Gore pays his own company for carbon offsets

Sweetness and Light reports on an article that appeared in today's Opinion Journal from the Wall Street Journal Editorial Page.

In his editorial piece James Taranto relays how the former Veep buys his carbon offsets through
Generation Investment Management, a firm that reportedly Al Gore helped found and of which he is the chairman. When it comes to energy use Al Gore is his own best customer.

The most cogent part of the article is contained below when Taranto notes, "In other words, he (Gore) "buys" his "carbon offsets" from himself, through a transaction designed to boost his own investments and return a profit to himself. To be blunt, Gore doesn't buy "carbon offsets" through Generation Investment Management--he buys stocks. . . ."

Meanwhile, Gore runs around the country and the world trumpeting "climate crisis" and blaming man's use of carbon-based energy--burning thousands of gallons of jet fuel as he goes.

The Opinion Journal piece goes on to mention a speech the former Vice-President gave on Tuesday in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. Mr. Gore told a crowd of about fifty people attending the U.S. Media Ethics Summit II that the most provocative slide from his global warming presentation displays contrasting results of two long-term studies. The Tennessean writes, a 10-year University of California study found that essentially zero percent of peer-reviewed scientific journal articles disagreed that global warming exists, whereas, another study found that 53 percent of mainstream newspaper articles disagreed the global warming premise.

He noted that recently the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released its fourth unanimous report calling on world leaders to take action on global warming.
"I believe that is one of the principal reasons why political leaders around the world have not yet taken action," Gore said. "There are many reasons, but one of the principal reasons in my view is more than half of the mainstream media have rejected the scientific consensus implicitly — and I say 'rejected,' perhaps it's the wrong word. They have failed to report that it is the consensus and instead have chosen … balance as bias."

Mr. Gore chastised editors and reporters who are skeptical of global warming by noting, "I don't think that any of the editors or reporters responsible for one of these stories saying, 'It may be real, it may not be real,' is unethical. But I think they made the wrong choice, and I think the consequences are severe. "I think if it is important to look at the pressures that made it more likely than not that mainstream journalists in the United States would convey a wholly inaccurate conclusion about the most important moral, ethical, spiritual and political issue humankind has ever faced."

In Mr. Gore's estimation the only viable option for editors and journalists skeptical of global warming is to get on board with those who believe in an anthropogenic warming of the planet.

In the Rocketeer's estimation, the more likely cause of the urgency and hysteria surrounding "global warming" is the desire to promote and cash in on investments that are deemed to be "green" by forward-thinking investors. The promotion of these products and services is designed to create a business climate favorable to "eco-friendly" companies billed as helping us "save the planet". In addition if certain politicos were to have their way, such entities would appear as government-mandated environmental enterprises earmarked in fat Congressional appropriations bills.

I can almost hear the pork barrels rolling in like thunder.