We all know that liberals are sophisticates who understand the complex nature of reality, while conservatives see the world in absolutes.* We all know that liberals are sophisticates who understand the complex nature of reality, while conservatives see the world in absolutes. That's why An Inconvenient Truth, the global-warming documentary based on Al Gore's public lectures, shows the former vice president standing before a cartoon graphic of a scale with the earth on one side and a pile of gold bars Gold bars Bars with a minimum content of 99.5% gold, which may be held by central banks or traded by investors. on the other. You wouldn't trade our only planet for filthy lucre Noun 1. filthy lucre - shameful profit; "he would sell his soul for filthy lucre" net income, net profit, profit, profits, earnings, lucre, net - the excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of time (including depreciation and other non-cash expenses) , would you? The film is nuanced throughout: It adduces the disappearing Kilimanjaro glacier as evidence that man is destroying the planet, even though that glacier was melting long before greenhouse-gas emissions could have caused global warming global warming, the gradual increase of the temperature of the earth's lower atmosphere as a result of the increase in greenhouse gases since the Industrial Revolution. ; it frightens us with news about melting Greenland ice without acknowledging that this phenomenon can be explained largely by natural climate variation; it exhorts us to ratify ratify v. to confirm and adopt the act of another even though it was not approved beforehand. Example: An employee for Holsinger's Hardware orders carpentry equipment from Phillips Screws and Nails although the employee was not authorized to buy anything. Kyoto without any discussion of how large its impact on warming would be (the answer: minuscule minuscule Lowercase letters in calligraphy, in contrast to majuscule, or uppercase letters. Unlike majuscules, minuscules are not fully contained between two real or hypothetical lines; their stems can go above or below the line. ); and it makes no mention of the spectacular economic costs associated with significant CO2 reductions. Oh, yes, the Left is nuanced. |
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