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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I don’t play poker but it might be fun to play against Algore. He’s a great bluffer but that’s all he does.
LOL. Thanks for the corecccctionsssss. 🙂
He and his ‘typewriter’ I think it was … in the battles of The Backspace and The Carriage Return (and before the days and knights of “White-out”).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wite-Out
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re Salvatore Del Prete says: September 23, 2013 at 3:21 pm
Why do you allow this guy to thread bomb with his cut and paste tired rhetoric about solar activity on this discussion. Isn’t it bad enough that he does this cut and paste act on every solar thread?
ur welcome, LOL
(Keep the research coming, much appreciated.)
whew – starts to get very interesting at 11:30 into the spiel. Price on carbon, we’ve heard that for years. Create a price for denial – that’s a new and dangerous meme of these folks and shows how desperate flat and even slightly cooling temps are making them.
I could make so many comments. I’m thankful that Australia is showing the voter reaction to the plans he has for us here which can be a little reminder to politicians here.
I hate to wish for a little ice age to stop these folks, but that might be what it takes.
A speech that started with vague anecdotal evidence, then escalated into a rant that could be likened to a cross between a charismatic preacher and Godwin’s friend Adolph Hitler.
The only interesting part was the inverted comparison to the Broad St cholera epidemic (the skeptic won that one, right?) which contained his frank admission that we were still very much at the “join the dots” stage. Which has always been my argument.
Ditto your remarks, and besides, they are using a bastardized amalgam of english and greek anyway.
http://translate.google.com/?sl=la
Here is an actual latin phrase that perfectly describes the green eco-Nazi’s … Odium Hominum … But Google’s translator acts like a one-way cipher or a lossy converter. What goes in does not necessarily back out!
What went in … hatred of human beings … ( true description )
What came out … Odium Hominum
Reversing the latter yields … men’s hatred
No wonder it’s a dead-ish language. Note that homophobe and homophobic fare even worse since they are not really latin. Wikipedia has the history of that fake and senseless word.
As the total lack of a global warming trend extends to 18 years, then 19 years, then 20 years, etc., the rhetoric and ad hominem insults from leftist wackos will increase as their failed hypothesis collapses under the weight of empirical evidence.
As they saying goes, “If you can’t pound the facts, pound the table…..”
As a last ditch effort, CAGW cultists are now trying to float their sinking and rudderless boat on OHC. They expect rational people to believe it’s possible for all the imaginary CO2 induced “missing heat” to skip warming: the lower troposphere, surface air and the top 700 meters of oceans and miraculously end up buried deep in the oceans….. Oh, my…..
Once this OHC canard is proven false and absurd, I really don’t see any other option the scientific community has but to formally abandon CAGW theory. It simply doesn’t work and is not supported by empirical evidence.
An El Nino event looks probable in the near future given the sudden spike of Pacific SSTs, but that’ll only buy them a reprieve of a few years, given over 200 months of no warming trend and as the law of large numbers overwhelms any short aberration.
Too many natural cooling climatic forces/realities are converging for this failed theory to continue: falling sunspots from here, PDO in 30-yr cool cycle until about 2038, AMO enters its 30-year cool cycle around 2020, falling solar activity, a possible Grand Solar Minimum starting from 2020, growing polar ice extents, the Svensmark Effect kicks in, severe weather/CO2 correlation falling apart, sea level rise stuck at 8,000-year average (7″/century), etc.
None of the dire predictions of CAGW hypothesis are occurring. It’s only a matter of time before this failed theory has to be abandoned by the scientific community or it risks losing any semblance of integrity and subsequently future funding for real science.
That point of singularity is quickly approaching.
SAMURAI says:
September 23, 2013 at 7:12 pm
…That point of singularity is quickly approaching.
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Is this a good evening or WATT?
A speech that started with vague anecdotal evidence, then escalated into a rant that could be likened to a cross between a charismatic preacher and a rabid politician.
The only interesting part was the somewhat inverted comparison to the Broad St cholera epidemic (the skeptic won that one, right?) which contained his frank admission that we were still very much at the “join the dots” stage. Which has always been my argument.
Tom in Florida says:
September 23, 2013 at 6:53 pm
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re Salvatore Del Prete says: September 23, 2013 at 3:21 pm
Why do you allow this guy to thread bomb with his cut and paste tired rhetoric about solar activity on this discussion. Isn’t it bad enough that he does this cut and paste act on every solar thread?
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Tom, I can’t speak for AW, but my opinion is the “science is not settled”. WUWT runs the best website for folks seeking the TRUTH about climate. AW allows numerous posters. AW allows numerous folks to comment. The end result (hopefully) is that we all end up with more info to build our belief systems.
In an ideal society, we get to have our own beliefs. Some choose to believe in things that are not supportable. That is their choice.
