[xcamel]

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