Credit: Robert Vamosi / CNET Networks
First you have to wonder what global warming has to do with a computer security conference (RSA) in the first place, but then the real surprise comes when you find that Al Gore did not allow any members of the press to attend.
One blogger, Tim Wilson, with press credentials writes:
Gore, who reportedly receives $100,000 for personal appearances, apparently has a standard contract that bans the fourth estate from all of his speeches. No one seems to know why, and we can’t ask — on account of we’re out here, and he’s in there.
This lack of free press access peeved more than a few reporters:
CNET: http://www.news.com/8301-10789_3-9917347-57.html
Wired: http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/03/al-gore-says-no.html
Information Week:
http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2008/04/al_gores_top_se.html
Silicon Alley Insider:
http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/4/why_does_al_gore_hate_the_press_
Computerworld:
http://blogs.computerworld.com/why_is_al_gore_dis_inviting_press_and_analysts_at_rsa
and many more…
But I suppose when the “debate is over” why do you need the press around? Gore’s standard speaking contract was published by The Smoking Gun, and it is apparently not just this RSA conference, but ALL such contracted appearances Gore bans the press from.
Gore’s Contract:
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2007/0717071gore1.html
Reporters and those pesky questions they ask, how inconvenient.
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He must be talking about how much money there is to be made in the Global Warming “businesses”.
Why else wouldn’t he want the press there?
It’s doubtful that any reporters would be allowed to ask hard questions, like “Why is it so cold?”
He can’t let the press in because everything he says gets debunked.
Did you ever wonder why the Founding Fathers thought a free press was important?
Have you ever wondered what the pamphleteers would use if they were alive today?
Well, I don’t suppose there is any “controlling legal authority.”
“First you have to wonder what global warming has to do with a computer security conference (RSA) in the first place”
Maybe it is similar to the CISCO Systems crap last month
http://computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=hardware&articleId=9069758&taxonomyId=12&intsrc=kc_top
I think the reason he bans the press is that he probably gives exactly the same speech verbatim in every location. If the press were there, quotes would be published, people would read it, and he would be forced to produce new material for each engagement. As it is now, he can give the same “talk” over and over and over again. He just doesn’t want any of the content getting out is what I think.
Yes but RSA is all about secret codes – possibly for talking with aliens when not wearing the tin foil hat???
At an Al Gore speech, everyone must join the tin-foil hat free-masrony. Of course, no uninitiated allowed.
Larry Sheldon said: “Have you ever wondered what the pamphleteers would use if they were alive today?”
The Internet?
Thank God we have it or we would all be buying carbon credits from Goofy Gore by this time!
Jack Koenig, Editor
The Mysterious Climate project
http://www.climateclinic.com
Bill Adams said: “It’s doubtful that any reporters would be allowed to ask hard questions, like “Why is it so cold?”
I doubt if the Lamestream Media has the intelligence to ask such a thought provoking questions (snicker snicker)
Jack Koenig, Editor
The Mysterious Climate project
http://www.climateclinic.com
Near the beginning of his recent video, he mentions having given the full speech 2000 times in two years. Apart from that being about three per day, that also suggests that the IRS should look at his tax return. 2000 times $100,000 is, by my reckoning, two hundred million. Almost enough for his ad campaign
Bill Adams said: “It’s doubtful that any reporters would be allowed to ask hard questions, like “Why is it so cold?”
Hey Bill, aren’t you giving the reporters too much credit? I mean, there is an intelligence gap in that genre, isn’t there?
Jack Koenig, Editor
The Mysterious Climate project
http://www.climateclinic.com
Here’s the answer to why the press isn’t allowed in:
When they are around, embarrassing stories get out.
Looks like my cite disappeared, maybe I did it wrong:
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2008/04/11/gore-admits-financial-reasons-advancing-global-warming-hysteria
Al “an inconvenient Moron” Gore was a BIG proponent of the Clipper Chip during the early Clinton Administration. Maybe he is promoting a similar boondoggle??
