Al Gore is a greenhouse gasbag.

Wasn’t Al Gore also the man who claimed to have invented the Internet?

How do we fight the big exposure Al Gore has, to tell Canadians otherwise? I don’t think he should meddle in Canadian politics. I wonder if the Liberals are paying him to interfere.

Personally, I think it’s a far leap of faith to think the human race is the cause of global warming; secondly, there’s not much we can do to reverse it short of stopping up volcanoes and other natural phenomena; thirdly–just who the heck does Al Gore think he is criticizing the Canadian government on their environmental policy, whether Conservative or Liberal. Clearly, his new-found popularity among tree huggers and Hollywood types has him dizzy with success, and his hat is now about three sizes too small. He should shut up and just worry about his next meal–”Hmm letsee, MacDonalds or Jack in the Box?”

On one hand, I resent having foreign politicians and celebrities, such as Bill Clinton, Al Gore, Richard Gere and Charles de Gaulle, come to Canada to cause change or foment revolution, choose one of the above, but on the other it has certainly stimulated talk and the flow of ideas.

On the OTHER other hand, calling anything Canada produces “a complete and total fraud”, while ignoring the monstrous apathy south of the border is pretty ironic. If the United States had developed alternative energy when the OPEC oil embargo hit in 1973, I wonder if we would be having this discussion at all. There would certainly have been no Gulf War I and II. We are addicted to oil and the first step to recovery is admitting that we have a problem! Other steps will follow.

As to global warming, I can’t see how the tiny 3.7% of CO2 that man produces tipping the scales as severely as Gore predicts. Cutting down trees, on the other hand…

Mike Neilly
Ottawa

If you wish to put Al Gore in perspective why not create a summary of his financial/investment links to profit from the fear mongering that he is promoting. His intentions are to profit via his considerable contacts with Goldman Sachs, Lehman Bros, et al. There is a very long list not to mention the proceeds from his science fiction book and movie or the ask no questions speechs/presentations he give for large coin.

As you indicate check his record, but even more than that check what has been the record on their personal property that includes mining and pollution. His is the case of a silver spoon from birth and a chronic case of never really finishing much of anything right down to his academic records. He is a shill and a front man being very well paid.

Rich elitist profiteering from “caring for future generations” is the present equivalent of the robber barons and UK exploiters of the Empire of the past.

There is a critical need to document the feet of clay and exploitation that these climate change and environmental extremists are foisting on the public through unresearched media manipulated hype.

Perhaps if we had an educated public this wouldn’t be so easily done, however it appears that the more phoney and unearned credentials our institutions produce the lower the level of ability to think.

Al Gore is a fraud ….a con artist who now believes his own lies.
The Global Warming Addicts will never be convinced that this is a natural cycle of the Earth.
We can’t stop hurricanes and other wind storms . How do they propose to alter “global warming ” ? By spending big bucks and crippling the world’s production.
This is just more BIG Government . More investment in schemes that employ thousands and waste billons .
The current Government will never satisfy the Global Warming Addicts .
Yes , we need to be responsible stewards of God’s green earth.
But Kyoto …another farce !
blessings from Virgil,ON

The Liberals have always wanted to change the world and now they have found the ultimate motivation to get everybody on board. They will now save the world.

If Al Gore will enter into public debate with those scientists who have expressed an opinion on the lack of scientific data for the position taken by Al Gore, the Global Warming discussion end. Al knows this and therefore continues his spin allowing (to date) no accountablility for his statements or his position. Al, if you are listening, give Bill O’Reilly OR Hannity and Combs a telephone call and agree to put in an appearance on their program to defend your position. Double dare ya.

