Merry Griftmas from Al Gore

As if Al Gore doesn’t already have enough money after selling his failed CURRENT TV channel to the dupes at Al Jazeera for a cool half billion dollars, only to have the viewer numbers crash down so low that Nielsen won’t even rate them anymore, we have this shameless pitch from him in my inbox this morning.

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Well, at least he managed to squeeze in “Happy Holidays”.

UPDATE: Yesterday we had the ludicrous warmist claim that skeptics are funded by ‘dark money’, “up to 1 billion dollars worth” as pitched by Guardian slime-ette Suzanne Goldenberg (which had to be fixed later) but in this pitch, donations to Al Gore are matched by an ‘anonymous’ donor.

The hypocrisy of these people is breathtaking.

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December 24, 2013 8:24 am

Can’t beat Uncle Al in tenacity, political use of low information populace and the continued disruption of science research processes. He would make a great used car salesman in his home state of Tennessee. I can picture him on Saturday TV during Big Time Wrestling conning the best of them to buy a Studebaker without an engine.

Bob Weber
December 24, 2013 8:24 am

Gore is another old narcissistic dog incapable of learning about the real power source of weather and climate “changes”. He and fellow narcissistics are simply upping the ante of abuse onto those who do understand where that power comes from and how that power creates “climate change”.
He and the dwindling legion of fellow travelers with a narcissistic personality disorder like obutthead will abuse anyone who challenges them or gets in their way. The people here don’t need to imitate that behaviour. The facts are going against Gore in spite of his assertions to the contrary. Al – it is sunspots and solar activity – and the only BS is coming from you.

Frank K.
December 24, 2013 8:27 am

“Dear Climate Champion”?????!!
How did we, as a society, ever devolve to this level of complete idiocy? [sigh]
Well, Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all… 🙂

scott
December 24, 2013 8:36 am

“Together we are training Climate Reality Leaders to go out in the world and spread the truth about global warming.”. This doesn’t seem very efficient, don’t they usually round up the deniers and send them to the reeducation camps? Al is rounding up the believers and sending them to the reeducation camp. This makes no sense, I guess he can’t even stand the least bit of dissent in his reeducation camp.

rogerknights
December 24, 2013 9:02 am

How I’m looking forward to the Coming Cosmic Custard Pie-in-the-Face from the climate gods on Olympus!

Werner Brozek
December 24, 2013 9:08 am

I know we can do this because truth is on our side. Truth has power.
It would help Al Gore’s credibility if he were to convince a certain judge in Britain of this fact first.
See:
http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/monckton/goreerrors.html
“The judge stated clearly that he was not attempting to perform an analysis of the scientific questions in his ruling.” He did not need to. Each of the nine “errors” which he identified had been admitted by the UK Government to be inconsistent with the mainstream of scientific opinion.

BradProp1
December 24, 2013 9:08 am

They don’t have to “educate” me on the effects. I see it everyday. Them stealing my tax dollars and causing energy costs to go up to support their hypocritical high and mighty life styles. All on the backs of the poor and middle class.

Alan Robertson
December 24, 2013 9:13 am

What a clever way to line your pockets, Mr. Al Gore.

timg56
December 24, 2013 9:16 am

Yesterday I came across one of those satirical Motivational posters. Showed a polar bear taking a dump on the snow, with this title – “The Poll Results Are In!” 9 out of 10 polar bears surveyed think Al Gore is full of crap.
Not that he cares, seeing how his bank account is full of dollars. I could almost admire the guy for his entrepreneurship if it wasn’t for the fact he is benefiting from causing economic harm to others.

Reed Coray
December 24, 2013 9:17 am

It sticks in my throat to wish ManBearPig and his ilk a Merry Christmas, but in the spirit of the times I will. However, to my fellow skeptics: “Merry Christmas to all, and keep up the fight.”

leon0112
December 24, 2013 9:18 am

Al Gore: The Jim Jones of Climate

Tom O
December 24, 2013 9:21 am

You are missing the point when you say he is deluded if he is anti-fossil and anti-nuclear. You have to first understand that to him and his “kind,” alternative energy systems CAN power the world of the, say, 700 million or so humans that they believe have a right to serve the noble Gore and friends. With a 10% population, alternatives would be just fine, as will be the narrow strip of land that will avoid being buried by the possible ice age that is luming on the horizon. He is not as stupid as people think since he is gaming the world so as to allow “Mother Nature” to do the depopulating.

gregole
December 24, 2013 9:32 am

Truth be told, just about anything Big Al and his silly propaganda machine does will backfire.
Item 1: What catastrophic man-made global warming is referred to here?
Item 2: What catastrophic sea-level rise is referred to here?
Item 3: What catastrophic ice-loss is referred to here?
All are occurring well within historic margins. All are clearly cyclical. The minute margin of CO2 added by Mankind may be having an effect. Whether it is, or not, should be the providence of a few specialists that can stick to the facts and the science.
It will backfire because if the marginally misinformed average Joe actually troubles himself to even superficially investigate Catastrophic Man-Made-Global-Warming, he will become a fire-breathing skeptic if he has even half a brain. That’s my story – didn’t pay much attention to AGW until 2009 and Climategate.
Time and the arguments are not on the side of the warmista.

