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
PaulH (11:12:21) :
Beautifully paraphrased by Douglas Adams as “Life is wasted on the living”!
Ya, Monckton was right, it’s (preemptive self snip, put down the snippers ctm) Youth.
I have said in the past Al Gore is neurotic. He is beyond neurotic. He is mad.
tom (16:36:31) :
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.
That’s the only way to stop it, parents being the parents of their children instead of just putting their kids in front of the tv and leaving them. Al Gore will take them if the parents don’t want them. Maybe then he’ll feel the satisfaction he is looking for.
Really, it’s pathetic that the only audience Al Gore has is children.
It should be a crime to scare children with fake stories about global warming. A study in New Zealand shows how worried children are:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10639763
What’s bugging the nation’s children
By Elizabeth Binning
4:00 AM Wednesday Apr 21, 2010
Today’s children are worried about more than just their homework and peer pressure – they are also worried about terrorism and climate change and whether there will be a future for their own children.
These are just some of the serious issues a group of more than 170 New Zealand children have cited as major stresses in their lives.
Auckland University Researcher Fiona Pienaar interviewed children aged 8-12 for her PhD to find out what stressed them out and how they coped.
The study, which only involved children with no obvious stress, identified 29 common issues that caused stress, the majority of which were clustered around school and family.
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Global warming and how a natural disaster would affect their lives were two other issues for children.
“I’m worried about the environment and the global warming, the ice and how it’s going. I write it down in my little notebook … I’m thinking people should actually stop the global warming before it’s too late for their children,” said one child.
Sloane (14:20:25) :
a new Kmer?…
Ouch. Which was also started with ‘good intentions’.
As Andrew Bolt said of this sinister strategy: “seriously creepy”.
http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/leave_my_children_alone_hamilton/
Kilroi1 (11:45:19) :
“Al Gore is preying on those that do not have fully developed cognitive abilities and lack any real world experience”
Tom in Florida (11:07:57)
Which when you think about it is what he’s been doing all along.
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Nice.
Karl Maki (11:20:30) :
Further proof that it’s not the harsh martinet of science that lures Gore, but the siren song of an appealing narrative.
Nice Karl, good way to phrase it.
Moderater Alert!! Anonymoose, 15:04:17, has snuck an ad into our blog. Please flush him!!??!!
Reply: You got no sense of humor, Anonymoose was merely illustrating what you get when you cross a penis with a potato. ~ ctm
With all of the post snipping and editing, ctm is beginning to resemble Gavin Schmidt.
;>p
Reply: I’m just really tired of the sloppiness of commenters who throw off topic suggestions and questions in any thread they are reading instead of taking the time and minimal effort to put these things where they belong. It’s like riding herd on a room full of children with attention deficit dis……ooh look, something shiny! ~ ctm
“Reply: You got no sense of humor, Anonymoose was merely illustrating what you get when you cross a penis with a potato. ~ ctm”
I’ll bet that would make the potato a little cross-eyed.
Aaargh it reminds me of Ceasar Caligula’s Brown Sheet Youth Movement, these nutjobs never change.
You know all those marching Soldiers, Colliseums stacked with rabid masses, purple Banners and Kids in their fancy Brown Sheets sceaming Ave Ceasar.
Torches flaring everywhere. But history was never my strong suit.
Ave Ceasar Gore.
If we can’t refer to one well-known youth group, can we refer to the Komsomol? Mind you, I prefer the term ‘Khmer Vert’
ctm– You do a great job. I just thought you would appreciate the Schmidt comparison.
;~)
Reply: There are many moderators. I let my personality show through a bit more than others so I appear to be doing all the heavy lifting, but this is simple observation bias. Our TEAM does a great job and they should all be thanked, most importantly for relieving me and Anthony from having to do much of the aforesaid heavy lifting. Thanks guys! ~ ctm
Two can play at this game.
6th grader shows urban heat island effect scientists say doesn’t exist
Picking out the UHI in climatic temperature records – so easy a 6th grader can do it!
