tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4942719624481214321.post6357230099329695470..comments2024-03-13T12:01:30.303+11:00Comments on Billablog: Godwin’s Law of Climate ChangeBillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03412983524190021368noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4942719624481214321.post-76976966587609823332010-11-01T08:15:27.530+11:002010-11-01T08:15:27.530+11:00"Did you just compare Al Gore to Hitler?"..."Did you just compare Al Gore to Hitler?"<br /><br />Um... I suppose I did.Billhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03412983524190021368noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4942719624481214321.post-89925413555632062662010-11-01T04:31:34.940+11:002010-11-01T04:31:34.940+11:00Did you just compare Al Gore to Hitler?
I've ...Did you just compare Al Gore to Hitler?<br /><br />I've never used Hitler in any online argument for several reasons. Comparing everything and everybody to him only lessens his impact. If everybody who ever does anything anybody doesn't like is a nazi then we're all nazis to somebody and then how bad could they really have been?Miahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17881826389793941197noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4942719624481214321.post-63224630345925246142010-10-30T11:27:08.432+11:002010-10-30T11:27:08.432+11:00Interesting that you choose 2002 as the starting p...Interesting that you choose 2002 as the starting point because Gore has been on about climate change since the 70s. So yes, I would call a 25-year wait for a return pretty slow, especially if it's all a deception based on greed. <br /><br />An insider who knows when a big subsidy is coming along and makes sure he benefits?<br />Do you feel the same way about Dick Cheney's involvements with Halliburton? <br /><br />But thank you for illustrating my point. Whether carbon trading will do anything useful or not is a valid discussion to have, and it's another issue that the existence of Al Gore has no bearing on.Billhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03412983524190021368noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4942719624481214321.post-61896069647787520422010-10-30T05:22:00.276+11:002010-10-30T05:22:00.276+11:00"One is that carbon credits would have to be ..."One is that carbon credits would have to be the slowest get-rich-quick scheme ever."<br /><br />Slow? The last I heard he's made $100 million since the year 2002. That's about $1 million per month. That too slow for you? <br /><br />But the big money would have been made if the USA had adopted cap™ since his investment firm is a major shareholder of the Chicago and Montreal Climate exchanges he would have become a billionaire in only a few years. Carbon trading will eventually become the single largest industry on earth, perhaps making gore the wealthiest man in the world. Of course there are many other green investments that Gore has, for example one company in which Al Gore invested (Silver Spring Networks) has contracts with utilities that received a combined subsidy of $560m from the US energy department in 2009. So he’s an insider who knows when there is a big subsidy coming along and makes sure he benefits. So if you didn’t realize that Gore is motivated by big green then I think it’s you who really haven’t been paying attention.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com