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Netting the big fish – payback
Al’s CRP prominently featured lots of red herrings, such as his attempts to link skeptics today to tobacco company style “denial” tactics. Whatever pays the bills I suppose. From their press room:
This campaign comes at a critical time. As the impacts of climate change are growing more prevalent, so is the resistance to finding the truth and implementing solutions. Just like the tobacco companies that spent decades in denial that smoking causes cancer, oil and coal companies are determined to sow denial and confusion about the science of climate change, ignore its impacts, and create apathy among our leaders. This event is the first step in a larger, multi-faceted campaign to tell the truth about the climate crisis and reject the misinformation we hear every day.
For the record, Mr. Gore, both of my parents died of smoking related illnesses. As a result, I abhor everything about tobacco. Therefore Mr. Gore, you can take that comparison and forcefully insert it into the bodily orifice of your choice.
From Junkscience.com:
Al Gore has conveniently forgotten that his family used to be in the tobacco industry.
As reported by NPR about an interview yesterday with Gore as part of his 24-hour assault on climate science:
He went on to accuse those who express the loudest doubts about whether humans are contributing to climate change of “doing exactly the same thing that the tobacco industry did after the Surgeon General’s report came out” linking smoking to cancer. “They hired actors and dressed them up as doctors and gave them scripts” saying that smoking isn’t harmful. Today, said Gore, “carbon polluters” are paying for climate change doubters to say similar things.
But as reported by the New York Times in 1998,
Six years after Vice President Al Gore’s older sister died of lung cancer in 1984, he was still accepting campaign contributions from tobacco interests. Four years after she died, while campaigning for President in North Carolina, he boasted of his experiences in the tobacco fields and curing barns of his native Tennessee. And it took several years after Nancy Gore Hunger’s death for Mr. Gore and his parents to stop growing tobacco on their own farms in Carthage, Tenn.
So it seems that the Al Gore and his family were quite content to profit from tobacco users for more than 20 years after the January 1964 publication of the first Surgeon General report on smoking and health.
[h/t to PaulH for the Junkscience story]
UPDATE: Here is the video about smoking from the CRP
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Are we still “flat earthers”?
Oh well done including the red herrings! That really annoyed me as the whole CRP project is full of warmist herrings and they’re so old now they stink!
The satellite is not connecting with Rio…
Must be a climate change issue…
Is it over yet?????
“This event is the first step in a larger, multi-faceted campaign to tell the truth about the climate crisis…”
Oh, Please God, No! Noooooooooo……
Ironically Gores links to both tobacco and oil companies are far stronger, longer and more profitable than those he attacks . And yes I am aware that’s ‘different’ in his and his acolytes minds. As so very much is .
i feel so cheated – where were the poster bears? where the pachauri glacier? where the vanuatu synchronized swim team?
http://www.waterfront.com.vu/ real estate market seems healthy…lol
Hope that gets ya a couple pints Josh 🙂
Funny how the most evil criminal gets a fair courtcase and a lawyer to defend his case.
Yet substances that have demonstrated their usefulness to mankind are convicted in a show tribunal where there is no defence and the judge, jury and prosecution are the same institutions.
Everybody who dares to defend DDT, cfk or fossil fuels or even questions research on passive smoking is tarred and feathered and accused of being in the payroll of big pharma big tobacco or big oil.
(You guessed right, I don’t smoke)
They just had to do this:
From AFP: http://news.yahoo.com/al-gores-climate-reality-campaign-kicks-off-134130218.html
Celebrity actresses Renee Zellweger and Fran Drescher were added to the roster of appearances for Thursday beginning at 1600 GMT.
The Nanny talks global Warming Oy! Yikes!
As Steve Milloy over at JunkScience.com reminds us, “Al Gore has conveniently forgotten that his family used to be in the tobacco industry.”
http://junkscience.com/2011/09/15/al-gore-tobacco-hypocrite/
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The first thought that comes to mind is the sheer $$$$ (notice that I didn’t say value) that is to be gained by few at the expense of many from the institutions / individuals involved with the so called ‘green movement’. Smoking was an individual choice. The green movement is a ‘shove it down your throat movement’ that forces their discredited beliefs, however unfounded, upon everyone. There is little comparison here. I would say that if you want to practice a ‘green religion’ then go for it, but don’t demand that I do so.
“…oil and coal companies are determined to sow denial and confusion about the science of climate change…”
Meaning skeptic scientists are on their payroll, a 15 to 20 year old accusation. Has our friend Gore provided a single bit of direct proof that a certain payment yielded a particular false fabricated science report from the skeptics? Or will he stage another 24-hour event of nothing but guilt-by-association slides claiming the mind-numbed Anthony Watts, McIntyre, Singer, Spencer, et. al blogs are pre-written in the offices of Exxon?
This is the only fallback position the AGW’ers have when it comes to any member of the disinterested public asking why the skeptics should be ignored, unless you want to throw in the much lesser accusations about religious or political ideology clouding skeptics’ judgment.
