[antimedia] antimedia: Not everyone is falling over....

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Not everyone is falling over....
http://www.antimedia.us/posts/1175735111.shtml


   ....trying to [1]kiss Al Gore's butt.

     The New York Coal Trade Association, headquartered in New York
     City, recently held its 94th annual banquet and meeting at the New
     York Hilton. One of the guest speakers was Bob Murray, founder and
     CEO of Murray Energy Corporation and probably one of the few CEOs
     brave enough to challenge the militant climate control movement
     that threatens the future of America's economy. In his speech, he
     dared to say that he regards Al Gore as the shaman of global doom
     and gloom. He is not joking when he says, "He is more dangerous
     than his global warming."
     Unlike many heads of corporations who are taking their companies on
     that long green mile and caving in to the demands of environmental
     militants, Mr. Murray is fighting tooth and nail for what he says
     is, "the little guy that nobody cares about."
     "Some wealthy elitists in our country," he told the audience, "who
     cannot tell fact from fiction, can afford an Olympian detachment
     from the impacts of draconian climate change policy. For them, the
     jobs and dreams destroyed as a result will be nothing more than
     statistics and the cares of other people. These consequences are
     abstractions to them, but they are not to me, as I can name many of
     the thousands of the American citizens whose lives will be
     destroyed by these elitists' ill-conceived âglobal goofiness'
     campaigns."
     Mr. Murray was a coal miner in Ohio who survived two mining
     accidents and built funds from a mortgaged house into a private
     coal mining company with more than 3,000 employees. He expresses
     concern about the proposals in Congress that will ration the use of
     coal, warning of much worse adverse consequences to Americans than
     those experienced after the 1990 amendment of the Clean Air Act.
     Mr. Murray told me that he had seen the effect of the drastic
     reductions in coal production, and the wrenching impact on hundreds
     of communities, as a result of that legislation. In Ohio alone,
     from 1990 to 2005, about 118 mines were shut down, costing more
     than 36,000 primary and secondary jobs. These impacted areas have
     spent years recovering, and some never will. He spoke of the
     families that broke up, many lost homes, and some were
     impoverished, because of legislation that the environmentalists
     call a "success."

   We need more "successes" like that like a hole in the head.
   Nobody who knows anything about the global warming debate contests the
   fact that the globe is warming. That's a given. The real debate
   concerns the cause of the warming. Al Gore is arrogant enough to think
   that man is the cause and man can be the cure. (All you have to do is
   drain your bank account while Al fills his.)
   [2]Real scientists aren't [3]so sure. But then, unlike Gore, they
   don't stand to [4]get rich off the global warming scam.

References

   1. http://www.nysun.com/article/51681?page_no=1
   2. http://www.antimedia.us/posts/1173154045.shtml
   3. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/02/070228-mars-warming.html
   4. http://www.antimedia.us/posts/1172942863.shtml