Well, now that more and more is coming out about ‘inconvenient truth’ about climate change (aka global warming). It’s been known for decades that the earth has gone through several cycles of warming and cooling, think about the ice ages. There was more than one ice age, so the logical part of my brain tells me that there were a couple periods of warming. DUH!!!

I wonder where Al Gore (the supposed champion of global warming education) is? I have not heard his superstar mouth open about the new evidence of the scientist doctoring data to ‘make sure’ global warming was evident in their research. I also wonder if Mr. Gore, got a little more green after it was reported that his monthly electric (produced from a coal plant) consumption was over 20x’s that of the average American. Now, I’ve found that this stat is incorrect, http://www.snopes.com/politics/business/gorehome.asp. It’s only 12x’s more than the average American. Oh yeah, that’s right he purchases ‘carbon credits’ from the gov’t to ‘help offset his consumption’. SERIOUSLY, that is a joke. You use what you use is what you use, you can’t purchase credits to decrease your usage. WTF!!! Enough about this wanna be superstar.

Don’t get me wrong, I believe we (all humans, that’s right ALL) have some responsibility in causing the Earth to warm. Heck as my 7th grade science teacher, Mr. Hartman said, ‘we are all 98 degree heaters’. Well that and we’ve had an industrial growth like no other in history over the past 100+ years. I’m not discounting the fact that global warming is happening or that we are helping it. Come on, it doesn’t take Phd to figure that out.

My question, is why did all these scientists and people like Al Gore go and interject their basis data into the real data. The answer is money, if the scientists could make the ‘numbers work’ than they don’t get grant money! If global warming is not happening as fast as these corrupt scientists claim, Al Gore would not have had his movie win Academy Awards for Best Documentary Feature nor had the movie gross $49 million world wide nor would he be the superstar he always wanted to be.

Once again, don’t get me wrong, I think each and everyone of use should walk more, bike more and consume less. But don’t try to get people to do this with lies and misinformation that is self serving. Now if Al Gore, would have put up solar panels (for electricity and heating water), bought a car other than the suv’s or anything that would show that he his practicing what he preaches, I’d support him. I just have a hard time supporting someone that uses misinformation to for the self serving reasons as this. The saying, “do as I say and not as I do”, works well with children, but not peers!

ok, I have to get off the soap box now. I can only hope that other people make all of our ’superstar’ politicians be accountable for the actions. I don’t think this is happening, as much as it should. I heard a lot about, “Change”, a year and half ago. The only thing that I’ve personally witness as change is that Arlen Spector jumped ship from one side to the other (the second time he’s done this in his career).

The sad thing is that at the end of the day, this is American politics as usual. I wish I had the fix all answer, to solve our political issues, but I don’t. I don’t think any of us do. I think that our government is so big, that it is just running away and leaving us the people to pick up the pieces and deal with all the BS.

Oh well, I feel better now that is off my chest.