Post by Ryan Maue
You knew it was only a matter of time after the Rolling Stone criticism of Obama on climate, but Al Gore is back and in a big way. Some are calling it an Inconvenient Truth 2.0 with a brand new slide show connecting extreme weather with global warming. The new “Climate Reality Project” moniker replaces Gore’s previous Alliance for Climate Protection racket. UK Guardian eco-journalist Suzanne Goldenberg gives away the store with this line: “The campaign represents a modest comeback for Gore who has reduced his public profile on climate action in the past few years – probably out of consideration for the political consequences to his fellow Democrat Barack Obama.”
So Al Gore’s decision to lower his profile was to avoid forcing Obama to make politically unpopular decisions? I think there are additional reasons related to his personal life.
Thankfully, Al Gore is back and is planning “24-hours of Reality“on September 14 to connect the dots between extreme weather and global warming. So, unless he is planning on presenting a lecture on the coupled atmosphere-ocean dynamics of the El Nino Southern Oscillation (e.g. La Nina and El Nino), the presentation may not take more than a few minutes. Anecdotal evidence, commissioned puff pieces in SciAm, and hand-wavy slogans about “loading the dice” are not going to cut it anymore.
Gore has put out a new video trailer: it’s clear he has worked on his lecture delivery to sound even more professorial, elitist, and condescending. Experts such as NASA scientist Dr. James Hansen and NCAR’s Dr. Kevin Trenberth are prominently mentioned in several interviews given by Al Gore.
Another aspect of the Gore resurrection is the lockstep adherence to his brand of climate change orthodoxy by his sychophants in the liberal media. Here are some links for a flavor:
Joe Romm: Exclusive: Al Gore On His ‘Climate Realilty Project’ Launch: “It’s Urgent To Rendezvous With Reality To Save The Future Of Civilization As We Know It.”
Suzanne Goldenberg: UK Guardian: Al Gore returns with new climate campaign. Climate Reality Project aims to expose reality of global warming crisis and kicks off with a 24-hour live streamed event
Chris Mooney: some blog: Al Gore Launches the “Climate Reality Project” — which deserves some quotes since he is right on the money:
In my view, Gore has been pretty much right about the science of climate all along. But sad to say, everything I’ve learned about this issue convinces me that there is little he can say or do to get conservative climate “skeptics” to accept that.
Yes, they need to renounce their counter-reality and come back to this one. But paradoxically, having Al Gore tell them that may just drive them farther away. Let’s hope he can appeal to the middle, anyway…
Grist: “All of the group’s efforts will be devoted to spreading the truth about the climate crisis and the solutions to it, making use of the thousands of slideshow presenters that Gore has trained over the last few years. It sounds like the group’s political lobbying will more or less fall by the wayside.”
I hear the cries, “Oh No, not again!”
September 14th. Weird choice. It’s smack dab in the middle of the week. Not on a weekend or anything. I’m thinking that since that’s about the peak of hurricane season, he’s hoping to have a nice little cat 5 coming at us that he can point to as “proof” of global warming. Or climate change. Or climate disruption. Or whatever we’re calling it these days.
You mean, “Lipstick on Man-Bear-Pig”
[ryanm: wuwt readers are damn quick 😉 ]
“Al Gore is back and is planning “24-hours of Reality“”
Well, that would be a start. Not sure if he could handle it for 24 whole hours.
Maybe he’ll kiss a polar bear with the same authenticity that he kissed Tipper on stage with back in 2000. Or start crying like Jimmy Swaggart?
I wouldn’t p**s in Al Gore’s mouth if his teeth were on fire…
The skeptics aren’t just conservative – they are classical liberal, libertarian or moderate. But they know bullshit when they smell it.
Unfortunately it is Gore’s activities, as well as those of Romm and Mooney, Mann, Hansen and Trenberth, that are re-energizing not just the Republican Party, but the extreme wing-nut end of the Republican Party.
You don’t have to be a “conservative skeptic” to be extremely wary of a politician, any politician, who attempts to define and control “Reality”
He is doubling down. Unfortunately time and odds are against him, so it just looks like a desperation attempt. It is, but do not expect to see truth or reality from him or any of his sycophants.
Wasn’t it Dr. James Hansen who advised Gore on an Inconvenient Truth which was later found to have over 8 factual inaccuracies?
If it cools then how the hell are they going to “connect the dots”? They’ll just make a laughing stock of themselves.
