With Al Gore’s recent re-emergence from the dead with An Inconvenient Truth, Version 2.0, I find myself noting his website, The Climate Reality Project (formerly The Alliance for Climate Protection) countdown clock has a familiar look to it.
It has a simple 3 step plan, for those that have trouble with the more complex steps of choosing reality. I wonder though, if the folks at choose-reality.org are going to file a copyright lawsuit? But reality aside, compare Al’s new web page to these great moments in failure prediction :
The “Doomsday Clock”by the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists – hasn’t been right yet.
End of the world, May 21st, 2011, now scheduled for Oct 21st due to “technical difficulties”
Not the end of the world, but just as relevant as Al Gore’s countdown
Get the app, just in case you can’t keep track:
No wonder we are starting to see stories like this one:
Warmers Go Harold Camping On Us
I gotta wonder about his ability to carry a tune though, when Al puts up stuff like this in the “About Us” page of his new project.
If it isn’t our fault, but our problem, then who’s fault is it? Oh, and that “And with your help” is code for “donate”.
And when you visit the donate page you get an address:
Want to donate by mail?
Write a check to “The Climate Reality Project” and send it to:
The Climate Reality Project
901 E Street NW, Suite 610
Washington, DC 20004, USA
Guess who else shares this address:
http://www.pewenvironment.org/about-us/contact-us/
Al Gore 2.0 – just as credible as any other pollster donations solicitor doomsayer.
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You didn’t mention Prince Charles. His regular doomsday pronouncements never come true either.
Malthusians have long since given up on natural resource depletion doing the culling they are sure is necessary and desirable, and are prepared to take a direct hand. Hm, energy starvation, yeah, that should get rid of a few billion! Then, with reproductive permits issued only to carefully selected Alphas, Betas, and Gammas …
Add the Climate Reality web page to the “Climate Fail Pages”
Why can’t these people get real jobs and do something productive rather than beg for a living?
Here’s a tax increase for you, anyone that begs for a living…..(Al Gore, pan handlers, Jerry Lewis, …) should pay an additional %10 income tax. There, send that up to the repubs and Barry, maybe that could be their compromise!!!
The PEW Charitable Trusts (PCT) is the largest contributor to the Tides Foundation, set up by Drummond Pike and with Wade Rathke (founder of ACORN) on the board. If one studies all the tentacles of the movement, the emerging image is of Progressive Collectivism, Social Justice, and extreme Leftists agendas. But we knew that, right?
No one over the age of 12 admitted …
It’s annoying that the AGW proponents have hijacked climate realism which has heretofore been a sceptical nomenclature as here:
http://climaterealists.com/
Perhaps that is a sign of AGW failure ?
Of course it’s Orwellian NewSpeak. “Choose Reality” means rejecting reality and choosing the models’ doomsday forecast. Anyone who chooses the reality of actual measurements of the actual planet has no choice but to be highly skeptical of the AGW hypothesis.
I think it is a good move for Gore to become the Harold Camping of Climate Change. Camping’s followers have proven to be much more resilient to reality than the general public and even some of his former alarmist groupies, he’ll now have a base to work from.
And don’t forget Homer Simpson’s doomsday – next Wednesday at 3:15 pm. Oh wait, Al used the same method:
Add the number of degrees in the Russian heatwave to the current CO2 levels and subtract 350.org. Multiply this number by the difference between the number of rings in Mann’s hockey stick, and the number of hairs remaining on his head. Adjust for the difference between the rise in sea level since 2003 and add the sine of the angle at the top of the 1998 El Nino peak. The answer: 12151272012. Translated to 12:15 on the 127th day of the year 2012. Don’t forget your raincoat – or suncream, or something.
I’ve put a couple of comments on their blog.
Wonder if they will get through moderation ?
My response (and donation level, too, I suppose) is a deep gutteral laugh. That’s it. That’s all they’re worth.
“Why can’t these people get real jobs and do something productive rather than beg for a living?”
because, thanks to the taxpayers’ generous donations, it is far more lucrative to be a parasite than a producer, and no taxpayer ever has or ever will take any responsibility for the damage he pays for. not only that, but they contort themselves absurdly in attempts to argue that any nickel of their tax dollar that they get something out of is worth it all. they won’t ever stop paying or complaining about the obvious harm and waste because they are self-trained – autodidactic sheep. they are in denial about how predation is made possible, sustainable – rewarded and encouraged (taxpayer financing) or where the buck stops (with the taxpayer who finances the damages).
‘taxpayer’ should be regarded as an epithet – an incredible calumny. payers of taxes should feel nothing but shame for what their hirelings have done. taxpayers should be blamed for these problems. it won’t stop until they stop or are bankrupted. we’re almost there. at that point, taxpayer’s job is done- we’ll have 5 year plans for recovery every year thereafter – and never will recover.
thanks, taxpayers – you’ve farked the whole world.
