Not sure exactly where he said that, as that headline isn’t in the news article as a quote, but if he did say that to the reporter, apparently Mr. Gore hasn’t seen this recent study from the University of California yet: Doomsday messages about global warming can backfire, new study shows
And apparently all the evidence Mr. Gore needs these days comes from the “weather is not climate, unless we say it is” line of reasoning.
From the Hindustan Times:
Nobel Peace Prize winner and champion climate campaigner Al Gore outlined the doom the world is awaiting because of climate change and expressed disappointment at world leaders failing to clinch a treaty to fight the new global terror. Terming the logjam in climate negotiations as a “startling paradox”, the man, whose documentary, The Inconvenient Truth won an Oscar said the year 2010 had seen worst of climate change.
“There was severe drought in Russia and extreme flooding in Pakistan. What more evidence is required for action,” he said at HT Leadership Summit.
His worst fear was that after failure of Copenhagen climate summit the talks where heading towards another “zombie” like the Doha process on World Trade Organisation negotiations. Gore’s solution for the problem was taking the issue back to the grassroots and creating a political storm to compel the leaders to react to climate change.
The former president blamed his own country United States – world second biggest carbon emitter — for failing to legislate a carbon law to curb emissions, resulting in failure of Copenhagen.
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Al Gore had a lot of hope for India to take a lead in fighting climate change.
“India has a tremendous opportunity to lead the world in energy efficient solutions and in effecting a rapid shift to use of alternate energy like wind and solar,” Gore said.
Full story at the Hindustan Times
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and about Global Climate (Scams) Disruption or whatever the new acronym is (I cannot catch up with the changes), yes, disruption is the word: All the warmists’ efforts have been disrupted by the planet itself, having refused to obey their prophesied hockey-stick graphs and other jokes of the decade.
Al Gore is the new Global Terror, say the rest of us…
Joe Public and Al Gore? Joe Public has seen enough of Obama, I doubt that they are following Al Gore either. The ruling class better watch the castle walls in the future.
Gore’s solution for the problem was taking the issue back to the grassroots and creating a political storm to compel the leaders to react to climate change.
I think this sounds like a threat.
Climate project calls for citizen scientists
http://www.climateprediction.net
“London, England (CNN) — An international team of climate scientists is calling on the public to help with a new initiative aimed at predicting how the climate will change during the 21st century”.
They pick up on any opportunity to brainwash the crowds.
Now you can make your own crappy climate model.
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/TECH/innovation/11/17/climate.prediction.model.oxford/index.html?hpt=Sbin
American’s; did you actually have this man as vice-president? And di he run also for president? Now he is running……………………..for his life.
At the risk of being snarky, but if “climate change is the new global terror”, then wouldn’t by definition the people who promote its existence (ie, the IPCC and the rest of the Church of Climatology) be the new global terrorists ?
Pot, kettle, black …
(submerges back to lurking)
I believe the term is “useful idiot”? But – this is delusional to the point of astonishing ….
I mean – who advises this guy ?
“What more evidence is required for action?”
None.
White coats, sedatives, a rubber room, and a straight jacket are long overdue for Algore.
Al Gore and OBL — two PEEs in the P-pot. Do’nt see them much anymore, but keep hearing their fatwas for the loyal followers.
What BS really. The only thing of substance to Global Warming is their appalling amount of apocalyptic improbable scenarios.
-Snow
So I suppose that the TSA will now begin “checking your junk” for CO2 or hurricanes?
Why is it we cant get rid of these A-holes like Gore….they are like weeds they keep coming back and coming back no matter how much research contradicts their pseudoscience. This continuing attack on science and scientific institutions can only lead to one thing in the end…..we either fight for truth and freedom or the Goebbels of the World will subjugate us under a mountain of lies. Please stand together and fight this propaganda from the Kindergartens to the halls of government.
David, UK says: “It’s not “delusion.” It’s fraud, and this parasite is a massive part of it. It is his, and his elitist friends’ aim to *manufacture terror* in order to control us with fear. AGW is just one. The so-called “war on terror” is another favourite one of theirs.”
Yes, absolutely. Frightened people will generally follow a strong leader with clear ideas. If you are in a small band of Palaeolithic hunter-gatherers, a tribe small enough that the leader’s interests are generally the same as the tribe’s interests, then such a follower tendency is probably a good thing. On the other hand, if you are a member of a 300 million person “tribe,” one that allows sociopaths to rise to power, that same follower tendency is dangerous.
Those at the top of the push for CAGW are not deluded, not mistaken, not confused; they are lying, they are scamming, they are committing fraud. CAGW, like so many other giant fears, is just a tool to control us and to steal our labor.
That is a good one, now the entire US population are terrorists. At some point global warmers have got to run out of outlandish statements. Maybe not, the dictionary is a big book. Then there are foreign words like the replacement for tidal wave.
How a foreign word meaning harbor wave is any better I don’t know. What if the wave is not in a harbor. I’m drifting, my mind just went blank.
I agree with one of the other poster’s here: Keep sounding off obnoxiously and running that ridiculously misinformed mouth, Al.
Even though every time you DO open your mouth, you bring shame to my country, but I (and many other Americans) will gladly take the shame and ridicule as a hit, for the larger good of exposing the lies and the hidden agenda behind your pseudo-science religion.
Keep talking….
