Al Gore Part of Group that Demands $15 Trillion for Climate Change

Al Gore has the same rights to his beliefs and to share them as anyone else. After all, that’s one of the reasons why the guarantee of freedom of speech is so vital — to promote a healthy and vigorous dialog on matters impacting the nation.

The problem Gore has is that he has attempted to elevate the climate change issue into almost a national religious belief. And this insistence on allocating $15 trillion to this cause is just ridiculous. With an official national debt of $20 trillion, this is to be allocated from whom?

A group of executives who want to fight global warming has published a new report calling for countries to spend up to $600 billion a year over the next two decades to boost green energy deployment and energy efficiency equipment.

The Energy Transitions Commission’s (ETC) report claims “additional investments of around $300-$600 billion per annum do not pose a major macroeconomic challenge,” which they say will help the world meet the goals laid out in the Paris agreement.

ETC is made up of energy executives, activist leaders and investment bankers, including former Vice President Al Gore, who would no doubt get a piece of the trillions of dollars they are calling for.

Now it starts to become clear. We have a group of business leaders who wish to ride the government gravy train with Mr. Gore getting a cut of the action.

This, of course, runs into trouble when the Trump administration is factored in. Yet these folks are persistent when they smell government cash at the end of their quest.

Trump has ordered Obama-era policies meant to comply with the Paris agreement be rolled back, but the White House is mulling whether or not to pull out of the agreement altogether. European countries and energy companies have been pressuring the White House to stay party to Paris.

Royal Dutch Shell, for example, aided the pro-Paris faction of the Trump administration by publicly supporting continued U.S. participation in the United Nations deal. Shell is a major producer of natural gas, which the company bills as a way to fight global warming.

Shell funds ETC, and the group’s report mainly targets emissions from coal use.

We have the pattern here that has plagued the climate change debate: There is big money to be made from promoting this agenda, especially when the government is willing to plunge itself deeper in debt to fund it.

When this kind of money is involved, we can expect the science to be bent in the direction of those who stand to benefit. Hence the skepticism. Hence the problem with Mr. Gore and his associates in adding $15 trillion to the national debt on behalf of his precious cause.

Makes you wonder if the whole climate change issue would collapse if there were no government money in it.

Source: The Daily Caller

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