Friday, June 4, 2010

Sinking Islands

Al Gore spent the Nineties dragging news crews to speeches he was making about AGW at beach cities. He'd stand in the sand, point to how "far" the ocean was washing up toward the houses--in places the waves were even pounding on their windows--and tremulously tell us about rising oceans.

Never mind that the ocean just five miles away at the next town wasn't beating on anyone's windows, that it remained steadfastly 200 yards away where it had always been within living memory.

Either the Goracle had never heard of beach erosion or he trusted that his uninformed audiences never had--most likely both were the case--making it easier to foist his hysteria off on a credulous public.

I'd like to spend paragraphs bashing him and his agenda (off of which he has grown very rich) but I'm heading off in a different direction. Our public education stinks. Our children know very very little. Those who know anything can thank their library cards much more than their teachers.

Al Gore knew so little as a college student taking a freshman introductory General Science class that he believed everything one hysterical nutcase teacher said, and brought us this travesty of science and common sense, Anthropogenic Global Warming. If he and his generation had learnt anything in junior and high school, this garbage would never have happened.

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