Story submitted by Stephen Rasey
On July 12, I wrote a comment cautioning not to underestimate the Gore Climate Reality event scheduled for Sept. 14, 2011. Mixing metaphors, I said that this was an “All In” bet and that this was Gore’s D-Day.
Pickett’s Charge from a position on the Confederate line looking toward the Union lines, Ziegler’s Grove on the left, clump of trees on right, painting by Edwin Forbes via Wikipedia
A better analogy is that this is Gettysburg, July 3, 1863. Al Gore’s Climate Reality is “Pickett’s Charge”: thousands of troops, marching in formation in the open field, supported by the artillery of the internet and mass media, bent on destroying the deniers that stand in the way of themselves and Washington D.C.
Today we are engaged in a great Civil War of testing whether our nation, or any nation, conceived in liberty and individual freedom, can long endure the calls to “save the planet” through strong government and world government to better control the use of energy, land, and air by constraining the freedom of its subjects.
Back in late-June 1863, Robert E. Lee carried with him knowledge of a letter from Jefferson Davis dictating terms of peace to Lincoln. It was Lee’s strategy to bring the Union Army of the Potomac into the open, destroy it, and then march on Washington. The Letter would be delivered to Lincoln and hopefully end the war.
Today, Al Gore carries with him the plans for the IPCC Rio+20 Sustainability Agenda. The “Climate Reality” Charge is to bring “denier’s” out into the open, destroy them, and carry the momentum into Rio meetings in June 2012 and Washington for the Nov 2012 elections. The green energy carpetbaggers are already among us. After a Rio recharged by a Gore victory, there will simply be more of them acting without restraint.
The critical question is, “Is there a strong enough opposition standing between the Charge and Washington, D.C.?”
Today, my answer is, “No, the skeptic’s are not yet strong enough.” Skeptics are more of a disorganized guerrilla force of sharp-shooters. (Of course, I could be completely wrong and I’m just blowing the cover of an entrenched ambush.)
I do not think skeptics can field an army; it is not in our individualistic nature. But that does not mean we cannot prepare the battlefield. We know from which direction they will come. We know the type of ammunition they use – much of it is blanks – false, misleading statement, but full of fire, smoke, and noise. The skeptics artillery of web sites can be zeroed-in. Counter their arguments before they have the opportunity to fire theirs. We can field forward observers, and squads armed with facts and backup.
We must make it obvious to all observers the skeptics’ side in the climate debate is fighting against slavery of billions of people. I’m willing to help as a defender of freedom. It will take some organization.
Who are our, Buford, Reynolds, Chamberlin, and Hancock?
In what may be a related action, Anthony Watts has asked readers to find quotes for “ice free Arctic by the year xxxx”. This is the kind of preparing the ground and zero-in we need to do now in advance of September.
We know who the CAGW leaders will be. Find every false, misleading, scary, idiotic, non-scientific statement they have made in the past twenty years. Create an index by name with pages listing those statement with links to the source. Keep it factual. Let their own words come back to haunt them.
We know the basics of their arguments and lines of “evidence”. Cross reference each of the statements above with the type of evidence.
How can we efficiently do this without a Wiki? A Wiki would only be vandalized. We also want an efficient division of labor. I don’t suggest we eliminate duplication, but let’s avoid quadruplication. Somewhere we should start a list of the Whos and Whats to research. Volunteers can comment that they are searching sources X over dates Y-Z and will report back in 48 hrs. Someone will have to organize it.
In the responses to Anthony’s plea for help, many people provided links without helpful context and additional information about Who, When, What and Where. We can do better. But the response has been helpful showing that Anthony (and other moderators) could delegate research work to the readership of the blog and they can do more target location and synthesis.
Is there a simple six column Excel format OR six element Text format we could use to make a table driven content page work?
Person, Topic, Date, Link, Quote, Comment and Context
Or
[P] Person(s)
[T] Topic
[D] Date
[L] Link
[Q] Quote
[C] Comment
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Until Gore permits discussion in his profit led meetings it is difficult to see how a direct approach will work.
Keep filling the web with truth to counter the lies as and when they appear. There are a few big, relative, organisations such as SPPI but they probably need more help.
