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.”
I thought Al had been locked up behind bars by men in white coats
Of rested case, lads and gentiles, I hereby present…drum roll…the Nobel life of Randy Man Minus Wife:
Tobacco farmer Gore’s six-fireplace palace: http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2010/05/exclusive-estimate-carbon-footprint-of.html
And “BIO-solar” jet ski launch (and bachelor) pad yacht: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19PAXEzx1Uo
Anecdotal evidence, commissioned puff pieces in SciAm, and hand-wavy slogans about “loading the dice” are not going to cut it anymore.
Oh, please… Of course it will. And Nature and SciAm will be more than happy to publish something for Al Gore to say, “Why, Just Last Week A Brand New Peer Review Paper Saaaaays That All This Horrible Weather Is Indeed Due To Global Climate Disruption!!!!”.
Google: delay on renewables will cost U.S. trillions, over million jobs
http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/intelligent-energy/google-delay-on-renewables-will-cost-us-trillions-over-million-jobs/7371
Note: Al Gore is an advisor to google with interests in the energy and green sector.
Google hires 12 lobby firms in wake of FTC probe
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/01/us-google-lobbyists-idUSTRE76056T20110701
[snip]
The 12 newly hired lobbying companies are Akin, Gump; Bingham; Capitol Legislative Strategies; Chesapeake Group; Crossroad Strategies; Gephardt Group; Holland & Knight; Normandy Group; Prime Policy; The First Group; The Madison Group; and The Raben Group.
“We have a strong story to tell about our business and we’ve sought out the best talent we can find to help tell it,” the spokeswoman said.
Google, which has an office in Washington, previously hired six other lobbying firms: Crowell Strategies, Dutko Worldwide, Franklin Square Group, McBee Strategic Consulting, Podesta Group, and RB Murphy & Associates, according to government filings…..
……The firms will be working on the FTC investigation as well as on several other issues that Google is interested in, the spokeswoman said.
35 Inconvenient Truths
The errors in Al Gore’s movie
http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/monckton/goreerrors.html
Isn’t September 14th Hugo Chavez National Gonorrhea Day in Venezuela?
I have been around long enough to remember the warmist mantra that people should not confuse weather with climate. Now that it is no longer convenient they reject that mantra and instead seek to link weather with climate. Little wonder that qualified and experience scientists like myself have real questions that remain unanswered. I’m not a “denier” I just don’t believe that the scientific case has been made. This man is NOT a scientist so who gave him leave to ponce around the world name-calling real scientists?
“Hi, my name is Al Gore, and I’m a climaholic.”
Stephen Rasey says:
July 12, 2011 at 4:26 pm
Interesting points, Stephen. Thought provoking…. I wonder how much of Al’s personal fortune was tied up in the ‘carbon credit’ trading schema? He may be feeling a bit pinched financially, at the moment, with the collapse of these irrationally unsustainable ‘markets’. As you say, it does look like an ‘all in’ moment, for the man whose home state of Tennessee helped elect George W. Bush.
The choice of Sept 14 is interesting but I did find one interesting fact.
Bishop Gore School in Wales was founded on that day.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bishop_Gore_School
I knew this was coming down the pike when I read Trenbreth’s big push for attribution as the next step in climate scare tactics. It’s not enough for him and his flunkies to spread the word, it will take Al Gore’s acolytes to further the mission.
You would think they would have learned their lesson after trying to convince the public that the ’88 droughts would become a frequent occurrence in N. America or that the 2005 hurricane season was the beginning of a new era. But I guess if you cast your net wide enough and lay claim to EVERY event as a sign of global warming, you can never be wrong.
But we all know, the more loudly you squawk, the more immune people become to your squawking. So, let them push this flimsy ‘science of attribution’ … it will only drive the numbers even lower.
I for one must thank dear Al, he made me a skeptic; after watching his Inconvenient “Truth”, I bought Michael Crichton’s “State of Fear”.
With Gore, it will be more like “connect the dolts”
A lot of drive-by’s around here lately. They never seem to stick around and back up their astonishingly narrow assertions. Thanes never did get back to me on the Gavin/martha/polar bear thread. R.Gates has been reduced to comparing our climate with sand piles. I get where he was trying to go with that (tipping points), but it is a sadly weak analogy that does not begin to describe the complexity of our climate, and the interactions of the variables and influx/ outflow of energies. I must say, though, that I am glad that someone gave Gore more rope.
Go home Al. Make a nice warm bowl of soup, turn on the TV and watch til the test-pattern stops. Tomorrow, wake up, turn on your TV, and repeat the above exercise.
I had to watch Apple’s “1984” Mac video again in his honor.
This will be the best thing for skeptics since “No Pressure”.
Imagine that after making a movie grossing over $100 million, getting endless free press and softball interviews, after getting huge tax payer funded conferences and making many tens of millions personally off of AGW, that Gore feels the need to ‘bring climate reality into the mainstream’, and to out ‘deniers’.
This pathetic money waste by Gore & gang is effectively an admission of defeat.
My bet is it falls apart before it even takes off.
Ms. F.(?): “Al sometimes has trouble with blabber control…”
No sooner does Al Gore return ( somebody hinted at this) then along comes the first hints of La Nina round #2.
I note that the usual toxic AGW sycophants who use foul language enthusiastically on the Guardian’s CiF are at their foaming best over Gore’s new movie and the ‘in the pay of big oil’ flag is being waved vigorously. I have never seen so many comments removed from there before now, either.
So he got a bunch of ignorant kiddies to spread the Gospel of the Goreacle? Always use the dumb useful idiots.
Steve Oregon says:
July 12, 2011 at 1:56 pm
“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?
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actually that HAS been mentioned and proposed. by more than one alarmist.
tattoed foreheads, re education camps, and exploding kids all come to mind.
As the word HOAX appeared my Adobe Flash Player crashed. Prophetic or what?
Isn’t Gore just another cog in the machinery keeping Khrushchev’s prognostication alive?
http://i54.tinypic.com/2iw6dz4.jpg
You forget the bigger-than-BskyB BBC left wing pro-AGW conglomerate: they will lap this drivel up too!!