Lies, Damn Lies, And Pure Stupidity

Author's Title - His Winter of Discontent

by William Tucker - January 29th, 2009 - American Spectator

Gore began by asserting that wind and solar fuels are "free forever" and therefore ready to do the job. As an example, he cited "concentrated thermal solar" that uses mirrors to focus desert sunlight, turning it into electricity. He cited a recent Scientific American article, saying, "If we took an area of the desert 100 miles on each side, we could provide ourselves with all the electricity we need." He wants to do it in the next ten years.

"Free forever"? If they were free, do you think that anyone would be opposed? If they were free what would be the need of huge tax breaks to get anyone to consider them? Plus Gore has miscalculated the size of his desert sun garden. It will take nearly five times the area he estimates to fulfill our needs during the day and that still ignores the following mistake.

Solar is only available part of the day. What do you do for power at night? Do you have any clue how expensive it is to store the huge quantity of power needed for the night when solar is not available? Try buying a battery if you want a clue. That will take another area five times Gore's estimate to create the energy to be stored for use at night! This article lists just a few of the outrageously expensive construction projects, all with horrible side effects, which would be needed to rely on solar.

Solar and wind power are outrageously EXPENSIVE! They always have been and they always will be. Al Gore never stops lying about anything to do with global warming.

CO2 is NOT a "greenhouse" gas that creates global warming. Man is not causing CO2 to increase. At the greatest period of creating new forms of life in this planet's history CO2 concentrations were at 7,000 PPM versus today's 385 PPM. At the beginning of one of our worst Ice Ages CO2 concentrations were 4,400 PPM. If CO2 causes warming and 385 PPM is a problem, how did that ice age ever get started? The Gore premise is simply all lies and stupidity. He knows that.

In another article on the same subject, The Amazing Story Behind The Global Warming Scam by John Coleman there is a detailed history of how this whole "man is causing global warming" movement started and evolved. The conclusion by Coleman is the same as my conclusion, "Global Warming. It is the hoax. It is bad science. It is a high jacking of public policy. It is no joke. It is the greatest scam in history."

The stupidity Gore is counting on is the stupidity of people who believe his lies.