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
How is vegetable oil supposed to help climate change?
Is it clean burning?
The warmists are going bonkers.
Let’s hope we don’t follow suit.
Engage your mind!
Reiterate the facts over and over.
YOUTH deserve the truth.
His name is Al Gore if you care
His stock and his trade, just hot air
Though Vice was his thing
He now lives like a king
Promoting the CO2 scare.
In case no one noticed, we have two “Harvey(s)” chipping in on this site. There’s “Claude Harvey” and there’s just plain “Harvey”. Claude Harvey does not wish to be confused with the lunatic branch of the family (I think they breed trolls).
Sounds like Al’s the father of program that has really created a furor!
It will probably spread across Europe with lighting speed–a blitzkrieg if you will.
I’m sure it will include some summer programs for the kids when they’re out of school–probably at camps where they can concentrate on saving the planet.
Claude Harvey (06:25:18) :
In case no one noticed, we have two “Harvey(s)” chipping in on this site. There’s “Claude Harvey” and there’s just plain “Harvey”. Claude Harvey does not wish to be confused with the lunatic branch of the family (I think they breed trolls).
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Should we call the second “Harvey” Moonbat Harvey after the trolls being sent out by George Monbiot? /sarc
ralphieGM (04:46:10) :
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.
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Makes me think of the old Clint Eastwood move with granny in a rocking chair blasting away with a shotgun at a motorcycle gang… the moral of the story is Do not underestimate us old women.
Jim (11:30:06) : If we want to fix things the first thing we need to do is take back the educational system from the NEA.
No truer words have ever been spoken. This is how it all was started. By starting the take over of the education system decades ago, the leftists in this country have been able to slowly manipulate people to believe (or at least not fight back against) their agenda. The NEA is the number 1 problem with our education system in this country. Fix that and the vast majority of this “post modern science” that is really just populationist and/or Marxist agenda wrapped in science-sounding verbiage disappears.
It’s time for us all to stop talking about the problems we see and do something about them. Whether on a local, state or national level, we, the people, need to take back control or be subjected to more and more of the AGW style pseudo-science and the governmental controls that come along with it.
*DING* Biofuel Bashing Detected *DING*
The canard that “there isn’t enough to go around” is like telling someone who has never seen the movie Aliens to not bother as they all end up dead in the sequel anyways.
UVO biofuel is simply an example of a combined cycle, one of many that add up to create the aggregate activity I like to call “making a living.”
Here’s a fun idea: once used fryer oil for your chips and french fries. Great marketing point, no? Free radicals and all. Place a frozen fried food factory in front of a biodiesel reformer plant. We need, and can supply, far more vegetable oil for fuels than food. Can’t have soybean meal without dumping that toxic fat somewhere, no? Or maybe use the vegie oil as the working fluid in an open-cycle oil heating element oven. Add some zeolite catalyst, alcohol, CO2 and 1% lye and out the other end comes biodiesel. Meh, just a thought.
Haters will hate. 😉
Wow – just watched the video (was on my mobile earlier). By youth I was thinking teenagers – exploiting a child like that is unforgivable.
When I was that kid’s age I thought we were all going to die of skin cancer because of holes in the ozone layer. I think, in celebration of Earth Day, I need to sit down with my kids and remind them how the people trying to scare them – maybe including their teachers – don’t know what the f…[self-snip]…udge they are talking about.
Planes flying into the WTC was one thing, teachers terrorizing children in the classroom is another. Only one of these is state-sponsored
More propaganda from Harvard
Join us for the Green Carpet!
http://motls.blogspot.com/2010/04/join-us-for-harvards-green-carpet.html
Where do these people come from?
http://factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com/2010/04/where-do-these-people-come-from.html
I just got through a quick look at the Inconvenient Youth website and it is horrifying.
We have one young person suggesting that everybody should have their carbon footprints monitored so that they can win prizes for good environmental behaviour.
Another thinks it would be great to have a day where all the kids wear Green Shirts … pausing while people shudder in historical awareness… to “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.”
And from the next head of Acorn, “Each school could apply for a grant to help the climate.”
We may now officially be screwed as a civilization.
