It’s the same old tired stuff, Koch, anti-science, big fundraisers while claiming skeptics are well funded, etc., but at least there’s a new humorous label from Gore.
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Former Vice President Al Gore made an appearance at a Democratic fundraising dinner Wednesday night at the home of Tom Steyer and referred to the California billionaire as:
“Mr. Tipping Point” in the fight against climate change, according to a source who attended.
Gore “discussed the need to not just win — but to win quickly enough to make a difference,” according to the source.
The roughly 70 guests who attended the two-hour dinner at Steyer’s abode in San Francisco’s Sea Cliff neighborhood ate grass-fed beef from Steyer’s ranch, as well as salmon, while a large California flag hung on the wall. The event raised $400,000 for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.
Majority Leader Harry Reid, one of six Senate Democrats to attend, “focused on the importance of creating an offset” to billionaire fossil-fuel backers Charles and David Koch, the source said.
Sens. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) and Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) “focused on how exposed the Republicans are for adopting and promoting a basic anti-science position,” the source said.
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It’s ludicrous. San Francisco’s sea cliff neighborhood is the land of 20 million $ homes. It’s where Senator Diane Feinstein lives, poor thing.
So Gore is there complaining about the skeptic money machine, while dining on lobster with his his well-heeled progressive buddies in a 20 million dollar mansion with a to-die-for view in the ritziest neighborhood of one of the most expensive cities in the world.
It would be ironic if it weren’t insane.
“Sens. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) and Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) “focused on how exposed the Republicans are for adopting and promoting a basic anti-science position,” the source said.”
Many people on the alarmist side of the CAGW debate routinely get the relationship between climate change and weather bass ackwards when they blame weather events on climate change.
Aren’t changes in the average weather or weather patterns over time supposed to be the basis for
a presumed change in climate? If the skeptics make any attempt to correct them on mistakes like this, they are branded as “anti-science”.
Skepticism, as I understand it, is supposed to be the basis for discourse in science whenever an scientific issue or theory is discussed and debated, is it not? So how can skeptics be “anti-science”?
Very strange if you ask me.
‘The event raised $400,000 for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.’
So less than St Gore charges for 3 public speaking events , reminds me again just who is making themselves rich out of this ?
In June 2010, the Gores announced their marital separation, “a mutual and mutually supportive decision that we have made together following a process of long and careful consideration”.
-Wikipaedia
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Yeah right.
algore must have reached the tipper point.
I bet she has some stories to tell. Wish she would write a tell-all!
Gore “discussed the need to not just win — but to win quickly enough to make a difference,” according to the source.
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More like, “before the sheeple catch on that they have been shorn.”
http://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/Tom-Steyer-Speaks-at-the-DNC-on-the-State-of-Renewable-Energy-
Renewable energy is so much fun for the connected oligarchs. You hire who we want. You pay what we want. You locate where we say. Public money to finance, private gain, public underwriting of losses. It’s called Cronyism and it adores access to political power.
Actually I think that Senator (?) John Kerry provided the quote of the week when, in Indonesia to lecture Australia on something or other, he said “If sea level rises one metre, Chicago will be under water.” I heard him say this – picked up by Sky news and broadcast on “Paul Murray Live”. Strangely enough none of the participants on the show realised the discrepancy.
Text of a letter I sent to The Australian – not printed –
“Paul Murray Live” has just broadcast a clip of John Kerry telling Indonesia that “if sea level rises one metre, Chicago will be under water”. According to Wikipaedia, Chicago is on the shores of Lake Michigan which is at an elevation of 176 metres. To put Chicago underwater will require a sea level rise of 177 metres. Is John Kerry for real? His arithmetic seems to be as bad as most other warmist/alarmists.
Gore “discussed the need to not just win — but to win quickly enough to make a difference,” according to the source.
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Yep. A difference to them. They can see the writing on the wall and they know they are running out of time. If they don’t lock it down soon their Master Plan will be on the fire along with everything else Green.
H.R.
They have to “win” NOW because temps are going to start dropping ON THEIR OWN. If they win ahead of that, they can, and will, claim that their policies and green tech turned this thing around! They can literally use a Natural Tipping Point, to claim their own success at mitigating climate change. THINK about it. If WE (skeptics) are right, their window is starting to close. What urgency this creates for them!
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Whitehouse (btw: isn’t he the guy that said New England fishermen “drive to the fish?”) and Leahy in one word: desperate.
Envirostalinists (a.k.a. Democrats and RINOs) in a nutshell:
CO2 UP. WARMING STOPPED.
Come November, …. Game Over.
Bwah, ha, ha, ha, haaaaaaaaa!
It’s all just political BS, preaching to the choir … and their media mouthpieces.
Sooner or later, the truth will out (it certainly appears to be well on it’s way, already).
Notwithstanding the opinions of the CAGW crowd to the contrary, normal average people are not stupid,
November 2014 will provide a dose of reality to this sad crowd of rich entitled “children”.
Keep the faith folks … and vote.
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RE: Cynical Scientst says:
February 20, 2014 at 5:33 pm
The tree of liberty could use the refreshment.
Especially out here in liberty parched California.
we shouldn’t mock, they’re trying to save us from more crime!
19 Feb: LA Times: Louis Sahagun: Climate change brings more crime
The study by Matthew Ranson of Abt Associates, a research and consulting firm in Cambridge, Mass., suggests global warming will trigger more crimes including murders and rapes over the next century, with social costs estimated to run as high as $115 billion.
