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.
BTW if you have a twitter account write tweets with a URL back to here with the hash tag #dirtyweather – you will show up on the climate reality project home page..
The great thing is if they even do implement a filter on their feed – on twitter what you write will still be there.. So spread the word!
Also from the look of the wording of the tweets coming in there has been a mass emailing to the faithful complete with a few tweet templates to use.. marketing fail – very evident that the tweets are manufactured.
ecoGuy says:
November 14, 2012 at 12:12 pm
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Thanks ecoGuy, I’ve avoided Twitter like the plague but on this occasion will open an account.
typo: United States Senator James Inhofe Not Jim!
Steven Mosher says:
November 13, 2012 at 9:00 pm
“Go ahead. I’ll laugh. you go get your noble prize”
Noble prize, or Nobel prize?
You don’t need any scientific facts to get the Nobel Peace prize. All you need is a political agenda that fits the lefts imagination of “doing something good”. It might not be good at all, it only needs to fit the current imagination of what the left think is good.
Even though the Nobel Peace prize has made us Norwegians look very foolish many a times lately, believe it or not, there still are a couple of really noble scientists here. People who dare saying what they think is true based on the scientific method, instead of just singing the commonly accepted tune.
And one of them is Ole Humlum;
http://hockeyschtick.blogspot.no/2012/11/geoscientist-explains-why-man-made-co2.html
A question.
Will the “regular” site still be open for comments?
My system still requires a hammer and chisel so I may not be able to view the live stuff. I’ll find out then.
(I’ve no objection to the “regular” site being closed to comments if that’s what it takes for the webcast to work.)
trying to use the once forbidden “weather is not climate” meme.
Surely you mean the once-forbidden “weather is climate” meme. Please correct, as it makes no sense as is.
Gooo WUWT!
For every time Al Gore gets on the show with something, something weird always happen to the “climate” or its society.
3 hours to 24 hours of insight — headed out to buy some popcorn.
brb
hmmm — where is the “presenter schedule”?
REPLY: Right there in update 3
[snip. Invalid email address. — mod.]
I was watching the test feed and thought I saw Bigfoot! (I definitely heard him clunking around and someone coughing. Open mike?)
The Money and Connections Behind Al Gore’s Carbon Crusade.
http://www.humanevents.com/2007/10/03/the-money-and-connections-behind-al-gores-carbon-crusade/
Will the show pause at the commercials or can we click and skip them ?
Anyone know ?
I’ve heard that UStream adverts are incredibly annoying – I’ve never seen them myself since the free Firefox add-on “AdBlock Plus” has automatically removed them any time I’ve watched UStream.
One hour and counting….
Time to do a wine check 😉
Anthony,
Just did a test of the TV screen here in Oz and the ad shown before the color bars was completely distorted and noisy unlike an early ad posted . The “music” however after it was OK. Just to let you know.
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John from CA says:
November 14, 2012 at 2:26 pm
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Thanks, my mistake!!!
30mins to 24 hours of insight and counting.
The comments are atrocius tripe. Is there anyone with a brain there?
Sorry, I meant on reddit
Urgent!!!!
Make Antony aware that the sound is allready going out on the webb. I just heard him sound like a horse proooo !! LOL
[Well, he “is” a pro. But a “hoarse proooo”? 8<) Mod]
Turn down the microphone gain.
The limiter is limiting.
Audio is driving me insane !!!!! #*%&@ur momisugly(% INTERNET !!!! : x
FYI: Google “Dirty Weather”. WUWT-TV came up as #8. Not bad.
At 9.41 pm in Melbourne Australia (AEDST) I tuned into the broadcast from the Bishop Hill site. The following scren cap shows an organisation with a different agenda trying to take over.
http://www.geoffstuff.com/Henry.JPG
Noted speakers are Don Henry, an activist for decades and David Karoly, whose name is known to some. The WUWT aqudio is barely audible behing the barrage.
Good reception, all night, here in Central America. However, at about dawn, everything stopped. Google responds the page is unresponsive.
In the interest of transparency and all…
Who organized this? Who is paying for this?
REPLY: A single private donor, not affiliated with any climate/NGO/political organization (a businessman in Florida) purchased the Tricaster equipment and cameras, I purchased the audio equipment and accessories with donations from WUWT viewers. I’m donating my time and expertise to setup, operate and broadcast using my own network infrastructure, and for now (until we can get the paid version) we are using the free streaming on USTREAM.
Compare our effort and surroundings of the broadcast to Al Gores’s production and you’ll see the disparity in funding. Of course that won’t stop the angroids from screaming “BIG OIL”! as they don’t pay attention to such details. – Anthony