Irony abounds. I wonder what Gore was thinking during all this?
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Pretty cool – superimposing his plug for his book with “What up with That?” I think Gore got dissed.
Wow! Somehow they packed just as much science into a short skit as Al has in his whole book!
Gore thinks? Come on!
?? What the H is up with that?? Was this a real skit or what exactly? My reaction is that this looked to be a total send up of Gore — how else to explain it? Someone, help me understand this or is my naive reaction exactly right?
Hehe. I just managed to sneak this one past Joes defences at climatepogrom.org
Wonder how long it’ll stay up. 🙂
http://climateprogress.org/2009/11/21/hacked-emails-ncar-kevin-trenberth/#comment-207571
stroller says:
November 22, 2009 at 2:38 pm
Blimey,
I wondered why it had been so windy lately. It’s Kevin Trenberths’s arms waving about like windmills and Joe exhaling high speed hot air.
Party’s over lads. Sorry.
That was (and I never do this caps/hypenating) H-I-L-A-R-I-O-U-S! Looks like a burn both ways, though. Portraying Wattsup as nothing more than an annoying interruption, if the skit has any more meaning than it lets on. Still, Gore had to be a little uncomfortable sitting through that one.
REPLY: I don’t know if the title was a reference to WUWT, or mere coincidence based on the social meme presented. Curious either way. What would be funny would be if Gore didn’t know ahead of time. Of course, he’s so insulated from reality he may not even know of WUWT, the blog. – Anthony
Here is an alternative:
Piers Corbyn delivers his opening remarks at the ‘Climate Change, the Solar Weather Technique and the Future of Forecasting’ Conference. Imperial College, London. 28th October 2009.
http://www.kane-tv.com/wa/piers1.html
http://www.kane-tv.com/wa/sammywilson.html
If Gore was trying to plug his book, which of course he was, how pathetic. The skit was pretty weak in my mind, and Al came off looking even weaker. It made him look like part of a joke, which is of course what he is.
I’m sure the WUWT title was surely coincidental. Would anyone really believe the writers at SNL have any knowledge of it?
REPLY: I don’t know if the title was a reference to WUWT, or mere coincidence based on the social meme presented. Curious either way. What would be funny would be if Gore didn’t know ahead of time. Of course, he’s so insulated from reality he may not even know of WUWT, the blog. – Anthony
Totally agree with every portion of that statement. I still found it extremely funny, regardless.
It would seem as though Al Gore found a great way to have made a great fool of himself.
As for the “Whats up with that” routine, as is said in show biz, any publicity is good publicity. I don’t see the hits on this web site declining.
for non Americans
With SNL the shots of Obama on recent episodes and now this “Watt’s up With That”, poke at Gore do we dare think that some with slightly more conservative attitudes has managed to wrangle a writers job at SNL?
Actually SNL over has done a good job of shifting alliances to mock the powers that be, so this might be a more than mere coincidence.
On a side note there must be someone out there in then internets who has ability to “fix” the unfortunate spelling mistake in the SNL skit and add a .com to the bottom of the title sequences?
I got it:
What Up With That?
Al Gore: You’re out of time, courtesty outed CRU.
The Rolling Stones said:
Baby, baby, baby you’re out of time.
I said baby, baby, baby you’re out of time.
You are all left out,
Out of there, without a doubt
cause baby, baby, baby you’re out of time.
It appears that the talented writers and comedians at SNL now understand what Tennesseans have known long before the 2000 election…that Al Gore is a fraud.
Yet another episode in poor Al’s quest for the ManBearPig.
The What Up With That skit has been on SNL at least once before (sorry link is US-only, so unless they decided to use it again as a poke, which I kind of doubt, it’s not anything directed at Anthony…
He has become “the Professor” from “The Blue Angel”.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Der_blaue_Engel
Jim N
It does not matter if Gore knew or not. That was the funnest thing I have seen in a while. Thanks for posting that. (I don’t watch TV)
Did anyone else notice that “His Hugeness The Goracle” has shrunk himself down to normal proportions? In a full frontal camera shot I could actually see his ears! That radiative bounce idea someone had of dressing Big Al up in a white suit and staking him to the North Pole will is no longer viable.
CH
I think Al’s face would have registered a bit more dismay if not for the Botox.
My face, however, was grinning ear to ear.
As with all Hollywood types, there is no such thing as bad press.
Also, Big Al is always ready to get his mug in front of a camera, provided there will be no questions asked or science discussed.
Watt’s Up with That is big everywhere. Lookie here, in Jones/Wigley correspondence.
http://www.anelegantchaos.org/cru/emails.php?eid=1017&filename=1254147614.txt
Is this not the most amusing leak? Talking about blip manipulations in context of Watt’s charges that they are doing something like that in the first instance?
It’s a “Watt’s Up With That?” breakthrough moment. As Al can tell you, SNL is viewed weekly by millions of viewers. Did I say millions? Make that with billions with a “B”! Actually Gazill-l-l-ions…
If Gore can’t handle facing Monckton, how about Big Al posting on Watts Up With That?
Maybe he already has!
I would have liked to hear the line:
“In the future, cooling will be warming.”
Otherwise it’s a perfect accompaniment to Al Gore’s prophecies – it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.