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
Re: Harvey
Don’t feed the troll.
/Mr L
So these young pioneers///// will be launching a ‘youth scourge’? Rather green, aren’t they?
(I think they had the jackboots cobbled back when they thought cows were warming the planet due to ruminant gut bacteria – forgetting, apparently the Great Northern and Southern herds of American buffalo////bison///wisent that used to cover the plains. )
Is harvey from Bizzarro World?
The National Socialists and the Corporatists/fascists and the Communists hold to vary similar ideologies, separated primarily by the difference between modernism (communism) and post-modernism (national socialism and fascism or whatever group-identity will-to-power politics are calling themselves these days)
It was Darwinism which drove the extermination camps in the Third Reich. It was ‘scientific socialism’ which ruled the Soviet Union. They weren’t anti-science, they held to scientism – the notion that if you can’t measure it with a material tool, it doesn’t exist.
jeez, one error, Americans -did- know that eugenics led to genocide. Margaret Sanger and Planned Parenthood’s continuing attempts to exterminate the African-American, the views of Charles Lindberg, Henry Ford and the Ford Foundation, the whole Progressive(ist) gang. Even the brothers Mayo.
jeez (19:53:03) :
harvey:
You may want to read up on the history of Eugenics in the 20th century….
“When Nazi administrators went on trial for war crimes in Nuremberg after World War II, they justified the mass sterilizations…”
How about reading up on what the USDA is funding now, Spermicidal Corn.
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Scientists have created the ultimate GM crop: contraceptive
corn. Waiving fields of maize may one day save the world
from overpopulation.
The pregnancy prevention plants are the handiwork of the San
Diego biotechnology company Epicyte, where researchers have
discovered a rare class of human antibodies that attack
sperm….
‘We have a hothouse filled with corn plants that make
anti-sperm antibodies,’ said Epicyte president Mitch Hein.”
http://www.gene.ch/gentech/2001/Sep/msg00065.html
Not to mention the forced sterilization of native American women here in the USA up until the seventies. This web site has amassed links to the sterilization issue. http://www.whale.to/m/sterile.html
Then there is the US government’s use of her citizens as guinea pigs without their knowledge.
According to an article I saw a couple of years ago, the US government was using cancer patients for radiation overdose trials without knowledge or consent. My mom was one of those who was badly burned by a major overdose by “mistake”…when she left that hospital for a second opinion her Doctor complained he was writing a paper on her. At first the second hospital was going to take my mom on as a patient, they even operated, but after her Doctor talked to them they adopted a strict hands off policy.
No wonder the other doctors at the hospital called this guy “the Butcher”
harvey (20:32:29) :
” I would suggest that they spend the day listening to Fox News.”
Harvey, I do not OWN a TV because the stuff on it is crap. I read books instead. However my neighbors government educated kids can barely read and are incapable of adding two single digit numbers despite the fact they are in high school. It is @ur momisugly#$!$ hard to tutor a kid in algebra when he can not even ADD!
Funny, isn’t it? The kid is riding in a car and has a lap top. Doesn’t burning vegetable oil produce CO2? Isn’t car manufacturing producing CO2? Isn’t the lap top produced from petrol and doesn’t it require energy?
Indoctrination at its worst. The kid doesn’t even understand what he is saying.
How can five random teenagers be believed to become leaders in the future? Just because they have met Al Gore? This movement is really transforming into a full-fledged religion as the encounter with the prophets gives people a special magic and ability to lead. 😉
Digsby (21:22:29) :
Anybody wanting to teach their children to think for themselves… get hold of a copy of the book Straight and Crooked Thinking by Robert Henry Thouless.
Thanks for the tip, I will try to pick up a copy and see if I want to recommend it to my customers’ parents.
cogito (22:00:22) :
“Funny, isn’t it? The kid is riding in a car and has a lap top….
Indoctrination at its worst. The kid doesn’t even understand what he is saying.”
They get real irate when you point out what hypocrites they are too.
In the eighties there was a bogus anti-polystyrene campaign. Some idiot was ranting at me about the evils of polystyrene and other plastics two days after I lost my job because the polystyrene manufacturer I worked for closed five plants.
She had a nice big crowed gathered hanging on her every word as she lectured, finally I lost it and said “Hand me your car keys”…
Her reply “What??”
“Your car keys, and take off that blouse and those shoes”….
“WHAT?!?”…
“Put you money where your mouth is or shut up, because you are nothing but a hypocrite.”
She left in a huff with the audience snickering.
I do not see Al Baby living like the Amish, so that makes him and Mann and Jones and no doubt good ole Harvey hypocrites.
I wonder if Harvey is a Moonbat Troll since he can’t come up with anything but rather lame attacks.
” leadkindlylight (11:26:20) :
…By a strange coincidence the evil Moonbat from the Guardian has recently organized a gang of trolls to haunt the internet and mess up sites. “
harvey (19:41:18) :
During the Hitler and Stalin era, science was held in total disrepute.
Why.
