I’m going to have to struggle through this, as words are escaping me at the moment.

This could be the biggest piece of propaganda garbage I have ever seen.

I’m not going to get into big head-expanding scientific arguments with you, because I have neither the time nor the inclination to do so right now.

Listen:

There is no global crisis. While the planet is .6c warmer than it was 100 years ago, that does not mean that we caused it. There have been additional reports claiming that the entire galaxy has warmed, and I’ll be damned if you’re going to tell me that a land rover heated the entire planet of Mars.

You know what causes global warming? I’ll tell you what causes it:

IT’S THE FREAKIN’ SUN! THE SUN CAUSES GLOBAL WARMING! NOT CARS, NOT PLANES, NOT EVEN COW FARTS! IT’S CAUSED BY THAT BIG NUCLEAR BOMB IN SPACE CALLED THE SUN! THAT’S IT!

I swear to God…

…Wait. That’s the problem isn’t it? God.

If you don’t believe in God, you’ll believe in anything.

We have become so arrogant as a species that we cannot possibly believe that there is something out there greater than us. Never mind that volcanic eruptions have been shown to release more greenhouse gasses than in the entire recorded history of humanity. Never mind the fact we only have just 30 years ago Time Magazine was warning us of impending doom via a coming ice age. Never mind that we only have approximately 100 years of recorded weather data, and the weatherman can’t get next week right, let alone 50 years from now.

I ask you, where was that big hurricane season we were supposed to have due to warm ocean surface temperatures? That didn’t happen either, did it? Why do I have a $900 power bill? I’ll tell you why:

It’s freaking cold!

For those of you who haven’t figured it out yet. Al Gore is an unmitigated fraud. Lest I remind you this is the same Al Gore who moans about Florida 2000, but is too stupid to realize that if he would have won his *home state* He’d be president. Al is not the sharpest knife in the drawer, by any means.

Al Gore is the guy who bemoans the “pollution” we put in the air, yet he films a good portion of his global warming propaganda movie “An Inconvenient Truth” aboard his private plane. For those of you keeping score at home, private planes produce far more greenhouse gasses per passenger than commercial planes.

As Al continually uses up more power in one month at his Tennessee mansion than the average American family does in twenty years, he claims he is clean, because he purchases something called “carbon offsets”. Now before I get into that, I want to make it perfectly clear that I have no problem with how much power Vice President Gore uses. If he can pay for it, that’s completely fine by me. But how dare he sit there burning up the grid while telling *me* to cut back. Kiss mine, Al.

Let’s look at this carbon offset thing for a moment:

What is a “carbon offset,” exactly? Essentially, it’s a payment someone makes to an environmentally friendly entity to compensate for personally using non-green energy.

So, where does Gore buy his ‘carbon offsets’? According to The Tennessean newspaper’s report, Gore buys his carbon offsets through Generation Investment Management. A company he co-founded and serves as chairman.

Gore helped found Generation Investment Management, through which he and others pay for offsets. The firm invests the money in solar, wind and other projects that reduce energy consumption around the globe…

As co-founder and chairman of the firm Gore presumably draws an income or will make money as its investments prosper. In other words, he “buys” his “carbon offsets” from himself, through a transaction designed to boost his own investments and return a profit to himself. To be blunt, Gore doesn’t buy “carbon offsets” through Generation Investment Management - he buys stocks.
The real kicker? The only person who can buy these supposed carbon offsets from this supposed company is Al Gore himself.
Essentially the basic idea is that you can plant trees in order to cancel out your carbon emissions. This sounds good on paper but it its totally impractical, because it takes quite some time for trees to reach optimal efficiency in terms of carbon removal, anywhere from 15 to 75 years.

Based on research from the University of Florida, (as per carbon-info.org) an acre of woodland (400 trees) will in a single year remove 5000 kg of CO2 from the atmosphere. This is an average of 12.5 kg per tree per year.

Hence, when the carbon offset companies claim that an activity generating 1100 kg (1.1 ton) of CO2 can be made carbon neutral by purchasing 1 tree, the activity is first carbon neutral after at least 88 years (1100 kg / 12.5 kg per year )- assuming that the tree survives that long.

We therefore have a delay before the carbon neutral state is achieved. If the activity generating 1100 kg of CO2 is repeated the following year and another tree planted, and so on, we actually find that there over a 100 year period is a net gain of CO2. Carbon emissions will continue to rise because the trees are unable to keep up with the level of emissions.

Considering a one way plane ride emits several tons of carbons and pollutants in the air, Al could never plant enough trees to offset his “carbon footprint”. This just shows that not only is the environment is loaded with gas, so is Al Gore.

I’ve also heard that there some other type of offset where you can pay money and a company will furnish poorer countries with more efficient *stoves* (Yes, stoves) which will in turn be cleaner for the environment, and there you are. You are guilt free with your carbon offset.

It’s like a Junior version of the Kyoto treaty where each country gets a set amount of “carbon credits” to use. The gem of it is however, that the countries in question can buy the unused credits from the less industrialized countries that don’t need them.

And there, my friends, we have what this is really all about.

The re-distribution of wealth. More succinctly, what many in governments all around the world including the United States on the left side of the aisle for some time now:

Socialism based, one-world government. If you think this is actually about the environment you are asleep at the wheel. This planet has been around for billions of years. We are but specks in the cosmos. While we do have an impact, we it is minuscule in terms of the entire planet. I refuse to believe a cow fart will doom us. Why would God create an animal which absentmindedly destroy its own planet merely by progressing through its natural digestive cycle? He wouldn’t. This is sophistry.

There are too many insufferable fools out there, and its getting on my last, shorted, frayed nerve.

FYI – Over the next 3-5 years, Communist China will surpass the United States as the world’s number one emitter of greenhouse gasses.

I guess a billion people must sure fart a lot, huh?

Get a clue, will you?

Somebody call the spa company, because the gene pool needs some chlorine.

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