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
Don’t forget that Fat Al is only superficially an ordinary warmist; deep in his filthy heart he’s the biggest money-grabbing bastard you can find. Maybe he’ll teach the kids something useful – appear righteous while picking the purses of the population. Or maybe he just exploits them for a new money-making scheme and throws them away afterwards.
How come the spoilt little brat wasn’t walking to school?
Find Canadian Maurice Strong; find the Goreacle; find Power Corp.; find UNations; find Saddam; find North Korea, and more.
“The event’s main sponsor is Investors Group, a Power Corp. company owned by the Desmarais family. The Desmarais family and their Belgian partner, Albert Frere, are the largest shareholders in oil company Total, which hopes to take three billion barrels of oil from the Alberta tar sands over the next 30 years.”
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“Gore indirectly involved in Alberta’s oil industry
Five months after saying the exploitation of the tar sands was “one of the most serious threats to the human race,” former U.S. vice-president Al Gore came back to Montreal this week with financial backing from Investors Group, a Power Corporation affiliate that is indirectly involved in Alberta’s oil industry.
The man behind the documentary An Inconvenient Truth will participate Thursday in an international conference organized during the 2010 Millennium Summit. The event will also include Sarah Ferguson, duchess of York, and actress Kristin Davis of Sex and the City fame.
The event’s main sponsor is Investors Group, a Power Corp. company owned by the Desmarais family. The Desmarais family and their Belgian partner, Albert Frere, are the largest shareholders in oil company Total, which hopes to take three billion barrels of oil from the Alberta tar sands over the next 30 years.
During a trip to Toronto at the end of November, Gore said the exploitation of the tar sands is the “largest source of polluting energy on earth” and represents “one of the most serious threats to the human race.””
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Environment/2010/04/21/13667036-qmi.html
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Maurice Strong
Maurice Strong, United nations, oil for food, cordex, tonsung park, kyoto, … of Paul Martin company that accepted Saddam’s million worked for Power Corp. …
http://www.canadafreepress.com/maurice-strong.htm
Mike 86,
Sorry, the 12 apostles were already taken by the Obamessiah.
Another reason to stay away from active volcano’s!
http://factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com/2010/04/another-reason-to-stay-away-from-active.html
The new leaders of the environmental movement?
http://factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com/2010/04/naked-communism-of-earth-day.html
Whoa! AGW indoctrination of children, building a new Kmer?…
I would’nt send my kid to his mansion. Who would?
Too bad we can’t call it what it is.
“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. ”
If you were to give the CO2 = AGW nonsense any credence, there’s still an important difference here: Carbon in diesel was safely underground until it was pumped out of the ground, refined, and burned in a diesel engine. Vegetable oil, however, comes from a plant which was growing at the surface and had drawn carbon out of air. Provided an equal amount of plant material is grown to replace the previous crop, that vegetable oil would, in a perfect world, be carbon-neutral. Naturally the stuff has to be processed and today that likely means using fossil fuels, and the shipping of the stuff probably also uses fossil fuels, but I was going for a perfect-world scenario; and besides, it still wouldn’t be carbon-neutral if the stuff was going to end-of-life as used french-fry oil 😉
That’s five kids that are going to be really messed up…..
…..when they grow up and figure it out.
“Teach” them what? . . . climate science? Aren’t there better professors for that subject, perhaps those who did better in school than Al did?
Oh wait. It’s not teach, but train. One is not “trained” in climate science. Perhaps they mean to train the selected five in the tactics and strategies found in Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals” or the techniques of propaganda.
Will they be insulated from debate as Gore has been?
Is there any significance in the number five? A Pentangle (in the religious sense, not the band)?
JN (11:20:36) – What an old German dictator may look like.
Quiz: The press release was dated April 20 which is also ________ birthday
Language Patrol: It seems necessary these days to now and again remind a very large and persistent group of folks that:
Loose rhymes with moose, and means ‘not tight’.
Lose rhymes with ooze, and means ‘don’t have it anymore’.
Loosing rhymes with goosing, and means ‘releasing’.
Losing rhymes with schmoozing, and means ‘misplacing’ or ‘not winning’.
