At the annual World Economic Forum last week, former Vice President Al Gore melted down faster than any glacier he and his fellow eco-alarmists have ever pointed to as supposed evidence of global warming.
In a panel discussion on Jan. 18 at the five-day gathering of his fellow globalist elites in Davos, Switzerland, the former vice president went on a rant that can only be described as âunhinged.â If anything, that might be an understatement.
âWeâre still putting 162 million tons [of greenhouse gases] into [the atmosphere] every single day, and the accumulated amount is now trapping as much extra heat as would be released by 600,000 Hiroshima-class atomic bombs exploding every single day on the earth!â Gore thundered.
As if that werenât hysterical enough, he added: âThatâs whatâs boiling the oceans, creating these atmospheric rivers, and the rain bombs, and sucking the moisture out of the land, and creating the droughts, and melting the ice, and raising the sea level, and causing these waves of climate refugees.â
Apparently, the former senator and failed 2000 Democratic nominee for president-turned-eco-warriorâs documentary sequel to âAn Inconvenient Truthâ is âApocalypse Now 2.â
The apocalyptic claims in his tirade were enough to keep the self-appointed media fact-checkers scrambling for weeks, but Gore wasnât through.
âLook at the xenophobia and political authoritarian trends that have come from just a few million [climate] refugees,â he raged. âWhat about a billion? We would lose our capacity for self-governance on this world. We have to act!â
Gore has had to ratchet up his Chicken Little-style screeds because of how badly his previous predictions of cataclysmic global warming have failed. In 2006, for example, he forecast that âWithin the decade, there will be no more snows of [Tanzaniaâs Mount] Kilimanjaro.â In 2009, he predicted that âthe North Pole will be ice-free in the summer by 2013 because of man-made global warming.â
Nostradamus, heâs not. Why anyone still takes him seriously is beyond puzzling.
Goreâs return to the public spotlight last week prompted speculation as to whether heâs dialed back his own conspicuous consumption â for which he excoriates others â since being exposed as an energy-hogging hypocrite in August 2017.
An analysis from the National Center for Public Policy Research at the time found that Goreâs Nashville, Tennessee, home was consuming vastly more energy than the average dwelling.
The report claimed that Goreâs home energy consumption averaged 19,241-kilowatt hours per month â fully 34 times as much as the average homeâs usage of 901 kWh per month. According to the research centerâs calculation, âGore guzzles more electricity in one year than the average American family uses in 21 years.â
But Gore can easily afford what is surely an astronomical monthly electric bill (as well as his private jet to Davos) because his post-VP career as an eco-alarmist has been extraordinarily lucrative, enabling him to amass a personal fortune estimated at $330 million, according to the Daily Mail.
At least by comparison with Goreâs delusional ravings, President Bidenâs climate envoy, John Kerry, was almost circumspect in his remarks to the New World Order gathering the day before.
âWhen you start to think about it, itâs pretty extraordinary that we â select group of human beings because of whatever touched us at some point in our livesâare able to sit in a room and come together and actually talk about saving the planet,â said Kerry, another former senator, who lost his own bid for president in 2004, four years after Goreâs defeat.
U.S. climate envoy John Kerry delivers a speech at the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 17. (Photo: Fabrice Coffrini/AFP/Getty Images)
âI mean, itâs so almost extraterrestrial to think about saving the planet,â Kerry said. âIf you say that to most people, most people think youâre just a crazy, tree-hugging, lefty liberal â you know, do-gooder, or whatever â and thereâs no relationship. But really, thatâs where we are.â
No, where Messrs. Kerry and Gore and the rest of the elitist cabal were was an Alpine village, flown there on more than 1,000 private jets. According to a study commissioned by Greenpeace International, Yahoo News reported, âThe carbon dioxide emissions from these extra flights were equal to putting roughly 350,000 gasoline-powered cars on the road for the same weeklong period.â
But in Kerryâs telling, he has no choice but to forgo flying commercial. He once defended his Godzilla-sized carbon footprint when asked about his having traveled to Iceland by private jet in 2019 â ironically, to receive an environmental award.
âIf you offset your carbon, itâs the only choice for somebody like me who is traveling the world to win this battle,â he said. âI believe, the time it takes me to get somewhere, I canât sail across the ocean. I have to fly, meet with people, and get things done.â
Notice how he didnât explain why he couldnât take a commercial flight, but thatâs what weâve come to expect of the condescending attitude of Messrs. Gore and Kerry and the rest of the corps dâelites at Davos.
But Kerry did acknowledge that the lifestyle sacrifices he demands the rest of us make wonât make much of a difference in the fight against the phantom menace of climate change.
Two years ago this week, on Jan. 27, 2021, he acknowledged the Biden administrationâs rejoining the flawed Paris Climate Agreement âalone is not enough, not when 90% of all of the planetâs global emissions come from outside of U.S. borders.â
âWe could go to zero tomorrow, and the problem isnât solved,â he conceded.
So, with the 2023Â World Economic Forum in the rearview mirror, whatâs the takeaway? Simply this: We should thank God every day that neither of these do-as-I-say-not-as-I-do globalist grifters ever became president.
Originally published at The Washington Times
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