John Q. Galt (08:25:17) – There is a market for used frying oil. The current market price is $0.24/pound (See “yellow grease” in Kansas City commodities) or $1.80/gallon. A fast food restaurant produces 20-30 gallons of yellow grease per week. How often do you need to fill up – once a week? 10 gallons is half to a third of one store’s used oil (before conversion to biodiesel) production in a week. Of course, you shouldn’t contract with your local fast food store because it’s better if the oil goes to a refiner who can process it for reuse, so it can be used more than once before it is incinerated. You should get your biodiesel from the refiner’s fraction which is not suitable for reuse.
“harvey (19:41:18) :
During the Hitler and Stalin era, science was held in total disrepute.
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harvey is probably one the Gore kids on his first mission – he must be very young because he doesn’t know anything about history. And i mean *anything*.
I feel the need to point out that not only Hitler but also the Russians innovated like hell during the war years.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katyusha_rocket_launcher
Jeez: “The Nazis had claimed American eugenicists inspired and supported Hitler’s racial purification laws, and failed to understand the connection between those policies and the eventual genocide of the Holocaust.”
So American eugenicists were responsible for the Holocaust? Right, and the Nazis were just following orders. Eugenics was a misguided social and political movement, but comparing it to the Holocaust is like claiming that the mass bombing of German cities was the equivalent of the Holocaust.
This type of relativism fails to recognise the unique nature of the Holocaust, and its roots within German history and culture.
The eugenics argument is also a favourite of anti-evolutionists, used to discredit and demonise evolutionary theory. It has the same value in the argument against AGW.
Re. the video: I think it’s creepy, spooky and way out of order. If some people don’t recognise it for what it is then – in my view – they’ll never ‘get’ a number of very important points about the so-called ‘free world’ that we live in. Do they still call it ‘the free world’?
Re. veg oil vehicles: I was running my 1989 Mercedes van on off-the-shelf supermarket sunflower oil some years back because it was 40% of the price of diesel. No conversion of the engine was necessary – just a separate tank for the veg oil and a dashboard switch to switch to that tank once the engine was warmed up. Engine ran better – smoother – although you could smell the ‘cooking’ smell. Now veg oil is through the roof in price there’s no point in doing it any more.
Re grammar: I rue the way the richness of the English language is being eroded – like people rarely use ‘fewer’ any more; they always just say ‘less’, when ‘fewer’ is the correct word to use: they say ‘less traffic jams’, for example. I hear it all the time, including the BBC. It doesn’t drive me nuts, but it does annoy me whenever I hear it…
These Inconvenient Youths will, of course be required to have shrunken, and mushy gray matter for brains, since fully-functioning and healthy minds would be very inconvenient to being properly brainwashed. They will need to be able to live in a dream world, and not be able to distinguish fact from fiction, have no idea of what constitutes science or mathematics, and be ignorant of history, particularly paleoclimatology. They will also need to know nothing about more recent periods such as the MWP and LIA. For them, ignorance truly is bliss.
AGW is for kids.
Goreific is going to tutor kids? Why Gore? When it comes to science,
He Is The Least Educated Radical.
Lies and Damn Lies
There is a great difference between “Climate Change” aka “Global Warming” and Science. The first is a manufactured crisis by the Socialists and Marxists represented by the Obama Regime along with their fellow travelers while Science is the methodical and logical search for the truth using the Scientific Method. The research done on “Climate Change” by the UN up to this point has been discredited along with the dishonest people who did the research and called themselves Scientists.
While Al Gore is just another corrupt progressive politician and a liar, the people who falsified the data in the research are damn liars. With the help of the NEA, Gore and his friends are trying their best to indoctrinate your children. Don’t let them succeed.
“AnonyMoose (15:13:10) :
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.”
Up from the ground came a-bubblin’ crude? Oil, that is? Black gold? Texas tea?
[Music]
Algore loves me this I know,
for the IPCC tell me so.
Little ones’ minds to him belong,
theirs are weak and his is wrong.
Yes, Algore loves me.
Yes, Algore loves me.
Yes, Algore loves me,
the IPCC tells me so.
I got confuse about why 5 as well…..should be 12..right?
Al…buddy…let me tell you: No matter how noble your cause, this sort of thing never ends well. Trust me.
I understand the comments being snipped, but I hate to say the first parallel that jumped to mind for me was “Youth in Asia”. Yeah, not nearly as creepy, but maybe still applicable.