The “Social Good” summit in NYC going on today bills itself as:
A three-day conference where big ideas meet new media to create innovative solutions.
The Social Good Summit is a three-day conference where big ideas meet new media to create innovative solutions. Held during UN Week from September 22-24, the Social Good Summit unites a dynamic community of global leaders to discuss a big idea: the power of innovative thinking and
technology to solve our greatest challenges. The most innovative technologists, influential minds and passionate activists will come together with one shared goal: to unlock the potential of new media and technology to make the world a better place, and then to translate that potential into action.
But it seems that thanks to warmists Al Gore and former Senator Tim Wirth (the guy who turned off the air conditioning and opened the windows at Hansen’s global warming hearing in June 1988) it has become a hatefest against climate skeptics.
Video follows:
Then Tim Wirth had this to say during the live video feed:
“Skeptics are ‘truly evil people”
Wow, I wonder if these guys realize how unhinged they sound in the current dynamic?
h/t to junkscience.com
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Psychological projection, yet again.
Gore has lost the argument.
He knows he’s lost the argument.
He’s exceptionally angry because he’s been made to look exceptionally foolish, in front of the whole, wide world.
Humiliating, eh, Al’?
“Is the Gore fortune still founded on Tobacco farming?”
Actually the bulk of Gore Sr.’s money came from Armand Hammer in the 50’s and 60’s, and Hammer of course was the front man for all Soviet interests in the west for that period.
The FBI opened an investigation of Armand Hammer for being a Soviet Agent, but – this is a shockah -Al Gore, Sr. used his influence in Washington to get the investigation completely shut down. Imagine that.
I’m no classical scholar, but as far as I know, it’s Greek, not Latin. ‘Phobos’ is fear (as in the Martian moon) and ‘homos’ is ‘same’. Hence, fear of the same. It’s still a pretty meaningless word, as indeed is most of the PC vocabulary.
Come on folks! He’s in “denial”!!!
LOL.
Yeah, way to convince me that I’m wrong… call me names and compare me to something you perceive as repulsive. The skeptical position I have is at least partly due to seeing this exact sort of behavior.
If I want to convince someone that there is a problem and they need to address it, the first thing I do is NOT call them an idiot. Fortunately, the AGW believers don’t understand how to get people on their side without bullying tactics.
(homophobe is a word used mockingly, nobody I know “fears” gay, they just don’t need to be told about it over, and over, and over)
So … “Social Good” turns out to be neither.
I’m shocked, shocked I say!
Speaking of Social Good, did you know that Al Gore has done important work in Comparative Mythology, in which a new Gaia religion is needed in order to save the planet?
So just remember, Al Gore loves you and has a beautiful plan for your life.
http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=diana+of+the+ephesians&FORM=HDRSC2#view=detail&id=BA8CBBF7AE244636957C73176701DED3CE5315AE&selectedIndex=8
(Why yes, those are in fact rows of breasts.)
Wow! I think Al may be just about ready to invade Poland.
What Al and his cohorts do, which is lying at the great expense of all humanity and profiting from it personifies evil. If Hell exists, i’m sure there’s a special place waiting for him.
This is what Algore had to say about technology in his book. Earth in the Balance….
Page 207
We have also fallen victim to a kind of technological hubris, which tempts us to believe that our new powers may be unlimited. We dare to imagine that we will find technological solutions for every technologically induced problem. It is as if civilization stands in awe of its own technological prowess, entranced by the wondrous and unfamiliar power it never dreamed would be accessible to mortal man. In a modern version of the Greek myth, our hubris tempts us to appropriate for ourselves—not from the gods but from science and technology—awesome powers and to demand from nature godlike privileges to indulge our Olympian appetite for more.
About Denialism (i.e. anyone who does not agree with him)
Page 233
The psychological mechanism of denial is complex, but again addiction serves as a model. Denial is the strategy used by those who wish to believe that they can continue their addicted lives with no ill effects for themselves and others. Alcoholics, for example, aggressively dismiss suggestions that their relationship to alcohol is wreaking havoc in their lives; repeated automobile crashes involving the same drunk driver are explained away in an alcoholic’s mind as isolated accidents, each with a separate, unrelated cause. (that’s us folks)
This kind of crap from Gore is not new. His hysterical rants are part of the schtick that he learned while failing at Vanderbilt.
