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.
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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Moderator,
I found your reply very insulting,……………to parasites.
At least parasites don’t try to convince their host they’re trying to save the world.
[reply] It wasn’t a reply from a moderator. TB-mod
“We, on the other hands, have no equal political movement to make our case public.”
Actually you do. Compare those economies following the Gore agenda (Spain and the EU are leading the way) with those not following Gore.
The cost of Gore’s ideas are bankrupting every country that is trying and driving up unemployment as the high cost of green energy cannot compete in a global economy. Factories and jobs simply move to countries with lower energy costs (such as China).
So follow Gore if you want, but don’t be surprised if you get a pink slip as a result.
But its true! While you read this lies are being spread about the climate crisis! Specifically they abeing spread by Al Gore and his crew throgh this article.
RS is also freaking out ’bout Bachmann:
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/michele-bachmanns-holy-war-20110622?page=1
I think at least part of the comparison with professional wrestling is valid. While there are plenty of scientific arguments presented here, a lot of the commentary is about insulting the opponent.
It is important to realize that this sort of commentary will primarily be enjoyed by those already on your side. It is unlikely to convince anyone on the fence, much less those fully opposed to you. Satire may have a place in the world, but when the specific item being discussed is scientific in nature, it only hides the scientific argument from those who most need to see it the most.
An example;
“Mann’s inverted Tiljander data survives another round of peer review
Posted on June 22, 2011 by Anthony Watts
Steve McIntyre reports (via commenter AMac) that Mann’s inverted Tiljander
sediment data lives on in Kemp et al 2011 like some zombie that will not die.
I feel for graduate student Kemp, who will forever have the stink of Mann’s
inability to admit and correct this simple issue tied to his paper.”
The article could simply have pointed out the ongoing error that does not get fixed. The “zombie” and “stink” parts are in a writing style more in keeping with professional wrestling than scientific criticism. Personally, I never could get into watching professional wrestling, and find their special type of banter tiresome. It starts to get tiresome for me here on “Watts Up” as well.
I suggest that a way be found to somehow filter out the less scientific parts here. I imagine the only way to do it is to tag them by the reviewers. Then provide a toggle to turn on or off the parts the viewer wants to see.
NASA Scientist accused using celab status among ebvironmental groups to enrich himself.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/06/22/nasa-scientist-accused-using-celeb-status-among-environmental-groups-to-enrich/
Is Gore next?
To understand what this is all about, you first need to realise that Gore is a failed politician of the sleek, slimy and ultra-rich variety.
As such, he obsesses about getting his name in headlines again and possibly receiving a second Nobel Prize for distorting the facts. The analogy of WWF is indeed correct, the warmists and wrestlers are entertainment – the problem is that the lumpen proletariat/AGW cult faithful take both as being serious.
Gore is joke. What he wants to do is give speeches and testimony that initiates profound, sweeping social, economic, and political change. All originated by him. In his mind, he’s doing his part (speeches and testimonies), but dang it, the rest of us aren’t living up to our part of the bargain. We keep living our lives in a way that he doesn’t approve of.
So he throws a temper tantrum and blames everyone and everything under the sun.
I have a challenge for Al. Take all your smarts and greatness and stuff, and start a company. This company will manufacture a product that sells for $5000. I can buy this product, hook it up to the breaker box on my home, and it will give me up to 10,000 kWh of electricity a year, whenever I want it, for 25 years, guaranteed. If you do that, you’ll see the kind of change that your speeches and testimonies aren’t delivering. But until you do that, please JUST SHUT UP!!!!!
This is really, really funny. The CAGW crowd is even more worried about the truth than I thought, as shown by this way-over-the-top whining exercise. ROFLMAO.
I long for the days, when the “Rolling Stone” was a non-conformist magazine. GK
Get a load of this, Mr Gore
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/06/23/3252041.htm
The precedent has been set…
“whether it has any connection to the constant dumping of 90 million tons of heat-trapping emissions into the Earth’s thin shell of atmosphere every 24 hours.”
Can anyone fact check the 90 million ton claim by Al Bore? Is this a factual number or poetic license?
Let us just look at one of Al Gore’s claims in the Rolling Stone article:
Gore: Drought. Historic drought and fires in Russia killed an estimated 56,000 people and caused wheat and other food crops in Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan to be removed from the global market, contributing to a record spike in food prices. “Practically everything is burning,” Russian president Dmitry Medvedev declared. “What’s happening with the planet’s climate right now needs to be a wake-up call to all of us.”
Let us look at what a USA scientific institution said (peer reviewed) about the Russian Heatwave, many months later actually doing some science and looking at the evidence (Please note, NOAA can by no means be described as sceptical to AGW, quite the contrary. – and they do put lots of spin on it, they almost sound disappointed thatt hey couldn’t link it))
NOAA: Natural Variability Main Culprit of Deadly Russian Heat Wave That Killed Thousands
http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2011/20110309_russianheatwave.html
“The heat wave was due primarily to a natural phenomenon called an atmospheric “blocking pattern”, in which a strong high pressure system developed and remained stationary over western Russian, keeping summer storms and cool air from sweeping through the region and leading to the extreme hot and dry conditions. While the blocking pattern associated with the 2010 event was unusually intense and persistent, its major features were similar to atmospheric patterns associated with prior extreme heat wave events in the region since 1880, the researchers found.
