Al Gore apparently has no command of the most basic details of anything related to Earth and climate. His last idiotic gaff in the media was that the temperature of the Earth 2 kilometers or so down was millions of degrees! Apparently, Slate editors who look equally like dufuses for printing this dreck didn’t notice his latest one either. Maybe all those trips around the world in the private jet have damaged his ability to tell the time and date? Too many trip across the International Dateline perhaps?
Here’s an interview question put to him from Slate:
Q: How damaging to your argument was the disclosure of e-mails from the Climate Research Unit at East Anglia University?
A: To paraphrase Shakespeare, it’s sound and fury signifying nothing. I haven’t read all the e-mails, but the most recent one is more than 10 years old. These private exchanges between these scientists do not in any way cause any question about the scientific consensus. But the noise machine built by the climate deniers often seizes on what they can blow out of proportion, so they’ve thought this is a bigger deal than it is.
But wait there’s more…
Q: There is a sense in these e-mails, though, that data was hidden and hoarded, which is the opposite of the case you make [in your book] about having an open and fair debate.
A: I think it’s been taken wildly out of context. The discussion you’re referring to was about two papers that two of these scientists felt shouldn’t be accepted as part of the IPCC report. Both of them, in fact, were included, referenced, and discussed. So an e-mail exchange more than 10 years ago including somebody’s opinion that a particular study isn’t any good is one thing, but the fact that the study ended up being included and discussed anyway is a more powerful comment on what the result of the scientific process really is.
These people are examining what they can or should do to deal with the P.R. dimensions of this, but where the scientific consensus is concerned, it’s completely unchanged. What we’re seeing is a set of changes worldwide that just make this discussion over 10-year-old e-mails kind of silly.
Earth to Al, Earth to Al, come in Al.
Despite the fact that some of the 10 year old emails discussed important issues like the 2001 IPCC report and what made it into it…the most recent emails in Climategate were from November 2009. Last month, this year, earth time.
For example, here’s one from November 12th from Phil Jones:
And there are dozens to hundreds more within the last month, the last year, and the last 10 years.
Search for yourself here: http://eastangliaemails.com
Jeeez!! Gore. What a vacuous nimrod, and people pay to listen to him.
h/t to WUWT reader “debreuil”
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photon without a Higgs (00:02:02) :
I hope those “tools” Al provides in the end of his poem include a shovel
….a really big one
….and an ice pick.
Oops, I supplied the wrong original. These verses,
become:
Then dirty Al is parched from a sad lack of beer.
Still, let’s party! Kindling is placed in the forest
for the lightning god’s celebration. Over here,
unknown creatures, like Bear-pig, with his human face,
take their leave, unmourned, and I hope your heart is stirred
as Horse-men must ready their stirrups for a race.
Phillip Bratby (00:20:32) :
“Al Gore also said “The entire North Polar ice cap is disappearing before our very eyes. It’s been the size of the continental United States for the last 3 million years”. Such a deep knowledge he has of what it was like before the Holocene!”
And besides the United States hasn’t existed that long!
At least he didn’t become president… : )
Actually, he said…
don’t misquote, but yes, he’s still an idiot
Gore is mere Piffle.
How much money has Gore made from the AGW scam?
The Last Temptation of Al Gore??? So, AGW IS a religion!!
But I’m still clutching my copy of Time warning me of the impending ice age….
You know, this trick of giving new interpretations to the word trick, and fudging data to mean anything you want, like making a decline into an incline works well across all the arts and sciences. Mr Gore, as always, sets the trends! For example,
That really means:
See how easy it is!
Remember this Onion classic? : click
And now the Goracle tells us that climate change, the bad kind, natch, is just like gravity: “Gore replied that the scientific community has worked on this issue for 20 years. ‘It’s a principle in physics. It’s like gravity. It exists.'”
http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/12/09/2146639.aspx
Oy.
Can someone explain the ManBearPig reference? I see it often but have no idea what it means!
An Inconvenient Psalm
AL-GORE is my shepherd;
I shall not think.
He maketh me lie down with “green” ideologues,
He leadeth me beside the still-freezing waters.
He selleth my soul.
He leadeth me down the path of self-righteousness for his own sake.
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of reason,
I will fear no logic, for thou art with me;
Thy family oil fortune and thy 10,000 square foot mansion, they comfort me.
Thou preparest a movie in the presence of contradictory evidence,
Thou anointest mine head with nonsense; my fear runneth over.
Surely blind faith and hysteria shall follow me all the days of my life,
and I will reverently chant the mantras of AL-GORE forever.
Lordy, the hole that them thar Greenies is in just keeps gittin’ bigger.
Someone best take away they’s own shovels, or the whole dern thing is gonna collapse on top of ’em!
Sid (03:16:00) :
This was a fair comment. One problem with the way forward that you speak of is extremely high prices of fossil fuels. This is because the so called “renewables” are very expensive, and this necessitates artificially high prices on existing fuels to make these new fuels competitive. Fossil fuels are a finite resource. Yet, we have already located 1000 Gigatons of coal around the world, most of it in the USA. We have estimates of oil shale as high as 5 Trillion equivalent gallons of oil. Vast reserves of Natural Gas have been discovered in Alaska. Instead of chasing an expensive fantasy, we could simply continue to locate reserves, and while using them, plan for a future of nuclear energy, Biofuels, etc. There is no rationale for cutting our own throats to evade use of natural resources. The earth is not a religious shrine, the polar bears are ok (had one for lunch) and C02 (at a concentration of 4 molecules in every 10 THOUSAND) is a vital beneficial component of our atmosphere.
Look out Senator Boxer, your heir apparent has been identified.
If you missed this earlier – some very amusing ditties about AGW and Algore – loved the haiku myself 🙂
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100019364/climategate-the-inaugural-al-gore-prize-poetry-competition/#comments
Excoriating [ex-core-ating] Al Gore!
http://pathstoknowledge.net/2009/12/09/climatic-seaons-greeting-burning-raw-data-on-an-open-fire-skeptics-hounding-on-your-door
One of the best parts of the interview comes at the end. When it is suggested that one is being hypocritical if one is against war in the Middle East but still drives an SUV, Gore includes in his reply:
I drive a hybrid and we’ve changed our light bulbs and windows and installed solar panels and geothermal ground source heat pumps and most everything else.
The interviewer, naturally, completely fails to call him out on the extreme irony of this statement. I’m sure Gore owns a hybrid (after all, is son was caught driving one at aver 100 MPH), but his documented energy use is many, many multiples that of the average American, and thousands of times that which he is advocating we be forced to live with.
I’m sure Gore drives his Hybrid to all his book signings, and when he travels between his different homes, and going to Copenhagen he probably hopped a ride aboard a cargo freighter headed to Europe so as to avoid air travel. And gosh, his 10,000 square feet of mansion for two is sure efficient.
Maybe not.
SouthPark ManBearPig on YouTube
If Al Gore met Truth on the street, and Truth said “hello Al”, Al would look the other way and pretend not to know him. Indeed, perhaps Al would now no longer recognize him, since he’s been lying for so long. Truth became inconvenient to Al long ago.
Copenhagen talks break down as developing nations split over ‘Tuvalu’ protocol
Above ”Inconvenient Psalm” on Al Gore by Tony Maclaren:
Priceless. . . .
My own Shakespeare paraphrase:
There are more things in heaven and earth, Goreatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
Al is an actor in a well scripted ruse. He is only one of many players (from the left and from the right ).