Gore’s Problem With Hyperbole

Al Gore just can’t make accurate comparisons without using extremism, gloom, or outright lies. How can anyone take him seriously?

He equates a natural 1 degree rise in temperature over a century to cataclism. Cities underwater! Icebergs melting! Hurricanes the size of Australia!

Now he is comparing the extraction of oil in Alberta to a Heroin addict injecting smack between his toes.

From an Alberta Radio News station here:

ALBERTA/630 CHED – Not all influential Americans are thrilled by the tremendous reserves in the Oil Sands near Fort McMurray. Global warming opponent and former US Vice President Al Gore says what’s happening in northern Alberta is “totally nuts”.

In an interview for next week’s issue of Rolling Stone magazine Gore slams our oil sands mega projects. He says: “For every barrel of oil they extract there, they have to use enough natural gas to heat a family’s home for four days.

And they have to tear up four tons of landscape, all for one barrel of oil”.

Gore compares the extraction process to drug addiction and adds “junkies find veins in their toes.

It seems reasonable, to them, because they’ve lost sight of the rest of their lives”.

Why can’t Gore compare the extraction of oil to forestry and lumbering projects? Or use a sports analogy like a normal person? No, Gore deals in wild extremes because using disgusting images of junkies shooting between their toes are the only way that anyone will pay attention to his message.

The Oil Sands in Alberta may be the second largest deposit of Oil in the World. Getting the oil out of the sands is easier than deep drilling or going offshore with giant oil platforms. The sands are pretty close to the surface, and if an accurate comparison can be made, its more like recovering kitty urine from kitty litter.

But that comparison won’t generate ticket prices for a failing movie.