Fire and Ice

Journalists have warned of climate change for 100 years, but can’t decide weather we face an ice age or warming

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Al Gore: Still Hot for Global Warming

     Just as the media have always relied on glaciers in climate change stories, they now rely on certain talking heads to make their points about global warming.

     Former Vice President Al Gore has become a major spokesman for the environmental movement and an advocate for larger and more intrusive bureaucracy to fend off climate change.

     Currently, Gore is promoting his second global warming book, “An Inconvenient Truth,” which also has a companion film. The trailer from the new movie claims ominously: “Our ability to live is what is at stake.”

     His latest effort has already begun to generate new media attention about Gore’s global warming efforts. Incredibly, there have been more than 1,000 print stories containing Al Gore and global warming since Earth Day 2004 – and that was before his new book.

     Gore first published “Earth in the Balance” in 1992, a book on “ecology and the human spirit” that advocated for worldwide treaties to control the environmental efforts of every nation. The book contained a 65-page chapter about “A Global Marshall Plan.” This environmental plan would help us “grapple with the enormous challenge we now face.”

     He said he rejected the notion of a world government and instead advocated international agreements establishing “global constraints on acceptable behavior.”

     These “voluntarily” entered, “fair” agreements would contain incentives and non-compliance penalties, but could impact rich nations like the United States more than others.

     The United Nations should consider establishing a “Stewardship Council” to monitor the green treaties and handle the global environment, he said. Yearly environmental meetings for bureaucrats would become necessary.

     Gore lectures regularly on human-caused global warming. A typical example was his Jan. 15, 2004, New York appearance.

     He spoke at the Beacon Theater and thanked leaders of MoveOn.org, teaching that the “wealthy right-wing ideologues have joined with the most cynical and irresponsible companies in the oil, coal and mining industries to contribute large sums of money to finance pseudo-scientific front groups that specialize in sowing confusion in the public’s mind about global warming.”