The story below is from from Honolulu Civil Beat, who covered a political rally on April 15th by Gore to 9000 people in Honolulu’s Stan Sheriff Center. It is a 12,500 seat sports auditorium where his voice was amplified by, his slideshow enabled with, and his persona illuminated by and made comfortable with air-conditioning, all made possible by the “dirty energy” electricity generated by fossil fuels that he railed against.
The electricity that enabled Mr. Gore’s rally was courtesy of the oil burning power plants of the Hawaiian Electric Company, such as the HECO power plant at Kahe Point in West Oahu seen at right.
Gore himself once said in a crackpot statement: “there is no such thing as ethical oil.”
Yes, fossil fuels in the form of “dirty oil” enabled Gore to tell these people all about why they shouldn’t be using it.
But, that’s just the start of Mr. Gore’s hypocrisy. Read on.
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Al Gore on Climate Change: ‘We Are Going to Win This Thing’
“The way we have to respond to this is going to require a set of changes that are beyond our routine,” he said, his voice growing to a shout. “I know that we are capable of that. Our way of life is at stake, our grandchildren are at stake, the future of civilization is at stake.”
But Gore cited two “game changers” in recent years that will help. The first is the growing realization from even climate-change deniers that something seems to be strange with the weather. The second is the exponential growth in photovoltaic solar panels, driven largely by consumer demand for lower prices.
The “barriers” to doing something about climate change are business and political interests that profit off of fossil fuels — “dirty energy that causes dirty weather.” He compared fake science from polluters stating that humans are not to blame for the climate to tobacco companies that used to hire actors to play doctors who denied cigarettes were dangerous.
“That’s immoral, unethical and despicable,” he said of both.
Full story here: http://www.civilbeat.com/articles/2014/04/15/21808-al-gore-on-climate-change-we-are-going-to-win-this-thing/
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What. A. Liar.
Both the IPCC and Nature say there is no link between climate change aka global warming and severe weather, and so it follows about Gore’s “dirty energy” claim.
From Chapter 4 of the IPCC SREX report ( IPCC Special Report on Extremes PDF):
- “There is medium evidence and high agreement that long-term trends in normalized losses have not been attributed to natural or anthropogenic climate change”
- “The statement about the absence of trends in impacts attributable to natural or anthropogenic climate change holds for tropical and extratropical storms and tornados”
- “The absence of an attributable climate change signal in losses also holds for flood losses”
Nature’s editorial last year dashing alarmist hopes of linking extreme weather events to global warming saying:
Better models are needed before exceptional events can be reliably linked to global warming.
If Hawaii is like the rest of the United States, then Mr. Gore just insulted not only those of us who have technically based doubts about his claims, but a good portion of the average population that doesn’t agree with him according to Gallup polling.
Environmental worries seem to be a thing of the past:
Source: http://www.gallup.com/poll/167843/climate-change-not-top-worry.aspx
And here’s what Gallup discovered about how people view global warming:
Source: http://www.gallup.com/poll/167879/not-global-warming-serious-threat.aspx
And Yale gets similar results:
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About half of Americans (51%) say they are “somewhat” (38%) or “very worried” (15%) about global warming.
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Fewer than half of Americans (38%) believe they personally will be harmed a “moderate amount” or a “great deal” by global warming. By contrast, majorities believe that global warming will harm future generations of people (65%) and plant and animal species (65%).
“Our findings show that the public’s understanding of global warming’s reality, causes, and risks has not improved and has, in at least one important respect, gone in the wrong direction over the past year,” said researcher Ed Maibach, PhD, of George Mason University. “Better public communication about global warming is needed now more than ever.”
So, when Al Gore says ‘We Are Going to Win This Thing’, he’s just preaching to the few that still believe him. Everybody else has moved on.
So while Mr. Gore calls climate skeptics (which seems to be the majority of the population these days) ‘Immoral, Unethical and Despicable’ I take comfort in the fact that unlike Mr. Gore, at least we don’t take Al Jazeera & tobacco money to pad our lifestyle while telling others how to live theirs.
