FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 11/13/2012
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UPDATE: Al Gore will be on Reddit answering questions Thursday, be sure to ask him if he knows about WUWT-TV, and why he hasn’t taken down the faked Climate 101 video yet:
Former Vice President Al Gore will be conducting an IAmA this thursday (11/15) at 1 PM Eastern Time! You can see his tweet confirming it here. So get your questions ready for the man who spent 8 years in the Clinton White House, ran against George W. Bush (and beat him in the popular vote), and is now one of America’s leading advocates for the environment. He will be posting in /r/IAmA, so save your questions for Thursday.
http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/134y12/former_vice_president_al_gore_will_be_visiting/
UPDATE2: The press release below hit PR Newswire here.
UPDATE3: The schedule has been posted here.
NOTE: A link to the live webcast will appear here at the top of WUWT shortly before the broadcast starts ~ 4:50PM PST/7:50PM EST
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 energy=dirty weather”, which you can read about here.
WUWT Editor Anthony Watts says:
It is yet another example of what has been called “Tabloid Climatology” trying to use the once forbidden “weather is not climate” meme. Now almost any weather event seems to be used as “proof” of a global warming influence where just a few years ago the idea was laughed at by climate activists.
Journalists should take note that the largest and most prestigious scientific journal in the world, Nature, has come down squarely against the kind of claims Mr. Gore is making in his previews saying:
Better models are needed before exceptional events can be reliably linked to global warming.
Source: http://www.nature.com/news/extreme-weather-1.11428
Mr. Gore’s program is yet another transparent politically based 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 counter 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 to replicate 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.
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. While it won’t match the well-funded technical quality of Mr. Gore’s CurrentTV operations, it will offer a wide variety of viewpoints to counter the claims that “weather is now climate” that Mr. Gore is making.
During the live event Wednesday and Thursday, 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.
Guest presentations will be pre-loaded into the live on-air system, and to facilitate remote control, WUWT has engineered a remote ‘web clicker’ that allows guest presenters to control their 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. A list follows.
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)
Dr. Roy Spencer (co author of UAH global temperature dataset)
Joe D’Aleo (Certified Consulting Meteorologist, WeatherBell)
Joe Bastardi (Lead forecaster, Weatherbell)
Senator Jim Inhofe (retiring from Senate EPW )
Bob Tisdale (author of Who Turned on The Heat?)
Dr. Ryan Maue (meteorologist, Tropical storm specialist, 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)
Dr. Timothy Ball (climate scientist, commentator)
John Kehr (Author of the book, The Inconvenient Skeptic)
Dr. David Evans (Author of The Skeptics Case)
Dr. David Stockwell (Climate Modeller)
Mike Smith (Certified Consulting Meteorologist)
Steve Mosher and Tom Fuller (authors, The CRUtape Letters)
Kenji (member – Union of Concerned Scientists)
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For Questions – Contact WUWT-TV staff here: http://wattsupwiththat.com/about-wuwt/contact-2/
A schedule for speakers will be posted on WUWT the day of the event, along with important updates. Check www.wattsupwiththat.com for details.
Nice to see Prof. Frink is not part of the 97% !!!!
Getting close to airtime now.
Go WUWT TV!
Must see TV.
I’ll be watching as much of it as I can.
Sent a copy of this to the news desk at The (Glasgow) Herald.
Not holding my breath until a result appears in print, though.
Aaaaargh! Please tell me there’ll be a recorded link I can watch later, it’ll be 3:00 a.m. here and I don’t think I’ll make it live.
Great list of guest presenters. So psyched that Burt Rutan is going to be on. Great job Anthony!!!
Please have an answer ready to debunk the notion that the eclipse in Australia tomorrow will be caused by CO2.
Anthony, your line up is “incontrovertible, unprecedented, and impressive.”
Work is going to make me late for the show but I will catch up “post presentation”.
Novembers are hard on the “Believers” it seems. Climategate, Algore’s BS, TwentyEightGate. There is something about November.
Damn, half way through doing my video spoof. Next yesr for sure.
