See Gore Run: "I'm having lunch!"

Very funny! I hope he didn’t have an indigestion…
Ecotretas

Video already pulled down, it seems. You don’t ridicule The Profit.

Wonderful! Why didn’t Al Gore just wheel around for the camera and say “The science is settled!”

Try here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZC1Rnm5z5WI

Gore was out to lunch years ago

Yep, i tried too, No longer available
REPLY: Refresh your browser, I’m able to view it. – A

I actually feel sorry for Gore. He’s not a scientist, and he’s not a lawyer. He turned out to be a rather mediocre politician, too. He’s been caught with his investment hand in the Global Warming cookie jar, while his book and film have been severely discredited. Every time he does a real interview, he makes an abject fool of himself. His friends are either incredibly brainwashed, complete idiots, or crooks like he is. He is responsibile for preaching falseholds that are responsible for genocide. Perhaps it is living under those circumstances that has caused him to be the biggest hypocrite ever.

I saw it yesterday at Bill O’Reilly’s show. It called my attention the Profit’s deep red rushed cheeks…made me remember NOAA’s SST anomalies graphs.

That is the most hilarious video of Gore that I’ve ever seen…

The state run media doesn’t get out much. They used to travel to the events. Now they just regurgitate from bloggers and read Press Releases form the Information truth command headquarters.
The IRS still does ambush visits as does Osha.

Algore is headed into a minority but for some reason the word “tiny” seems to not fit.

RockyRoad (13:50:00) :
good summary

Ambush journalism is the only option when Gore will not allow opposing voices to challenge him anywhere or at anytime.

Anyone who “feels bad” for Gore should replay a few of his smug performances back when the world was his oyster. His Largeness confidently waded off into that media swamp without even getting his feet wet. Now that he’s up to his behind in alligators, I for one am enjoying the show and rooting for the ‘gators.

Rob W (14:07:46) :
“Though I don’t agree with Gore, I feel bad for him. I, for one, don’t like ambush journalism, no matter who it’s practiced on.”
I must say I feel the same. It’s very bad behavior, and reflects poorly on FOX.

toby (14:16:02) :What about Little Lulu?

Do not feel sorry for this mendacious bastard. He knew all along he was lying. He knows he is wrong. He deserves every ambush he gets.

I’m of two minds. On a personal level, I feel for him. But, more importantly, he has taken it upon himself to save the planet. How can he do that if he’s running from the press? If he really had the strengths of his convictions, he’d welcome the opportunity to talk to a prominent news organization. Maybe he really is in it just for the money.

“It’s a book written by an intelligent man for the intelligent reader, the type you’ll never find the Dick Cheneys of the world bothering about.”
toby, change your name to moby.

Original Mike (15:06:50) :
“I’m of two minds. On a personal level, I feel for him. But, more importantly, he has taken it upon himself to save the planet. How can he do that if he’s running from the press? If he really had the strengths of his convictions, he’d welcome the opportunity to talk to a prominent news organization. Maybe he really is in it just for the money.”
If the world needed saving, would the press be the ones to get the job done?? I seriously doubt that. I’m sure Gore does have the strength of conviction, and he said he would consider going on FOX, but he is right about ambush journalism. Do you seriously think he should have taken time out to sit down with that reporter who was chasing him around and do an interview on the spot?

“Henry chance (14:55:52) :
Did Michael Mann ambush the trees with a chainsaw?”
You’re right. We should tell Ecocide Polly.

Part one now available – thank you!
Why do you guys still call him vice-president?
Reply: The titles President and Vice President are used for life by convention in the US. ~ ctm

johnnythelowery (14:04:26) :
AL GORE is wrong again. He’s having everyone else’s lunch!
QOTW!
Quote of the week!

Who said there’s no free lunch?—Actually, he was paid to eat it. Man, what a gig. Gotta get me one of them

Faux News simply displays its own ignorance by such behavior…not Al Gore’s.
REPLY: as do you.- A

Lunchgate?

