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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How Jon Stewart shapes the news and reframes climategate reveals his beliefs and thus bias about AGW.
http://pathstoknowledge.wordpress.com/2009/12/02/shaping-the-news-masterfully-jon-stewart-frames-climategate/
Noelene (08:46:44) :said
…”.Do these people all get together and work out a strategy?”
Of course they do. I actually saw this in action when the company I worked for was the victim of a high profile nationwide publicity campaign supposedly started by a NH grade school teacher. It blew up in one week a month before our TV ads were to air. We all know a single person can not do that unless someone with a lot of power is behind them. They certainly can’t do it in a high profile nationwide publicity campaign in a week.
This is what is actually going on.
In the Congressional Record for 1917, it is reported that “…the J.P. Morgan [banking] interests…. and their subsidiary organizations got together 12 men high up in the newspaper world and employed them to select the most influential newspapers in the United States and sufficient number of them to control generally the policy of the daily press of the US…. They found it was only necessary to purchase the control of 25 of the greatest papers. …an editor was furnished for each paper to properly supervise and edit information….” http://www.crossroad.to/articles2/006/conspiracy1.htm
So yes the news is controlled by the bankers at least in the USA.
AGW is all about another scam so the financiers can make money off the poor and middle class. Here in the USA 100% of our taxes goes to pay off the interest on the “loans” the banks make to the US government. Loans of fairy dust since the Federal Reserve creates the money for the loan and the US treasury prints it. The whole blasted thing is a scam. Central banking, taxes and now this. AGW is being used to legitimize another scam and provide a reason for the ultra wealthy bankers to set up a world government ruled by them. Since they are not idiots they want to leave people thinking they are still living in democracies with a say in how they are ruled which is an illusion as the bank bailouts in 1933 and again in 2008-9 proved.
This statement from the United States FDA shows how Americans no longer control the making of their laws. Copenhagen will just make matters worse.
“The harmonization of laws, regulations and standards between and among trading partners requires intense, complex, time-consuming negotiations by CFSAN officials. Harmonization must simultaneously facilitate international trade and promote mutual understanding, while protecting national interests and establish a basis to resolve food issues on sound scientific evidence in an objective atmosphere. Failure to reach a consistent, harmonized set of laws, regulations and standards within the free trade agreements and the World Trade Organization Agreements can result in considerable economic repercussions.” http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~comm/int-laws.html
This is actually utter hog wash but after over ten years very few people, especially Congress critters, are going to remember the exact provisions of the WTO treaty and that those provisions mean the USA is NOT required to change or pass laws to comply with the WTO demands. Aren’t the SOBs sneaky?
Here was the agreement at the time of ratification:
“In ratifying and implementing the WTO trade agreements, Congress expressly stipulated that “nothing in this Act shall be construed…to amend or modify any law of the United States, including any law relating to…the protection of human, animal, or plant life or health.” from the Uruguay Round Agreements Act, Pub. L. No. 103-465, Sec. 102(a)(2), 108 Stat. 4809, 4815 (1994) (codified at 19 U.S.C. Sec. 3512), as cited in Lucinda Sikes, supra note 16, at 332.
I am very much afraid we will get this Copenhagen Agreement rammed down our throats one way or another because “They” want “Global Governance” Heck Al Gore’s buddy, Maurice Strong, father of the environmental and global warming movement, is a member of the UN commission on Global Governance. It has been dressed up as socialism, humanitarianism and environmentalism but dig down to the ones who are orchestrating the media, UN, NGOs our politicians and scientists and you find what “They” really want is a worldwide totalitarian government.
This is why the scandal is dead in the water as far as most mass media is concerned. I am sure there are high level conference calls of ” Can’t you shutdown that blasted internet! We have got to do some damage control here…”
Any bets we soon see politicians trying to “regulate” the internet ?
RE: rbateman (10:57:27) :
Sorry I missed your post – agreed!
So… how do we get this together? Anthony, any chance we could make this a cooperative effort with the SurfaceStations.org project?
‘Poor Al Gore. Global warming completely debunked via the very Internet you invented!’
Beeaauuutttiiffuulll!!!!
View from the Solent (07:50:36)
Love it! The UEA – formerly known as the University of Easy Access – always was a bit of a joke, but after this…
NickB. (15:15:12) :
Also, I would like some guidance as to whom I should be making requests to. There is a tangled mess of agencies, USHCN, GHCN, GISS, NCDC, CDIAC etc.
Has anyone done this before?
Looks like Jon’s seen the ratings and has the Darwinian imperative – he’s going to have to backpedal on a lot of issues and fast to retain his audience. He became the most painfully transparent Dem propaganda outlet for a while there.
See BBC web story at** Climate science, from Bali to Copenhagen **
How has climate science moved on since governments decided to make a new global agreement on climate change two years ago?
[Snip – Better not go there! ~ Evan]
Lead article on Foxnews.com right now, “Comedy Central Scoops Network News on Climate-Gate Scandal – ABC didn’t cover it. CBS didn’t either. And NBC apparently wouldn’t go near it.”:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,578990,00.html
J.S. is not a painfully transparent Dem propaganda outlet. That is his role to play in what Gail C. accurately described –scripted and planned propaganda for the masses. His job is to diffuse honest anger — either against Bush or against the truth of AGW. His program did not refute AGW, quite the contrary. It becomes very transparent once you escape from the right or left box you are processing info from.
FOX is not an honest broker either. It’s just their turn to lead the opposition.
Syl (11:32:24) :
“…..All the discussion has been about natural sinks such as vegetation and the oceans but I think there’s also another factor that would correlate the addition of CO2 to the amount that is removed from the atmosphere to help keep the ratio fairly steady.