I mentioned Tim Ball the other day-I don’t know enough about him to give more information- He has written about weather patterns in the Country Guide for years. Claims global warming has been going on almost since the ‘Begining’. He has figures to back this up–which I have read over the years, but cannot quote. He lives in Vancouver, but, I guess since he doesn’t have any ’sientific’ facts, he is completly ignored by media. Whereas David Suzuki makes lots of noise, and it goes–and ‘Gores’ from there. Ron

Everything I have read about Al Gore is loaded with sensationalism and without much basic, fundamental information. Hopefully, people will ignore his rantings for what they are really worth.

While we are fulminating about Al Gore and his inusfferable interference in our affairs (just another facet of US extra-territoriality, and I don’t want to be misinterpreted as being anti-Amercan when I say that), we might also look in the mirror.

The Canadian approach to CO2 emissions seems to be, yep, Canada should cerainly do something about GHGs. The Government should do something about GHGs. Industry should be cracked-down-on for their GHGs. Tut-tut on the US for not ratifying Kyoto. Absolutely everyone should do his share about GHGs. Me? Hey, don’t bug me. My new SUV is a real joy! Yeah, I know 42% of new vehicle sales last year were SUVs, but what difference could I make in all that mob? Yeah, Harper, get to it, will you???!!!

Al Gore does not believe his own movie, he uses 20 times the energy the average american does. Yes he claimed to have invesnted the internet, becuase he once voted for a bill giving some money for it well after it was already defined.
The conservatives seem to believe his nonsense though, and the worst part is the conservatives seem bent on doing more than than the Liberals and that is going to cost us dearly and this is wrong!

Gore knows more about fraud than anyone after all he wrote a book a made a movie based entirely on fraud. He is the biggest liar this world has known. Why do we care what he says or thinks?

Al Gore has the audacity to fly up here in a private jet, burning enough fossil fuel to fuel my auto for several cross continent trips, to tell me that I have a moral responsibility to alter my behavior according to his admonition. HAH !

I totally agree with you. Everyone should read the article on the ” Global Warming Swindle” @http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4340135300469846467.
The radicals all pick their spots to warn about global warming. We never heard a thing when all the sealing boats were caught in an ice jam on the east coast. How come so quiet?
They all know it is a natural occurence that has gone on for millions of years. Warming up, then cooling off every 20,000 years. There is just too much money donated by individuals & governments & all these people are making a good living off this farce.. Imagine making $60,000 a year, just to pick up a sign & demonstrate once or twice a month at rallies.

Sir, I have a great respect and admiration for the USA and its citizens. Mr Gore is a Liberal we all know that but I think his recent outburst aqainst the Canadian Governments policy on global warming out of place. First he is totally wrong, he is definitly full of beans and should not be interfereing in Canadian polotics.

Aren’t the Americans .. isn’t he world .. lucky this guy didn’t make it to the White House. What a lying (makes countless unsupported statements under the guise of scientific fact) .. devious (manipulates a huge environmental issue – in a manner contrary to his earlier position - to get onto the front page) .. scheming (uses this issue to make a lot of money, or a start for a new run at the White House – or both) .. fraud (high lights calving glaciers & ice fields but neglects to mention the huge build up of thickness (and pressure) in the interior of Greenland and Antarctica .. and a host of additional errors or omissions. . In addition .. what really annoys me is that his speaking tours has the support of ’supposedly’ responsible agencies such as .. The Chamber of Commerce .. Telus .. and etc. Then his movie has also been shown in schools. None of he foregoing have supported or mentioned or made available well done counter arguments or expose (such as the BBC4 edition .. available on YouTube .. “The Great Global Warming Swindle” ) exposing with facts and peer reviewed references the multiple errors Gore’s production includes. These supporters and the great gullible public help perpetuate the fraud.

Wasn’t the movie Love Story about AL Gore, according to the Goracle?
Too much ice time without a helmet.

Just when you start looking forward to the demise of former President Jimmy Carter with his record of 30 plus years of unelected, unaccountable interference in international affairs, we have the arrival on the scene of the odious Al Gore, the former almost-was, has-been.

