The punch line from Rex Murphy’s recent editorial in the National Post will upset sensitive readers who still think Gore is the messiah rather than a barker.
Gore’s meltdown might just be the moment when the people of the planet saw the carney show for what it was.
Heh. He is of course referring to this.
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I remember reading in Bob Beckman’s book, The Downwave, on economic cycles, that in the good times, people embrace crazy extremes of religion, and in the bad times, go back to the conventional ones…
Gore’s real downfall has begun, now that Toto pulled back the curtain….
Gore would be nothing more than a modern day humbug who has taken P.T. Barnum’s lessons to the next level, but for the added tactic of adding religious-quality scare tactics into his presentations.
I think that a big piece of falling sky must have hit old Al on his noggin and that is what caused his ‘cussin outbreak.
Reality is going to be so hard for St. Al to endure . . . the endless mockery, the cancelled interviews, having to travel coach on commercial airlines, talking to birds in parks because no one else will listen any more.
Bet he’s wishing now he hadn’t flunked out of divinity school.
Please don’t elevate Al Gore to the level of UFOs.
Rex Murphy is a rare gem in Canadian journalism. His long tenure with the CBC, which is a baby BBC when it comes to promoting the activist/socialist line, is a bit of a mystery to both the liberal/socialist faithful and the independent thinking class – he’s basically all that is worth watching on CBC-TV.
It was an inconvenient way to achieve “global governance” by an obscure elite. It has been replaced by other more sophisticated ideas, so HE is no longer necessary.
The National Science Foundation, which grades scientific documentaries intended for the public, gave “An Inconvenient Truth” a grade of 90%, noting that the errors in it were of detail, and not fundamental to its general argument. The average grade that the NFS gives to similar documentaries in 70%. Somehow, I put more stock in that grade than in an editorial, empty of everyhting except mockery, published in the newspaper of a convicted felon, Mr. Conrad Black.
Good editorial.
Lately, economics has been turned on its tail. Utility companies now claim they are in the conservation business, i.e. the business of not selling electricity or providing water. Often, they are legally mandated to utilize the least efficient method of generating electricity. Thus the public pays for evermore inefficiencies. If left to their original business model, these companies would be attempting to, sell more goods and services in order to generate more income, a huge portion of which , would go to even more efficient infrastructure.This current models end is already in sight: electrical and water rationing at ever increasing prices until the service stops all together.
there simply hasn’t been any signal that his White House is giving the great Gore crusade anything but the barest of rhetorical support.
Plenty of other regulatory support, however, from the EPA. If the EPA cannot regulate Carbon and CO2 in the open, they’ll do it by impossibly costly regulaitons to reduce mercury in coal from 48 bbp to 4 ppb. To compare, 990 ppb Hg in fish is safe to eat and 2 ppb Hg in water is safe to drink.
Jesse Fell,
I guess you’re one of the ones who ‘fell’ for Gore’s backward graph and the other nonsense in AIT. Face it, Gore’s propaganda has been thoroughly debunked, and only credulous fools still believe in his predictions of catastrophic runaway global warming and 20-meter sea level rises. Are you one of them?
I see this as a affirmation of the Law of Unintended Consequences. If Al hadn’t invented the Internet, he would not be such a popular target of derision. So it’s really his own fault. 😉
Particularly Goring are some of the comments posted in the FP piece. A couple more of those rambling cut-and-paste tirades about killing the planet and catastrophic species eradication, recited chapter-and-verse. And of course the usual “Rex Murphy is not a scientist” saw. Well, the climate scientists aren’t, either, so I guess things are pretty much even.
He is the only thing worth watching on CBC, I agree. But I far prefer his ability to cross borders on WUWT.
James Hansen says it; Al Gore believes it; that settles it!
But in really bad times, extreme beliefs become more common.
Smokey says:
August 22, 2011 at 10:06 am
Jesse Fell,
I guess you’re one of the ones who ‘fell’ for Gore’s backward graph and the other nonsense in AIT. Face it, Gore’s propaganda has been thoroughly debunked, and only credulous fools still believe in his predictions of catastrophic runaway global warming and 20-meter sea level rises. Are you one of them?
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Don’t be too hard on Jesse, Smokey. There must be a lot of anger in the realisation that one has been following a charlatan all this time. This is a long process of reconcilliation, and right now, I would say he is just entering stage 1, denial: NFS gave AIT 90% – errors not fundamental – Conrad Black – convicted felon’s – yada yada yada. Still, I believe regular visits to WUWT, accompanied by a trully open mind, can help the process along.
When will Rex focus on Suzuki? Now there is a man who is mean, vulgar, dismissive and insulting to anyone who disagrees with him. He twists stats to serve his needs, logistically supports lawsuits against those (Tim Ball) disagree with his heros (M. Mann), and generally describes geologists who disagree (most of them) “anti-environmentalists” who are paid by the oil and gas industry to distort the truth and support their carbon-spewing industries.
Suzuki cannot stand the presence of other minds. It is no wonder he and his wife lie in bed at night, curled up and worrying about the fate of the planet. He has enough people in his own head to tell him that the sky is falling that he cannot help but be anxious, despite those outside on his lawn, looking up and going “Huh?”.
