Open question to WUWT readers: Will one member of the mainstream media — that was so quick to give page-space to Bill McKibben’s ludicrous assertions about Irene — even bring up these comments by Gore? Will Revkin or Bryan Walsh or ThinkProgress disassociate themselves and their orgs or simply assent through their silence?
Update: end of 08/29 Zero mainstream media outlets (except Fox News) covered Al Gore’s “racist” connections. The silence was not unexpected. Andrew Revkin was more interested (again) in interjecting his opinions on “acceptable” candidates for the GOP primary, a constituency that does not “fit” his worldview. Must be fun to coordinate your messaging with Paul Krugman.
By Caroline May in the Daily Caller
One day climate change skeptics will be seen in the same negative light as racists, at least so says former Vice President Al Gore.
In an interview with former advertising executive and Climate Reality Project collaborator Alex Bogusky broadcasted on UStream on Friday, Gore explained that in order for climate change alarmists to succeed, they must “win the conversation” against those who deny there is a crisis.
(RELATED: Bill McKibben: Global warming to blame for Hurricane Irene)
“I remember, again going back to my early years in the South, when the Civil Rights revolution was unfolding, there were two things that really made an impression on me,” Gore said. “My generation watched Bull Connor turning the hose on civil rights demonstrators and we went, ‘Whoa! How gross and evil is that?’ My generation asked old people, ‘Explain to me again why it is okay to discriminate against people because their skin color is different?’ And when they couldn’t really answer that question with integrity, the change really started.”
The former vice president recalled how society succeeded in marginalizing racists and said climate change skeptics must be defeated in the same manner.
“Secondly, back to this phrase ‘win the conversation,’” he continued. “There came a time when friends or people you work with or people you were in clubs with — you’re much younger than me so you didn’t have to go through this personally — but there came a time when racist comments would come up in the course of the conversation and in years past they were just natural. Then there came a time when people would say, ‘Hey, man why do you talk that way, I mean that is wrong. I don’t go for that so don’t talk that way around me. I just don’t believe that.’ That happened in millions of conversations and slowly the conversation was won.”
“We have to win the conversation on climate,” Gore added.
When Bogusky questioned the analogy, asking if the scientific reasoning behind climate change skeptics might throw a wrench into the good and evil comparison with racism, Gore did not back down.
“I think it’s the same where the moral component is concerned and where the facts are concerned I think it is important to get that out there, absolutely,” Gore said.
Gore also took shots at Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who has lambasted climate change alarmists on the presidential campaign trail, and other politicians who dare to question the veracity of global warming science.
“This is an organized effort to attack the reputation of the scientific community as a whole, to attack their integrity, and to slander them with the lie that they are making up the science in order to make money,” Gore said.
Ironically, back during Perry’s days as a Democrat, the Texas governor supported Gore in his 1988 presidential bid. Perry became a Republican in 1989.
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@Ryan Spear Maue says: August 28, 2011 at 11:21 am
Dr. Maue, just in case you hadn’t run across this yet – NYTs article yesterday, effectively about how average hurricane energy & storm size is supposedly larger than ever and will, of course, get worse with global warming as shown by Irene…
Seeing Irene as Harbinger of a Change in Climate
By JUSTIN GILLIS Published: August 27, 2011 A version of this article appeared in print on August 28, 2011, on page A17 of the New York edition…
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/28/us/28climate.html?_r=2&partner=MYWAY&ei=5065
I can’t help but wonder if this guy is aware of your research and very handy page http://coaps.fsu.edu/~maue/tropical/ (Thank You!!) and is so unethical and deceptive as to ignore this side of the issue either because he’s got a personal agenda or it just provides more sensational copy….. or if he really believes things are so one sided and is just miserable at doing any good surveys of existing scientific literature…
His words are nothing short of an admission that he is unable to win the debate based upon facts and has to draw his munitions entirely from the ad-hominem box.
In Australia, the Minister for Climate Change, tried to tell us we are racists and economic xenophobes because we do not want to purchase carbon credits from unknown people in foreign countries.
The point he was critcizing was that he was questioned why Australia should effectively tear up $650billion in carbon credit purchases that would do absolutely nothing to alter temperature.
As usual, playing the racist card is the card from the bottom of the deck, a rogue’s trick to try to distract you because he has nothing left.
Interesting to note that the racist meme is uttered clone like so far apart in distance but so close in time.
Similarly, a conversation with the people means they can deny or not be held accountable for anything they say.
If all “the science” was true, why do they need these sleazy tricks?
“If the facts are against you, hammer the law. If the law is against you, hammer the facts. If the facts and the law are against you, hammer opposing counsel.”
Any questions?
If we spent some money on Vit. A supplements, we could save 600,000 lives a year – but you are racist if you don’t focus instead on hypothetical AGW that could cause harm decades from now.
Vitamin A supplements for children could save 600,000 lives a year
August 26, 2011
Children in low and middle income countries should be given vitamin A supplements to prevent death and illness, concludes a study published in the British Medical Journal today.
