Re: HOW AL GORE BUILT THE GLOBAL WARMING FRAUD

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And changed the alarmism from global cooling to global warming, 
and now climate change.

Although his science is often seriously wrong, no one can deny 
that Al Gore has a flare for the dramatic. Speaking about 
climate change in an October 12 PBS interview, the former vice-
president proclaimed, “We have a global emergency.” Referring to 
the most recent UN climate report, Gore claimed it showed that 
current global warming “could actually extend to an existential 
threat to human civilization on this planet as we know it.”

Al Gore’s overblown rhetoric makes no sense, of course. Yet his 
hyperbolic claims beg the question: How did this all start?

Back in the 1970s, media articles warning of imminent climate 
change problems began to appear regularly. TIME and Newsweek ran 
multiple cover stories asserting that oil companies and 
America’s capitalist life style were causing catastrophic damage 
to Earth’s climate. They claimed scientists were almost 
unanimous in their opinion that manmade climate change would 
reduce agricultural productivity for the rest of the century.

The April 28, 1975 Newsweek proposed solutions that even 
included outlawing internal combustion engines.

This sounds very similar to today's climate change debate – 
except, in the 70s, the fear was manmade global cooling, not 
warming.

TIME magazine’s January 31, 1977 cover featured a story, “How to 
Survive The Coming Ice Age.” It included “facts” such as 
scientists predicting that Earth’s so-called average temperature 
could drop by 20 degrees Fahrenheit due to manmade global 
cooling. Dr. Murray Mitchell of the National Oceanic and 
Atmospheric Administration warned readers that “the drop in 
temperature between 1945 and 1968 had taken us one sixth of the 
way to the next Ice Age temperature.”

Global cooling gained considerable traction with the general 
public. But then, instead of cooling as long predicted by 
manmade climate change advocates, the planet started warming 
again. Something had to be done to rescue the climate change 
agenda from utter disaster. Enter Al Gore.

Al Gore Sr., a powerful Senator from Tennessee, saw to it that 
his son was elected to the House of Representatives, serving 
from 1977 to 1985, then going on to the Senate from 1985 to 
1993.  Gore Junior’s primary issue was his conviction that the 
Earth would perish if we did not eliminate fossil fuels.

Gore advanced to Vice President under President Bill Clinton, 
where he was able to enact policies and direct funding to ensure 
that the climate change agenda became a top priority of the 
United States Government. Gore’s mission was boosted when 
Clinton gave him authority over the newly created President’s 
Council on Sustainable Development.

It will come as no surprise then that, when the Council’s 
Charter was revised on April 25, 1997, the “Scope of Activities” 
included the following direction to the Council:

Advise the President on domestic implementation of policy 
options to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The Council should 
not debate the science of global warming [emphasis added], but 
should instead focus on the implementation of national and local 
greenhouse gas reduction policies and activities, and 
adaptations in the U.S. economy and society that maximize 
environmental and social benefits, minimize economic impacts, 
and are consistent with U.S. international agreements. The 
Council should, at a minimum, identify and encourage potentially 
replicable examples of reductions in greenhouse gas emissions 
across diverse sectors and levels of society.

Considering that the Council was tasked with advising the 
President “on matters involving sustainable development,” and 
alternative points of view on the science of climate change were 
effectively excluded, it was a foregone conclusion that the 
Clinton administration would go in the direction Gore wanted. 
Indeed, in their cover letter to the President accompanying 
their 1999 report, Advancing Prosperity, Opportunity and a 
Healthy Environment for the 21st Century, the Council stated: 
“Our report presents consensus recommendations on how America 
can reduce greenhouse gas emissions and take other steps to 
protect the climate.”

A cornerstone of Gore’s strategy was to ensure that all high-
ranking government officials who had any involvement with 
funding policies relating to climate change were in line with 
his vision. These agencies included the Department of Energy, 
Environmental Protection Agency, National Science Foundation, 
Department of Education, National Oceanic and Atmospheric 
Administration, and National Aeronautics and Space 
Administration.

An example of his power was shown when physicist Dr. William 
Happer, then Director of Energy Research at the Department of 
Energy, testified before Congress in 1993 that scientific data 
did not support the hypothesis of manmade global warming. Gore 
saw to it that Happer was immediately fired. Fifteen years 
later, Happer quipped, “I had the privilege of being fired by Al 
Gore, since I refused to go along with his alarmism. I did not 
need the job that badly.”

Al Gore was also able to leverage his high visibility, his movie 
awards, his Nobel Prize, and his involvement in various carbon 
trading and other schemes into a personal fortune. When he ended 
his tenure as Vice President in 2001, his net worth was $2 
million. By 2013, it exceeded $300 million.

Gore's movie, An Inconvenient Truth, provided a series of 
graphic images showing the apocalyptic consequences that some 
had predicted if fossil fuels were allowed to continue warming 
the planet. Images included melting glaciers, dying polar bears, 
spreading diseases, coastal cities inundated by massive floods, 
cities wiped out by hurricanes and tornadoes, and food supplies 
exterminated by droughts.

This compelling propaganda played a major role in frightening an 
entire generation about the future, causing young people and 
many parents to feel guilty about the role that they and their 
country were supposedly having in destroying our beautiful 
planet.

Since then, Americans have been told constantly that they should 
feel irresponsible if they drive cars or use fossil fuel energy 
to heat their homes or power their businesses. A rapid, massive 
conversion away from coal, oil and natural gas to renewable 
energy sources such and wind and solar, we are told, is the only 
hope for saving the planet.

Now children are increasingly depressed about their future, 
thanks to the constant barrage of global warming propaganda that 
they receive at school. Indeed, they have become so brainwashed 
and cowed by their peers that they no longer dare to question 
any statement made about catastrophic climate change.

Yet, essentially everything in Gore's climate change agenda is 
either wrong or highly misrepresented.

Now that he is President Donald Trump’s Senior Scientist for the 
National Security Council, Dr. Happer needs to show there is no 
“scientific consensus” on these issues, rekindle informed debate 
on climate and energy issues, and help bring hope, common sense 
and real science back into the discourse – to help end the 
dangerous mythology of dangerous manmade global warming.

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the-global-warming-fraud