Editor
December 24, 2013 9:33 am

He sounds like one of your patronising TV evangelists, which we fortunately do not have on our side of the Atlantic. His “Happy Holidays” is in keeping with the loony left wing town councils which unfortunately we do have on this side of the Atlantic that do not want to offend non-Christians by having “Winter and Spring Festivals”; normal people of any religion can discuss Christmas and Easter! Likewise in Newcastle upon Tyne Civic Centre you cannot ask for black or white coffee because it can be construed as being racist. These buffoons do not realise that normal people don’t consider it racist even when they are told it is!
The whole patronising, sanctamonius, we know best, creed of the left wing, sickens me.
What part of “there has been no global warming for 17 years and 3 months” does Gore not understand?
PS This must be a record, your US spell-checker has picked up five “mistakes” in my UK spelling!
PPS A Very Merry Christmas and a Happy, Healthy and Prosperous 2014 to all at WUWT, and all the contributors to this amazing website!

Steve Oregon
December 24, 2013 9:37 am

When one has no integrity and no limits on behavior or tactics this is what one does.
History is full of criminals who roamed wild & free for a long time only to inevitably meet Karma, their demise, and their maker.
All of the global warming scoundrels have an appointment with destiny that will not treat them well.
Their only hope is that as long as they do not admit to anything enough time will pass for them to escape payment.

Jimbo
December 24, 2013 9:38 am

We can reach people everywhere and help them understand how global warming is affecting their lives,….

What global warming? I thought it went into the deep oceans. Oh well.
Why do you need to tell people how ‘global warming’ “is affecting their lives,…”?

SasjaL
December 24, 2013 9:59 am

Greg on December 24, 2013 at 8:04 am
In some countries, Santa is delivering on the 24th, in others on the 25th.
It’s a matter of priority. 😉
Merry Christmas!

Colorado Wellington
December 24, 2013 10:06 am

George Lawson says:
December 24, 2013 at 7:27 am
Why can’t he use his own fortune that he has made from the Global Warming scam instead of robbing innocent members of the public?

There is nothing innocent about arrogant self-righteous stupidity.

Bryan A
December 24, 2013 10:07 am

I might be tempted to donate…IF…Al baby changes the project name to the
Climate Reality Awareness Project
So it can have a more fitting acronym
I think that awareness is crutial to his endeavor

December 24, 2013 10:15 am

Can you say Jimmy Swaggart : http://www.rotten.com/library/bio/religion/televangelists/jimmy-swaggart/
Merry Christmas and shutting the computer off till the New Year. Have a great 2014.

JimS
December 24, 2013 10:20 am

Gore’s southern accent does remind me of a televangelist whenever I see him in a video. But that message of his is definitely in the order of the evangelical.

Louis
December 24, 2013 10:21 am

Why do you need to tell people how ‘global warming’ “is affecting their lives,…”?
So they will donate money that will be used to spread the word and get even more people to donate money.
There was one reference to using the money for something other than “spreading the truth,” educating people about climate change, or asking for donations. It was in the following sentence:
“Together, we can and will put a market price on carbon and a political price on denial.”
It sounds like Al wants to bring back the selling of indulgences for the faithful and the Spanish Inquisition for those who deny the faith. (Either that or he wants to corner the market on diamonds, since he doesn’t define what he means by “carbon.”)

Zaphod
December 24, 2013 10:25 am

Lacking expertise, I read avidly but seldom comment here.
But even someone who reads only the MSM for info, would surely recognize that as the work of a slippery con-man! I think he’s overstepped the mark by a long way. Is he desperate? Has he lost it? We don’t have the tele-evangelists here in the UK, but this sounded like a parody of one!
Grateful thanks for all the team’s work, and Merry Christmas, from a confirmed atheist! 🙂
Zaphod

CRS, DrPH
December 24, 2013 10:36 am

Greg says:
December 24, 2013 at 8:01 am
Jeez, the guy is such a used-car salesman. This outfit is now starting to sound like Scientology.
The climate reality is a cult.

Precisely what Prof. Richard Lindzen has been saying for years!

Lindzen compares global warming to past politicized scientific movements: the eugenics movement in the early 20th Century and Lysenkoism in the Soviet Union under Stalin. However, the MIT professor argues that global warming goes even beyond what these past movements in terms of twisting science.
“Global Warming has become a religion,” writes Lindzen. “A surprisingly large number of people seem to have concluded that all that gives meaning to their lives is the belief that they are saving the planet by paying attention to their carbon footprint.”
“There may be a growing realization that this may not add all that much meaning to one’s life, but, outside the pages of the Wall Street Journal, this has not been widely promulgated, and people with no other source of meaning will defend their religion with jihadist zeal,” he added.

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2013/08/29/mit-professor-global-warming-is-a-religion/#ixzz2oQ1xXKOB

December 24, 2013 10:45 am

UPDATE: Yesterday we had the ludicrous warmist claim that skeptics are funded by ‘dark money’, “up to 1 billion dollars worth” as pitched by Guardian slime-ette Suzanne Goldenberg (which had to be fixed later) but in this pitch, donations to Al Gore are matched by an ‘anonymous’ donor.
The hypocrisy of these people is breathtaking.

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But theirs is “dark-green money”. That’s OK.
(“Ends” and “means” and all that.)