Tobacco and oil millionaire Al Gore is raking in windfall profits from selling carbon indulgences to the suckers who believe his global warming propaganda.

jeez forget listening to the scientists on this issue

You mean the ones that always said it was crappy science, or the ones that have started backpedaling in droves:

Everybody has always known that “consensus” crap was just that, crap.

Or, the fact that people who actually work with models for a living know that they are a best estimation of our best guesses. Chaos Theory was developed after trying to model weather, and the scientist figured out there are entirely too many unpredictable variables to model to make it anything other than a WAG, but go ahead and put all of your eggs in one basket and help screw the economy. Nothing wrong with energy dependence, or conservation, they’re goals we should definitely be striving for, but I swear you leftist would bite off your noses to spite your face.

Why wouldn’t Algore sign the “Personal Energy Ethics Pledge”?....Oh, that’s right, that kind of stuff is for the peasants. Hypocrite.

Oh yeah, rock solid sourcing with the “Mother Jones” link. Don’t waste your time. How about shoring it up with a piece at kos.

Gilbyguy:

Y’all have some funny looking grass wherever you are. It looks all white.

I mowed mine again today but it’s just too damn hot to stay outside this afternoon (about 90 with serious humidity). First really hot day here.

I got used to the relatively cool spring. Now I’m gonna have to adjust to Louisiana summers all over again. Today’s answer: Lotsa beer. Stay inside. 

I like to adjust in increments.

Dirlie:

Bush was also for reducing our dependency on foreign oil.

Yes, by mostly developing our own sources of energy, which McCain opposed.

Ethanol is not the solution, Bush is wrong on his support for it, but McCain is more wrong.

Halatbis:

I think McCain is right about this and he can be depended upon to keep the nutcases inside the asylum.

I disagree.  I think that proposing “solutions” is the wrong way to go.  First of all “solutions” that won’t fix a non-problem are probably going to have negative consequences.  This is all negative because it’s not going to fix anything.  Would you take an 8% cut in pay now to “fix” global warming?  That’s what you’re asking people 22 years from now to do.

Secondly accepting the flawed premise opens the floodgates.  The left will begin to compromise at McCain’s stupid “fixes.” We’ll get something worse.

Then when these stupid things don’t work we’ll GET more restrictions.  They won’t work, because the climate always changes.  It will get warmer or it will get cooler. 

Finally I believe that having a Republican (especially one that falsely portrays himself to be a conservative) is worse than a Democrat that proposes the same ideas.  First of all he would negate the opposition in Congress.  Secondly when these boneheaded ideas take effect the Republicans will get the blame rather than the people who are truly at fault.

Pilgrim:

Today’s answer: Lotsa beer. Stay inside.

Funny, but I came up with the same answer to the exactly opposite question.

Beer: the cure-all.

TW: Right; sacrificing the truth for political expediency is what the Dems do.  We’re better than that, or should be.

I hope he comes up to North Dakota, it snowed today:  May 10th.

I saw it fall here in Fargo. Tenured pointy heads like UND’s Dexter Perkins will look you straight in the eye and proclaim that the reason it snowed today WAS due to “global warming.”

I hope he tells everyone that global warming is a bunch of baloney.