An Inconvenient Sale

An Inconvenient Sale 

Recent news story:    Former Vice President Al Gore sells his struggling Current TV network to Al Jazeera for $500M.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/al-gore-sell-current-tv-al-jazeera-article-1.1231907#ixzz2LAt5gdNv

Yes, that Al Gore, the same Al Gore who stood in front of a cartoon earth and sun less than 10 years ago, to explain to us rubes that our ice cream would melt faster in the future if we didn’t stop using  Evil Fossil Fuels.  And lo it came to pass, just a few years later, that the expansive prophet of climate-doom sold his Current TV to Al Jazeera, a network which is entirely backed by fossil fuel money.

Mr. Gore, of course, saw no conflict in this sale, praising Al Jazeera for having the “highest quality, most extensive, best climate coverage of any network in the world.”  Most American’s however probably don’t turn to Al Jazeera for updates on the plight of the polar bears, if indeed they turn to Al Jazeera for much of anything at all.

Why Bulldog, you might ask plaintively, isn’t it a tad hypocritical for Ali G, to make a reported personal $100m by selling his TV station to Big Oil?   And it doesn’t come much bigger than Qatari Oil. They have 15 billion barrels of proven reserves which are forecast to last for another 23 years.  Now call me crazy, but I don’t think that it’s in the Qatari’s best interests to start promoting wind farms and urge us to bicycle to our jobs at the commune, when they sitting on big barrels of the black stuff.

Al Gore and Hypocrisy of course are well acquainted. Even while Al was lecturing the rest of us on our profligate use of carbon dioxide, his own Mansion outside of Nashville, Tennessee had an energy use, measured by kilowatt hour, 20 times the national average.  And then of course there was the 2009 Copenhagen Conference on Climate Change at which over 1,400 Limousines were used for the delegates with a grand total of 5 …yes 5 electric or hybrid vehicles. The estimated CO2 expelled over those three days was equivalent to that of a city of 250,000 people.

So this begs the question, why in the name of Al-lah, does the media and certain sections of a gullible population continue to accord this man the status of  a real scientist  when it comes to questions of anthropogenic global warming?   Good question, because even scientists who are invested in discovering the causes of recent global warming, feel that Al Gorzeera does not help their cause with wildly inaccurate predictions of rising sea levels and other speculative doom-mongering.

The answer, as far as I can tell is this; since Al is a darling of the environmental left, whose mantra appears to be, if we can scare enough people into buying into our progressive policies regardless of the truth or cost, then our job is done. So Al became a talisman for that effort. Ready to be whisked around the world on emissions-spewing aircraft and in emissions-pumping limos in order to tell the world’s population to follow policies, that Al himself ignores.

Mr. Gore has already appeared on several programs and in several publications, eager to defend himself against charges of hypocrisy and greed. However as much he tries to rationalize this sell out to Big Oil, he comes across looking more and more desperate.  If he stood up and said “look I am fading ex-politician, recently divorced, and I’m just trying to make a buck in a capitalist society” Then I would have a lot more respect for you Al.

More from the Albion Bulldog soon.