AlGore has emerged to pontificate once again upon the critical emergency that threatens his bank account our idyllic planet. As noted over at Newsbusters, the world will end, and Fox News is to blame.
- Record winter storms and revelations of warmist fraud notwithstanding, we "face an unimaginable calamity requiring large-scale, preventive measures to protect human civilization as we know it."
- Unfortunately, "television" has replaced newspapers as the dominant medium. And "television" serves as the tool of powerful forces favoring "unrestrained markets" and opposing regulatory "reform."
This is why AlGore took his song and dance to dvd - which, after all, requires a television, monitor, or similar carbon-spewing device in order to view the content. He certainly wouldn't have won any awards by publishing in a print medium.
But while he pontificates now in the pages of The New York Times, glossing over the multiple instances of fraud pushed by Warmists, The Telegraph notes that the errors of the IPCC's report - which AlGore defends as insignificant - are not incidental, but fundamental.
Apart from those non-vanishing polar bears, no fears of climate change have been played on more insistently than these: the destruction of Himalayan glaciers and Amazonian rainforest; famine in Africa; fast-rising sea levels; the threat of hurricanes, droughts, floods and heatwaves all becoming more frequent.
All these alarms were given special prominence in the IPCC's 2007 report and each of them has now been shown to be based, not on hard evidence, but on scare stories, derived not from proper scientists but from environmental activists. Those glaciers are not vanishing; the damage to the rainforest is not from climate change but logging and agriculture; African crop yields are more likely to increase than diminish; the modest rise in sea levels is slowing not accelerating; hurricane activity is lower than it was 60 years ago; droughts were more frequent in the past; there has been no increase in floods or heatwaves.
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