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.
In Taiwan they have fined a man, Teacher Wang, for “spreading rumors” that an earthquake and tsunami would hit Taiwan last May. He may even face fraud charges.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/06/23/3252041.htm?section=justin
I wonder if anyone will do the same to Al Gore and others when their apocalyptic AGW scenarios don’t materialise.
Scarface says its the sun which causes climate change. Well Scarface you’ve got at least part of the problem solved. The sun’s heat is getting trapped in the atmosphere by GHG’s, one of which is CO2. This hasn’t been a controversial statement for many years now. If you read the “real” science, you will discover this fact for yourself. (There are many primers on the science of climate change which are available at your nearest bookstore, and several sites online, which would be helpful to you in getting up to speed on this crucial issue.)
This diatribe sounds Rommian. Did Gore have ghostwriters to help him?
He’s said himself that he gets his opinions on Climate from conversations with a group of leading climatologists, including Hansen. Maybe Gore’s statements reflect their views.
Profile of the Sociopath
1.Glibness and Superficial Charm
2.Manipulative and Conning
They never recognize the rights of others and see their self-serving behaviors as permissible. They appear to be charming, yet are covertly hostile and domineering, seeing their victim as merely an instrument to be used. They may dominate and humiliate their victims.
3.Grandiose Sense of Self
Feels entitled to certain things as “their right.”
4.Pathological Lying
Has no problem lying coolly and easily and it is almost impossible for them to be truthful on a consistent basis. Can create, and get caught up in, a complex belief about their own powers and abilities. Extremely convincing and even able to pass lie detector tests.
5.Lack of Remorse, Shame or Guilt
A deep seated rage, which is split off and repressed, is at their core. Does not see others around them as people, but only as targets and opportunities. Instead of friends, they have victims and accomplices who end up as victims. The end always justifies the means and they let nothing stand in their way.
6.Shallow Emotions
When they show what seems to be warmth, joy, love and compassion it is more feigned than experienced and serves an ulterior motive. Outraged by insignificant matters, yet remaining unmoved and cold by what would upset a normal person. Since they are not genuine, neither are their promises.
7.Incapacity for Love
8.Need for Stimulation
Living on the edge. Verbal outbursts and physical punishments are normal. Promiscuity and gambling are common.
9.Callousness/Lack of Empathy
Unable to empathize with the pain of their victims, having only contempt for others’ feelings of distress and readily taking advantage of them.
10. Poor Behavioral Controls/Impulsive Nature
Rage and abuse, alternating with small expressions of love and approval produce an addictive cycle for abuser and abused, as well as creating hopelessness in the victim. Believe they are all-powerful, all-knowing, entitled to every wish, no sense of personal boundaries, no concern for their impact on others.
11. Early Behavior Problems/Juvenile Delinquency
Usually has a history of behavioral and academic difficulties, yet “gets by” by conning others. Problems in making and keeping friends; aberrant behaviors such as cruelty to people or animals, stealing, etc.
12. Irresponsibility/Unreliability
Not concerned about wrecking others’ lives and dreams. Oblivious or indifferent to the devastation they cause. Does not accept blame themselves, but blames others, even for acts they obviously committed.
13. Promiscuous Sexual Behavior/Infidelity
Promiscuity, child sexual abuse, rape and sexual acting out of all sorts.
14. Lack of Realistic Life Plan/Parasitic Lifestyle
Tends to move around a lot or makes all encompassing promises for the future, poor work ethic but exploits others effectively.
15. Criminal or Entrepreneurial Versatility
Changes their image as needed to avoid prosecution. Changes life story readily.
Does this describe Al Gore?
It surely seems to.
One of the many pro Gore comments comes from an alleged PhD. candidate in environmental sciences. A quote
” Far more striking than the accuracy of stated scientific facts however (which are just that, established facts, not news or Gore’s opinion), is the keen-eyed and eloquent way in which Mr. Gore analyses the broader systemic issues that underlie the climate change pseudo-debate.”
I imagine this kid will find work with the EPA.
@chris b says:
June 23, 2011 at 6:56 am
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
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CRS Reply Sorry for the confusion, I was the one comparing rent-seeking climatologists to blood-sucking parasites. Excellent point about “at least parasites don’t try to convince their host they’re trying to save the world”!
As someone noted and linked it above, the PBS NewsHour carried this as one of there major stories of the day last night, with a panel of three–two warmists [three if you count ‘Gwen”] and a guy from the American Enterprise Institute. [I don’t think they ever did cover Climategate.] The transcript is here:
[url]http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/politics/jan-june11/globalwarming_06-22.html[/url]
This would be another opportunity to critique PBS pushing the global warming propaganda.
Link to the PBS ombudsman:
[url]http://www.pbs.org/ombudsman/feedback.html[/url]
Some interesting moments in the PBS Newhour coverage last night…
[url]http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/politics/jan-june11/globalwarming_06-22.html[/url]
PBS covered it in a major segment with a panel of three Two warmist and…
KENNETH GREEN, American Enterprise Institute: Well, this is going to be surprising, but I actually agree a little more with Dan here. I think president is getting a bum rap on this one.
I could wish he’d been a little less active, in fact, on climate policy, but I think it’s clearly a sort of a pre-election…
GWEN IFILL: Why? Why do you wish he…
[I saw it. Ifill was clearly surprised. I don’t think the ‘NewsHour’ has ears for anything put the warmist propaganda]
KENNETH GREEN: We’re beginning to actually have the right argument, which is interesting.
You have Andy Revkin at The New York Times, an environmental reporter, seriously upset over the fact that the U.N. IPCC, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, let a report on renewable energy be written by the Sierra Club.
And this is a huge scandal of unprecedented proportions.
GWEN IFILL: Is that true?…
[ignorance is bliss at PBS]
Interview with a Crazed Sex Poodle. I wouldn’t use The Rolling Stone even to wrap fish or line the bottom of a bird cage as it would entail unavoidably reading some of it in the process. This interview is a case in point for why I don’t want to know what’s in it.
He is already bordering on dementia. The pressure is starting to be unbearable.
Al Gore is only one step away from suggesting that in order to stop Climate Change we must throw virgins into the volcano.
As we enter the Landscheidt Grand Solar Minimum heading into the next Little (hopefully) Ice Age, we will look back decades from now (freezing-to-death), and wonder how did our politicians fall for this agw crap?
I tried to post on Rolling Stone. Couldn’t do it.
“Yet President Obama has never presented to the American people the magnitude of the climate crisis. He has simply not made the case for action. He has not defended the science against the ongoing, withering and dishonest attacks.”
Have you (Al Gore) “defended the science against the ongoing, withering and dishonest attacks” by Lord Monckton? President Obama has more pressing things on his plate and may need a hand from someone with less on their plate.
If it is “true” that CO2 is the real culprit of increasing temperatures, why do the last thirteen years of temperature data show no increase, statistically? I have nor heard an explanation, as the 98 per cent of scientists are obviously a little too perplexed. I certianly will not ask Al Gore, the pseudo-scientist. If there is a real efffect, then tell us! If not, go back to the drawing board.
The National Academy of Science for every major country on earth? Does this include the Czech Republic?