Al Gore has met the global warming enemy, and it is U.S.
(Note by Donald: It was the comic strip Pogo who first said: 'We have met the enemy, and it is us.')

The former vice president and recent Nobel Peace Prize winner declared with great disdain at the international climate change talks in Bali that the United States bears the blame and shame for stalling the crusade against greenhouse gases.

"I am not an official, and I am not bound by diplomatic niceties," Gore said to applause. "So I am going to speak an inconvenient truth: My own country, the United States, is principally responsible for obstructing progress here in Bali."

It's hard to imagine an elder stateman from any other nation rising to the global stage to hurl mud balls at his countrymen.

But Gore in now bigger than America. He belongs to the world. As such he's fluent in the international language that translates every wrong into an indictment of Americans.

Gore's condemnation of his homeys reflects the frustration that the Bush administration isn't keen to agree to rigid caps on carbon emissions. Joined at times by other industrial nations worried about becoming deindustrializing nations, the U.S. prefers to leave Bali with a more flexible commitment to addressing global warming without growth-killing carbon mandates.

Gore could have spoken another inconvenient truth at the talks, if he weren't so hell-bent on casting America as the boorish ogre of the global warming drama.

He could have reminded the delegates that in 2006, total U.S. greenhouse gas emissions fell 1.6 percent - and the intensity of those gases fell 4.2 percent - without an international pact.

By contrast, the European Union, which is loudly proud of signing on to the Kyoto Protocol, increased greenhouse gas emissions 0.4 percent.

The decrease in U.S. emissions is attributed to a greater use of natural gas in electricity production, declines in agricultural and industrial methane output and better land-use and forestry practices, among other things.

That's some good news and might have started the conferees thinking about the effectiveness of voluntary, market-based solutions to global warming.

But that would rub hard against Gore's agenda of forcing America to accept a lesser place on the planet.

If last year's reduction proves to be a trend, the United States will trim its greenhouse gas emissions 15 percent during the next decade, without damaging economic growth.

That seems a reasonable strategy. Throwing the nation into an economic tailspin to address a situation we don't yet fully understand would be irresponsible.

But if Gore and his Bali disciples prevail, growth in the United States and other developed nations will grind to a quick halt, while developing nations such as China and India remain free to pollute at will.

That will trigger the greatest transfer of wealth in modern history, as American jobs rush to places with the least regulatory burdens, and more Americans join the ranks of the world's poor.

A generation from now, Americans may well look back at Al Gore as the Benedict Arnold of his age, someone so determined to save the earth he was willing to ruin his country.

Section One What's happening now with Global Temperatures and Carbon Dioxide - Plotting
Temperature and Carbon Dioxide Together:

Section Two Are we near the end of our current temperature rise?

Section Three Five Global Warmings in 420,000 Years

Section Four Nineteen Thousand years of our current Global Warming

Section Five The final chart and word on Global Warming

Section Six Wrap Up on Global Warming

December 24, 2007 - Al Gore, the Benedict Arnold of our time - the traitor among us.
Editorial from 12/15/07: 'Gore's warming plan will blister U.S.' by Nolan Finley, editorial page editor of The Detroit News

October 30, 2007 - The 8000 Year Footprint of Man-Made Carbon Dioxide:
The addition of the plot of carbon dioxide to the Interglacial Chart reveals the 8000 year footprint of rising man-made carbon dioxide.

October 15, 2007 - Letters to National Geographic Magazine My comments on the Global Warming stand of National Geographic they presented on their insert in the October 2007 issue.

February 25, 2007 - Hockey Stick Chart The Fabrication of Global Warming Evidence

August 18, 2006 - Hurricanes The Global Cooling of Global Warming by Storms:
Cane Mutiny - The Mutiny of the Hurricanes due to cooler oceans
A new scientific article now accepted for publication in Geophysical Research Letters shows that the globally averaged upper ocean cooled dramatically between 2003 and 2005, effectively erasing 20% of the warming that occurred over the previous 48 years! - Cooler Oceans Mean a Cooler Planet.

May 27, 2006 - Al Gore He's Back with a new book, a movie, a website, a lecture tour, and of course, the infamous Hockey Stick Chart.

May 02, 2006 - NOVA/PBS The Credibility of NOVA & PBS is at Stake.

April 16, 2006 - Sanity Public doesn't warm to the doom and gloom of the Carbon Global Warming Clowns.