@bushbunny The Hobbit is also a trilogy. Maybe the last (third) one will explain the second one. I haven’t seen any of the films but I did read the book.
Al Gore : Stop!! You are embarrassing our species, assuming, of course, you’re a homo sapien sapien.
Maybe that’s it – he’s a homo sapien Neanderthalus. That would explain the long arms,
misshapen head, small brain, and so forth …
The 9,000 that went to hear Al Gore preach another sermon on the Magical Molecule and how we have to fight it appealed to the morons whose ancestors put innocent women to death as witches during the little ice age for making it too cold. Little changes. The reasoning ability of the many people is damn near nil.
It was far warmer during the medieval warming period and was far colder during the little ice age than it is now. CO2 had nothing to do with those two swings in average global temperature. If it continues to warm as the climate rebounds from the horribly cold little ice age then the climate
scientistswitch doctors will yell that we are going to fry/drown. Idiots. Con-men. Fraudsters. Deluded fools.“… unlike Mr. Gore, at least we don’t take Al Jazeera & tobacco money to pad our lifestyle while telling others how to live theirs.”
Anthony, presumably this point about Al Jazeera is that it’s oil funded, hence more hypocrisy from Gore. It would be good to make that clear with a phrase like ” don’t take Al Jazeera oil money” , so that it cannot be misread as meaning taking money from “terrorist supporting A-rabs. ”
I’m sure that’s not the way you meant it but since some on the right in US, who have probably never even seen an AJ newscast, do think like that, it may be a good idea to make your point more explicitly.
I am not going to be harmed by global warming because I will be dead within 20 years. However that does not mean that I should not consider the implications of global warming. The issue with global warming activism is that the science is being pushed beyond its limits to fit green political agendas. The same thing can be said about the opposition to the AGW green agenda. Much of this is shaped by opposing political agendas.
We have to accept that all science is political but it would be nice if, for once, we could set the politics aside and address this issue directly. I wish that scientists would stop trying to be politicians and that politicians would stop pretending that they had even a faint understanding of the science.
St Gore used to charge 150,000 for doing these types of events , although to be fair running a private jet is never cheap.
I think he went to Hawaii to avoid, as much as possible, the “Al Gore Effect.” No more snowstorms for him!
“The second is the exponential growth in photovoltaic solar panels, driven largely by consumer demand for lower prices.”
Absolute bollocks.
The growth is installations has been a result of massive feed-in tarif and other subsidies, that above all serve to increase consumer credit in the form of loans paid for by the said public subsidies. Yet more tax-payer’s money to boost the banking sector , dressed up as “green”.
Green as in green-backs rather than as in ecology.
However, the subsidises to the solar industry have managed to establish the sector by providing sufficient volume in the market.
In Europe, I can get quoted 66 euro-cent/watt for quality Sharp PV panels. ( about 90c USD / watt ) ex-tax. Thin-film panels are about 50 euro-cent/watt
The latter panels are about 44 euro / m2 simply viewed as a covering material.
If that is used as an element of the roof covering (as is required in France to get the feed-in) it becomes a serious economic proposition.
In America we have a tradition which allows all, including the village idiot, to assume the soap box in the town square. Al’s problem is that he has spouted so many lies that he can’t rise to legitimate debate. In short…let him go on. He is more useful that way.
On the other hand, there were thousands of people there, so there is still much work to be done.
Surprisingly, there are still more gorebots out there. I have the misfortune of crossing swords with one of them who is trying to say the Dimmock v. DCSF was a victory for Gore!
So I guess he could easily find 9000 hypocrites in Hawaii to provide background for his religious sermon.
In case people don’t understand Mr. Gore’s motivation, it’s anything but altruistic. His Nobel winning “Inconvenient BS” started out as a sales pitch.
http://www.generationim.com/
Remember in 2008 when he was lobbying to be the Democratic nomination for POTUS? He tried to get Obama on board as his VP running mate.
