Somebody really should take Mr. Gore aside and explain the imagery this name and the “personal blessing” by Gore conjures up. Newsbusters has a story on the creation of this group back in 2008, with the backstory on the connections of the people involved.
Press release:
Inconvenient Youth: Al Gore’s Alliance for Climate Protection to Launch New Initiative on Earth Day
The Climate Project Will Invite Five Teenagers to be Trained Personally by Gore
Inconvenient Youth Will Build Next Generation of Environmental Leaders
For immediate release: Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Press inquiries: Carrie Criado, 615-327-7577, press@theclimateproject.org
Laura Burton Capps, 202-567-6800, press@climateprotect.org
Washington, D.C. and Nashville, TN — Teens who want to make a real difference in the fight against climate change will now have a place to share their pledges, actions and ideas. Inconvenient Youth (www.inconvenientyouth.org), the new teen climate education initiative of The Climate Project, a program of the Alliance for Climate Protection, will launch on Earth Day, April 22. Inconvenient Youth will also enable five teens to participate in The Climate Project’s upcoming Our Choice Training with Nobel Laureate and former Vice President Al Gore, to be held in June. The initiative dovetails with the Alliance’s Repower America “youth surge” campaign to organize students on college campuses across the country.
“Inconvenient Youth is built on the belief that teens can help lead efforts to solve the climate crisis. It will give this generation – which has a unique stake in this issue – a chance to organize and exchange ideas with other young people who want to do their part to address the climate crisis. Perhaps most importantly, this initiative was inspired by youth and shaped by youth with their unique viewpoint guiding it forward,” said Gore.
more here: http://www.inconvenientyouth.org/blog/?p=81
Here is a video trailer, note the laptop. Mr. Gore is on the board of Apple. The VW says “powered by vegetable oil”. Only one problem, it still produces CO2 when the oil is burned. Since Mr. Gore’s focus is on CO2 and not NOx or Soot, or SO2, you’d think they would have labeled the VW as “electric”.
The other problem with vegetable oil is that it is a finite resource. There is only so much used vegetable oil in a city available, so it really isn’t a “sustainable” concept beyond just a few vehicles.
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NOTE: I know there will be a temptation to draw parallels with a another “youth” name, please commenters, don’t go there as all such comments will be snipped.- Anthony
h/t to CTM
If your son is an idiot he’s an inconvenient youth. Nice of the inventor of the Internet to start a self help group. It can be quite a challenge to learn kids with learning disabilities to take care of themselves. Al Gore is an all American hero.
Snippers, or at least self-snippers, need to be careful:- SNIP is the nickname for the Scottish National Party (SNP) who are in the throes of a General Election campaign here at the moment.
I would NOT like WUWT to be thought of as a Party Political machine.
BTW, now that the Icelandic ash is deemed to have gone away, a super sunset here at the moment.
That’s funny!
I had a couple of “inconvenient youth” too…surprise!, but we love them.
I’ve got a couple others that are starting to get really inconvenient (puberty, grrrr)….
“I’m only 8 years old and I get it.”
No you don’t. You’re understanding of political influence and human nature is lacking. Hopefully through experience/education, you will learn critical thinking and make up your own mind. I don’t hold much hope for you though.
Hmmmm. He feels as Socrates….no problem! we can give him the hemlock he deserves for perverting youth. History repeats itself, though he is not a Socrates but a fool pretending to be a philosopher, and using the pitagorean symbol of the pentad. How presumptuous!
I have trained my kids to yell “stranger! Danger!’ when approched by AGW bs spewing loons.
This guy, instead of a vegetable oil powered car needs an oil colonics!
NOTE: I know there will be a temptation to draw parallels with a another “youth” name, please commenters, don’t go there as all such comments will be snipped.- Anthony
I was going to mention Musical Youth but I didn’t know pop/reggae was so disliked.
“Pass the Dutchie on the left hand side…”
I did have the revelation this morning that US traffic laws are against the liberal left. After stopping for the red (light) it is legal to turn right.
