Here we go again.
CNN aired its Climate Crisis town hall on Tuesday featuring former Vice President Al Gore and as you can imagine, the typical alarmist rhetoric was peddled.
"The Consensus in the scientific community is clear. Sea levels are rising. The oceans are warming," began moderator Anderson Cooper as he began the program
Gore then likened the issue of climate change to a litmus test of sorts: "it's just really a question of right and wrong" -- like civil rights. Newsbusters summarizes and provides the clip:
Gore’s shameful self-aggrandizing came after Cooper teed him up to push for more U.S. resources to be diverted to solar energy. “You know, you talk about solar, why does the U.S. only get about 1 percent of its electricity right now from solar,” he asked. Progress was slow, according to gore, but a tipping point was to happen very soon.
The former Vice President then smeared those skeptical of his radical and wrong predictions by equating them to racists that opposed the Civil Rights movement. “When I was a boy growing up a lot of the time in the south, I remember when the Civil Rights movement was gaining momentum,” he recalled. “I'll tell you the resistance to Civil Rights laws was just as fierce if not more so than the resistance to solving is the climate crisis.”
“Ultimately, we crossed a political tipping point and people realized oh, it's just really a question of right and wrong,” Gore added without a peep from Cooper.
Out of the nine average Americans who were selected to pose questions to Gore, only two of them offered any kind of push back to his claims. One questioned the morality of actively seeking to put coal miners out of work, while the other dried up Gore’s assertion of rising sea levels.
The issue of course is that the science is far from conclusive. And while we actually are under global threat daily from any number of the West's sworn enemies, the Left would rather focus only on that which it believes will further its political agenda -- not on that which truly keeps people safe.
