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BY RICH LUONGO
NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM
COMMENTARY
The snow we've been experiencing is definitely awe-inspiring. Isn't it beautiful? Doesn't it show how powerful Nature is and how she doesn't care who you are ... because she'll dump on you without prejudice? She also has a sense of humor. Why isn't Al "I Invented the Internet" Gore laughing? Why isn't he defending his global warming thesis? "Well, this snow is the exception to the rule..." he could say. But is that a good defense? I don't think so. Why? Because the man's a fraud.
He can't defend his global warming nonsense against the ice-age temperatures and snow the northern hemisphere has been experiencing this winter. So he remains silent. He continues to make millions, however, with his lectures and continues to make money with that absurd "documentary" about this fictitious global warming.
Speaking of that docudrama, Robert L. Simon and Lionel Chetwynd, members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences — which hands out the Oscars every year — have asked the organization to take back Gore's 2007 Oscar for "An Inconvenient Truth", the so-call documentary he won about global warming, because it's allegedly based on data that was manipulated to support the warming theory.A whistle-blower had released e-mails stating that scientists at the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia in England were involved in a fraud that falsified information to support global warming.
And why did the international conference on climate change, recently held in Europe, fail to come up with anything conclusive to support the hysteria that the warming of the earth would cause glaciers to melt and coastal cities (New York, Los Angeles, London, to name a few) to be swallowed up by the rising waters? Maybe there was nothing there to support this thesis. Maybe somebody read those e-mails from the University of East Anglia.
I think the cooling of the earth and an advancing ice age should be earnestly investigated. After all, another brutal snow storm is predicted for later this week in the poor, embattled Northeast.
I guess we'll have to investigate the warming of the earth later this year, maybe in June or July when it gets hot.
Rich Luongo writes a blog at southjerseynews.typepad.com.
After that I watched "The Great Global Warming Swindle" which rebutted many of Gore's arguments with great accuracy, and that certainly changes my point of view.
The Lemmings all fell in behind their Pied Piper - Al Gore - with blinders on to the obvious. Too bad they won't let go of their hero.
Me - I am still waiting for a glacier to disappear or the water to start rising in Los Angeles.
An alternative news site for NJ should do better than the comments section of the Star Ledger. But its far easier to encourage baseless and uninformed attacks than to foster rational and meaningful debate. It's a sad state, because it's only with the latter that we can truly address the problems facing this state and the globe.
How about relying on the best available science? Why don't we try that for a change in this country? If decades from now, the science changes and we decide we were wrong, then the worst we've done is create an industry that provides jobs in efficient non-polluting industries and lessen our dependence on fossil fuels (do you like to breath in diesel fumes?) and the middle east. Heaven forbid!