Sorry, don’t feel bad for Al at all. Own up or shut up. He places himself in this position. If it makes him feel uncomfortable he has only himself to blame. I don’t molly coddle my 4th and 5th graders (and they at least have the excuse of having disabilities, though they can’t use that excuse with me), so why should I feel sorry for a grown man?
Sounds like he is the one ambushing his audience by insisting on closed doors. Usually people who do things in secret end up having to explain themselves later on, and then the explanation does ’em in (remember the wide stance one?).

Glenn (15:31:29) :
Original Mike (15:06:50) :
“I’m of two minds. On a personal level, I feel for him. But, more importantly, he has taken it upon himself to save the planet. How can he do that if he’s running from the press? If he really had the strengths of his convictions, he’d welcome the opportunity to talk to a prominent news organization. Maybe he really is in it just for the money.”
If the world needed saving, would the press be the ones to get the job done?? I seriously doubt that. I’m sure Gore does have the strength of conviction, and he said he would consider going on FOX, but he is right about ambush journalism. Do you seriously think he should have taken time out to sit down with that reporter who was chasing him around and do an interview on the spot?
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Reply:
The answer is a resounding YES!! Consider the alternative:
What if a reporter from Fox News, CBS, ABC, CNN or any of the major news outlets caught up with Mr. Watts, Mr. McIntyer, or any of the major contributors here. Would they give that reporter a few minutes to discuss what has become the most pressing issue facing mankind?
For any of these to give the excuse that they’ve got lunch would be ludicrous. And if they’re that hungry, they’d probably invite the news crew to join them for lunch.. At least Dutch! (Those Big Oil checks don’t provide much of an expense account… lol).
The problem for Gore is this: He’s once again demonstrated no willingness at all to talk to the “little people”. He’s part of the Elite. “Please don’t bother me, scum” is what his actions are saying. And he’s consistent with his message; he’s never available (I doubt he’ll appear on Fox in my lifetime, too).
It is precisely because he has so thoroughly fooled himself is the reason I feel sorry for him. Still, I will fight his cause simply because he is so evil. For one that should know that elections have consequences, Gore should know that bad policy also has consequences–in this case, deadly consequences.
Still, I can see why Gore runs–every time he opens his mouth, he says something that discredits himself and the cause for which he speaks.

I know some politicians and they are decent folk. The problem for politicians, Al Gore included, is that they have to, MUST, listen to advice. The advice from reputable scientific organisations is consistent. Should a politician ignore the APS, Am Met Soc, NAS,,,UK Royal Society,,,, and rather take advice from some bloggers? Please, dont waste your energy on poor old Al. Put your energy into getting the scientific bodies to change their tune. Not one has, that I know of. As soon as a couple of reputable scientific organisations come out against AGW alarmism, then go back to the politicians.
Richard Hill

Gore is at Duke in the video and from his talk there last Thursday:
A Gore aide said Tuesday that media members will only be allowed to record video and audio of the first five minutes of Gore’s talk at Duke University on April 8
http://www.wral.com/news/state/story/7330903/
He only allowed limited video, audio and photo of his speech, and answered only pre-screened questions.

Actually, I found the interviewer to be incredibly weak. If I were going to broach Gore on his reaction to skeptics, I’d have a list of names and positions ready in order to counter the predictable “they’re a tiny minority of nut cases” defence. She’s paid God knows how much for this kind of ineffectual “journalism”?
Bah. Gore’s bad, but at least he’s being conniving and hypocritical for a purpose (to become even richer than he already is). She, however, is just plain incompetent. He brings up conspiracy nuts who believe the moon landing was a hoax, and the only name she can bring to the table is another vice-president?
Double “bah”!

If you receive public funding to promote even crap, doesn’t it then stand to reason that the public has a right to know about it?

