This hasn’t hit the newstands yet, but thanks to the propaganda arm of Gore Inc. aka “Repower America” I’ve been given a link to the advance online copy which you too can read in full. First let’s start with the email. Like any good flock herder, there’s a big button where you can give to the cause:
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Dear [name deleted],
Our Chairman Al Gore just published a major article in a special summer issue of Rolling Stone.
The magazine hits the stands on Friday, June 24, but you can read it here:
http://acp.repoweramerica.org/rollingstone
Turn on the news or look out the window: Every day, we see the impacts of climate change in the form of historic droughts, floods, storms and other extreme weather events. Yet despite what scientists have been telling us for decades and what we can see with our own eyes, powerful interests continue to deny this crisis is even happening.
Vice President Gore’s essay is important — and I know it will be discussed far and wide.
Take a minute and read this article, then leave a comment on the piece and share it with your friends.
http://acp.repoweramerica.org/rollingstone
Thanks,
Maggie L. Fox
President and CEO
Alliance for Climate Protection
P.S. As you read this email, lies and misinformation are being spread about the climate crisis. We need you to change the conversation and speak up for reality. Leave a comment on Rolling Stone’s website here. Share this article on Twitter, and when you do, use the hashtag #reality. You are our voice.
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Gore has gone full bore on “deniers”, and starts off with comparisons to WWF (no not the NGO, yes, the wrestlers) with the piece entitled:
Photo Gallery: 11 extreme-weather signs the climate crisis is real
Gore wants to take the battle to the streets, mainly because he’s losing the battle, big time. For example, here’s his advice on how to harass your hometown media:
Fourth, contact your local newspapers and television stations when they put out claptrap on climate — and let them know you’re fed up with their stubborn and cowardly resistance to reporting the facts of this issue. One of the main reasons they are so wimpy and irresponsible about global warming is that they’re frightened of the reaction they get from the deniers when they report the science objectively. So let them know that deniers are not the only ones in town with game. Stay on them! Don’t let up! It’s true that some media outlets are getting instructions from their owners on this issue, and that others are influenced by big advertisers, but many of them are surprisingly responsive to a genuine outpouring of opinion from their viewers and readers. It is way past time for the ref to do his job.
And there’s the other usual and expected talking points, like that oft cited “97% survey”.
This time, the scientific consensus is even stronger. It has been endorsed by every National Academy of science of every major country on the planet, every major professional scientific society related to the study of global warming and 98 percent of climate scientists throughout the world. In the latest and most authoritative study by 3,000 of the very best scientific experts in the world, the evidence was judged “unequivocal.”
Of course Gore never tells readers that only 5% of the original sample responses were climate scientists. See why here.
The study/survey paper is behind a pay wall but there is a comprehensive summary here.
We find that they originally contacted 10,257 scientists, of whom 3,146 responded, less than a 31% response rate. “Impending Planetary Doom” was obviously not uppermost in the minds of over two thirds of their target population. Of that number, only 5% described themselves as climate scientists, numbering 157. The authors reduce that by half by only counting those who they classed as “specialists”.
“In our survey, the most specialized and knowledgeable respondents (with regard to climate change) are those who listed climate science as their area of expertise and who also have published more than 50% of their recent peer-reviewed papers on the subject of climate change (79 individuals in total). Of these specialists, 96.2% (76 of 79) answered “risen” to question 1 and 97.4% (75 of 77) answered yes to question 2.”
So just 75 climate scientists out of people 3000 surveyed, that works out to 2.5%. No mention of the OSI survey with 30,000 people that responded of course.
On the plus side, he disses Obama on his non-existent (but sensible) climate policy:
Yet President Obama has never presented to the American people the magnitude of the climate crisis,…
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He has simply not made the case for action. He has not defended the science against the ongoing, withering and dishonest attacks. Nor has he provided a presidential venue for the scientific community — including our own National Academy — to bring the reality of the science before the public.
Here’s what Gore says about Climategate:
But wait! The good guys transgressed the rules of decorum, as evidenced in their private e-mails that were stolen and put on the Internet. The referee is all over it: Penalty! Go to your corner! And in their 3,000-page report, the scientists made some mistakes! Another penalty!
An alternate title for Gore’s piece might be Perp Fiction.
It really does underline just how out of touch Gore is. To come out with such pap now, when significant appreciation of the “sceptical” and “warmist” viewpoints is being made by both sides agreeing that the science should be repeatable, open and honest – is mind bogglingly silly.
At last we have the sensible middle ground starting to agree that climatescience should be Science and not advocacy – as demonstrated by the sensible stance on the IPCC/Greenpeace fiasco – AS WELL AS horror at the buffoonery of Monkton calling other Nazi’s – as set out on WUWT.
