We all know how the mainstream media loves to portray Al Gore - the visionary "eco-prophet" who shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for his climate advocacy. But is Al Gore truly such a selfless do-gooder? What does it say about the motives of an environmental crusader when that person stands poised to rake in billions of dollars from the very carbon credit trading scheme that he is tirelessly advocating?

That is exactly the position that Al Gore finds himself in. The leading advocate of the theory of "man-made global warming" is also one of the people who would likely benefit the most financially from the implementation of a "cap and trade" carbon credit trading scheme.

You see, Al Gore is chairman of Generation Investment Management. David Blood, the former chief executive of Goldman Sachs Asset Management, is the CEO.

Thus the nickname - Blood and Gore.

Wikipedia describes Blood and Gore this way.....

Generation Investment Management LLP (GIM) is a London-based investment management firm with an investment style that blends traditional equity research with a focus on sustainability factors, including social and environmental responsibility and corporate governance.

It all sounds very noble, doesn't it?

But the bottom line is that GIM is about making money.  GIM owns a 10 percent stake in the Chicago Climate Exchange.  The Chicago Climate Exchange owns half of the European Climate Exchange.

Thus if the United States and Europe adopt a "cap and trade" carbon credit trading scheme Al Gore could potentially rake in billions of dollars.

If they don't, Al Gore's investment in these ventures could end up being worthless.

When asked about the financial incentives that Gore has to promote carbon trading in an appearance before Congress, Gore did not back down one bit.....

"Do you think there is something wrong with being active in business in this country?" the New York Times quotes Gore as telling Congress. "I am proud of it. I am proud of it."

Gore insists that he is completely committed to solving the problems caused by "climate change" and that he is not ashamed of being ready to make tons of money off of those solutions.....

"I believe that the transition to a green economy is good for our economy and good for all of us, and I have invested in it."

But is Al Gore ready to back real environmental solutions which would not make him money? 

Apparently those kinds of solutions don't appeal to him as much.  Just consider the following passage from a recent Newsweek article.....

"If we feed the biology and manage grasslands appropriately, we could sequester as much carbon as we emit," says Timothy LaSalle, CEO of the Rodale Institute, who presented at two summits. The political clash is this: if you tell people soils can be managed to suck up lots of our carbon emissions, it sounds like a get-out-of-jail-free card, and could decrease what little enthusiasm there is for reducing those emissions—as one of Gore's assistants told LaSalle in asking him to dial down his estimate. (He didn't.)"

One of Gore's assistants actually asked LaSalle to "dial down his estimate"?

What in the world?

Perhaps LaSalle's idea could really work.

But apparently since it would not make Al Gore any money it is not as good as the "cap and trade" carbon trading scheme which would dramatically raise energy prices for American consumers and which would further wreck the U.S. economy.

The truth is that Al Gore is going to keep positioning his money to take advantage of "green" legislation and he is going to keep using his political clout to tirelessly advocate for that same legislation.

As Al Gore's firm, Blood and Gore, starts to rake in billions of dollars as middle class Americans struggle to pay their power bills, perhaps it will be then that many Americans will finally learn the true meaning of this Al Gore quote..... 

"Reality does have a way of knocking on the door."

There has been a very disturbing new trend among world leaders who are also "global warming" activists.  Increasingly, these world leaders are openly discussing the need for "global governance" to fight "man-made global warming".  To them it appears obvious that a global problem requires a global solution.  In fact, the December summit in Copenhagen is being hailed by these world leaders as one of the most important moments in human history.  They claim that if we do not act on a global level now to stop "climate change" that we will be facing a catastrophic future of unprecedented magnitude.

First of all, let's quickly deal with the ridiculous claims that man is causing global warming.  The truth is that "global warming" is caused by the sun.  A few years ago when the sun was experiencing record sunspot activity, the entire solar system experienced "global warming".  Now that the sun has entered a period of very low sunspot activity the earth (and the rest of the solar system) is actually cooling. 

But carbon dioxide levels continue to increase.  If carbon dioxide was causing global warming temperatures should have continued to rise.

But they didn't.

In fact, scientists tell us that there have been periods when the earth has had much higher levels of carbon dioxide.  It is one of the key components of life.  The more carbon dioxide, the better crops do and the more life on earth thrives.

But now many of these world leaders have decided that we need to radically reduce the level of carbon dioxide on earth.  This will hurt plant life all over the globe and crop yields will go down.