Stalin may have had disdain for scientists but then he was a paranoid psychopath. Hitlers whole military machine was driven by scientific innovation and engineering excellence. The Ballistic Missile is the foundation of our space programs. The Jet Engine and Night Vision were pioneered and first used by Nazi Germany.
Ironically the VW motor car was a Nazi invention. They were at first designed to run on petroleum but I believe as fuel shortages began to bite, plans were made to import whale blubber from Norway and convert them to bio diesel. As an added selling point polar bear skin seat covers were to be offered as an optional extra.
Our RAF chappies soon put a stop to that little caper.
Luboš Motl (22:02:00) :
How can five random teenagers be believed to become leaders in the future? Just because they have met Al Gore? This movement is really transforming into a full-fledged religion as the encounter with the prophets gives people a special magic and ability to lead. 😉
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The only think Al Gore will end up spawning in them is neurosis, and madness.
😉
Russ Blaik – Regarding ‘Lose’ and ‘Losing’ vs ‘Loose’ and ‘Loosing’:
It drives me crazy when people misspell my name, too…how about you?
Can’t imagine what would make anyone think that my comment was directed at them – this erroneous spelling has become so ubiquitous that it has nearly edged out the correct one. SOMEBODY has to help set this right. It’s not done as a criticism, but as a service to a broad, general audience – something more along the lines of letting folks know that the tag is hanging out of the back of their shirt, so they don’t look ridiculous.
Is this snipworthy?
“Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood recorded a song written by Jerry Leiber and Billy Edd Wheeler about a married couple who find (according to the lyrics) that the “fire” has gone out of their relationship. The song relates the desire of both partners to travel to a city named “Jackson” where they each expect to be welcomed as someone far better suited to the city’s lively night life than the other is.” Wikipedia.
Oh for knowledge above my pay grade!
MartinGAtkins (23:06:37) :
VW could have been British!!!
The company owes its post-war existence largely to one man, British Army officer Major Ivan Hirst, REME. In April 1945, KdF-Stadt, and its heavily bombed factory were captured by the Americans, and subsequently handed over to the British, within whose occupation zone the town and factory fell. The factories were placed under the control of Oldham-born Hirst. At first, the plan was to use it for military vehicle maintenance. Since it had been used for military production, and had been in Hirst’s words a “political animal” rather than a commercial enterprise, the equipment was in time intended to be salvaged as war reparations.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VW#1945:_British_Army.2C_Major_Ivan_Hirst.2C_unclear_future
Why do megalomaniacs always end up going after the poor unsuspecting kids? That’s a rhetorical question BTW. But has it ever worked?
L Nettles says:
April 21, 2010 at 3:10 pm
Quiz: The press release was dated April 20 which is also ________ birthday
Oooo… Ooooo. Ooooo. I know!!! I know!!! It’s Snappy’s birthday (my dachshund).
Ad well as a famous historical figure that shares my dogs nationality…. but the similarity ends there!
AW said: “I know there will be a temptation to draw parallels with a another “youth” name.”
Yes, and the temptation is not without justification, is it?
Good grief! That has to be the most erudite eight year old on the planet. Or maybe he’d spent several hours practising reading a Gore script from an autocue…
Green is the new brown! Shirts anyone?
This indoctrination of the young, both in the UK and the US, is quite sickening.
Some children can barely tie their own shoe laces but can spout endless mantras about Global Warming, the Environment etc., Complete obedience and groupthink is the order of the day.
It will take a whole generation I believe to dismantle all this nonsense and there will be casualties. There is a long road ahead but in the end truth and logic will prevail – as it always has done.
Orwell was an insightful genius.
Now you kids, repeat after me:’ the core temperature of Planet Earth is several million degrees.’
Well if we can’t use ‘youth’ we’ll use the original initials instead then. HJ. The parallels are frightening.
Re Pete Olson (23:11:14):
Yep; besides ‘loose’ for ‘lose’, there’s ‘it’s’ for ‘its’ (and vice-versa), not to mention ‘there’ for ‘their’ (and even ‘they’re’). And then you have supposedly educated people forming plurals by adding apostrophe-s.
(The latter I suppose is a back-formation from the unfortunate modernism, endorsed by the NY Times, no less, of forming plurals of acronyms thus: CD’s, rather than CDs.)
The Internet in general, and blogs and forums like this in particular, encourage such sloppiness. Spell-checkers do help, but not for homonyms. And sticklers for accuracy, like Mr. Olson (and me), when we speak up generally succeed only in ruffling feathers.
Would that the egregious Algore would devote himself to teaching grammatical skills to our youth, rather than indoctrinating them in the Creed of Global Warming (now apparently “the climate crisis”).
/Mr Lynn
When your soldiers aren’t doing the job and you start arming your grandmas and youth with pitchforks and wooden sticks you must surely be knowing you are probly gonna lose the war.
I know there will be a temptation to draw parallels with a another “youth” name…
I was actually thinking about the irony of a Malthusian calling his protégés — “Inconvenient”…