Gore 2.0, now with Pacific Hurricanes, coming to a book store near you. Gore plans to hawk it on David Letterman next Tuesday night. One more reason not to watch Dave anymore. One can always hope though. Maybe he’ll feature Gore as a “stupid human trick”.
Al doesn’t seem to learn when it comes to visuals. Or maybe he just thinks that he’s obligated to put a picture of a hurricane on the front cover to keep the theme of AIT going. Either way. Any imagined link between hurricanes and global warming has evaporated.
My prediction: sales will be a fraction of AIT, and it probably won’t make the NYT bestsellers list. People are tired of the yap, as indicated by recent polls.
Here’s what he has to say about it on his blog (note: he doesn’t take comments)
From the Press Release:
Today Vice President Gore announced that his next book, Our Choice, will be published by Rodale in the US and by other publishers internationally on November 3, 2009. Picking up where An Inconvenient Truth left off, Our Choice utilizes Mr. Gore’s forty years of experience as a student, policymaker, author, filmmaker, entrepreneur and activist to comprehensively describe the real solutions to global warming. A co-recipient of the Nobel Peace prize in 2007 for his environmental work, Mr. Gore continues to make sense of the pressing issues we face and Our Choice will unquestionably inspire and rally those ready to fight for solutions that were deemed impossible only a short time ago.
Said Vice President Gore, “An Inconvenient Truth reached millions of people with the message that the climate crisis is threatening the future of human civilization and that it must and can be solved. Now that the need for urgent action is even clearer with the alarming new findings of the last three years, it is time for a comprehensive global plan that actually solves the climate crisis. Our Choice will answer that call.”
Since the publication of the New York Times bestseller An Inconvenient Truth and the release of the Academy Award® winning film of the same title, Mr. Gore has led more than thirty “Solutions Summits” with top scientists, engineers and policy experts to examine every solution to the climate crisis in depth and detail. Our Choice draws on conclusions developed through those summits as well as on extensive independent research, describing how the bold choices necessary to save the earth’s climate should also be the foundations of policies worldwide to create new jobs and stimulate sustainable economic progress.
As they did with An Inconvenient Truth, former Vice President Gore and Mrs. Tipper Gore will donate 100% of the proceeds of the book to the Alliance for Climate Protection, a non-profit, non-partisan group dedicated to spreading awareness about the climate crisis and how to solve it.
Our Choice will feature 100% recycled paper, locally produced and sourced editions, low VOC inks, and will be carbon neutral.
“Rodale is honored to continue our relationship with Vice President Al Gore,” said Rodale Inc. President and CEO Steven Pleshette Murphy. “We were proud to publish An Inconvenient Truth and very much look forward to bringing Our Choice to the growing audience of committed citizens who are seeking solutions to the climate change crisis. In the spirit of our longtime mission, we are dedicated to creating the greatest possible platform for Vice President Gore’s work and message.”
Simon & Schuster Audio, who published the Grammy Award winning audio version of Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth, will publish the audio edition of the book on CD and digital download simultaneous with the hardcover publication.
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The Pacific was called the Pacific for a very good reason, and it wasn’t to do with, unlike Mr Gore, large volume of wind.
Speaking of Al Gore on David Letterman.
Lord Christopher Monkton will be on Glenn Beck tomorrow (10/30/09) for the ENTIRE hour
I highly recommend tuning in…
…..Today Vice President Gore announced that his next book,
I didn’t know that he is still Vice President of US …..
Once one, always one, in terms of address. Same for prez. That’s how we do it here.
With the exception of the early 90’s (Pinatubo perhaps) , the peaks and troughs in those graphs actually correspond quite well, perhaps some other factor is driving the annual variation in both?
The curve for this year is abhorrent of that for 2007 ?
http://www.ijis.iarc.uaf.edu/en/home/seaice_extent.htm
My quick first reaction to the cover:
1. The hurricane was (a) Photoshopped in and (b) doesn’t appear accurately scaled (super-sized), (c) is overly white and (c) doesn’t follow the curvature of the Earth.
2. The bulk of North America has been turned into an inhospitable desert.
3. The ice-free Arctic that until now has only existed in Mr. Gore’s imagination is actually pictured here.
4. Sea level has risen enough to thin the piece of Mexico between the Bay of Campeche and the Gulf of Tehuantepec.
From these observations, we can glean that the plan to solve the climate crisis involves frightening the credulous with Photoshop.
