Nobel Peace Prize gored?
By Ross Spencer
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and Al Gore collectively won the Nobel Peace Prize for efforts to fight
climate change.
What is absolutely amazing is that the Nobel Prize Selection Committee has failed to recognize that nothing concrete has
been accomplished in the way of their recommendations for fighting climate change. Also, a significant number of climate
scientists originally invited by the IPCC to sit on their Panel have resigned and disputed the IPCC’s findings and data
that the planet is heating up!
Gore’s solution encapsulated in the Kyoto Protocol that he so vigorously campaigned for, is to implement mandatory CO2
emission limits, sometimes called carbon caps. Couched in neutral sounding language, businesses are encouraged under
this protocol, to reduce their carbon output by any available means at their disposal.
Then the protocol takes on a more familiar turn, which gives a clue as to why Gore was lobbying so hard for these
measures.
If a company cannot keep within the emissions limit, it will be charged a “carbon tax”. However, this tax can be offset
by buying carbon allowance from companies that have a “carbon credit”, basically companies that are engaged in carbon
friendly businesses such tree planting, nurseries or as solar power companies.
Al Gore vigorously argues that he subscribes to this solution. He has to for he lives in a massive mansion that burns up
20 times more electricity than the average American household. He regularly travels by private jet which blows out
emissions that’d put all the oil palm plantations in Malaysia combined (which has had to bear the brunt of wild and
unsubstantiated emissions violations claims by equally unprincipled environmental NGO’s), to shame.
How ironical then that the gullible world and the Nobel Prize Committee should buy into his plea to the rest of the
world to change the way we live. In his Oscar winning documentary “An Inconvenient Truth” a pensive looking Al Gore
turns to the camera and intones with mock sincerity: “Are you ready to change the way you live?
This mighty environmental warrior however isn’t ready! He refused to sign a “Personal Energy Ethics Pledge” to reduce
his own indiscriminate consumption of energy. So what choices are open to him?
He could buy carbon offsets from Generation Investment Management, a carbon offset-brokerage that he founded and owns.
So there we have it! The real reason why Al Gore promoted the Kyoto Protocol is to promote fear of global warming so
that people would buy carbon offsets from carbon-offset brokerages such as the one that he owns. Good old self interest!
In the process he has cleverly used a “blue ocean strategy” to create a new business where none existed before.
The cost of implementing the Kyoto Protocol? US$1.5 trillion for a temperature reduction of, wait for this, 0.2 % over
the next 100 years! Imagine how much people from impoverished lands would benefit if these funds were spent sensibly in
the form of education, hospitals and basic infrastructure such as clean water, sanitation and transport. What a sheer
waste of resources for all this expenditure to go to a cause that has yet to be conclusively proven is not just pure
hype. A cause whipped up by irresponsible agencies such as the IPCC, environmental NGO’s and avaricious individuals such
as Al “I’m not ready” Gore!
Deforestation Watch stands for sensible environmental programs that are built on well thought out and balanced views -
not hype and wild allegations. It looks like a lonely watch!
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