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
Notice how Gore starts his remarks on climate change by specifically referring to the heat now being in the Oceans? Apparently the “heat is in the Ocean” talking points are to anticipate and overcome the objection of the missing warming.
It’s good to be a heretic, no matter which religions hate you!
Small clarification:
Did I mention at least one member of his ancestors owned slaves?
Sources
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/08/21/al-gore-compares-climate-skeptics-to-anti-abolitionists-racists-homophobes-and-alcoholic-families/#comment-1396561
No one has yet noted Al Dork’s day job.
This post may attract a wide audience, so I just want to note this detail – so everyone can explore and be informed. In my experience, few are aware of this humorous factoid.
Al Dork’s wealth is now coming from fees gathered as he manages the investments of Really Big Investors.
To cut to the chase, just go Google “Generation Investment Management, LLC” and see what this investment management company does, and who runs it.
OK: for those who stuck around…
Gore is one of two people who are the leaders of an investment firm, GIM.
They find individuals and organizations who are interested in investing over five million$ in “responsible” investments.
A great portion of these large investors are governmental entities; they are county, state, and federal governments who have pension obligations.
Why would a state want to invest in “responsible,” green investments, rather than just whatever will make the most money?
Because they are getting persuaded and pressured to invest in this manner.
By whom?
I don’t know, totally. Go ask them. But I know one leading advocate: the United Nations.
Go look up “UNPRI,” “United Nations Principles of Responsible Investing.”
The UN is going from country to country and persuading their governments to make a political commitment: commit to put your pension funds in “green” investments.
How do you persuade a nation to make such an investment?
They will invest if they believe the return on investment is there. One way to anticipate a good ROI is this: “Get in on the ground floor.”
This is the sales pitch: commit to be a “green” nation, and at the same time, commit to PRI – get in on the ground floor. The companies you invest in will be making money like crazy if most nations sign on to UNPRI. The more nations sign on, the more that the ‘green’ phenomena hits critical mass, and becomes an established business sector.
Providing returns.
So, each little country agrees to a pass-through (tax your citizens) expense: go green.
You will get the return on investment for your huge pensions fund.
That is Al Dork’s business: investment advising.
To any visitors, including journalists and greens: ask yourself this: how does an investment manager make money? They get a thin slice of the pie.
GIM manages over 5 billion in investments. One ten-thousandth of that is $50K, our U.S. median income. So, if Gore makes one ten thousandth per year on the investments, or some similarly preposterously small yield on returns, he is making the median income.
One order of magnitude greater, and he is making ten times the avg U.S. income. Twice that, and he breaks the Ben & Jerry formula.
Anyone here who knows how investment management works will confirm that Al Dork is making big big money managing this investment fund.
Big money.
In other words, he is quite biased by his personal economic interests. Very biased. This is way beyond the dollar value of the Hollandaer post-doc award given to Michael Mann by the regulators of the oil industry, the Department of Energy (Ken Lay’s employer before he developed and advocated for the global cap-and-trade scheme at Enron).
Ah well, par for the course. Robin Williams, Australia’s supposed “doyen” of scientific journalism, bracketed sceptics with paedophiles, drug pushers and asbestos boosters
grumpyoldmanuk says:
“Is the Gore fortune still founded on Tobacco farming?
Gore was worth ~ $1.7 million in 1999. He is now worth ~$200 million:
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-05-06/how-al-gores-net-worth-caught-mitt-romneys
Wow, that was painful to watch.
In that video, I swear Al Gore’s nose grew almost a foot. I wonder if we should put a price on demagoguery.
“Social Good Summit turns to hatefest – Al Gore likens skeptics to racists, homophobes and violent alcoholics”
Amazing! Gore claims that skeptics are like he and his father? Why did he not mention smokers?
The more name calling I hear, the more obvious it is how they are losing the PR battle. And that’s all it is to them.
“CodeTech says:
September 23, 2013 at 1:44 pm
(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)”
Sadly, plenty do fear or hate gays. I was talking to a seemingly rational, close friend of my brother some years ago when he conversationally mentioned how he and his friends, when they were young, would go out on the weekends and enjoy gay bashing.
I was pretty surprised and somewhat horrified at the admission and I told him as much, whereupon he literally threw me onto the ground and began a anti gay rant. The change was frightening.
