Posted by
AJH on Saturday, January 31, 2009 5:45:45 PM
There is an odd little piece on Al Gore and his testimony before a Senate committee on “global warming” (now “climate change”) in The Washington Post by Dana Milbank. He calls him “Goracle” throughout, a moniker given to him by Rush Limbaugh. Although the attempt at humor is admirable, it fails miserably on most levels.
Why this was before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee is beyond me, besides the obvious political points the lefties want to make. One of our favorite wackjobs, John Forbes Kerry, presided as chairman. Kerry is even crazier than Gore. Gore appeared to be somewhat subdued given his doom-and-gloom scenario for us.
Senator Risch of Idaho asked, "What does your modeling tell you about how long we're going to be around as a species?"
"I don't claim the expertise to answer a question like that,” Gore replied.
Yet, he does claim to know the weather years from now, though the local weatherman has serious problems trying to tell us if it will rain seven days out. He can certainly guess, based on certain calculations and models, much like Gore and other alarmists do. Of course, this all depends on how good these models actually are. And I am not convinced of anything they say.
Senator Corker then went on to use his time seemingly as a commercial for Tennessee tourism, thanking Gore for his sense of humor.
Gore, apparently at the top of his game, then retorted, "I benefit from low expectations.”
Milbank's description on the glowing bipartisan reception for a former colleague show how Washington hasn't reformed even with the hope and change election of Obama and probably never will. “[T]he Goracle, even when questioned, was shown great deference.”
Idiot Senator Menendez of Jersey thanked Gore for being such a modern-day prophet, emoting about his “incredible leadership” and declaring, “you make this crystalline for those who don't either understand it or want to understand it.” (The other spelling for the word—profit—makes one wonder how much Tipper and Al are spending on their Tennessee mansion electric and gas bills these days.)
And word of one of the coldest winters in thirty or forty years need not dissuade anyone. "The little snow in Washington does nothing to diminish the reality of the crisis," Kerry said at the outset. Thank God I wasn't stuck in that hearing room.
AJH