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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These people have simply been channeling one of the infinite number of alternate realities that current theory addresses. All of these dire predictions have happened or will happen in one or more of these “sister” universes. Just not in this one. 😉
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Many-worlds_interpretation
Ah, the irony – it burns.
Give this to Fat Albert, tho’: it’s a brilliant tactic of rhetorical ju-jitsu – co-option of your opponent’s terminology.
I suggest that we realists not use our standard tactic of patiently pointing up the errors of fact & logic. The AGW/Environmental crowd doesn’t just spin, it churns. They are the undisputed masters of this. We genuine realists can’t compete in that arena, nor would we want to, but just this once we should try to come up with a neat ju-jitsu volley of our own and put this back in their court.
I would do it myself, except that I have neither talent nor taste for it, and besides it will probably flop.
UnfrozenCavemanMD says: “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.”
Well said. Al’s “choose reality” begs the question as to whether AGW is real or not, merely ordering the uninformed reader to “choose” to believe in it. Typical Gore proctoganda.
From the video, it looks like Big Oil and Big Coal.
This kinda worries me:
mrdarcy_pemberley says:
July 13, 2011 at 8:30 am
As a geologist, one thing I’m absolutely sure is that Earth will experience another Ice Age in the not so distant future–and it will happen with devastating consequences–a true “tipping point” if ever there was one. To counter the above AlGorian pronouncement, it is likely that abundant anthropogenic CO2 is forestalling the next Ice Age, so their “irretrievable damage” meme is unjustifiable; indeed, it is possible that they’re trying to destroy the one thing that will delay, nay, might even save the world from the next 100,000-yr deep freeze.
During Gore’s 24 hr live event, Anthony should set up a panel of skeptical experts who could do some live blogging to refute the specious attribution claims that will undoubtedly be made (Russian droughts, Australian floods etc) . With a little publicity and some big names it could be quite a battle of minds. Just a thought.
Oh, I get it. If they have 24 presenters in 24 different time zones presenting on the same day, they can’t possibly experience the Gore effect in every place.
Or can they?
Since P.T. Barnum was right re. suckers born every minute, they are probably going to make another billion for Fat Albert.
I also notice that of the 24 locations chosen, all are at special risk from the “effects of climate change.” Places where they say “extreme weather is already happening.” For example, most are islands or coastal cities.
I don’t blame them for not choosing a place like northern Alberta. It wouldn’t look too good to come to a place where the weather is boringly predictable year after year. No extreme anything, except for the -40 we endure for a good portion of our winters every year. Nope… nothing to see here… move along please.
I just went over to Mr Gore’s web site, and found the following comment on the blog:
“Roz Rogoff July 13th
I’d like to see an experiment on Mythbusters. The guys have access to a very large warehouse. I’d like to see them take the temperature inside the warehouse on a cool night, one where the outside temperature is going down. The warehouse should not be heated.
Then bring in one car, maybe a Model T Ford, and start it running and take the temperature again. Then bring in a Model A Ford (OK I like old Fords), and start it running (this should probably be done by remote control so the guys won’t be asphyxiated).
They gradually fill up the warehouse with cars and generators and coal barbecues (pseudo power plants), and see if the temperature inside goes up. Wanna bet it will. Ask the question, where would the heat go? It doesn’t. It’s captive inside the Earth’s atmosphere. It’s everywhere.
Then they turn all the cars off. How long would it take for the temperature to drop if the building is sealed. I don’t know but probably hours maybe days.
Would that convince doubters that running enough carbon powered engines in a closed environment causes heat buildup? Do ya think?”
This is what we’re up against.
Sorry, but here’s another one:
“Roz Rogoff July 13th
Snow in Atlanta. Tons of snow in New York City. Obviously that disproves Global Warming, right? Well any third grader can explain this by describing the water cycle.
The ocean is full of water. The sun evaporates the water which rises as vapor and gathers into clouds. The clouds are pushed by the wind until they are too heavy and the rain (or snow if the air temperature is below 38 degrees) starts to fall. Simple, huh.
