The Return of ManBearPig & Super Awesome AlGore

It’s time for a re-run of South Park’s bit on AlGore and ManBEarPig !!!

Can you believe these little kids on South Park are smarter than the Nobel committee of distinguished left-wingers.   The plans to battle global warming are more dangerous than warming itself. 

Julia

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It’s time for a re-run of South Park’s bit on AlGore and ManBEarPig !!!

Can you believe these little kids on South Park are smarter than the Nobel committee of distinguished left-wingers.   The plans to battle global warming are more dangerous than warming itself. 

Julia

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Julia

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Julia

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Julia

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Julia

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Julia

Gore still too scared to debate

ALGore is till running away from any kind of debate with skeptics of his Manbearpig.  There has been many offers to him to debate someone about Manbearpig, but he refuses to debate anyone.  Why is that???? 

Chilly reception for debate offer 

October 5, 2007

STEVE HUNTLEY shuntley@suntimes.com

Seven hundred thousand dollars is a lot of money to spend to try to get someone to talk to you and not get an answer.

That’s how much the Heartland Institute, a Chicago-based libertarian
think tank, has forked over in six months for advertisements in
national newspapers trying to persuade Al Gore to debate one of its
experts on global warming issues. "We have tried, repeatedly, to
contact Gore directly, with registered letters and calls to his office,
and have never received a reply," says Joseph Bast, Heartland president.

A spokeswoman for Gore told me by e-mail that Heartland is an
oil-company-funded group that denies that global warming is real and
caused by human activities.

"The debate has shifted to how to solve the climate crisis, not if
there is one," said Kalee Kreider. "It does not make sense for him to
engage in a dialogue with them at this time."

The issue is a bit more complicated than that. What Bast wants is
for Gore to debate one of three authorities who dispute the former vice
president’s assertion that global warming is a crisis that requires an
immediate, hugely expensive response potentially damaging to the U.S.
and world economies.

One of the Heartland experts is Dennis Avery, an economist, senior
fellow at the Hudson Institute and co-author, with Fred Singer,
professor emeritus of environmental science at the University of
Virginia, of the book Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1,500 Years.
As you might guess from that title, Avery sees global warming as a
natural phenomenon in which "there may be a human factor but if so it’s
small." He describes the warming as "moderate" and says there’s been no
warming since 1998. "Where’s the crisis?"

When you talk with Avery, he cites numbers on carbon dioxide and
temperature change and dates of previous warming periods, such as
during Roman and medieval times. A layman like me soon finds himself in
deep water, and you know someone on the other side of the issue will
cite other sources, such as a U.N. panel on climate change that says
most of the warming since the mid-20th century is likely due to
greenhouse gases.

But the point is that Gore and his movie "An Inconvenient Truth"
aren’t the last word. In March, the New York Times reported that while
they praise Gore for raising awareness about warming, a number of
scientists see exaggerations and errors in some of his assertions.
"They are alarmed, some say, at what they call his alarmism," the Times
wrote. For example, Gore forecasts sea levels rising up to 20 feet,
flooding parts of New York and Florida. But the U.N. panel’s actual
estimate is that seas will rise 7 to 23 inches in this century.

As for the Gore camp’s statement about Exxon funding, Bast says
those contributions are too little to control Heartland policy and
amount to "far less than what Heartland spends speaking out on climate
change."

The Heartland case is not the first time Gore has ducked a forum.
Earlier this year he canceled an interview with Denmark’s largest
newspaper when he learned it would include questions from Bjorn
Lomborg, respected author of The Skeptical Environmentalist. "Gore’s
sermon is not one that will stand scrutiny," says Christopher C.
Horner, another one of Heartland’s debate candidates, a senior fellow
at the Competitive Enterprise Institute and author of The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming and Environmentalism.

Bast says the ad campaign will continue until March, costing a total
of $1.2 million. But he won’t get a debate from Gore. Still,
Heartland’s effort serves the worthy purpose to spotlighting the need
for an informed discussion on the severity of global warming and how
best to deal with it, by trying to halt it or adapt to it. Gore offers
a worst-case scenario of unmitigated disaster. If he’s wrong about
rising sea levels, what else is he wrong about?