Global Warming US Cities Getting Warmer
This should be at the top of every post:
I’m just really tired of the sloppiness of commenters who throw off topic suggestions and questions in any thread they are reading instead of taking the time and minimal effort to put these things where they belong. It’s like riding herd on a room full of children with attention deficit dis……ooh look, something shiny! ~ ctm
But would it change anything?
AnonyMoose (15:04:17) : wrote
JN (11:20:36) – What an old German dictator may look like.
Too funny AnonyMoose.
Let me make a scientific observation concerning the link.
All the technology in that link has been made obsolete . Everything that old stuff used to do can now be accomplished with a small thumb drive. The savings of natural resources alone from computer modernization should be satisfying enough for the wacky environmentalists.
Pete Olsen- Your comments make me feel like I am loosing my mind. In preparing a comment, particularly on this website, it is important to do it quickly, while the subject is still current. It is very easy to make a small mistake and misspell a word or two.
This does not mean that a person has lost it, or are in the process of loosing it! Lighten up! Language Patrol is for a small group of 8 year old’s, who are hoping to win Nobel Peace Prizes.
Inconvenient Day. It was launched on April 20th… Hitler’s birthday…
OKAY KIDS. HERE’S A PICTURE OF OUR LOVELY LEADER. NOW, START EATING!!!
Honestly, I came onto this knowing the thread was going to be an egg pelt and the first two entries are [snip]. Laughed for ages !!!! Says it all really!
Were this kids grandparents Wanda Dombek and Theodore Richard Kaczynski by chance?
So whats the answer, to childrens questions about the climate?.
Do we just tell them they’ve been told wrong and leave it at that? How much can YOU explain?, and how well?, can you taylor make it for differing age groups? Religious affiliations, Culture?
What Unky Al has, is a method and a means of delivery, plus all the loot he needs to steam roll this malarky out, and the bulk of the Western Media and Schools on his side.
Someone needs to get onto an educational PDF for parents, that sums up the actual debate, and then let the kids decide as they grow up, with plenty of opportunity to review new developments.
If we don’t step up, and claim our kids back ASAP, Unky Al we gladly absorb them into his BORG collective. And when he’s done with them, they’re spare parts for the next lobotomised recruit.
Worried, I’m frickin’ mortified.
Avoiding the obvious analogies to totalitarian youth organizations, it should be pointed out that creating and mobilizing a corps of young people to go out and proselytize in favor of a supposedly ‘scientific’ proposition, namely that there is a ‘climate crisis’, is most decidedly un-scientific.
Indeed, it represents the very antithesis of science. It is a form of political action in support of a most-convenient myth, aiming to create a cadre of True Believers (viz. Eric Hoffer) who will work to further the ends of an insidious political movement, which we might call ‘green socialism’. It claims as its raison d’etre the quasi-scientific proposition that mankind if left to its own devices will destroy the Earth, and therefore needs to be controlled for its own good.
This proposition has no more objective validity than those that promoted enslavement and murder in the name of a ‘master race’, or for the benefit of the ‘working class’. They are all convenient myths, enshrined to the status of unarguable Truths.
Unfortunately, the Obama regime consists of ideologues who believe in this program and share its objectives. Be wary, because it is in the nature of extreme ideologues not to tolerate dissent. And where is dissent (‘denial’) today? Almost entirely on the Internet. There are already proposals floating between the White House and Capitol Hill to begin instituting taxes and controls on the Internet.
The Goracle’s Green-Shirt Youth Corps is a sign of what is to come, if we let it.
/Mr Lynn
Back in March, Thomas Sowell wrote an article called ‘Artificial Stupidity’, about how our educational system trains children to be artificially stupid by teaching only one side of an issue while refusing to teach them how to think. Mr. Gore is the poster boy for that method. Here is the link:
http://townhall.com/columnists/ThomasSowell/2010/03/10/artificial_stupidity