[tomder55]

At the cap-and-trade hearings, it was revealed that not everyone will suffer from this growth-killing energy tax. A congresswoman wanted to know why sea levels aren't rising but Gore's bank account is.


When Gore left office in January 2001, he was said to have a net worth in the neighborhood of $2 million. A mere eight years later, estimates are that he is now worth about $100 million. It seems it's easy being green, at least for some.

Gore has his lectures and speeches, his books, a hit movie and Oscar, and a Nobel Prize. But Rep. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn. was curious about how a man dedicated to saving the planet could get so wealthy so quickly. She sought out investment advice we all could use in a shaky economy.

Last May, we noted that Big Al had joined the venture capital group Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers the previous September. On May 1, 2008, the firm announced a $500 million investment in maturing green technology firms called the Green Growth Fund.

Last Friday, Gore was the star witness at the hearings on cap-and- trade legislation before the House Energy and Commerce Committee. Blackburn asked Gore about Kleiner-Perkins, noting that at last count they "have invested about a billion dollars invested in 40 companies that are going to benefit from cap-and-trade legislation that we are discussing here today."

Blackburn then asked the $100 million question: "Is that something that you are going to personally benefit from?" Gore gave the stock answer that "the transition to a green economy is good for our economy and good for all of us, and I have invested in it but every penny that I have made I have put right into a nonprofit, the Alliance for Climate Protection, to spread awareness of why we have to take on this challenge."

Last May, we also noted that on March 1, Gore, while speaking at a conference in Monterey, Calif. admitted to having "a stake" in a number of green investments that he recommended attendees put money in rather than "subprime carbon assets" such as tar sands and shale oil.

He also is co-founder of Generation Investment Management, which sells carbon offsets that allow rich polluters to continue with a clear conscience. It's a scheme that will make traders of this new commodity rich and Bernie Madoff look like a pickpocket. The other founder is former Goldman Sachs partner David Blood.

As Stephen Milloy, author of "Green Hell," points out, Goldman Sachs is lobbying for climate change legislation and is part owner of the Chicago Climate Exchange, where carbon credits from cap and trade would be traded.

Others hope to cash in along with Gore. On Earth Day 2007, the various NBC networks gave 75 hours of free air time to Gore to hype climate change. NBC is owned by General Electric, perhaps the largest maker of wind turbines and other green technology in the world. It, too, stands to benefit financially from cap and trade, as Fox News commentator Bill O'Reilly has noted, connecting dots others won't.

Gore's altruism is phony. According to a March 6 Bloomberg report, Gore invested $35 million of his own money not in green nonprofits, but with the very profitable Capricorn Investment Group LLC, a Palo Alto, Calif. firm that directs clients to green investments and invests in makers of environmentally friendly products.
As reported on Green Hell Blog, Capricorn was founded by the billionaire former president of eBay Inc. Jeffrey Skoll, who also happens to be an executive producer of Gore's Oscar-winning documentary, "An Inconvenient Truth."

Gore has not taken a vow of poverty even as he advocates legislation that will push millions into it. He has said greed and corporate profits are behind the studies disproving his alarmism. Maybe it's his desire for profits that's behind his manipulation of the truth.

IBDeditorials.com: Editorials, Political Cartoons, and Polls from Investor's Business Daily -- Cap-And-Trade: Al Gore's Cash Cow

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Hello tom:

Another right wing diatribe does what??

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[speechlesstx]

Why are we listening to this guy? The Goracle has a degree in government, never finished law school and took one course in climate science in 1967. He's an activist, why is he being treated as an expert?

[tomder55]

Another right wing diatribe does what??

It presents more inconvenient facts

[speechlesstx]

Speaking of not being more powerful than God or Nature, after all those years of protecting the bald eagle it seems some enviros are not exactly happy about the result...

Bald eagles, bouncing back after years of decline, are swaggering forth with an appetite for great cormorant chicks that threatens to wipe out that bird population in the United States.

