UPDATE: All of the Gore-a-thon posts and cartoons are now available in the Climate Fail Files page here
If you noticed a change in the header, this is why.
Our rebuttal of Al Gore’s 24 hours of Climate Reality aka the Gore-a-thon is On-The-Air. Josh is leading the charge chortles. We’ll have a new Josh cartoon, along with commentary, graphs and links every hour starting at 5PM PST to match the starting time of the CRP. They appear below this post.
You can watch the live video presentation here, I urge everyone to do so (because after hour 4 it is starting to look like a massive dud, Al needs the help) and to make notes about it during the appropriate hour. Alternate video link here at Ustream.
Here’s the trailer advertising it:
If you run a blog, we hope you’ll participate and use the content. If you don’t have a blog, get one for free here and join in the fun using the free content we’ll provide.
All good clean fun of course. While we have some great ideas for the program, WUWT readers often come up with some great ones too. Luboš Motl has some fun ideas already.
Ideas and discussion welcome below.
UPDATE: The Climate Reality project has released two videos hyping the event. It appears they’ll be smearing some of what is in the videos.
Of course, they are asking for money, a minimum of $10 after viewing them. They write with the mass email:
While some folks have told us these aren’t exactly family fare, we think they make a point that’s long overdue. And you can help make sure that everyone who you think can handle them, sees them.
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WUWT readers may recall that Mr Bogusky is the “interviewer” for Al Gore’s recent racist slur against climate skeptics.
Wake me when it is over.
What I want to know is, where’s my money? I’ve gone from being uninformed and not too focused on AGW, to being a full-on skeptic, all without a dime from “big oil” or “big coal”. Maybe I should send Al my address so he can “expose” me for what I am.
What I am is pissed off at the whole charade!
Come, be part of the consenseless. Don’t be afraid…
I noticed at 0:51 that they are going to ‘Reveal the Deniers’. Will they also reveal the ‘deniers’ of the science that is knocking their models down one by one?
I’m a ‘denier’, will I get a mention in the event?
Any publicity is good publicity..
If you want to know what I think of gore see: http://scottishsceptic.wordpress.com/2011/09/07/global-warming-film-a-message-from-aliens/
I encourage everyone to kick off the 14th with a viewing of the famous South Park documentary “Manbearpig.” It’s free, it’s real, it’s true, it’s devastating. Excelsior!
http://www.southparkstudios.com/full-episodes/s10e06-manbearpig
“Former Vice-President, Al Gore, speaks to the students of South Park Elementary about a serious threat to the planet; Manbearpig. Gore enlists the boy’s help to search for the elusive creature and gets them all trapped in a cave-in.”
Every time Al Goracle has an event, there seems to be an extreme cold weather associated with his location. Since this is a ‘world wide’ event, should I expect a global cold snap?
Interestingly enough, Al Gore also says that “climate change is not your fault”.
Robin Williams stars as the AlGoreacle in “Bad World Warming” (sort of like “Good Will Hunting”, but with the putative genius left out).
As AG seems to have an obsession against oil and coal, who is still selling him gasoline for cars and planes, coal-based energy for his properties to heat and cool? Cut him off.
when what’s over ?
I think I’ll choose Chicken Little as my Avatar when I take the pledge.
OMG – Even “normal” is not normal anymore. Get me outta here …
I always thought that there was 24 hours of reality every day. Have I been deluded all my life? Is Sept 14 Reality a special sort? Is the Goracle’s special “Reality” something akin to Special Relativity?
Notice the credits. Most of them have to do with the name Getty. Getty Oil money related?
1984 newspeak in that trailer, perhaps the world should be more afraid of big brother Al then big oil.
Gorepocalypse When?
puuleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeez
All this was foreseen in “Blazing Saddles”:
Bart: Well, can’t you see that’s the last act of a desperate man?
Oh joy, 24 hours of the same old hogwash repeated endlessly in a mind numbing form. Al Gore must be getting desperate, the conventional forms of brain washing aren’t working any more.
What we need is a Normality Anomaly. This will allow us to measure the change from the old normal to the new normal.
The Normality Anomaly will be funded by Big Bad, because that’s what is normally claimed to happen in the old normal. But the Normality Anomaly will gradually change to funding by Big Good as we move to the new normal.
Mankind will use this important measure to make important decisions about reality.
Debunking Gore is pretty easy. I’ve done it for Cape Verde and Rio de Janeiro.
But worst, is the IPCC scandal regarding the Horn of Africa. Please check out about Horngate:
http://ecotretas.blogspot.com/2011/09/horngate.html
Ecotretas
Wow. A level of arrogance that is hard to fathom. Demonizing “big oil” and “big coal,” as if “big government” doesn’t have a vested interest, and warmists are pure and disinterested (and don’t depend on a continuing government-funded gravy-train).
Manbearpig says, “come on guys. This is really serial. You have to take it serially.”
My apathy knows no bounds.
Suzuki take part and says that there will be 24 alarmists in 24 time zones preaching to Al Gore’s grassroots movement.
http://www.straight.com/article-449941/vancouver/david-suzuki-24-hours-reality-speaks-about-climate-change
I think Al is making a huge blunder.
The committed non professional alarmists have no idea whet they must believe to accept that there is a possible catastrophe in the next 100 to 200 years.
They are not aware that CO2 is a poor greenhouse gas and that DOUBLING CO2 from all sources would only produce .4 ° C of warming which is far from being a problem, and might even be beneficial.
The huge positive feedbacks which are necessary for a catastrophe have never been observed up to this time so why should they occur in the future ?
Up to now the warming has been about 1/2 ° C per century and recently it has stopped. The ocean level has refused to rise as predicted and has had the audacity to GO DOWN in the last year or two.