Taxes and torture

Not really much of a link, except that to pay taxes is another form of torture.

So Congress was having hearings on the "cap and trade" proposals spewing forth from the Obama White House, and who do you suppose should be paraded front and center? Gore. Mr. Inconvenient -- the body of whose work has been systematically demolished by scientists and even the IPCC (which is known to embrace every crackpot theory of global warming -- though it is now called climate change).

Mr. Gore is positions (in the financial sense of the word) for cap and trade and alternative energy mandates, running at least two hedge funds dedicated to the same, as well as loads of private equity money. Al, you should recuse yourself in favor of scientists without economic portfolio. As in Lord Monckton.

Lord Monckton:

According to Monckton, Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas), Ranking Member on the Energy & Commerce Committee, had invited him to go head to head with Gore and testify at the hearing on Capitol Hill Friday. But Monckton now says that when his airplane from London landed in the U.S. on Thursday, he was informed that the former Vice-President had “chickened out” and there would be no joint appearance. Gore is scheduled to testify on Friday to the Subcommittee on Energy and the Environment's fourth day of hearings on the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009. The hearing will be held in 2123 Rayburn House Office Building.

Why? As James Hansen (in the tank with Gore and someone who has created a lucrative career in hyping global warming -- even though he has no training in the subject of climatology at all) said: "Skepticism can confuse the public." Confuse? The public is ostensibly smart enough to understand your pseudo-science as to warming, but insufficiently smart to process a repudiation of the pseudo-science? It sounds more like Hansen, Gore, et al. are afraid of the public learning how they have been manipulated to further political goals for the sake of social engineering: the Left's goal of universal socialism.

Monckton terrifies the climate cabal -- who are largely social engineers, not climate experts: Monckton has challenged Gore and any other global warming-type to debate in an open forum. Any time any place. It is not as if Monckton is some looney trying to gain some fame. Monckton was Thatcher's science advisor and has been at the forefront of attempts of serious scientists to bring the hoax to the attention of the public.

http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/monckton/goreerrors.html For a good synopsis of Gore's lies, by Monckton.

And on to "Cap and Trade": Rep John Dingell (D) has gone on to say, cap and trade is a tax ... and a big one at Gore's hearing on Thursday. Gore agreed, but pointed out that a direct energy tax and cap and trade when used to together have been most efficient when used together, as in two other industrialized states that have done it without harm to their economy (paraphrased). Trouble is, Uncle Al does tell us which countries these success stories are. Nor can he because it has not been a success in any country that is comparable to the United States. Sorry, Al. Another inconvenient truth. When you cannot get Dingell on board, you stand assured that all the other rust-belt Dems will be leaving you at this station too.