Truth is often stranger than fiction, and Al Gore’s missives are often stranger than both. Robert Schaefer writes:
I just got back from the 2014 International UFO Congress, the largest UFO conference in the world, where somebody was passing out the following to the attendees (a double-sided paper on orange stock). Looks like Al Gore is using Extraterrestrials to help fight Global Warming!
On another matter, the Randi Foundation has not yet posted the video of Michael Mann’s talk on their YouTube channel. I suspect that Mann may not want them to.
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Either this is a joke being perpetrated by somebody at the conference just for fun, or it’s a sign of desperation, something I can surely understand when you look at graphs like this:
Lower rank numbers are better, for example, Google is #1.
For the record, I don’t believe in Aliens/UFO’s on Earth (with millions of cell phone cameras you’d think we’d have a decent picture by now) or Al Gore’s global warming claims. – Anthony
Ahh now I see. Here is Al Gore and aliens.
http://youtu.be/UvgWY7Qkz_M
That reminds me, I must phone home.
If we can get aliens to fight Global Warming for us, I think it would be a good idea. Save me the bother.
@ur momisugly Mark and his two cats — (re: 3:48pm and 3:49pm) — LOL.
@ur momisuglyOss Qss — neat vid clip. How do you find such precisely on-point ones? lol — thanks!
@ur momisugly Jimbo…. Okay. I’d LIKE to listen to the humor about algore in that four plus minute video, but, 1) the intro. says its producer doesn’t think Neil Armstrong really walked on the moon and was either really bad at writing or was NOT being sarcastic, hence, credibility of nearly zero; and 2) after listening for over a minute to Mr. Cereal, no “aliens” mentioned… SO
WOULD YOU PLEASE TELL US THE APPROX. TIME AT WHICH TO VIEW THE ALIEN REMARK?
Thanks!
Kevin Kilty says: People who believe in UFOs are probably prone to believe in other magical conspiracy theories and so forth. They present a natural audience for Gore’s bloviating.”
Pretty arrogantly put, I’d say.Given that the evidence for UFO’s far outweighs the evidence for God, which is none and most people worship god, it seems that you have made some false conclusions. There are far too many unexplained sightings by experts, paintings from the middle ages and even earlier that point to more than *magical thinking* . You think that the NASA and Russian Cosmonauts were nuts or magical thinkers? The residents of Arizona who witnessed the Phoenix Lights years ago, including the governor and thousands around the country, including myself, who witnesses the same phenomena the same day? I’m not saying yea or nay but you cannot dismiss that whole population of UFO witnesses without sounding like a fool yourself.
That should be ‘witnessed’.
Here in the UK we have people studying CROP CIRCLES!
No – seriously, don’t laugh. There is plenty room for genuine belief in the absurd, so why should we expect folk to behave as though they all have a brain capable of differentiating between fact and fiction.
“For the record, I don’t believe in Aliens/UFO’s on Earth (with millions of cell phone cameras you’d think we’d have a decent picture by now)… ”
That’s true but I’ve read enough to be intrigued by it. Haven’t really come across anything definitive that would really convince me.
Maybe we are the original ETs? Look at we can do compared to rest of the species…
“Gore Enlists Extraterrestrials to fight Global Warming?”
Yeah, aliens are needed to do the jobs Americans won’t do.
/Emily Litella
Jimbo says:
February 17, 2014 at 3:37 pm
The ClimateReality Project poster says
“A blanket of climate warming gases like carbon dioxide can affect temperature as much as distance from the Sun. That’s why Venus is way hotter than Mercury!
Venus has 96% Co2 in its atmosphere. Temperature = 460 °C
Mars has 95.9% Co2 in its atmosphere. Temperature = −55 °C
Earth has 0.4% Co2 in its atmosphere. Temperature = 15°C
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You forgot to mention that aside from composition, the mass of the atmospheres of the three planets is different and the more massive the atmosphere the warmer the planet.
Venus 4.8×10^20 kg
Earth 5.1×10^18 kg
Mars 2.5×10^16 kg
Let’s not be too hard on James Randi.
Randi (like a lot of us?) first thought that the “warming issue” was one of waste heat (not being familiar with greenhouse CO2), and felt that was bogus (as would anyone who ever tried to build an open campfire against a cold winter). Upon learning of CO2 as a greenhouse gas, he took that side. Later, he was doubtful of the greenhouse and said so, and took a lot of flak for that. Here is one of his responses on SWIFT (I don’t find the date, but it was at least 5 years ago). Note the word “denying” he uses.
http://www.randi.org/site/index.php/swift-blog/806-i-am-not-qdenyingq-anything.html
More recently he has remained in the general orbit of such as Phil Plait (“Bad Astronomer”), Bill Nye (“Science Guy”), David Suzuki, and Michio Kaku, etc. He is of course wrong to not embrace the CAGW skeptics within his own gathering of skeptics. But this transgression is pretty much singular.
