Not sure exactly where he said that, as that headline isn’t in the news article as a quote, but if he did say that to the reporter, apparently Mr. Gore hasn’t seen this recent study from the University of California yet: Doomsday messages about global warming can backfire, new study shows
And apparently all the evidence Mr. Gore needs these days comes from the “weather is not climate, unless we say it is” line of reasoning.
From the Hindustan Times:
Nobel Peace Prize winner and champion climate campaigner Al Gore outlined the doom the world is awaiting because of climate change and expressed disappointment at world leaders failing to clinch a treaty to fight the new global terror. Terming the logjam in climate negotiations as a “startling paradox”, the man, whose documentary, The Inconvenient Truth won an Oscar said the year 2010 had seen worst of climate change.
“There was severe drought in Russia and extreme flooding in Pakistan. What more evidence is required for action,” he said at HT Leadership Summit.
His worst fear was that after failure of Copenhagen climate summit the talks where heading towards another “zombie” like the Doha process on World Trade Organisation negotiations. Gore’s solution for the problem was taking the issue back to the grassroots and creating a political storm to compel the leaders to react to climate change.
The former president blamed his own country United States – world second biggest carbon emitter — for failing to legislate a carbon law to curb emissions, resulting in failure of Copenhagen.
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Al Gore had a lot of hope for India to take a lead in fighting climate change.
“India has a tremendous opportunity to lead the world in energy efficient solutions and in effecting a rapid shift to use of alternate energy like wind and solar,” Gore said.
Full story at the Hindustan Times
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“The former president blamed his own country ….”
The former vice president ….
presumably it was at the same shindig that ex-UK PM Gordon Brown gave his first paid speech since leaving office:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1331632/Brown-earns-60K-50-minute-speech–economic-crisis.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
Brown is famous for correctly predicting the “end to Boom and Bust” (it ended on Bust) and calling anyone who doesn’t agree with lunatic civilisation-destroying AGW remedies “deniers and flat-Earthers”.
Former president?
The Inconvenient Truth ??
Doesn’t look like a reliable journalistic source….
This is unbelievable. Even after everything that has come to light publicly over the past year. It is truly astounding the level of delusion.
“Al Gore had a lot of hope for India to take a lead in fighting climate change”.
I guess Al has not heard that Indía is building 14 4000 MW coal power plants to supply electricity to all Indians by 2012.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra_Mega_Power_Plants_(India)
“Former president”????? (in the article too)….
I think the writer may have been a willing masseuse…..
And as I watched him on the stage, my hands were clenched in fists of rage.
No angel born in hell, could break that Satan’s spell.
Excuse me from this discussion… I have to go to the bathroom….the only fitting forum for such blither.
I will ne back in a few.
Chris
Norfolk, V…
AGW is the new global terror and Al Gore is the new Al Qaeda. Sounds good except that I doubt that Osama bin Laden will like it because Osama bin Laden considers himself to be the boss of the global climate hysteria, too.
Now that Gore cashed out, the fervor seems gone. Global terror? How many .6C degree heat beams killed 2,800 people in the last decade?
This ambling piece of fat is going back to the farm. He is being paid to strike up the drums again as if there is a chance the idiotic BS of the last decadal warmth can be attributed to AGW.
Can mankind get serious now and start saving forests, birds, fish, mammals, etc?
Is this too much to ask for?
Rather than watch these feeble minded politicians pretend they care about anything other than themselves and their hedonistic, parasitic life style?
[Al Gore] “said the year 2010 had seen worst of climate change.” Well, if that is true, then we don’t have much to worry about.
Then there is this incredible statement:
““There was severe drought in Russia and extreme flooding in Pakistan. What more evidence is required for action,” he said at HT Leadership Summit.”
Depends, of course, on whether you want the scientific truth or whether you are simply looking for “evidence” to support a political advocacy agenda . . .
Al blasts others for their incredulity, their failure to believe; but in so doing he has demonstrated his own credulity in his ability to believe just about anything.
Apparently Al Gore hasn’t yet read the study from UC Berkeley that finds “emotionally charged warnings about the consequences of global warming can backfire if presented too negatively…”
…this clown hasn’t changed since his dreary tome “Earth In the Balance.” After reading the first chapter, I gladly gave it away.
Looking forward to a fun-filled COP 16 in Cancun, here’s the meeting schedule:
http://unfccc.int/files/meetings/cop_16/application/pdf/overview_sched_cop16_cmp6.pdf
Wow! Al Gore is “the former president”? How scary is that?!!!
The more Gore speaks, the better. Skeptics have no better ambassador than this sad deluded loser.
The Hindustan Times had Al Gore described as a past U.S. President instead of a past U.S. Vice President, which made me immediately think I had unknowingly crossed over to a parallel world such as the one represented in the series Fringe. Of course then it made perfect sense as to why that world was having so much trouble.
The danger here is that Gore’s message is a self-fulfilling prophesy. It is only a matter of time before the dispossessed and disaffected of the world, constantly told that their misfortunes are caused by the West’s “Global Warming” and its refusal to pay the “Climate Debt”, will start to take matters into their own hands.
The “new Global Terror” indeed.
Al Gore is an egregious idiot as we all know. But he is a very dangerous idiot.
Contrary to Americans, Indians have had hundreds of terrorist attacks on their home soil. They therefore can distinguish very well between a real threat and a bogus one.
Al Gore’s message will fall on deaf ears.
India has a lot of wind and solar power and knows their disadvantages: high costs and variable power supply: no solution for base load.
Did he meet up with his igNobel buddy Patchy? Maybe he will comment on the Indian mountains losing their ice fields and lose all credibility …. oh wait, never mind.
“There was severe drought in Russia and extreme flooding in Pakistan. What more evidence is required for action,”
Well, evidence specifically connecting those droughts with the man made portion of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere would be a start…
If Al Gore wasn’t so stupid, he would be dangerous.
Climate change [alarmism] is the new global terror, says Al Gore,
and he truly should be investigated by homeland security.
CRS, Dr.P.H. says:
November 20, 2010 at 11:18 pm
That agenda is a complete load of Bo££ocks. Anybody know how much the jamboree is costing us taxpayers of the world?
Nobel Peace Prize winner and champion climate campaigner Al Gore outlined the doom
perhaps it should read
Nobel Peace Prize winner and champion climate champagner Al Gore outlined the doom