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.”
The title is only half right. I’ve googled up a few hundred online images of Al Gore. And can’t find one where he’s wearing lipstick.
“probably out of consideration for the political consequences to his fellow Democrat Barack Obama.”? What? I thought we were all going to fry, the seas would envelop us and there would be death and destruction from any number of cataclysms if we didn’t act now!!!!
But we had a time out for political considerations? Oh brother!
I suggest we, on the sceptic side, hold a simulcast on Sept. 14, debunking every claim and statement they make, as they make them. Wonderful split screen possibility!
Particularly when they “out” the “deniers”! Why wait as they bring up one name at a time on their screen, we’ll scroll the entire list on ours!
Outing deniers, so dark!Ohhhhh! Kind of like pointing out the gays in a gay bar! This will be hilarious! “See they guy over there waving his arms and jumping up and down? Yes folks, those are the trash hiding in the shadows trying to prevent us from making mone…ummm saving the earth!!” LMFAO!
@Dennis Cox – any of those pictures show his “Shakra”?
I’ve lived in Southern Georgia (St. Mary’s/King’s Bay) and, trust me, it’s always hot. I do take strong exception to the “unbearable humanity” remark too. I found most of the people there quite pleasant.
Dennis Cox says:
July 13, 2011 at 9:13 am
The title is only half right. I’ve googled up a few hundred online images of Al Gore. And can’t find one where he’s wearing lipstick.
Apparently you did not read my post earlier in this thread.
🙂
Mr. Maue, “Anecdotal evidence, commissioned puff pieces in SciAm, and hand-wavy slogans about “loading the dice” are not going to cut it anymore.”
Perhaps you should direct this at Mr. Watts who has in previous posts tried to deny a link between weather and climate based on anecdotal evidence about previous droughts and storms.
[dr maue: i will berate him immediately: anthony, please do not discuss previous droughts and storms … climatology is about the future, not the past]
sceptical says:
July 13, 2011 at 9:37 pm
Mr. Maue, “Anecdotal evidence, commissioned puff pieces in SciAm, and hand-wavy slogans about “loading the dice” are not going to cut it anymore.”
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And who the hell are you “sCeptical”?
What gives you the right to say “Mr.” as opposed to “Dr.”?
He has his qualifications.
What are yours?
You just don’t have any better time to spend than to make potshots in your AC controlled room behind the safety of your laptop.
But even so…what does your lame protests have to do with anything here?
Are they part of your 24 hours of reality?
Go ahead and live in your world.
Meanwhile…the rest of us will actually make things happen…and we certainly do not need a complete NIMROD like Al Gore to make anything happen whatsoever…
Chris
Norfolk, VA, USA
[rmaue: you wanna read some really disgusting comments: head on over to Salon.com: page 2 has a dandy about “firing up some ovens”: http://www.salon.com/news/global_warming/index.html ]
@ur momisuglyHowarth says:
July 12, 2011 at 3:29 pm
“This would 8 or 10 folding down by now. I would like to follow the money on this one but I can’t. …. so wheres the money?”
AL Gore has never made any significant $$$ from his crackpot climate scheming.
He became an “adviser” to Google in April 2001 – one month after his pal Eric Schmidt was hired as CEO – and one would guess that ex-U.S. Vice President Gore received generous pre-IPO stock options as compensation (Schmidt was granted 14 million options at hiring).
Let’s say it was 100,000 options @ur momisugly $0.30/share (Schmidt’s price one month earlier). In late 2005 (18 months after the 2004 IPO) those options would have been worth $40 million.
Of course anyone can play with the numbers in this manner because it’s unknown how many options Gore was actually granted, but it certainly was greater than zero, and probably substantial given his status as ex-VP.
Finally, I recently checked the web site for Gore’s company Generation Investment LLP, and noticed that the partner bios for each of the (formerly) 21 partners have disappeared. In fact the 21 partners are not even listed anymore. Is that because 18 of those 21 were ex-Goldman Sachs, hence uncomfortable PR? Or have they quit? Unknown. From 2011 SEC filings it appears that the firm continues to have a couple billion under management. But the web site does look rather shoddy and shopworn for an investment firm of this size, and there seem to be no press releases since last year (2010). Odd.
Ryan Maue – could not those be considered death threats (since no one came out of the ovens alive)? Where is David Appell to denounce these death threats?
Phil;
IIRC, the ovens were just used to get rid of the debris from the showers.
New name, same game, to scare the gullible in his best preacher voice, telling the world that the end is nigh and that the only way to save it is to dig deeply into your pockets and give generously to the church of AGW, my brothers and sisters.
In my July 12, 4:26pm post, I erroneously implied that Rio+20 was shorty after the US Nov. 2012 election.
Rio+20 is in fact on June 4-6, 2012.
The Democratic National convention is early September 2012.
The Republican National convention is late August 2012.
Putting Rio+20 well before the U.S. elections is a colosal blunder by the IPCC in my opinion.
The US government will make no commitment before the election. None of the other G-20 will do much if the USA is waffling.
Finally, the IPCC must be geographically obtuse. Choosing to have a Climate Summit in late fall of a Southern Hemisphere location is asking for another record-breaking cold snap to visit during the keynote address.
What a load of BS! Carbon tax, tax the world and make money!
OH REALLY I GUESS 30,000 SCIENTESTS THAT SIGNED A PETITION AND FELT SO STRONGLY THEY MARCHED ON THE WHITE HOUSE SOME OF THE BEST MINDS IN SCIENCE MIND YOU, DONT COUNT, PLUS THE 100 MILLION PLUS HE MAKES IS BECAUSE HE LOVES US, AND OH ONE MORE THING, CARBON DIOXIDE? ISNT THAT WHAT HUMANS BREATH OUT, STOP BREATHING THEN AL AND DO US ALL A FAVOUR YOU FRUAD.