Maybe he’ll feature Gore as a “stupid human trick”.
Or maybe he’ll bring back the classic, “Things dropped off of a 5-story building.”
For the book, of course. 🙂
Like I said, quick, that would be (d)
The antidote to this silliness can be found at:
http://2009.weblogawards.org/
Nominations Nov. 2, 2009 – Nov. 20, 2009
Finalists Announced December 28, 2009
Voting January 4, 2010 – January 11, 2009
Let’s make it WUWT for a second year — send Gore a message!
Where to begin…from the press release:
“Our Choice draws on conclusions developed through those summits as well as on extensive independent research, describing how the bold choices necessary TO SAVE THE EARTH’S CLIMATE should also be the foundations of policies worldwide to create new jobs and stimulate sustainable economic progress.”
So….let me get this straight: An opportunistic species that used to hang from trees…all in the past 100,000 years….is going to “save” the Earth’s climate….a system which dwarfs our species….in size and scope by many, many, MANY orders of magnitude…and has been around for the past 4,600,000,000 years??
When you have international figureheads like the bloated Al Gore, and his dead-pan, dim personality, it….
…makes one realize that the condition of “devolution” is real.
Chris
Norfolk, VA, USA
Hey Mr Letterman … I have a Top Ten List for ya:
http://www.usnews.com/blogs/washington-whispers/2009/10/09/stewards-10-myths-about-global-warming-and-co2-damage.html
I am starting to wonder if there might be a Inverse Gore Butterfly Effect… do you suppose that every time Gore speaks some aspect of the AGW science keels over and dies?
“As they did with An Inconvenient Truth, former Vice President Gore and Mrs. Tipper Gore will donate 100% of the proceeds of the book to the Alliance for Climate Protection, a non-profit, non-partisan group dedicated to spreading awareness about the climate crisis and how to solve it.”
Oh wow….how philanthropic of you….
When you are worth $100 million or more….you can afford to do such things!
Chris
Norfolk, VA, USA
Our Choice will feature 100% recycled paper, locally produced and sourced editions, low VOC inks, and will be carbon neutral.”
Your book might be….but your private jet…ain’t.
I am sure your homes aren’t either.
HYPOCRITE!
Chris
Norfolk, VA, USA
“Gore plans to hawk it on David Letterman next Tuesday night. One more reason not to watch Dave anymore.”
I sometimes wonder if actors, Letterman and others, care whether they
drive people away and cost “grips” ect. their jobs?
After reading that press release, I think I am going to be sick!
Well, it does not happen very often that a book is refuted before it’s official release date. Well done.
Gore is donating the proceeds to the Alliance for Climate Protection, the NGO he started. Donating to himself; how generous…..
Harold Ambler (20:24:33) :
1. The hurricane was (a) Photoshopped in and (b) doesn’t appear accurately scaled (super-sized), (c) is overly white and (c) doesn’t follow the curvature of the Earth.
Agree, that’s a poor job whoever did it. You’d think Gore would have access to some of the best graphics designers available.
Epic fail.
22,222,342 hits at 13:26 JST Friday 30 October.
Uh—-m…….. I missed 22,222,222 while taking lunch, but Almost!
The 70-80 thousand increment a day is reeeaaaallllly amazing.
After reading this posting, I was motivated to go on over to Bob Webster’s site at http://www.webcommentary.com/ and sign Christopher Moncton’s Instrument of Repudiation (also see Bob’s story at ICECAP).
OT: Bolton and Lord Moncton 1 hour interview Fox News this Friday:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2374169/posts
Carbon neutral? Considering that the bottom has dropped out of the carbon credit market, it probably only costs about $0.0001 per book for that . . .
Today I received my monthly Costco Mag with Al Gore on the front cover (an old before weight gain photo) which went into the trash. I sent Costco an email requesting that the next mag have an alternate view to Al Gore’s on the issue of global warming and that I was suspending my shopping at Costco until they present a balanced view of this issue. This stand will cost me $ for some home an office products, but I am tired of everyone getting on the CO2 bandwagon to make themselves look “green”. There are real issues with air, water and solid waste polution that companies can help solve, but CO2 is not the right issue. I have to look at this CO2 crap from the electric company each month with their bill, but I have a choice with my home and office $.
Algorius Blowhardius