The eagles, perhaps finding less fish to eat, are flying to Maine's remote rocky islands where they've been raiding the only known nesting colonies of great cormorants in the U.S. Snatching waddling chicks from the ground and driving adults from their nests, the eagles are causing the numbers of the glossy black birds to decline from more than 250 pairs to 80 pairs since 1992.

"They're like thugs. They're like gang members. They go to these offshore islands where all these seabirds are and the birds are easy picking," said Brad Allen, a wildlife biologist with the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife. "These young eagles are harassing the bejesus out of all the birds, and the great cormorants have been taking it on the chin."

So now what? Are we going to be thinning the bald eagle population in Maine so the great cormorant can bounce back?

Almost forgot this, the $900,000 "completely independent solar-powered house" built by students at Lawrence Technological University in Troy, MI is a bust.

[tomder55]

Have you been following the saga of comedian and current farmer Paul Rodriguez ? He took some money from his success and invested in a farm in the Central Valley in Calfornia for his parents;who were migrant workers in their time.

The farm was doing well until California decided to create an artificial drought to save the Delta Smelt a non-indiginous fish to the region that unfortunately have a habit of getting sucked into irrigation pumps .

So without warning ;after crops were planted ;a judge ordered the pumps shut down.

Rodriguez ;who in the past has helped latino Dems get elected has been getting no help from them even though this ruling has been devasting to the employment of migrant labor in the region.

Lloyd Carter,a Gerry Brown appointed environmental activist said about their plight :
They're not even American citizens for starters, right? Do you think that we should employ illegal aliens? What parent raises their child to become a farm worker? These kids they are the least educated people in America, or in the southwest corner of this valley, they turn to lives of crime, they go on to go on welfare, they get into drug trafficking and they join gangs.

Full Transcript of the KMPH Interview with Lloyd Carter by Ashley Ritchie | Lloyd G. Carter

Rodriguez was on a radio show with Inga Barks last week and said: When I called [them] I was told to 'stick to the jokes'…So now I realize that it was really the Republicans who had my best interests at heart all along.

[ETWolverine]

I heard the interview that Rodriguez did with Inga Barks on Mark Levin's show last week. I knew about the water being shut down for fish, but the interview gave me more information on the issue.

I predict that the Dems are going to continue to go so far to the left on so many issues that they are going to turn off the very people who were turned on by the idea of an African American President. There are a few issues that are going to drive this:

Environmentalism
Gay rights
Health care nationalization
Abortion issues

Environmentalism is turning off quite a few Californians who are traditional Democrats.

Gay rights is an issue that traditionally turns off African Americans, and that is having the traditional effect right now. Also, even in heavily Democrat states, Prop 8 was killed handilly.

Nationalized health care is going to drive about 190 million Americans who are satisfied with their health care system into a government-run system that will NOT be satisfactory, and that will change the allegiance of many Dems.

With regard to abortion issues, Gallup came out with a new poll last week that showed that Americans are more pro-life than pro-choice by a rate of 51% to 42%. Obama's militant pro-choice stance is going to turn off a lot of people... and the issue is going to be very prominent over the next month or so as he gets ready to appoint a replacement on the SCOTUS.

For those who have said that Conservatism is dead, I paraphrase Mark Twain: The assumptions of our demise has been greatly exaggerated.

Elliot

[speechlesstx]

Have you been following the saga of comedian and current farmer Paul Rodriguez ? He took some money from his success and invested in a farm in the Central Valley in Calfornia for his parents;who were migrant workers in their time.

The farm was doing well until California decided to create an artifical drought to save the Delta Smelt a non-indiginous fish to the region that unfortunately have a habit of getting sucked into irrigation pumps .

So without warning ;after crops were planted ;a judge ordered the pumps shut down.

You'd think anyone that proclaims the virtues of liberalism would eventually look at the poster child - California - and see the disastrous condition they're in. Liberalism is one huge game of whack-a-mole and the more moles they whack the more they create. Their solution would be to protect the moles.