Post by Ryan Maue
You knew it was only a matter of time after the Rolling Stone criticism of Obama on climate, but Al Gore is back and in a big way. Some are calling it an Inconvenient Truth 2.0 with a brand new slide show connecting extreme weather with global warming. The new “Climate Reality Project” moniker replaces Gore’s previous Alliance for Climate Protection racket. UK Guardian eco-journalist Suzanne Goldenberg gives away the store with this line: “The campaign represents a modest comeback for Gore who has reduced his public profile on climate action in the past few years – probably out of consideration for the political consequences to his fellow Democrat Barack Obama.”
So Al Gore’s decision to lower his profile was to avoid forcing Obama to make politically unpopular decisions? I think there are additional reasons related to his personal life.
Thankfully, Al Gore is back and is planning “24-hours of Reality“on September 14 to connect the dots between extreme weather and global warming. So, unless he is planning on presenting a lecture on the coupled atmosphere-ocean dynamics of the El Nino Southern Oscillation (e.g. La Nina and El Nino), the presentation may not take more than a few minutes. Anecdotal evidence, commissioned puff pieces in SciAm, and hand-wavy slogans about “loading the dice” are not going to cut it anymore.
Gore has put out a new video trailer: it’s clear he has worked on his lecture delivery to sound even more professorial, elitist, and condescending. Experts such as NASA scientist Dr. James Hansen and NCAR’s Dr. Kevin Trenberth are prominently mentioned in several interviews given by Al Gore.
Another aspect of the Gore resurrection is the lockstep adherence to his brand of climate change orthodoxy by his sychophants in the liberal media. Here are some links for a flavor:
Joe Romm: Exclusive: Al Gore On His ‘Climate Realilty Project’ Launch: “It’s Urgent To Rendezvous With Reality To Save The Future Of Civilization As We Know It.”
Suzanne Goldenberg: UK Guardian: Al Gore returns with new climate campaign. Climate Reality Project aims to expose reality of global warming crisis and kicks off with a 24-hour live streamed event
Chris Mooney: some blog: Al Gore Launches the “Climate Reality Project” — which deserves some quotes since he is right on the money:
In my view, Gore has been pretty much right about the science of climate all along. But sad to say, everything I’ve learned about this issue convinces me that there is little he can say or do to get conservative climate “skeptics” to accept that.
Yes, they need to renounce their counter-reality and come back to this one. But paradoxically, having Al Gore tell them that may just drive them farther away. Let’s hope he can appeal to the middle, anyway…
Grist: “All of the group’s efforts will be devoted to spreading the truth about the climate crisis and the solutions to it, making use of the thousands of slideshow presenters that Gore has trained over the last few years. It sounds like the group’s political lobbying will more or less fall by the wayside.”
“Lipstick on a pig”
I know you are referrencing Gore’s manner, but –
First, you’ve insulted pigs everywhere by relating them to Gore,
and,
second, the “lipstick on a pig” phrase implies putting the lipstick on the front end of the pig which is exactly opposite of where Gore uses it.
Maybe “perfume on a cow patty” would describe Gore’s drivel better?
Dunno.
🙂
I expect that Mr. Gore’s project will result in an endless number of (richly deserved) snarky remarks and general ridicule from people who question his version of the “science.”
Well, this is good news. For a while there, even the alarmist quit identifying with him. This will fun. Are they going to identify with and embrace again, Al “millions degrees/unhappy ending” Gore once again?
I hope so. Makes for easy going. 🙂
Support the man. After AIT skepticism grew. He works for us.
Of course he will do this without someone taking the opposing view. No online debate, no opposing time. All AL, all the time.
He’s waited this long, why not wait for the next IPCC report and have more behind his death by power point?
God thing he is coming back with a Science fiction show… they are running out of candidates for the next Nobel price.
Did somone say that he’s back because he reached the Tipper point?
Chris Mooney: some blog: Al Gore Launches the “Climate Reality Project” — which deserves some quotes since he is right on the money:
“In my view, Gore has been pretty much right about the science of climate all along.”
Really?
Hasn’t he watched An Inconveinient Truth?
What planet is he living on?
I wonder whether there will be a “Gore effect” with respect to Atlantic hurricanes. September 14th is, IIRC, the date for maximum hurricane activity. To date, now mid-July, we have had one rather small tropical storm. There are no hurricanes in sight. I know it is early days, but one never knows. These Gore effects seem to be very strong.