Certainly, our goremand is a red herring aficionado.
But our corpulent friend is also partial to Sea Bass.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-469277/Eco-warrior-Al-Gore-serves-endangered-fish-daughters-party.html
I know….there’s apologists for sixth ton Al (name has nothing to do with cricket) out there saying he ate “environmentally friendly” sea bass, but life gets complicated when you’re saving humankind.
http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/08/eco-friendly-chilean-sea-bass-ma.html
I’m so sick of hearing about bad for this bad for that. It turns out, the alarmists of this world are victims of their own bs. Since my earliest memories, there has been nothing but a constant stream of things which are bad for something. Usually ourselves, and often the information was errant. Eggs being a great example. In the end, the dire warnings only served to inoculate the populous from reacting to their hyperbole. Many of us see it for what it is; it is an attempt to control the behavior of the people and usurp liberties.
“The importance of our being free to do a particular thing has nothing to do with the question of whether we or the majority are ever likely to make use of that particular possibility. To grant no more freedom than all can exercise would be to misconceive its function completely. The freedom that will be used by only one man in a million may be more important to society and more beneficial to the majority than any freedom that we all use”——————————FRIEDRICH HAYEK
“Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.”————-ALBERT EINSTEIN
Gee the piggy picture of Al suggests he eats more than his share of Carbon-based nutrition – and I thought just his footprint was large.
Idea for Josh – Use the Wizard of Oz as a theme. You’ve got the straw man arguments (that need a brain), you’ve got your cowardly ‘lion’ Phil Jones, Gore is obviously the Wiz, the yellow brick road is carbon trading, the tin man is michael mann or maybe he should be the wicked witch of the west…
Dear Mr Gore….Thank you for pointing out these connections.
This means I can dismiss say Mr Hansen?
Because he takes monies from from Mr George Soros Organizations?
Mr Soros profiteers from Coal http://firebasefreedom.ning.com/forum/topics/george-soros-proud-new-owner?commentId=5663659%3AComment%3A3285
Profiteers from selling Tobacco to third world countries
http://seekingalpha.com/article/262063-5-favorite-george-soros-stocks
AND calls it “Politicization of Science” in his $720,000 funding of Mr Hansen [ Page 143 ]
http://www.soros.org/resources/articles_publications/publications/annual_20070731/a_complete.pdf
Then hmmmm Mr Schmidt, Mr Mann, ect at Realclimate who is tied to Mr Soros Environmental Media Service- Tides Foundation http://www.ip-adress.com/whois/realclimate.org
Then how about CRU, itself?
http://gnnarchive.blogspot.com/2009/12/cru-climatic-research-unit-funded-by.html
I guess, hypocrisy has no ends.
[ Do I get a Hat Tip 😉 ]
The 7 deadly sins – how does Gore score?:
Lust – ask his ex-wife
Gluttony – have you looked at the man?
Greed – check his bank balance
Envy – Dante defined this as “a desire to deprive other men of theirs.”
Pride – a desire to be more important or attractive than others
Wrath – inordinate and uncontrolled feelings of hatred and anger towards deniers
Sloth – 6 out of 7 ain’t all bad.
Hans Erren says:
September 15, 2011 at 3:35 pm
Funny how the most evil criminal gets a fair courtcase and a lawyer to defend his case.
That about sums up Gore.
James Sexton opines- “Since my earliest memories, there has been nothing but a constant stream of things which are bad for something.”
Reminds me of a packet of increasingly hard to get peanuts I bought at the greengrocers a while back with the usual ubiquitous warning on it-
“Warning this product may contain traces of peanuts, etc, etc…”
I certainly hoped so.
American Thinker
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/11/cru_files_betray_climate_alarm.html
The peanuts message reminded me of the posters I spotted while driving around one day advertising an upcoming Psychics and Mediums knees up and wondered why on earth they bothered advertising.
Come on guys, you gotta admit with all these dangerous peanuts and failing psychics and mediums about, there might be something in this global warming thingy of theirs? Perhaps a modest and targeted Govt program of subsidised tinfoil hats for the poor souls afflicted by the cosmic rays mightn’t go astray here. Their insurance principle definitely has some merit in it.
I read somewhere that Jeanne Calmain (the French lady who died fairly recently at age 122, as the world’s oldest person) had smoked for over a century. And those would have been French cigarettes, for Heavan;s sake, hardly “lite”. If tobacco is as lethal as they say, it’s a v-e-r-y s-l-o-w sort of lethality.
Methinks that a lot more “science” than we suspect has been “massaged” in the name of social engineering for some time now. Oh, and yes, I’m a (totally unapologetic) smoker, though in my case only for a trifling 40 years or so. (A pleasant blonde, mainly Virginia blend, since you ask.) If WUWT and I are still around in 60 years, I’ll try to remember to post a comment linking back to here.