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"[W]hether the grumbling is about Republicans on Fox or bloggers in pajamas, there's a word for what the president and his aides are doing. That word is "whining." And nothing [...] does more damage to Obama's credibility or authority than the sense that a popular president is becoming the whiner-in-chief."
- John Nichols, Nation Magazine - 10/12/09
Al Gore’s gw hypocrisy – the media finally catches up
What’s been apparent for years is finally being noticed by the MSM. John Fund at the WSJ writes about the media’s newfound interest in Gore’s gw hypocrisy. The latest? Read on:
Then there is the Gore zinc mine. Mr. Gore has personally earned $570,000 in zinc royalties from a mine his father bought in 1973 from Armand Hammer, the business executive famous for his close friendship with the Soviet Union and for pleading guilty to making illegal campaign contributions during Watergate. One the same day Al Gore Sr. bought the 88-acre parcel from Hammer for $160,000, he sold the land and subsurface mining rights to his then 25-year-old son for $140,000. The mineral rights were then leased back to Hammer’s Occidental Petroleum and the royalty payments put in the names of Al Gore Jr. and his wife, Tipper.
Gore spokeswoman Kalee Kreider claims the terms of the 30-year Occidental lease agreement gave the Gores “no legal recourse” to get out of it. She said the Gores never thought about selling the land and would not comment on whether they ever tried to void the lease. “There is a certain zone of privacy once people go into private life,” Ms. Kreidler said. She said critics of the arrangement should realize it should be viewed in a “1973 context, not a 2007 context. . . . There was a different environmental sensibility about all sorts of things.”
But what about a 1992 context? That is the year Mr. Gore published “Earth in the Balance,” in which he wrote: “The lakes and rivers sustain us; they flow through the veins of the earth and into our own. But we must take care to let them flow back out as pure as they came, not poison and waste them without thought for the future.” Mr. Gore wrote that at a time when he would be collecting zinc royalties for another 11 years.
The mines had a generally good environmental record, but they wouldn’t pass muster either with the standard Mr. Gore set in “Earth in the Balance” or with most of his environmentalist friends. In May 2000 the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation issued a “Notice of Violation” notifying the Pasminco mine its zinc levels in a nearby river exceeded standards established by the state and the federal Environmental Protection Agency. In 1996 the mine twice failed biomonitoring tests designed to protect water quality in the river for fish and wildlife. “The discharge of industrial wastewater from Outfall #001 [the Caney Fork effluent] contains toxic metals (copper and zinc),” the analysis stated. “The combined effect of these pollutants may be detrimental to fish and aquatic life.”
The Gore mines were no small operations. In 2002, the year before they shut down, they ranked 22nd among all metal-mining operations in the U.S., with total toxic releases of 4.1 million pounds. A new mine operator, Strategic Resource Acquisition, is planning to reopen the mines later this year. The Tennessean reports that just last week, Mr. Gore wrote SRA asking it to work with a national environmental group as it makes its plans. He noted that under the previous operator, the mines had, according to the environmental website Scorecard, “pollution releases from the mine in 2002 [that] placed it among the ‘dirtiest/worst facilities’ in the U.S.” Mr. Gore requested that SRA “engage with us in a process to ensure that the mine becomes a global example of environmental best practices.” The Tennessean dryly notes that Mr. Gore wrote the letter the week after the paper posed a series of questions to him about his involvement with the zinc mines.
Columnist Steven Milloy recalls talking with Mr. Gore in 2006 about the 1997 Kyoto Protocol he helped negotiate as vice president. “Did we think Kyoto would [reduce global warming] when we signed it? . . . Hell no!” said Mr. Gore, according to Mr. Milloy. The former vice president then explained that the real purpose of Kyoto was to demonstrate that international support could be mustered for action on environmental issues. Mr. Gore clearly believes that the world hasn’t acted with enough vigor in the decade since Kyoto, which may explain his growing use of the global-warming hype that concerns many mainstream scientists.
Mr. Gore has called the campaign to combat global warming a “moral imperative.” But Mr. Gore faces another imperative: to square his sales pitches with the facts and his personal lifestyle to more align with what he advocates that others practice. “Are you ready to change the way you live?” asks Mr. Gore’s film. It’s time people ask Mr. Gore “Are you ready to change the way you live, as well as the way you lecture the rest of us?”
I think we all know the answer to that one:
Related: Here’s more proof that hype about gw is more about feeling like you are actually doing something good for the environment rather than actually doing it.
PM Update: Gore’s been challenged to a TV debate on gw by former PM Thatcher’s policy adviser Lord Monckton. Think he’ll accept? Seeing as to how he weaseled out of his last debate, I don’t hold out much hope. In the meantime, Gore was scheduled to testify before the Energy and Commerce Committee and will testify before the Environment and Public Works Committee this afternoon.
And more UK scientists are lashing out at Hollywood for overhyping the ‘fear’ of global warming.
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I spent the week-end digging out up here in NW CT, and thinking of the make of Algore’s snow plow, and how many “Carbon-Credits” he pays himself to have somebody run it!
I drove from Roseville to Old Sacramento this weekend so that my kids can watch a St. Patty’s Day parade. Much fun and lots of CO2 from my minivan for that trip. I don’t feel guilty after 16 years of research on this issue.
