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   From: demper@salon.com   
      
   In a new development that is potentially devastating to the   
   agenda to introduce a global carbon tax and a cap and trade   
   system, Al Gore admits that the majority of global warming that   
   occurred until 2001 was not primarily caused by CO2.   
      
   Before we get too excited, Gore is not backing away from his   
   support for the theory of man-made climate change, but his   
   concession that carbon dioxide only accounted for 40% of warming   
   according to new studies could seriously harm efforts to tax   
   CO2, that evil, life-giving gas that humans exhale and plants   
   absorb.   
      
   “Gore acknowledged to Newsweek that the findings could   
   complicate efforts to build a political consensus around the   
   need to limit carbon emissions,” reports BB News.   
      
   Yesterday we reported on how Gore was set to become the first   
   “carbon billionaire” on the back of vast profits from companies   
   invested in the “green revolution” that the former vice-   
   president has a hefty stake in.   
      
   [efoods]We also highlighted how the Chicago Climate Exchange   
   (CCX) has direct ties to both Al Gore and Maurice Strong, two   
   figures intimately involved with a long standing movement to use   
   the theory of man made global warming as a mechanism for profit   
   and social engineering. Gore’s investment company, Generation   
   Investment Management, which sells carbon offset opportunities,   
   is the largest shareholder of CCX.   
      
   Gore stands to make windfall profits from his stake in carbon   
   trading systems that would be used to manage the cap and trade   
   system currently being readied for passage in the Senate, but   
   his admission that CO2 is far less of a threat than global   
   warming alarmists have been claiming could be a terminal blow   
   for such a proposal.   
      
   As Andrew Bolt writes in today’s Australian Herald Sun, his flip-   
   flopping “Suggests not only that was Gore wrong to claim the   
   science was “settled”, but that the hugely expensive schemes to   
   “stop” warming by slashing carbon dioxide emissions will be less   
   than half as effective as claimed.”   
      
   “Over the years I have been among those who focused most of all   
   on CO2, and I think that’s still justified,” Gore told Newsweek   
   . “But a comprehensive plan to solve the climate crisis has to   
   widen the focus to encompass strategies for all” of the   
   greenhouse culprits identified in the Nasa study.”   
      
   Gore now blames soot and methane for the majority of global   
   warming, leaving the door open for a tax on livestock, a tax on   
   meat, a tax on milk, and on and on until he changes his mind   
   again and blames another culprit so that too can be taxed.   
      
   In another indictment of Gore’s accuracy in warning about   
   climate change, he has now virtually abandoned scientific   
   “facts” in favor of characterizing his Inconvenient Truth   
   presentation in the context of a religious sermon.   
      
   “Simply laying out the facts won’t work,” admits Gore.   
      
   That’s right, the church of environmentalism has come full   
   circle with Gore’s intention to deliver his widely debunked   
   presentation with spiritual overtones, a move that will shock   
   most hard-headed empirical scientists.   
      
   “I’ve done a Christian [-based] training program; I have a   
   Muslim training program and a Jewish training program coming up,   
   also a Hindu program coming up. I trained 200 Christian   
   ministers and lay leaders here in Nashville in a version of the   
   slide show that is filled with scriptural references. It’s   
   probably my favorite version, but I don’t use it very often   
   because it can come off as proselytizing,” Gore tells Newsweek.   
      
   In a new book Gore has been working on, he attempts to address   
   the rapidly growing skepticism towards global warming alarmism   
   not with science, but by blaming people’s own thoughts, a   
   Kafkaesque cop-out if ever there was one.   
      
   According to the book’s press release, “Among the most unique   
   approaches Gore takes in the book is showing readers how our own   
   minds can be an impediment to change.”   
      
   “Our own minds are the enemy! Don’t free the minds – imprison   
   them!,” scoffs Tim Blair.   
      
   http://www.infowars.com/al-gore-admits-co2-does-not-cause-   
   majority-of-global-warming/   
      
         
      
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