According to a report released Monday, rates of mental illness, including depression and post-traumatic stress, will increase as a result of climate change. The paper, prepared for the Climate Institute, says loss of social cohesion in the wake of severe weather events related to climate change could be linked to increased rates of anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress and substance abuse. The research claims as many as one in five people already have reported ”emotional injury, stress and despair” in the wake of these events. The report, A Climate of Suffering: The Real Cost of...

Despite his Nobel Prize, Oscar and a net worth likely surpassing $100 million, Al Gore is a miserable failure.  He lost his one big shot at the White House, his family is a mess and his marriage to Tipper, his college sweetheart, ended in ruin due to his affair with actor Larry David’s wife. The other aspect of Gore’s life that sucks is his insistence that mankind’s burning of fossil fuels is warming the planet.  The science he relies on for this belief is riddled with holes, and on a weekly basis more and more well known scientists are voicing their skepticism or denial regarding...

On June 29, 1993 President Clinton signed Executive Order 12852.  The Order established the President’s Council on Sustainable Development.  Appropriately, Gore was given authority over the Council and would aid in selecting its twenty-five ultraist members, which included: -                Co-Chairman, Jonathan Lash, President, World Resources Institute; an organization dedicated to “putting environmental issues on the international agenda.”[1] -                John Adams, Executive Director, Natural Resources Defense Council; their Mission Statement declares...

This article ran February 4, 2011, at Human Events Gore’s Got It Wrong: It’s Just Bad Weather By Brian Sussman Once again, eco-guru Al Gore has issued a pronouncement.   His latest “Gorebasm” insists the recent record snow, ice and cold is the result of mankind’s use of fossil fuels. On his personal blog Gore writes, “man-made warming” can “create all sorts of havoc” including snowstorms becoming more severe.  “Snow has two simple ingredients: cold and moisture,” he explains. “Warmer air collects moisture like a sponge until it hits a patch of cold air.  When temperatures...

Originally Posted at Human Events Last week eco-terrorist James Jay Lee executed a dangerous hostage plot inside the headquarters of the Discovery Channel.  Armed with what appeared to be pipe bombs and a cheap pistol, Lee claimed to have been “awakened” by Al Gore’s film, An Inconvenient Truth.  Lee regarded humans as the “most destructive, filthy, pollutive creatures around.”  His desire was to force the Discovery Channel to fill it’s programming schedule with “solutions to save the planet.”  Lee was shot and killed by police. Sadly, Lee is not first eco-freak to go off.  In 2005...