How funny would that have been if it had happened and they won? Gore as POTUS and Obama as VPOTUS!!!
errr…next joke…
TAG says:
April 18, 2014 at 3:46 am
I am not going to be harmed by global warming because I will be dead within 20 years.
No one will be harmed by “global warming”, though humanity itself is being threatened by the CAGW ideology. The “global warming” threat is nothing but a bogeyman, and the “science” behind it nothing but a sham driven by politics, greed, and sheer stupidity. It is the biggest, most destructive lie in human history that our CO2 is somehow harming the climate. Far from it, in fact it is just the opposite; our CO2 is actually benefiting the environment, through an enhanced greening effect.
In all likelihood, we will see, instead of warming, a marked cooling within 20 years. For humanity’s sake, we had best hope that cooling doesn’t extend much beyond 20 or 30 years. Because it is, in fact, cooling that potentially could cause us the greatest harm.
Found this, haven’t stopped laughing.
My politics has been developed by my scientific observations. By what works in the real world. I didn’t decide my politics would be in favor of free markets then dismiss global warming concern because it favored less government intervention. I want what’s best for the world, and I seek the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth no matter where it leads. I don’t dismiss global warming because of my politics.
I dismiss global warming because: I am a highly educated scientist. I am very smart, very good at figuring things out, have studied electrical engineering, computer science, physics, mathematics, all prior to beginning my study of climate science. Math alone I put in 2000 hours of study recently, every single day for years. The other subjects have many thousands of hours of study over 3 decades beyond high school. And speaking of high school, I graduated with honors (in the top 10%) and got an award for best draftsperson in the school. I was a natural at it. I didn’t even touch a working computer until I got out of high school (though I had been inside of one, along with my class mates, during a tour of UBC near Vancouver) and here I am a computer scientist working on some of the most complex problems that computers might be able to solve.
I was appalled at what I found when I began my research into climate science. First, there is so much information out there but the media had kept most of it hidden from me. The media and government had selectively cherry picked and left out information.
I have so much more to say, but I’ll leave it for now, but finish with this… Don’t tell me my view on climate science is shaped by my politics. It is not.
Planit Earth iz stoopid enuf for teh hoomin beingz. Kthx.
I liken this type of event as the CAGW equivalent to a revival meeting, with Al Gore as the evangelist preacher preaching, at intervals, fire and brimestone to whip up fear and guilt, then salvation through service in the CAGW industry as well as helping to “spread the message”. The goal is to whip the crowd up into a fervorous evangelism, and naturally, that requires the mass-delusion that they are “winning”, when in fact the opposite is true. Al Gore, who has profited immensely from the CAGW industry makes Bernie Madoff look like a choir boy.
I don’t often look at the glass half empty but why on Earth would beautiful Maui have put up those awful wind turbines? Even Westchester Co, NY has enough sense to make a cell tower look like a giant pine tree! Lol….That’s twice in the last year that beautiful vacation vistas have been spoiled. First the mountains in VT while dog sledding then Maui while surfing. It seems the more we get back to nature the more the loony left takes it away! Build a Nuke plant on that mountain Mauiites and disguise the facade of the cooling towers as a smoking volcano!
About HECo. on Maui; there are about a dozen gasturbines around Maui. One site, at Kihei, is very near their burgeoning windfarm but well hidden from view by carefully planted trees. Driving by, I would look up to see what small fraction of the windmills were turning, and then marvel at how clear they keep the exhaust from the GT’s. Out of sight, out of mind, out of hand, out of money.
@Blair. That video was terrifying… 😉
There is an upside to Al. His influence is limited today to the alarmists and the uninformed. Even some alarmists are embarrassed.
Imagine the wide ranging drivel that could have been promulgated to the nation had he been given a few more votes.
Tiper was right – dump this clown….
“Environmental worries seem to be a thing of the past”
Yes Children just aren’t going to know what Environmental worries is
ultimately, British children could have only virtual experience of Environmental worries. Via the internet, they might wonder at Environmental worries scenes – or eventually “feel” virtual Environmental worries.
http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/snowfalls-are-now-just-a-thing-of-the-past-724017.html