Not only has the former lobbyist for Big Tobacco re-invented himself as “environmental crusader” now we are treated to his “views” of other governments. First, Colombia and now Canada. It would seem that anyone who so much as civil to George W. Bush can expect the same.

Lord Moncton went toe-to-toe with the Goracle recently. A transcript is available for your reading pleasure:

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2006/12/the_al_gorelord_monckton_debat.html

Isn’t this the same Al Gore that laughed at Major General Oliver North when he said the Bin Laden was the most dangerous man on earth?
Methinks he has be mistaken before…

Unfortunately the enviroterrorists seem to have a much better propaganda machine than do we glo-bull warming skeptics. I invited Tim Ball to speak on this back in 1995 and it was the second time I saw him speak about this nonsense but it’s too late now. Even the US is making economic decisions based on glo-bull warming implications. We are now committed to $8 billion a year to fight a non-existent problem. Just wait til the glo-bullers start paying the hefty premiums at the gas/diesel pump and even higher food prices. Will Suzuki swap a bicycle for his diesel bus??? Why should he - he must be getting rich over this bull.

Al Gore’s grandstanding and self-promotion represents the worst of the American political spectrum. No wonder he only appears amid captive audiences and brooks no challenge to his proclaimed truths. For ten or more years the previous Canadian government promised whatever they thought the electorate wanted to hear in regard to their fool-hardly and ill-considered adoption of Kyoto…. and did nothing… and now the Opposition berates the the constructive proposals of their successors! Less headline-grabbing and dramatic they may be, but the New Government’s programme very sensibly proposes to ban incandescent light bulbs, and avoid the economically fatuous world-wide pollution credits plan, which would have seen Canada purchasing credits from countries whose polluting practices are exponentially worse than ours. This approach would have resulted in a massive transfer of wealth from Canada to major economic competitors who were too smart to adopt the Kyoto Accord! How stupid can you get! Perhaps all those jumping on the Kyoto bandwagon with their criticism of the present Canadian government’s environmental initiatives should remember the old proverb that” A journey of a thousand miles, starts with a single step”…a step predecessor governments never had the courage to take!

Normally all political parties and the media would be in a frenzy because of an ex US politican interferring in Canadian domestic policy. 24 hours and still nothing?

Right on! Al Gore needs to keep his nose out of Canadian politics PERIOD! He should talk to the Americans and leave us alone.

Has anyone ever tried to email Gore and Suzuki directly. Sure we can email their web sites but do not try to contact them directly.
Both of these jerks are making big money from governments. They get substantial amounts of Canadian and American tax dollars for claiming to be non-profit organizations. Suzuki calls himself a doctor. He most probably is a veterinarian with a class “C” grade. Suzuki does not know any more than you or I as to what is causing the climate to change. The one aspect of changes in our world are the many volcanoes that erupt daily spewing tons of CO2 into the atmosphere which gets propelled a couple of miles high. When Mount St Helen blew a few years ago it alone spilled more ash and gas than what canada produces in a year.
Unfortunately our educators are teaching students that they are causing the world climate to collapse through irresponsible use of coal and oil. Sure things can be improved but we need to listen to the folks that provide us the energy not dope heads like Gore and Suzuki.

The inconvenient truth about Al Gore is that he wants to be President of the USA. His strategy for getting there is quite simple. First, convince everyone that the world is heading for catastrophe unless we stop driving SUV’s, or wear yellow socks on Wednesdays, or whatever. (He’s done quite well so far). Next, persuade everyone that salvation lies in and only in electing Al Gore. He hasn’t yet thrown his hat in the ring for the 2008 election, but there’s plenty of time yet …

I am as bewildered as most Canadians are when it comes to global warming. I do not believe the polls which tell us that,say,
73% of Canadians are in favour of the Kyoto Accord. I am prepared to bet that the vast majority of Canadians have little idea
what the Kyoto Accord says, and what it would mean to Canadians’ way of living if it were to be fully implemented. Moreover, I
don’t believe that the vast majority of Canadian newspaper writers who write on the subject have much idea either.

