Al's Journal : Our Choice

An old African proverb says, “If you want to go quickly, go alone; if you want to go far, go together.”

We have to go far. . . quickly.

Al Gore: "There’s an old African proverb that says if you want to go quickly go alone, if you want to go far go together. We have to go far, quickly." | GORE LIED

Mark Steyn notes that this is not the first time Al Gore has used this phrase and is also skeptical of it’s origin:

Does this latest African proverb come from any part of Africa in particular, or just from Africa in general? A Google search uncovers no prior use except by the Congregational Church , which, naturally enough, uses it to justify an “open and affirming” approach to such traditional African customs as gay pastors. But I’d be interested to know from any of NR’s African readers from which part of the continent this particular aphorism comes.

A search at Afriprov.org found no such proverb. And I didn’t expect to find one given Al Gore’s history with these types of quotes which we documented on Al Gore’s opportunistic false contention that the Chinese characters for the word “crisis” = danger + opportunity.

Climate-change bill stalls in Senate as Republicans object | The Columbus Dispatch

[Boxer] yielded before the GOP boycott threat and agreed to Voinovich's demand for a delay.

Fiorina is watching Boxer on cap-and-trade - The Back Story - Washington Times

Although the Republican Fiorina has yet to announce her candidacy for California's 2010 Senate race, Mrs. Fiorina has been drawing attention to Mrs. Boxer's management of the legislation. Mrs. Fiorina's Twitter account, for example, has been linking news stories from the New York Times, Politico and Gay Patriot that highlight Mrs. Boxer's lack of success gaining support for bill among moderate Democrats and the GOP, often with the phrase "ineffective Boxer."

NY Times excuses Gore’s climate profiteering « Green Hell Blog

It was apparently “a bridge too far” for Broder to notice that Gore’s House testimony is entirely inconsistent with Gore’s e-mail to the Times.

Ross McKitrick: The models are unreal - Full Comment

But if the two degrees C meme really is the justification for the policy, when do we get to talk about temperature trends? When do we get to talk about the contamination of the land surface temperature records, or the fact that the UK’s Climatic Research Unit admitted this summer that it misplaced all its raw temperature records prior to 1980 and has no way to substantiate its claims about 20th century warming? When do we get to discuss the fact that as climatic monitoring systems have improved, measured warming trends have gotten smaller? When do we get to discuss the fact that models predict a two-degree-per-century warming trend in the tropical mid-troposphere, but long-term weather balloon and satellite records show a trend a quarter that size, one which is statistically insignificant?