This year, October 22/23, they are bringing in a comedian (no relation):
Carbon pollution is not only disrupting our lives, it’s hitting our wallets. Comedian and musician Reggie Watts shows how, laying out the billion-dollar connection between fossil-fuel energy and dirty weather events like Superstorm Sandy caused by carbon pollution.
I guess he didn’t read the recent IPCC AR5 report that showed no connections of climate change/global warming with severe weather. In a year when we’ve had the least number of wildfires in 30 years and well below the decadal average, plus a near record low in tornadoes, and a hurricane season that has gone bust, Gore is pushing a dead issue. See why on the WUWT Extreme Weather page
So as this screencap from his latest propaganda video shows, setting fire to orchids seems to be the way Gore is fawning for attention getting the message across that it is hot in the summer and wildfires happen. He’s got nothing else.
Its the same old tired stuff from Gore, who can’t even bring himself to correct blatant errors and outright lying I discovered in his “high school science experiment” from two years ago. So, I’ve decided not to bother with the event this year, seeing how WUWT is beating the pants off of Gore’s Climate Reality project by the numbers:
Gore is still stuck on stupid, his star is fading, and he clearly isn’t worth the effort. He’s already beaten, nobody but a few zealots care anymore.
I’ll focus WUWT-TV on the science at the AGU meeting this year. I’m happy to report that I’ve been given a press pass.
Below, you can watch the latest video from Gore and laugh, after all he’s reduced himself to hiring a comedian to push his issue.
UPDATE: In comments, “Mark and Two cats” sums the whole thing up pretty well:
…dirty weather events…
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Children just aren’t going to know what clean weather is.
UPDATE2: for reference from the IPCC AR5 WGI Chapter 2 on extremes.
- “Overall, the most robust global changes in climate extremes are seen in measures of daily temperature, including to some extent, heat waves. Precipitation extremes also appear to be increasing, but there is large spatial variability”
- “There is limited evidence of changes in extremes associated with other climate variables since the mid-20th century”
- “Current datasets indicate no significant observed trends in global tropical cyclone frequency over the past century … No robust trends in annual numbers of tropical storms, hurricanes and major hurricanes counts have been identified over the past 100 years in the North Atlantic basin”
- “In summary, there continues to be a lack of evidence and thus low confidence regarding the sign of trend in the magnitude and/or frequency of floods on a global scale”
- “In summary, there is low confidence in observed trends in small-scale severe weather phenomena such as hail and thunderstorms because of historical data inhomogeneities and inadequacies in monitoring systems”
- “In summary, the current assessment concludes that there is not enough evidence at present to suggest more than low confidence in a global-scale observed trend in drought or dryness (lack of rainfall) since the middle of the 20th century due to lack of direct observations, geographical inconsistencies in the trends, and dependencies of inferred trends on the index choice. Based on updated studies, AR4 conclusions regarding global increasing trends in drought since the 1970s were probably overstated. However, it is likely that the frequency and intensity of drought has increased in the Mediterranean and West Africa and decreased in central North America and north-west Australia since 1950”
- “In summary, confidence in large scale changes in the intensity of extreme extratropical cyclones since 1900 is low”
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If’n he’s a commedian, where are the laffs??
…dirty weather events…
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Children just aren’t going to know what clean weather is.
[yes it is OT, that’s why it gets snipped- Tips and Notes is the place for this – Anthony]
laying out the billion-dollar connection between fossil-fuel energy and dirty weather events like Superstorm Sandy caused by carbon pollution.
It used to be a million dollar connection. I guess they’re upping the ante.
If Gore won’t even believe what the IPCC tell him, I think it’s safe to say he wouldn’t accept any criticism from WUWT.
Think I would rather read a trigonometry book than look at that video again. At least there are some verifiable fact in the trig book
Gore is correct. We do pay a price for carbon when we buy products or services that use carbon, or more commonly, carbon-related energy, So what? We pay a price for eggs when we consume breakfast.
The problem is:
1. Gore attributes Hurricane Sandy to CO2. This is clearly nonsense.
2. He proposes a “solution” that simply forces us to pay dramatically more for energy (and hence indirectly almost everything). He pretends the “polluters will pay” but we all know those costs will be passed on to consumers and tax payers one way or another.
3. His proposed “solution” will cost a ton of dosh but delivers absolutely zilch in tangible benefits to the population. Nada, zip, nothing. Of course, it will benefit a handful of players who control and game the system like… oh, Al Gore.
The whole thing is just like a giant, scaled up version of the Nigerian 419 scam. Send us some money now and later we’ll shower you with great riches later. Yeah, right!
All of this can be summed up in a single English word. We call it fraud!
[snip I disagree with Mr. Gore on almost everything, but that comparison is unnecessary – Anthony]
Al Gore knows that Big Oil and Big Coal will not be the ones paying his carbon taxes. They will simply pass the taxes on to the consumer. There’s no evidence that a carbon tax will do anything to stop the next drought or major storm, so what good is it, other than to make rich carbon traders like Al Gore even richer?
I wonder which carbon based accelerant he used to burn the Orchids. Live plants don’t burn that well or bright, too much water.