Curious term on page 4 of the contract.
The sponsor must supply leads to connect from “The Vice President Gore output on an Apple Macbook Pro to their sound system”
Almost worth paying to book him just to insert that particular plug 😛

When you you say that it is not that far off to compare AGW skeptics to people who believe the earth is flat, you should be able to answer a simple question about sea ice. You might want to know that the core of the earth is not millions of degrees. I have never seen him answer a though question in any forum. If you are going to travel the globe making millions by lying, a few tough questions at inconvenient times is in not out of line.

Notice that in the “60 Minutes” segment, Reverend Al pulled the old “Disinformation Rule #26” trick out of his hat and compared AGW skeptics to flat-earthers. Disinformation rule #26 is employed when the perpetrator knows he’s unable to support his position with the facts. It’s an appeal to emotion, rather than to intellect.

@ Richard Hill (16:30:57) :
“I know some politicians and they are decent folk. The problem for politicians, Al Gore included, is that they have to, MUST, listen to advice. The advice from reputable scientific organisations is consistent. Should a politician ignore the APS, Am Met Soc, NAS,,,UK Royal Society,,,,”
Perhaps, but at some point, if one is a politician, or anything else with a brain, one is obliged to think for themselves. I’m one of those optimists that believe one day critical thinking will be re-engaged. One day.
On an different note, big Al is no longer a politician. He’s simply a business man(putting it as politely as I can). In days gone by, in the U.S., people engaged in selling uniformed people all sorts of things. Snake oil to remedy what ails a person would be one example. Rain men, they convinced people they could make it rain during a drought, would be another. In Europe, people were sold absolution to various sins. Brother Al is simply a combination of all. On one level, you’re correct. He can’t reasonably engage with anyone regarding climate change, he simply doesn’t have the capacity and would be a useless exercise. But, on a different level, he exemplifies what is wrong with the alarmist crowd. He tells us that we are wasteful and our use of resources will be our doom. Yet, that doesn’t seem to faze his use of resources an iota.(It’s all clearly documented.) He, obviously doesn’t allow nor desire a free flow of thoughts or ideas regarding “climate change”.(Witness the above article.) He profits enormously from the many others lacking otherwise required critical thinking skills. And does so without remorse or regard to the people he’s bilked nor the people he’s harming/killing by touting this totalitarian utopia.
Waste energy? He is exactly the type of person that should be hunted, haunted, stalked and taunted, perpetually until he and his ilk are banished from mankind.
A man once said, “Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom.” Today, no truer words are spoken.

The only criticism I have is the addressing of Al Gore as “Mr Vice President”.
He isn’t the VP – so what is it with the jouralists?

Zeke the Sneak (16:48:15) :
And what about EMSmith?

if he did agree to do an interview, i am sure part of the agreement would be that none of the questions we heard in the video could be asked

the video isn’t available!

Kitefreak (15:47:26) :
Why do you guys still call him vice-president?
vice1   [vahys] Show IPA
–noun
1. an immoral or evil habit or practice.
2. immoral conduct; depraved or degrading behavior: a life of vice.
3. sexual immorality, esp. prostitution.
4. a particular form of depravity.
5. a fault, defect, or shortcoming: a minor vice in his literary style.
6. a physical defect, flaw, or infirmity: a constitutional vice.
7. a bad habit, as in a horse.
8. (initial capital letter) a character in the English morality plays, a personification of general vice or of a particular vice, serving as the buffoon.
pres·i·dent – a person who presides (the chief)
I guess, if the cap fits………………….
😉

I’m a skeptic but I don’t like Ambush journalism either. So what if Gore doesn’t want to talk unannounced? Yes, his refusal to debate says much but cheap tactics like this mean nothing. cheapens the debate.

Mack28 (16:35:42) :
The ice is cracking up elsewhere:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1265734/Pictured-Arctic-Survey-team-escape-disaster-ice-cracks-tent.html
Sure, a great crack opens under the tent but misses all of their gear by a foot.
If you believe that the photo was not staged, then I have a rather nice bridge you might be interested in buying.

