Juno News - June 06, 2018


Al Gore has no credibility


Episode Stats

Length

3 minutes

Words per Minute

158.24315

Word Count

502

Sentence Count

41


Summary

Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore apparently has an opinion about an existing pipeline upgrade project in Western Canada. On May 10, 2018, Gore tweeted the following: "The Kinder Morgan pipeline carrying dirty tar sands oil would be a step backwards in our efforts to solve the climate crisis. I stand with B.C. Premier John Horgan and Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson and all of the Canadians, including the First Nations, who are fighting to stop this destructive pipeline."


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore apparently has an opinion about an existing pipeline upgrade project in Western Canada.
00:00:09.400 On May 10, 2018, Gore tweeted the following.
00:00:13.560 The Kinder Morgan pipeline carrying dirty tar sands oil would be a step backwards in our efforts to solve the climate crisis.
00:00:21.720 I stand with B.C. New Democrat Premier John Horgan and Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson
00:00:27.180 and all of the Canadians, including the First Nations, who are fighting to stop this destructive pipeline.
00:00:33.380 Okay, let's forget about the glaring factual errors in this tweet.
00:00:36.800 For instance, the pipeline carries treated Alberta bitumen, not so-called dirty tar sands oil.
00:00:43.120 The upgrade has already been approved by Canada's regulators.
00:00:46.320 It meets Canada's very strict environmental standards or the fact that many First Nations leaders have come out in support of this pipeline.
00:00:54.180 There are always a lot of lies when it comes to Al Gore, but that's Al Gore.
00:01:00.600 He has a history of making things up.
00:01:04.080 Back in 2007, during his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech,
00:01:08.660 Gore said that the North Pole polar ice cap would be completely gone within seven years.
00:01:14.960 Another new study to be presented by U.S. Navy researchers later this week warns it could happen in as little as seven years.
00:01:24.840 Seven years from now.
00:01:27.640 Well, seven years has come and gone, and the Arctic sea cap is still there.
00:01:32.500 In fact, in March 2018, the sea ice extended 14.5 million square kilometers.
00:01:39.000 Likewise, in his documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, Gore stated that Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania would be free of snow on its peak by the end of the decade.
00:01:50.120 Well, folks, that was 2006.
00:01:51.720 Twelve years later, there is still snow on Mount Kilimanjaro.
00:01:54.960 There is snow there year-round.
00:01:57.060 In the same documentary, Gore claimed that polar bears are in danger of drowning from an increased inability to find ice.
00:02:03.480 In reality, global polar bear population has increased by more than 15% since that film came out.
00:02:11.360 There is simply no evidence of polar bears drowning.
00:02:14.400 And it doesn't end there.
00:02:15.840 In a court case in the United Kingdom, they ruled that Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth contained so many scientific errors
00:02:22.680 that it was against UK's education laws to show the movie to school children.
00:02:28.040 But Al Gore doesn't care about the truth.
00:02:30.120 He has made his career from scaring people.
00:02:32.480 In fact, since leaving office, he's managed to build himself a $300 million fortune.
00:02:39.780 Al Gore has made himself a very rich man by selling lies and making claims about our environment that have proven to be flat-out false.
00:02:47.600 He flies around the world in a private jet while lecturing you and I about driving our kids to soccer practice.
00:02:53.900 Al Gore has no credibility.
00:02:55.680 And he has no business telling Canadians what to do in our country.
00:03:00.080 Canadian politicians should stand up to this huckster and tell him to mind his own business.
00:03:05.880 That's the real inconvenient truth.
00:03:08.160 For the True North Initiative, I'm Candace Malcolm.