Al Gore has been running the interview circuit this week, and it seems since his sale of CURRENT TV to Al Jazeerra he has gone from golden boy to goblin boy in the eyes of the media.
He’s pushing his usual set of tabloid climatology claims in the process, but all they want to know about is why he sold out to “big oil”.
Below are a few excerpts from headlines and some interviews. My favorite is from my radio commentator friend Lars Larson in Portland, who had so much fun with Gore yesterday.
h/t to Tom Nelson for may of these stories:
The Future, By Al Gore – Reviews – Books – The Independent
The discussion is framed in terms of a timescale far, far beyond any normal policy horizon. “Roughly a quarter of the 90 million tons of global warming pollution… each day will still linger there – still trapping heat – more than 10,000 years from now.”
=================================================================================Hypocrite Gore Targets Fox News But Is OK with Oily Al-Jazeera
After praising the integrity, independence and journalistic standards of foreign oil-backed anti-American Al Jazeera, the former Vice President took a swipe at Fox News Channel.
The video appears clandestine, because as we know Gore does not allow recording of some appearances.
Former Vice President Al Gore spoke with Charlie Rose on January 29th on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. After praising the integrity, independence and journalistic standards of foreign oil-backed anti-American Al Jazeera, the former Vice President took a swipe at Fox News Channel.
ROSE: Why do you think [Obama] was cautious in the first four years?
GORE: Because…
ROSE: … he is a cautious man?
GORE: I think it has been a pretty hostile environment for progressive ideas.
ROSE: And why is that? That you’re saying it’s a very hostile environment for progressive ideas because of the importance of money in corporations or…
GORE: And Fox News and the right-wing talk radio. And yeah I mean, it’s not that complicated. In Tennessee there’s an old saying if you see a turtle on a fence post you can be pretty sure it didn’t get there by itself. And the fact that we have 24/7 propaganda masquerading as news, it does have an impact.
Gore also praised liberal billionaire George Soros as a “wonderful guy” who should have “more influence” while discussing money in politics.
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Al Gore Compares Fox News To ’24/7 Propaganda Masquerading As News’ (VIDEO) – The Huffington Post
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Former US Vice President Al Gore says he is concerned the UK’s political leaders have lost their will to address climate change.
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Tough questions follow Al Gore book tour – Patrick Gavin – POLITICO.com
If you thought Al Gore was a media darling, you haven’t seen his latest book tour. Although Gore has been selective in which outlets he appears on to promote his new book, “The Future,” they haven’t treated the former vice president with kid gloves. From “Today” to “Morning Joe” to “Late Show with David Letterman” to “The Daily Show,” Gore has come under attack by his interviewers for his decision to sell Current TV to Al Jazeera.
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“It would be like taking money from Exxon-Mobile if Exxon-Mobile owned Al Jazeera,” Mitchell added.
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Jon Stewart grills Al Gore on Al Jazeera – POLITICO.comThe Comedy Central host then pressed Gore to explain his “cost-benefit analysis” of the sale to Al Jazeera and where the issue of sustainability came in that assessment.
“You had an opportunity to make a statement probably about your principles and some people would feel, and for me as well, I thought it was an odd move,” Stewart said. “Not because of some of the other things, but because it is backed by fossil fuel money.”
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Gore on CO2: “The greater evaporation from the heat off the oceans fills the sky with much more water vapor so that when a storm releases it, we get these giant floods”; CO2 also causes droughts because cough-mumble
GORE: And [trace amounts of human-emitted CO2] traps enough extra energy to equal 400,000 Hiroshima atomic bombs going off every day. It’s a big planet, but that’s a lot of energy. And that is what contributed to Superstorm Sandy. That’s what contributed to 60% of the country being in a drought last year. 110 billion dollars worth of climate-related disasters. Yesterday in Queensland, Australia, they had 2 1/2 feet of rain. The greater evaporation from the heat off the oceans fills the sky with much more water vapor so that when a storm releases it, we get these giant floods.
