Not content to make a fool of himself confusing weather and climate, Al has now decided to lecture empower women on how to reduce the population for the benefit of the planet. Watch the video below, now we know why he doesn’t allow recordings of his lectures. Darn those Flip Video Cameras.
Al Gore How Empowering Women Fights Climate Change
And here is his wisdom of weather and climate
Al Gore Talks Extreme Weather, Climate
Recorded June 20th by Brian Merchant, hat tip to Chris Horner.
UPDATE: Tom Nelson on his blog points out the bottled water next to Gore.
Flashback: Pour the bottled-water trend down the drain
it’s time for those of us who care about the environment and are concerned about global warming to stop buying and drinking bottled water.
2007: Bottled Water Ban Not Enough
Following the radically liberal traditions of San Francisco, Mayor Gavin Newsom banned municipal departments from purchasing bottled water, even for water coolers.
Looks like that woman just sitting there like a statue before him is in desperate need of some kind of “empowerment”, stat! Women in the U.S. are the majority, live longer, control who is born, and aren’t subject to the draft, not to mention that when it comes to possible crimes, the sky’s the limit! What more are we supposed to do?
sceptical, no one around here disagrees with the simple platitudes involving “empowering and educating women”. So is Gore addressing the more radical Islamic Nations? [apologies, I’m having trouble copying and pasting with this computer, and with some other things.]
Al Gore is right.
Those women should avoid making kids, otherwise the US will be full of little Gories.
His algorerhythm is a bit wonky
There, but for a few hanging chads, goes a President. Thank gawd for hanging chads.
Good ole’ Al “don’t do as I do, do as I say” Gore. If he didn’t exist you’d have to invent him…
I cant believe that this guy earn millions with such of ignorance !
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This man is a brilliant marketing specialist!
http://overpopulationisamyth.com
To think that fool came within a whisker of being President. Thank God for major mercies!
Jeff Alberts:
At June 21, 2011 at 9:48 pm you say to Katlab:
“Actually I find little exercises such as yours silly. Are you going to volunteer to live in a 500 sf apartment with 50 people? Didn’t think so.”
Actually, Katlab does have a point although he overstates it. So, let me state it in another form.
If the entire human population of the world were all to move to the USA then the resulting population density in the USA would be less than the population density that now exists in Holland.
The Dutch seem to quite like their way of life.
Humans inhabit a small part of the less than 20% of the Earth’s surface which is not covered by water. Of course we affect the areas in which we live and we see those changes and effects wherever we are, but it is silly to think our trivial activities are ‘destroying the planet’. Such thinking is like a beaver thinking that beavers are flooding the planet because beavers see the affects of beaver dams wherever they are.
A sense of proportion is needed in all such considerations. And Al Gore seems to have no sense of proportion.
Richard
It should be clear by now that to the insane CAGW maniacs like Al Gore (and Jim Hansen), “climate change” (and its scientific underpinnings) is just an excuse for demanding more control over our lives. If it weren’t climate change, it would be something else. Their aims are entirely political…
I couldn’t bring myself to listen to the video clips. Gore is a self aggrandizing ingoramus. His mother should have taken his advice.
@richard S Courtney
I am from Holland (although the country is known as the Netherlands but the part where i live has been named Holland for quite a while know, the word is btw derived from Houtland because it was once covered in dense forrests.)
And yes there are also Beavers here, but they don’t have to build dams, there is enough deep water for them, They are moving out from an area called the Biesbosch where there are so many of them that you can talk about an overpopulation in that area, beavers have now been seen building burroughs near towns like Barendrecht and Dordrecht.
So not only we Dutchies are happy, the beavers are happy campers to 🙂
As for over population, especially in the west, just press the red button, no not that one, the one marked M.A.D.
From over here in the UK what worries me is that I have grandchildren over there in the US, and you guys nearly elected this man. Most of his arguments seem to me to be without reasoned facts, poorly thought out, and quite immature, but having now seen these clips, the only description which I can think of is “Barking Mad” .
I’m a CAGW skeptic, and yes, he appears to have botched climate, however I think there should be more discussion about population – I feel very uneasy about the continual push for growth and I can’t help wonder whether we should in fact be doing something to reduce population. So, I’m glad he is discussing this.
Cold Englishman;
Yes, but they DID eventually elect Obama. The English elected Cameron, and the Aussies have Gillard. WC’s wry description of democracy as the worst of all systems except for all the others which have been tried from time to time sure has some bite! Fortunately, Canada elected Harper, who isn’t having any of this AGW crap, notwithstanding a few temporizing comments and some photo ops with Suzuki (who, if Gore is “Barking”, is surely “Howling Mad”). I hope we serve as a beacon to draw the rest of you benighted and careless voters out of the darkness!
🙂
btw, It is all very interesting as it comes on the day that the WSJ ran a story about settlements to the people who were subject to compulsory sterilization in the eugenics ratmanure of the 1920s. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304887904576395753841468000.html
Beware of prophets making profits…
On the theme of warmism-religion, there’s a nice opinion-piece in today’s National Post (Financial Post) in which author Peter Foster discusses how corporations have been co-opted by ENGOs, It’s titled “Milton’s Loophole”:
In fact, a new “iron fist” has emerged in the intervening period to “curb the market.” It belongs not to bureaucrats but to radical environmental non-governmental organizations (ENGOs), who have achieved a stunning amount of boardroom influence. They have done this, paradoxically, by learning from Prof. Friedman, and in particular by exploiting what might be called “Milton’s loophole.”
Prof. Friedman said that part of an executive’s role, beyond his primary task of serving shareholders, was to conform to “the basic rules of the society, both those embodied in law and those embodied in ethical customs.”
What ENGOs learned was this: If you want to bring corporations to heel, work on those “ethical customs,” which is precisely what they have done by helping make the environment a “moral issue.”
