UPDATE: All of the Gore-a-thon posts and cartoons are now available in the Climate Fail Files page here
If you noticed a change in the header, this is why.
Our rebuttal of Al Gore’s 24 hours of Climate Reality aka the Gore-a-thon is On-The-Air. Josh is leading the charge chortles. We’ll have a new Josh cartoon, along with commentary, graphs and links every hour starting at 5PM PST to match the starting time of the CRP. They appear below this post.
You can watch the live video presentation here, I urge everyone to do so (because after hour 4 it is starting to look like a massive dud, Al needs the help) and to make notes about it during the appropriate hour. Alternate video link here at Ustream.
Here’s the trailer advertising it:
If you run a blog, we hope you’ll participate and use the content. If you don’t have a blog, get one for free here and join in the fun using the free content we’ll provide.
All good clean fun of course. While we have some great ideas for the program, WUWT readers often come up with some great ones too. Luboš Motl has some fun ideas already.
Ideas and discussion welcome below.
UPDATE: The Climate Reality project has released two videos hyping the event. It appears they’ll be smearing some of what is in the videos.
Of course, they are asking for money, a minimum of $10 after viewing them. They write with the mass email:
While some folks have told us these aren’t exactly family fare, we think they make a point that’s long overdue. And you can help make sure that everyone who you think can handle them, sees them.
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The time to act is now. The denial has hit the fan.
Thanks,
Alex Bogusky
Chief Marketing Officer
The Climate Reality Project.
WUWT readers may recall that Mr Bogusky is the “interviewer” for Al Gore’s recent racist slur against climate skeptics.
Sometimes Arctic Ice is solid
and sometimes it is liquid.
What’s the problem?
🙂
Alex Bogusky
Chief Marketing Officer
The Climate Reality Project.
Why would a scientific principle need a ‘marketing officer’??
Tomorrow morning, I’m going to get up in Boston and it’s going to be something like 46 degrees! Are you freaking kidding me?!
This will be a good lesson for the Gore-aholics – whenever the Goracle speaks, assume it’s going to get bloody cold! Plan to crank up the thermostats, shove wood into the stoves, and wrap yourselves in blankets! And laugh your butts off at this guy’s idiocy, at least until the utility bills show up. Then get angry.
The Gore effect §.-) Snowstorm closes election af Thule Air Base http://goo.gl/kYqsM
Alex Bogusky
Chief Marketing Officer
The Climate Reality Project.
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Some of you may want to know why he was attracted into marketing a pro-CAGW event with a name that starts off with ‘Bogus’. Technically this is called ‘nominative determinism’. It means your name drives you towards your destined occupation, like a hand surgeon I had called Dr Fang.
If you can search the records of New Scientist you will find there was a competition held by Feedback which was so hilarious and thus oversubscribed that they had to cancel it to leave room for other stories, then retreat more than once to get in just one more. The list is endless. Christian Kock’s solar cookers (Hamburg) is one guy I have visited.
If there ever was a bogus event, a CAGW-fest during a (repeated) cold-snap is surely the archetype. If there is anything to have a consensus about it is that ‘unusually cold weather hounds Al Gore’.
In Honor of Al Gore and associated TAX AND SPEND Looter Loons of AGW.
I know it is just weather, but such a nice time for some snow.
http://www.arapahoebasin.com/ABasin/snow-conditions/web-cams.aspx
Dear Al,
CO2 is not a God, get over it.
Methane madness, plug a cow?
http://methanemadness.cfact.org/?utm_source=CFACT+Updates&utm_campaign=7c5572b7a3-Play_Methane_Madness_Cork_Gore_climateday9_14_2011&utm_medium=email
Anthony,
After watching all this relentless equating of climate [snip] with smoking [snip], has it crossed your mind at all that your parents were maybe no more killed by their smoking than the planet has been warmed by CO2?
This is too good… Once an hour Joshtoons. Classic.
Mark
Knock Knock
Who’s there?
Allegory
Allegory who?
Al A. Gore is a crazed sex poodle
Knock Knock
Who’s there?
Damascus
Damascus who?
Damascus who was alarmed by Al’s hockey stick!
Anthony, you’re a stronger man than me.
I am sure there is a Gore effect here, but i will leave it to the readers to interpret: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/15/mcdonalds-death-gas_n_963971.html
Frank Davis says:
September 15, 2011 at 12:31 pm
Anthony,
“After watching all this relentless equating of climate [snip] with smoking [snip], has it crossed your mind at all that your parents were maybe no more killed by their smoking than the planet has been warmed by CO2?”
A related thought is that the war against carbon dioxide emissions is modeled on the war against smoking. In both cases, the drivers are hardcore socialists and communists who are power mad control freaks. If I had known what was coming, I would have fought in the smoking wars on the side that opposed smoking bans. The hardcore socialists and communists must be opposed decisively at each step they take.