Also, a neighbour who lived at the bottom of my street shot dead a gay man while out on a late night bashing raid. His excuse was he only meant to shoot him (with a shotgun) in the backside.
Human beings are strange and scary things 🙁
[snip – Mike take this ugly essay of yours elsewhere – not gonna play this game with you – Anthony]
Idiots covet camaraderie the bonds of consensus, cohesion and liars feed off fellow journeymen and women, egregious nutters like Gore are even worse, it’s known as confirmation bias.
There’s something else too, idiots tend to be exhibitionists and they just cannot help it, when you have an ego the size of a large moon, though everybody else [think human beings living in the real world] then knows what your are, all you have to do and as Albert Arnold Gore often does – is to open the fat mouth and say something, anything will do [see above].
The biggest lying, confidence trickster that America and the world has ever seen.
TheLastDemocrat says:
September 23, 2013 at 3:00 pm
>>>>>>>>
Yeah, I read his book also.
Kinda tells us in advance how we will be taken over….
://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armand_Hammer
Gore, along with Maurice Strong and Obama set up the privately-owned Chicago Climate Exchange, which now called itself “North America’s only cap and trade system for all six greenhouse gases, with global affiliates and projects worldwide.” Then he sold out for a profit of $15m+, just before the business collapsed.
Who does Maurice Strong work for in Beijing? CH2M Hill. CH2M Hill, a multinational firm providing engineering, construction, operations and related services to public and private clients in numerous industries on six continents.
“…the Canadian born Strong is little known in the United States. That’s because he spends most of his time in China where he he has been working to make the communist country the world’s next superpower. The nondescript Strong, nonetheless is the big cheese in the underworld of climate change and is one of the main architects of the failing Kyoto Protocol.”
http://africanpress.wordpress.com/2009/03/28/the-privately-owned-chicago-climate-exchange-is-heavily-influenced-by-obama-cohorts-al-gore-and-maurice-strong/
Politics is what “global Warming” is all about – politics – used to scare us into doing things that we know will harm us so as to put cash and power in the hands of a few.
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GORE FLEES IN PANIC FROM CHICAGO BOOK SIGNING
Snake Oil Salesman Run Out of Town
November 25, 2009 (LPAC)—Not since Henry Kissinger fled a team of LaRouche organizers, in the back of a delivery truck in New York City’s Central Park in the early 1980s, has an obese fascist moved so fast to escape an angry crowd, as Al Gore did today in Chicago. Appearing at a bookstore in the downtown Loop, Gore was confronted by a team of demonstrators from a grass roots group called “We Are Change,” as he was signing his latest fascist screed on the global warming swindle. Gore bolted from the bookstore, raced down an alley, jumped into a waiting car, and tried to speed off, with protesters chasing after him and banging on the car. Midwest LYM organizers, who were also on the scene to confront the global warming swindler, provided an eyewitness account of Fat Albert’s flight of fear.
Make no mistake about it. This little encounter is typical of the kinds of things going on all over the country, as the fascists who brought you the near-destruction of the United States and an onrushing global Dark Age, are no longer walking the streets, smug in the belief that they are literally getting away with murder. The mass strike dynamic is playing out in thousands of ways, every day, and the recent revelations about the “smoking gun” emails from the East Anglia University global warming propaganda center, have made Al Gore’s life a little more miserable.
As Percy Shelley wrote in “The Mask of Anarchy,” “We are many, they are few.”
The “Global Warming” fraud is collapsing.
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Al Gore:
* He and his wife live in a 20-room mansion that uses 20 times more electricity than an average American house
* He travels around the world in a private jet. Sure maybe he doesn’t fly it, but the impact is the same.
* He has a toxic waste dump on his family farm. Yes you are reading that correctly; a toxic waste dump.
* He has a Zinc mine on his farm which pollutes the surrounding ground water.
* He bought ocean front property after “Inconvenient Truth” came out.
* He bought a huge house boat that runs with a monster diesel engine.
http://www.surfacestations.org/
* He is reported to be driven around in big SUV style limos and with the engine idling when he is not in the limo to keep the temperature comfortable for when he comes back to it after giving talks on how “everyone needs to do with less.”
This is just the stuff we know about. I can’t imagine he ’survives’ with one measly ocean front vacation property for example. I’d be very surprised if he has less than 5 houses.
