Ozone Man Returns

Al Gore, infamously referred to as Ozone Man by former President George Bush, Sr., has raised eyebrows in Copenhagen with his latest doomsday prediction that “there is a 75 per cent chance of the entire polar ice cap melting during the summertime by 2014.”

That’s right. Even though 10% of the world’s land mass is covered in glaciers and some places like Greenland have ice that is two miles thick, all of it will be gone in four years. Finit. Kaput.

That’s quite an attention grabber, isn’t it?

Unfortunately for Gore one of the people most surprised by his prediction is the scientist whose data the former vice president is using to defend his ridiculous claim.

LOL. You can’t write fiction this funny.

Dr Maslowski, of the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, stated, “It’s unclear to me how this figure was arrived at.” He then added, ““I would never try to estimate likelihood at anything as exact as this.” Professor Jim Overland, US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration oceanographer, remarked: “This is an exaggeration that opens the science up to criticism from sceptics.”

Gore needs some serious PR assistance. Do environmentalists honestly believe that their cause is helped by silly comments like Gore’s? If they truly believe that the ecological changes we are witnessing are the result of humanity’s actions, then they should follow Professor Overland’s suggestion: “You really don’t need to exaggerate the changes in the Arctic.”

Perhaps Gore is panicking because of the amount of money he has riding on his ability to convince the world that the sky is falling. Maybe he is nervous because of the “Climategate” e-mail scandal.

Or Gore might simply be following the advice of Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels: “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.”

Hypocrisy

You have to love hypocrisy, especially when it is exhibited by politicians. Whether it is a senator preaching family values while having a mistress and a secret family, or a House Rep preaching fiscal restraint to the nation as he floods his constituents with pork projects. The arrogance of these men and women, and their sense of entitlement, is truly staggering. The latest example is the upcoming global climate summit in Copenhagen.

We have been hounded repeatedly over the past few years about the connection between Man’s carbon emissions and global warming. We have been warned that the abuse of natural resources by western civilization is destroying our planet and setting the stage for an ecological disaster of biblical proportions. Frightening stuff, but apparently not frightening enough for the government delegates attending the Copenhagen climate summit.

According to the British daily The Telegraph, there have been over 1,200 limos and over 140 private jets reserved for those attending the “climate” summit. The newspaper predicts that the climate conference “will produce as much carbon dioxide as a town the size of Middlesbrough.”

LOL. Even Jonathan Swift couldn’t create irony this self-incriminatory.

So while you and I will soon be encouraged to eschew home heating oil in favor of cow dung, or asked to return to the horse-drawn buggy for transportation, our moral and intellectual superiors in government will continue jet-setting around the globe on “official” business.

But wait. Let’s give a round of applause to the Copenhagen prostitutes who will perform free sex on anyone who has a “climate conference delegate's pass”. At least some people who claim to support global warming theory are willing to put their money, or in this case their bodies, where their mouths are. Are they misguided? Sure.

But at least they are not hypocrites.