I`m convinced future historians will track Gore’s and Suzuki’s ilk like the famous witch-hunters of the 1700s, who made careers, fortune and beneficial personality cults through “discovering” witches amongst populations not previously afflicted by others than midwives, herbalists and the crazy. Back then the Gore-Suzuki cabal gathered up in their circle King James the First of Scotland, who wrote his own treatise on the devil incarnate. (Gore would be a messiah rather than a king; times are more tolerant of messiahs than kings these days.) King James had many so-called witches burned; thank someone or something that G & S do not have that power. If they did, Suzuki would identify them (I’m one of the new witches, apparently) and Gore would strike the match.
The witch-hunters caused great social distress and individual disaster in their times. Eventually the charge became so widespread no family was left untouched, and every family knew that the charges were false, malicious and based on a conspiracy of power. Yet, when it was over, there was little guilt amongst the persecutors and even less sympathy for the harmed. So it shall be again: the masses, duped, would prefer to think that the “bad people” brought it upon themselves, even if witchcraft weren’t actually involved. (Actually, those at Salem did apologize, years later. But their souls – and maybe their bank accounts – were in jeopardy.)
The warmists will grump-down eventually and turn to other matters, but the skeptics will still be the bad people who brought trouble onto themselves. What we did was disrupt the harmony of the flock (sheep allusion here). That is unforgivable.
But until then we need to keep attention on the Gores – and Suzukis – of our time. It is from their mouths, like that of Senator Joe McCarthy, that the truth will appear. America was never infested with Communists seeking the overthrow of democracy and the world is not infested with fossil-fuel users causing extreme weather (a common charge of witchcraft, by the way) in their drive towards personal pleasures and general pain (more witchcraft charges). When Gore and Suzuki rail against the world`s destruction of the environment with each new speech, you begin to realise that EVERYONE is an anti-environmentalist and shill for Big Oil, Big Gas or Big Coal.
Or a witch. On a practical level, the terms are identical.
I can’t think of a more appropriate epitaph for Al Gore’s tombstone than his own words:
Fred from Canuckistan says:
August 22, 2011 at 9:44 am
“Bet he’s wishing now he hadn’t flunked out of divinity school.”
The way I heard it he dropped out when he discovered it wasn’t actually a job training program.
Although I enjoyed reading Rex Murphy’s recent editorial in the National Post, I was disappointed that he missed an opportunity to probe for the fundamentally flawed premise of the Gore followers of the world and likewise of the ideological environmentalists who are militant activists for political shifts toward authoritarianism. It is important to understand their flawed premise because the next catastrophic scare story will use the same flawed premise.
Their flawed premise goes like this: mankind, by nature, is environmentally fallible under all forms of society/culture/government that have at their base fundamental individual rights and relatively non-subjective moral systems.
I leave it to the philosophical enthusiast to find the self-contradictory flaw in their premise.
John
If someone wants a great laugh then I caught this in the comment section over there:
http://climate.nasa.gov/evidence/
Jesse Fell says:
August 22, 2011 at 9:57 am
“Somehow, I put more stock in that grade than in an editorial”
Changing the word “stock” to “faith” would be a more accurate portrayal of your credulity.
What is that sound?… Whoooshh… It’s the sound of the retreating tide…
Picked this out of Rex Murphy’s comment section, how true
Jim LadCollapse
Interesting that you should say that.
Here’s a thing.
I have a friend who used to go door to door selling encyclopedias.
Made a good living at it too.
Then in the mid nineties computers took over and those volumes made their way out of the living rooms and into thrift stores.
I daresay that Rex read a few of those as a lad.
I know I did.
Maybe it’s time we dug out those old books and get a real good look at what the world was like when they were printed.
Unlike the “Online” sources, the print is on the page and cannot be altered by everyone with an agenda.
How many polar bears were there twenty years ago?
What was the average temperature in each season for every major city in the world?
You know, with all of the information that’s freely available on the Internet, you can’t find an answer to that question online.
Odd, don’t you think?
So I’m with you, Christopher Johnson.
Let’s dig out the old books, find out what scientists were predicting twenty years ago and hold them to it.
The whole thing is unraveling. When a national TV news anchorman gives this 2-sentence answer (photo link here: http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/assets/Lehrer%20letter.jpg ) in response to an 1100-word snail mail asking why skeptic scientists were excluded from offering their detailed views on his program 15+ years, or from debating with his IPCC scientist repeat guests, then we have a major reporting problem in the mainstream media. Speaking of which, my verbatim snail mail to PBS NewsHour anchorman Lehrer is online here: “PBS and Global Warming Skeptics’ Lockout” http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/08/pbs_and_global_warming_skeptics_lockout.html
Gore’s work is being handled quite nicely, thank you, by the extra-constitutional organization known as the EPA. Essential power plants are going to fall off line not because terrorists have blown the transmission lines or overrun the control rooms, or some rogue nation has lit off an EMP device over US soil – the EPA, with a weapon no mightier than the common pen, has put into motion the final fall of American manufacturing.
I imagine the final insult will be the body bags needed when rolling brownouts punctuate the hot days of summer and the frigid nights of winter will be imported from some smoke stack nation that has a growing industrial base.
Gore has won his battle, and the EPA has won the war. We’re screwed.