‘Frozen Gore’ sculpture returns in Fairbanks to fuel climate change debate
Fairbanks Daily Miner | January 5, 2010 | Jeff Richardson
FAIRBANKS – In what might become an annual tradition, an ice sculpture of former Vice President Al Gore has taken its place in front of Thrifty Liquor along Airport Way.
The two-ton “Frozen Gore” sculpture isn’t exactly a tribute. It’s a tongue-in-cheek critique of Gore’s vocal belief in man-made climate change, complete with hot air pouring out of his mouth.
Local businessmen Craig Compeau and Rudy Gavora contracted the piece from award-winning sculptor Steve Dean and say they’ll keep erecting one each winter until Gore accepts an invitation to discuss the global warming issue in Fairbanks.
“We do want to invite debate,” Compeau said. “We don’t agree with his theories — we’re suspicious of the financial motivation behind them.”
This year’s version includes special effects, thanks to a system that pipes the exhaust from a Ford F-350 out of Gore’s open mouth. Compeau will fire up the truck periodically this winter to create the “hot air” effect.
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Why a sculpture? Couldnt they invite the real live Gore to go there and blow a puff or two of frosty air?
Richard (11:34:12) :
I see the point you are making. In December most of Europe and North America were basking in a heatwave.
Silly me! I thought it was cold, but obviously I forgot to homogenise the data.
Now I believe antimatter exists: HE is made of it!
While the Alaskans party, Russia is stealing the North Pole:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/12/091224-north-pole-magnetic-russia-earth-core.html
DirkH (09:12:02) :
“Somebody predicts the alarmists will switch to global cooling as scare scenario…
I find this a bit premature, but who knows….”
Well, at least twice in the 20th century the alarmists were pumping the cooling (ice age) scare/worries. They’ve also pumped the warming scare before.
http://www.businessandmedia.org/specialreports/2006/fireandice/FireandIce.pdf
David44 (12:27:02) :Call Sarah!
P Gosselin (08:52:40) :
Actually, Alaska has been warmer than normal this year.
This is proof of global cooling. I am merely using the same logic which says when it is cooling, this is proof of warming.
Alan
Richard (11:34:12) wrote:
‘There is a picture of the December anomalies, supplied by the Met Office UK at the BBC site, which shows most of the world at above normal temperatures, including NZ and Eastern Europe, for December which doesnt seem to be correct.’
The Met Office has just shown the last week of December, and that may explain why they have shown a warm New Zealand. Clearly, if you pick your time period ‘correctly’, you can show what you want.
Does anyone else think that the sculptor has given Al Bore a distinctly Asian appearance? And those eyes, they seem to follow me as I move my head from side to side. It’s downright creepy.
Andrew Francis (10:17:26) :
Great clip of Andrew Neil on the BBC Daily Politics Show, broadcast today, grilling the UK’s warmist MET office chief about their rubbish forecasts for a barbeque summer and mild winter – and his 25% payrise – despite getting every forecast completely wrong for the last 3 years.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/the_daily_politics/8443687.stm
Thanks for the link Andrew. It was nice to see the head of the Met squirming on his seat as Andrew Neil laid into him. Definitely one to see!
A Wod (13:05:45) : The Met Office has just shown the last week of December, and that may explain why they have shown a warm New Zealand. Clearly, if you pick your time period ‘correctly’, you can show what you want.
Yes that is true. A bit of dishonesty there.
But I think even the last week of December is not correct for eastern Europe at least, though we may have warmed up for 4 days of that 7 to show us slightly warm, whereas we will remember December as the month where summer didnt seem to appear.
Albert Warming alert = when temp. drops below 32F
Re: Andrew Francis – Andrew Neil grilling MET office chief.
Great clip and very surprising coming from the BBC. Very well prepared interviewer and hard questions – highly recommend watching.
Cheers
Michael
Al’s people are very adaptable. Currently, they are running around the beaches here in SE Virginia rescuing cold-stunned sea turtles. These endangered turtles, according to local water men, are about as rare as land mines in Kosovo but our local eco-heroes have them all safely ensconced in a Holiday Inn Express.
Don’t they have some kind of rule about not thwarting Darwin?
On that linked Monbiot article, the ‘weather is not climate’ argument is repeated, ad infinitum. His argument is that cold weather in Britain is not indicative of a lack of Global warming. Meanwhile, in Australia, the environment minister is loudly and proudly proclaiming that a warmer than (1961-90) average in 2009 is proof of global warming. So it seems that cold weather in one country is not proof of a lack of global warming, but warm weather in another country is proof of global warming. Talk about having it both ways.
On the bright side, Monbiot has effectively denied himself the chance of ever linking warmer weather to global warming ever again. If he ever posts an article on a heat wave somewhere, and links it to global warming, all that needs to be done is to remind him of this article.
On another point, the pro-AGW comments on his article show the usual mud slinging, shills of the oil company, deniers, anti-scientists, the science is settled etc. One commenter even claims to have read all the UEA emails and sees nothing wrong at al. Not one of them attempts to provide a shred of evidence, it’s all just name calling and cliche repeating. I don’t think this thing will ever be sorted out and put behind us. Some kind of massive breakthrough in public conciousness is needed, something like a ‘convenient truth’ movie or something.
brc (15:10:03) : On that linked Monbiot article, the ‘weather is not climate’ argument is repeated, ad infinitum. His argument is that cold weather in Britain is not indicative of a lack of Global warming. Meanwhile, in Australia, the environment minister is loudly and proudly proclaiming that a warmer than (1961-90) average in 2009 is proof of global warming. So it seems that cold weather in one country is not proof of a lack of global warming, but warm weather in another country is proof of global warming. Talk about having it both ways.
