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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.
“the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands. But if we fail, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age, made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science. Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties” WSC
In the still darkness an unexpected flickering light. Bravo
I think I’m inflating Al Gores viewer # each time I go to snicker.What if all his traffic is from WUWT?
OOPS! I accidentally used “fr**dul**t” in a previous post. Lesson: cool off first. Thanks for posting it anyway.
Mr. Watts, don’t kill yourself doing 24hr. shows. If you do another, get a cohost(ess). I’m a very very very ex software designer, super-programmer, and occasional teacher; and in my prime frequently worked 16 to 20 hr. days and 7 day weeks for months at a time, with occasional 60 to 72 hr. continuous sessions for a change of pace. A labor of love; I would have paid to do what I was doing. However, it takes a toll, a very great toll. I hope you managed to sleep during the overnight prerecorded portion. I repeat, don’t kill yourself doing things like this; you are needed where you are. There is no replacement in view.
I managed to stay up till 5:00 am EST before collapsing, and only saw the last two presentations the final day, plus most of Dr. Roy Spencer. I enjoyed everything despite occasional problems and already knowing most of what was covered. I’m sure problems will be worked out over time, although Skype and bandwidth problems are problematical. (:-)
I even enjoyed “chriscolose’s” comments. Actually he sometimes was on point if authoritarian and belligerent. Those failings are frequently the case in the young and highly educated, especially undergraduates, grad students, and new PhD’s.; more particularly those educated beyond their intelligence the world hasn’t beaten some wisdom and humility into.
The most amazing was Dr. Ryan Maue and IPCC now completely undercutting Al Gore’s “dirty weather” and Obama’s concurrence with it in his recent speech, at least regarding hurricanes.
Will you post the number of watchers at various times?. Did you reach any besides confirmed skeptics and a few CAGW people? In other words was everyone just “preaching to the choir”?
Did you manage to record everything? Obviously the prerecorded segments can be made available with appropriate permissions. Can anything else?
Suggestions:
Have people go over everything beforehand, especially use of Skype and Power Point.
Have someone else to help you at your location or through a remote connection.
Get a cohost(ess) for long shows.
Try all connection well ahead of time, and immediately before needed.
At the top or bottom of the screen show the name(s) of the one(s) talking, at least at the
beginning and intermittently.
Post the qualifications, affiliations, publications, awards, web sites of the speakers.
Thanks again. Keep up the good work.
Anybody know why Judith Curry’s Climate Etc. blog has been taken down?
It’s supposedly for a “terms of service violation”.
Is there something else behind this?
(I hope not.)
Max
Al Gore, Enron and Global Warming:
“Global warming” has been, is and always will be about the money.
RE: Max Hugoson: (November 13, 2012 at 1:59 pm)
“DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA OF where the “absorption lines” of CO2 in the ATM are? Do you know how BROAD they are? DO YOU KNOW that they VARY from the surface (Lorentz broadening) to the Stratosphere (DOPPLER BROADENING) and that this has a dramatic effect on the overall balances????”
The MODTRAN program was developed for the Air Force to calculate microwave background levels in the atmosphere from measured line spectrum data. It allows modeling or expected radiation levels in standard atmospheres for the purpose of weapon system calibration. It is available as an online web utility from the University of Chicago.
Below is a reference to a Wikipedia graph showing the difference between radiation escaping the troposphere for 300 PPM and 600 PPM CO2 concentration–a parameter known as ‘radiative forcing’:
Modtran Radiative Forcing; Double CO2
Modtran3 V1.3 upward irradiance at 20 km, U.S. Standard Atmosphere
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:ModtranRadiativeForcingDoubleCO2.png
This plot shows that the 15 micron (666 cycles/cm), CO2 absorption band is equivalent to a one-foot wide tree in the middle of a ten-foot wide stream.
Note that the blue curve for calculated radiation escaping the Earth at a hypothetical 600 PPM CO2 concentration exactly overlays the green curve for 300 PPM for most of the plot except for small regions on the edges of the CO2 band.
MODTRAN seems to indicate a raw CO2 temperature effect of one degree C for each complete doubling of the CO2 concentration in the atmosphere and that relationship seems to hold from 20 PPM to well over 1000 PPM.
Even the IPCC rates this as a logarithmic effect, however they state values from 2.2 to 3.3 degrees C for each complete doubling, perhaps by assuming that the rapid global temperature rise of the late twentieth century was all due to increasing CO2 and a dangerously high, positive climatic feedback effect. The slowing global temperature rise of this century does not seem to match that assumption.