Very few of the film clips seems to work for me (it might just be my computer refusing to play junk!)
However, one of the few clips I could get to work was the ‘Highlights: Boulder’ film. In the clip, a man with a ridiculous handlebar moustache showed a graph purporting to show the global temperature rise since about 1980 and comparing it with solar activity over the same time-span. The graph had the global temp rising about 0.2 degrees since 1990 (with a slight flattening off between about 2008 and today (it said the source was NASA/GISS).
Surely this bloke’s peddling rubbish? We know the global temp hasn’t risen in over a decade, so how can he get away with this?
Perhaps someone could watch the clip for me and tell me what I’m missing, as it looks like compete rubbish to me:
http://climaterealityproject.org/video/
“Martin says:
September 15, 2011 at 4:25 am
Meanwhile…
GLOBAL warming has turned a vast area of Greenland “green,” a new edition of the world atlas showed today.”
Good – I’d rather we had a bit of “green” than arid ice-covered wasteland.
BTW I don’t know why you put the word ‘global’ in capitals, when you are talking about a very specific region on Earth. If you want to start getting all regional, let me remind you about the increasing amount of ice down there in chilly old Antarctica:
http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/JCLI-D-10-05032.1
“Fast ice extent across the East Antarctic coast shows a statistically-significant (1.43±0.30% yr−1) increase. Regionally, there is a strong increase in the Indian Ocean sector (20° E to 90° E, 4.07 ± 0.42% yr−1), and a non-significant decrease in the Western Pacific Ocean sector (90° E to 160° E, −0.40 ±0.37% yr−1)”
Re the smoking and global warming thingey:
This is a true story.
About a month ago a friend of a colleague of mine had gone to the Canadian High Commission in London (England!) to renew his passport. On his way back he passed the doors of the Department of Energy and Climate Change. Outside, in shirt sleeves, was a civil servant smoking his lunchtime cigarette. “Say, friend, that can’t be good for global warming can it?” “Ha!” said the smoking civil servant, “You don’t have to believe that tosh to work here.”
Good heavens,
13 languages, worldwide coverage and they only have ~ 7M views. Assuming people haven’t been bored (gored) to death in the first viewing, its likely the same group is viewing more than once.
Couple of facts that don’t sound right to me which were just stated:
— The Oceans, during the last Ice Age, were 400 feet lower than today.
— 20 foot sea level rise if all of the Greenland Ice sheet melts. Note they failed to properly answer how long that would take and opted for the typical alarmist view — its accelerating.
Boy, I tuned in at the top of the hour. I feel like I am being brainwashed from a play book from some revivalist church. Don’t know about the world getting hotter, but that Aussie moderating was sure hot!
I said:
September 15, 2011 at 3:01 pm
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IPCC FAQ
“Global sea level rose by about 120 m during the several millennia that followed the end of the last ice age (approximately 21,000 years ago), and stabilized between 3,000 and 2,000 years ago. Sea level indicators suggest that global sea level did not change significantly from then until the late 19th century. The instrumental record of modern sea level change shows evidence for onset of sea level rise during the 19th century. Estimates for the 20th century show that global average sea level rose at a rate of about 1.7 mm yr–1.”
120 m = 393.700 feet; close enough, I stand corrected but remember reading that 120 is under dispute in favor of 150 m in AR5.
I said:
September 15, 2011 at 3:01 pm
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Stand corrected again:
http://bprc.osu.edu/wiki/Greenland_Factsheethttp://bprc.osu.edu/wiki/Greenland_Factsheet‘
“The ice sheet would add between 6 and 7.4 meters to the global sea level (Warrick et al. 1996).”
6 m = 19.6850 feet
However:
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/Greenland/http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/Greenland/
NASA:
Greenland Ice Sheet: 4cm sea level rise by 2100
Dang Gore effect. It suddenly turned cold here in NYC this afternoon. 59 degrees, windy, damp. Could have sworn I saw a few snow flakes.
Could someone answer the following question: Has the planet been cooling for the past several years? If yes, how do AGW supporters explain that?
Rob says:
September 15, 2011 at 3:52 pm
Could someone answer the following question: Has the planet been cooling for the past several years? If yes, how do AGW supporters explain that?
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Using search on WUWT for past articles makes the answers a lot easier.
UAH global temperature, down a bit in August
By Dr. Roy Spencer
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/09/02/uah-global-temperature-down-a-bit-in-august/
2nd part of your question: “If yes, how do AGW supporters explain that?”
They don’t, they hope to baffle us with BS until we roll back into the next warming cycle.
4 Words: Whats…Up…With…That.!
Pitiful, less than 9 million views at 5pm PT.
Al’s closing remarks were the typical nonsense propaganda.