‘Anthropogenic Global Warming’ is not a scientific theory at all as it not falsifiable. It therefore belongs in the same category of pseudoscience and quackery as astrology. With the added advantage that its predictions cannot be “proven” wrong till a Century later. (After all even if the temperature doesnt increase and the ice doesnt melt and sea levels dont rise after 99 years, it could possibly all happen in the 100th year). Thus warmists turn around and say “prove us wrong – you cant”. How very right the “theory” is not falsifiable – like God.
But in the public perception heat waves and cold waves are important. Only the most die-hard warmist would stick to his guns if the winter snow didnt melt till April or May for example.
brc (15:10:03) :
Monbiot fails the Hemispere Test.
If the Northern Hemisphere in general has a colder winter than it has a warmer summer, that means that the N.H. has cooled, and AGW is false, for C02 rises.
It’s not even as kind as that: The current N.H. winter is far colder than the summer was late to the dance/early to exit.
AGW is cold-swamped and freeze-dried.
Nashville, TN where Gore lives, is rather chilly this winter. The NWS forecast is for a low of 22 deg F overnight and a high of 31 tomorrow with 100% chance of snow. Average temps (1979 to 2000) for this date are a a low of 28 and high of 45 according to the NWS:
http://www.weather.gov/climate/xmacis.php?wfo=ohx
On Saturday, the forecast is for a low of 7 and a high of 20.
I think the sculpture also needs to show the amount he earns from carbon trading and other activities created due to the fear of AGW.
[ perhaps that’s the intensity of the green color 😉 -mod ]
LoL…. Cool.
I think some math needs to be applied to this. Back of the Envelope (BOE):
1000 kg = 1 ton, 2 tons = 2000 kg.
1 kg (water) = 1 liter = 1 quart. 4 quarts = 1 gallon.
2000 kg = 500 gallons. Roughly.
Or we could stick to traditional measures.
1 pint (water) = 1 pound. 2 tons = 4000 lbs = 4000 pints.
2 pints = 1 qt. 8 pints = 1 gallon.
Yep. 500 gallons.
I wonder if a suitable mold couldn’t be designed? Or how about an ice cube tray. Great for global warming summer parties.
Maybe this sculpture could qualify to receive “public arts” funding from Uncle Sugar’s National Endowment for the Arts, or from the state?
If, so then let there be two, three, many such ice capades, portraying Suzuki, Hansen, etc. all over the land, like amber waves of grain. (Maybe building them could be art-student projects at colleges.) Or perhaps these could be easier-to-do and more temporary snowmen, constructed using the “Eskimold” kit.
Schrodinger’s Cat (09:54:03) :
The Beeb is to review bias in it’s reporting of scientific matters including climate change.
Yea, I’m sure it will be as unbiased as this ripping yarn. Michael Palin couldn’t come with a better plot.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8394266.stm
If any of you are tempted to donate money to Oxfam read the following letter which appeared in the local newspaper in Norwich tonight. This “charity” gets a significant proportion of its funding from UK government and EU sources, by the way.
After a disastrous 2009, the new year offers new hope in many respects. And while the UN climate talks in Copenhagen ended with a “historic cop-out”, as Oxfam describes it, there is much reason to believe that 2010 will be different.
The politicians meeting in Denmark’s capital may have huffed, puffed, squabbled and gesticulated, but tens of thousands of ordinary people like me gathered there with a common purpose: solving this climate crisis. We had no other interest besides solving a global problem threatening us all – including us in Norfolk.
The so-called “Copenhagen Accord” stated “the desire to keep warming below two degrees”, but put in place no commitment, and no method by which to do so. As one observer commented: “If the climate were a bank it would have been saved: not abandoned to the brutality of the market.”
If temperatures increase two degrees, it will cause sea levels to rise by more than two metres – swamping the Norfolk Broads, flooding the Thames Estuary and inundating our south-eastern coastline. London, Portsmouth, and much of Kent will need vast new flood defences.
But at least we have the resources to protect ourselves. In developing countries, 300,000 people are dying every year from increased drought, severe flooding, water and food shortages and tropical storms. So, as campaigners like me gathered at Copenhagen, we knew that time was running out.
While the UN summit ended in failure, our own “Peoples Summit” was a success. In solidarity, in unity, fighting for a common cause, we built huge momentum for the future. We protested, we networked, discussed real solutions and produced better outcomes on our own than any politician could manage.
We realised that 2009 was not the end but just the beginning. It saw the world’s biggest demonstration against climate change. It saw 1.5 million people gather at Oxfam’s climate hearings held all over the world, to testify against the global warming impacts they are feeling right now. The summit at Copenhagen, far from weakening our resolve, made us stronger. So, we go forward into 2010 knowing that while there is work still to do, in order to get the fair and safe global deal we all need, and while a fresh approach and new direction is called for, we are better placed and better equipped to succeed than ever before.
James Cracknell, Oxfam campaigner for Norfolk.
here’s a great clip of this.