The Washington Independent » "Climate Change Equivocator Meets Enviro-Prankster"

A story-behind-the-story: I first discovered Grandia’s acumen when I stumbled on coal-is-clean.com, which sure looked like a pro-coal outpost with its slick graphics, patriotic headlines ( “Clean coal powers America’s greatness”) and scientific claims (“Scientist: Coal is just a diamond in the rough”).

However, click on any link and you’re redirected to coal-is-dirty.com, with the latest news from the anti-clean coal crusade. I wondered who’s behind this anti-industry psy-war, and a quick search of networksolutions.com yielded the answer: Grandia, who blogs from Vancouver, British Columbia.

Al Gore promotes the greatest scientific scam of all time at ECO:nomics summit

Al Gore's response: "I don't want to be rude to you...but these numbers have been debunked numerous times." Essentially, to paraphrase, he said it wouldn't be worth anyone's time to enter a debate in which hypothetical economic projections are pitted against solid, real facts. Gore cited a few examples.
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A few examples Gore provided -- 1 foot of sea level rise displaces 1 million people with current models showing 20 feet or more of sea rise. Then there is the big "methane monster" lurking beneath the permafrost in Greenland which could release in just a few short years a giant packet of greenhouse gases equal to the amount of all the CO2 released to date. Even subtle shifts in climate effect the breeding cycles of insects and birds (which eat the insects) leading to a shift in populations of malarial mosquitos and bacteria-toting ticks. And then there is the threat to pollinator insects like bees, without whom our entire food chain could well collapse.

But Gore did end on a positive note and in fact a place of agreement with his nemesis Lomborg. R & D is key. Al Gore believes that we do have the technology we need right now to be fossil-free by 2020.