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
maybe the should be could – Belittler Youth
From a philosophical viewpoint;
Most high schools teach algebra now, and some even offer calculus. However, a course in logic is non-existent even in most colleges. I think I know why, as not only could people easily question the likes of AGW with such a background but also political statements/claims and all advertising. This could be politically and economically upsetting. It’s too bad that courses in this subject are not offered in very early grades as I believe that if they were then this kind of fight over climate control (and others) would not even be necessary.
I see that one of the most important things that this website offers are just such lessons in logic. However some are obviously more resistant than others but their payback will be an inability to use these logic lessons in daily life with justifiable consequences.
Keep up the good work…
“We will never forget their names: Kid 1, Kid 2, Kid 3, and Kid 4”
– Al Gore on South Park ManBearPig episode.
It seems apparant that he had to select 5 kids so no one would make the joke I just made. And yes, he is sooper serial about all this!
“Give Me the Boy Until the Age of Seven, I Will Give You the Man.”
S of J.
My God what a horrible thread.
I’m lost for words.
Hitler/Stalin in their times would be most happy with your spin.
sigh
OK, harvey, give us your version.
What happens when these indoctrinated IY’s reach the age of rebellion? Will they start driving SUV’s…eating meat…switching to incandescent lighting?
I don’t have Photoshop, so this is my somewhat amateur bit of satirical (or, at least, I hope it is) pictorial fun with Al Gore’s new venture:
http://i43.tinypic.com/ir8g3c.jpg
Next installment of Dr. Evil:
“I demand 12.5 Million…Billion…Trillion…. (whisper whisper) What?…CO2? Really? CO2? Everybody’s afraid of bad breath? You’re kidding. You’ve got to be kidding. All I have to do is threaten the globe by breathing on them? Are you NUTS???? No one is going to give me 12.5 gazillian coinage for bad breath! (whisper whisper)…WHAT????? If I eat pork and beans that makes it WORSE??? I’ll get how much???? Okaayyy. Whatever floats….”
“I demand 12.5 bizi-illion gazi-jillion trilli-million mulas or I will… (I can’t say it, I just can’t)……(whisper whisper)…oKAY! BREATH and FART on you!”
“I never thought I would hear myself say this. I think the world is crazier than I am now. What ever happened to the threat of atomic weapons! When did breathing and farting take over atomic weapons????? Cut, cut. I can’t make this movie without laughing myself to death! Who the hell wrote this script???”
(whisper whisper) “You’re kidding.”
During the Hitler and Stalin era, science was held in total disrepute.
Why.
Because it could logically produce results that were against the political and ideological demands of the master races. This exact spin is what Fox news and its adherents (Watts etc) are promulgating: Science and Scientists are not to be trusted nor listened to. It is only the “truth” put forward by various spin-meisters that is to be listened to.
sad.
but true.
🙁
harvey:
You may want to read up on the history of Eugenics in the 20th century. Far thinking liberal scientists were in lockstep with the ideas of some rather nasty people until they saw the rather disturbing results of their theories being taken to their logical extremes. Quoting the linked wiki article.
I think you have it backwards at least as far as Germany goes. Russia is another case entirely.
101 How to Drive an Escalade
Construction of 15,000 Sq Ft. Homes
Flying with the most footprint – The Gulfstream Way
Trading nothing for something
Hire an audience, film their sophomoric reactions to your rubbish-Oscar
Tell everyone you are the conscience of the planet — Nobel
Invest in Oil
jeez:
Communism and fascism or nazism, although poles apart in their intellectual content, are similar in this, that both have emotional appeal to the type of personality that takes pleasure in being submerged in a mass movement and submitting to superior authority.
I see the same meme being followed on this web site.
Dont listen to rational thought, rather follow the idiologues as it is safer than to actually think out the problems.
harvey:
I answered your point directly about science being held in disrepute when in fact the leading theories of the time were used to justify and in fact likely inspired the horrors of WW II, and now you run off in a tangent about repressive governments and people who like to be part of a mob. Then you indirectly accuse those who disagree with you of this this inferior psychology.
You have a narrow world view. There are intelligent logical people who disagree with you but you believe anyone who disagrees with you is an ignorant sheeple.
It is you who are following a mob meme, the meme of the elitists. You see I can make this argument without talking about liberals or conservatives, old or young.
One day you may be less myopic in your model of the people who disagree with you. I hope it is soon.
Brainwashing minors with a political agenda or with any other fuzzy logic by public servants or any political group, should be a crime.
