Source: Nevada Appeal
Guy W. Farmer at the Appeal observes the results of Global Warming and reaches a conclusion that is worth sharing. Guy is bothered and here is in his own words what is bothering him:

What bothers me most about this spirited debate is the hypocrisy that it generates. For example, although Gore and his allies preach energy conservation and urge the rest of us to utilize public transportation, it has been revealed that just one of the former Veep’s four homes – a huge mansion in Tennessee – consumes more than 20 times the energy of the average American household. Last August alone, it used up twice as much power as the average family consumes in a year. That’s a lot of energy.

But Guy also smells a scam. The carbon credit scam that we reported on in Al Gore’s Inconvenient Tax Scam.

The carbon credits scam is that it doesn’t reduce world energy consumption by a single ounce, according to Krauthammer. “It is a way for the rich to export the real costs and sacrifices of pollution control to the poorest segments of humanity in the Third World,” he added.

Guy concludes with some hard hitting statistics and views:

Here’s another interesting statistic: If California reduces carbon dioxide emissions 25 percent by the year 2020, as Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has urged, the state will have reduced global greenhouse emissions by 0.3 percent – that’s three-tenths of one percent for those of you who failed high school math. Further, as Time magazine has noted, the world meat industry produces nearly 20 percent of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions from animal flatulence and nitrous oxide in manure, which means that a 16-ounce T-bone is like a Hummer on a plate. That should make Gov. Schwarzenegger reconsider his lifestyle because he likes steaks and drives a Hummer.

All of this brings us back to Al Gore and his hypocritical save-the-planet admonitions. Journalist Krauthammer has some advice for the former Veep: “Turn off the lights. Ditch the heated swimming pool. Ride the subway. And spare us the carbon-trading piety.” What we need on this contentious issue is more meaningful action and less hypocrisy.