Gore founded a company (Generation Investment Management LLC) in 2004 whose profitability is related to the extent of Global Warming hysteria. Gore then spends the next two years drumming up that hysteria.

Is Al Gore the planet’s savior or is he another example of stirring up the masses for personal profit. Somehow, I can’t get Jim and Tammy Fae Bakker out of my head….

Taking a look at what’s going on from my blogroll ….
Anna at A Rose by Any Other Name has been published!!! Congratulations!!!
Ol’ Broad Rambling has made some pretty astute observations about life. HA!
Toni has some news over at Bear…

People on both sides of the debate are claiming to be “right”, but also profiting from their position

Exactly – and that changes the focus of the debate every time. Instead of figuring out how to solve our problems, we start looking at political agendas, and checking who is profiting more from which policy and etc..

Personally I think the carbon offsets are just a PR stunt. I don’t really see how they are helping in cutting back energy consumption, and emissions. I see them as sort of “get out of jail free” cards that let big businesses skip on implementing environmental friendly policies, and infrastructures.

In fact we have two problems – global warming and peak oil. When the oil and natural gas production peaks and declines there will be mad dash to switch to alternative resources such as coal, and bio-fuels which unfortunately provide much less “bang for the buck” so to speak. We will be burning more fuels, and get less out of it. Furthermore we will likely discard all environmental concerns because failing to supply enough energy to keep out economy going will mean the collapse of the western civilization.