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.
DD More writes
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A reply could be made that these firms are bankrupt in the same way that vast numbers of early Internet firms went bankrupt and before that vast numbers of personal computer firms went bankrupt and, in the same way, vast numbers of railroad firms went bankrupt in the 19th century.
Bankruptcies like this are common in the development of major technologies. This doesn’t mean that they will not transform the world. Instead they create the demand that drives the innovation that will lower costs
Blair M says:
April 18, 2014 at 4:44 am
Coffee snot meet computer screen Thank’s !!!!
Reblogged this on Power To The People and commented:
Al Gore is the one who is “immoral, unethical and despicable” by using fear tactics that do not conform with reality. Wild And Lethal Weather Extremes Gripped The Planet…80 Years Ago When Atmospheric CO2 Was Well Under 350 ppm! http://shar.es/TYNlX
Moreover, the reality is Coal and other fossil fuel energy sources are good for Mother Nature and other living things http://youtu.be/S-nsU_DaIZE
unlike his favored sources of energy solar, wind and biofuel which shafts the poor http://wp.me/p7y4l-lnm
and whacks Mother Nature:
Wind not working so well http://wp.me/p36QXu-qM ditto Solar http://greencorruption.blogspot.com/2014/04/abengoa-atrocities-sequel-california.html?spref=tw … Biofuel etc destroys natural habitats http://youtu.be/5igyXyJKL_0
The Years of Living Stupidly
http://youtu.be/VHmXtxx8xwY
I’m old enough to remember the Global Cooling crowd back in the early to mid-1970’s. According to them we were going to go through another Ice Age. That theory died out, because they didn’t figure out a way to make billions of dollars off their theory. Then came the Global Warming alarmists, that lasted awhile, until the evidence showed that the climate had actually stopped warming, and was staying the same or even cooling a bit. Then they switched to Climate Change, that covers it all, if it is warmer than usually one summer, they can claim that they are right, and if it is colder one winter, they are also right. Gore, himself, built a huge seaside home, yet he says that we’ll soon see the sea level rise and flood the coastal regions. If that were true, would he really build a house there?
Gallup’s poll numbers reveal SOME of the skepticism about the global warming scare, but their poll still begs the question:
What global warming? Here’s the poll question I’d like to see:
Especially it would be nice to see the scientists answer this (ideally on the record, but that would bias the results, since revealing skeptical views can be highly damaging to career prospects not just for climatologists but for ANYONE in academia or the media or in any of the Democrat-dominated information industries).
The other question that should be included in any climate poll is agreement with the new official “consensus” view as asserted in AR5:
Legates’ survey found almost no explicit support for this position in the scientific literature (.5% of the abstracts that were rated by Cook et al. as showing 97% support for the IPCC “consensus”), but that is looking only at a very select group in a very select way. This should be the general poll question that everyone gets asked.
Sawdust pudding says: the planet is going to cool over the next century and CO2 was a minor player in what little warming did occur over the second half of the 20th century.
But….. but……. Al’s power use is OK because he buys carbon indulgences………. ah…. offsets.
A clear indication that you have won the debate is when a radical liberal begins calling you names. I guess from a certain perspective we are despicable because we have prevented Gore and the UN IPCC from pulling off the greatest scam in the history of the world.
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The High Priest of the Church of Anthropogenic Global Warming has become a living parody. Of himself. How can anyone take this sanctimonious fraud seriously is beyond me.
Note the power plant located on the very edge of the rising seas. Are they discussing a site relocation to higher ground? I think not.
The air conditioning was powered by an oil-fired power plant. So? He is for the gradual process of moving towards sustainable energy sources. It takes time and planning like everything else.
Ain’t that the truth! Amen brother, we must make sacrifices for the grandchildren and civilization. Gore once said we had a planetary emergency. Here is what you do when you have a planetary emergency…………………..forget we have a planetary emergency.
but there is a lot more………….
AL GORE IS A HYPOCRITE>
http://youtu.be/Oq0IxwBKLFQ
Is Gore still holding court with a rehearsed sales pitch rather than taking random questions from the audience, much less actually debate anyone?
If the answer is ‘yes’ then that tells anyone all they would ever need to know about the weakness of his position.
reasonablyliberal1 says:
He is for the gradual process of moving towards sustainable energy sources. It takes time and planning like everything else.
Huh? Where do you get that? To him, oil and coal are evil and “dirty”, create “dirty weather”, and our use of them “threatens the planet”. “Sustainable energy” is just code for non-fossil fuel energy, or “green” energy, which is both expensive and unreliable, as well as creating their own set of environmental problems.
Hawaii gets 92% of its electricity from combustion of fuels (fossil fuels – gas and coal – 89%, and solid waste, 3%). Another 3% comes from geothermal on the Big Island, wind adds 4%, so all the rest including solar comes to 1%. On Oahu where Gore spoke, only 1% is not generated by burning fossil fuels or solid waste. Gore went to the right place to preach being “green” to the faithful.
What would family friend Armand Hammer have to say about no such thing as ethical oil? If Hammer were alive today, he’d be turning over in his grave, I’m sure. But perhaps Armie remembers how former tobacco farmer Albert Gore, Jr,, railed against Big Tobacco when it was politically advantageous to do so.
Of course everyone is in favour of green energy. The problem is it has not been invented yet.
Wind and pv solar are not really green and have no ability to produce on-demand electricity.
@Billy
You mean the Green lantern is make believe? You just destroyed my bubble! 😉
Some of call this the “Nonprofit Paradox”
http://www.ssireview.org/articles/entry/the_nonprofit_paradox/
Mr. Greenjeans says, “I need more GREEN! Quick! Before you wise up.”
It’s getting harder and harder to ridicule Al Gore as he essentially is now a walking, talking (very wealthy!) parody of himself.
He seems comfortable with that.
It is so wonderful to see the party of inclusion continuing to take the high road and be willing to politely agree to disagree when differences of opinion arise.
Oh wait, sorry. Wrong article.
“”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………….
……….Mr Gore still has a higher opinion of me than I do of him.
This from a scion of a family of miserable slave owning tobacco growers! I will celebrate his
long delayed funeral, Holdren’s too. Scientific progress goes one funeral at a time.
Gore is a duschbag. He in no way tries to live the way he wants all others to do, he makes claims about this and that without ever attempring to seek out the facts. And, he got a nobel peace price for spreading garbish, scare-mongering propaganda. The only good thing about Gore is, that he did not become the next president of the US.
For some odd reason, the movie Tombstone has come up a lot lately when commenting on the net that Gore invented. In regards to his vile comments at this particular juncture, I believe this quote is relevant. “Make no mistake, it’s not revenge he’s after. It’s a reckonin’.”
Al Gore has a hole in his character, it is an evil parasitic gnawing that will not go away. He believes he is a messiah and his vile and intrepid comments reflect this. There is no proof, there is no science, it is the end result they are after and nothing will stand in the way. The end justifies the means for these people.
May God have mercy on his soul, because I shall not.
When I first started on the global warming blogs and comments Warmists’ first line of attack was that I could not produce peer reviewed references to back my claims. So I found them and kept them on my computer under various files for future use. If you want to defend yourselves against Warmists you must arm yourselves with ammunition from the peer review. Of course there are instances where peer review is irrelevant or does not exist such as calling out a hypocrite.
When I first started on the global warming blogs and comments Warmists’ first line of attack was that I was referring to the weather and not the climate. There is no defense now because that is what they are now doing – weather and local events are now signs of global climate change caused by man. This has been a rapid 360 degree turn of events, a sure sign of desperation.