Global Warming? Tell That To The People Shoveling Snow

Al Gore was at it again this week.

On Wednesday he was testifying before Congress about how we are destroying our climate and the earth will become un-inhabitable.

He is calling drastic changes in the U.S. once again on everything from automobiles to power creation. He wants the U.S. to take a leading role in global climate change.

In typical liberal fashion, Gore is a hypocrite to what he preaches. We should listen and do what he says and not how he acts.

He lives in a 20 room mansion in Tennessee that has to use a lot of energy. He flies around on private jets. He is chauffeured around in limos. How is that really helping the environment?

Part of his solution is "carbon offsets". Basically buying the right to pollute. Call it whatever you want - a tax, fine, or permission.

Carbon credits are like mulligans in golf or permission to cheat on your wife. You are just buying your way out.

What good are carbon credits to the environment? You are really just giving money to a government to make yourself feel better at the end of the day.

I am not someone who is looking to destroy the environment and abuse this wonderful creation we call "earth". But its resources should be available for our consumption whether that is oil for fuel, animals for food, or trees for shelter. We need to be smart about using the resources but they do replenish themselves.

John Coleman, founder of the Weather Channel, wrote a rebuttal this week to the climate change fanatics basically saying there is no real scientific basis.

More scientists are now stepping up and saying similar things. Global warming has become a "new religion" according Ivar Giaever who won the Nobel Prize Winner for Physics. Additional scientists are saying that we are entering a cooling cycle in the earth's climate.

Another thing that bothers me is that liberals are so intent on changing America, but they dare not speak against emerging nations such as China, India, and Mexico. They are some of the worst pollution offenders.

Politicians have created an agenda to change things to the way they feel it should be - not based on public opinion or actual facts.

In the current economic environment, this could have drastic effects. The recent bill to increase auto mileage efficiency might be some of the last nails in the coffin for the Detroit auto-makers. The limits on domestic oil drilling means that we will continue to send billions of dollars to the Middle East and Venezuela (some of whom do not like the U.S.).

We do not need politicians making knee jerk reactions on major issues that have such wide sweeping effects. Secondly, Washington politicians should focus on more important matters such as the economic mess they created.