The adage; “never waste a good crisis” continues to be more and more transparent as people start opening their eyes to what the government is saying versus what the government is actually doing. If you listen to what the Obama administration says, and compare it to what they do, you’ll certainly see a disconnect. Obama wants to create jobs, but also wants to increase taxes on those with the most money. I would like to think that he understands it takes capital to create jobs, and if you reduce capital, you reduce the incentive to create jobs. So does he really want to create jobs, or just continue to line the pockets of special interest groups and politicians alike under the guise of creating jobs?

I’ve always said that if you follow the money, you’ll find the incentive.

A prime example of this is Al Gore and his efforts to combat climate change. Ask yourself, why would an ex-politician go to such great lengths to promote such a controversial theory? And why would he spend so much money in his efforts? Follow the money.

Gore is Chairman of Generation Investment Management, LLP (GIM) that focuses on investing for the long term based off the idea that “sustainability factors—economic, environmental, social and governance criteria—will drive a company’s returns over the long term”. (If you have any idea what that really means, let me know.)

One major area that GIM tries to take advantage of is the “regulatory developments in climate policy and carbon markets, and the attitude shifts that are occurring among consumers, leading businesses and investors.”

Climate change is an urgent challenge that affects long-term corporate profitability, and therefore must be systematically integrated into investment analysis. The pace of climate change is accelerating and will have material effects on equity markets in the short, medium, and long term. -Source

Al Gore also founded and chairs the Alliance for Climate Protection whose mission is as follows:

Our mission is to persuade the American people—and people elsewhere in the world—of the importance and urgency of adopting and implementing effective and comprehensive solutions for the climate crisis.

The Alliance for Climate Protection is undertaking an unprecedented mass persuasion exercise based on scientific facts. Through a new combination of non–partisan alliances with Americans from all walks of life and innovative and far–reaching communication techniques the Alliance will focus on presenting the facts about climate change and its solutions to the general public in an accurate, clear and compelling manner.

Americans have always risen to meet the most important challenges to our nation’s and the world’s future. Together, we can address the climate challenge domestically and provide a robust economy for now and for our children. -Source

Based on the “Gore Connection” between these two entities, it would make sense why the Alliance for Climate Protection would want widespread emissions regulation and proactively support cap-and-trade legislation so that companies will be forced to lower their greenhouse gas emissions and buy carbon credits.

Surely they would recommend buying those carbon credits from none other than Generation Investment Management!

With this in mind, it’s not hard to see why Al Gore is so adamant about saving the planet from us dirty humans.  After all, the guy needs to make money somehow, and what better way than to scare those humans into giving him money for the greater good of the planet?

Actually, there would be a better way, and that would be if the government got involved and mandated that those dirty humans give him money for the greater good of the planet!

The Ties That Bind

Last week Gore came out and tried to push critics into a corner by suggesting that it’s silly to question the science (see the video below).

Rubbish.  You always question science, because there’s no such thing as a consensus in the scientific community.

It’s interesting that T. Boone Pickens appears in this discussion, as he’s in the same boat as Gore.  Pickens continued to push his “Pickens Plan” (which I wrote about in a skeptical post last year) to America in an effort to reduce the dependence on foreign oil and invest heavily in natural gas and wind energy.  Both efforts in which he already has billions of his own money at stake.

Can it be more “transparent”?

Follow the money, and you will find the incentive.

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It seems that not everyone in the scientific community is so hip to the Global Warming movement. Yesterday a detailed report was released by the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee revealing that over 400 prominent scientists disputed man-made global warming claims in 2007, as embellished by former Vice President Al Gore in his movie “An Inconvenient Truth’.

It’s about time!

The scientists named in this report, who are from more than two dozen countries, recently voiced objections to major aspects of the so-called “consensus” on man-made global warming. These scientists, many of whom participated in the UN IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change), spoke critically about the climate claims made by the UN IPCC and former Vice President Al Gore.

Additionally, of the scientists that did speak out, many claimed that they had peers that refused to voice their concerns out of fear of retribution if they spoke up.

“Many of my colleagues with whom I spoke share these views and report on their inability to publish their skepticism in the scientific or public media,” -Dr. Nathan Paldor, Source

Now why on Earth would anyone fear telling the truth?

What’s more, there were over 100 prominent scientists that warned the U.N. over futile climate control efforts.

“Attempts to prevent global climate change from occurring are ultimately futile, and constitute a tragic misallocation of resources that would be better spent on humanity’s real and pressing problems,” -Source

Amen to that! You can read their full letter here, but here are a few excerpts from their letter to the U.N.:

“The IPCC Summaries for Policy Makers are the most widely read IPCC reports amongst politicians and non-scientists and are the basis for most climate change policy formulation. Yet these Summaries are prepared by a relatively small core writing team with the final drafts approved line-by-line by ­government ­representatives. The great ­majority of IPCC contributors and ­reviewers, and the tens of thousands of other scientists who are qualified to comment on these matters, are not involved in the preparation of these documents. The summaries therefore cannot properly be represented as a consensus view among experts.” -Source

The reports main focus is to debunk the myth that man-made climate change has reached some sort of consensus. I’ve been saying all along that if you’ve reached a consensus among scientists, you haven’t talked to enough scientists!

In short, the open letter to the U.N. along with the Senate report are absolutely littered with names of prominent scientists, all of which have PhD and other acronyms tacked on to their name, debunking nearly every “scientific” aspect of man-made global warming.

So again, why fear the truth?

Money and politics. There is tons of money to be made in an effort to fight man-made global warming, fact or fiction, and leveraging a Nobel Peace prize to re-claim a place in United States politics is a sure-fire way to win over the American public who has been bamboozled by the media into thinking our grand children will fry if we don’t do something now!

Al Gore, eat your heart out, as the truth will set you free… but it may not get you elected.

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