Note Al Gore links the event specificall to climate change (man made?) whereas NOAA say not… Of course you might argue that this might happen more in the future..
BUT, this is NOT why Al Gore is saying
NOAA: “The deadly Russian heat wave of 2010 was due to a natural atmospheric phenomenon often associated with weather extremes, according to a new NOAA study. And while the scientists could not attribute the intensity of this particular heat wave to climate change, they found that extreme heat waves are likely to become increasingly frequent in the region in coming decades.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/03/09/noaa-findsclimate-change-blameless-in-2010-russian-heat-wave/
Exactly! The 7000 that did not respond basically said “no opinion”.
Thank goodness the presidency was stolen from Gore by Floridian vote counters or the world would have been doomed by now.
Under the Pictures # 7 of 12 – Drought: Russia
Historic drought and fires in Russia in August 2010 killed an estimated 56,000 people
Sounded off to me and after a quick search, found this.
Russia’s record heat wave may already have taken 15,000 lives and cost the economy $15 billion as fires and drought ravage the country.
At least 7,000 people have probably died in Moscow as a result of the heat, and the nationwide death toll is likely to be at least twice that figure, according to Jeff Masters, co- founder of Weather Underground, a 15-year-old Internet weather service that gathers information from around the world.
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While the official death toll from fires in central Russia is 52, the heat and smoke in Moscow have almost doubled the city’s normal death rate to about 700 a day, Andrei Seltsovsky, head of the city’s public health department, said yesterday in a televised news conference.
Masters, who has a Ph.D. in air pollution meteorology, used those numbers to calculate a nationwide death toll.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-08-10/russia-may-lose-15-000-lives-15-billion-of-economic-output-in-heat-wave.html
So 52 deaths morf into 15,000. Talk about inflation.
Ask yourself what drives this man to write such drivel …… come on grow up, let logic prevail, do not listen to this ego driven , money driven, power driven con man……go and do some research for your self with an open mind ……… at the end of that time if you do not think that the SUN , the OCEANS and the CLOUDS are not the primary changers of climate and that CO2 is so small as to have VERY little of no real influence ………. then you must be as deluded a Gore !!!!!!!!!!
Please just look and listen to :- http://cdsweb.cern.ch/record/1181073/
http://www.torontosun.com/2011/06/22/earth-to-al-gore
I am puzzled
I thought you had another Vice President now – in fact haven’t you had a couple since ex-Vice President Gore was in office ?
Seems very strange to forget the most important part of his courtesy title – EX.
So in the Uk we have Mr Blair; Mr Brown; Mr Major – all EX Prime Ministers; no one (least of all Major – blair and brown would probably like to do a Gore a claim an honorific to which they are not entitled to ) would dream of being adressed as Prime Minister never mind ex Prime Minister.
What is it with Gore – isn’t he just some ex politician turned political advocate ?
Do you really tolerate such deceptions ?
now that is a great example of who are the real D-words. Denying reality, denying truth, denying all evidence to keep alive a myth long since debunked by their very own media.
News flash!
Pauchari, Mann, and Gore rip off Namco; create PC game [PachMannGore] that eats evil CO2 molecules. Clyde is pissed.
/sarc
” Gary Pearse says:
June 23, 2011 at 11:57 am
Thank goodness the presidency was stolen from Gore by Floridian vote counters or the world would have been doomed by now.”
I’m normally content to simply lurk, but as a Floridian, I can’t let this go unanswered.
If you believe democrat spin, then George W. Bush was handed the presidency by south Florida democrats (almost certainly retirees from the northeast) who couldn’t figure out how to work that hole punch whatchamacallit.
HTH
Missed this thread yesterday because I was writing about it at RedState – ol’ Gore did a strange twist on his standard skeptic scientist accusation which has me wondering why he did it. Please see: “Pt II: Is Gore’s Accusation of Skeptic Climate Scientists Still a Hoax?” http://www.redstate.com/russellc/2011/06/22/pt-ii-is-gores-accusation-of-skeptic-climate-scientists-still-a-hoax/
Almost forgot … in the category of disgusting in Sept. 2000 (2 mos pre-election) there was this cover (referencing an interview in the same RS issue):
Rolling Stone’s Political Covers – POLITICAL COVERS: RS 853 September 9, 2000 – “AL GORE – The Rolling Stone Interview” by Jann S. Wenner
featuring then candidate Algore with a below-the-belt * … something that was much discussed at the time; Algore has had an on-going relationship with RS since at least 2000 as that interview would indicate.
* “package” as detected by some doing photo evaluation
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The big lie misrepresented as an error by alarmists
“And in their 3,000-page report, the scientists made some mistakes! Another penalty!”
The IPCC was told about this error in 2006 by Georg Kaser prior to the AR4 being published
“Professor Georg Kaser, a glacier expert from Austria, who was lead author of a different chapter in the IPCC report, said when he became aware of the 2035 claim a few months before the report was published, he wrote to Dr Lal, urging him to withdraw it as patently untrue.”
The IPCC went ahead and published the error, turning it into a lie.
The truth came out two years later in November 2009 after Pachauri described the Indian Himalayan Glacier Report as “voodoo science”
Pachauri defended the IPCC until he relented in January of 2010