Chicago Sun-Times

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Glenn Beck on Global Warming (9/25/07)

AlGore is still harping about Manbearpig.  And now he has got a sidekick, The Governator

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Child Labour is Offsetting Prince Charles’ Carbon Excesses

Turns out the Prince of Wales is increasing child labor in India to offset his carbon footprint.

Way to go, Charlie!!!   I’m sure AlGore is proud.   

The ‘carbon offset’ child labourers

Indians work off West’s holiday guilt

Dean Nelson in Delhi

Pumping furiously on a foot treadle in the afternoon heat, six-year-old Sarju Ram is irrigating her impoverished family’s field, improving the crop and – without knowing it – helping environmentally sensitive holiday-makers assuage their guilt over long-haul flights to dream destinations.

But Sarju and her four brothers and sisters working flat out in a clump of trees that provide scant shelter from the sun illustrate a growing argument over claims that British environmentalists’ efforts to curb greenhouse emissions are inadvertently fuelling an increase in child labour.

Sarju’s family is a beneficiary of Climate Care, an organisation that helps some of Britain’s leading public figures and companies to offset their carbon dioxide emissions by funding sustainable energy projects.

The Prince of Wales turned to Climate Care after his environmental adviser, Jonathon Porritt, worked out the prince’s carbon footprint.

Customers of British Airways are among those who have been encouraged to log on to Climate Care’s website and calculate how many tonnes of greenhouse gases their flights will generate, and how much it will cost to neutralise the impact on the atmosphere. A flight to Barbados for a family of four, for example, generates 7.55 tonnes of carbon dioxide, which will cost them £56.64 to offset.

Climate Care uses the money to help persuade families such as Sarju’s to give up labour-saving diesel pumps and buy human-powered treadles instead. It claims that by using the treadle, a family will save money on diesel and hire charges, earn more from increased crops and cut the carbon emissions that would have been produced by the pump.

Last week Indian experts criticised the scheme, saying it was promoting child labour and forcing poor farmers to work harder so that wealthy air travellers could enjoy exotic holidays without worrying about the environment.

“The problem is the number of times child labour is involved,” claimed Ashutosh Pandey of Emergent Ventures India, which advises companies on clean technology.

“It’s not being monitored properly. It’s not reducing emissions. People are selling their diesel pumps to others who are using them.”

Sunita Narain, an environmentalist at the Centre for Science and Environment, a Delhi think tank, said: “It won’t help global warming if people take more flights to the Seychelles.”

Michael Buick, a spokesman for the Oxford-based Climate Care, confirmed that children were working the pumps it promotes, but said that people had to focus on the benefits to the whole family.

He said his group was proud of its scheme, which had led to more than half a million foot treadles being sold, and had won several awards. Four reports had identified major benefits.

According to Buick, critics are mistaken in claiming that diesel pumps are better than human-powered alternatives, because they are costly to run. The treadles meant farmers could rely on increased crops.

Buick said that by “all mucking in” families were able to increase yields and earn more to pay for children to go to school. The extra income also meant fathers could stay with their families rather than leaving them to look for work in the cities.

“If mum is planting and harvesting, the daughters help out. It’s just a different way of life. The phrase ‘child labour’ is emotive. It implies factories, but these are family farms where everyone gets stuck in, watering the crops and taking a turn on the treadle pump,” he said.

Last week in Pairapur village, Sarju and her family took turns on the pump, 30 minutes for each child and an hour for each parent. They are growing more corn, aubergines, and papayas, they said.

They had been paying £1 an hour to hire a diesel pump, said Sarju’s father Hari Ram, and had fallen into debt. They have now repaid a £900 loan and for the first time are saving money. “Our life has improved a lot,” he added.

But Sunita Narain said the rich needed to cut their own emissions by 50% rather than relying on offsets. “An increase in manual labour is an ethical issue,” she said.

More info about the the manual water pump – and watch a video of the pump being used by an Indian farmer in Utter Pradesh

Source:  http://travel.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/travel/article2512731.ece

Julia

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