FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 10/29/12
WUWT-TV to debut on November 14th to counter Al Gore’s “Dirty Weather Telethon” on November 14th and 15th starting at 8PM EST (5PM PST)
Al Gore is forming another 24 hour media event on November 14th, focusing on “dirty weather”, which you can read about here. It is yet another example of what has been called “Tabloid Climatology”.
Gore’s program is another transparent attempt to link climate and weather, and to make people fearful of common weather events that we’ve seen all throughout history. WUWT hosted a 24 hour event last year, thanks to the talents of our contributing cartoonist, Josh. You can review that here.
Last year during his “24 Hours of Climate Reality”, Mr. Gore created a video called “Climate 101” in which he purported to show a laboratory experiment showing the warming effects of CO2. Unfortunately it was discovered that Mr. Gore fabricated the experimental results using video post production techniques. You can read about it and see the evidence here:
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Due to Mr. Gore broadcasting fabricated and impossible science experiments, and then failing to correct the video even when glaringly obvious falsifications were pointed out, and partly due to WUWT’s founder Anthony Watts recent interview (and backlash) on PBS Newshour, a donor has stepped forward and offered to equip WUWT for professional Live TV over the Internet and has purchased a complete web enabled TV studio setup for use this year, seen here:
http://www.newtek.com/products/tricaster-40.html
It includes two cameras, live video over net input, and live graphics/slideshow input.
It has been tested and has succeeded a 24 hour live web broadcast burn in period. When in production, the WUWT-TV web channel will have all of the elements of a professional TV production.
During the event, WUWT-TV will be able to conduct live video interviews via Skype online video, plus will feature simultaneous PowerPoint presentations run in high quality HD to go with the live interview, while the guest narrates. These can be full screen or split screen depending on the setting.
PowerPoint presentations will be pre-loaded into the system, and to facilitate remote control, WUWT has engineered a remote ‘clicker’ that allows guest presenters to control the presentation from their end, using a web page with a forward and back button on it.
WUWT-TV has invited a number of individuals to give presentations, here is the list so far.
SCHEDULED TO APPEAR:
Andrew Montford (Author of The Hockey Stick Illusion)
Richard Lindzen (Alfred P. Sloan professor of Meteorology, MIT)
Marc Morano (Climate Depot)
John Coleman (Founder of the Weather Channel, now at KUSI-TV)
Chris Horner (Senior Fellow, Center for Energy and Environment, CEI)
Steve McIntyre (editor of ClimateAudit.org)
Dr. Ross McKitrick (University of Guelph)
John Christy (Alabama State climatologist, co author of UAH dataset)
Joe D’Aleo (WeatherBell)
Joe Bastardi (Weatherbell)
Senator Jim Inhofe
Bob Tisdale (author of Who Turned on The Heat?)
Dr. Ryan Maue (Weatherbell)
Burt Rutan, (Engineer and Aviation Pioneer)
Dr. Sebastian Lüning (co-author of Die kalte Sonne)
Harold Ambler (Author of Don’t Sell Your Coat)
Donna LaFramboise (Author of The Delinquent Teenager)
Pat Michaels (former State climatologist of Virgina, fellow of the Cato institute)
Pete Garcia (Producer of the movie The Boy Who Cried Warming)
Christopher Monckton (SPPI)
Invited but still undecided or have not returned RSVP:
Judith Curry (may appear by pre-recorded presentation she offered)
Burt Rutan (no reply)
John Kehr (no reply)
David Stockwell (no reply)
Jo Nova (undecided)
Dr. David Evans (no reply)
Zeke Hausfather, BEST (undecided)
Invited but declined:
Dr. Walt Meir, NSIDC (declined)
Dr. Roger Pielke Sr. (conflicting commitments prevent appearance)
Dr. Roger Pielke Jr. (declined but offered supplemental materials)
Bill McKibben (declined due to other commitments)
There are still a few slots open. For those on the opposite side of the debate, as well as those on the skeptic side we invite you to participate, and welcome slide and narrative presentations from 15 minutes to 1 hour in length.
