This is a collection of all of the posts related to Al Gore’s “24 hours of climate reality” aka the Gore-a-thon. My sincere thanks to cartoonist Josh for making it possible.
Click each cartoon to go to the full story commentary.
In the beginning there was Gore, and a skeptical polar bear.
Hmm, so far, Al’s not getting the lift he needs after Katrina. The USA recently went over 1000 days without a major hurricane landfall. Watts Up with That?
According to some, Arctic Sea Ice is THE metric by which to gauge “global warming”. There’s only one problem. The ice is keeping its own schedule and temperature doesn’t seem to be much of a factor.
Sea level! Yes that’s it. Sea level rise is a primary indicator of global warming! Let’s have a look.
Polar bears are being threatened. They need rescue from climate change!
What temperature trend?
Where’s the warming?
Hockey sticks anyone?
Consensus says so!
Weather is not climate, unless we say it is.
Global warming causes floodroughts
Redefining the new normal. Wait, I thought actual climate scientists defined climatic normals, not ex-politicians
What can we expect from about 0.8C of warming? Catastrophe de jour ad infinitum
I’ll believe climate is a crisis when you start acting like there is one.
Carbon credits are the new indulgences.
Did you notice that Gore hasn’t brought up Mt. Kilimanjaro at all? Watts Up With That?
Windy whirligigs and Biomass are renewable.
Solar is the way forward (as long as the subsidies hold out).
I wonder why Al doesn’t drive an electric car everywhere?
An inconvenient truth from “Ivar the Terrible”
Models go Gaga with Gigo
Warming up the thermometers
Netting the big fish – payback
So long, and thanks for all the fish!
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Too funny! I’m grinning, and I’m supposed to be maintaining the rage against the BIG BAD BILL.
Stop distracting me with your righteous humour! BTW have you ever thought about the amount of electricity used to run corporate and home computers and entertainment and telecommunications industry equipment, and yet there has been no proposal to tax electricity dependent technology. What’s up with that?
Best Climate Fail file ever!
ok for 1 remember the hole in the ozone layer(you cant put a hole in a gas for one)they ceghand the name to global warmingnow the problem is that “global warming ” is completely natural a simple math equation will solve global warming.1. earth has an ice age every 150,000 years.2. earths last ice age happened only 50,000 years ago3. answer = a minimum of 25,000 years of NATURAL global warming before it starts cooling again. oh and as for the pollution thing have you seen pics. of California specifically San Francisco bay area in the early 1900 till 1980 you will hardly ever see any hills or mountains in the pictures why pollution back then was much much much worse then.
They shouldn’t have nuked Pluto another Gore mistake among all the rest what was wrong with it in the first place now the arctic is melting and more hurricanes he shouldn’t have messed with something God created
” So long, and thanks for all the fish!”
I love the allusion to the book, “Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy”.
Look around you. Look oustide at the city skyline. Polution fills the skies almost everywhere you go. Now tell me that this pollution has no effect on our atmosphere. It is ludacris to think that. Polution is only getting worse with more and more fossil fuels being burned everyday. Global Warming is a very serious problem that needs to be addressed soon.Now i haven’t even seen Al Gore’s movie but i consider myself fairly educated on this problem. Every year the population of polar bears drops dramatically. This is only one effect of Global Warming. Every day the water levels rise the smallest bit because of the ice caps melting away. If you saw a glacier 5 or 10 years ago i encourage you to go back to it and see it now. If it still even exists it will be dramatically smaller. Global Warming may be unstoppable but we have to try to stop it since we are who caused it.
Amoy the problem is if you go to a glacier, like in Canada you can see that it has been in recession for the last 12000 years so this is nothing new. 12000 years ago give or take there was a mile of ice over my city, course it would be “ludacris” to think that someone so educated didn’t know that. Have you gone to a glacier and paced off how much they receded from the years 1800 to 1900, was that because of cars? No it would be “ludacris” to think so.
Plus if the temp does go up one degree in 100 years well its minus 14C now will the bears really die if its only minus 13?
Also if the water level is going up name one location where this is true, in Churchill MB the first docks built by Europeans are 300 yards from Hudson bay.and Manhattan is still larger than when the Dutch settled there. If the sea level was rising it would be smaller.
“ludacris” and “i consider myself fairly educated”
You don’t say..
Gary, Just to let you know- the story is the same in New Zealand. We went walking on the glacier and the guide gives the global warming schpiel after telling us that the glacier has been receding for 1000’s of years when the whole coast of NZ was under ice. Obviously this guide doesnt check his notes. 100ish years of industrialization caused the 2000 years before it, RIGHT………..
