Our friend Steve Milloy, the junk science debunker, punches in with a goodie today on his GreenHellBlog.com blog:
Al-Qaeda goes Al-Gore-a?
January 29, 2010From the Associated Press:
Al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden has called in a new audiotape for the world to boycott American goods and the U.S. dollar, blaming the United States and other industrialized countries for global warming.
In the tape, aired in part on Al-Jazeera television Friday, bin Laden warns of the dangers of climate change and says that the way to stop it is to bring “the wheels of the American economy” to a halt.
He says the world should “stop consuming American products” and “refrain from using the dollar,” according to a transcript on Al-Jazeera’s Web site.
The new message, whose authenticity could not immediately be confirmed, comes after a bin Laden tape released last week in which he endorsed a failed attempt to blow up an American airliner on Christmas Day.
The AP could not confirm the rumor that Al Qaeda will soon launch an Al-Gore-a division to lobby for cap-and-trade.
Also see Milloy’s “Look who’s for cap-and-trade…” (complete with pictures!). Your own list would include the usual cabal of progressives like the you’ve got to be kidding party’s Jack Layton, The Liberals’ Michael Ignatieff, and amongst you realists, possibly even the progressive Conservative Party’s leader Stephen Harper. But they all share something in common with…
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