For questions or to request a time slot, please use the contact form if you will be able to participate. Given that Mr. Gore wants to sell the American public on ‘dirty weather’, which we know is an act of desperation, unsupported by the current state of the science (see this Nature editorial on the lack of linkage between climate and extreme weather) your voice will be particularly important.
If you cannot participate live during that time, we can arrange to pre-record the segment and play it at the appropriate time on November 14th or 15th. All that is required is a functional webcam (with headset preferred for best audio quality) A Skype account, and a short PowerPoint presentation or video clip.
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Contact WUWT here: http://wattsupwiththat.com/about-wuwt/contact-2/
Pamela Gray says:
October 30, 2012 at 6:49 am “. . . now gone . . .”
I can visualize, in the background, charts of temperature projections that have failed with Richard Feynman in b/w foreground:
“It doesn’t matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn’t matter how smart you are. If your theory doesn’t agree with experiment, it’s wrong.”
Michael Mann constantly refers to those questioning him as “the rabble”. With a lineup like this it will be hard for Mann to justify his denigrating insults. These folks will be saying the same things that the ‘rabble’ are saying. After these interviews the ‘rabble’ will have some good quotes to shove down Mann’s throat.
So are you saying there’s no link between climate and weather? Just wondering …
+1 for David Bellamy. If you have never had the pleasure of seeing this man talk on a subject that interests him, you have really been missing something. What the BBC did to David is … short of any better description … a travesty.
This is more than great, congratulation and big thanks to this Anthony!!
Some commenters have suggested participation from (i.e.) Bob Carter, Ole Humlum, Mark Steyn and many other… I’d like to propose, that you also invite Connie Hedegaard (EU enviro-commis.), a superbly influencial politocrat here (and there), and, while at it; why not try to get Maurice Strong to appear, maybe the two most dangerous persons outside the US… 😉
Either way/or participants, please see to that the result of all the efforts can be viewed by a maximum number of interested people around the World, regardless of ‘IT-systems’. Big thanks!
Brgds from Sweden
/TJ
Fabulous! Outstanding!
Congratulations, Anthony!!! 🙂
Brilliant Anthony! Can’t wait.
To get some post-broadcast MSM attention, you need either to bury Gore’s audience figures (which I’m sure you will) or have a raging stand-up coffee-hurling row with a famous alarmist (which I’m sure you won’t because you’re far too polite). Failing that, get one of Mann’s many victims to “libel” him on live TV. 🙂
How about ’24 Reasons why Climate Alarmism is Fatally Flawed’ as the theme?
Totally +1 with the names others have mentioned. Given all the alarmist froth about Sandy, perhaps get TonyB to air some ‘anecdotal’ historical eveidence on ‘Great Storms of the Past’?
How many people actually watch Al Gore TV?
I do know that regular mundane everyday gore on TV and in movies is pretty popular. What I mean is, that in some markets gore really sells well, especially during holloween.
But, once they find out it’s really All Gore how many people really watch?
I AM glad for you Anthony. It will be alot of work.
WUWT-TV is a really great idea and I wish it every success. I’ll watch what I can here in England.
One word of warning … Have some industrial-strength security up on your servers, you WILL be a target for DOS and other attacks. It’s what the ‘other side’ do, try silence any form of questioning of “The Consensus”.
Freeman Dyson
Just wondrin why Roy Spencer wasn’t automatically on, even at the top of, the list?
REPLY: I can’t see everything on the www, rather than grouse about it provide a link where he says no and I’ll add it – Anthony
I wasn’t complaining. I thought that there had been a reason why he wasn’t on the appearing or waiting for reply list. I kept looking over the list for two days thinking it would appear, or that I just was overlooking it. Just thought he would be a natural appear for the show.
James Lovelock!
Istm you have an opportunity to educate, and the people who need to be educated are; politicians, journalists, the ordinary public, and confused children. So, imo, you need a “Climate Science for Dummies” segment, and that segment needs to show the physical basis of the “Greenhouse Effect” (if indeed such physical basis exists, of which I’m doubtful).
