In 1999 Vive President Al Gore was "the White House contact" for James Koskinen, the man in charge of our nation's response top the impending Y2K DISASTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Er um, that was the mega-hyped disaster that never was... you know: all our computers were gonna fail cuz they were too dumb to figure out how to read "2000" - or /00 - and they would just SHUT DOWN!
Er um, that was the mega-hyped disaster that never was... you know: all our computers were gonna fail cuz they were too dumb to figure out how to read "2000" - or /00 - and they would just SHUT DOWN!
GORE 1998:
A fraud. A total trumped up phony baloney disaster that never happened.
And we're here today to discuss what we all need to do to ensure that technology continues to be a path to prosperity and not a source of new problems, especially on the day when the calendar turns on the year 2000.The nation spent like.... $300BILLION - and every cent of it was a WASTE.
I'm speaking, of course, about the so-called year 2000 problem which, as everybody knows -- well, unfortunately, not everybody does know it -- but as many people know, and certainly everyone in this auditorium knows, it could cause serious problems for commerce and communications all over the world if we're not serious about fixing it.
... But as a result the flawed programs were replicated by each successive generation. And over time they built up and today we have hundreds of millions of computers and devices and tens of billions of imbedded chips that will not accurately read -- many of which will not accurately read the year 2000. When you have that many of them, if only a small percentage of them don't accurately read the date, then the world has a problem. And unless the old lines of code are fixed, the problems, of course, will be serious.
...The year 2000 problem is a management challenge and a programming challenge. It must not be a political football. We need bipartisan cooperation to solve the year 2000 problem, not political rhetoric. More than anything else, the year 2000 problem has revealed how interconnected and interdependent we have become. As software has evolved, so has our society. We're all in this together and we must solve it together.
A fraud. A total trumped up phony baloney disaster that never happened.
THOUGH MANY MANY PEOPLE MADE A LOT OF MONEY FROM IT. Like the HUMONGOUS profit on that $300 BILLION.
SO... FAST-FORWARD...
It's 2005 and what have we here??? Al Gore running around the world scare-mongering up another PHONY BALONEY MEGA-DISASTER: MAN-MADE GLOBAL WARMING!!!!!!!
And of course, there's no shortage of folks who can help - FOR A FEE, and hence the whole dang new business called CARBON TRADING.
There's probably TRILLION$ to be made on this bulls*it.
Al Gore learned a big lesson from Y2K: scaremongering can be cool way to make a fast buck.
Al Gore learned a big lesson from Y2K: scaremongering can be cool way to make a fast buck.
Al Gore learned a big lesson from Y2K: scaremongering can be cool way to make a fast buck.
Al Gore learned a big lesson from Y2K: scaremongering can be cool way to make a fast buck.
Al Gore learned a big lesson from Y2K: scaremongering can be cool way to make a fast buck.
AL GORE: GLOBAL SNAKE-OIL SALESMAN.
*******UPDATE: THE CARBON "SCAMMING" MARKET IS BIG AN GETTING BIGGER:
IETA says 2007 carbon market could hit $70 billion
Reuters, 10 December 2007 - The market for trading in carbon emissions will probably be worth $60 to $70 billion this year, the head of an industry group said on Monday, upping an earlier estimate as the market drew new investors.
Andrei Marcu, President of the International Emissions Trading Association, said an official figure would be released next year but activity was likely to be above a $60 billion estimate made earlier this year.
"It is going to hit somewhere between 60 and 70 billion dollars, these are substantial numbers which I think shows the approach of the greenhouse gas market is a success," he told a news conference on the sidelines of U.N. talks about tackling climate change in Bali.
The vast majority of this comes from the European European Union's Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS), but the market for credits from the developing world is also expected to more than double, said Dirk Forrester from emissions and renewable energy asset management firm Natsource.
Under the Kyoto Protocol's Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), rich nation polluters can pay for clean-up schemes in poorer countries and earn credits to put towards their domestic quotas.
Last year alone around $5 billion worth of credits were traded, though developing countries and investors say the market needs to grow.
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