It's not over until the fat man debates

A lot of coverage in the media today is being given to former eight year Vice-President, and eight minute President, Al Gore. The chubby guy, who was but a heartbeat away from the Presidency, is now giving heart palpitations to a growing number of scientists and "man caused global warming" skeptics the world over.

For years Mr. Gore has been saying the debate about Global Climate Change (note the change in terminology) is over. Well as Sylvester Stallone, as the scholar John Rambo, once shouted, "Nothing is over!" Hell, the debate never began.

Al Gore has been ducking debate since before the release of the very erroneous An Inconvenient Truth. The Nobel Prize winner is being anything but noble in his zeal to push forward an implementation of climate policies that promise to wreak havoc on the global economy. The only cooling these regulations, taxes and schemes will cause is a cooling of the engines of capitalism.

Newt Gingrich did an admirable job pointing out some of the foibles and inconsistencies in Gore's little presentation this morning. Unfortunately, Newt was a last minute substitute. The first round draft pick was the UK's Lord Christopher Monckton, a former science advisor to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Lord Monckton had been asked by Republican Congressman Joe Barton to offer a rebuttle to the incorrect facts pulled from the former VP's butt. Unfortunately, the leaders of the House Democrats refused to let Lord Monckton speak and decided to inform him when his plane landed in Washington. You'd think they would have wanted to save all that carbon from being burned and told him, the polite way, before he made the trip.

My friends, the hysteria around Global Warming and the push to enact legislation based on false science, misinterpreted data and outright lies by the Green crowd is bordering on the criminal. It is well past time for us, right thinking and informed Americans, to push back against this tide.

We should start by forcing a very public debate between Mr. Gore and a renowned person from the other side. There are several who would do wonders. They probably don't even have to be from the A team. A second rate debater with a bit of information and common sense would do well against Al Gore and his debate strategies of talking down to people and sighing.

Inform yourself. Then inform your neighbor. Look at these and have your eyes opened:

The recently launched Climate Depot.

The Australian.

A great look at Earth Day predictions from 1970.

A look at the kind of ideas that Earth saving minds come up with.