BBC admits dispute over global warming as Copenhagen looms

Commentary by Kay B. Day

My gerbera daisies love carbon dioxide.The British Broadcasting Corp. made a confession of sorts with an article titled, ‘What happened to global warming?’ Saying the warmest year “globally” was 1998, The BBC admitted, “For the last 11 years we have not observed any increase in global temperatures.”

For years skeptics with solid expertise have disagreed with the gloom and doom scenario projected by financier Al Gore. Yet the US consumer is a sitting duck for the expensive Cap and Trade bill, aka ‘Cap and Tax’ or ‘Cap and Raid’, passed by the House of Representatives as HR 2454. Why would world leaders and former vice-presidents lie? And are they lying or are they just greedy deluded dupes?

Former v.p. Al Gore wasn’t too eager to answer questions about all the mistakes in his movie—if teachers show ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ in the United Kingdom, a judge ruled the teacher must make the students aware of 9 errors. For alarmists, the film is equivalent to a holy book. For skeptics, the film is an insult to intelligence and constitutes propaganda. When a reporter at a Madison (Wisc.) event tried to ask Gore questions about the errors, supportive moderators ran interference, cutting the reporter’s mic.

Meanwhile, Gore is laughing all the way to the bank. The U.S. just gave him half a billion taxpayer dollars to build cars in Finland. Maybe somebody should tell all those union workers the jobs they think legislation like HR 2454 will provide are being provided in a foreign country. Gore should be feeling pretty secure about his bailout, though, because leftwingers’ favorite money man George Soros said he’ll invest $1 billion in green technology.

Repeat the Soros mantra after me: Money, money, money.

The plane-hopping Gore appears to have inside information about the U.S. Senate passing a carbon emissions bill similar to HR 2454—by December when financiers and politicos meet in Copenhagen.

Democrats are, of course, building the next financial bubble on the U.S. consumer’s back. Regardless of your income, carbon emissions legislation will take a chunk out of your disposable income. Money men like Gore won’t even debate their science, and government allied media outlets have refused to even acknowledge experts disagree with manmade global warming.

First Gore and his cronies told us we were headed for a ‘Little Ice Age.’ Then they decided they were wrong about that—we were instead headed for global warming. That theory imploded, though they refused to acknowledge it, and they decided to call it ‘climate change.’ Then the Environmental Protection Agency manipulated the Supreme Court into ruling that every time you exhale, you pollute. Your government at work. I'm paraphrasing the legalese by putting the ruling in common sense terms, by the way.

And now that President Barack Obama has received the Nobel Peace Prize, he will have to pay for it and Europe expects him to do so in part by prostrating himself and the people he represents by caving in to suspect science that will not only affect personal freedoms. It will redistribute American wealth to ‘developing’ countries who, smart-like-a-fox, see a means of grabbing more revenue for doing absolutely nothing. It’s a liberal’s pipe dream and a Main Street nightmare.

That the BBC actually approached the truth should be commended. That Gore couldn’t even defend his movie is not surprising. Gore, by the way, has no expertise in climate science, geology or any other field related to science.

Meanwhile nothing in HR 2454 will really protect the planet or do anything about the climate change ongoing since the birth of our planet—no one even knows whether carbon sequestration is safe.

Leftwingers overlook risks of carbon sequestration, but you can bet they won’t be shooting all that carbon into the earth in affluent neighborhoods, nor in areas like Gore’s home where the presidential wannabe scalped a mountain to build an energy guzzling mansion.

Update on Sunday, October 11, 2009 at 1:59PM by Kay B. Day, Editor

Update

It's obvious the "journalists" in the room worship at the feet of Gore. It took an Irish journalist--a real journalist--to ask hard questions. One point he made with the thought police who confronted him in the hallway--we should ask questions of Big Environment in the same way we scrutinize Big Business. Big Environment wields financial and political power, insisting on decisions about resources we all own. It's time to look hard at some of the groups influencing policy that affects populations globally.