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Ted Turner called global warming “single greatest challenge that humanity has ever faced.” Not wanting to be out-hyperbolized, Al Gore said ““Never before has all of civilization been threatened.” Gore said that the good news is that we have the power to fix the problem. Here’s more of Turner’s blather:

“What we need is a moratorium on all new coal plants, on all new carbon-producing energy power technologies, and work on replacing them with renewable alternatives,” the billionaire founder of CNN said Wednesday.

Turner also called for urgent action to address global climate change, which he referred to as the “single greatest challenge that humanity has ever faced. The biggest danger is we won’t do enough soon enough,” he said.

I didn’t know that Turner had returned to college and gotten his doctorate in meteorology. Is it that he just decided that he’s just as right as the scientists involved in the IPCC’s report? (Based on the flimsiness of their report, he might be as qualified.) This nutjob might be a wealthy man but not a terribly bright man in terms of common sense. The truth that no one wants to talk about is that there’s enough oil reserves to fill our needs for a century. That’s with existing technology.

I also find it more than a little interesting that Turner doesn’t think that the Islamofascist threat isn’t the “single greatest challenge that humanity has ever faced.” I guess he thinks that they can be appeased or avoided.

Here’s what Al Gore said:

Gore narrated an hourlong slide presentation with graphic evidence of global warming: Antarctic ice shelves cracking and collapsing into the sea, before-and-after shots of glaciers reduced to lakes and small patches of ice, and forecasts of heavily populated land masses such as Florida shrinking drastically if glacial meltdown reaches a worst-case scenario and floods the seas.

“Never before has all of civilization been threatened,” Gore said. “We have everything we need to save it, with the possible exception of political will. But political will is a renewable resource.”

I agree that political will is in short supply. Unfortunately, common sense and proportionality are in even shorter supply. Unfortunately, there seems to be an overabundance of hyperbole and intellectual dishonesty.

I thought Dennis Miller had it exactly right last night. While making an appearance on The O’Reilly Factor, O’Reilly asked him what he thought about global warming. Miller’s snappy reply was (I’m paraphrasing now) “I used to think there was something to it until I heard that the UN thinks that there’s something to it. Now I’m pretty sure that I don’t think that there’s anything to it.” I think Mr. Miller is onto something.

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Cross-posted at LetFreedomRingBlog

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