Anthony:
I would quible with the cartoon at the top. There is observational / empirical evidence for how much the global temperature is warmed by CO2 (all other things being equal). It is the basis for mass balance calculations in blast furnaces. These too are based on calculations and models. If CO2 did not absorb energy, one would need more coke to make steel. The mass (and energy) balances work and part of the basis for them is the amount of CO2 and water. The relationship is very well documented. Science tells us that the rules are not affected by location. If it happens in a blast furnace, it also happens in the atmosphere. To the same degree and following the same rules.
I cannot watch for the whole time, will individual sections of the program be made available after they have aired live?
Where would we be able to find them?
Is there a possibility that links to the live broadcast, and individual sections can be posted somewhere comvenient so that I might be able to forward them by e-mail to friends and family?
Thank you for all your hard work.
I have bought a new 2Tb USB hard drive to record the whole thing on.
Good job Anthony.
Is Dr. Gray, father of hurricane science, too old?
Anthony
That means it will start at 2.am where I am and this looks too good to miss but sadly I must. Will you be able put the videos on your site later, much later if necessary.? please, pretty please
REPLY: Yes/no/maybe too busy to worry about that now…it runs 24 hours, tune in -A
John Eggert:
Your post at November 13, 2012 at 8:32 am is plain wrong.
It is undeniably true that as the above cartoon says
blockquote>There is no empirical/observational evidence for how much extra CO2 raises the global temperature.
It is all based on calculations/models.
And it would not be relevant if it were true that as you assert
because “all other things” are NOT “equal” when something alters in the climate system: the change affects everything else.
Richard
Moderators:
The formatting of my response to John Eggert went wrong. This is a (hopefully) corrected resubmission.
Richard
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John Eggert:
Your post at November 13, 2012 at 8:32 am is plain wrong.
It is undeniably true that as the above cartoon says
And it would not be relevant if it were true that as you assert
because “all other things” are NOT “equal” when something alters in the climate system: the change affects everything else.
Richard
John, blast furnaces have neither clouds nor hydrological cycle. Anthony is right because predictions from climate models are instead non-predictions and non-falsifiable.
So, Anthony, what will Kenji be presenting? Possible title of presentation: ‘Why I’m Barking Mad!” 🙂
Kenji … LMAO … 🙂
saying the climate causes the weather is akin to saying a bowlers AVERAGE determines the score of his next game, that his average changes BEFORE the scores he bowls change(the OPPOSITE of reality), or that a baseball hitters average determines the outcome of his next at bat again the opposite of reality.
dear al,
you hypocritical bastard.
remember when your house used MORE energy than the state you lived in??!
“Gore’s mansion, located in the posh Belle Meade area of Nashville, consumes more electricity every month than the average American household uses in an entire year, according to the Nashville Electric Service (NES). ”
http://www.beacontn.org/2007/02/al-gore%E2%80%99s-personal-energy-use-is-his-own-%E2%80%9Cinconvenient-truth/
[snip. Chemtrails and HAARP posts not allowed here. — mod.]
I’m sure Kenji will have better analysis of the weather than Gore…
Great to see that “Dr.” Kenji is part of the lineup. Mr. Gore will not have a canine reply to that one.
A bit OT Anthony, but I came across a rather wonderful example of the UK Met Office capacity for sounding like idiots. As part of a response to a tabloid piece about how the MetO was briefing government about a severe winter ahead, they announce:
‘we’re heading into winter and we expect winter to be colder than the rest of the year – but it’s too early to say exactly what temperatures we can expect or where and when we might see snow.’
Anthony,
As they say in show biz:
“Break a leg!”
John
This came across Twitter late this morning:
Al Gore @ur momisuglyalgore
Please join me @ur momisuglyClimateReality ‘s 24 Hours of #Reality: The #DirtyWeather Report. Beginning Nov 14 @ur momisugly 8:00ET: http://bit.ly/PFzTwx
I replied:
@ur momisuglyalgore @ur momisuglyClimateReality or instead you could spend your time online here http://bit.ly/PROkfL
Equal time, right?