I confess that I am an uninformed layman when things like global warming and the Kyoto Accord come up for debate.
(Actually, the problem is, they never come up for debate. They are only mentioned in order for the writer or speaker to proclaim
dogmatically that they exist, that they are causing untold damage to our environment, that they are going to cause a great deal
more if not arrested, that we humans are the cause of global warming, and therefore we can do something to reverse the situation.)
We read statements such as these (Times-Colonist, April 27) : “greenhouse gases cause climate change”; “air pollutants such as
nitrogen and sulphur dioxide”. In the prestigious newspaper The Economist we read (April 7- 13, p. 28), “greenhouse gases …
cause global warming” and “carbon dioxide (is) the main greenhouse-gas.” I hold that these statements are opinions - but opinions
paraded as dogma, as established scientific facts.

It is of the highest importance that we ascertain positively and beyond all argument whether global warming is a natural phenomenon
or whether it is caused, in part or in whole, by human activity such as the burning of fossil fuels. It is vital because, if it is a natural thing,
there is nothing we can do about it. The forces of Nature will always prevail : tidal waves, earthquakes, volcanoes, tornadoes, floods,
droughts, meteors. I hope I am somewhat different from all those Canadians polled–and probably from most lay writers on the subject —
because I am trying to understand the problem. So I will start off with what I have discovered and take it from there.

When I went to school back in the 1930s I learnt in chemistry class that the atmosphere — which means, in simple lay terms,
the air we breathe all the time — is composed mainly of nitrogen, 79%, and oxygen, 20%. The other gases made up the other
one percent. The other day I checked on the situation as it is understood today. I discovered.that it has been established
by the strictest scientific methods (this is the situation as of April 11, 2007) that the atmosphere is made up of 780,840 ppmv
(parts per million by volume) of nitrogen and 209,460 ppmv of oxygen — or 78.084% and 20.946% respectively–for a total of 99.030%.
(Presumably these figures are valid for the different levels of the atmosphere: troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere and thermosphere alike.)
Of the rest, the supposed ‘culprit’, carbon dioxide accounts for a mere 383 ppmv, or 0.0383%. What I fail to understand is how 0.0383%
of the Earth’s atmosphere can cause all the global warming that the Times-Colonist and the other organs of public information are on about all the time.
This newspaper has never explained it, so far as I am aware, yet it seems to me it has an obligation to explain it to its readers.

Now the dissemination of information, or news items, to the public may be held to be a simple choice between ‘print’ or ‘trash'’. I hold
that the decisions made by writers and editors as to what to write and to print are profoundly ethical and moral issues. I hold that
if a writer writes, for example, that ‘greenhouse gases cause global warming’, the writer, as a professional, is ethically bound to be able
to explain precisely what is meant by ‘greenhouse gases’ and ‘global warming’ and to point to the latest scientific evidence to substantiate
his explanation. The same holds true of editors. If an editor decides to publish an article or news item written by one of his staff, or which he imports,
and which contains such statements, he too is ethically bound to do two things: 1) to ascertain that his reporter or columnist, or his source, knows what he is
writing about; and 2) to be able to explain what he decides to print, whether his staff can or cannot.

Some writers seem to use the terms ‘ethical’ and ‘moral’ as synonyms; or because they do not know the difference. Here I am using the
term ‘ethical’ in a theoretical sense as applied to the exercise of a profession. The term ‘moral’, on the other hand, is the application of
ethical principles and to be used when talking about individuals and their conduct. To pursue our theme. If it can be shown, for example,
that a writer makes a claim which, as later proved, he cannot substantiate, and which turns out to be harmful to some people, the writer
can be held to be immoral, and justifiably accountable for the harm he causes. Let us put a similar case in a family situation. Suppose
that same writer acts in a comparable manner at home, would he (or his editor) not be considered universally as a grossly immoral person?
Why do people do things in their public capacity that they would never do in private? Is it because they think they will not be held accountable
for what they do? Paradoxically, it is things people do in private that they would not want to be made public!

