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Tom Brokaw asks Al Gore why he needed a 10,000 square foot home, and Al Gore totally ducked the question.

He never addressed Brokaw’s question, nor how it compared to Bush’s ultra-green Crawford home…Notice also his lack of eye contact while giving his answer: the sure sign of a lie in progress.

How stupid do you have be, really, to even give this guy the time of day?

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Al “The Science Is Settled” Gore has made himself a career out of being a failed environmental snake oil salesman after being tossed on his can after a career as a failed political snake oil salesman. Much like Enron, you can almost trace the arcing career paths in both arenas: from nearly achieving the pinnacle of each field, he was exposed as an empty shell filling himself only with what he thought it would take for people to like him. And today is the day his failure in enivornmental science really become evident after the latest IPCC release shows that everything Al Gore said about global warming is a complete fabrication.

And who are these people who exposed Al Gore’s deceits? The usual skeptics who alarmists liken to Holocaust deniers for having the nerve to challenge their propaganda? Nope. It’s Al “I’ll Say Whatever It Takes for People to Like Me” Gore’s fellow Nobel winners: IPCC. Ouch…that’s gotta hurt…again…

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Amory Levins explains why this whole hysteria over global warming is just so much white noise….Since he’s explained why Al Gore is nothing more than an opportunist, when can we expect the committee to correct their error and award the Nobel to the person who really ended the debate over global warming?

I’m not holding my breath since it’s been a long time since the Nobel Peace Prize actually had anything to do with peace or actual merit. Yassir Arafat was a winner, and Al Gore wins the same week his film was denounced by a British court as being nothing more than yet another piece of political propaganda….

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For years now we’ve been lectured by one celebrity after another telling us how we should all be driving hybrids, converting to alternative fuels, and otherwise conserving energy in every way possible. While all laudable goals, the spectre of being lectured by people who own multiple homes which are all way too big for them, heated swimming pools, private jets, limousines and generally extravagant lifestyles has been too much for most rational people to bear.

Now some of the biggest names in Hollywood are squirming after their wasteful habits were highlighted in the media.

Stars such as George Clooney, Julia Roberts, Jennifer Lopez, Brad Pitt, and Leonardo DiCaprio were all singled out for  publicly driving hybrid or alternative fuel cars while privately jetting around the globe - wasting many more thousands of gallons of fuel than they ever saved with their “green” cars.

The article concludes:

Defenders of celebrity greens argue that the attention they bring to eco-issues is worth the ideological confusion, but others are less convinced. “If they flew on regular airlines they might be forgiven,” said a contributor to TMZ. “But flying private jets makes them look like idiots.”

…and that’s putting it nicely…

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Is this true? Not really. But if George Bush were the head of the European Union, you know that’s how the headline of this story would read.

But there’s no denying the essential truth of the story: those holier-than-thou Europeans who trash Bush for following Bill Clinton’s example and ignoring the Kyoto Treaty haven’t a chance of meeting their own obligations - and never intended to.

The Kyoto Treaty was always intended as a tool to slow down the U.S. economic juggernaut under the pretense of controlling greenhouse gases. The signers knew that they would never meet their own emissions obligations, but they hoped that American businesses would be forced to spend themselves silly trying meet ours. The intent was to improve the competitive positions of Asian and European companies vis a vis American firms by saddling them with the onerous cost of attempting to achieve impossible emissions goals.

Even Bill Clinton rejected this horrible idea and the Senate defeated it 95-0, but because hating Bush is a way of life not a course of reason: it’s Bush who gets the blame even though Kyoto essentially had been tossed in the wastecan before he ever took office.

It just goes to show that, like so much of the criticism that has been levelled at Bush specifically, and Republicans, in general, - especially where the environment is concerned - has just been so much political smoke…

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