Amoy has shown that he is fairly indoctrinated in this problem but, educated? Not really. Amoy, if you lived 10,000 years ago, you would have seen sea level rising more dramatically. Because, those ice caps that Joe mentioned, which stretched down into the U.S., were melting and sea level rise was like 60 inches a year. Now it is just 7 inches per 100 years. And that hasn’t changed in the past 7,000 years. Saying we are the ones who caused global warming is the lamest part of your argument. Google Post Glacial Sea Level Rise and get truly educated Amoy.
Great cartoons!
“The ice is keeping it’s own schedule… ”
ITS, no apostrophe. We don’t want people to think we’re stupid do we?
“We don’t want people to think we’re stupid do we?”
That’s uneducated, Pedantic. Uneducated can be fixed; stupid (such as the Goracle, et al.) can’t.
Josh. So. Damned. Talented.
Thanks, man.
Great work Josh! Now that I see them altogether, they pretty well sum up Algore and his ‘Gore-a-thon’!
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Thanks Ped-man. That apostrophe bothered me too.
That’s hilarious.Add another ding for the apostrophe. But let’s end on a positive note, so: that’s hilarious.
This has all the makings for an anthology of global warming information.
Anthony, I would make the suggestion to get a copy write and proceed to publish this collection in a 24 chapter book. There would be one chapter from each of the postings of the 24 hours of climate reality followed by selected comments.
Top 10 best seller list for sure!
REPLY: Done deal. The book is being written as I write (well with a break for this comment) – Anthony
Great cartoons, Josh! #23, “Red Herrings” is my favorite. Hilarious!
So long, Al, and thanks for all the laughs!
Fantastic work Josh!
I “believed” in global wanimrg before I saw Al Gore’s movie. Actually I still haven’t seen it in full yet. To me it just make sense. At least 95% of the scientist believs in this theory. The “greenhouse effect” is what makes our planet habitable and to increase the most important greenhouse gas CO2 with 35% compared to (high) pre industrial levels should logically raise the earth temperature, just like the scientists predicts. I personally get the feeling that Americans are more skeptical about global wanimrg than other people in most of the world. Not strange though with a president who’ve done all he can until lately denying the problem. Al Gore might have had a huge impact on the debate in America.
I have to hand it to you and Josh. Terrific stuff.
Real world we still have to deal with AB 32 regulations in California. Both fixed rules and cap and trade.
Although the President appears to have walked away from global warming regulations from the Clean Air Act. This is an election year suspension, but a big deal for business.
California is a regulatory island. Something has to give.
In case it got missed, here’s a suggestion I made for a cartoon in one of the earlier threads:
Gore is standing in his “cherry picker” alongside a cherry tree with juice stains around his mouth, one hand behind his back fingers crossed, saying to an irritated man below in 18th century clothing, “What, me cherry-pick?” The man below is holding a piece of paper on which are a few words about some cherry-picked claim Al has made.
LMAO too funny.
[uh, don’t come here and call us Nazis. That is not a good way to make friends. luv ya bye. ~ ctm]
That’s great. I’m glad i didn’t bother reading all the accompanying text that you worked so hard at.
Now we need that in a printable handout format that we can send to members of the Green Party, leave on buses and in library books, etc.
I think I found a WUWT Fail!
Nowhere here (until now) was there a link to Josh’s cartoon site
That link goes to the page where he hid the donation jar, just click Home to get to the cartoon page. Then come back and click on the Donate button. Worked fine for me.
Josh. you are brilliant, combined with Mr Watts you two are making history that will survive the spin and hopefully Al Gore. The bear can get back to doing bear stuff. Looking for tasty fish. crapping in the woods a snacking on the hippies (hopefully)
Thanks Josh!
Your cartoons are the best thing that came out of Al Gore’s “24 hours of climate reality”.
Al is one person with its characters.
But!
Al is that much important to all to forget realities?
What are realities:
1- CO2;
2- O2;
3- FBF Fossil Based Fuels;
4- a billion cars in carpools still to add China and India, they are thirsty to DRIVE!;
5- 28,000 daily flight sorties in US only, add others http://www.flightradar24.com ;
6- what should be preferred first:a. Oil Industries, related jobs, markets and world economy? b. weather, Climate or whatever you like to name it and the EARTH?
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[snip. Accusing people of “denial” violates site Policy. ~dbs, mod.]
Thanks, Josh! A summary that even the IPCC can understand!
Excellent!