If the sun is hotter, move water would be evaporated and clouds would be heavier and drop more precipitation. But even that doesn’t go far enough. The quantity of water on Earth has been fix for millions of years. The form of it changes. So sometimes there is more ice and other times there is more liquid water.
Right now the ice is melting. Even Greenland is turning green. This is increasing the amount of liquid water in the ocean. More liquid water with increased evaporation of the surface water means more precipitation. Any third grader should be able to present this to the doubting public.”
Those science communicators are doing a fine job. A fine job.
An old saying from George Carlin regarding Doomsday.
The planet isn’t going anywhere, it’s not going to vaporize and disappear.
The people living on it is a different story.
Pew, again! The old man would have an absolute fit if he knew what uses his dough had been put to by the nutjobs who’ve hijacked the foundations.
RE: Roz Rogoff July 13th
“It’s captive inside the Earth’s atmosphere. It’s everywhere.”
Wow… And CO2 somehow releases this “everywhere” heat Roz is describing? I hate to tell him, but a fair battle of the wits this won’t be–they’re complely unarmed. (At least he indicates he’s not going to stay inside the warehose as he runs the experiment until the CO level kills him.)
The return of Gore: He’s back from a Camping trip.
New & improved, version 2.0 (had a software update).
For anyone looking to blue-screen his speech, just holler “What about Elenin?”
You don’t get to choose reality. Reality has already chosen you.
These doomsday clocks make perfect sense to the inmates of an insane asylum on medication and to politicians seeking to increase taxes, regulate our lives and restrict the economy.
James Evans . . .
you just made my head hurt and wish I hadn’t ever passed 3rd grade. Some things I really don’t want to know about people.
The judgement day billboard looks like someone is sitting on the powerline…lol.
John Marshall (06:59): You say that Prince Charles’s predictions fail.
Ha! He said we had 100 months to save the world (in June 2009).
In November 2017 you may have to eat your words, John.
Have a look at the real doomsday clock.
These guys know about warming too…..(Pugh pronounced Pew) some parallels with Al’s shambolic efforts
The Fire Brigade is perhaps Trumpton’s most-recognised feature. Captain Flack’s roll-call was recited in every episode: “Pugh, Pugh, Barney McGrew, Cuthbert, Dibble, Grub.”[1] with the exception of “Cuthbert’s Morning Off”[2] in which Cuthbert is omitted. They are continually being called out to attend some emergency or other (in many cases to resolve fairly trivial matters); but to Captain Flack’s annoyance, never an actual fire. (One reason for this may be that both fire and water would have been too difficult to animate.) However after “Right men Action Stations”, this doesn’t stop the Fire Brigade absent-mindedly getting out the fire hose and receiving a rebuke from Captain Flack (“No no! Not the hose!”).
As well as Doomsday predictions we have been subjected to the following “predictions”
Upto 60,000 deaths from Swine Flu last winter in UK
AIDS will kill millions
Mad Cow Disease will kill thousands
We also have various health scares as well; so if you smoke or live with a smoker, are a few pounds overweight, enjoy more than 21 units (whatever that is) of alcohol, or eat more than 200 grams of red meat per week, sunbathe, eat sausages or processed meat or any saturated fat or salt, don’t worry about the fate of the planet, you’ll be dead by 2012 anyway!!
The fact some people actually believe this drivel makes me wonder about the collective mentality of the human race
There is an excellent book which should be placed on the national curriculum as required reading, it is called “Panic Nation” by Christopher Booker and Richard North and discusses these scenarios in great detail.
never buy [into] anything til it reaches version 3.0
RE: Roz Rogoff July 13th mythbusters
The Mythbusters example is bogus because no one claims The HEAT from burning gasoline is enough to affect the temperature of the earth. [It certainly isn’t]
The warming supposedly comes from CO2 interfering with the heat radiation into space.
Arrhenius proved long ago that CO2 is a greenhouse gas. There is no debate about that. The debate is if 380/1,000,000 would have a measurable effect on planet earth’s temperature.
So Let’s get Jamie and Adam to put 380/1,000,000 Parts of CO2 in the [glass] warehouse and let sunshine in and see how hot it gets. Then remove the CO2 and measure the difference. I’ll bet it isn’t measurable.