Tells conference U.S. responding to warming threat with 'cap-and-trade'
By Bob Unruh
WorldNetDaily
Former Vice President Al Gore, whose "An Inconvenient Truth" video epistle on the claims of global warming has not weathered recent scientific research, now has promised at a conference in the United Kingdom that the impending virtual energy tax under the U.S. "cap-and-trade" legislation will bring about "global governance."
Gore, who this year famously left his Nashville mansion's driveway brightly illuminated during the "Earth Hour" event that promoted energy savings, was speaking at the Smith School World Forum on Enterprise and the Environment.
He cited the "cap-and-trade" legislation in the U.S. Congress that by President Obama's own estimate would cause utility bills to skyrocket for American consumers.
Those taxes are good, Gore said.
"But it is the awareness itself that will drive the change, and one of the ways it will drive the change is through global government and global agreements," he said.
His address was captured on video and posted on YouTube:
Only a few weeks ago, a former NASA climatologist asserted global warming simply isn't happening.
While so-called "global warming" was supposed to bring more and more horrific hurricanes, according to many scientists and politicians, since 2005 only one major hurricane has struck North America.
It was reported at the time that a new study by Florida State University researcher Ryan Maue showed worldwide cyclone activity – typhoons, as well as hurricanes – had reached at least a 30-year low.
And two more studies – one by the Leibniz Institute of Marine Science and the Max Planck Institute of Meteorology in Germany and another by the University of Wisconsin – predict a slowing, or even a reversal of warming, for at least the next 10 to 20 years.
"The most recent global warming that began in 1977 is over, and the Earth has entered a new phase of global cooling," says Don Easterbrook, professor of geology at Western Washington University in Bellingham.
He maintains that a switch in Pacific Ocean currents "assures about three decades of global cooling. New solar data showing unusual absence of sun spots and changes in the sun’s magnetic field suggest ... the present episode of global cooling may be more severe than the cooling of 1945 to 1977."
Climatologist Joe D’Aleo of the International Climate and Environmental Change Assessment Project says new data "show that in five of the last seven decades since World War II, including this one, global temperatures have cooled while carbon dioxide has continued to rise."
Gore told the conference he was bringing "good news" from the U.S.: that President Obama had secured billions of dollars for renewable energy work.
He noted that two week ago, the House of Representatives passed the Waxman-Markey bill, "which for all of its flaws does put a price on carbon."
"It's very much a step in the right direction. It achieves real reductions below the 1990 base level by 2020, and that is the threshold that many have said … will dramatically increase the prospects for success," Gore said.
He said "awareness" will drive the change "through global governance."
Gore also discussed a lack of efficiency in energy processes.
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