Between 2010 and 2099, climate change can be expected to cause an additional 22,000 murders, 180,000 cases of rape, 1.2 million aggravated assaults, 2.3 million simple assaults, 260,000 robberies, 1.3 million burglaries, 2.2 million cases of larceny and 580,000 cases of vehicle theft, the study published this week in the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management says.
Compared with the number of crimes expected to occur during this period in the absence of climate change, these figures represent a 2.2% increase in murders, a 3.1% increase in cases of rape, a 2.3% increase in aggravated assaults, a 1.2% increase in simple assaults, a 1% increase in robberies, a 0.9% increase in burglaries, a 0.5% increase in cases of larceny and a 0.8% increase in cases of vehicle theft, the study says.
The social costs of these increases would be roughly $38 billion to $115 billion, based on dollar values of per-offense losses established by earlier research…
The study merged monthly reports on criminal activity from the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting files with temperature and precipitation records for 2997 counties from the U.S. National Climatic Data Center’s Global Historical Climatology Network Daily and projections of future climate drawn from 15 global circulation models.
The data set covers a 30-year period and contains 891,000 unique county-by-year-by-month observations.
http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-climate-change-crime-20140219,0,2765136.story#axzz2tu6Uh2v2
@ur momisugly papiertigre
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There is no excuse, whether this blog or any other, for any of us to use images of violence against anyone. It is counterproductive, and we have witnessed multiple times how it always backfires. (remember–no pressure)
I am surprised and disappointed that your comment survived moderation.
Stop it.
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I have a better Friday Funny …
Dr Roy Spencer has had enough and is biting back …
http://www.drroyspencer.com/2014/02/time-to-push-back-against-the-global-warming-nazis/
Our favourite climate pratt Peter Gleik left the following comment (uncensored) …
Peter Gleick says:
February 20, 2014 at 4:17 PM
Roy, have you lost your fucking mind?
Peter
There were a few choice replies to this (my own included), but the funny part comes a little later …
Chuck L says:
February 20, 2014 at 6:31 PM
Right, you certainly have the moral and ethical authority to criticize Dr. Spencer.
Reply
Peter Gleick says:
February 20, 2014 at 7:34 PM
Thank you. No one else on this completely bizarre thread seems to.
Reply
cynical1 says:
February 20, 2014 at 8:00 PM
“Thank you. No one else on this completely bizarre thread seems to”.
It’s called “Sarcasm”, you pompous twit.
You wouldn’t read about it … oh wait …
I never get invited to these things.
Quote: “Sens. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) and Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) “focused on how exposed the Republicans are for adopting and promoting a basic anti-science position,” the source said.”
This tells me that they aren’t going to discover any truth any time soon. They are dug in.
19 Feb: WaPo: Ed Rogers: The Insiders: Democrats have turned the global warming debate into a cartoon
Additionally, a California billionaire and anti-Keystone XL pipeline activist, Tom Steyer, has burst onto the stage pledging to spend $100 million to try to elect Democrats who share his views on climate change/global warming. The bottom line is the left is obsessed with raising people’s power bills..
That’s really what this is all about. The 2014 election should be a referendum on the economy, and I hope voters — in part — vote on whether or not they want to let the Obama administration and the likes of Mr. Steyer raise their power bills. The Democrats have made it a crusade. The left cannot get enough of bogus reasons why Americans should have to pay more for the electricity they use.
Liberals want to blame everything on climate change, from any significant weather event to beached whales to the proliferation of boring beetles…
Well, I have my own theory. I’m not a scientist, but I do watch a lot of the Discovery Channel with my 11-year-old daughter, and I say global warming will result in more meteorites hitting the Earth. That’s right. I say carbon dioxide and other greenhouses gases are displacing oxygen, resulting in an atmospheric shift that will deplete the accelerants that are necessary to completely incinerate asteroids before they impact the Earth’s surface. Why not? Sounds about as reasonable as a lot of the other wacky claims about global warming that are out there…
Even if voters had to endure a meteor shower in a superstorm during an earthquake, and the Democrats said it was all because of global warming, I still don’t think Americans would vote to let them raise their home electricity bills. Let’s have an election about that.
Secretary Kerry’s latest comments and Mr. Steyer’s millions have made the climate-change debate even more surreal than it already was. They are crowding out any rational discussion about the diplomacy, mitigation and technology that might actually make sense to voters and make a difference.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2014/02/19/the-insiders-democrats-have-turned-the-global-warming-debate-into-a-cartoon/
Dudley Horscroft, you are giving John Kerry and his audience to much credit, after all he knows like you and I Chicago has a beach and water front, In his world if the sea rises obviously that water in lake Michigan has to rise. You and I know Chicago is on a lake well above sea level, John Kerry and his audience do not know the difference. Yet they are the one that call us unscientific! We just have to remember that our media and politicians went into those profession to the most part because science was [too] hard! At this point in our sorry state of affair all I can say is God help us! In forty years we went from Kissinger to Kerry, on my have not like most of Kissinger [positions] but you could not call him stupid. When I look at the Democrats President list of Secretaries of State since Nixon they are a list C and D students from high school, To the most part they are and were a bunch buffoons and hate anyone smarter then them, unfortunately for us and the world that is the majority of population the world.
Do liberals have mirrors in their homes? Are they magical so that they cannot see the tyranny they want to bring on others? These people are so disconnected from reality it is scary!
Well, it certainly seems this is an opportune time to post this little ditty. :LOL
Thank you M4GW! Once again!
http://youtu.be/Vx-t9k7epIk
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