When Al Gore won the Nobel Prize, Marshall Art performed as required by some kind of inner mechanism. The post, while succinct and dreary by some standard, has a comment section chock-a-block with ravings and nonsense that gets further and further removed from reality as time has elapsed.
The "argument" (should one wish to grace it with the name) runs something like this:
- Al Gore is a lying sack of hypocritical crap, only promoting himself.
- The earth isn't warming at all.
- All those glaciers melting, the permafrost thawing, changing weather patterns are part of a cycle that I know about even though I haven't studied the issue at all.
- Even if global warming is happening, it's a good thing, and has nothing to do with peace.
- Even if global warming is happening, and even if it's a bad thing (which kind of wiped out the first four points) it's too far along to do anything about.
- Al Gore doesn't really believe in global warming because everyone knows that the only solution is to end industrial society as we know it and live as troglodytes. Al Gore lives in a big house; ergo he does not really believe in global warming.
- Carbon Caps and carbon trading are for rich people, not the polloi like us who can't afford them; Al Gore is a lying hypocrite.
- Did I mention Gore was a lying sack of crap?
It's like living among the Yahoos over there. Or an afternoon in the garden of the Queen of Hearts. In any case, literary delights all around!