Indeed, this will be entertaining. I can’t wait to see and hear all the BS he’ll spout. Popcorn time
They should have timed it for Halloween…
“Reveal the deniers” ?
Are they hidden?
I don’t remember giving a secret password to get on here.
The stupidity and dishonesty is piling up and reaching levels which seem to have no limit.
What’s next? Calling skeptics terrorists and calling for their prosecution & execution?
Sounds like the divorce has forced him to having to make more money to live the hypocrite life he has “chosen” to live. God help him if he ever had to live like us regular people!
Is a re-launch somewhat equivalent to a second chakra?
Watch the teaser video ( Popcorn please, the full event is going to be an embarrasing own goal for Gore) check out the 3,000 people ‘trained’ by Al Gore to give a slideshow. 😉
can’t wait, every cliche going – How many climate scientists are going to be happy to be associated with this…. yet, you are either with Al or against Al, a dilemma for them.
“reveal the deniers”
“cataclysmic weather events ARE occuring”
“big oil & big money”
Should be interesting. A world event, over 24 hours, Al Gore speaks! 64 days and counting..
Al Gore – Climate Reality project:
“Our world is changing. Rivers are overflowing their boundaries. Carefully tended crops have failed due to drought and severe storms. Forests are turning into tinder. Massive glaciers are melting at an alarming rate.
We have known about climate change for decades. Yet now, we are seeing and experiencing the extreme weather that scientists have long told us to expect in a warming world. Floods. Heat waves. Droughts. Historic storms. These cataclysmic events are occurring all over the world with increasing frequency. This is not normal. A“new normal” is emerging. And these events will only become more frequent and severe if we continue to pollute our air.
“24 Hours of Reality will focus the world’s attention on the full truth, scope, scale and impact of the climate crisis. To remove the doubt. Reveal the deniers. And catalyze urgency around an issue that affects every one of us.”
Al Gore- Chairman of the Climate Reality Project
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“Reveal the Deniers” !!!
does he really believe this rubbish?!
“Climate Science is the search for fact… not truth. If it’s truth you’re looking for, Dr. Tyree’s philosophy class is right down the hall.”
Hopefully Dr. Jones (Indiana, of course) will forgive me taking liberties with his quote. Seemed apropriate given Gore’s website and Grist’s comment.
Re “The New Normal”; he MUST take this gal with him on his Powerpoint tour; i insist; she’s gold.
Good idea with Gore leading the charge they will over the cliff of ‘doom’ even quicker .
If you want to have fun, travel over to the youtube page where his promo is posted and read some of the supportive comments.
Good, he’s done more damage to their ’cause’ than any other person………..
“Poor Al . . . ever more desperate to keep the gig going.”
I’m ever more desperate to make you guys understand that the earth is warming, that human activities are the main cause, that this will have catastrophic impacts – consistently underestimated by the scientific community – if we don’t reduce carbon emissions quickly, that this has been understood for a long time and is supported by a solid body of empirical evidence, that none of the counterarguments have stood the test of scrutiny and that fossil fuel interests have spent the past two decades undermining the credibility of the science in order to slow action. You are all the victims of an extremely effective denial campaign and are in a psychological-ideological deadlock which prevents you from seeing reality in an objective manner. This is exactly why initiatives like ’24 hours of climate reality’ are being held.
When I was about 12, I used to think climate change was exxagerated because I felt it was cool to think the opposite of everybody else. I think I can understand how you feel. It’s okay to change your mind.
And if you don’t change your mind, ask yourself this: are you human? – could you be wrong? – what if the doomsday scenarios turn out to be right? – is it responsible to risk such damage based on your being 100% certain that the science is bogus?
I want to reach out to you. I want to work together with you. It’s not about politics. Please leave behind your preconceptions and your fear and start to see the reality of human-caused climate change.
Let’s be friends!
Al’s Climate Launch may turn out to be a Lurch when he speaks.
That Gore Effect is directly proportional to the level of bull.
Take cover.
Some editing of the Picture of Gore is needed:
You need a right hand extension that shows Old Man Winter blowing back.
They’d better use something to keep the “circle flies” away during 24-hours of Reality. You can’t hardly fool them circle flies.