Apparently ‘science’ czar John Holdren is hoping for something called Youth in Asia to save the planet.
I understand it now!….you know who, last night, was sneaking out from the closet!
Al Gore will personally instruct his young acolytes: click…
…using empirical facts: click
The evils of fossil fuels will be explained: click
Dissent will not be tolerated: click
Indoctrination headquarters: click
The acolytes will be sent out to sell subscriptions to Al’s magazine: click. Their pay: click
The Guru: click
The Guru’s bedtime story: click
So the Goracle is to choose 5 – the best of the best – to train in the ways of the alarmist. This simply has too many parallels with the Way of the Warrior and Kung Fu to be ignored.
The Goracle’s mansion is the new Shaolin Temple, to which the five must face a gruelling and hazardous journey to reach. There they will be trained in the most deadly arts of the Carbon Warrior. They first must study the way of “Hockey Thump” as perfected by the ancient master Ho Ke Mann. Then they must master other esoteric and deadly arts such as “Moonbattery” and “Romm Fist”, before moving onto the “secret rings of Yamal.”
Only when a student can snatch a sceptics argument from Gore’s hand can he become a master, and wear the robes of a true warmist.
Shameless is too mild a word.
I’m sure this eight year old kid really reads a lot of “articles about climate change” and then he “sees what other people in other countries are doing about it” and then he looks at “politicians” and thinks “they just don’t seem to be getting the message”.
Is there no ploy too emotional and despicable for these people?
I guess it’s OK to play dirty when you’re trying to save the planet.
JN (11:20:36) : “@Tim Maguire ……Look up an old German dictator for the one specific parallel he is refering too.”
I am thinking it was more like someone who could teach the kids how to moonwalk, that would be a thriller.
On a similar tangent, the BBC’s ‘Ethical man’ series had a report last May about Leo Podesta’s group training youth in civil disobedience and resisting arrest in the coming campaign to save us from The Warming.
Given Podesta’s connection with the White House – Van Jones now works with Podesta – I thought that was totally over the top too. But it does show us the grand plan emerging.
Combine this with a horde of brainwashed braindead ‘teachers’ showing Gore’s science fiction movie and preaching eco-doomsday and we have the recipe for some seriously frightening consequences.
Smokey (12:54:23) : Great photoshops!, however think a few snip deserving ones are missing☺
I remember the movie the killing Fields, about the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, a brief scene of a kid with an AK47, basically guarding terrified adults.
That was threat of violence backed up by the means to commit violence.
Now we have the Jungen Vert troopers, using the capricious disdain of callow youth, to cow parents into subjegation. What parent can tolerate the thought of being condemned as a bad parent, especially by their kids?
This will drive a wedge through some families…picture this scene:
Grave site, fresh grave, youth in prim green U.N Jungen Vert International Peace Maker uniform.
“I’m sorry Dad,…it had to be, no one can mercy flush and expect to get away with it. If only you had of believed in composting toilets.”
How to tell if some one doesn’t have a real argument:
Name calling…
Abuse (physical threats, cuss words, etc..)…
Attacks on character…
and
Appealing to children
As I understand it Gore spent his own inconvenient youth living high on the hog because of the vast fortune his family had accumulated over generations as tobacco millionaires. A bit inconvenient, that.
Here’s a link for that…
I find our youth already inconvenient, no need to wait.
“Next Generation of Environmental Leaders ” – That sounds ominously like the nasty organisation “Common Purpose”
The farce continues. In Spain the Socialist Governemnt will stop subsidizing “Green Energy” in part. And they are talking about retroactively getting part of money back they enticed the suppliers with!!
http://www.cotizalia.com/en-exclusiva/gobierno-estudia-retroactividad-rebaja-ayudas-renovables-20100421.html
The “green energy” is so “efficent” that increases to each Spanish citizen more 250 Euros/Year in illumination costs:
http://www.expansion.com/2010/04/19/empresas/energia/1271712211.html
Clever!
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Love that!