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New Zealand scientists refute al Gore on Global warming

South Pacific, al Gore style

By Judi McLeod

Thursday, November 2, 2006

Leave it to former US Vice President al Gore to all but guarantee the re-election of Britain's Labor Party.

Gore's sky-is-falling scorched earth histrionics have been turned into the Party's big ticket to ride.

according to the Brits, unchecked climate change will plunge the economy into the worst global recession since the dirty `30s.

With no basis in science or economics, the Brits have come up with a scheme to tax its people for the air they breathe.

Unfurling yet another Mother Earth is going south theory, former World Bank chief economist Nicholas Stern says that failure to tackle climate change could push world temperatures up by 5 degrees Celsius (9 Fahrenheit) over the next century. The result, Stern predicts, will cause severe floods and harsh droughts, uprooting as many as 200 million people to boot.

Why this major discovery is only hitting the British conscience now is anybody's guess.

Guesswork seems to be the signature for politicians cashing in on global warming.

"Global warming is the big issue here in our UK today," Bob Finlay of Sunderland, England wrote in a letter to Canada Free Press. "and, of course our government is rubbing their hands together at the thought of all the stealth taxes that they can impose on the unsuspecting middle and working class Brits by way of the global warming thing.

"Recently we have seen and heard (by way of TV, radio and newspapers) lots of self-made experts on global warming giving various reasons, agreeing and disagreeing why this warming is happening and what we should do to stop it. I have been amazed at the number of committees, societies, commissions and other groups and individuals that have all of a sudden sprung up to jump on the global warming bandwagon (no doubt making lots of money in the process)."

Governments, punished at the election booth for raising taxes, hope to convince voters that green taxes are better than a major recession.

"Our government insists that the answer to it all is TaX and more TaX--tax everything that moves and tax some things that don't move--stealth tax confusion," wrote Finlay.

"I have seen and heard professors, scientists and other highly trained technical people who have spent years monitoring global warming say that it is so far advanced that halting and repairing will be extremely difficult if not impossible and whatever we do won't change it. So who do we believe, the self made experts who have spent weeks or a few months reading (but not understanding) books on global warming or maybe attended a five-day course, or the learned people who have devoted years of their lives on the subject of global warming?

"In their efforts to correct global warming, will our government stop the likes of John Prescott and other MPs from flying around the world on pointless, meaningless ozone-damaging jaunts (costing untold money)?

"Will MPs swap their top-of-the-range Jags, BMWs, etc. for something friendlier? Will MPs, judges, Lords and some royals move out of and close their villas and mansions that use up massive amounts of gas and electricity, and other ozone-damaging fuels?

"Will new Labour start mass deportation of unnecessary asylum seekers, immigrants and others like them back to their warm homelands and instead of keeping and housing them here to burn untold massive amounts of gas, electricity and other ozone-damaging fuels while hibernating in their flats, houses, hotels, etc with gas fires/central heating, etc. going 24 hours a day, turned up to the highest settings (and laughing at the British taxpayers who foot their bills)?

"This government stinks and I wish I had the resources to get out."

and just to think that the ex-politician who wants back and the self-made expert who started it all will be flying to New Zealand next month to promote his global warming film, an Inconvenient Truth.

While the little folk don't expect al Gore to drive one of his rented SUVs to the verdant country, they assume he should at least stick to the truth.

"a group of scientists is questioning the worth of al Gore's flying visit to New Zealand." (home.nzcity.co.nz, Oct. 2006).

"The New Zealand Climate Science Coalition does not accept arguments about man-made global warming. Spokesman Owen McShane claims Gore has been liberal with the truth in his film, when he says Pacific Islanders have been evacuated because their islands are drowning.

"There are no such refugees and what's more, the Pacific Islands are not sinking below the waves. It's a very active area. In some islands, the sea level is falling and in others it's rising.

"Mr. McShane says Gore's film is simply an opening shot in a campaign to revive his presidential ambitions."

The box office has been generous to the ex-politician longing for a comeback. an Inconvenient Truth has already grossed more than $US23.7 million in america, making it the third highest grossing `documentary' behind Fahrenheit 9/11 and March of the Penguins.

Is al Gore for President dreaming in Technicolor?

Gore has already achieved something that no one else ever could. He can literally sell ice to Eskimos.

Canada Free Press founding editor Most recent by Judi McLeod is an award-winning journalist with 30 years experience in the print media. Her work has appeared on Newsmax.com, Drudge Report, Foxnews.com, Glenn Beck. Judi can be reached at: judi@canadafreepress.com


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