“The sky is falling! The sky is falling! Wake up before it’s too late!”
Soon Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth will celebrate its 10th anniversary. The film revealed the “grave” threat of global warming. On Jan. 26, 2006, The Washington Post stated Al “believes humanity may have only 10 years left to save the planet from turning into a total frying pan.”
My Tennessee neighbor won an Oscar and Nobel Prize for sounding the alarm in book and film as a Climate Control Caped Crusader.
Gore crisscrossed countries waving his arms, passionately declaring, “We can’t wait. … We have a planetary emergency. … The future of human civilization is at stake! … Global warming is the greatest challenge we’ve ever faced!” This is no exaggeration.
In an article highlighting his tireless service for humanity, The Washington Post labeled him “the world’s most renowned crusader on climate change.” Wow! And remember he almost became President of the United States were it not for a few “hanging chads” that didn’t go to his column.
President Obama subsequently picked up the “crisis” telling world leaders that “climate change (not Islamic terrorism or skyrocketing, unsustainable debt) is the No. 1 issue facing us today.” At the recent Global Paris Summit he pushed this agenda with urgency. The cost of his United Nations Global Warming Treaty came in at $12.1 trillion or $484 billion dollars yearly according to Bloomberg.
Gore’s efforts made him an environmental hero but took a tragic toll on his marriage. His marriage of 40 years to Tipper ended in a shocking divorce.
Today, 68-year-old Gore alternates residence in two gorgeous, spacious homes in Nashville and California.
Leaving his V.P. office with assets of $2 million, Gore now has wealth estimated at over $100 million. Al’s movie cost $1 million and brought in $50 million. He hauls in at least $100,000 in speaking fees, is tied to at least 14 green-tech firms, sits strategically on certain boards, plus benefits from Obama grants and millions in tax breaks. He’s on his way to becoming what one congressional leader called “our first carbon billionaire.”
Here’s the Deal
Masses of people are misinformed or misled on issues such as physician-assisted suicide, marijuana legalization, unrestricted abortion, wholesale immigration, socialism, a “war on women,” “free” entitlements and “pandemic” Wall Street fraud. Similarly, people are manipulated and deceived regarding dire climate change/global warming reports.
This hysteria and apocalyptic fear mongering reminds many of the 1970 Earth Day predictions that fizzled like a firecracker:
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End of civilization in 15-30 years
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100-200 million deaths to starvation yearly for 10 years
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A new ice age by 2000
The good news is that many people are wising up! Because of longstanding behavior that is suspect to say the least, multitudes view as con artists multimillionaires like Gore, Michael Moore, the Clintons and others who prey on the gullible and get rich off causes, advance their fame and live lavish lifestyles off the backs of the unsuspecting.
Hillary told us they were almost broke leaving the White House and this week she’s on TIME magazine’s cover saying, “I know what it’s like to be knocked down,” all the while she and her husband have amassed over $120 million in speaking fees alone.
A January YouGov poll of 17 countries found that 91 percent of Americans are not concerned about global warming. Their No. 1 concern: global terrorism. A recent Fox News poll revealed that today only 3 percent are concerned about global warming!
Patrick Moore, the legendary, past president of Greenpeace says, “There is no definitive scientific proof through real-world observation that carbon dioxide is responsible for any of the slight warming of global climate which has occurred during the past 300 years.” He rejects the “science is settled” and “the debate is over.”
Recently even the Supreme Court weighed in with an extraordinary rebuke to President Obama’s attempt to control carbon emissions.
This is not to say that we should be unconcerned or uninvolved regarding legitimate environmental concerns. Christians are compelled to be good stewards of God’s resources and the earth. We should all make a quality decision to reasonably conserve energy. (It’s why we keep our thermostat low in winter/high in summer; turn off the faucet while brushing teeth and so on.) As Christians, we seek to obey His directive to care for and develop the earth’s resources while using them wisely and unselfishly (Gen.1:28; Ps. 8:4-8), especially to help the poor and underprivileged.
We do not need to succumb to fear by doomsayers and scientists contradicting God’s promise to maintain stability in seasons and oceans (Gen. 8:22; Gen. 9:11; Jer. 5:22).
People grieve God when they fail to acknowledge His ultimate control of changing, cyclical weather patterns. In Jeremiah 5:23-25, God issues a strong rebuke for people not acknowledging His ultimate control over the weather.
Gore’s Predictions Fall Flat
Ten years after Al Gore’s “Inconvenient Truth” guilt/fear producing predictions, let’s close by examining just how accurate his “science” proved to be on his way to the bank.
1. Rising Sea Levels—inaccurate and misleading. Al was even discovered purchasing a beachfront mansion!
2. Increased Tornadoes—declining for decades.
3. New Ice Age in Europe—they’ve been spared; it never happened.
4. South Sahara Drying Up—completely untrue.
5. Massive Flooding in China and India—again, didn’t happen.
6. Melting Arctic—false—2015 represents the largest refreezing in years.
7. Polar Bear Extinction—actually they are increasing!
8. Temperature Increases Due to CO2—no significant rising for over 18 years
9. Katrina a Foreshadow of the Future—false—past 10 years, no F3 hurricanes; “longest drought ever!”
10. The Earth Would be in a “True Planetary Emergency” Within a Decade Unless Drastic Action Taken to Reduce Greenhouse Gasses—never happened.
A while back, the Washington Post stated in an expose that, “Al Gore has thrived as a green-tech investor.” Coincidental?