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Hump Day Hilarity – Gore: As American as Apple pie
Josh says: Climate Depot reports on Al Gore’s appearence on the David Letterman show, where Letterman asks:
‘You, Al Gore, Are Doing Business With Country That’s Enabling Your Ultimate Foe of Climate Change’
Al tells David ‘There’s a lot of opportunity in this crisis’. From Green tech to Oil funded Al Jazeera to Apple he has certainly done rather well.
A full transcript and video of Gore’s appearance is here:
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From the nationally syndicated Lars Larson show, where Gore was a radio guest yesterday, you can click the orange play button to hear the interview:
Former Vice President Al Gore joined me for a short time today, and boy did we have some fun.
What did you think of what he had to say?
Special thanks to loyal Lars listener Eric for making this.
Does Al Gore come across to you as the Milo Minderbinder character from Catch 22? Milo was the junior officer who arranged to bomb his own base to cover losses in Egyptian cotton investments.
Listening to AlGore causes brain damage.
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There’s a transcript of Al Gore’s interview with Krishnan Guru-Murthy of Channel 4, in the UK, here:
https://sites.google.com/site/mytranscriptbox/home/20130131_c4
A sample:
“…just look at the consequences from climate-related events, just in the past year. The flooding in the United Kingdom has been horrendous and has alternated with drought. Here in the US, we had the hottest year, in 2012, ever recorded in history – 60% of our country was in dangerous drought, $110 billion was lost to climate-related disasters and Superstorm Sandy devastated parts of New York City and New Jersey and some other places. And yet not one single question was asked in any of the innumerable Presidential debates by any member of the news media about the climate crisis. Isn’t that odd? I think that’s terribly odd.”
More water vapor in the atmosphere cause more droughts! What an idiot
Media people asking Gore the same ‘Al-Jazeera / Qatar hypocrisy’ question & Gore’s nearly identical answer = spooky. Even the PBS NewsHour got into the act. But there was a better question to ask – which nobody asked – concerning Gore’s long-term accusation of oil funding corruption of skeptic climate scientists. I commented about that problem at the NewsHour: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/environment/jan-june13/gore_01-31.html#comment-785903267
What happened to climateaudit.org? I get a generic page
Oh, well done Lars! Ha ha ha ha ha! Sounds like Gore waddled out of the interview so fast he left skid marks.
Well we all know Al Gore.
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Looking carefully at my graphs, you will note with me that over the next 8 years or so, we will be cooling down at the maximum rate, of around -0.04 degrees C globally per year. That is ca. -0.3 degrees C down on the maxima by 2020. And I think earth average temps. (means) will follow this trend because it has already used up most of its reserves. So the following two decades will be cold. Very cold. But if you count back 88 years you will always realize that we have been there before and we all came through…
So there is really nothing new under the sun. Everything is as it has always been. Natural global warming and natural global cooling have been with us, like, forever, or at least for as far back as I can see….
Don’t worry about the carbon. Start worrying (a bit) about the cold…
Not a weather prediction that Al Gore would give you. So he is fraud. Probably also a fraudster.
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GORE: I think it has been a pretty hostile environment for progressive ideas.
It’s fascinating how the left has managed to frame the argument so that any idea they have, no matter how stupid or ill considered, is “progressive” and the rest of us just don’t get it. It does go right along with how they consider themselves elitists, far above the rest of us who just can’t get it.
In speaking of FOX News:
And the fact that we have 24/7 propaganda masquerading as news, it does have an impact.
So we have one network somewhat on the right and how many on the left putting out their propaganda masquerading as news? At least right wing talk radio makes no pretense about being balanced like the MSM does.
Al Gore is the most hypocritical person I can think of. Not only is he the ultimate “do as I say not as I do” person. He uses the power of money and position to try to force you to do as he says.
Steve McIntyres site is off. The link is giving an address available message. Delete this message as I can find no other way to try to alert him.
Gore didn’t say ANYTHING (beyond the normal 98% yadda yadda [up from 97%, apparently]) When pressed about his 100 million, he was a greased pig. What a condescending prick.