Louis says:
October 17, 2013 at 10:30 am
“Al Gore knows that Big Oil and Big Coal will not be the ones paying his carbon taxes. They will simply pass the taxes on to the consumer.”
Not when those corporations are nationalized. Always look over the next rise to see the whole battlefield.
The true price of carbon?
Around 10% increases being announced on UK energy bills, with wages increasing on average by 0.8% this year. 10% of those energy bills is already accounted for by “green tariffs”, so the government could neuralise these latest rises at the stroke of a pen.
The quintessential snake-oil salesman
RHS says:
October 17, 2013 at 10:37 am
I wonder which carbon based accelerant he used to burn the Orchids. Live plants don’t burn that well or bright, too much water.
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Touche’! Al Gore kills more flowers than Global Warming.
Is this project going to discuss the abundance of hurricanes we’ve had in the United States this hurricane season?
He is comparing setting light to orchids (under artificial conditions) with, what, a volcano erupting???
What on earth is he on about?
Gore and his friends’ propaganda machines are completely disconnected from reality.
A side effect of group think/group mania screaming the science is settled, the science is settled, we need to spend trillions of dollars on green scams that do not work is those running and listening to the propaganda machines are the last to realize that the EAGW science was absolutely incorrect and the green scams do not work. (See this week’s Economist for an interesting article concerning green scams.)
The planet has started to cool. A change requires a physical explanation (the explanation is not the idiotic chaotic/butterfly explanation, the change is at both poles, and is affecting other aspects of the planetary climate such as the occurrence of high rainfall events). Hint solar magnetic cycle change. It will be interesting to hear how the warmists respond to in your face, front page type, global cooling.
1. Accumulated cyclone energy
2013 Atlantic accumulated cyclone energy is on track to be the fifth lowest in fifty years.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accumulated_cyclone_energy#Atlantic_hurricane_seasons_by_ACE_index.2C_1950.E2.80.932013
2. Antarctic sea ice is on track to be the fifth highest in fifty years setting multiple records for highest recorded Antarctic sea ice for different specific periods of the year. Antarctic sea ice has been high for all months of the year, which is a unique occurrence in fifty years of observation.
http://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/images/daily_images/S_stddev_timeseries.png
3. Record low and consistently low Arctic temperatures this summer. Based on the what has happened before when there was a sudden reduction in the solar magnetic cycle there should be record low winter Arctic temperatures. A complete recovery of Arctic sea ice followed by record Arctic sea ice will require an explanation.
http://ocean.dmi.dk/arctic/meant80n.uk.php
(The temporary above average Arctic temperatures has likely due to the latent heat released due to rapid formation of new sea ice.)
4. Long range forecasters are trying to get ahead of the curve and are predicting a historic record cold winter in Europe.
Sorry for not posting OT on tip page.
I wonder if All Gore will explain in the 24 hour show why the United States is experiencing what I call the “Al Gore Grand Hurricane minimum ” .
Hope psomeone cherry picks clips from the show and makes a blunder video from it.
I see that Al Gore’s visit will have the normal algor effect – the temperatures are forecast to be quite low even for October.
Definition of ALGOR: : a sensation of coldness : chill
http://www.merriam-webster.com/medical/algor
Gore and his carbonloony friends . . .
Lewandowsky
Suzuki
Gelick
.. insert long list here..
Obama
Schrag
Holdren
. . . are going, but not quietly
http://media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/2f/0d/b2/2f0db2b82ebed622e7524f7affdcc6fb.jpg
This is important….as the USA continues to develop fracking, folks have focused upon the natural gas side. However, vast quantities of liquid hydrocarbons are also produced, and the USA has now leapfrogged even the Saudis in production. Gore’s Climate Reality Project is pathetic, much like Don Quixote charging windmills on horseback….
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/10/15/us-oil-pira-idUSL1N0I51IX20131015
Tue Oct 15, 2013 2:36pm EDT
Oct 15 (Reuters) – The United States has overtaken Saudi Arabia to become the world’s biggest oil producer as the jump in output from shale plays has led to the second biggest oil boom in history, according to leading U.S. energy consultancy PIRA.
Climate Reality Project
Hmm… it almost spells “CRAP”.
Just needs a big A.
Oh, wait, wouldn’t that be Gore?
🙂
https://twitter.com/ClimateReality/status/390888697140641792
Gee, didn’t they notice how well that’s worked for the BBC Pension Fund?
The link they gave goes here. Amazingly enough, it’s not exactly saying what Gore’s people said it does. One of five of the state-owned pension funds has pretty much assumed there will be worldwide carbon taxes and/or credits, and wants to reduce exposure to companies with high carbon footprints.
Given all the steel, concrete, and other components used in manufacture and erecting an installation, logically that means they would abandon wind turbines, especially utility-scale models, and invest in natural gas companies instead.
Despite ample warning, I watched the video and learned about the evils of big oil and big coal out to destroy us all. What a joke. If Gore needs more propaganda to keep his scam going, he really needs to do much better than this.
Augustine B. O’Brien says:
October 17, 2013 at 10:01 am
“Think I would rather read a trigonometry book than look at that video again. At least there are some verifiable fact in the trig book”
I’m skeptical of your claim. What’s your angle?