I agree with those who abhor ambush journalism.
I would much prefer that Mr. Gore accept the challenge from Lord Moncton, but that apparently is not going to happen.
Unfortunately that leaves only occasional opportunities, like the one FOX took advantage of here, to confront Mr. Gore.

Steve in SC (15:46:10) :
Sorry man, but my “internal compass” doesn’t even wish ill on those I disagree with (Al Gore). I realize what a tool he is, but I can still have compassion. I guess that’s the “liberal” in me……but I do appreciate your sentiments.

Mike Jonas (17:51:04) summed it up nicely.
What kind of “journalism” does Al like?
The kind that isn’t really journalism at all. Just sycophant typists who will report his slippery sermons as delivered.
This greasy used planet salesman is such an obvious fraud that I have always been astounded that anyone could possibly take him or anything he was flogging seriously.
His incredible phoney kiss of Tipper – just to ‘prove’ he wasn’t a wooden zombie – should have been the final tipping point for his credibility but so many people were in denial that more voted for him than Bush Jr. (Such marvellous choices Big Brother gives us!) Then even though nobody so richly deserved to get screwed out of that win, everybody felt sorry for him and he popped back up to capitalize on that and save the planet. As if inventing the internet was not enough.
Bad move for Al. He could have gone down in history playing the noble victim card but now he’s the joker. His name will be forever remembered in connection with this mega-fraud, with more derision and ridicule than even Madoff. He should become at least as famous as Ponzi – depending on who writes the history books of course.
Whew. I hope I lived up to my pen name.

4 billion (18:04:23) :
You are looking short term. And you folks always tell us to not do that….. especially when we bring up the record cold and snow that’s been happening.
But, what will you do when El Nino ends and there is no warming for more that 15 years?

@ 4 billion (18:35:26) :
Smokey (18:14:57) :
You don’t think they would love to ask Gore a few questions?
FOX news asking Gore about the current normal level of Arctic sea ice and not the ongoing trend of Arctic sea ice coverage demonstrates the superficial nature of their questioning.
Rising sea levels will constitute a pretty effective ‘liquidation plan’, a 1 meter sea level rise will cause about 600 million people to become refugees, the resulting chaos would no doubt lead to severe loss of Human life.
Uhmm…..correct me if I’m wrong, but the prophesied rise in sea level came from the melting of the arctic ice, correct? Have you checked the ice since 2007? Further, you are apparently assuming the rise will happen over night? Sea levels, like temps, have raised and lowered constantly throughout history. Other than Noah’s flood, can you name a time in history when there was such a catastrophe that caused the SUDDEN displacement of significant portion of the world’s population? Please recall, only a generation or 2 ago, the arctic ice was significantly less than what it is today. Sorry, your story doesn’t “jive” with history nor reality.

I don’t feel bad for him. He’s made millions… which, by the way, is the temperature of the earth’s core.

It was funny and revealing. Perhaps it would be equally entertaining, fair and balanced, if Fox ambushed Viscount Monckton over reported claims of being a member of The House of Lords and a Noble Laureate. Fair is fair.

I’m getting a bit tired of this canard. Lord Monckton, as a hereditary peer, is a member of the House of Lords. While he can no longer vote, he can still attend and speak.
As for the (highly discredited and debased) Noble Prize, he did, in fact, have input into the IPCC Report which won it (by highlighting an error in a chart which was subsequently amended) and apparently received a pin, just like all the other chumps involved. If you’ve ever heard him speak of it, its always been as a JOKE.

Ambush journalism? Wait, if it truly is as bad as they’ve put out, if humanity itself is on the brink of extinction, then I’d assume they’d be more than willing to engage with a contrary journalist. At least to the point of answering some rudimentary questions. Climate gate? Ice levels? If one truly believed the garbage he’s spewed, then a reasonable person would arm themselves with at the very least a good rhetorical response or two, but then, one would actually have to believe half of it was true and they’d have to have half a brain to be able to articulate the dire situation beyond reading from a script or telepromter.