If you’ve got a bunch of scientists, some of whom are “lukewarmers”, it should be a trivial exercise for one of then to show the theoretical and actual temperatures of the Moon (to show the math works) and then show there’s some difference on Earth that is due to its atmosphere. It should be a piece of cake. In fact, I’m suprised that “basic physics” page doesn’t exist on every lukewarmers website.
Getting rather tired of this self-righteous delusion. If you live in the UK or EU, e.g., you are a fish swimming in the leftist sea, unaware. The entire “CO2=pollution and gubmint/the UN must fix it” package is pretty much a given, no one dares or hopes to contest it.
You’re not “apolitical”, just so thoroughly politicized you’re unaware of it.
The pro AGW response to this well be all too predictable. WUWT TV is funded by Heartland-Koch Brothers-Big Oil and is therefore denialist propaganda. It would not be surprising if they try to conflate this with Fakegate.
Brian H says:
October 31, 2012 at 2:06 am
You’re not “apolitical”, just so thoroughly politicized you’re unaware of it.
You’re spot on Brian. I have the same feeling, the L(egacy)SM on the right side of the North Atlantic seem to be so biased that it does not report uncertainties, issues or inconsistencies in the greenhouse theory. A look at Wikipedia, that is the current understanding of “non-biased” in Europe.
So people tend to think this is established science and are kept bombarded with all the CAGW papers and “Tabloid Climatology” stories.
Cracks start to appear, but its a long way to go. Europe seems to be decided to do harakiri on “renewable” (and still not realises it does not work) combating a non-existent thread and missing to address real problems.
How can friendly foreigners in Oz get to watch this exciting presentation. Cheers from sunny Sydney
Lars P;
Thanks. And I think you mean “non-extistent threat”, no?
That is a fascinating effort, btw. Subtract the “CO2 is dangerous” presumption from every energy and renewables decision justification in the EU and they are instantly revealed as utterly inane, and economically suicidal.
typo: “non-existent threat”. Muphry’s Law strikes again!!
Keep politics out of this project and you have my support.
Well… you have my support anyway Anthony, but that does not mean I wont call you on any stated scientific facts. Mwaaahaha!
Definitely invite Michael Mann.
Not that he’ll accept, of course. But how will he hide his decline?
“I admit this as being part of a personal failing, due to my hearing loss and his accent, I have trouble understanding Dr. Svalgaard even in person and dread how an interview might go. That said, if he wants to put on a presentation, where I don’t have to interact beyond an introduction. He is most certainly welcome to do so. – Anthony”
one wonders if the state of the art in voice recognition technology has not advanced enough to do “English subtitles” of his English. Obviously, there will be an occasional mangling of his presentation from time to time. “To” is likely to come out as “Too” or “Two” or “Toot” or something like that. Like yourself, I am a victim of “old fart who can’t hear” disease aka presbycusis. With some audio filtering at the machine end most things work, but the subtitles come in handy.
While I am sure that the free versions are worth every penny you pay for them, there are some professional versions out there that might actually do a reasonable job.
Anthony,
Just a thought.
You could show the pictures of the experiment of plants growing better with elevated levels of CO2. You could provide a slide (with references) of the increase in plant tolerance to heat and drought stress with elevated levels of CO2 and point out the deserts greening.
You could then use the top paragraphs from http://www.bread.org/hunger/global/
“The world is facing a hunger crisis unlike anything it has seen in more than 50 years.
925 million people are hungry.
Every day, almost 16,000 children die from hunger-related causes.
That’s one child every five seconds.
There were 1.4 billion people in extreme poverty in 2005.
And if you wanted to hammer home the point start a counter for the rest of the telethon incrementing every 5 seconds. Then ask: “Why are we spending trillions of dollars on a threat based solely on computer models that are consistently incorrect?
Good news Anthony.
Piers Corbyn has already been mentioned but not as a recommendation. I recommend him.
I also commend Ian Plimer to you.