At this point they have given up on persuading anyone are are focused on simply trying to retain their base of support. They aren’t really aiming these remarks at skeptics, it is a veiled message to their own choir that they must remain in line or they will be akin to racists, homophobes, and alcoholics. Language like this does not reach the skeptical community, it alienates them. That means they have given up on persuasion. This language is aimed at the people sitting in the audience to prevent the hemorrhage of support that the whole climate fleecing is experiencing. They’re desperate, they have millions of dollars personally at stake.
The way Algore and the rest of the alarmist arschlochen have been evading debate and scuttling for cover since Climategate broke in November 2009, it hasn’t been possible to observe them directly as they’re fired upon.
Fortunately – as Algore and Wirth are demonstrating here – you don’t have to see ’em to tell you’re getting good effect, ’cause they howl and squeal and scream like any other pack of porkers getting mortared.
“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.”
Sounds like a community organizer’s gobbledygook to me. Lots of big words, very little meaning.
Al Gore Senior ran the Coal Division of Oxy for which Armand Hammer remunerated him. So strictly speaking much of the family wealth did come from fossil fuel.
When Al Gore Sr died the proceeds from the sale of the estate including shares in Tennessee Coal and Phosphate production passed to Al Gore Jr.
On a lighter note, Boulder County, Colorado is home to a significant marijuana industry as well as Kevin Trenberth. Almost all of the product is grown indoors under climate controlled conditions. The producers control the light, humidity and temperature. Also, they control the CO2 levels. It is well known that optimal growing conditions during the blooming part of the cycle are in the neighborhood of 1500 ppm rather than the outdoors level of 300-400 ppm.
When the medical marijuana industry first took off several years ago, one entrepreneur started a business selling the equipment to monitor and control the CO2 levels in the various warehouses around the county that housed these new facilities. As I understand, he made a good living doing installations for a while.
Elevated CO2 levels produce better buds. Having the electricity go out in Boulder County has reduced the output of the industry due to climate control problems.
“Al Gore likens skeptics to racists, homophobes and violent alcoholics”
Watched the video. May have missed some stuff. Can you point me to the time points in the video where Al did that?
It’s all talk and no bottom.” — Well put.
[3:48, Monoglottal stop — is that “Aack!” or “Ugh!” or “Gghk” or…. well, just about any of the sounds a non-Fantasy Science Club member makes upon reading the propaganda they call “science,” hm?]
GO, SASHA AND JIMBO, lol, great reporting — of the truth.
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Dear Toby Glyn,
While there are some really nasty people on WUWT, most of those who post here are wonderful, fair-minded, principled, kindhearted, people. Take heart, the decent people outnumber the bad in the world, too. It’s just that the evil ones are so loud.
BTW, re: Code Tech, (I may be wrong, but, I think I know him well enough to at least attempt this clarification) just so you can realize he’s one of the good guys, did not mean to say that there is no one who is unkind or hateful toward gays; he only meant that to be tired of gay-promotion (ya gotta admit, there are some real exhibitionists in that bunch) is not to be afraid, or “phobic,” about them. So, yes, your point about the mean guys stands (and some of them may be mean out of a phobia), but, Code Tech has a valid point. There are people who are just tired of hearing about the issue (as Code Tech asserted), who would prefer to just quietly live-and-let-live (including many gay people themselves), with no more bellowing “Hands Off!” in-your-face promotion, and they don’t like being called “homophobe” (or, I suppose, in the case of the gays, an “Uncle Tom” gay) for holding that position.
Sorry to get so off-topic, but I wanted to both affirm you, Toby — yes, it is an issue of concern — and to reassure you a bit (I hope) — and support Code Tech, one of WUWT’s finest. Glad you are here.
Your sister in the battle for truth in science,
Janice
There are many things you could say about Al Gore. He comes over as a Southern Baptist Bible-thumper. And I am sure you truly believes that carbon dioxide is the primary cause of AGW and that it is a crisis. But he does not seem to appreciate the irony of ‘putting a price on carbon’ to avoid the general population paying the price of ‘dirty weather’ , whatever that might be, when they will pay MUCH MUCH more in higher energy costs to line the pockets of wind farm companies. Sarc/ Clearly they are much more socially good than oil and coal companies. /sarc
“Al Gore likens skeptics to racists, homophobes and violent alcoholics”
Al Projects his own faults way to much…