In fairness, he deals with mostly totally wacky charlatans (on topics not allowed on this site either!), and they probably make the CAGW alarmists discretions, if noticed, seem moderate. Indeed, I don’t think a majority of the CAGW alarmists are intentionally deceptive (some are).
Randi is one of my heroes. Sadly, very very sadly, his CAGW stance is a deal-breaker for many of us.
Why didn’t they colonize during the Roman or MWP? You know, when it was warmer than it is now.
:Like all people James Randi is merely human. He is not an immaculate skeptic.
I stopped subscribing when he and his organization got fooled by AGW promoters, but I still admire much of the work he did before being hood winked.
uh oh, there is a kook getting all worked up about UFO’s posting under “David G”.
DNFTT
“For the record, I don’t believe in Aliens/UFO’s on Earth (with millions of cell phone cameras you’d think we’d have a decent picture by now)… ”
You should know that the Intergalactic Council quarantined earth and all non earth species are not to visit on pain that they are instantly laser-ed on return to (their) civilization.
Given a choice between believing in UFOs and Global Warming. UFOs win. Why? Because the chance of CAGW is known to be = 0.00000000% and UFO is unknown. /snark
Jimbo says:
February 17, 2014 at 3:37 pm
“Venus has 96% Co2 in its atmosphere. Temperature = 460 °C
Mars has 95.9% Co2 in its atmosphere. Temperature = −55 °C
Earth has 0.4% Co2 in its atmosphere. Temperature = 15°C”
C’mon Jimbo, you know that is not an equal comparison.
hunter,
The argument against extra-terrestrial visitors from an advanced civilization requires a fairly sophisticated chain of reasoning, starting with the Drake equation, the Fermi paradox, the rate at which an advanced species could colonize the galaxy, and their motives for doing so.
DavidG may be wrong about UFOs, and his standard of evidence seems to be rather low. But he is right about one thing: UFOs are a more plausible story than deities.
Jimbo says:
February 17, 2014 at 4:30 pm
Ahh now I see. Here is Al Gore and aliens.
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Is that suggesting that ‘Al the Gore’ has been taken over by a symbiot life form, who now controls him? That makes sense in a scary way.
Thank God solar activity from current levels will continue to go down from hear on out. It’ll be 11 years before Sun spot activity gets back to higher than current levels. The man-made global warming zealots are going to learn a lesson they will never forget.
It’s the Sun Stupid!
Re: “C’mon Jimbo, you know that is not an equal comparison.” (Tom in Florida at 7:21pm today)
It may not be complete or “equal,” however, given this:
{Jimbo at 3:37pm today — emphasis mine}
— it is fair.
Jimbo’s point, that they cherry-picked Venus while ignoring Mars to promote speculation about human CO2, remains good argument.
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David G: “… evidence for UFO’s far outweighs the evidence for God, which is … .”
Janice: Everything, i.e., the earth, the seas, and all that lives in or on them. Somehow, these things came into being. I believe the most rational answer is that God made them.
Kharizimi: “UFOs are a more plausible story than deities.”
Janice: Who made the UFO’s? Who made the UFO-makers? You either believe in God or you do not.
If you do not,
then,
all you can rationally say to those questions (and the like) is:
I — don’t — know.
And that would be honest and I would respect your faith.
David and Kharizimi: WE AREN’T FAITH-BASED LIKE YOU ID PEOPLE!
Janice: (smile) Ah, think a moment… and you will realize that you, too, ultimately rely on faith, just as does someone who has faith that God is. Claiming that UFO’s (and then, that their makers) just — POOF! — appeared out of nothing from no guiding Intelligence at all takes an ENORMOUS amount of faith!
David and Kharizimi: Well, we despise your faith.
Janice: And I disagree with yours. But, I certainly do not despise you.
Pax? I hope so.
Here’s a funny cartoon of Gore in a straitjacket:
http://quadrant.org.au/opinion/zegs-take/2013/10/burning-mad/
With ridiculous claims like that from Al Gore I am sure the end is very, very near for the alarmists.
Stamp collectors see UFOs quite often.
They are puzzling, and it takes a lot of rarely seen catalogs to figure them out.
According to Myths there were once gods (extraterrestrials) here but they had to leave a few thousand years ago as it had warmed to much for them to live here. I guess that the Ecoloons want their gods to return. That would explain why they are in such a rush for the return of Ice Age conditions. 😉 pg