Al you pansy – why are you stopping at 24 hours of your brand of reality? Why not show your true devotion to the Cause and extend the webcast to a full week?
Truthfully, I really just want to see Al praying for the quiet comfort of the grave after ~100 hours of sleep deprivation…
The Gospel,according to Al, Gore, and Bull
So some skeptics have been calling themselves “climate realists.” Gore’s re-branded venture is the “Climate Reality Project,” so the followers can call themselves “Climate Realists.”
How much longer until the (C)AGW faithful insist they are the real “Climate Skeptics”?
Hey, we’re the ones critically evaluating the science and making sure it all agrees with itself and belongs in the overwhelming consensus, thus WE are the ones who are Scientifically Skeptical, not them!
You can put lipstick on a (man-bear-)pig, but it’s still a crazed sex-poodle.
September 15 is also within a day or two of the Arctic Ice minimum, which appears to be tracking to a low similar to 2007.
Don’t forget to open the windows the night before, Al
re: “All of the group’s efforts will be devoted to spreading the truth about the climate crisis and the solutions to it,…”
Why don’t they start with the truth about the data before manipulations. And the truth about historical data.
A good starting point would for AL to admit he lied about CO2 leading temperature in his ice cores. He could also admit his hockey stick was completely wrong and probably intentional fraud.
He could end his introduction by owning up to the lies caught by the British court.
On this foundation of truth, he could then talk about Phil Jones’ BBC interview where he said
the rates of global warming from 1860-1880, 1910-1940 and 1975-1998 for all 4 periods are similar and not statistically significantly different from each other. He can add that Jones also said “that from 1995 to the present there has been no statistically-significant global warming” and he said they believe man is the cause of warming because of “The fact that we can’t explain the warming from the 1950s by solar and volcanic forcing” (http://www.sustainableoregon.com/jonesinterview.html)
Then Al can start his rant with the recent cooling.
That is if he really wanted to talk about the truth.
Thanks
JK
PHOTOGRAPH OF COCAINE SMUGGLER JORGE CABRERA WITH AL GORE.
http://whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/smug_algore.jpg
This is one of the two photographs that the Justice Department
was confiscating after it was learned that Jorge, who had donated $20,000 to the Clintons, was a major cocaine smuggler. The woman to the right,unidentified, appears to be the same woman seen in the photo with Hillary below.
http://whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/smug_hill.jpg
Despite all of this, Gore won’t debate the skeptic position. If – somehow – before then the MSM could be convinced to appeal to him to publicly debate some top scientific skeptics, he might do a McCarthy and talk himself – and the hysteria – into the ground.
How can he either be put in a debate or on the MSM refuse to debate?
“…Gore who has reduced his public profile on climate action in the past few years – probably out of consideration for the political consequences to his fellow Democrat Barack Obama.”
More probably because he wanted his waterfront condo deal in San Francisco to fade from the public’s mind.
I think Gore has made all the money he will off global warming. Now I think it’s about avoiding an investigation that would expose the whole thing as a fraud and make him look like Bernie Madoff and put him behind bars for life.
Poor Al . . . ever more desperate to keep the gig going.
Well have Al. Just because you failed out of Divinity School doesn’t mean you aren’t a saint.
Those who fail to learn from history are condemned to repeat it. – attribution: various
“Cataclysmic Weather and Global Climate Change: The New Normal…..”
Hmmmmm – Now where have I seen this act before? algore…. igore…… abby something….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQ_pKqiB5Rg
This is a candidate for Best Sceptical News of the Summer. The more Al Gore is on the telly, the more sceptic converts are made.
And the more he refuses to debate with the increasing number of sceptics, the more foolish and shallow he – , and his cause,- will look.
Perhaps it will be a Tipping point for us.
I suspect that this re-emergence has more to do with the collapse of the indulgences trade. Al Gore needs a new revenue stream.
Oh good. He hasn’t actually wised up. He is willing to keep selling his AGW Indulgences right up to the big chill. I was worried he would have been forgotten about by the time the town folk were torch-and-pitch fork angry.
Stay there, Al. You stay right there.
Just like the penultimate scene of a ‘B’ horror movie, when you thought the beast had been slain, and the good guy turns away, there is that final terrifying twist. Similarities of Al Gore to Glen Close’s fatal attraction character in the bath scene are too close for comfort.