Jim (11:30:06) :
“I substitute taught high school for 5 years and the indoctrination by the left leaning educational system has been going on for a long time…..
If we want to fix things the first thing we need to do is take back the educational system from the NEA.”
I do children’s entertainment at parties and fairs. I strongly recommend homeschooling or Montessori to my customers. There are some very good homeschooling programs available and my area has some good support groups that allow kids to interact with each other as well as learn from other adults.
I have no kids but if I did there is no way I would allow them into a government indoctrination center. I made that decision in 1971 while I was still in college training as a science/chemistry teacher.
Gail Combs
Absolutely
No way your children should in any way be in any government run establishment.
rather I would suggest that they spend the day listening to Fox News.
There they would learn all they need to to survive in the world..
harvey (19:41:18) :
WUWT is promulgating a master race ideology?? Who knew?
Please expand on that thesis. I want to know who these ‘master races’ are, and who they are the master of, since that is your ‘exact spin.’
The fact that science is heading toward ‘total disrepute’ is because most alarmist climate scientists are bought and paid for advocates of their rich patrons: the pro-AGW government funding agencies, and tax-exempt NGOs with their heavy pro-AGW agenda.
The $Billions diverted every year to AGW deprive other deserving sciences of needed funding, and the ethics-challenged AGW purveyors fight off every attempt to derail their gravy train. The recipients of this easy loot are the reason the public is increasingly viewing science in general with a jaundiced eye.
Scientists in other deserving fields need to speak up about this waste of resources, which starves their own fields of the funding that would otherwise be available.
William Lindqvist (11:41:19) :
“Complete with jack boots I suppose – green color of course and not made from cow leather!”
Only the finest quality plastic made of ARRGHHHHhhh PETROLEUM in a oil powered factory….
HMMmmmm I guess it is down to handmade hemp sandals. NOPE, that won’t work either, hemp is illegal in the US of A
…..I guess they had better go barefoot but they’ll have to watch out for the piles of bull excrement from Al Baby.
This is how it started with Father Duffy: “We’ll have a little retreat for selected youths to get some quality, one-on-one time with the padre.”
Then came the lawsuits.
“The fact that science is heading toward ‘total disrepute’ is because most alarmist tobacco scientists are bought and paid for advocates of their rich patrons: the anti-tobacco government funding agencies, and tax-exempt NGOs with their heavy anti-tobacco genda.
The $Billions diverted every year to anti-tobacco deprive other deserving sciences of needed funding, and the ethics-challenged anti-tobacco purveyors fight off every attempt to derail their gravy train. The unchallenged recipients of this easy loot are the reason the public is increasingly viewing science in general with a jaundiced eye.
Scientists in other deserving fields need to speak up about this waste of resources, which starves their own fields of the funding that would otherwise be available.”
reads funny eh?
harvey (20:40:45),
Aren’t you a clever little man, with your strawman arguments. You set that strawman up and knocked him right down, you brave strawman killer, you.
What a man…
…not.
Wake me when you start answering the specific questions put to you.
What I want to know from Harvey is: who is the “superior authority” that we are all supposed to be happily submitting ourselves to on this website?
Smokey
ah you wish me to answer a question?
I only saw one. lol
so is there a “master race” behind the Fox and WUTT propaganda?
Now note I DID NOT AT ALL MENTION THIS.
Rather this was from an erudite poster on this thread.
One may posit that there is an “elite” in the U.S that would like to maintain their world wide montetary position and lifestyle at all cost.
I DID NOT SAY SO
BUT
if this were true, would they not care about AGW because it would not effect them?
It may kill millions in the third world, but good riddence….
I plan to reduce the nitrogen load on the local water recycling plant by urinating on the lemon tree in the garden.
Um … 5 times? … Looks like assisting the planet may also require me to have a few beers.
Digsby (20:51:22):
Well for sure, it isn’t Harvey’s nemesis, the e-e-evil Fox News.
Maybe it’s Harvey’s benevolent, altruistic UN/IPCC.
Harvey says: “So is there a ‘master race’ behind the Fox and WUTT propaganda? Now note I DID NOT AT ALL MENTION THIS.”
Harvey conveniently forgets his statement above:
Looks like Harvey did mention it after all.
Rather than argue with Harvey, as Marcus Aurelius said, “The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.”
I’m distancing myself from Harvey’s ranks. G’night, all.
Anybody wanting to teach their children to think for themselves and how to resist authoritarian propaganda of whatever kind should try to get hold of a copy of the book Straight and Crooked Thinking by Robert Henry Thouless.