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.
“Minor Profit in the Belly of a Great Fish”
I think you should drop your obsession with Al Gore. The science which he reports speaks for itself, and the evidence is beyond dispute. Focussing on Gore simply serves to distract your many readers from the facts revealed in a vast and growing body of knowledge.I think it would be wise for all of us in these turbulent times, to speak the truth clearly, without recourse to PR tactics which serve only to distract and clutter the conversation. Contrarian views are important, but only if they are intended to complete the picture being portrayed by disciplined scientists and others around the world.
REPLY: I think you should get your own blog and that way you can run it any way you want instead of trying to constantly tell us what we should and should not be doing here. – Anthony
I’m sure the more educated would be familiar with the book of Deuteronomy chapter 18, specifically verses 15 through 22.
jaymam says:
August 8, 2011 at 1:56 pm
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Latitude says: “97 percent of scientists say man-made climate change is real”
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You’ve come to the wrong place to quote fake statistics.
Your 97% is actually only 75 scientists.
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and now for the severely reading impaired……………….
It was a joke Jay……………………………and you left out the “woops” on the end
Re-read Anthony’s post….see if you can make any connection as to why it’s a joke
“Hugh Pepper says:
August 8, 2011 at 2:10 pm
I think you should drop your obsession with Al Gore. ”
No I don’t think so Hugh. No person has been so utterly a self serving liar while defrauding the world of money, good science and ease of mind. He is a devil to science. He is a cheat to the business world and an antagonist to calm. All to promote is ego, his wealth and his political world view… at expense of others who are honest, hardworking truth seekers.
What great accomplishments we have missed as a human race because of one big fat lying jerk who derailed millions of well-intentioned people.
He needs to be remembered for all eternity for what he is… a liar and the epitome of an abuser of the word “SCIENCE”.
REPLY: it was the imagery it invoked, and too far OT – Anthony
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Anthony,
Thanks for the courtesy of a quick explanation. I will make no such allusions to such imagery ever again here @ur momisugly WUWT.
Tu casa es tu casa. [hope I didn’t butcher the Spanish too much]
So it is written, and so it shall be. [which is appropriate prophet-like phrasing since we are discussing prophets]
John
So, essentially, now he’ll be wanting to marry 71 virgins? That’d be a dirty old douch.
Hugh Pepper
‘The science which he reports speaks for itself, and the evidence is beyond dispute.’
Really , remind us again how many millions of degrees he claimed the earth core was ?
Hugh Pepper says:
August 8, 2011 at 2:10 pm
“I think it would be wise for all of us in these turbulent times, to speak the truth clearly, without recourse to PR tactics which serve only to distract and clutter the conversation. Contrarian views are important, but only if they are intended to complete the picture being portrayed by disciplined scientists and others around the world.”
I hope this video speaks the truth clearly, and i hope it complements the picture being portrayed by disciplined, peer-reviewing-each-other scientists. You said “complement”, right?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWEu4Yz76Ro&feature=player_embedded
‘You may say to yourselves, “How can we know when a message has not been spoken by the LORD?” If what a prophet proclaims in the name of the LORD does not take place or come true, that is a message the LORD has not spoken. That prophet has spoken presumptuously, so do not be alarmed.’
That would work nicely as an opening blurb for a infographic listing a timeline of failed predictions and models.
A profiteering prophet, no less
Hugh Pepper- What’s really sad is that you actually believe what you wrote.
Some of the ironic Australian humor in the comments on the Telegraph article on “Fat Al, the Prophet} are quite hilarious;
eg; A fatex VP is a Prophet……a current President is a Mesiah…..
And the USA is still broke?
How could this happen whith so much divine intervention? Americans had a brighter future with sex maniacs running their country!
Definition: prophet- a person who advocates or speaks in a visionary way about a new belief or cause.
Inasmuch as AGW is a belief or cause Al Gore is indeed a prophet and based on the above definition, so was Hitler, Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot.
If you squint real hard, you can almost see a hockey stick!
Don Quixote with the blessing of the kingdom and a multi-billion dollar budget.
The Warmist Declaration of Faith:
“There is no goddess but Gaia, and al-Gore is her Profit.”
[[[ Michael J Alexander says:
August 8, 2011 at 5:15 pm
If you squint real hard, you can almost see a hockey stick! ]]]
I see a frying pan and a cheese sandwich…
He can’t be a prophet, he’s been wrong too many times. He can’t be a samaritan, he put his light out. Must be a devil in disguise, sure does lie alot. Or, he’s a politician. Duh.
Monty Python could make hay out of this. They already did one of the most hilarious versions of prophets and salvation I have ever seen. This is running a very close second. Can we get that painting of Gore to move its mouth Monty Python style?
If big Al is the prophet then who exactly is the God of this particular religion? Speaking of religions if y’all want a laugh have a read about the “Flying Spagetti Monster”. Especially the hoops he went through to get the administration to accept wearing a colander headpiece was part of his religious beliefs.
Back to the concensus. What were those other 7111 earth scientists thinking when they didn’t answer the key questions? Also – I kind of disagree with the emphasis put on Gore. This wasn’t Gore – it was one of his misguided minions.
Based on the stats, CRP viewers are middle age unmarried females browsing from work.
Since most folks are busy when at work, I presume that they are civil servants.
Call me presumptuous.
I’m sure that Al Gore’s buddies over at Kleiner Perkins have always thought of him for “profit”
Hugh Pepper says:
August 8, 2011 at 2:10 pm
“I think you should drop your obsession with Al Gore. The science which he reports speaks for itself, and the evidence is beyond dispute. ”
Nice one Hugh! Coffee all over another keyboard!
A UK high court judge found that his crap film had nine serious errors:
The errors included:
“Mr Gore’s assertion that a sea-level rise of up to 20 feet would be caused by melting of ice in either West Antarctica or Greenland “in the near future”. The judge said this was “distinctly alarmist” and it was common ground that if Greenland’s ice melted it would release this amount of water – “but only after, and over, millennia”.
Mr Gore’s assertion that the disappearance of snow on Mount Kilimanjaro in East Africa was expressly attributable to global warming – the court heard the scientific consensus was that it cannot be established the snow recession is mainly attributable to human-induced climate change.
Mr Gore’s reference to a new scientific study showing that, for the first time, polar bears had actually drowned “swimming long distances – up to 60 miles – to find the ice”. The judge said: “The only scientific study that either side before me can find is one which indicates that four polar bears have recently been found drowned because of a storm.”
Even the biased BBC reported it!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7037671.stm
Now promise me to type a ” save keyboard warning” before your next drivel post!