Scientist Says The Goracle is A Crook
Climate-change skeptics are taking a beating these days even in France, where people long resisted the green creed.
Paris bookstores brim with guidebooks — including one shaped like a toilet seat — that tell readers how to help save our planet. Yet the dissidents refuse to shut up, even now that Al Gore has won the Nobel Peace Prize and the U.S. government has agreed to negotiate a new global-warming treaty by 2009.
The most conspicuous doubter in France is Claude Allegre, a former education minister and a physicist by profession. His new book, “Ma Verite Sur la Planete” (“My Truth About the Planet”), doesn’t mince words.
He calls Gore a “crook” presiding over an eco-business that pumps out cash. As for Gore’s French followers, the author likens them to religious zealots who, far from saving humanity, are endangering it. Driven by a Judeo-Christian guilt complex, he says, French greens paint worst-case scenarios and attribute little-understood cycles to human misbehavior.
Allegre doesn’t deny that the climate has changed or that extreme weather has become more common. He instead emphasizes the local character of these phenomena.
While the icecap of the North Pole is shrinking, the one covering Antarctica — or 92 percent of the Earth’s ice — is not, he says. Nor have Scandinavian glaciers receded, he says. To play down these differences by basing forecasts on a global average makes no sense to Allegre.
He dismisses talk of renewable energies, such as wind or solar power, saying it would take a century for them to become a serious factor in meeting the world’s energy demands.
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Manbearpig has a nice scam. Those that don’t practice caveat emptor are the only suckers left for the goracle to take advantage of. Seems to me there are alot of really smart people in Europe anymore on this topic. Glad to see that not every European has sucumbed to the carnival barker’s scam.
Kudos to Mr. Allegre.
December 28th, 2007 at 4:59 pmI am proudly a ‘denier’.
Regarding algore, I can only wonder who’s the bigger fool: The fool himself or the fools who listen to him?
December 28th, 2007 at 5:02 pmMay I recall that Claude Allegre was the education minister under the left prime Minister, Lionel Jospin, and that the greens only got 1,xx % at the last elections ; he has been pressented by Sarko to join his team, see if in January there will be some change
December 28th, 2007 at 5:18 pmHuh, so the French aren’t totally useless.
December 28th, 2007 at 5:18 pmOK Joe, that’s a truism
December 28th, 2007 at 5:24 pmWhile I am not a denier, continuing research is the only way that we will ever get all of the answers. Research should never stop.
December 28th, 2007 at 5:59 pmHeh!
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Zh_EhGG5LWs&feature=related
December 28th, 2007 at 7:09 pmGLOBAL WARMING
December 28th, 2007 at 7:26 pmI’ll believe it’s a CRISIS when the people who say it’s a crisis start ACTING like its a CRISIS
@franchie
Sorry for the cheap shot, I just couldn’t resist.
December 28th, 2007 at 7:42 pmOK Joe, I thought you were joking though
December 29th, 2007 at 12:41 amThe Sun is completely overlooked by global warming fanatics.
December 29th, 2007 at 12:47 amAnd why are there (so few / none) conservatives on the Goracle’s bandwagon? Let’s look at the formula.
I hate industry.
I love tearing things down rather than building them up.
I worship Mother Nature.
I am self-loathing.
A highly-placed liberal figure says the sky is falling and it’s the fault of human beings.
I BELIEVE IN MAN-MADE GLOBAL WARMING!!
Conversely…
December 29th, 2007 at 6:24 amI regard industry as the inevitable concomitant of human society, with all its pros and cons.
Building things up is how society is made; tearing things down is the role of anarchists.
I love camping, but I don’t hug trees.
I am not self-loathing; I am self-reflective.
Some has-been with a Messiah Complex says The End is Near and it’s all the fault of filthy, dirty smokestack America.
I THINK AL GORE CAN SHOVE HIS SWEDISH MEDAL UP HIS ARROGANT ASS.
As long as the “common man” and the poor all over the world have to pay up for the rich to prolong the latter overconsuming bimbo-lifestyle, I’ll not pay one lousy second of my already shortened live to listen to these crazed idiots.
I mean, common……
People who have to drive to attend their jobs are confronted with extreme high gas-prices while the Goracles live in power-consuming houses, being fled by privat-planes just because they have enough money to PAY UP for their “fun”.
After the Nobel-price, a price for bringing PEACE for petesake, was already give to Arrafat, the whole gesture and meaning of this price became like throwing pearls to the pigs.
The next person who this price will be given to could become an immortal hero in my opinion, just refusing to accept it, cause it has become a pollitical “gesture”, poisened with hidden agendas and shameless gain.
These so-called “salon-socialists”, all so “moved” by what the world is heading for, they make me puke. If they would start making the world a better place by giving up their own privileges, it could make any sense to me. But not in this way and especially not bases on sheer lies.
December 29th, 2007 at 7:20 amRemeber CFC’s (freon)? R12 was bad, so now we have R132. More environmentally friendly, according to the Goracle back then. I believe one of his biggest contributors was Dupont, who also had all the patents on the R132 molecule.
The Goracle has no clothes, its just a big money/msm vehicle for him. How he continues to fascinate is beyond me.
December 29th, 2007 at 8:46 am