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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Don’t envy Al Gore (is that even possible?).
” But for the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and immoral persons and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their part will be in the lake that burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.” Revelation 21:8 [emphasis added]
manbearpig – half man, half bear, half pig ….obviously from the same maths school as the CRU crowd!!!!
hysteria (19:31:18) :
3 halves make 1.5, but then when did anything Al Gore ever said about Climate Science add up to anything less than a half-baked bias?
The MSM could have him totally roasted in about 1.5 interviews.
That might just happen one of these days.
He certainly makes enough of his own verbal gravy.
inversesquare: “That is what science is supposed to be…. people who care about truth ….. that’s what science is supposed to be!!
To see it go down in flames for political reasons, now that is what these people will need to go on trial for when this is all over.
The heart of science is truth and the human spirit.”
EXTREMELY well put!!!
Hear hear.
Chris
Norfolk, VA, USA
“Daryl M (22:59:52) :
It’s shocking to see what a pathological liar Al Gore is.”
Like when he blatantly lied on TV, that the British High Court found in his favour, in the case brought against AIT for being mandantorily shown to school kids without any qualification.
Great Post!
We are covering Climategate in depth at Common Cents…
http://www.commoncts.blogspot.com
ps. Link Exchange??
There was a video on one of these sites, a report by dad & son, on using GSFC data to exhibit rural and urban temperatures over the period 1900-2006.
I can’t find it, can anyone give me the website.
(my email: denis@ablesfamily.com) tks
I don’t think for a minute Gore said that because he thinks it’s correct, he said it because he knows that people will take him at his word, not check for themselves, and discount the whole Climategate issue as a…well, as a non-issue.
And he’s right.
Denis Ables (10:26:14) :
There was a video on one of these sites, a report by dad & son, on using GSFC data to exhibit rural and urban temperatures over the period 1900-2006.
I can’t find it, can anyone give me the website.
Hi Denis,
Was this the site of which you speak?
Kath (23:57:59) :
With apologies to the all-seeing, all-knowing, internet inventin’ Goracle.. but whenever I see his name, an image of a Bull runs through my mind.
The image I see is a bum steer.
That email displayed for November 12, 2009 had what damaging information in it? Gore was referring to the apparently damming email that was 10 years old — and the data made it into the IPCC anyway. The fact that every credible science-based organization on the planet substantially agrees with Gore in regards to man-made climate change leads me to think that I should agree with him also.
@ur momisugly drewsi (00:47:58) :
[snip] The fact that every credible science-based organization [/snip]
Credible is in cru?
Credible as in gores movie?
Credible as in nasa refusing to release their data?
There is zero credibility in the warmist`s theory, none at all.
@drewsi (00:47:58) :
“[…] The fact that every credible science-based organization on the planet substantially agrees with Gore in regards to man-made climate change leads me to think that I should agree with him also.”
The fact that every scientific organization (at one time) believed that the earth was the center of the solar system (and the universe for that matter) would have led you to agree with them? It turns out it’s a good thing someone looked into that, eh?
At some point, someone has to do a little scientific fact checking. Consensus isn’t science.
drewsi – “The fact that every credible science-based organization on the planet substantially agrees with Gore in regards to man-made climate change”
First of all, anyone who believes that there is NO credible scientists who disagree on man made global warming is ignorant on the subject, How about Prof. Mojib Latif of Germany’s Leibniz Institute?
Latif is one of the leading climate modellers in the world. He is the recipient of several international climate-study prizes and a lead author for the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). He has contributed significantly to the IPCC’s last two five-year reports that have stated unequivocally that man-made greenhouse emissions are causing the planet to warm dangerously.
Yet recently in Geneva, at the UN’s World Climate Conference–an annual gathering of the so-called “scientific consensus” on man-made climate change –Latif conceded the Earth has not warmed for nearly a decade and that we are likely entering “one or even two decades during which temperatures cool.” and nobody predicts a reduction in Carbon in the next few decades and we darn well know that there was none in the last decade.
Go read http://joannenova.com.au/globalwarming/the_skeptics_handbook_2-3_mq.pdf
2nd, all those sopposedly sophisticated computer models that predicted continued and never ending temp increases (which included the last 8 years) were wrong, temps have not gone up over the last 8 years and you want us all to belive these non credible computer models produced by scientists who have been proven to enter whatever data it takes to get the results out of them that they want? I think not.
and I thought that Al Gore was the one to trust when it came to this kinda thing. maybe it was good that Bush got into being president, so that the circle of economic downfall and uprise could happen…
Respect for Al Gore = 0.
In addition to “Can’t tell time”, the Reverend Al Gore can’t read a thermometer. Recently he claimed on TV that the earth is a miilion degrees at its core. (lol, spoken like a true science flunky, if that were true the earth would be a sun! The generally accepted earth core temperature is thought to be no more than 7,000 deg K) From this, one can surmise that he is feeling rather warm under the soles of his shoes, and will be beating a hasty retreat from his AGW position and begin promoting ….. drumroll ….. Geothermal Energy.
I’m not so sure Al Gore isn’t THE AUTHORITY on the temperature of the Earth’s core. The WUWT post “Gore cancels on Copenhagen lecture – leaves ticketholders in a lurch”, 3 December 2009 has a picture of Mr. Gore that with a little imagination clearly indicates Al knows whereof his forked tounge speaks. Wherever you plan to spend eternity, it’s a good idea to know what the temperature will be like.
Al Gore has lied so much he is use to it