Amino Acids in Meteorites (18:47:45) :
I am looking at thirty years of a warming trend via Satellite data, as well as short term monthly figures. The March record reflects the trend.
2010 has got off to a record start, with a weaker El Nino than 98, suggesting something else is also adding to the warmth, so El Nino may decline and not temperature anomalies, I guess the next 9 months will be the test.
Early 2010 warmth has strengthened the 15 year warming trend from 0.12 to 0.17 deg C, now statistically significant warming, so claims of no warming over 15 years are no longer valid.

Al has to run, its practice for when the useful idiots who have worshipped him wake up.Al has used and cynically abused the dreamers, vaccuming up their money. I expect the backlash to bankrupt him.But he needs to run, the anger of his followers will be as irrational as their current belief in Al. 2010 is good.

Zeke the Sneak (16:48:15) :
“Good to see Glenn posting again. Now if we could just locate tallbloke, we’ll have a complete collection. 🙂
And a happy birthday to anna v this month as well.”
Why thanks, I think. How old is she, by the way? 😎

Amino Acids,
You brought up a really good point earlier – we are talking about a man who has made money off of scaring children.
I’m still a little scarred from when I was in primary school and, more or less, the teachers implied we were all going to get skin cancer and die because of the holes in the ozone layer. So I admit, I’m biased on this point.
I have no sympathy for this man. If he’s a victim of anything it’s of his own spotlight.
It’s like the girl at the bar who gets drunk and starts dancing on the table… and then gets pissed off that everyone is laughing at her when she slips and falls. You can’t have it both ways.

Happy 29th Anna V!
I’m turning 29 again this year too ; )

4 billion (18:35:26) :
There is no sea level rise [at least catastrophic], and even if there was, it certainly has nothing to do with Arctic sea ice, which is oceanic and does not change the sea levels one bit.
Chris
Norfolk Virginia, USA

4 billion (20:11:20) :
@ James Sexton (18:59:50) :
……….
Projected Sea level rise by the IPCC is due to thermal expansion of warming Sea water,………….. I am thinking of the ongoing stress of moving populations to other land as cause for conflict, not the actual innundation of land causing loss of life.
Sea Ice charts from the early in the previous century show Arctic ice was nowhere near the current summer time lows.
Cool, now I know where you’re coming from. If we lived in a vacuum, a simple test would suffice. Get a bucket of sea water, raise the temp 2 degrees and then tell me how much expansion you’ve observed, then extrapolate. Then tell me about the impending catastrophe. Now consider, if as been postulated, ice melts and consider area gained vs area lost, then would we not have more land than less to live upon? I suspect we would given the properties of ice vs sea water and the resulting area coverage. I’ve too many beers in me to come up with the formulas, but it seems the alarmism in this regard is a bit over done. But, I’d be happy to entertain your thoughts on this subject. Please note, while many consider land coverage to be 2 dimensional, in regards to sea level rise, it is 3 and more coned shaped than cylindrical.

When someone refuses to answer questions, I have all the information I need.

@4 billion (20:11:20) :…..nvm, apparently, while sea level rise is going to be our impending doom, we were(I was) considering it wrong………http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/04/13/ipcc-sea-level-prediction-not-scary-enough/#comment-367475
As always, the alarmist crowd changes the goal posts before one can really sink their teeth into an alleged potential catastrophe. (yeh, mixed metaphors)

4 billion (20:11:20) :
Projected Sea level rise by the IPCC
Just one last thing, and that’s it for my exchanges with you here; aren’t there ‘-gate’ problems with the IPCC? Because I’ve been seeing a lot of about that for a few months now.
The answer is yes, there’s lots of problems with the IPCC.

If he refuses to answer questions or debate,then this is what he will get,and quite right too

About that “no press allowed” sign. Is that Gore NOT hiding the decline (to comment)?

Moderators… please… troll alert… 4 Billion…can’t… breath…
Statistics is a precise thing. To pull out your +15 potion of linear trend and claim it as statistically significant is just pure fantasy. That ain’t statistics.
Must…stop…feeding…

Steve in SC (15:46:10)
Wow, you got to meet Cheney too?!

