Al Gore apparently has no command of the most basic details of anything related to Earth and climate. His last idiotic gaff in the media was that the temperature of the Earth 2 kilometers or so down was millions of degrees! Apparently, Slate editors who look equally like dufuses for printing this dreck didn’t notice his latest one either. Maybe all those trips around the world in the private jet have damaged his ability to tell the time and date? Too many trip across the International Dateline perhaps?
Here’s an interview question put to him from Slate:
Q: How damaging to your argument was the disclosure of e-mails from the Climate Research Unit at East Anglia University?
A: To paraphrase Shakespeare, it’s sound and fury signifying nothing. I haven’t read all the e-mails, but the most recent one is more than 10 years old. These private exchanges between these scientists do not in any way cause any question about the scientific consensus. But the noise machine built by the climate deniers often seizes on what they can blow out of proportion, so they’ve thought this is a bigger deal than it is.
But wait there’s more…
Q: There is a sense in these e-mails, though, that data was hidden and hoarded, which is the opposite of the case you make [in your book] about having an open and fair debate.
A: I think it’s been taken wildly out of context. The discussion you’re referring to was about two papers that two of these scientists felt shouldn’t be accepted as part of the IPCC report. Both of them, in fact, were included, referenced, and discussed. So an e-mail exchange more than 10 years ago including somebody’s opinion that a particular study isn’t any good is one thing, but the fact that the study ended up being included and discussed anyway is a more powerful comment on what the result of the scientific process really is.
These people are examining what they can or should do to deal with the P.R. dimensions of this, but where the scientific consensus is concerned, it’s completely unchanged. What we’re seeing is a set of changes worldwide that just make this discussion over 10-year-old e-mails kind of silly.
Earth to Al, Earth to Al, come in Al.
Despite the fact that some of the 10 year old emails discussed important issues like the 2001 IPCC report and what made it into it…the most recent emails in Climategate were from November 2009. Last month, this year, earth time.
For example, here’s one from November 12th from Phil Jones:
And there are dozens to hundreds more within the last month, the last year, and the last 10 years.
Search for yourself here: http://eastangliaemails.com
Jeeez!! Gore. What a vacuous nimrod, and people pay to listen to him.
h/t to WUWT reader “debreuil”
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Has anyone asked him how he feels about Professor Jaap
Sinninghe Damste findings that “the melting and freezing of moisture on top of Kilimanjaro appears to
be part of “a natural process of dry and wet periods.” The present
melting is not the result of “environmental damage caused by man.”
I would love to guage his reaction.
He also doesn’t know the difference between “paraphrase” and “quote”.
It’s shocking to see what a pathological liar Al Gore is.
At a certain point ignorance and malice will intersect.
email is kind of tricky. What would you expect from the father of the internet?
He needs to fire the secretary that reads the news for him.
Problem is, when the hell are we going to get to that point? I see on the BBC this morning a news clippet about the UN sending a letter of support to UEA FFS!
These guys are all so corrupt it’s not funny.
Mailman
Well, his global warming data is ten years old and ten years ago he was running for president and life was good; maybe he’s in denial about the 2000 election?
Al Gore – the man that time forgot…or vice versa.
http://www.copenhagenclimatechallenge.org/
Unsettled science?
What Al really said, unedited:
“I haven’t read all the e-mails, but [I read one or two of them. And] the most recent one [I read] is more than 10 years old.”
I don’t think he got any farther than the “hide the decline” email.
Aren’t you glad this guy was never president?
Come on guys, man bear pig is real, he`s super cereal here 🙂
President Gore (well, almost, it was stolen by hanging chads and butterfly ballots) will be remembered as the prophet of our new austerity.
All of you who maintain the temerity to undermine the Prophet Gore’s proclamations take heed: Nowhere is a safe-haven, and all of your e-mails are easily retrieved for future reference. As we have indeed seen recently, courtesy of hackers paid by the Russian secret service.
Denialism requires re-education. Work will make you free!