Since when is slavery a social good?
I admit freely that most of the science is too hard to follow, I am not trained. But I have done many a fraud investigation, and I can smell BS from a distance. I also have a sense for politics, especially political frauds. Smoke and mirrors and demonising the opposition clearly suggests somebody is hiding something. It’s not proof, but it’s a lead.
In a similar vein Suzuki was on Australian TV last night, and actually suggested that climate skeptical politicians should be locked up. The authoritarianism they display scares me a little, and angers me a bit more. Even if they are right, which I doubt, I do not wish to see them dominating the debate. But the more they play the man, and not the ball, the less credibility they have. You don’t need to be scientifically trained to work that out.
I dont find this surprising at all. I have debated people on this for years, thus far it always devolves into calls to authority and name calling if you post to much data they cant refute that tears apart aspects of the theory or claimed dangers associated with AGW. Besides gore has done this before.
This is really about all the catastrophic AGW folks have left honestly, the data certainly doesnt support their stance in any way we should be concerned about or build global taxation to fight.
I think he talks about “homophobes” because he’s a Drama Queen.
@Pierre Gosselin (1:05pm today) — heh, Academy Award, perhaps…
BTW — like Paucheri (sp?), he, along with Hansen, et. al., is a gift that keeps on giving. Go, big Al!
Bruce Cobb says:
September 23, 2013 at 1:56 pm
What Al and his cohorts do, which is lying at the great expense of all humanity and profiting from it personifies evil. If Hell exists, i’m sure there’s a special place waiting for him.
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Yes.
I read somewhere recently, and I’m kicking myself for not keeping the link, because it was a very powerful and well written article, that this was perhaps the personification of the Devil and Hell in the old days. Destruction of the health and wealth of humanity by such vile individuals, their cohorts and people stupid enough to follow along with their self-anointed “royalty”.
You don’t have to be religious to understand this metaphor.
Lithuanian archaeologist Gimbutas’ Goddess hypothesis has been savaged by non-feminist colleagues like Anthony, Fleming, Ucko & Wailes, including women such as Gere (Knossos & the Prophets of Modernism, 2009). You can read her book’s conclusion on Amazon, a well-written caveat against finding in archaeology & history what your own predilections lead you to see. Chapter Seven covers Gimbutas’ views of women in Minoan religion.
http://www.amazon.com/Knossos-Prophets-Modernism-Cathy-Gere/dp/0226289540#reader_0226289540
The alarmists think it is acceptable to act like Gore. It’s going to take a few more years of good data to work this through. When I told a guy who earns his living as a consultant to governments that are setting up carbon taxes or cap and trade plans that temperatures were on the low side of Hansen’s predictions, his response they were on the high side. I guess they can rant and lie too.
Zeke says:
September 23, 2013 at 1:54 pm
Comments on Gimbutas were in reply to Gore on Gaia & the alleged prehistoric Goddess cult of Europe.
This “Social Good Summit” is sponsored in part by the United Nations Foundation, and also by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
http://www.unfoundation.org/blog/social-good-summit-2013.html
Hmmm, I wonder if they approve of Gore’s statements?
milodonharlani says:
I just bought a copy of the book you linked on Amazon. Thanks.
“Deniers” are the new kulaks, stubborn obstacles to achieving the dreams of madmen. Let’s hope we don’t suffer the same fate.
Governments around the world need to get there finances in order asap. Start by independant statsitical audits of their climate science departments and academia that supports this pseudo-science through grant funding. Declare any grant funding of AGW missappropriation of public funds. Conduct a financial audit on all outgoing managers who supported AGW through grants. To recoup public funds, SUBTRACT total public funds used to support AGW directed by managers from the pensions of those managers.
Al Gore can only make news when it’s the horrible, disgusting, sordid type.
I’ll bet that steams his jets the more he thinks about it.
Oh! Hi, Al—care to make a major contribution to mankind and (as they say in insurance) age out?
It would only be fitting, you know!
They shoot themselves in the foot so many times, it’s a wonder they have any foot left!