Posted: 01/15/2004
Gore Heated Rhetoric Continues To Be Off-Base
Former Vice President Al Gore, struggling to remain in the public eye, attacked the Bush Administration’s environmental record, especially on the issue of presumed global warming, in a speech co-hosted by the notorious MoveOn.org. According to environmental experts from the National Center for Policy Anlaysis’ (NCPA) E-Team, Gore speech said more about him than it did about the current president.
“In raising the specter of global warming on one of the coldest days in New England history, Gore is harkening back to a core theme of this own losing campaign for president,� said NCPA Senior Fellow H. Sterling Burnett. “Gore’s speech systematically misstated the facts and showed hypocrisy rarely matched.�
Burnett pointed out that:
- The Kyoto global warming treaty negotiated by the Clinton-Gore Administration would never gain Senate ratification, which is why they never submitted it. Bush mere confirmed what they had practiced.
- The extent to which human activities are contributing to the earth’s current warming cycle is still under serious debate within the scientific community.
- Scientists do agree, however, that even if every country participating in the Kyoto protocol cut their greenhouse gas emissions by their assigned amounts, greenhouse gas emissions would continue to rise – and so, if such concentrations are causing global warming, will the temperature.
- While Kyoto would do nothing to prevent global warming, it will harm the U.S. economy.
“President Bush has not ignored global warming, but neither has he bought into the kind of climate change alarmism preached by Al Gore,� said Burnett. “It’s increasingly clear that all the former Vice President has to offer is reheated climate alarmism.