Tim Blair of the Telegraph catches this little slip, which is rather telling. He writes:
Jeff Young interviews Maggie Fox, President and CEO of Al Gore’s latest scam, the Climate Reality Project:
FOX: I think the notion of Vice President Gore as a divisive figure is a bit of a hoax, just like the people who are denying climate change. It’s a pre-frame, it’s a fabrication that suits those who want to keep the status quo. So if you have a prophet, if you have someone who has woken up to a particular challenge in the world and that person speaks, if that disrupts things, who is going to be and what are the voices going to be that say that person doesn’t have credibility? Those voices that don’t want that change … There are so many more voices clamoring to hear what he has to say that his right to speak and need to speak is more than made clear virtually every day.
YOUNG: Did you just refer to him as a prophet?
FOX: I think he is a prophet on climate change. I think he woke up to this issue in his earliest years, expected as other people learned about it that they would also wake up to its significance … His presumption as a young man was that once you heard the information the world would shift and start getting its act together, and that hasn’t happened.
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Here’s an “inconvenient truth”:
Source: http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/climaterealityproject.org+wattsupwiththat.com#
NOTE: Since some commenters misunderstand the above graph, here’s an explanation. It is traffic rank, not hits. WUWT is in the top most visited websites of the world, AlGore’s CRP is not.
Doug Proctor says:
August 8, 2011 at 9:38 am
“Prophet or false prophet both have their detractors. When the prophet claims that HE is the prophet, we know he is the false one. The real ones deny it, claiming only that they have figured out something worth thinking about.”
I do hope that you meant “/sarc” somewhere.
Wouter says:
August 8, 2011 at 9:32 am
Scientific truth is not determined by the popularity of its view.
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97 percent of scientists say man-made climate change is real ………
woops
My grandmother many many years ago would say “never believe prophets that eat bread”.
As the song goes,
please give me “Al Gore” on the line….
I’d like to have a word or two with him
(found he does not answer his emails)
http://www.letterdash.com/HenryP/more-carbon-dioxide-is-ok-ok
Don’t forget, there is also a Devil, which is our modern lifestyle that makes life easier. Where there is a devil, there are also demons. The demons are the people who dare question the goddess and her prophets and bishops. The sacrifices that we have to make to obtain salvation are simony.
Wouter says:
August 8, 2011 at 9:32 am
2. How does traffic rank play into this? Scientific truth is not determined by the popularity of its view.
Ergo a consensus (which only represents the popularity of a given view) is meaningless in science. Guess what? That’s one of the things sceptics have been saying for a very long time!
And as readers of Dan Gardner’s book ‘Future Babble’ will know, the predictive power of most prophets is a big fat zero.
On the other hand he must have some supernatural powers. How else can you explain the climate-changing ‘Gore Effect’?
Google for “Green Prophet”; it seems to be commonplace for the green/environmentalist movement to call their leaders prophets.
Remember, Al Gore’s prophecy is pushed using the idea that skeptic scientists are corrupt and untrustworthy. Nobody in the mainstream media has questioned this, and as I pointed out in my guest post here at WUWT ( http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/06/25/the-end-is-near-for-faith-in-agw/ ), Gore can’t keep his accusation story straight. He again altered his long-term accusation narrative in his latest profanity-filled diatribe at the Aspen Institute a couple of days ago, citing the infamous Naomi Oreskes about the corruption of skeptic scientists. As I pointed in another of my pieces, Oreskes is also tied to the same old central smear of skeptic scientists, please see: “Circuitous attempts to smear AGW skeptic scientists” http://climatechangedispatch.com/editorials/7568-circuitous-attempts-to-smear-agw-skeptic-scientists
I’m looking forward to the moment when the “prophet” sojourns in the wilderness for forty days and forty nights. Real prophets don’t take their Blackberry with them, so we can expect almost a month of silence from “Al Gorezeera” or “The Voice of the Prophet”. Any suggestions for the location of his sojourn?
I’ve heard Australia’s great prophet Tim Flannery is planning a sojourn, though I don’t think he’ll pick a spot just below the Wivenhoe dam in Queensland. I’ve heard it’s nice there in January, if sometimes a trifle wet.
Adam and Eve ate of the carbonaceous fruit and the lord Algore was angry. Fig leaves anyone?
From my favorite movie……… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWmbuKSWLDE ……… Gore’s competition.
A prophet? Consider the source (clueless, unreliable, gold digger (for a story), “journalist” (or wanna-be)).
Besides, for a prophet to be considered one, he should have a track record. What has Gore predicted that’s come to pass? His record regarding the climate is dismal. And what happens to the weather when Gore travels someplace–it turns into a deep freeze (relatively speaking). I’d say he’s a jinx.
No, Gore is no prophet. He’s a profitess (meaning he stands to make money by his pronouncements), but any which way you cut it, he’s not a prophet.
Naomi Oreskes being completely backwards in her analogy about business perverting the message is one of the more amusing ironies of this whole mess.
She gets a roomful of mirrors all to herself in my museum.
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Prophetic sounds quite similar to the word I first though of.
Prophecy is prophitable. Ask any of the recently founded “churches”.
While I don’t claim to be a biblical scholar, doesn’t one false prophesy make a false prophet?
“If what a prophet proclaims in the name of the LORD [Gaia] does not take place or come true, that is a message the LORD [Gaia] has not spoken. That prophet has spoken presumptuously. Do not be afraid of him.” Deuteronomy 18:20-22
They keep misspelling prophet….. it’s PROFIT.
DanZee says:
“I believe Al Gore also blamed the Dinosaurs for global warming in prehistoric times, and the monks for the Middle Ages warm-up. Now the Tea Party is causing the sun to burn us to a crisp!.”
Well, in that case Gore must indeed be a prophet; the Dinosaurs got their just reward for all that global warming, didn’t they?
The response that many people have to “Global Warming” is of a religious nature. They want to believe, they want to do the right thing (most of them anyway) but they do not understand the nature of science. Perhaps here in the US it confirmation that we are falling way behind in graduating Engineers and Scientists. Interesting that of the developing nations that ARE producing technical people, they are not falling into this religious trap. People will have to be taught Science and this will have to begin with the young school age kids today.
@ur momisuglyalex the skeptic says:
August 8, 2011 at 9:52 am
“And then there’s damnation for all those who don’t drive a Prius or a donkey.”
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I’m not sure you’re off the hook with just a Prius. Stick with a donkey just to be on the safe side. I know his followers are sticking with a jack@ur momisugly$$.
;o)
Doesn’t matter whether Gore’s a prophet or not. He’s just plain wrong about the end of the world will be caused by slightly highter amounts of CO2 — besides, he’s a hypocrite to boot.
[snip – just a bit over the top comparison wise – Anthony]
NOTE: Since some commenters misunderstand the above graph, here’s an explanation. It is traffic rank, not hits.
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lol, I think you should lobby Alexa to change its graph format. Every time!!! lol
I would like to note, for the record, that that is completely contrary to how science works. You don’t simply learn something and that’s the end of it. You don’t simply absorb a book and the questioning stops. That bolded sentence right there says that Gore expected all of us to simply ‘hear the information’ and believe…
THAT IS RELIGION.