blatham wrote:The pretty graph above is a contemporary part of a long-running ad hominem marketing/PR/propaganda (all apply, take your pick) strategy to dissuade the public from granting credence to those who argued that global warming is real, (and, next) that it is being caused by human activities, (then) that it is in any sense critically important, (and now) that we will hurt ourselves less if we move to ameliorate its causes than if we do nothing. It's a trajectory which really is entirely predictable given the enormous financial, political and media interests at risk (so they consider) from alterations in the status quo.
The story of big business conspiration is ridiculous. The nuclear industry, the insurance industry, Enron (who hoped to make big bucks with carbon trading and lobbied for Kyoto), the Gore's carbon offset companies, the gaz based electricity utilities who want to evict their coal counterparts ... are all big business that have enormous interest in pushing the cause of the AGW theory.
What the graph showed is just that Gore uses 20x more energy of the average John Doe. The rest is interpreted up to your imagination (or fantasy or paranoid tendency, take your pick). If Gore, who preaches conservation while wasting a stupidly HUUUUGE amount of energy, why should others believe him? Why should they conserve ? Would you trust a priest who preaches fidelity & abstinence while he is sleeping around with all women of the neighbourhood who want to ? Come on Blatham!
If Gore claims urgency to save the planet while he is consuming like crazy, it's just that he doesn't believe a single second it's urgent. That's logic, mathematic, automatic. Nothing can't be clearer. If you can believe otherwise, you'll believe in anything.