Hint: 99 times out of 100, if you’re about to write ‘loose’ or ‘loosing’, you probably mean ‘lose’ or ‘losing’.
Drives me crazy.
regeya (14:43:11) – Or the diesel fuel was dangerously hidden underground, migrating and leaking into the environment until we helped remove it in a controlled fashion and incinerated it.
Leaking into the environment? Yes. Many (some experts say most) oil deposits are found by following oil seeps to their source.
Some of the kids ideas are interesting over at
http://www.inconvenientyouth.org/ideas.php
e.g
“March 31, 2010
RachelGreiner – Green Shirts
So say that there is going to be some sort of cool petition day or something, like earth day. To show that somethings up, we could all wear our “green shirts” (or whatever they would be called.) to advertise our actions to other people and then we would get the word out and at the same time build some sort of commerade-ship because it always feels good to know that you are part of a group that’s doing something cool. Maybe the proceedes from the shirts could go to some good organization as well.”
Or
“April 3, 2010
Imani – Carbon Footprint Grants
In my area, the local government should create a carbon footprint rating level and keep track of everyone\’s carbon footprint. Anyone\’s carbon footprint that is in the \’great\’ range is eligible for prizes. Prizes would include money, free green-vacations, free food and coupons. Also, people who purchase, own or use green technology and power (examples include biodiesel cars, a home that uses 100% renewable energy, a person who owns or buys from a renewable energy company, etc) are eligible for awards.”
What Gore is doing is already incorporated into college class work: http://www.cfc.umt.edu/ccs/Students_intern.html
Anthony, you don’t need to go back to the last century. Exploitation of children is alive and well and beamed into your living room every day. Just look at the sexualisation of young children by the fashion industry and the music industry. Look at fast food, toys, basically anything that gets kids reaching for your wallet. It’s called “marketing” and it is a science (of a sort) that puts things at the browse line and at the check out in your local supermarket. But that’s ok isn’t it?
Now a step to the dark side. We have child labour in third world countries. We have child soldiers and yes we have Chavez and Mugabe and … a long list of others. Now we have Gore. Will his green shirts be any different from Mugabe’s National Youth Service aka Green Bombers? http://www.africafiles.org/article.asp?ID=6498
History has shown us why old men send young men to war. And we still do it. Recruiting our children into idealistic youth brigades is just the first step down a slippery slope towards “carbonnacht”.
It is perhaps ironic that the same youth that embrace the newest technology causing real destruction of the environment and species loss (e.g. coltan mining) are now to be our saviours from some other supposed environmental evil. But that is ok too becuse the ends justify the means.
Rant off/
Congratulations to Anthony on his civilised ‘snip’ policy for inappropriate comparisons to Mr Gore’s youth movement. Public life in Anthony’s country and mine (Australia) would benefit hugely from wider application of his civility. Inappropriate comparisons are unnecessary anyway. Just refer to the medieval Children’s Crusade.
Oh great — another childrens’ crusade.
“April 3, 2010
Imani – Carbon Footprint Grants
In my area, the local government should create a carbon footprint rating level and keep track of everyone\’s carbon footprint. Anyone\’s carbon footprint that is in the \’great\’ range is eligible for prizes. Prizes would include money, free green-vacations, free food and coupons.”
We could also bring Bob Barker out of retirement to MC the whole shindig.
I have done the calculation and concluded that on this blog Anthony expends 1.2435 +/- 0.4 attoJoules per character. Some of that energy required the release of CO2 into the atmosphere. Therefore, in the spirit of “slowing down” global warming, I recommend that Anthony use codes instead of phrases or words to specify the “Category” of each post. In the spirit of using short codes for information that is obvious (i.e., that requires very few bits), I recommend that Anthony encode the Category “Gore is an idiot” with a “blank”. That way, every post will contain at least one obvious truth and no energy will be expended transmitting that truth to the public.
BTW: I am looking for a grant of a few billion $ to improve the accuracy of my “attoJoules per character” estimate.
Child abuse plain and simple. I
cont’d…I have a 7 and 6 year old and luckily they have a Dad who is a 22yr meterologist and is very in tune with the whoooooole debate here. Not my kids…no way.