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"Two decades on, An Inconvenient Truth reminds us that panic is a terrible policy adviser. Focusing on cost-effective solutions—innovation, adaptation, development—will save trillions and do much more to help both people and the climate."
"When Al Gore lost the 2000 election, many foolishly thought that that would be the last of him.
"He was, after all, a buffoon. A well-known television journalist once told me he was so stiff she once mistook him for a cardboard cutout of himself while covering the White House during his vice presidency.
"Turns out his ridiculous exit from politics was just the start of his career as our age's leading mountebank, untouchable and untouched, even by #metoo-style sex harassment claims.
"His error-plagued 'documentary,' "An Inconvenient Truth,' put him on track to become the world's most consequential influencer of the rich, white, global elites. In this regard, he resembles Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the Geneva philosphe, who bewitched Parisian high society with errant concepts of what would become today's leftism.
"Once Gore's error-plagued movie came out, the accolades followed, particularly from wealthy Europeans who awarded him the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007, and after that, global warming became 'the science.'
"Vatican encyclicals were written. Bike lanes were installed to ensure more crowded traffic in cities. Cap and trade became the emperor's new clothes. Plastic straws were taken away along with plastic bags and consumers had to ask for utensils for their takeout food. Taxes soared as fossil fuels were replaced with unreliable solar and wind power and grids buckled. Cars were saddled with fuel efficiency mandates literally unknown to sciece. Treaties were signed -- remember the Paris accords? And then they were gleefully ignored by the third world's [unprintables]. Cash was shaken down. Germany lost its reliable electricity sources and its costs soared. Putin financed green groups to undermine the West and invaded Ukraine. Schoolchildren were preached the virtues of eating bugs. Agriculture became addicted to ethanol subsidies and cars began running on the less efficient fuel. Forests were denuded to make space for solar panels that blinded pilots overhead and wasted farmland, while wind farms became bird Cuisinarts on land and harmed whales at sea. And hypocrites everywhere flew on private jets to fancy conferences to discuss new ways of reducing free people's quality of life, all because of global warming. Elites became rich off this idea, of course, from the Solyndra barons to Gore himself, who left office with about $1 million in assets and is worth a reported $300 million today. And COVID and its lockdowns took global warming hysteria as its model for increasing government power.
"Now we're on the 20th anniversary of the film, and the damage has been done." . . . More...
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