Posted on 03/17/2015 5:02:26 AM PDT by HomerBohn
Every year, Al Gore pauses from his overscheduled itinerary of making a fool of himself at climate change speeches around the world to pause at the South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas, where he drops by to make a fool of himself in front of hipsters, activists and a sizable jumble of uninterested partiers.
This year, the rhetoric got harsh — as in “punish-the-deniers” harsh.
While Gore was talking specifically about politicians who reject the idea that government should divert public funds to combat the effects of a changing climate, his tone toward anyone who thinks the jury’s still out on whether climate change is even a problem was especially condescending and totalitarian. According to the Chicago Tribune, Gore invoked Nature itself as a corroborating force in his call to action:
Former Vice President Al Gore on Friday called on SXSW attendees to punish climate-change deniers, saying politicians should pay a price for rejecting “accepted science.”
“We have this denial industry cranked up constantly,” Gore said. “In addition to 99 percent of the scientists and all the professional scientific organizations, now Mother Nature is weighing in.”
Gore suggested meting out punishment — or, in his words, a “price on denial in politics” — by shaming elected leaders who don’t share his agenda into legislating punitive cap-and-trade regulations that remove profits from the fossil fuel industry.
Gore’s more direct, ad hominem approach may be part of a coordinated marketing effort enjoined by the Obama administration. The White House released a March Madness-style “bracket” of lawmakers who oppose government action on climate change, attempting a public shaming of each with the promise that one eventually will be crowned a “champion denier.”
Climate Change junk science is prickly because the anti-American left use it merely as a justification for a socialist agenda.
FUAG
It used to be “accepted science” that the world was flat.
Let’s take advice from a person stupid enough to flunk out of Divinity School...
:: It used to be “accepted science” that the world was flat. ::
Yes. As I recall that was the consensus.
Gore is proof that a total maniac can get elected to office. But then we discovered that in 2008, didn’t we.
A powerful middle chakra has overtaken what sense he once had.
He spews blarney 365-24/7 even though not Irish.
How adolescent can the Left get? A “bracket of deniers” ? Science is unorthodox. Al Gore would fit in to all those “experts” who were agreed that the sun revolved around the earth. But he has made millions with his traveling carny show, haranguing the stupid college crowd that annually gathers in Austin because they don’t have jobs to go to.
Dementia is such a sad disease.
That's all science is: devising theories to explain observed results, and then testing those theories against new data. AGW is a scientific failure; its theories (computer climate models) are doing a terrible job of explaining or predicting observed climate data. It's bogus "science", not "settled science", which doesn't exist in any case.
It is really scary to think about how close this nut came to being President.
Poor guy. I guess he hasn’t been able to convince anyone to release his “Second Chakra” in a while.
32. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture—education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.
/45 Declared Goals
I asked, “Well what is going to happen to those people we can’t reeducate, that are diehard capitalists?” And the reply was that they’d have to be eliminated.
And when I pursued this further, they estimated they would have to eliminate 25 million people in these reeducation centers.
And when I say “eliminate,” I mean “kill.”
Twenty-five million people.
I want you to imagine sitting in a room with 25 people, most of which have graduate degrees, from Columbia and other well-known educational centers, and hear them figuring out the logistics for the elimination of 25 million people.
And they were dead serious.
Read more: http://pjmedia.com/blog/eyewitness-to-the-ayers-revolution/#ixzz3Ue4LGu5P
F'n LIAR!
Careful there Al. Such theocratic ideas can get one flunked out of both divinity and law schools.
I think that this is a great idea. When people get fed up with this (the EPA is now putting out feelers for hotels to monitor their guests shower use so that they will use less water) and do something about it, Gore and his limousine liberal friends will be sent to a “re-education camp” where during the day, he will farm and make smaller rocks out of larger rocks in order to learn the value and joy of actual work; at night, he will study the Constitution. In this regard, one of Gore’s heroes, Chairman Mao, had a really great idea.
Like Biden, if Gore wasn’t a wealthy public figure he’d be in a mental hospital.
Mister Corporate Jet, yacht and multiple mansions Al Gore.
Science is settled until it's not.
(Fantastic book - well worth the read!!)
Former president elect iGore leverages his Global Warming scam into a massive block of Apple Computer stock at pennies on the dollar:
http://www.cnet.com/news/al-gore-exercises-apple-stock-options-worth-29-million/
FUAG.
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