Greenies, Stay Home

Some pointed and amusing commentary by Caroline Overington from Australia on itinerant greenies.

Patrick J. Michaels, NRO on Al Gore's science fiction:

According to satellite data published in Science in November 2005, Greenland was losing about 25 cubic miles of ice per year. Dividing that by 630,000 yields the annual percentage of ice loss, which, when multiplied by 100, shows that Greenland was shedding ice at 0.4 percent per century.

“Was” is the operative word. In early February, Science published another paper showing that the recent acceleration of Greenland’s ice loss from its huge glaciers has suddenly reversed.

(Not Melting here.) And even if we implemented Kyoto to solve this underwhelming "problem", what would be the effect?

The Kyoto Protocol, if fulfilled by every signatory, would reduce global warming by 0.07 degrees Celsius per half-century. That’s too small to measure, because the earth’s temperature varies by more than that from year to year.

So Al, relax, you've got the Oscar. Bill is probably seething because he has given by far the better performance over the years, but this is your consolation prize from the liberal glitterati. Enjoy. And I think the musicians, or whoever was giving them their cue, had it about right. The Swamp---

DiCaprio asked Gore when they came on stage if he had an announcement to make, which Gore ignored, but when the actor asked again, the former vice president pulled what appeared to be a speech out of his coat pocket.

At this point, the orchestra struck up the music which signals that it's time to get off the stage.

So get off the stage, stay home. Please.

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UPDATE: OK, so the music was staged too. I only watched the tail end, when thankfully Gore was followed by Clint Eastwood. The Politico has more on Al's political pretensions, uh aspirations. Looks like Obama has some competition running for President of The Planet. And The Academy has officially gone green! Here are their helpful tips. You notice they suggest leaving the car at home, but no mention of abandoning the Lear Jets.

UPDATE: Via Drudge:

The Tennessee Center for Policy Research, an independent, nonprofit and nonpartisan research organization committed to achieving a freer, more prosperous Tennessee through free market policy solutions, issued a press release late Monday:

Last night, Al Gore’s global-warming documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, collected an Oscar for best documentary feature, but the Tennessee Center for Policy Research has found that Gore deserves a gold statue for hypocrisy.

Gore’s mansion, [20-room, eight-bathroom] located in the posh Belle Meade area of Nashville, consumes more electricity every month than the average American household uses in an entire year, according to the Nashville Electric Service (NES).