McGrats, no don’t thank God for the Internet. Thank Al.
Only speculating…
Could Gore be preparing some sort on internet action/intervention?
You can be sure he’ll have some sort of prominent position in a future Obama Admin.
Gore believes that the earth is in a state of emergency…which would justify the application of different set of laws.
Scary is that Gore’s so-called emergency would be open-ended, with no time limit.
The answer is simple. He doesn’t want to answer questions about people starving to death.
http://noblesseoblige.org/wordpress/?p=2168
When you refuse to debate, it can’t be anything but over, I guess. This is what passes for “Courage.”
Aviator,
I don’t think most people have a problem with investments in alternative/renewable energy — I don’t. In fact, one of the gurus at MarketWatch recently wrote an extensive piece about how alternative energy will be the next big “bubble” market, peaking around 2013 or 2014. So today is probably not a bad time to get in. Of course, it’s a crap shoot as to which companies will make a go of it and which ones will die on the vine, but there is probably a lot of money to be made in the next few years if you have a decent crystal ball. Where I have a BIG problem with Gore and his ilk is in the selling/trading in carbon indulgences (credits). That, IMHO, is one of the biggest scams in recent memory.
[…] What’s Al Gore got to say about this? Not much. […]
Aviator, like this one?
I just watched Mr. Gore’ latest bit of propaganda (warning to fellow skeptics, don’t watch this if you have a weak stomach!):
http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/243
It’s hard to know where to start in terms of the range of drivel put forth by Mr. Gore but there is one absolutely indisputable item that caught my attention that shows Al is either exceptionally stupid or a bald faced liar:
In the early part of his show, Al drones on about the record low area of the Northern “icecap” last year (funny he never mentioned the record high level of the Antarctic icecap!). Anyway at about the 7 minute mark he goes on to say “Already, along the Arctic Circle” and proceeds to show 2 pictures of buildings collapsing and falling off of cliffs. The first was from Alaska but, get this, the second was from Daniel’s Harbour Newfoundland! Now if you check your geography, you’ll find that the latitude for Daniel’s Harbour is lower than that for London, England! Now I’ve heard London described in many ways but never as being along the Arctic Circle! If you do the math you will find that Daniel’s Harbour is some 1800 kilometres from the Arctic Circle. It appears that Al Gore’s geoextrapolation skills are even more advanced than James Hansen’s!
Now as to the real cause of houses falling off cliffs in Daniel’s Harbour:
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/newfoundland-labrador/story/2007/04/16/second-landslide.html
Gore is addressing a room full of computer security pros. He will be videoed, sound taped, and otherwise recorded out the gazoo–and he will not even know it!
How stupid to keep the media out when the real masters of covert recording will be sitting down right in front of him.
Could Al Gore be sued for creating a “climate of fear” once the treehuggers realise how they were duped. Imagine him loosing every penny paid to him for his speeches. What a cheering thought to see him castigated for all time as one of the most pig ignorant jessies to have be whelped.
To see his fat sanctimonious face stricken with fear, as the bodyguards move aside to allow the mob to rend him limb from limb. OOOOOOH! It’s better than nookie! As for keynote speech, he’s just Johnny one flat note. There ought to be a law against him.
He’s at RSA because a majority of high tech execs are either hippies, loons, or, outright revolutionaries. Now as for the question as to why IT security is entrusted to such execs, that is for another discussion on another day. Scary, huh?
Al Gore is concerned someone with a little bit of real knowledge on the climate will ask a difficult question or point out “an inconvenient truth”.
It does not take too much research to find out that the science is far from settled and it is only a matter of time before Gore is found out.
For my own part I have contacted the likes of the BBC, The Independent and ITN News and pointed out the 10 year temp decline, climate model problems due to info gathered from the Aqua satellite and all sorts of other a anomolies that dispute the AGW theory.
Their answer?…nothing!
Outside of their comfort zone of attacking people being in the pay of oil companies they simply cannot deal with simple observations that compromise their views and theories.
Gore is the same.