Too hot for Al Gore

My spy from Canada, Irene Wolfson, sent this along to bolster me against the onslaught of the masses. Notice my added italics below. I will revisit them after the excerpt.
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From newsmax - 6/20/06

Gore Slams Global Warming Critics

In twin appearances last night former Vice President Al Gore dismissed critics of his global warming theory as a small minority not credible in their opposition.

In an unprecedented, uninterrupted eight-minute monologue [OK, its a little biased here] on Keith Olbermann’s "Countdown," Gore characterized those scientists who dispute the reality of global warming as part of a lunatic fringe.

Later, on Charlie Rose’s show, Gore went further. Asked by Rose "Do you know any credible scientist who says ‘wait a minute – this hasn’t been proven,’ is there still a debate?” Gore replied, "The debate’s over. The people who dispute the international consensus [itallics added] on global warming are in the same category now with the people who think the moon landing was staged on a movie lot in Arizona.”

This flies in the face of such challengers as professor Bob Carter of the Marine Geophysical Laboratory at James Cook University, in Australia who said: "Gore's circumstantial arguments are so weak that they are pathetic. It is simply incredible that they, and his film, are commanding public attention."

Famed climatologist and internationally renowned hurricane expert Dr. William Gray of the atmospheric-science department at Colorado State University went even further, calling the scientific "consensus" on global warming "one of the greatest hoaxes ever perpetrated on the American people." For speaking the truth [Well, again a bias slipping in] he has seen most of his government research funding dry up, according to the Washington Post.

Neither Gray nor Dr. Carter believe that the moon landing was staged on a movie set in Arizona.

Nor does famed Oxford professor David Bellamy who sniffs that Gore’s theory is "Poppycock!" [You have to like this prose]

Writing in Britain's Daily Mail last July 9, Dr. Bellamy charged that "the world's politicians and policy makers ... have an unshakeable faith in what has, unfortunately, become one of the central credo of the environmental movement. Humans burn fossil fuels, which release increased levels of carbon dioxide – the principal so-called greenhouse gas – into the atmosphere, causing the atmosphere to heat up.

"They say this is global warming: I say this is poppycock. Unfortunately, for the time being, it is their view that prevails.

"As a result of their ignorance, the world's economy may be about to divert billions, nay trillions of pounds, dollars and rubles into solving a problem that actually doesn't exist. The waste of economic resources is incalculable and tragic."

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OK, Mr. Gore, I submit, makes my blog thesis - if you do not religiously believe in the international consensus, you must be attacked ad hominem. which is like the politics of personal destruction. The semantics of his statement reveal much about being a political animal. Also, it may be the solid consensus seems to be unraveling at an inconvenient time.

Finally, the moon-landing was staged in Nevada, as we all know. You can tell by the type of prarie dogs.

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