But this serves the depopulation agenda of the global elite very well.  You see, the global elite have decided that there are way too many of us.  In fact, they openly discuss the need to reduce population levels by up to 90 percent.  If you doubt this, just read the following article that we recently authored on our sister site: The Radical Population Control And Eugenics Agenda Of The Global Elite.

So do these global elitists really believe in the global warming agenda?  Some probably have drunk the Kool-Aid.  However, whether they actually believe in the agenda or not, they all seem to agree that more "global governance" is needed.

For example, U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon recently penned an editorial in the New York Times entitled "We Can Do It".  In his article, Ban Ki-Moon made the following statements.....

"All agree that climate change is an existential threat to humankind."

"A deal must include an equitable global governance structure."

"All countries must have a voice in how resources are deployed and managed."

All agree that climate change is an existential threat to humankind?

I sure don't.

Actually recent polls indicate that about half of all American people do not, and the trend among these polls is for Americans to increasingly reject the theory of man-made global warming.

And what in the world is "an equitable global governance structure"?

Is that supposed to be a less threatening way to say "global government"?

Apparently under global governance "all countries" will have "a voice in how resources are deployed and managed".

So that means all other countries will have a voice in how American resources are deployed and managed?

Ronald Reagan must be rolling over in his grave.

But Ban Ki-Moon is not alone in calling for global governance.

Former Vice President Al Gore declared in July 2009 that the climate bill currently being rammed through Congress will help bring about "global governance".  Gore's exact quote is below.....

"But it is the awareness itself that will drive the change and one of the ways it will drive the change is through global governance and global agreements."

Excuse us Mr. Gore, but there are still tens of millions of Americans who want absolutely nothing to do with global government.

And to think that that guy came thisclose to becoming president of the United States.

But it is not just about some misguided environmentalists trying to save the world.

It is about global elites trying to set up a world government to control humanity.

As MIT climate scientist Dr. Richard Lindzen has explained: "'He who controls carbon controls life. It is a bureaucrat's dream to control carbon dioxide."

In fact, in December 2007 the United Nations climate conference in Bali proposed the adoption of a global carbon tax system that would represent "a global burden sharing system, fair, with solidarity, and legally binding to all nations."

So how close are we to a "global government" that will control the whole world through carbon regulations and carbon taxes?

Much closer than you may have thought.

This past October 14th, Lord Christopher Monckton (a former science advisor in the Thatcher administration) gave a stunning presentation to students at Bethel College in St. Paul, Minnesota.  During his presentation, Lord Monckton issued a dire warning regarding the "United Nations Climate Change Treaty" that is to be signed in Copenhagen.  An excerpt of a portion of Lord Monckton's remarks as reported by Canada Free Press is posted below.  Monckton is absolutely convinced from his reading of this treaty that it will create the groundwork for a global government.....

At [the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference in] Copenhagen, this December, weeks away, a treaty will be signed. Your president will sign it. Most of the third world countries will sign it, because they think they’re going to get money out of it. Most of the left-wing regime from the European Union will rubber stamp it. Virtually nobody won’t sign it.

I read that treaty. And what it says is this, that a world government is going to be created. The word “government” actually appears as the first of three purposes of the new entity. The second purpose is the transfer of wealth from the countries of the West to third world countries, in satisfaction of what is called, coyly, “climate debt” – because we’ve been burning CO2 and they haven’t. We’ve been screwing up the climate and they haven’t. And the third purpose of this new entity, this government, is enforcement.

Video of Lord Monckton making these remarks is posted below.....

The truth is that all of this global warming hysteria is being used as a pretext to drag us into a world government.  The United States is about to lose large portions of its sovereignty, and Barack Obama and the U.S. Congress is very happily going along with the whole program.

We just thought you might want to know.

On Friday, the U.S. House of Representatives voted 219-212 to pass the cap and trade climate change bill which will fundamentally change the American way of life forever.  This horrific law will drive gas and electricity prices through the roof, will cause more U.S. businesses to flee overseas and will usher the American people into an era of climate fascism.

To make this situation even more sad, the Democrats added a 300 page amendment at 3 a.m. the night before the vote, and so there was not possibly enough time for any members of Congress to possibly read the bill before they voted on it.

Most Republicans were firmly opposed to this bill and were calling the measure a "job killer" that would push energy bills through the roof and would drive jobs and businesses overseas at a record pace.