Foster likens ENGOs such as Greenpeace to the Mafia because of their ability to shake down corporations and make them toe the line on issues such as rejecting oil from Canada’s ‘environmentally destructive’ tar sands.
http://opinion.financialpost.com/2011/06/21/peter-foster-miltons-loophole/
Sceptical,
“Seems we have been told that a warmer world would lead to increased likelihood of major floods and draughts and we are now experiencing more of these in a warmer world. Climate effects weather events.”
More floods than WHEN? More draughts ( misspelling intentionally left alone) than WHEN? Please correlate for us the history of climate on earth in any given era, then number of floods in that area, and the number of “draughts” and compare those numbers to atmospheric CO2 levels for each given era. You might learn something useful.
Also did you know that La Nina is a phenomenon of Oceanic COOLING and that in La Nina years the weather patterns get shifted in such a way that certain areas receive an over-abundance of rainfall, while other areas are excessively dry, thus causing excessive flooding in some areas, and excessive droughts in other areas? Did you know, in fact, such phenomenon are much easier to associate with COOLING than they are with warming?
It is very easy to educate yourself on such matters. Even though you have not done so yet, at least there is hope, since you came to the right place!
Population naturally controls itself, there is no need to force controls on it. When handled correctly (as by a truly free market- and I do mean free market, not this crap that the confused masses call “capitalism”), increasing population leads to increased prosperity. In the late 1960’s and early 1970’s there were many calls by people such as John Holdren to control the population by whatever means necessary, or we would run out of food by the year 2000. Well, it is 2011, and we are nowhere near running out of food. Agricultural yields are at record levels. In fact, the greatest threat to agricultural yields would be a prolonged period of global COOLING.
The “left” always desires control through force. It is how you recognize a bad idea when you see one. Resorting to methods of force (as opposed to finding non-violent solutions) is the hallmark of people who only want power and control for the sake of power and control. The use of force to control something which is beyond your control (such as weather or climate or population) is the hallmark of foolishness.
Alas, Anthony, when you branch out into the arena of the culture wars, you make some questionable points yourself. Just what is so remarkable about Gore’s statements on women and population growth in the first video? It fits right in, BTW, with the views of libertarian types such as the late, great Julian Simon. Give women education, allow them more involvement with the choice of how many children they have, education of women raises living standards and is closely correlated with stabilizing of population, etc. etc. etc. Just what do you find ridiculous?
And personally, contrary to one commenter, I don’t find brown shoes objectionable.
Posts like this, and the comments that it elicits, are one good example of why AGW folks still get mileage out of the charge that critics of theirs are Yahoos.
@GregS,
“…I feel very uneasy about the continual push for growth and I can’t help wonder whether we should in fact be doing something to reduce population. So, I’m glad he is discussing this….”
You really need to study up on population trends. Yes, global population continues to rise mainly due to increased life spans. But if you look at either stats from the CIA Factbook or the UN population studies, you will find that since 1970 global birh rates have dropped. Currently, birthrates are in free-fall. The world population is growing, but it is also getting older. The TFRs (Total Fertility Rate) in almost all G-20 nations are below replacement levels (2.1 live births per female); most are in the 1.2-1.5 range. In Japan, Russia, Italy, Greece, and Spain TFRs have been below 1.5 for decades. Japan is now losing population. China has had a one male child policy for 30 years. Its ratio of females to males is below 1.0 . That is, if trends continue China will be producing fewer and fewer children due to the simple fact that there are not enough women. China’s TFR is below 1.5 and it will soon have over 300 million eldery on its hands. Even in the more fecund Muslim North Africa, TFRs have dropped from over 4.5 births per female in the 1970s to below 2.1 . Ditto for Turkey and Iran. Indonesia, the most populace Muslim nation has a TFR beow 2.0 . The Americas are not much better. Birthrates have fallen in Canada, Mexico, and Central and South America. Only portions of Africa and East Asia have birth rates in the 4s or higher.
If trends continue, the global population will peak out somewhere around 2040. It will begin to fall after 2050. And the fall will be swift. Many nations are set to see thier populations halved every generation (Japan, Russia, China, Italy, and Spain).
I have been following the theories of the Radical Left for ~35 years or more. This IS the one common thread. The goal of reducing the surface population by 90% by sterilization (or worse) is an open secret. As of late the Left has gotten considerably bolder in their proclamations. In 2006 Dr. Eric R. Pianka, gave just such a lecture at Texas Academy of Science. http://www.freedom.org/board/articles/mims-506.html … Going as far as to Suggest that a weaponized form of Ebola would do the trick… Folks, it’s not news that the Left is nuts, but neither was Osama Bin Ladin, and nobody needs reminding of how dangerous he turned out to be. Don’t trust in the belief that the Left are simply harmless nuts.
“Brian Hall says:
June 22, 2011 at 4:42 am
Cold Englishman;
Yes, but they DID eventually elect Obama. The English elected Cameron, and the Aussies have Gillard. WC’s wry description of democracy as the worst of all systems except for all the others which have been tried from time to time sure has some bite! Fortunately, Canada elected Harper, who isn’t having any of this AGW crap, notwithstanding a few temporizing comments and some photo ops with Suzuki (who, if Gore is “Barking”, is surely “Howling Mad”). I hope we serve as a beacon to draw the rest of you benighted and careless voters out of the darkness!”
I stand corrected! You’re right, most of the world’s leaders have become certifiable! Want proof? Read this and weep: http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/finance/2011/0620/1224299223415.html
Not only do we build our own stupid windmills, but we’re going to build them in Ireland too, all care of the UK taxpayer of course.
Right. Empowering women will help stop all of those rapes happening in developing nations, particularly those nations which have endured all those years of civil war.