Al Gore and David Suzuki benefit from your loss

According to Al Gore, unless the mainstream media agrees with his rantings, it's biased, though he stops short of calling for state censorship - for now:

"I believe that is one of the principal reasons why political leaders around the world have not yet taken action," Gore said. "There are many reasons, but one of the principal reasons in my view is more than half of the mainstream media have rejected the scientific consensus implicitly — and I say 'rejected,' perhaps it's the wrong word. They have failed to report that it is the consensus and instead have chosen … balance as bias.

"I don't think that any of the editors or reporters responsible for one of these stories saying, 'It may be real, it may not be real,' is unethical. But I think they made the wrong choice, and I think the consequences are severe.

"I think if it is important to look at the pressures that made it more likely than not that mainstream journalists in the United States would convey a wholly inaccurate conclusion about the most important moral, ethical, spiritual and political issue humankind has ever faced."

I don't know which papers Al Gore is reading, but every single day I am subjected to North American news stories warning us about melting icecaps and greenhouse gases, though scientists are far from reaching a rational consensus on the influence of the sun. The hysteria has reached such heights that it is now a moral imperative to purchase carbon credits to help Al Gore maintain his lavish lifestyle. The mainstream media is not to be blamed for government's failure to "move forward", but is instead complicit in the step backwards to the stone age of Communism. Facts be damned:

Gore is chairman of the firm and, presumably, draws an income or will make money as its investments prosper. In other words, he "buys" his "carbon offsets" from himself, through a transaction designed to boost his own investments and return a profit to himself. To be blunt, Gore doesn't buy "carbon offsets" through Generation Investment Management - he buys stocks.

And it is not clear at all that Gore's stock purchases - excuse me, "carbon offsets" purchases - actually help reduce the use of carbon-based energy at all, while the gas lanterns and other carbon-based energy burners at his house continue to burn carbon-based fuels and pump carbon emissions - a/k/a/ "greenhouse gases" - into the atmosphere.

When all else fails, enlist the malleable brains of the future through fear (HT: SDA for the Youtube clip)

I, Lisa, multicultural resident of London and Mitchieville, remind you to purchase carbon offsets from Fenris because he cares more than Al Gore.