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TheRealMafoo on 05 April 2009
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Final-Fan said:
TheRealMafoo said:
http://www.ted.com/talks/al_gore_s_new_thinking_on_the_climate_crisis.html

He talked in the 15th minute about companies that would profit from a carbon tax. Many of them he has a stake in. He is pushing an agenda that could make him very very wealthy.

As for other planets warming up, just google it. It's all over the place:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ei=jErYSY2KKeXelQev7ezFDA&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=1&ct=result&cd=1&q=are+other+planets+warming+up%3F

First result: http://www.livescience.com/environment/070312_solarsys_warming.html

There's enough of that to cast some doubt, but I hope you're not saying that like it's disproof. Anyway, I could debate that but that's not what my post was about.

I don't doubt that he's investing in efforts to encourage the sort of behavior he believes will benefit the environment. Since he's been in on the ground floor of some of that stuff, it's not surprising that he has interests there. What I question is the amounts of money you propose he stands to make. Where exactly is he going to get DOZENS OF BILLIONS OF DOLLARS in personal profit? That is what I want you to substantiate and you have not.

 

He also could stand to make a fortune off of Carbon Trading itself. He is a major stake holder in a company that trades Carbon Credits, and also determines how many you would need to buy. (nice combo racket to be in).

If the federal government made every company who exported gas (that's just about every company), pay his company (or one of a dozen like his), to tell them how many carbon credits they needed to buy, and then made them buy the credits from Gore's company, he could be the next Bill Gates.

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2008/06/04/gore-invests-carbon-credit-company-will-media-care