Ireland’s Independent has an article on Phelim McAleer and his wife, Ann McIlhenny and the response they are getting to their documentary, “Not Evil, Just Wrong.” Their documentary highlights errors in Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth.”
Read the whole thing, but here are some highlights:
Reaction to the film, which was three years in the making, has been mixed. Certainly the mainstream media did not ignore their message — the couple were featured on everything from CNN to Fox News — but while McAleer and McElhinney were lauded for providing a much-needed counterpoint to Gore’s brand of environmentalism, others have pointed out that they use many of the same slickly rhetorical “tactics” favoured by Michael Moore, including “old movies, cartoons and class- based arguments”.
Joe Romm, a senior fellow at the Centre for American Progress, called McAleer “a disinformer, denier, a liar”. He derided the film as riddled with errors and called it “anti-environmental junk science”.
There have also been more sinister reactions. The couple have been compared to Nazis, targeted with death threats, and received a letter which said, “You’re so fond of pollution; I hope your children are born handicapped.” Their website was also briefly brought down by hackers.
“Environmentalism is like a religion,” says McElhinney, “and people have been unable to poke holes in our arguments so they have to resort to getting very personal. The science is not settled, but everything that is put out by organisations like Greenpeace is accepted as fact. Al Gore has become a billionaire from his green investments, but nobody seems to point out the conflict of interests there. Environmentalists like him do a great job of portraying themselves as the underdogs.”
Yup, the REAL “inconvenient truth” is that Al Gore is making certain WE will never get to live as well as he does. Al’s been reading up on how things were done in the old Soviet Union, me thinks.
The problem with the global warming craze is that there are several reasons why people choose to believe. Some are motivated by a genuine belief in science, but these are the least aggravating. The politicians use it so they can force massive tax increases and regulations on businesses. But the worst are the people who believe in it because they need a religion. They can’t fill the void in their life with anything else so they look for a cause to throw themselves behind.
That is one thing I learned in college. Most these young idealistic kids need something to believe in and when a false prophet like Gore comes around proselytizing about a new religion that is long on PC platitudes and short on actual sacrifice they jump right on board.
I’m glad Phelim and Ann are challenging Gore’s assertions but this will definitely stir up the religious global warming fanatics.
blackhawk,
I think a lot of kids also choose this because it implies mommy and daddy have screwed up the world. Just like the Boomers hated everything their parents had done, teens undergoing an arrested develoment in College will often develop a resentment towards their parents. This feeds into that. Benjamin Franklin has a great quote on this I cannot locate, but he basically says if you want to ensure someone grows to hate you loan them money. When parents continue to coddle their 18, 19, 20, 21, 35! year olds, and fully support them many of those being supported will subconsciously begin to loathe their parents. Climate change is a great scapegoat;
“I don’t want to work in my father’s evil, industrial complex that’s killing all the cute koala bears, yet my father’s evil co-horts control all the business in the world and won’t hire me because they don’t see the benefit of my 7 year undergraduate degree in green stability horticulture methods.”
Very true, I see a lot of arrogance from people my age. They think just because they know how to use an iPod better than their parents they have achieved some higher intellectual plane.
hate and money…. look at our foreign policy… heck look at our political system. We’ve taken so much government we’ve grown to hate the government and blame them when we the people authorized much of the largesse.
I love my Mom — even if she never pays my electricity bill.
Funny you mention religion – always had a suspicion the “green movement” was actually the church of the anti-christ – with all their “earth worshipping.” And then, we get the real fanatics that say we need to “cull the heard” in the name of saving the planet.
THe Green Movement is a big lie. Look at the problems GE has. THe onlyt way that company can stay afloat is by Obama’s corrupt dealings with them, funneling OUR money to their coffers for technology that has been proven DOES NOT WORK!
British courts have ruled that belief in environmentalism is akin to religious belief.
I saw that. Do you think if our courts made a similar ruling we could call separation of church & state on “crap & tirade?”
There is a harsh reality in nature, as pictured above. Environmentalists ignore that fact, and apply their warm, fuzzy feelings as nature’s reality. Basically, their head is up their….backside.
That term you are looking for is “severe cranial-rectal auto impaction.”
My question for Al Gore – liberals like Gregg Easterbrook believe global warming exists. He believes reducing greenhouse emissions can be done in a free-market friendly manner – in fact the free market may be the best tool available, counter to proposals that seek to wreck the global economy and hinge more on taxes and regulation. Does that make him a denier?
JohnFN, Bjorn Lomborg was a Greenpeace member and environmental zealot who left the group after he realized the Economics do not support their claims. He did the math himself and determined more economic harm than good would be done if one follows their recommendations. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Skeptical_Environmentalist
That film should be avlible for the public to see so we can see the real lies AL GORE has said