Mother Earth was really happy that me and my kids planted some flowers and tomatoes. But I only did it because I was greedy. I love them tomatoes and I like how flowers brighten up my environment. Too bad I had to drive to Home Depot to get some potting soil and stuff to keep the bugs off of my tomatoes….. oh the guilt.. NOT!
I’ve read a lot of Lord Monckton’s writings on climate alarmism and Gore’s lies and misrepresentations. Monckton would tear Gorezilla a new one, which is why Gorezilla will never accept. Like most liberals, he can’t defend his positions to anyone other than a fellow liberal, kookaid drinking MSM fan who fawns all over him rather than ask tough questions.
Did you seen Al on the History Channel’s special about the destruction of the world? Gawd I wanted to wretch. I thought this woman who was MC’ng the piece was going to get down on her knees and worship him. Out of the 10 possiblities of how the planet is going to die, one of which is an asteroid hitting this planet in 2029, the #1 Earth Killer is going to be……ta da Global Warming. Which if I remember right it is going to take at least 100 years for Global Warming to destroy the Earth, but if an asteroid hits us in 2029, we would all be destroyed soon after, soooooo How is Global Warming #1??? Even the History Channel has decided to be a bunch of alarmists idiots. There was a guy who even said that us global warming deniers are equal to Holocaust deniers. Uhhhhh Duh geee Tennessee, how do ya figure that?? – Lorica
Lorica,
I thought Bruce Willis took care of that asteroid a few years back.
“soooooo How is Global Warming #1???”
Probability of event occuring X the amount of destruction caused (which itself is a metric that would involve how long it would take to complete “desctruction”) is probably how they calculated this (roughly, estimating, and probably just in their heads)
But basically, if global warming is a hundred times more likely to occur than the killer asteroid, then it could be labelled #1.
This has been one more installment of “useless answers to rhetorical questions.”
It’s a bit easy to beat up on Al regarding the hypocrisy thing though…given the man’s crusade, it’s almost impossible to not be a hypocrite in some way, and I’m sure Al knows this. I give him credit for doing pretty much everything he could reasonably do to not be a hypocrite. He also doesn’t demand that anyone reduce their carbon footprint to 0, but rather that they do what they can to reduce it. So I guess it’s not really hypocrisy as much as irony.
Ted Haggard…now there’s a hypocrite if I’ve ever seen one.
Algore is a hypocrite and he very well knows he is. He doesn’t care. The MSM and his drooling lefty worshipers don’t care either. They have a noble cause. They have a fight. And any means justifies their end.
BUT…those of us Neocons who are in the vast right wing conspiracy will gladly shine the spotlight on that ‘rat in the corner.
I just love when someone blows the whistle on the whistleblower!
But basically, if global warming is a hundred times more likely to occur than the killer asteroid, then it could be labelled #1.
And if it’s not occuring at all, and the whole thing is just a scare campaign aimed at hobbling free enterprise, where does that place it? Because right now, that’s looking a lot more probable.
I give him credit for doing pretty much everything he could reasonably do to not be a hypocrite.
Clearly, you’ve heeded the last boarding call and pushed back from the gate of reality, ME. Using more power in a month than most people do in a year is “everything he could reasonably do”??? What nonsense. For starters, look at what Bush has done at the Crawford ranch. He’s walking the walk, while Gore’s done nothing to cut back on his extravagant, wasteful lifestyle. Yes, he bought stock in his own company. That saves nothing. But, like most limousine liberals, what he preaches is for us, not for the elites. So I’ll tell you what. YOU can go turn your thermostat down to 50 in the winter and wash your clothes in the nearest creek. I’ll keep my SUV, thank you very much.
BUT…those of us Neocons who are in the vast right wing conspiracy will gladly shine the spotlight on that ‘rat in the corner.
CZ, I’ll thank you not to insult rats by comparing us to Gore.
I was gone for a few months. Was Ted Haggard an elected official somewhere?
ME 1st and foremost, they know that an asteroid is going to be within the satelite shield of the earth in 2029. If the earth wobbles, as it does on a daily basis, too much that day, this asteroid is going to hit us. They aren’t even certain what the earth’s gravitational pull is going to do to this asteroid. It is a definate possiblility that we are going to be struck by this asteroid.
About 10 years ago I saw video of a 1000 meter asteroid skipping off the atmosphere in upper Alberta Canada. It is a damn scarey thing. How it was not pulled into the earth is quite simply beyond me.
As far as Ted Haggert, I cannot speak for the man outside of what I would say to anyone who is caught in this type of trouble. That is there is forgiveness. It is this type of thing that Jesus died for. When He proclaimed forgiveness from the cross, it was then sealed for all time, that His sacrifice would be used to atone for all mankind for the rest of time. No matter what the sin is.
I have met Ted Haggert, and I believe that he is a good man. Just because a man struggles doesn’t make him hypocritical. Ted has/had done alot of very good things in Colorado. Even set up prayer teams to work in conjunction with the police at crime scenes. Just incase witnesses need prayer or counselling. They were even given crime scene passes to be there. The police got to a point where they wanted these people around when they talked to witnesses. – Lorica