Goristics - Edward John Craig - Planet Gore on National Review Online

Remember the Gore themes: we are destroying the planet by gratuitous use of fossil fuels. Each of us must know his own “carbon footprint,” and adjust accordingly. But then we learned, in addition to the movies and books, Gore had created a carbon-exchange company, a modern version of medieval penance, in which for a fee Gore’s people would evaluate one’s environmental sins, and suggest how one could get right with the gods of the environment.

And on and on it went until in just a few years Gore’s net worth went from $2 million to nearly $100 million. But the additional rub was that Gore lived in an energy-gobbling big house, flew in carbon-polluting private jets, and seemed to benefit financially from the very policies he was lobbying governments to embrace. None of these facts had any effect on the media, the Nobel Prize committees, or his general public stature. Today he remains a liberal icon, not a hypocrite who seemed to live the carbon high-life he demonized so publicly.

Letter to the Editor on House Dems passing the climate bill: '...the ultimate expression of collective insanity....' | GORE LIED

The American Clean Energy and Security Act, otherwise known as the cap and trade bill, must surely be the ultimate expression of collective insanity thus far proposed by this administration.

How could it have come to this? I realize that most of the readers of this paper are fervent members of the Cult of Obama, but didn’t your mother tell you, if a salesman tries to force you into a sale by telling you that you must buy right now, it is probably a lie? Don’t read it, just sign! The world will end unless you sign right now! First, the bank bailout bill, then General Motors and now this. Sound familiar?

Letter to the Editor on House Dems passing climate bill: 'These people could make shooting yourself in the foot look like a stroke of genius.' | GORE LIED

Just when you think it can’t get any worse, along comes Washington with “cap and trade.” Led by that giant of science, Nancy Pelosi, Congress has just passed a bill that may change our economic downturn into another depression. Not only that, it will have no measurable effect on climate. These people could make shooting yourself in the foot look like a stroke of genius.