Comments on: Close-minded politicians everywhere!

By: Ronald Ruschman

Ronald Ruschman — Thu, 27 Jun 2013 07:01:24 +0000

Mr Gore, AKA crazed sex-poodle (from the Portland Oregonian), aside from gross inaccurate statements on a seemingly daily basis maintains a residence in Tennessee, as well as a newly purchased estate in Santa Barbara. The gore family Tennessee estate is not actually in Nashville as the media reports, but actually is in Carthage, a few miles east of Nashville in Smith County. Why is this significant?
1. It is the largest energy consuming private residence in the state. ( The Johnson City Press).
It is fitted with solar panels but still draws more power from the rural co-op that it is connected to the grid.
Additionally the electric consumption is greater than that of George W bush’s Crawford Texas ranch.
2. . The estate is atop one of the Gore families enterprises; the Elmwood Mine, a lead-zinc mine that is also a good source for the rare element; germanium, that is a valuable semiconductor. Germanium production is messy and far more toxic than lead zinc.
The mine closed a few years ago, not because of of al Gore’s concern for the environment, but because the price of zinc collapsed.
Mr Gore sold the mineral rights to a consortium that is currently exploring the mine for decorative mineral specimens (American Mineral Treasures pg 337-348).
3. Mr Gore’s Santa Barbara estate was a recent acquisition, around / about the time Tipper filed for divorce, evidently he is not overly concerned about climate change and sea level rise as the estate was a pro ported 8.6 million dollar transaction. ( The Sacramento Bee).

By: joe

joe — Sat, 15 Jun 2013 06:19:34 +0000

In reply to Phil Berardelli. Thank you for the correction, you are correct!

By: Phil Berardelli

Phil Berardelli — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 11:29:52 +0000

In reply to joe. Not quite, Joe. It is thinking of any kind that is rare these days. Plotting, no. Scheming, no. Obfuscating, no. But thinking -- very little of it.

By: joe

joe — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 04:17:32 +0000

In reply to Frank Norton. Critical thinking is in short supply these days.

By: Frank Norton

Frank Norton — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 01:32:39 +0000

If you are afraid of tornados, move out of the Tornado Ally; Hurricanes , move away from tropical oceans; earthquakes, move away from the Pacific Rim, or other earthquake faults; flooding, move away from the flood planes; rising sea level, move away from lowland coastal areas. And stop listening to politicians for solution. Climate change, move to another growing zone, after all that is what our forefather hunter gathers did. Build a wall around a city to keep out your enemies. Not the ocean like did Holland. Also do not build on the side of a volcano, like so many do. There is a reason that insurers will not write a policy for those who do. Call it critical thinking.

By: Phil Berardelli

Phil Berardelli — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 18:02:55 +0000

Bob, your last phrase is key. Let’s just assume that they’re all right and we’re all wrong: manmade global warming is real and taxing carbon will stop the warming and possibly even reverse it. The problem is we’re due for another ice age. The last one that emerged — about 110,000 years ago — did so even though the planet’s average temperature was 2 degrees C. higher than it is right now, meaning that even if the current average increased by 2 degrees, it wouldn’t be enough to head off an ice age. It also means that if efforts to cool the planet succeeded, then the new ice age could begin even sooner. That’s a problem of monumental proportions. The last one caused a 300-ft. drop in sea level and buried Manhattan under a mile of ice. A new one would do both those things, plus force perhaps have the human population to the tropics and decimate the world’s grain production. Of course, this bunch would be long gone by then, presumably accountable only to their Maker, while the rest of humanity suffers through truly catastrophic climate change.

As Charles Krauthammer said recently about another topic — it makes you want to weep.

By: lino

lino — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 17:55:46 +0000

This stuff is ridiculous. Everyone knows that Republicans don’t cause tornadoes.

They cause hurricanes.

By: JGL

JGL — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 01:15:30 +0000

Close minded?

Agenda driven.

By: Joe

Joe — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 01:00:54 +0000

Al Gore has made a rather large fortune with carbon credits, these politicians believe in one thing, money which translates to power, climate change is just a vehicle to garner wide support of this carbon folly. Politicians that play this game are in a win win position, with regards to cfc’s being banned and the ozone layer recovering, if it did not recover or it did matters not, quite obviously science means nothing because cfc’s are still being used and the ozone hole is getting smaller, maybe the use was curtailed to some extent in the developed world, but that is only about a third of population, with regard to cfc’s, what is China and India doing, sure they don’t use right guard but the do manufacture r22 refrigerants and bootleg them to the rest of the world, this is all
About taxes and money and political power!