Please do not to vote to shut down a polite commenter like Salvatore. You do not have to agree with him. You can oppose him. You can respond to him. But, do not choose to erase folks that have differing ideas.
In that video Al Gore also says he is going to, I quote, “tell us a story” on October 22, worldwide, of what he calls reality. Don’t know about Gore’s mother but mine long ago used to say “now don’t tell a story”. What slick slick words he uses, hard to catch the real meaning behind as they fly by.
Have a feeling he is about to “tell us a story” about how the world is, in his reality, much like a bus going to hell in a basket because of each one of us, Al in the drivers seat. Think I’ll just skip that ride.
Front page of todays Boston Globe “Mass. Utilities go for wind power”. Mass.and R.I.
To buy wind power from Maine and New Hampshire. Thought the good folks of Maine and New
Hampshire would like to know their land is being raped for Mass. and R.I. The quotes in
This article are pathetic. These people don’t have a clue and they are making these decitions
Cost of kwh 8cents. Savings per home estimated to be 75cents to one dollar a month.
I don’t feel like we are winning.
Does Al really think that he is going to run out of money before he dies? Does he think he will get absolution for his sins before he dies?
Sitting here drinking my whiskey, smoking a cigarette and very happy to be a Heretic of the Cult.
Hoping someone pulls the dihydrogen monoxide prank on him. 😉
Most religions can’t be dis-proven, cults can.
The guy says I’m evil and he’s never even met me.
john piccirilli says:
September 23, 2013 at 7:55 pm
I don’t feel like we are winning.
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Sadly John, you are right.
But, you will need a majority of voters to see it as you see it. It does not have to be this way. We have the resources and technology to support cheap energy. But, our politicians only suck on the rhetoric of the moment.
geran says:
September 23, 2013 at 6:28 pm
And yet in the grand scheme of things, Al could have ten times his current bank account and still be POOR.
We must always keep the man and the filthy lucre that sticks to his skin separate.
Jeez, Al get that tan from plowing his fields in Nashville!
Love the audio “bling” that his is over time and please please please wrap it up.
Not buying his “funnel theory”.
Then a media commercial, WTF.
Democratic Capitalism? Legislating fees on Denial, on Approval? Oh here come Tobacco again!
London Cholera! Feces in Water. Not Air Born! Doh.
Carbon market again. Not going to happen Al. Get over it. But he can’t, he’s an addict.
Al going all over the place. The roller coaster does the ‘Loopy Loop’.
Now gay men joke. Al, you were the one to announce your divorce from Tipper!
“Al is winning”, NOT.
Al needs to avoid the hotel bar for sure; his pancreas and kidneys are too old for sure.
Glad Al’s finger is not on the “Button” to “launch on warning”.
😀
Stop reading right HERE if you don’t want nightmares. Suppose Al Gore had passed the well regarded Vanderbilt theology school and was now the minister of YOUR church. Just imagine.
I suppose there really are going to be times for me to be grateful for Roman Catholicism and the fact that – even after Vatican II – we’re not ecumenical to such an extent as to admit the Algore to a clerical role in Holy Mother Church.
I see it as a sales pitch: put a price on carbon so someone (most likely Al Gore and friends) can profit from it.
Put a price on carbon and then industries that pay that price can’t compete globally against companies that don’t pay that same price. All we do is move the emissions over shore but it allows us to feel like we’re doing something.
Stan! I’ve missed you. Where in the world have you been? Have you and Libby been on vacation? Hope all is well with you both.
LOL, ol’ Gore would sure have the collection plate routine down, wouldn’t he?
Sad thing: there ARE “Al Gore” religious leaders out there — right now. They have disillusioned many. They have heavy millstones around their necks.
HOWEVER, the Truth stands the test of time. And, as with science, if people will look to the evidence (documentary in the case of religion), NOT TO A PERSON, for truth, they will find it.
True seekers (religious or scientific) find the truth.
Cult members (religious or scientific) are not merely ignorant, they actively seek to explain truth away.
Al Gore — American Bloviator
It’s always, it’s always, about Al Gore
Now, in the future and always before
Demanding the stage he dances pas seul
The world is his oyster, he is its pearl
I’m with Sissy. I watched this and at no point did Gore say skeptics are like homophobes or racists. He merely used them as examples of people we have rallied against in society through history and by speaking up we have made their ideas unacceptable. I am completely with him on that. Racism and anti gay sentiment is pure evil. It’s a good thing for society that we are changing peoples bigotry on these issues. His simple message is you can change thinking in society by making a stand. Isn’t that something WUWT and the people who write here believe in? Otherwise why do we have (for example) open letters here for people to sign? Didn’t Monckton have one a couple of days ago rallying the troops against the much publicised 97% consensus?