> Is there a Santa Claus?
> That was little Virginia's question, which served as the headline for
> Francis Church's column in the New York Sun over a hundred years ago.
> Unfortunately, this year, there's a question of whether Santa has a home to
> return to, what with global warming threatening the polar ice cap under
> Santa's home.
>
> Although Al Gore didn't specifically mention Santa in his inflammatory
> documercial, "An Inconvenient Truth" (now on DVD), the threat was obvious.
> But before we speculate on Santa's fate, let's examine Al Gore's sincerity
> in the movie and see if he's worthy of our trust: He introduces himself (and
> his real agenda) with "I used to be the next president of the United
> States."
>
> To make sure we heard him, lest we miss his rabble-rousing call to arms, he
> brings up the 2000 election a second time. Such comments were, predictably,
> warmly received by an audience which had the exact look and demeanor of the
> peanut gallery in an infomercial. He tries to put his childhood spent being
> raised in a D.C. hotel in a positive light, so that we might actually
> believe that he's not a limousine liberal.
>
> He states, "Bipartisanship brought down the USSR." Besides being totally
> irrelevant, it's also untrue. Reagan's refusal to appease the Soviets, along
> with the strength of capitalism and the inherent flaws of communism, are
> what brought the Soviets down.
>
> Perhaps the worst instance of emotional manipulation in the movie (besides
> the global warming issue itself), was the shameless exploitation of the
> death of his sister, Nancy, in 1984 to smoking-related cancer - which is as
> irrelevant in the movie as it was when he used it in his campaign speeches.
>
> According to the book, "Al Gore: A User's Manual," by St. Clair and
> Cockburn, Gore continued to take "Big Tobacco" money and government
> subsidies for the tobacco he continued to grow on his farm for seven years
> after her death. So, we are essentially asked to believe Mr. "I Invented the
> Internet" telling us that mankind is causing global warming through the
> greenhouse effect, resulting in the melting of the polar ice caps and rising
> sea levels.
>
> Listing all the arguments against Gore's "science" is beyond the limited
> space here, but I will pass on a few points, some from two outstanding
> responses to Gore's movie (listed below**), printed in the Wall Street
> Journal. Yes, carbon dioxide levels have risen, but CO2 is not a pollutant,
> and it's very much in doubt whether it's causing global warming as he
> asserts.
>
> If we are indeed experiencing a period of global warming, why shouldn't we
> attribute it to the same reason that caused the Earth to undergo such
> periods before, increased solar output? Scientists disagree on the degree,
> if any, to which warming can be blamed on man, or what the results of such
> warming might be. But even news of an upcoming U.N. report says that the
> U.N. will downgrade the effect of man's impact on global warming by 25
> percent.
>
> Given the source, you can believe that estimate's on the low side. The
> Arctic does appear to be warming in places, but on Greenland it's the growth
> of its icecap which is causing greater production of icebergs at its coasts,
> rather than global warming, as Gore claims.
>
> Also, according to the World Wildlife Fund, among the distinct polar bear
> populations, two are growing in areas where temperatures have risen; ten are
> stable; and two are decreasing in areas where air temperatures have actually
> fallen.
>
> The journal "Nature" published findings that Antarctica, overall, is
> actually cooling. And NASA has reported that Mars has been warming due to
> solar activity for the last 100 years, and that the Martian polar ice caps
> have been shrinking at "a prodigious rate" since 1978.
>
> So yes, Virginia, there is still a Santa Claus, but he's just going to have
> to adjust to an inconvenient truth and relocate to the South Pole for a
> while.
>
>
> **"Don't Believe the Hype", June, 2,
> 2006-http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110008597; "Don't Be Very
> Worried", May 23, 2006-
> http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/pdupont/?id=110008416
>
>
> Mahlon Marr lives in Byron and can be reached at
> thepainefultruth@wmconnect.com
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> Ice caps melting on Earth - global warming...
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> Ice caps melting on Mars - couldn't be global warming. Crap - there goes
> Gore's argument... Oh well - more liberal catch-22's...
>
> DD
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