A convenient lie

Think for just a moment. If you had invented the Internet, what would you do? You would send a letter to the guys at CERN (the oh-so-efficient Swiss who claim to have actually invented the thing) to say that your price for silence would be say $10 Million (a year), all the while holding your left pinky up to your lips. Then wait for the checks to roll in. Chilling on a beach in the Azores sipping fruity drinks with little umbrellas in them would not be out of the question.

Not good enough for Al Gore. No sir. Not content with having invented the internet, he is now taking on the knotty problem of Global Warming. Yes - with a capital G and W.

Having written this tome called an Inconvenient Truth and toured the country with his slide show, he is now hectoring us with the eponymous movie. The point he makes, and not too subtly at that, is that Global Warming is the result of human activities and the earth is the warmest it has been for 2000 years. We had all better give up our profligate ways, or there will be no earth for our grandchildren to enjoy.

OK, fine. I have the following questions for the creator of the greatest human endeavor since the wheel:

1. If this is the warmest the Earth has been for 2000 years, it suggests that it was as warm 2000 years ago. What caused the inhabitants of the planet not to be plunged into calamity from which to never recover?
2. I'm pretty sure GM wasn't making Hummers back then, so what caused the Earth to warm so alarmingly? There weren't air-conditioning plants pumping hot air into the atmosphere, and jets streaking across the sky. How are we sure the warming is human induced?
3. My 7th grade Biology class taught me that plants needed carbon dioxide for photosynthesis. They absorb CO2 and give out oxygen in the process. So if there is more CO2 in the world today is that not good for re-forestation? With the abundance of CO2 purportedly caused by people driving fast cars (like me) wouldn't there be more for plants to grow more and greener?
4. Do you think Al Gore after delivering his killer presentation rode a bicycle home? Not so much. He had a chartered Boeing 707 ferry him home. And in so doing, emitted more CO2 than all the Hummer H3s produced to date.

Here's a quote from the guys who know - The DRUDGE REPORT:

"Vice President Al Gore is burning more than 439,500 pounds of fuel, or 65,600 gallons, at a cost of more than $131,000 on his 16,000 mile daytrip, just to deliver the warning. Gore's plane, a Boeing 707 gas guzzler burns on average 4.1 gallons a mile. The complete Washington to Florida to Washington to Alaska to Japan and return to Washington trip calculated from commercial air mileage tables is just over 16,000 miles total. Gas gallons needed for AIR FORCE II to go 16,000 miles: 65,600. Applying the average price of $2.01 per gallon of Jet A to the 16,000 mile r/t -- the fuel cost alone passes $131,000.00. There are 6.7 pounds per gallon of jet fuel. Total pounds of fuel burned on Gore's Global Warming Express -- 439,500"

Do you think there might be just a touch of hypocrisy here?

Oh, and I almost forgot my last question for that consummate environmentalist and inventor of that Information Super-Highway thingummy:

5. Dude, can you do something about this spam? This thing you created is a monster.


Al Gore
Global Warming
An Inconvenient Truth
Climate Change