Let me give another parallel. We have all watched television commercials showing men and women displaying certain products and making
extraordinary claims for them. We often wonder whether the people displayed, the ‘actors’, have ever used the product they are paid millions
to promote, and whether the products really have the virtues they claim for them. It seems to me that the actors are nothing other than prostitutes.
The only difference between these actors and the ‘women of the night’ is that I pity the women and, from all the words I have ever heard any of them
utter in interviews, I respect them as honest people.

Writers and editors have, it seems to me, a profounder obligation than anything I have discussed hitherto. From all that I have been able to learn
about global warming and its causes, they are still controversial matters. Even if global warming is an established phenomenon, it’s cause is far
from being settled by scientifically incontestable evidence. Editors and writers are therefore under the profound obligation to their readers to put
the other side of the case. They are professionally in neglect if they put one side and ignore the other. Unfortunately this unethical conduct
is not restricted to the press, radio and television.

The whole issue of global warming has been fanned into a fiery campaign stirring up white-hot passions. ‘Fanned’ by whom? Largely by left-wing
factions in a renewed, and disguised, effort to undermine globalization of trade, and promoted by a compliant press. The campaign is also championed
by like-minded elements in our universities. If the press have an editorial responsibility to present all sides of an issue, whenever they can; for
universities it is their very intellectual and moral bread-and-butter. For a university teacher to deliberately put forward only one side of an issue in a lecture,
or a university administrator to issue a biased report or account of any topic, is a betrayal of all that ‘university’ and the title of ‘teacher’ stand for.
Yet some people at some Canadian universities have passed beyond even that contemptible stage. There have been instances of professors turning
their backs on the recipient of an honorary degree for the sole ‘reason’ that they disagreed with the honoree’s views on some controversial issues.
Demonstrations are staged against some faculty members, others are threatened, others again are boycotted, for holding controversial views in
important areas of knowledge and learning. Any professor attempting to silence another, any administrator supporting or not opposing such conduct,
should immediately be made the subject of a formal inquiry; and if the allegation is substantiated, action should be taken without delay to dismiss the offender.

Let me repeat : the study and research of every subject requires that it be examined, and reported, from every angle. Research and scholarship
require that any thesis be accompanied by its antithesis. The truth can never be arrived at from one angle. As the French proverb has it : Du choc
des opinions jaillit la vérité. The best gloss on this proverb that I have ever come across is the following : “Truth itself [needs] no better guarantee
than the constant free play of criticism and discussion. This was Mill’s argument in his essay On Liberty: or, as the epitome of the period, Lord Palmerston,
put it a dozemn years earlier than Mill: ‘It is by comparing opinions - by a collision of opinions - by rubbing one man’s opinions against those of another
and seeing which are the hardest and will bear the friction best - that men, in or out of office, can most justly arrive at the knowledge of what is most
advantageous to the interests of the whole community.’” (David Thomson, England in the Nineteenth Century, Penguin Books, p. 226.)

The implication of the last sentence of your blog is that Gore shouldn’t criticize Canada for climate change policies when he did no better.
This shows that the NCC is no longer thinking right. Gore should be criticized for thinking that we should do ANYTHING about “climate change”.

Al Gore,Wooden Shoes,Wooden head,Wooden know a good thing,Wooden do it right the first time,Wooden spend the money,Wooden Win An Election in America with the Giberish he’s shovelling at Canadians.
Al Gore is Another Liberal Hack Friend/Outsider Spin Doctor.who can’t get Yankee Press to give him the same popularity as the Pinko Canadian Press/media.When the Liberals are reaching for an Election “Win” . they will bring in the HACKS!,to doo the dirty work.