REPLY: Yes, becuase it occurs only in a small percentage of the total area.
Greenland’s area of ice loss is increasing:
Spread of ice mass loss into northwest Greenland observed by GRACE and GPS
Greenland’s main outlet glaciers have more than doubled their contribution to global sea level rise over the last decade. Recent work has shown that Greenland’s mass loss is still increasing. Here we show that the ice loss, which has been well-documented over southern portions of Greenland, is now spreading up along the northwest coast, with this acceleration likely starting in late 2005.
http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2010/2010GL042460.shtml
Animation of expanding Greenland ice loss from Wahr 2010
http://lemond.colorado.edu/~wahr/greenland.movie.mpeg
REPLY: Still insignificant

L Ron Hubbard has nothing on Mr Gore as i think Mr Gore realised that aliens and AGW don’t mix.

Lunch is more important than telling those pesky Fox News viewers how wrong they are.
I guess so, as it looks like he has never missed a hot meal yet!

Anthony,
I think, in the interests of civil and constructive conversation, I sense an opportnity here. What if there were style recommendations for WUWT like the following:
1.) If you are talking about a trend specify the dates for it
2.) When talking about temperature specify the temp set being used or at the very least surface vs. sat
3.) If talking about ice extent specify Arctic/Antarctic and summer (September) vs. winter (March)
4.) Same goes for TSI reconstructions – some are more variable than others as demonstrated by the recent Svalgaard-Scafetti discussion
As well demonstrated by that horrible IPCC chart posted recently, in many data sets just about any trend can be demonstrated – saying “the trend is X” without specifying the timeframe just adds to the confusion.
The same goes for the temp sets (depending on what you want to say/show you will probably have a favorite)… and I think it was an article by Joe Romm that accused the “anti-science” crowd of focusing on the wrong ice extent (meaning arctic max) – I guess out of the 4 (actic/antarctic max/min) there is only one “right” one but anyway. Debating the relative importance of X vs. Y measures for describing something (Z) is a valid conversation, but that’s different than saying Z is doing this (because of X) without specifying X as your basis of analysis… when Y implies something different.
I’m not saying these should be binding rules or anything, just recommendations. It just seems like there is a lot of unnecessary/recurring arguing/confusion because people fail to specify what they’re talking about. In my world (I work for really big corporation – which is not Big Oil/Coal/T in case that’s important) the mantra is to look for opportunities in every challenge and, to me, this seems like an opportunity to make the conversations here more constructive – even if it’s only for the active commenters (like me).
Cheers!

Love it, that’s good, esp. that first video.

Oh, my gosh! At least sucker him in with a few softball questions! Come on guys. Be a little smarter with the interview tactics.

Original Mike (07:28:59) :
@Glenn (15:31:29): “Do you seriously think he [Gore] should have taken time out to sit down with that reporter who was chasing him around and do an interview on the spot?”
“Why not? Monckton showed us how it’s done. See the video Amino Acids posted at 16:24:01. Alternatively, he could accept the invitation to appear on O’Reilly’s show (and don’t tell me you consider Gore’s “I’ll consider it” sincere).”
Gore isn’t Monckton, and not the same event. Was Gore just looking to grab a burger at the drive through, or did he have an appointment with someone? This is crappy journalism, I’d call paparazzi journalism, which is not journalism, but sensationalism for profit. And I seriously doubt that had Gore stopped in his tracks, immediately went and sat down at a table and invited the reporter to a question and answer session (both ways), the reporter would have participated on camera and posted it. Maybe after some editing, though.
No, I doubt Gore will consider going on Oreilly’s talk show. I wouldn’t either, with a person that stoops to that level. That video like this is publicized is dirty tactics and disgusting to me. Just my opinion.

Lotta people just want to eat their waffle.

Anyone that pays Algore $100,000 to talk about anything needs their head examined