Worst Idea Ever

Way to work your way into irrelevancy:

"An Inconvenient Truth . . . or Convenient Fiction"
Sorting out Sense from Nonsense on Global Warming
A REBUTTAL FILM TO AL GORE AND "AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH"

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Dr. Steven Hayward, author of the Index of Leading Environmental Indicators, Senior Fellow at the Pacific Research Institute, F.K. Weyerhaeuser Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, and adjunct Professor of Political Science at Georgetown University, sorts out thesense from the nonsense in this no nonsense documentary about thescientific trends in climate change and their effects on our planet.

I am sure there is no need to mention who else gives oil barrel loads of money to the AEI.

Plus, it is screening at the Tribeca Film Festival. They had better be ready to get out of Dodge.

Smackdown

"Elections have consequences"

Barbara Boxer to James Inhofe during global warming hearings, in response to Inhofe's attempts at to belittling Al Gore by cutting him off. Boxer was greeted with a very loud applause from the audience.

Inhofe is the senator who has a sign in his office that reads "Global Warming is a Hoax".

Thinkprogress has the video. It's great!

The War on Global Warming

Makes more sense than one on an emotion.

Al Gore, a Democratic favorite for the presidency despite pronouncements that he's not running, spoke out on his signature issue Wednesday, warning of a "true
planetary emergency" if Congress fails to act on global warming.
In a return he described as emotional, Gore testified before House panels that it is not too late to deal with climate change "and we have everything we need to get started." He urged the Democratic-controlled Congress to adopt an immediate freeze on greenhouse gases blamed for global warming.

You can do little things to help reduce, or entirely offset your carbon footprint. It is equally important to get in touch with your congresspeople and make sure they get on board behind the most powerful regulations being offered. This is a crisis of epic proportion. Let's do something about it.

Link.

My, Uh, 'Friend' Has a Problem

Richard Cohen.

It's a joke, isn't it? I mean, it was Gore who was universally seen as the
flawed man, uncomfortable in his own skin and, therefore, in this TV age,
incapable of uniting the nation. He was caricatured by some of my colleagues as
a serial exaggerator, a fibber, a pretender -- the guy who invented the
Internet, who was the model for the novel (and movie) "Love Story," who applied
one too many coats of passion to that kiss he delivered to his wife, Tipper, at
the Democratic National Convention in 2000. There were so many reasons not to
vote for him -- none, in retrospect, much good.

And it was his, uh, friend who wrote this:

I am not going to sit here and defend Gore's exaggerations. I wish he wouldn't
make them. I wish he did not say he had been to the Texas fires when he hadn't.
(Maybe he ought to have said concentration camp.) I wish he had not compared his
dog's prescription plan to his mother-in-law's. I wish he had been a bit more
modest about his role in developing the Internet or, way back, in describing his
Vietnam War experience.

Media Matters has more.