FOX News Blames Al Gore for Food Shortage
And I thought jokes about Al Gore eating too much were so last year.Sean Hannity, on FOX News, recently blamed the former vice president for the food crisis. Seriously. This hugely complex issue we're all hearing about has been helpfully simplified by Hannity who says:
"The Growing Consensus is that the crop deficit is directly related to the increased demand for production of quote earth friendly biofuels, an effort pushed by none other than the vanquished vice president Al Gore and all in the name of quote saving the planet."
Hannity's theory is a little too simple and a wee bit misleading (so is Hannity's statement that "Scores of scientists all over the world say human activities are not heating up the earth at all.").
Gore's views on bio-fuel are a bit more nuanced. At a speech in Argentina last year, for instance, Gore said that, "the drive to produce alternative fuels must not create new forms of environmental damage." He also talked about food prices increasing if biofuels are not used carefully.
At this point, the causes of the world food price crisis are still being debated. It could be rising oil prices, Asians eating way more meat, unseasonable droughts brought on by climate change, and yes, possibly an increase in the use of biofuels. It could be a whole mix of these factors. Even the American subprime mortgage crisis, by causing instability, could be part of the problem. The point is, we don't totally know.
Blaming Gore for the problem seems pointless. Well, until he's caught as being behind global warming, rising oil prices and feeding meat to Asians (which he hasn't specifically denied).
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5-13-2008 @ 8:30PM
Andrew W. said...
It is quite strange isn't it that the right sees Al Gore as THE leader of the environmental movement. Maybe it's just me, but I really don't think the movement has a leader, and if it did it certainly wouldn't be Al Gore.
I also think it is totally unfair to blame Mr. Gore for the global food crisis, as not even Mr. Gore has that much power.
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5-15-2008 @ 11:22AM
Thor said...
Global Warming is a SCAM!!! It is nothing more than a method of bringing about global government. Al Gore lost the presidency so now he wants to head the panel of APPOINTED officials (not elected by us) that will decide how we should live and how our money should spent. I wonder if Al is the least bit concerned for the poor people that are starving and rioting because they have nothing to eat. Their starvation is a fact; Global Warming is at best a possibility. This is only the beginning of the food problem we are going to experience. No one is going to want to grow food when they can make five times the money growing fuel.
I hope you will think for yourselves, check the facts, and see that you are being herded like a bunch of sheep to slaughter. In the mean time, the Global Warming Lemmings burn grain in the gas tanks of their large SUVs to lower CO2 that has little or nothing to do with the global temperatures and ask their GOD AL what they should do next.
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5-15-2008 @ 6:50PM
David Catanzaro said...
Wow... everyone has "checked the facts," you idiot. Many people read scientific journals, which are published by people a lot smarter than you will ever be. It is a strange thing that I have never read a dissenting opinion by a scientist, but I hear them in the news, and from dumbasses like you. Show us some valid evidence against it instead of spewing verbal diarrhea all over the web.
5-17-2008 @ 12:21PM
John said...
Global warming is a scam. Read the following and hundreds of scientists agree:
http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Minority.Blogs&ContentRecord_id=f80a6386-802a-23ad-40c8-3c63dc2d02cb
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