Investor's Business Daily -- Cap-And-Trade: Al Gore's Cash Cow

Gore's altruism is phony. According to a March 6 Bloomberg report, Gore invested $35 million of his own money not in green nonprofits, but with the very profitable Capricorn Investment Group LLC, a Palo Alto, Calif., firm that directs clients to green investments and invests in makers of environmentally friendly products.

As reported on Green Hell Blog, Capricorn was founded by the billionaire former president of eBay Inc., Jeffrey Skoll, who also happens to be an executive producer of Gore's Oscar-winning documentary, "An Inconvenient Truth."

Gore has not taken a vow of poverty even as he advocates legislation that will push millions into it. He has said greed and corporate profits are behind the studies disproving his alarmism. Maybe it's his desire for profits that's behind his manipulation of the truth.

Al Gore: “We must protect the ice!” (Scientists: arctic ice twice as thick as previously thought) — MasterResource

Mr. Gore claims the mantle of science when he speaks about climate change, and he loves to talk about the “consensus” of political scientists, but the world would be better off if he paid a bit more attention to the data, and a bit less to the drama of climate change.

FT.com / UK / Business - Wind turbine maker to axe 600 jobs

One of the biggest renewable energy manufacturers in Britain announced on Tuesday it is to cut more than half its UK jobs – blaming the government for failing to support the sector.

In a grave blow to the government’s ambitions to create a “green” export industry, Vestas, the world’s biggest maker of wind turbines, will axe about 600 of its 1,100 UK employees, probably closing its factory in the Isle of Wight and cutting jobs elsewhere in the UK.

Revenge of the Aristocrats - Brendan O’Neill - Planet Gore on National Review Online

The thought of being lectured about living more meekly by a taxpayer-subsidized prince who has never done a proper day’s work in his life — and who is currently flying around Europe on a private jet with a master suite and plush bathroom that will spew a whopping 53 tons of CO2 into the atmosphere over the course of his five-day, $116,000 charter — is of course eye-swivellingly irritating. But this is something we’re getting used to in Britain — because here, environmentalism looks very much like the Revenge of the Aristocrats. The British green lobby is stuffed with the sons and daughters of privilege, for whom environmentalism provides a perfect, scientifically tinged gloss for expressing in a new way their old foul prejudices against mass, modern society.

Many of the major players in British environmentalism are posh, rich, and hectoring.

What's New by [alarmist] Bob Park - Friday, April 17, 2009

Last week, a demographer in Moscow warned that the population decline in Russia will have serious economic consequences. This week, Investors Business Daily criticized famous British broadcaster Sir David Attenborough for supporting the Optimum Population Trust, a group that wants to reduce the number of people in the world. Reduce? No, no, the IBD editor says "we must produce more young workers to pay for our elderly retirees." He credits this uh insight to the "late, great economist Julian Simon," a University of Maryland libertarian who said, "People aren't a cost they're an asset." Personally, I grow more aware of the needs of the elderly with each passing year: Finding a parking place, for example. Fewer people I could live with. To ensure species survival, Darwin said, species reproduce far more often than needed for replacement. Evolution made it the dominant force in human relations. It's overkill, and behavior modification, as the church has discovered, is futile. Equilibrium is reached only when the death rate rises to meet the birth rate. For most species, therefore, the "balance of nature" is not a happy condition. The only exception is Homo sapiens, which has a technology (the pill) to restrain population growth reliably and humanely. Now, however, there's an added urgency; we're rendering our planet less habitable.