Jon Stewart Mocks: ‘Poor Al Gore. Global warming completely debunked via the very Internet you invented!’
I recall seeing a recent poll or news story where many of the under 25 crowd don’t pay much attention to TV news, but they watch Jon Stewart’s Daily Show. Should be interesting to see how this plays out.
[update, here is the link on the The Daily Show’s site, ~ charles the moderator]
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Solent – yeah, http://www.carbonmba.com
Think there’s a little conflict of interest there with one arm of UEA spinning up a whole new ‘product’ that another will then be making money teaching people to manage?
Stewart has acknowledged Climategate which is fantastic but how about having someone like Lindzen on the show?
JonesII – problem is that the environmentalists have been riding the coat-tails of the Carbon Boondoggle for so long that a lot of folks have forgotten about the real, rational things.
Climategate is an affair that leaves this skeptic with mixed feelings. The upside is that confirmation of being right is a damned good feeling. But there is shame and disgust in the reaffirmation that western society is as corrupt, blind and venal as the church in Galileo’s time.
He claimed AGW is real,I don’t see how he helped the debate any,I got the impression the whole segment was set up to discredit Inhofe.”Don’t worry folks,we may have a couple of bad scientists,but the science is settled”.Do these people all get together and work out a strategy?
Perhaps we’re seeing scepticism about the anthropogenicity of climate change start to replace blind faith in it.
Jon is wrong when he says inhofe’s remarks to Boxer were before he read the emails.Watch the whole clip and you’ll see.
On National Public Radio (NPR), AGW is considered a fact. NPR’s only concern is how global warming will be stopped, not whether or not it exists. Can’t wait for the day they do an about-face on the issue…
” As the link between human activity and climate change becomes conventional wisdom ….” Hmmm – I’ve always maintained that somewhat plausible but largely unproven theory evolves into ” conventional wisdom ” , which later evoves into dogma . ( In response to aaron’s post regarding Pachauri . )
Paraphrasing an article I saw about academia went like this. Our generation is not learning about scientific innovation that comes sometimes from outside the established elite scientists.Outside innovation is suppressed by academia and generally ignored by a lazy media. Meanwhile a blizzard of high-tech simulation is presented as real science to a growing generation.Science is becoming virtual reality. Some of our understanding has been contrived like a computer game.
This is what seems to have been going on and I am sure the same things are happening in other areas of science like astronomy and physics.
Stuart (07:58:23) “It’s about time Gangster Gore was publicly mocked in this fashion.”
He got more than he bargained for at a bookstore signing session recently:
to Rhys Jaggar – I like your idea of the prophetic challenge. Ever read the tale of Elijah and the prophets of Baal? Somewhat similar circumstances, similar solution. I really like the way that one ends, btw.
To Indiana Bones – I disagree that Stewart is on any AGW “payroll.” Now it’s no surprise that he’s going to go along with whatever seems hip or cool to “in” crowd, but he got where he is by being a very good barometer of public opinion. (all successful comedians have to be) When he starts to notice the potential to rip open weakness on the part of the AGW defenders, he’s going to go after it because that’s what he does.
The real key is social – once it becomes acceptable to question “global warming” out loud and in public, the entire rotten edifice is going to come crashing down.
The BBC are asking for your comments for a debate they are planning at Copenhagen. You may wish to contribute. Remember to mention the polar bears!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/talking_point/8375378.stm
But.. but he still ended with the consensus view. Most of it was wonderful to watch, however he left the audience with the idea (even though he just explained how the data was corrupt) that AGW is true.
His attitude is this email thingy is giving the bad people ammunition.
Stewart’s attitude is just like Dan Rather in memogate. Ya – the memos maybe false but what they say is true.
RE: Noelene (08:46:44) :
He also admitted a level of uncertainty that probably would have painted him as a “denier” pre-Climategate. Baby steps… but steps nonetheless
I thought that statement was irony, although I guess it can be interpreted in either direction depending on your own views.
Gee.
I wonder why the lamestream media is losing money hand over fist.
Could it have anything to do with the fact that a major story is now part of the popular culture and there’s been nary a peep about it by their talking heads?
Well, so far so good for the warmists. Jon Stewart’s demographics are mainly the non-voting kind. When the formerly big three (ABC, NBC, & CBS) start covering the story, hang it up. Their demographics include the older, voting kind.
BTW, Elmer and the boys at Minnesotans For Global Warming are doing a fantastic job of growing the AGW Counter Culture!
http://minnesotansforglobalwarming.com/m4gw/videos/
to see Stewart turn on AGW, well, hell has frozen over
I’m surprised. Last time Gore was on his show, Jon practically sucked his…and never asked a single hard question or challenged any answer.
The answer, Noelene, is yes. Be in control of both sides of any argument then you never (really) lose. It’s the way all important events are handled.
Mark, your disgust is warranted and, IMO, accurate.
Michelle Malkin surveys the damage so far.
“My syndicated column today looks at the global warming cultists in the Obama administration who are working overtime to paper over the ClimateGate scandal. Yesterday, Phil Jones, the head of the U.K.’s Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia stepped aside while the university investigates. Penn State prof Michael Mann, purveyor of the infamous hockey stick graph of spiking global temperatures peddled by Al Gore, is also under investigation. GOP Sen. James Inhofe, vigilant watchdog over global warming shenanigans, wants Babs Boxer to investigate. As Obama heads to Copenhagen to crusade for massive interventions to stop global warming, a new Harris Poll shows a significant shift in public opinion away from the cult of climate change. Jonah Goldberg dissects the groupthink that has gripped the global warming industry and its media enablers. Ed Driscoll takes you on a tour through global warming evolution in six and a half minutes. Well now: “Moderate” (liberal) GOP candidates/lawmakers led by GOP cap-and-tax 8′er Mark Kirk are running as fast as they can from the global warming hot mess.
“Hide the decline, hide the decline…”
Now it’s serious indeed – Jon Stewart’s Daily Show has been a citadel of liberal agenda. I’m afraid to say that most of his viewers probably regard the Daily Show as their primary news source.
I say great, we are getting exposure of the problem, regardless of what Stewart says. It is lifting the veil off the problem, the younger people will now google Climategate and find the conservative view. Why? Because the conservatives have 95% of the entire posts on the issue.
The liberals ignored the issue, and therfore have no posts for Google to find. Therefore the only information that the people can find is our view points. Stewart plays a comic game, even mocking us, but ultimately we win.
Things we can live without:
1. New Scientist
2. Movie stars and movies
3. NPR
4. PBS
5. The UN