I am so tired of the sanctimonious, self righteous, arrogant attitude of activists. They never seem to do their homework, they never have an original thought and yet they get all the media attention and the world is hoodwinked once again. They should all go live on one island and leave the rest of us alone. They are a hindrance to progress of any kind. Of course we have to take care of the environment but if they have their way we will all live in mud huts.

According to information on the internet Gore is buying carbon credits from his own companies, no doubt with the intention of selling them in the market, which according to Professor Richard Lindzen of MIT, trading carbon credits is going to be a multibillion dollar business.Gore has companies that own carbon credits and he is the co-founder of Global Investment Management which invests in solar and wind energy and he is on the Board of Lehman Brothers who want to be the primary brokers for emission permits. Gore is a phony who hopes to become a billionaire from promoting global warming.

In today’s society we want to control everything. Why shouldn’t our self indulgence go as far as wanting to be able to control the weather as well.
Actually, next we could send some clean up probes to mars as well. I’m sure that we’ve damaged that poor planet with our invasion there the past few years.
I still struggle with scientists that are so closed minded as to think that we’ve caused global warming as much as they thought we were having the start of an ice age in the mid seventies.
Even if man made CO2 emissions have played as much as a 2% contribution, Canada is responsible for 2% of 2% (.04%).
Let’s cut this in half brining it to .02% and ruin our country economically.

I’d suggest if Gore was a true enviornmentalist he’d be in China helping them develop their new energy in a responsible matter rather than expecting other countries to make a major shift in shutting down old technologies. Canada should NOT become the Poster Child for the Gore/Suzuki train to hell. Thanks Steven for the balanced approach!

More Gorebull warming BS from the Goreacle. The man is a known prevaricator. In interviews for his film he admitted to taking “dramatic license” to achieve his points. I believe that is another way of saying “I lied”.

Climate change is a geologic reality that has been occurring for roughly the last 4.5 billion years and will continue to occur with or without our involvement. Global warming due to human action is unsubstantiable conjecture and fact free. Making it perfect for the CBC.

Winston Churchill once said “A lie is half way around the world before the truth gets out of bed.” The truth has a lot to do to catch up to Al Gore.

Great comments all. Yes the world has been caught up in a mass insanity. There is a cliche that goes something like “no one has ever lost money on the poor taste of the North American public”! In this case read “on the ignorance and stupidity”. Al Gore is laughing all the way to the bank. But as per usual we are all speaking to the converted in this type of forum. How to get the message out to the great unwashed masses?

As many of you have said, Global Warming is a geological phenomenon. Human activities and CO2 levels likely have little or no impact. The most plausable cause seems to be sun spot activity. However the scientists researching these theories are too cautious and would never promote their theories as fact as there is still considerable research to do.

In fact naturally occurring Global Warming, although a problem the world will have to deal with, is not the greatest cause for concern on the planet. The population explosion is by far the greatest problem and will be the main contributor to catastrophy on earth, probably long before global warming becomes a serious problem. And guess what, Nortrh America has already done its part in this regard. In fact we are being forced to rapidly absorb over population problems from elsewhere in the world. But it would be politically incorrect to discuss such an issue in a way that it would have an impact.

Al Gore is no doubt in this for his own good and should stay out of Canadaian politics. That said, I am concerned with a disrespect for the planet on this blog. While Global Warming is certainly a questionable science (and probably the next “Witch Hunt” after the post-Enron, “Executive Hunt”). air qualityconcerns, and overall environmental stewardship, are not things to be ignored. We should be looking toward renewable energy sources and a collectively smaller environmental footprint. Even a dog doesn’t crap where it sleeps and of all the places in a light year form here, it’s the only planet to live on. For we conservative, free enterprise types there is a buck in it. As for Mr Harper, he has listened to his constituents and acted accordingly, something we would never have seen from a Liberal Government.