I saw him on Letterman. Another shameless attempt to link Superstorm Sandy to global warming. Although Sandy was a small hurricane made ferocious and tragic when a blocking High caused by cold weather forced the storm inland, they figure if they repeat the connection often enough people will believe global warming caused the cold event. Goebbels would be proud.
WilliamBanzai7 presenting: AL JAZEERGORE
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Al Gore is either the stupidest person on earth or the most hypocritical.
Does Al not realize his brand of Global Warming accuses CO2 as the cause?
Does Al not know those who paid him $100 million get their money from oil, which contains this CO2 he reviles?
Hey, Al–good to see you don’t disappoint. If you don’t take any of this seriously, why should anybody else?
That was one hilarious interview, manbeargoat on the Lars Larson show… I didn’t think it was real at first… It’s worth a playback…
“Roughly a quarter of the 90 million tons of global warming pollution… each day will still linger there – still trapping heat – more than 10,000 years from now.” [Al Gore]
¼ times 90 M times 10,000 = ; Never mind.
I’ve wondered how Al finds time to research material for his books and lectures. This clears it up. He doesn’t. Just like the phrase “global warming pollution”: All nonsense.
An interviewer who did his homework, and isn’t fawning. So nice for a change! But oh yeah, Lars is just a talk radio guy, so he doesn’t know anything. /some lib
There is nothing surprising here. Why are the liberal media so gullible or why does the liberal media disingenuously feign surprise? Doesn’t anybody do any research any more?
Al Gore’s family actually made most of their money from COAL. Yes this is a FACT.
Al Gore’s father worked for Armand Hammer the only western person in the entire world who could fly his own private company jet to Moscow. Yes this is a FACT.
AL proving once again that his cause is a lie and that he is irrelevant…..
Yep, its amazing, Gore hates “dirty weather” but luuuurves dirty money – hypocrite.
So, Diane Coyle of ‘The Independent’, in quoting Al Gore, has this to say:
“The discussion is framed in terms of a timescale far, far beyond any normal policy horizon. ‘Roughly a quarter of the 90 million tons of global warming pollution… each day will still linger there – still trapping heat – more than 10,000 years from now.'”
Huh? So, “…10,000 years from now.” is “…a timescale far, far beyond…” normal policy horizons? Oh, I’d definitely say so. I can imagine our forebears, long, long before the birth of civilization around Baghdad, long before the ancient pyramids, before Carthage, before Ancient Greece, and Rome, having the sheer genius, the wisdom, and the incredible foresight to set up policy prescriptions for us in the here and now, and engrave those policy prescriptions in stone (which, of course, was all they had). Yeah, I know our forebears had discovered fire (an energy source which we are now to be denied), but I mean, c’mon, the foregoing statements by our dear Diane and our dear Al don’t even pass the idiocy test. And, “global warming pollution”? Temperature is a pollutant? Human ingenuity has not yet invented words to adequately supersede ‘stupidity’ and ‘idiocy’ but we’ll need them pretty soon.
My oh my, so now we have proof that CAGW causes stupidity and hypocrisy. Its worse than we thought.
…why he sold out to “big oil”…
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Because that’s where the money is.
If a sceptic has a tie to “big oil”, no matter how tenuous – or even if merely allegedly, it is enough in the eyes of the warmunists to completely discredit them.
How about some symmetry?
TomRude says:
February 2, 2013 at 8:14 am
What happened to climateaudit.org? I get a generic page
Looks like the owner forgot to pay his domain registration fees. Maybe someone should give him a holler?
REPLY: It always helps to check the front page of WUWT – Anthony
Mr Gore,
Your strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others. You grabbed what you could get for the sake of what was to be got. It was just robbery with malevolence, aggravated assault on a great scale, and men going at it blind — as is very proper for those who think they tackle a darkness. The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different opinion, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much.
Richard Howes
(with deep apologies to Joseph Conrad)