BREITBART: Lose global warming now

By Andrew Breitbart | Monday, September 29, 2008

• Print
• [-][+] Font Size
• E-Mail Alerts
• Tell a Friend
• Got a Question?
• You Report
• Click-2-Listen

ANALYSIS/OPINION:

LOS ANGELES — The leaves on the trees outside my office - once a marvelous shade of green - have begun to turn red, brown and yellow, the frightening hues not coincidentally found on the flag of Hades. Thousands of these leaves lie on the ground dead, martyrs of human excess. I predict many more to fall to the ground as "la Dia de la Muerte" approaches.

Something in the Los Angeles air has the strong whiff of local warming, the feverish son of global warming, the vengeful godfather of climate change and the unforgiving stepfather of the coming weather apocalypse.

Yet sadly, while presidential hopefuls John McCain and Barack Obama drone on about some financial-bailout plan and a war in a very, very hot place, the No. 1 issue facing our planet - cataclysmic, life-altering, irreversible climate change, according to the true president, Al Gore* (see Diebold, 2000) - is being completely ignored by the two presidential contenders.

Someone needs to go to jail.

"We are entering a period of consequences," Mr. Gore warned in 2005. Yet we ignore him three years later - after a summer filled with 90-degree days. And winters filled with snow falling like volcanic ash on the mountaintops. The flowers in the spring only create a false calm that summer eventually incinerates. It's a yearly cycle we ignore at our own peril.

Though Mr. Gore endorsed him, Mr. Obama barely pays lip service to the crisis. And Senator John McSame ... well, he's just another Bushie in the bushes bushing with the other Bushes crafting a deal to drill under the Liberty Bell. While President Bush and family continue to hoard Utah oil shale in their Prada bags - America watches TV instead.

No one wants to deal with climate change because everyone understands that Hollywood is mostly to blame. That's right - Hollywood. Even the sign is made of dead trees.

Just last week, the Nobel Prize-winning and Academy Award-adjacent ("An Inconvenient Truth") Mr. Gore told students, "The world has lost ground to the climate crisis," and made a dramatic call to action:

"If you're a young person looking at the future of this planet and looking at what is being done right now, and not done, I believe we have reached the stage where it is time for civil disobedience to prevent the construction of new coal plants that do not have carbon capture and sequestration."

Click here for reprint permissions!
Copyright 2009 The Washington Times, LLC

Do you have another point of view, photos, audio, video or more information about a story?