Al Gore can run around the country all he wants trying to drum up support for another ill-fated run at the presidency and I don’t care. But when he starts to impact me personally, I get more than a little ticked-off. He has put together this “Jive Earth Concert” series which features a bunch of over-the-hill bands, retreaded from another era, for the expressed purpose of calling attention to the myth of man-made global warming.
Recently, he came to my home state of New Jersey with his traveling medicine show. Our gullible Governor Jon Corzine bought enough snake oil to grease some new restrictive measures into law, which are supposed to help shrink our carbon footprint. Whenever you get phony legislation of this sort, the politicians’ hands are soon deep inside your pockets. It’s not a matter of if it will cost you, only how much. By the way, the governor recently got out of the hospital where he was recovering from serious multiple injuries suffered because he failed to use his seatbelt, while riding in a gas-guzzling SUV, which the state trooper at the wheel plunged into a ditch at 90 MPH. Upon release from his extended hospital stay, Corzine apologized for his wrongdoing and promised it would never happen again; then his motorcade sped away at 70 MPH. That’s what he’s about.
Now let’s see. Back to carbon footprints. You’re going to clean up the environment. You’re going to conserve energy. So you bring in a bunch of musicians from all over the world to plug in their bazillion megawatt amplifiers, usually in a place running ten bazillion tons of air conditioning. To get to the site, each of the bands uses several [up to 12 each] black smoke belching busses and/or private jets. ‘Big Al’ gets there on his own private jet and uses a large limo to and from the airport. Plus, there are the vehicles carrying his environmentally [un] conscious entourage and the audience. Given the nature and background of the musicians, plus the crowd they historically attract, anyone not smoking funny cigarettes or using other substances will get a contact high from just showing up!
To really make an impact, you schedule several of these non-events all around the world, allegedly, to raise awarness about environmental concerns. Now, unless his intention is to preach by negative example, doesn’t all this seem just a bit hypocritical? In fact, as time goes on and he continues to spew his ‘inconvenient truths’, it becomes inconveniently apparent that Gore knows as little about global warming as I do about installing a new transmission in one of those tour buses. And to give you an idea of my skill level in that area, when it comes to my car I know only two things: “Come get it, it’s broken” and “Fill ‘er up”. That second one becomes more difficult with each passing day.
Overwhelming scientific evidence [as opposed to political] shows that Mother Earth is simply experiencing normal heating and cooling cycles as she has for millions of years and as she will long after we are all a part of her crust. The audacity to believe that man can significantly affect something as awesome as nature, on a planetary scale, demonstrates arrogance of the highest order. I don’t know which is greater, Al Gore’s own carbon footprint or his determination to deceive the rest of us. I do know he’s sporting some serious hanging chads to make a run at the presidency at all, especially by riding on the backs of the American people in this manner.
R.S.F.
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