“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.”

In the spirit of Josef Goebbels, who made the comment used for this post’s title, Al Gore talked to students at Ohio State University for free. He made his usual comments, such as, “The planet has a fever.” But he didn’t have the usual slide show or any clips from “An Inconvenient Truth.” He just talked, and according to one student, there wasn’t much he hadn’t heard before:

“He’s not saying anything new. He’s just collecting everything and presenting it in a forceful manner. He just makes the point very convincingly,” said Christian Schnell, a graduate student from Germany who is studying math.

A polar bear ambassador made a plea for the poor bears, saying, “We lost 1 million square miles of ice last summer alone, and if you don’t have ice, you don’t have polar bears.”

Pardon me for interrupting your fear mongering and your appeals to pity, but I have some facts to interject from Watts Up With That:

In the late summer and early fall of 2007, there were a number of alarming media reports about the arctic sea ice melting. Additionally, there were predictions that it would not recover to its previous levels.

But, we have this graph charting the rise and fall of arctic sea ice for the last 365 days, notice that the arctic sea ice is right back where it started at in February 2007.

The ice melts every summer. Polar bears are not dying off, but growing in numbers. In areas suffering a decrease in bear population, research shows hunting is the cause, not global warming.

Polar bears are a prop used to appeal to people emotions.

Gore also said:

“I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but the price of oil is going up and coal is dirty. The climate crisis is, in my opinion, the single biggest challenge the human species has ever confronted.”

I don’t know if you noticed, but Al Gore is making money hand over fist, and has even incorporated a sales pitch into his presentation now. And let’s not forget his association with Maurice Strong.

The scary part about all this isn’t the idea of global warming killing everyone. It’s the fact that all three presidential candidates are disciples of the High Priest of the Church of Global Warming.