I heard Rush Limbaugh announce that he would run for President of the United States. If, that is, he’s wins the Nobel Peace Prize he’s been nominated for.
He’d probably fare better than the current crop of Republican candidates. And he’d do a better job than any of the Dems that are running. But can you imagine the howls from the left if he actually ran? And if he won? Oh, that would be fun!
Update: Rush won’t be running, because AlGore was picked to receive the Nobel. And the Nobel Committee lost any shred of credibility it ever had. And with Jimmy Carter and Yasar Arafat on the same list of Peace Prize recipients, those were some small shreds that were left over.
Gore puts together a PowerPoint presentation with no less than eleven gross inaccuracies, all based on some pretty questionable science, and ends up with an Emmy and the Nobel Peace Prize.
And what are those inaccuracies?
The film claims that melting snows on Mount Kilimanjaro evidence of global warming. The Government’s expert was forced to concede that this is not correct.
The film suggests that evidence from ice cores proves that rising CO2 causes temperature increases over 650,000 years. The Court found that the film was misleading: over that period the rises in CO2 lagged behind the temperature rises by 800-2000 years.
The film uses emotive images of Hurricane Katrina and suggests that this has been caused by global warming. The Government’s expert had to accept that it was "not possible" to attribute one-off events to global warming.
The film shows the drying up of Lake Chad and claims that this was caused by global warming. The Government’s expert had to accept that this was not the case.
The film claims that a study showed that polar bears had drowned due to disappearing arctic ice. It turned out that Mr Gore had misread the study: in fact four polar bears drowned and this was because of a particularly violent storm.
The film threatens that global warming could stop the Gulf Stream, throwing Europe into an ice age: the Claimant’s evidence was that this was a scientific impossibility.
The film blames global warming for species losses including coral reef bleaching. The Government could not find any evidence to support this claim.
The film suggests that the Greenland ice covering could melt causing sea levels to rise dangerously. The evidence is that Greenland will not melt for millennia.
The film suggests that the Antarctic ice covering is melting; the evidence was that it is in fact increasing.
The film suggests that sea levels could rise by 7m causing the displacement of millions of people. In fact the evidence is that sea levels are expected to rise by about 40cm over the next hundred years and that there is no such threat of massive migration.
The film claims that rising sea levels has caused the evacuation of certain Pacific islands to New Zealand. The Government are unable to substantiate this and the Court observed that this appears to be a false claim.
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