Chris
Norfolk, VA, USA
‘Climate change in the new global terror’
Looks like a typo to me: ‘error’, surely?
The annual climate change request for handouts for corrupt third world governments should be held in a Northern city.
http://unfccc.int/2860.php
“The United Nations Climate Change Conference to be held in Cancun, Mexico, from 29 November to 10 December 2010, encompasses the sixteenth Conference of the Parties (COP) and the sixth Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (CMP), as well as the thirty-third sessions of both the Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI) and the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA), and the fifteenth session of the AWG-KP and thirteenth session of the AWG-LCA.
To discuss future commitments for industrialized countries under the Kyoto Protocol, the Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (CMP) established a working group in December 2005 called the Ad Hoc Working Group on Further Commitments for Annex I Parties under the Kyoto Protocol (AWG-KP). In Copenhagen, at its fifth session, the CMP requested the AWG-KP to deliver the results of its work for adoption by CMP 6 in Cancun.”
Will the Cancun summit include a session to discuss Climate gate and the lack of warming? No need to let the science get in the way. The Cancun summit attendees are on a mission to bankrupt their countries to solve a problem that is not a problem. Nice, well meaning people. Hint there is a limited amount of public money to spend. There is high unemployment and large government debits.
“Green” energy (wind turbines and solar cells) requires public subsides because of high capital costs (high installation cost and more importantly high costs for new transmission lines and electrical grid changes) and because the energy source is intermittent. (Not continuous.) As people require lighting and refrigeration during the night and when the wind does not blow, a continuous energy source is required in addition to the intermittent “green” energy. Rate base electric utilities (A rate base electrical utility is regulated such what they are allowed to charge for electricity is dependent on the depreciated capital cost of their facilities) are of course very supportive of “green” energy. (The largest supports of the no campaign in California was electrical utilities.)
In the background there are news reports about massive “natural” gas discoveries in the US. (Twice the energy equivalent of Saudi Arabia). There are similar but larger natural gas discoveries in Canada. The LNG (liquefied natural gas) terminals planned in Canada and the US have been changed import to export facilities due to the new discovery. Why is there suddenly a vast surplus of natural gas? Where does the methane come from? Think about methane hydrate in perm frost, the fact that the ocean’s surface is saturated with methane. Think deep earth for the source.)
http://gsc.nrcan.gc.ca/gashydrates/canada/index_e.php
Where I live (Calgary, Alberta, Canada) the forecast low for today is -20 C and high -16C. Next week, the forecast low is -25C and high -18C. Everyone is complaining about the cold and talking about winter getaway trips.
The summer was short with a maximum high of less than 30C. This is the third year in row that we have failed to break 30C for a high in the summer.
As the planet’s response to a change in forcing is negative (planetary cloud cover increases when the planet is warmer) rather than positive the planet will warm less than 1C due to a doubling of CO2 with most of the warming occurring at high latitude regions. As there is more evaporation when the planet is warmer there is more precipitation when it is warmer. The biosphere expands when the planet is warmer and contracts when its colder. During the glacial period there is vast amounts of dust from increased desertification that is deposited on the Greenland Ice sheet and the Antarctic ice sheet.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/07/090731-green-sahara.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2003/05/030509084556.htm
In the IPCC report one of the cost impacts global warming was a reduction in winter travel from high latitude regions. No need to worry.
Haha reading the comments from the Hindustani Times, looks like Al has lost all respect there too.
This one is the most salient and I repost it here because it is so very true:
“A white man condeming the brown man to a continue life of poverty. India can lead by heavily investing in Nuclear power and then see Al Gore squeal.”
Chris
Norfolk, VA, USA
If Al is pointing the finger at Russia’s drought and Pakistan’s floods, he is not a well read man when it comes to meteorology. It’s getting to the point that he compares unfavorably to the gal who said something about seeing Russia from her house. And at least she is willing to jab at herself for saying that!
Gore needs to stay under his rock.
Olen says:
November 21, 2010 at 6:55 am
“Then there are foreign words like the replacement for tidal wave.
How a foreign word meaning harbor wave is any better I don’t know. What if the wave is not in a harbor. I’m drifting, my mind just went blank.”
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I will agree with you, you are drifting and drawing a blank on this one!
“Harbor wave” is better than “tidal wave” for the simple reason the phenomenon has nothing whatsoever to do with the tides.
The reason they call it a “harbor wave” or “tsunami” is because waves are not supposed to form in the harbor. When waves were seen coming into the harbor, it was time to run for higher ground.
It is simply a descriptive term, sort of like the word “hurricane” came from “Hurican” which was the Carib god of evil.
And it is fitting to use a Japanese term [or “foreign”, as you provincially describe it], for this phenomenon, as the Japanese have some of the highest frequency and history of them on the planet.
In any case, “tsunami” is better than “tidal wave” any day.
Chris
Norfolk, VA, USA
Heat wave in Russia, check/
Flood in Pakistan, check /
Worst Winter in 100 years, not worth mentioning.
Follow the money. How much we talking about? Globally, $20 trillion/year:
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=ar0X_FWXo1ag&refer=energy
There’s lots of dots to connect here starting with a few here such as Goldman Sachs, Gore, Maurice Strong, and the CCX.
I thought it was agreed that the drought and the flood were due to weather events, not climate change. So the answer to “what more evidence is required” is “a lot”.