Rain.
Of course this would have to be measured and quantified, but CO2 dissolves in raindrops and if rain increases with increased CO2 then so would the amount of CO2 removed from the atmosphere…..
Yes and then it dissolves limestone and forms caves. There is an awful lot of limestone out there and I have traveled through only a tiny fraction so far… 9 countries and 17 states.
Worth some thought?
Rhys Jaggar (07:56:37) :
“There’s been a very noticeable shift in the run-up to Copenhagen. The media have run the arguments of ‘realists’, ’skeptics’, call them what you will.”
“climate contrarians” is best. It’s fairly neutral and yet it captures the outsider / embattled status of climate critics. (The problem with “climate critics” is that it reads as though we’re criticizing the climate, not the consensus on the climate.)
Despite the incident, which rocked international headlines last week, climate science is sound, Press Secretary Robert Gibbs stressed this afternoon, and the White House nonetheless believes “climate change is happening.”
Is this the same White House that believes the economy is sound and improvements are happening?
Yeah…
Hotrod wrote:
“One natural archive of weather data are the microfilm records from major newspapers. Most of them had a weather feature every day that reported the official national weather service high and low, along with in many cases mid town temperatures. That is an archive that is untouchable by folks that like to manipulate data, and verifiable by anyone who has access to a large library.
“A few hundred volunteers could assemble a data set from these records. For reliability have 2 or more individuals (unknown to each other) assemble data for each location, then compare their input to verify accurate transcription.
“This would work for the major cities and parts of the world that have been served by long lived newspapers. I am sure there are other similar temperature records that could be assembled as well.”
A much better source is an online site where you can do keyword searches way back into the past through hundreds (maybe thousands by now) of newspapers, mostly from the US & Canada. Once you’ve set up your search template on the search page, you can search through a long time series of a paper and harvest the hits, then click on them one at a time to go straight to the temperature data for the day.
(Note–the site is a bit awkward and cranky and there are tricks to navigating it and using the search feature that take time to learn. Also, I haven’t done a temperature search myself–I’m drawing on my experience with searching for other material.) It’s a good tool for researching many topics.
The cost is $12/month on a month-by-month basis, or $6/month if an annual subscription is bought. (I.e., $72/year.) I think there’s a free one-week (or so) trial subscription. Here’s the link:
http://www.newspaperarchive.com
Colbert’s interview with Esty was much better with 20% extra more truthiness.
View from the Solent (07:50:36) : said
This is beyond parody
http://www.uea.ac.uk/mac/comm/media/press/2009/dec/homepagenews/carbonmbalondon
“The MBA (Masters in Business Administration) in Strategic Carbon Management, run by the University of East Anglia, is designed to maximise knowledge and practical business experience in climate change.” University of East Anglia
Gee I wonder if one of those “practical courses” includes lessons on how to harness horses and oxen, and hitch and drive a freight wagon so you can get your product to your customers. Turning corners with a team and especially docking takes a bit of skill. Perhaps Neil Dimmock could teach the module.
If our world leaders are really serious about “the goal of achieving at least 50% reduction of global emissions by 2050.” This is the lost art we need to regain. Will Al Gore lead the way by giving up his limos and airplanes and restrict his travel to horse drawn vehicles?
Videos at Hitchmasters: http://www.youtube.com/user/hitchmasters
“…In the driving demonstration, Neil will try and show a sample of every day driving of a six horse hitch hauling freight at the turn of the century in every major city. First of all they need to have speed, but absolute control. The driver should be able to spin them around a barrel- also known as spinning the top- in either direction. And if you are lucky Neil will try to put the leader’s noses on the end gate of the wagon. Backing to a dock is the only way you could get loaded and sometimes you had to back down an alley then to the dock. Fanning left or right was to remove the hitch from blocking the street. The wagon is not supposed to move during this maneuver. They should trot in line, at a sharp pace all in the bit with tight tugs. Some of the things that we do now are just pure showmanship. The wagon is a turn of the century Gibson’s City Freight wagon….”
I wonder if a techno wizard could do some magic by splicing Al Gore videos with tapes of driving demonstration and the propaganda from “The MBA in Strategic Carbon Management of the University of East Anglia”
The U-tube spoof could be wickedly funny. I wish I had the expertize to do it.
Down the Memory Hole and Jon Stewart’s chemistry background.
There are 3,560 short videos of Jon Stewart on YouTube so copy right issues should not keep off the Jon Stewart clip on Climategate.
Yesterday, the JimInhofePressOffice clip had 350 viewers which is a fraction of the number actually viewed based on ratings and comments.
Today, it lists 61K hits.
Perhaps my phone call to Inhofe’s office yesterday to check the incorrect viewing numbers made a difference or the “hide the increase hits” computer program was not working.
Please continue to circulate the video clip.
Jon Stewart’s Chemistry Background
Jon Stewart’s (Stuart Leibowitz) father, Don Leibowitz was a physcist at the RCA Laboratories in Princeton and Jon majored in Chemistry at William and Mary for 2 years before switching to Psychology.
http://www.momentmag.com/Exclusive/2008/2008-11/200811-JonStewart.html.
Perhaps his early scientific training has made him sceptical about AGW.
Having him mock AGW and CRU heralds a major sea change in opinion.
This is just sad. I wonder from the comments above if anyone bothered to watch this to the end. I would have thought the statement made by Stewart at (2:10) “Does it disprove global warming, no of course not” Or this: “but it does put a fresh set energizers in the senates resident denier bunny” regarding Inhofe “that guy thinks global warming is debunked every time he drinks a slushy and gets a brain freeze.
Remind me again who Jon Stewart is mocking?