If anyone thinks man does not affect his environment – including Climate then they are being idiotic. Equally if you decry those that question poor science, advocacy and political bias as “deniers” of some greater “truth” or belief system that is based on dodgy dossiers you are equally idiotic.
Last throes of a desperate man and his entourage. Sad that intelligent people cannot make themselves ignore the empirical evidence that AGW is not happeninig. It’s almost as if they are on a drug and cannot dismount from the tiger.
Paul R says:
June 22, 2011 at 7:47 pm
So whats the deal, is wrestling fake or not?>>>
Well it’s real of course. Ever watch a live interview at a local event? you watch this clearly scripted, obviously fake, pretend fight complete with story lines of betrayal, comradarie, heroism and villains who lie and cheat… afterward there’s a ring side interview during which some clown in the crowd almost always shouts “its all fake!”
That’s when the “wrestler” stands up, all six foot six of him, in excellent physical shape, well trained in a variety of martial arts techniques and poorly trained in acting, brings himself to his full height, bars he teeth, and issues that challenge:
“You think its fake? Wanna step in the ring and go three rounds with me?”
No one EVER says yes and gets in the ring. Proof positive it is real.
If only proving AGW is real was as easy.
Wait a second… nah. they’re both just as real.
Al had it wrong then and he has it wrong now, poor fella must be going broke (er) every time someone ‘like us’ comes out and debunks his so called ‘proof’. Yep time to call in the straight jacket people and quickly.
@CRS, Dr.P.H. says:
June 22, 2011 at 9:05 pm
@Al Gored says:
June 22, 2011 at 7:14 pm
CRS, Dr.P.H. says:
June 22, 2011 at 5:01 pm
“Oh, puh-lease!! In one corner, rent-seeking academic research whores…”
Please. Not nice to call climatutes “whores.” That sounds cheap, and they are not.
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REPLY I’m sorry, you are correct. I should have said “blood-sucking parasites upon humanity.”
Didn’t mean to insult anyone….
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Now you’ve insulted blood-sucking parasites! ;o)
You know I’ve been thinking that using the word “denier” must be a direct invocation of Goodwin’s Law, how long have they been doing it?
Merchants of poison? I thought that was Gore et al.
He has now completely lost it.
@davidmhoffer says:
June 23, 2011 at 1:31 am
Years ago someone was interviewing one of the early wrestlers -The Sheik, Flying Fred Curry, Gorgeous George – I forget who it was, but when asked, “Is it faked?” they replied to the effect, “Lord-a-mighty! I sure wish you could fake a body slam!”
Odd to see the inventor of the Internet claiming Thomas Paine had less expensive access to media outlets than we enjoy today. Indeed his entire rant was devoid of any reference to the blogosphere which provides a potential audience of billions for a price as low as a walk to a local library.
Jerry says:
June 22, 2011 at 5:43 pm
‘Chairman Al’
I’d put him down more as a chicken little.
Talk about dumb ficttion!
Does he need the money that bad?
I read all 8 pages. Waste of time – the poor man is totally delusional. I hope he gets the professional help he clearly needs.
Off-topic, but perhaps relevant, to the right on all 8 pages appear the headlines, in order: 1) Clarence Clemons has suffered a stroke. 2) dies (condolences) 3) is showing signs of improvement. Clearly a reliable source of up-to-date information – not!
I really like the idea of hanging the “merchants of poison” tag on the pushers of curly light bulbs. I think this has “got legs”!
Best,
Frank
ICECAP have an amusing article on the problem of a chair shortage at the forthcoming ICCC http://icecap.us/index.php/go/political-climate .
“Don’t blame us, and don’t blame global warming, for the rapidly escalating chair crisis. Blame the alarmists who are Bogarting all the chairs to hide under,”
Chairman Gore, that sounds rather ominous actually. I think of China and the cultural revolution when I read that first letter. I do hope Mr. Gore don’t have thoughts in that way.
/Carl
Lies built upon lies. Bound together by verbal excrement.
Al Gore can’t be serious when he suggests that somehow the msm are not generally one of the main proponents of the garbage he spouts?
The method he has used in this pathetic article is because he want’s all debate stifled.
The US people don’t know how lucky they are. Imagine if this sanctimonios hypocrite had ever became your President. Thank F*** for hanging chads. ( I never ever thought I would think that)
Using Wrestling is in fact quite a good comparison as we know what happens is unreal just like the outpourings from his mates in the Fiddlestick Team.
oops, there goes a messiah complex into meltdown.
He’ll be ranting at people from street corners next.