Call to Mark Morano:
In anticipation of Al Gore’s Semi-Live Aid (for the Planet), perhaps Morano, through Fox News or something like that, could put a public call for a debate with the Gore a week before his 24-Semi. The concept that afterwards Gore will be able to ship the video as “Al Gore Destroys His Foe and Prepares To Save Earth”. Gore, with slides, is asked to set up to destroy every line of reasoning Morano has in his slides. And nobody does anything but keep “Morano” from fighting, crying or having a heart attack under the relentless purity of The Great Leader, Al.
Give Gore all the benefit possible. And if Gore is too busy, then Gore nominates a “second” to stand in his place. Same then with Morano. The assumption is, of course, that Morano is an idiot and Gore, brilliant. Let the warmists have that starting point. The fall is greatest for those who choose the highest ground.
Each night Fox reports on the response from Gore. Starting now.
It is not a stretch to call the CAGW debate a type of war. There are large numbers of “troops” well paid by taxpayers to fight, with a great amount of probable harm economically and lifestyle-wise. to more. Personal freedoms of movement are at stake – already the freedom to express yourself has been compromised by mainstream powers in lockstep with the meme. Global societies are in a war, civil and national (look to Britain’s attempts to force American airlines to buy carbon credits prior to using their airspace/airports).
The greatest problem in warfare can be to get the enemy to face you in open combat. Time to force Gore to step from behind the trees into the open meadow and find out what sort of (semi-) man he is. Call it “Last Man Standing: the Gore-Morano Climate Change Debate”, have Gore positioned as the Clarence Darrow of his time. Personally, I see him more as the Joe McCarthy, Morano, the Edward Murrow of his day.
Speaking of which, this clip from Murrow’s summing up of McCarthy in Murrow’s March, 1954, program, is appropriate to what is happening today with Gore:
“We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. We must remember always that accusation is not proof and that conviction depends upon evidence and due process of law. We will not walk in fear, one of another. We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason, if we dig deep in our history and our doctrine, and remember that we are not descended from fearful men. […]
We proclaim ourselves, as indeed we are, the defenders of freedom, wherever it continues to exist in the world, but we cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.” (Wikepedia quote on Joe McCarthy)
Larry Summers White House Memo
http://www.ascension-publishing.com/BIZ/WH-loan-guarantee.pdf
NOTE: The Renewable Energy Loan Guarantees and Grants are set to expire (sunset) on Sept. 30, 2011
James Sexton says:
July 13, 2011 at 7:11 am
“Why can’t these people get real jobs and do something productive rather than beg for a living?”
Because people like Big “G” Al make some SERIOUS bank off of the gullible.
There’s one born every minute ya know.
When it gets to zero will Al Gore explode?
No doomsday list would be complete without Y2K .
Didn’t Al Gore say about 5 years ago that humanity had 10 years to do something about global warming or it would be too late? When the date comes shouldn’t he go way? There won’t be anything left that he can do, since it will be too late.
Well here’s one thing for sure – with all the doom & gloom people making predictions every day of the year for whatever future dates they calculate, at least one person is bound to “get it right” by pure coincidence.
Brian H you should add only ”Light Skinned” “Alphas Betas and Gammas”..
Having Native American and Barbadian ancestry. In amongst the Scots-Irish and Swiss..
i think its spelled “Climate ReAlity Project”….
Semi-OT but still relevant: Can folks please go weigh in on http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/12/on-experts-and-global-warming/? The author argues that “we non-experts” should not question the “global warming experts”.
I do not presume to suggest what people should say, but a lot of people appear to be reading that blog, and comments seem to indicate a fundamental lack of understanding of the scientific method. Perhaps some of the scientists/engineers who post here would care to comment….
Guess who else haunts the halls at that address?
Corporation For Public Broadcasting
901 E St NW Washington, DC 20004-2037
(202) 879-9600
Eeeeeek!!!
I think that should be “Al Gore 2.0 – just as credible as any other
pollsterdonations solicitorbeggardoomsayer.Politics aside, I find it humorous, as well as fitting, that Rush Limbaugh posted the “Al Gore Doomsday Clock” on his home page – http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/today.guest.html . This was established following Gore’s doomsday prediction at an NYU Law School speech in January 2006:
“Many scientists are now warning that we are moving closer to several ‘tipping points’ that could – within as little as 10 years – make it impossible for us to avoid irretrievable damage to the planet’s habitability for human civilization.” – http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Al_Gore#NYU_Law_School_speech_.282006.29 .
Unfortunately for Gore, his prophecy fails to align with the more alleged yet wildly popular Mayan one about 2012. Now THAT would have been a marketing and merchandizing coup!