Main problem is the media is not on our side. In particular the BBC who insist in ignoring any accusation of bias or scientific inaccuracy or falsehood. Their science and environmental reporters are too set in their ways to look at facts.
A database of warmista nonsense, as suggested here, sounds like a really useful tool for sceptics – and it sounds like an interesting project that we could all get involved with.
But, I don’t think the warmsters need any extra help from us to fail. They’re doing a fine job of it all on their own.
I really don’t think we should trouble ourselves with Al Gore. He’s a spent force. A never-been has-been. The way to deal with Al Gore is to, frankly, ignore him.
With regard to Mr Gore’s efforts I am once again reminded of the old Limey saying….
‘you can’t polish a turd’.
No matter what strategy we devise or attempt to use, the real teacher is Nature. I don’t know whether we have time to wait for the lesson to be learned. Perhaps not, however, let’s try to avoid making the story about us. It should be about the real consequences to people of these ideas and the policies they support. We might also explain who is behind it, and perhaps what they hope to gain. I’m not sure scientists can make these arguments.
There must be a coordinated effort by various professionals and scientists to make a strong case describing domestic consequences of CAGW policies and regulations, backed by authentic science (that part we have). The real impact of the Green monster on freedom, jobs, and our future should be explained. We need healthy, economically secure, and strong families living in a sane society. Finally, we might consider roadmapping a better way forward.
Anthony,/ Stephen
1) I volunteer to help out in any way I can. You have my email address.
2) “Skeptics are more of a disorganized guerrilla force of sharp-shooters.” Agreed. We do not have access to the MSM and therefore cannot indulge in Pickett-like head on charges against greater forces. Your strategy is therefore appropriate to the resources we have at hand. Build the spreadsheet in as simple a format as possible but the key thing is, we have to catch them on their way to Gettysburg, not when they’ve arrived and formed up. This means we have to start building the “ammunition spreadsheet” now, publish it here as a work in progress and start using it well before the Reality Event.
To all you climate skeptics out there, it’s time to put up or shut up. We need boots on the ground for this one.
Pointman
I hope I don’t live long enough to see climate war re-enactors complete with slide rules and corporate sponsors.
take time out for a laugh. u can’t make this up:
16 July: UK Independent: Scientists ask for escort in Indian Ocean due to pirates
By Roger Maynard in Sydney
Scientists are seeking the help of the Australian and US navies to repel Somali pirates who are threatening one of the world’s key climate monitoring programmes…
The instruments, which record ocean heat and salinity patterns, are programmed to submerge and eventually resurface to upload their data to satellites.
But with piracy in the western Indian Ocean making it too dangerous for commercial or research vessels to deploy the robotic devices, Australia’s government research department, the CSIRO, hope naval forces will help them out.
The increase in piracy had serious implications for their understanding of a region which had a major influence in Australian and south Asian weather and climate, said Dr Ann Thresher of the CSIRO. “We can’t send anybody in that area, research voyages have been cancelled and I know there’s a report of at least one ship that hired an armed escort – that’s pretty extreme when you’re talking about climate change.”…
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/scientists-ask-for-escort-in-indian-ocean-due-to-pirates-2314582.html
Who is the target audience for such a list?
For the general populace, who are the target for all politicians espousing the need for carbon control, they are generally not interested in or don’t remember the facts, only the rhetoric.
Hence, in Australia, we have every talking head saying ‘pollution’ ad nauseum. Never mind the science, that has been pushed to the background in the rush to provide a political ‘solution’ to the ‘problem’ of ‘pollution’.
Our media is still placing smokestacks and cooling towers with false contrast to make the graphic darker behind every story concerned with our impending carbon tax. The fact that CO2 is odourless and colourless is irrelevant, it’s the spin that counts, not the facts.
If the warmists will not debate, this list may be a fruitless exercise.
I also disagree that skeptics need to start a war with people like Gore and the other warmist leaders We just have to show integrity and to keep getting the message across. They are destroying themselves without the need for us to give them a target to aim at.
Even though it is two years down here in the Antipodes until our next election is due, our two main parties are engaged in an election campaign focused on a single issue, Anthropogenic Global Warming and a Carbon Tax. Our incumbent government has an approval rating below 30% Our television news has been inundated recently with clips of people saying they do not trust our Prime Minister. The only reason that her party hasn’t replaced her is that they would be even more hated by the general public.
