Live Earth

A few words on Albert Gore's latest attempt to convince everyone that his dangerous and scientifically dubious climate change ideology is the pre-eminent issue facing mankind.

The obvious critique is the humorous fact that while this concert is supposed to promote climate change awareness and the necessity of emissions reductions and one-square-of-toilet-paper usage and all that jazz, it has a rather large environmental footprint. Think of all the power usage consumed by such an event and the immeasurable damage this must be causing our fragile, ancient planet. Of course, in an attempt to avoid this criticism, the planners of the event sought to make it as environmentally friendly as possible.

The problem with that attempt in part lies with the claim of offsetting impacts with these carbon credits. These "credits" have all kinds of problems, the least of which is the tree planting thing: trees take decades to grow and any impact they may have is therefore delayed. So if the crisis is as imminent as Albert would have us believe, the earth won't exist (or at least New York City) by the time these trees are able to absord any real amount of carbon dioxide.

More on this subject when I dig up my notes on a global warming conference I attended.

Next Post: A reporter/journalist researches Christianity and weighs the truthfulness of the Gospels with an interesting 8 part test. This is from Lee Strobel's Case For Christ that I have just picked up, excellent book. Well, so far.