But this cap and trade bill was a top priority for the White House, and Barack Obama spent much of Friday making phone calls trying to drum up support for the bill.

"Now is the time for us to lead," Obama told reporters in the White House Rose Garden. "We cannot be afraid of the future. We cannot be prisoners to the past."

This legislation was also vitally important to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, as she had pledged to get it passed before Congress left for their 4th of July vacation.

Another thing that is truly tragic is that this bill would NOT have passed if 8 Republicans had not actually voted for this bill.

That's right.

This bill would have failed if 8 Republicans had not voted in favor of it.

They are being called the "cap and traitors" and conservative talk radio is not being kind to them at all.  The following are the names of the Republican members of the House that voted for the bill.....

Mary Bono Mack R (CA)
Mike Castle R (DW)
Mark Steven Eirk R (IL)
Leonard Lance R (NJ)
Frank LoBiondo R (NJ)
John McHugh R (NY)
Dave Reichert R (WA)
Chris Smith R (NJ)

Most Republicans, however, recognized that this bill is going to be a complete disaster for the American people.

Representative Mike Pence from Indiana said that this bill "amounts to the largest tax increase in American history under the guise of climate change."

House Minority Leader John Boehner attempted to delay the attempt by the Democrats to ramrod this bill through by filibustering.  He actually started reading page-by-page through the 300-page Democratic amendment to the bill.  However, his efforts were not enough and the bill was voted on.

Earlier, Boehner had some very harsh words for the bill. In fact, he said that he had "never seen anything this ridiculous".

Check out this video clip of Boehner talking about the bill.....

During his brief filibuster, Boehner made the following very wise remarks: "...the gentleman’s had his 30 years to put this bill together. And the House is going to spend a whopping five hours debating the most profound piece of legislation to come to this floor in 100 years. And the chairman has the audacity to drop a 300-plus page amendment in the hopper at 3:09 a.m. this morning. And so I would ask my colleagues, don’t you think the American people expect us to understand what’s in this bill before we vote on it?"

After the bill passed the U.S. House of Representatives, Boehner had these choice words regarding the bill: "Hey, people deserve to know what’s in this pile of s–t."

The reality is that this cap and trade bill is a complete nightmare for the American people, but Al Gore and other Democrat insiders stand to make a ton of money off of this whole scheme.

The truth is that even Barack Obama has had his fingerprints all over this cap and trade scheme for years. While Obama was on the board of a Chicago-based charity, he helped fund a carbon trading exchange that will almost surely play an absolutely critical role in the cap-and-trade program that he is now trying to force through the U.S. Congress.

During 2000 and 2001, the Joyce Foundation gave almost 1.1 million dollars in grant money that was instrumental in developing and launching the privately-owned Chicago Climate Exchange.

This exchange now now refers to itself as "North America’s only cap and trade system for all six greenhouse gases, with global affiliates and projects worldwide."

But the truth is that the whole notion that "global warming" is caused by carbon dioxide is complete nonsense.

Dr. Tim Ball, a renowned environmental consultant and former climatology professor at the University of Winnipeg, makes it abundantly clear that carbon dioxide cannot possibly cause "global warming":

"CO2 is about 1.5 the density of air. One of the great fallacies promoted by [the proponents of the global warming theory] is that CO2 is well and quickly mixed through the atmosphere. It isn't. They also argue that the CO2 is most effective in trapping heat from the Earth (infrared) at the top of the atmosphere. This is why the computer models predicted greatest warming at the top of the atmosphere over the tropics. The problem is the actual measurements show that is not happening."

In addition, the "global warming" that the world experienced during the 1990s and into this decade was experienced by every planet in the solar system. It was caused by the sun. Now that the sun has recently gone into a time of reduced sun spots, the world is now experiencing a time of global cooling.

But the facts never seemed to matter much to American politicians before. Why should they let the truth bother them now?

But even if global warming was caused by carbon dioxide (which it most definitely is not), the reality is that this bill will not cut carbon emissions. It will just drive jobs and businesses overseas to places like China where they have no limits on carbon emissions at all.

So this bill could actually cause carbon emissions to increase.

But the fragile American economy will be forced to endure much higher gasoline costs and massive job losses.

The fragile American economy will be forced to endure the largest tax increase in the history of the United States.

What are you actually going to do when gasoline doubles in price, your electricity bill goes up 50 percent and your job gets shipped overseas?