Eco-looneys

The source of one my biggest annoyances is environmentalists, with their de facto commander-in-chief, Saint Al Gore.  Understand that I’m all for being a good steward of the God’s good earth, but these people are beyond the pale.  Which brings me to this article (not to mention a nice sentence fragment).  You should read the whole article, but here are some highlights:

• That’s where Gore comes in. No matter how you raise the stakes (“It might take another 30 Kyotos”, says Jerry Mahlman of the National Centre for Atmospheric Research), Saint Al of the Ecopalypse can raise them higher. Climate change, he says, is the most important moral, ethical, spiritual and political issue humankind has ever faced. Ever. And not just humankind, but alienkind, too. “We are,” warns Gore, “altering the balance of energy between our planet and the rest of the universe”.

  Wow. It’s not just the Maldive Islands, but the balance of energy between Earth and the rest of the universe. You wouldn’t happen to have the stats on that, would you? Universal “balance of energy” graphs for 1940 and 1873?

• Anyone can, as the environmentalists advise, think globally and act locally, but only Gore thinks cosmically and acts not at all.
• …the average US household consumes 10,656 kilowatt-hours of electricity. In 2006, the Gores wolfed down nearly 221,000kWh.
• Insofar as he’s made any contribution to global peace, it’s in persuading large swaths of a narcissistic Western world to busy itself with non-solutions to pseudo-crises to such a distracting degree that al-Qa’ida may wind up imposing the global caliphate without having to fire a shot.