{"id":1493,"date":"2007-10-15T09:21:07","date_gmt":"2007-10-15T16:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2007\/10\/15\/saint-al-of-the-ecopalypse\/"},"modified":"2007-10-15T09:23:11","modified_gmt":"2007-10-15T16:23:11","slug":"saint-al-of-the-ecopalypse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2007\/10\/15\/saint-al-of-the-ecopalypse\/","title":{"rendered":"Saint Al of the Ecopalypse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image1494\" src=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/gore-finger.jpg\" alt=\"gore-finger.jpg\" class=\"right\" \/><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.steynonline.com\/\">Mark Steyn<\/a><\/strong> offers an excellent summary of the Goreacle in his current syndicated article &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theaustralian.news.com.au\/story\/0,25197,22584694-7583,00.html\">Doom if Saint Al Loses Carbs<\/a>.&#8221; Some of the excerpted highlights:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Michael Burton, an English High Court judge and apparently a fine film critic, ruled that Al&#8217;s Oscar-winner An Inconvenient Truth was prone to &#8220;alarmism and exaggeration&#8221; and identified <strong>nine major factual errors<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The so-called scientific consensus of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change suggests rising sea levels across the next century of somewhere between 15cm and 60cm, with about 30cm being most likely. <strong>An Inconvenient Truth insouciantly adds a zero to the worst-case scenario<\/strong>.\n<\/li>\n<li>[Gore&#8217;s movie] fulfills the same role in the schoolhouses of the guilt-ridden developed world that the Koran does in Pakistani madrassas. Gore&#8217;s rise is as remorseless as those sea levels. I assumed Gore&#8217;s clammy embrace would do for the environmental movement what <strong>his belated endorsement had done for Howard Dean&#8217;s 2004 presidential candidacy: kill it stone dead<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>No matter how you raise the stakes [. . .], <strong>Saint Al of the Ecopalypse<\/strong> can raise them higher. Climate change, he says, is the most important moral, ethical, spiritual and political issue humankind has ever faced. Ever. And not just humankind, but alienkind, too. &#8220;We are,&#8221; warns Gore, &#8220;<strong>altering the balance of energy between our planet and the rest of the universe<\/strong>&#8220;.<\/li>\n<li>[T]he average US household consumes 10,656 kilowatt-hours of electricity. In 2006, the Gores wolfed down nearly 221,000kWh. 221,000kWh? What&#8217;s he doing in there? As his spokesperson explained it, his high energy usage derives from his brave calls for low energy usage. He&#8217;s burning up all that electricity by sending out faxes every couple of minutes urging you wastrels to use less electricity. <strong>Insofar as he&#8217;s made any contribution to global peace, it&#8217;s in persuading large swaths of a narcissistic Western world to busy itself with non-solutions to pseudo-crises to such a distracting degree that al-Qa&#8217;ida may wind up imposing the global caliphate without having to fire a shot<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theaustralian.news.com.au\/story\/0,25197,22584694-7583,00.html\">entire article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Steyn offers an excellent summary of the Goreacle in his current syndicated article &#8220;Doom if Saint Al Loses Carbs.&#8221; Some of the excerpted highlights: Michael&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,53,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-warming","category-greenbats","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}