El Gordo has been lying for so long, I doubt that he knows the difference anymore between truth and lies. As a defense mechanism, he often projects his own poisonous thoughts and feelings onto those who disagree. He is definitely a sick, sick man. I suppose the young, the naive, and/or those suffering from similar psychosis
(perhaps it could be called “Gore Syndrome”, or “Goreosis”) still listen to his ravings.
Rolling Stone edit:
Turn on the leftwing news or look out of the window, go on, see how real world observation matches your computer data – not. Everyday we see the impacts of climate change – ( yes I know we don’t call it global warming now, that’s so passe,) in the form of historic droughts, floods, (yes I know we said we’d run out of water, but that was yesterday, its ‘Climate CHANGE’ Stupid,) storms and other extreme events. (That means lots of snow, SNOW means climate change, well, ‘weather’ change, anyway. Yet despite what scientists have been telling us for decades, (you better listen, we know where you live…)and what our models tell us , of course we don’t fudge the data,) powerful interests, (all you oil shills out there) contrive to ‘deny’ (we really love the connotations of this word), THIS ISSUE IS HAPPENING.
John Brookes
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/06/22/gores-rolling-stone-denier-diatribe/#comment-687033
You are then easily deceived.His many errors and deceptions have been posted.
When are you going to catch up?
I have looked through some of the comments in the Rolling Stone link.There are many still hanging onto stupid oil funding claims.And that we are going to die soon because of a few skeptics preventing solutions from being developed.
It is apparent that Al $$$ Gore still has quite a few fans hanging onto his every deception and lie.A sycophant army still exist.They are going to over look his massive conflict of interest and his reported hypocritical actions.
Even a doctoral candidate in Environmental Sciences thought Al wrote well.
This is really sad.
Efforts to refute Gore should not bother with a scientific data foodfight. It’s not going to make a difference either to true believers or to those who are trying to understand. Instead concentrate on his hypocritical do-as-I-say-not-as-I-do stance — the mansions, waterfront property, excessive electricity use, etc. How can you trust the pitch when the pitchman is of questionable character?
Ah, the good old Rolling Stone. Ant a Big Donation Button. Just remined me of what I really love about rock music – the zany vaudeville over-the-top side of it, best shown by Dr. Tooth & the Electric mayhem (words and music by Stan Freberg):
Give me that almighty dollar; for that lettuce let me hollar,
Give me buckets full of ducets, let me walk aroung and waller
In mazuma, el dinero; want to be a millionero,
Give me money, money, money, money, money.
I want that green ammunition,that’s the stuff for which I’m wishin’,
Fill my closets with deposits – I’m a demon in addition.
Give me sheckels, give me pesos – let me see their smiling faceos.
Money, money, money, money, money.
I want to get me a suit, that made out of loot,
And whistle „The Wearin’ of the Green”.
I’ve got that moneytaritus, like to be just like King Midas,
Want that golden touch is what I mean.
Give me that old double eagle, want that tender that is legal,
And financially, substantially any sum I can inveigle.
Want to live in regal splendor, with that lovin’ legal tender.
Give me money, money, money, money, money.
Mike said: “See Alexander Cockburn & Jeffrey St Clair’s “Al Gore: A User’s Manual” on Google Books for references.”
Good grief! Is Cockburn still publishing radical-left rubbish? I am encouraged that he singled out Gore for attack. When the radical left brain-dead begins fighting with the far left brain-dead, we are making progress.
Al Gore is not the problem. The problem is the mindless followers that feed on his global warming mantra. And they are not just a few – sadly, a large number of the planet’s population tows that line. This is a problem of the ages. Since the beginning of humanity, there has always been those ready to prey on the fear of the masses, specifically, the fear of change, the fear of radical departure from the status quo.
There are very many that will always see the future, and the perils of unknown change, as a threat to their stability and well being. They long for life as it was, thinking that somehow, if they restrain themselves from actions envisioned by their fear preachers as damaging to themselves and humanity as a whole, it will always be as it was and that restraint alone will protect them from change – what they fear most.
To many others, the complete opposite is true. Change they believe, is inevitable, an intrinsic part of the motion of the universe. They thrive in this ever changing environment because they embrace change, see it as an opportunity to grow, and relish in their ability to adapt and survive. They show contempt for the fear mongers who prey on the weak minded, rather than helping them along to an enlightened existence where change is an absolute, and ironically, the only unchanging part of the world we live in – “adapt, flee or die”.
This has always been a part of the human struggle, and until we can bring this fear of change to an end, it will always be the only REAL status quo.
Don’t waste time fighting the fear mongers. Show the fearful masses the way to enlightenment instead.
Best,
J.
On the bright side The Rolling Stone is an apt venue for bandwagon science. I’m more concerned when the same crap pollutes the pages of Nature or makes a mockery of Nobel prize awards.