These appalling attacks upon Prophet Gore must cease, forthwith.
Oh wait, I’ve just done a little math. He says the last email is 10 years old, but it is from Nov. 12. That is about 25 and a bit days ago. So he is out by a factor of:
(365 * 10) / 25 = 146
Later he says the northern ice cap has been the same size for 3 million years. Well it happens many of us were under a couple of miles of northern ice cap ice about 20,000 years ago. So there he is out by a factor of
3,000,000 / 20,000 = 150
So it seems that Al Gore isn’t lying or even wrong, he’s just quite slow. In fact his internal clock must be running about 150 times slower than normal.
Hmm, that may explain why his many predictions are so far off as well.
Gore typifies the rich kid who never broke a sweat in class and always had his daddy cover his axx. His ignorance is now his greatest embarrassment.
WHAT!!! 10 years ago Al Gore had barely invented the internet!!
Al Gore —
failed divinity student
failed politician
failed science promoter
To commemerate his failures I’ve bought a brand-new shovel [I got a cheapy last year and it didn’t bear up well – this new model is more robust] and named it “Al Gore”. I expect this newest version will bear up well here in Buffalo, shoveling all this global warming of his.
Looks like he is being abandoned. And he has to catch up all by himself. Nothing can match this distributed group that WUWT is!
And he was vice president 12 years ago???
It makes me wonder!
Ecotretas
If you a complaint against the BBC take a look here…
http://www.tpuc.org/stoppayingtvlicencefees
Daryl M (22:59:52) :
“It’s shocking to see what a pathological liar Al Gore is.”
Really?!
This is the guy who invented the internet remember
A Christmas theme song. What Al Gore will give us for Christmas.
Once again, you guys are making a mountain out of a molehill.
“10 years ago” was the value added adjusted date of the emails. Apparently the mail server was using tree ring data to time stamp the emails. This is all a result of the divergence problem, which has already been well publicized in the past. Nice try though.
With apologies to the all-seeing, all-knowing, internet inventin’ Goracle.. but whenever I see his name, an image of a Bull runs through my mind.
Al fails again, like, divinity, law and science. But keeps his title as the century’s biggest con-man, loved by the media, school teachers and kindergarten students for trying to save those drowning polar bears.
This is the classic problem of a person surrounded by flappers and sycophants who has no personal touch with reality. Like when Bush Senior first saw a price scanner and it was in the news that he was a bit clueless about everyday life. When someone else buys all your food for you, you lose touch with ‘food store reality” and when someone else buys your thoughts for you …
So yeah, Mr. Talking Head had a flapper load the daily talking points memo from the PR team (who likely didn’t read anything themselves either, having gotten a warped version from their executive assistants who got it from their aids…) and it got a bit garbled in the upload…
But hey, at least he doesn’t have to depend on a teleprompter… or maybe he is reaching That Age where he does need one…
It doesn’t really matter anyway, tomorrow is another day and a new talking points briefing and another paid luncheon and it’s all about seeing and being seen and only underlings and gophers deal with real facts anyway and he’ll be in a nice suit and talking to the next media Talking Head exchanging the days bee-bread for Royal Jelly…
I could never live like that.
When you’re a poet who can keep track of time?
Actual Al Gore poems:
.
One thin September soon
A floating continent disappears
In midnight sun
Vapors rise as
Fever settles on an acid sea
.
Snow glides from the mountain
Ice fathers floods for a season
A hard rain comes quickly
Then dirt is parched
Kindling is placed in the forest
For the lightning’s celebration
.
The shepherd cries
The hour of choosing has arrived
Here are your tools
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http://www.vanityfair.com/online/politics/2009/12/al-gore-the-poet-laureate-of-climate-change.html
“The result is a surprisingly accomplished, nuanced piece of writing. The images Gore conjures in his (untitled) poem turn a neat trick: they are visually specific and emotionally arresting even as they are scientifically accurate.”
Nah, it’s just gumpy.
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(Al Gore is my shepherd….)