Gore goes all Godwin on us

Wikipedia describes Godwin's law thusly:

Godwin's Law is often cited in online discussions as a deterrent against the use of arguments in the widespread reductio ad Hitlerum form. The rule does not make any statement about whether any particular reference or comparison to Adolf Hitler or the Nazis might be appropriate, but only asserts that the likelihood of such a reference or comparison arising increases as the discussion progresses. It is precisely because such a comparison or reference may sometimes be appropriate, Godwin has argued,^[4] that overuse of Nazi and Hitler comparisons should be avoided, because it robs the valid comparisons of their impact.

Let's now go to the latest reductio ad absurdum argument coming out of the mouth of the King of snake oil salesmen, Al Gore:

Al Gore invoked the spirit of Winston Churchill yesterday when he urged political leaders to follow the example of Britain’s wartime leader in the battle against climate change.

The former US Vice-President accused governments around the world of exploiting ignorance about the dangers of global warming to avoid taking difficult decisions.

Speaking in Oxford at the Smith School World Forum on Enterprise and the Environment, sponsored by The Times, Mr Gore said: “Winston Churchill aroused this nation in heroic fashion to save civilisation in World War Two. We have everything we need except political will, but political will is a renewable resource.”

Mr Gore admitted that it was difficult to persuade the public that the threat from climate change was as urgent as that from Hitler.

“The level of awareness and concern among populations has not crossed the threshold where political leaders feel that they must change,” he said. “The only way politicians will act is if awareness raises to a level to make them feel that it’s a necessity.”

Mr Gore, who brought the issues around climate change to a mass audience with the 2006 documentary An Inconvenient Truth, said that the great hope for the future lay in the high level of environmental awareness among young people.

He said sceptics who refused to believe that dramatic cuts in carbon emissions could be delivered should consider the example of the young scientists in the Nasa team who put a man on the Moon on 1969.

“The average age of scientists in the space centre control room was 26, which means they were 18 when they heard President Kennedy say he wanted to put a man on the Moon in ten years. Neil Armstrong did it eight years and two months later.”

He said future generations would put one of two questions to today’s adults. “It will either be ‘What were you thinking, didn’t you see the North Pole melting before your eyes, didn’t you hear what the scientists were saying?’. Or they will ask ‘How is it you were able to find the moral courage to solve the crisis which so many said couldn’t be solved?’”

There you go folks... by not buying into the global warming nonsense, you are in essence lacking moral courage and allowing the equivalent of a holocaust to take place.

Al Gore... minimizing the deaths of millions and ridiculing the threat posed so many years ago by Adolph Hitler.

What a brazen liar.

Comments

[tim aka The Godless Heathen]

Gore aught to come spend a little time this summer in Western Upstate NY. We've been in the 60's with rain.

I think if you brought up Global Warming to anyone here today they'd punch ya' in the nose, even the Libs.

Now where did I but that brown shirt and my jack boots…hmmm…

[Shifty1]

Uh....I've seen the footage from the Space Center's Mission Control back in the day (who hasn't?. I just have to say, those are some of the OLDEST LOOKING 26 year olds I've ever seen! So Mr. Gore would have us all beleive that a bunch of HS seniors heard Kennedy's challenge, and were so energized that they completed their neccessary education (phD in "rocket science" and all) AND got hired on at NASA AND rose in position to be integral parts of such an important team....ALL in 6 years?!?! Riiiiiiiiiight!