Moncing round the bushes and making up lists of lists, isn’t going to acheive much.
Get these liars like Albert Gore in COURT, in front of a Judge, and send them to jail.
Why give the opposition ammunition. Wait and see what their strategy is. Gorehas limited credibility. Better to use guerrilla tactics keep focussing on rebuttal and specific targets. The military analogy referred to is out of date.
Agree with Davidmhoffer on the need to pry back the question. The correct goal-oriented question is almost always two or three layers behind the one that’s asked.
At this point in history, the powers and principalities are having plenty of trouble. Remember Algore’s Birkenstock-masseuse troubles, DSK’s troubles, Murdoch’s troubles…. Think of the Arab Spring … There’s a strong mood of “Bring down all the arrogant secular idiots” spreading through the world. Experts and journalists have lost all credibility.
It may be better to let Algore run on his own, let him unfurl his foolishness at full length. If there’s a way to help him do that, I’d be glad to participate, but an equal-and-opposite reaction will tend to re-legitimize him.
NOTE: Not commenting on the main post here, but I just have to agree with one comment.
ROTFLMAO! Truer words were never spoken.
In all things computer, the customer is almost NEVER right!
/NoSarc
I think a database is the right way to do this. A couple months ago I got fascinated by the idea to enter quotes/claims in a database (inspired by the idea behind the Climate Fail Files), so the data is better organized and could be searched specifically by author, organization, end date of the claim, category, source, tag, search terms,… I then started a personal project in my free time to make a quote web application, but it is still in an early stage of analysis at this point. I am not a professional programmer, but wrote several webapps in the last 5 years in jsp/java and mysql.
I am willing to contribute to a project like this, if I can help just let me know.
Michel
Gareth Phillips says:
July 17, 2011 at 2:07 am ..dah dah dah…))
Are you serious or not up to speed. The AGW scam is, and always will be, a political war using the victims money to fund their carbon imprisonment. Read up on the Global Marshall Plan, Maurice Strong etc etc. Then get on board.
Gore is a frontman for Wall st banks. They stand to make billions annually.
The end result otherwise is a world enslaved to the UN sociopaths and their minions at national level. An Orwellian nightmare.
regards
Better to just ignore him, politely correct any sillyness misrepresentations,etc.
Don’t fight him that is what he wants, political confrontation, tribalism
Just be nice.
Outside the USA, I think people will be bemused by his behaviour and switch off from his over the top political rhetoric
“Climate Reality” is Al Gore’s Gettysburg
Yes, i agree, but it must be said the American electorate has had an extremely bad hand in selecting it’s President’s lately.
Never underestimate the unorganized guerrillas … All Gore is done.
We need to laugh at dills like Al, the louder the laugh the better the media penetration!!
“There’s an interesting proposal being made at Anthony Watt’s site WUWT to fight the upcoming Al Gore Climate Reality Event scheduled for Sept. 14th 2011.”
http://thepointman.wordpress.com/2011/07/17/the-al-gore-climate-reality-event-a-call-to-arms/
Pointman
Read the following gem that matches the brainwashing in the USSR
http://bit.ly/owP83h
I can’t help myself. Gore and the rest of that crew constantly remind me of Lewis Carrol – “The Hunting of the Snark”. The Snark of course being Global Warming. Which at “Fit the Eighth” is discovered to be a Boojum.
Trouble is I can’t decide which of the characters is which. Is Gore the Banker or the Bellman?
What of Hansen? The one who had forgotten his name?
He would answer to “Hi!” or to any loud cry,
Such as “Fry me!” or “Fritter my wig!”
To “What-you-may-call-um!” or “What-was-his-name!”
But especially “Thing-um-a-jig!”
While, for those who preferred a more forcible word,
He had different names from these:
His intimate friends called him “Candle-ends”,
And his enemies “Toasted-cheese”.
“His form is ungainly—his intellect small—”
(So the Bellman would often remark)
“But his courage is perfect! And that, after all,
Is the thing that one needs with a Snark.”
Who might be the Baker?
Can somebody help? 🙂 😉
NEW attempt at deconstruction by the ABC:
Listen to this masterpiece of partiality by Australia’s finest :-
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/backgroundbriefing/stories/2011/3268730.htm