Bin Laden joins Al Gore in promoting climate change for gain

Commentary by Kay B. Day

Image of Earth from NASA image gallery, US Gov.The man who wreaked environmental havoc on a key U.S. city has joined critics of industrialized countries on the climate change debate. Al Jazeera published comments attributed to Osama bin Laden after the network claimed a new audio tape from the al-Qaeda leader was received. On the tape, bin Laden allegedly said, "This is a message to the whole world about those responsible for climate change and its repercussions - whether intentionally or unintentionally - and about the action we must take," bin Laden said.

Stating the obvious, the world’s most notorious terrorist added, "Speaking about climate change is not a matter of intellectual luxury - the phenomenon is an actual fact."

Most would agree the climate has been changing since the planet was formed, one reason dinosaurs don’t wander along Main Street.

The Environmental Protection Agency formerly referred to the impact of carbon dioxide as global warming, but changed the phrase to climate change when errors in calculations were made public. This occurred before hacked emails from the University of East Anglia reflected deliberate attempts by global warming alarmists to tailor information to support their opinions.

Alarmism has gained momentum in so-called developing countries where governments see a means of profiting by using global warming theory as evidence. This is similar to the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina when leftwing environmentalists blamed global warming for devastation actually caused by a failure of city, state and national governments to act on a problem they knew existed.  Possibility for the failure of the levees was a known fact. The city of New Orleans is below sea level. Yet no one at any level of government acted to prevent it.

In many poor countries, there is little access to information. The global warming movement has caught on because it has given corrupt or inept leaders a means of deflecting responsibility for their own failures.

In a 2009 meeting of the ‘Organisation of American States,’ the US was blamed for hurricane damage in Grenada. The country lies on the edge of a hurricane belt, with books written about that area’s 500 years of hurricanes.

Respected experts disagree with the alarmist scenarios promoted by financier and former US vice president Al Gore. For the first time, President Barack Obama has publicly acknowledged there is disagreement about the impact of carbon on climate change, formerly global warming, theory.

In his State of the Union address, Obama said, “I know there have been questions about whether we can afford such changes in a tough economy, and I know that there are those who disagree with the overwhelming scientific evidence on climate change. But even if you doubt the evidence, providing incentives for energy efficiency and clean energy are the right thing to do for our future—because the nation that leads the clean energy economy will be the nation that leads the global economy.”

Obama was referring to what many call the ‘climate change’ bill, HR 2454. The bill is a de facto tax on carbon and the result will be decreased wealth for every single American.

In referring to the evidence as "overwhelming," Obama addressed a political perspective rather than a universal scientific perspective.

While many of us support alternative energy and agree with funding its development, we also believe the current political approach will not help the environment and will devastate the US economy. Nor would current policy change third world countries’ problems with deforestation, contamination of waterways, loss of human life due to religious wars, loss of species due to poaching and declining agricultural production due to government mismanagement.

Global warming theory, often misrepresented in poor countries, has been a major tool for negative propaganda against the U.S.  This became evident when Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez blamed the earthquake in Haiti on secret US weapons tests.

It is ironic that Gore has a newfound promoter in a man who, by attacking the US, dramatically changed the environment in New York by slaughtering thousands of innocent civilians, destroying landmark buildings and polluting the air. Bin Laden, like many financiers, grant-hungry academics and leftwing politicos,  is using suspect science on climate change for his own gain.

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Comments

[Bob M.]

You folks don't really think Bin Laden is still alive do you? The US hawks, Zionists, and Islamic terrorists use the dead Bin Laden only for their own propaganda purposes. The latest audio tape was probably done by the carbn lobbyto associate enviros with terrorists.

[Lese Majeste]

Most would agree the climate has been changing since the planet was formed, one reason dinosaurs don’t wander along Main Street.

Johm Hagee says dinosaurs roamed around 5,000 years ago and I believe everything 'Honest' John says and since he says send me more money, guess I'll have to skip my mortgage payment to give money to John!!!

As for Obama Bin Laden, the only people that still believe Bin is alive are the same delusional ones that believe the 'official' 9/11 story.

[Kay B. Day]

Flash: the 'carbon lobby' is all for cap and trade.

Whether bin Laden is alive, I don't know.