The researchers argue that the effectiveness of vitamin A supplementation is now so well-established that further trials would be unethical, and they urge policymakers to provide supplements for all children at risk of deficiency.
Vitamin A is an essential nutrient that must be obtained through diet. Vitamin A deficiency in children increases vulnerability to infections like diarrhoea and measles and may also lead to blindness. Globally, the World Health Organisation estimates that 190 million children under the age of 5 may be vitamin A deficient. But, despite widespread efforts, vitamin A programmes do not reach all children who could benefit. (continued: http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-08-vitamin-supplements-children-year.html)
Two observations.
1] Scientific impartiality is not a case of winning or losing. Controversy and disapprobation rages in politics and religion where there is little evidence to support a case , not in arithmetics
2) Racism is the belief that there are inherent differences in people’s capabilities and this determines their cultural achievement. Wien’s displacement law, radiative physics, spectroscopy, and air pressure, for example, and their causal affinities when applied to climactic factors, have nothing to do with analogy with racists, or indeed with morals or civil rights.
I cannot find one treatise which maintains that scientific variables have desires for civil rights or human traits in general.
“The Earth’s crust is millions of degrees hot.” “No it’s not.” “RACIST!”
Yeah, that’s the way to convince people.
Yep, the “denier” label isn’t having any effect so you might as well imply that skeptics are racists as well. I’m sure pedophilia is next.
“The racist deniers are like old men hiding in bushes and watching your small children. Who are you going to listen to? Climatologists, or skeptics who may be watching your children at this very moment?”
There was Parmenides who thought that stars, planets and other celestial bodies had souls of therir own.
It is not known whether such objects agree or not
re: suyts says: August 28, 2011 at 11:40 am
“would be allowed” — Free speech, and obviously we don’t want censorship. The very very sad thing, however, is that people who make such outrageous statements aren’t laughed off the stage and then treated to a nice big dose of national scorn. NOT for having an opinion and expressing it, but for going to such extremes in their comparisions. The other aspect of this that is so disturbing, of course, is that reporters and journalists just keep going back to that same trough and lapping it up so they can serve it out the back end to the rest of us.
In the not-too-distant future, people will look back on these times as a sort of modern-day “dark ages”. Folks might say something like:
“there came a time when Alarmist anti-carbon comments would come up in the course of the conversation and in years past they were just natural. Then there came a time when people would say, ‘Hey, man why do you talk that way, I mean that is wrong. I don’t go for that so don’t talk that way around me. I just don’t believe that.’ That happened in millions of conversations and slowly the conversation was won.”
Al Gore will not be allowed any sharp objects, his pants will have a tendency to fall down, and he will drool a lot as he mumbles and cries incoherently about the planet being on fire, millions of degrees, and why won’t anybody listen?
YouTube of it
REPLY: Thanks I’ll put this in instead – Anthony
When Gore ran for the presidency and the hanging chads issue, I wondered if he had sense enough to pour piss from a boot.
I now wonder if he has enough sense not to drink piss from a boot.
KK @ur momisugly CoS had an idiotic post quite a while ago on some clown claiming the similarities of racist views and views of people who do not accept the government supported IPCC ‘settled’ science. CoS it seems had already played the race card and was a precursor to the Gore racist views.
John
Coming from a crazed sex poodle I’ll take it as a compliment.
Pffffffffffffft……
Al Gore is anti science.
And evil.
There is, quite simply, a revolution coming, in science — and in the world, if the incompetent science consensus continues to be imposed upon the people of the world by their governments, against their will.
“I mean, you got the first mainstream African American [Barack Obama] who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice looking guy.”
~ Joe Biden
Joe means: compared with the typical African American. But that’s not racist because Biden is a Democrat like Gore, so he gets a pass.
Fortunately for us, we have our own pass.
neener!
He’s right about one thing … winning the conversation. Only it’s the skeptics who have finally begun to win after being marginalized and trivialized for so many years. With solid facts that are beating back the silliness of Mr. Gore’s science fantasy.
As for the rest of what he’s saying … he’s really reached a new low … again.
Uncontrollable fits of rage and inability to discriminate between reality and fantasy is symptomatic of tertiary stage syphyllis. This handily explains how a sex poodle becomes a crazed sex poodle.
Just sayin’ 🙂
Bogusky has co-created this ad campaign:
There’s a strong conformism undertone there; so his decision to work for warmism makes sense. Note the lengths to which the company in the campaign goes to convince an outsider.
Here’s Bogusky on climate change; trying to equate CO2 to pollution, and urging people to “stop the debate”.
He really seems to hate dissenting voices. But maybe that’s typical for all warmists.
Look up “poor loser” in the dictionary and you’ll find a picture of Al Gore. It was entered in the December 2000 edition of Meriam-Webster.
How can you win a conversation that you refuse to have ?
“He lied to us. He betrayed this country. He played on our fears” It is amazing how often what Democrats claim about Republicans is what they themselves are guilty.
All I want is to know the truth, If by that Gore means that those who shout loudest are right then that is an inconvenient truth!