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.
I have a simple question. What is the minimum period that the IPCC defines as climate for the purposes of its reports? The quote below does not tell me what THEY define as the minimum period for climate. It simply refers to the WMO’s classical definition.
It was rigged from the beginning. The UNFCCC and the IPCC don’t even see eye to eye.
Oooops. I typed AR$ – 2007 when I meant AR4 – 2007. On second thoughts I will leave the error as it is actually accurate.
There is one hope here, that Gore is opening and screaming so loud, people are going to ask, why? What did the Hawaiian press report? Well intelligent people would ask why, but Gore is acting like a modern day cult preacher searching for blind followers.
Greg Goodman says:
April 18, 2014 at 3:41 am
“… 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.
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Al Jazeera and terrorist supporting is redundant. Find an English translation of what they spew over there.
What is profoundly depressing is that 9000 people were present to listen to Gore’s gospel.
The AGW religion seems unstoppable.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_2000
9000 eh? He’s slipping. In 2000, he duped 50,999,897.
Ba Da Bump! Oh Yeah!
But Bush voters were still worse… because even after Election 2000 was ‘stolen’, in 2004 he was re-elected by 62,040,610.
Obama was worse than that… in 2008 he duped 69,498,516 and then in 2012, a few less at 65,915,796
The 1% are screwing the 99%, but from 100k to 120k or about 33% of the US population is helping them do it!
STOP VOTING!
STOP PAYING TAXES!
It’s just not worth it any more. There is no legitimacy in either.
jauntycyclist says: April 18, 2014 at 12:33 am
Al how much does one have to pay to be one of the saved?
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This is a latter-day form of the Catholic Indulgencies – absolution from sin in return for hard cash.
Ralph
I wonder if Msgnr. Algore would be in favor of a jet fuel “carbon” tax that is inversely proportional to the number of passengers carried?
(Just wondering if he’s aware at all of his hypocrisies)
Did Al Gore happen to mention at this event his family’s relationship with Occidental Petroleum? How his father was in the pocket of Armand Hammer CEO of OP? Or how much stock is still in Al Junior’s portfolio? Is the word hypocrisy appropriate?
Let’s leave Al Gore aside and look at why he was there. He was one small, but highly visible, part of a the wide ranging, aggressive, long-running state-wide “sustainability” program embraced by the State of Hawaii and its residents. Hawaiian archipelago is the most remote place on Earth – more distant from any other port or landfall that any other populated area. Everything that cannot be grown/made in HI is imported. For a high-tech economy that takes a lot of energy. So, energy generation is a big focus: Gov Lingle (R), the former governor, decreed the State of Hawaii would become independent of 70% of the external fuel (oil/coal) needed for electrical energy generation by 2030. Emphasis was placed on solar, wind, biomass and geothermal, as well as wave and anything else that might work. You can go the State of Hawaii web pages and read about it. The electric company, HECO, has developed a web page to show how much electrical energy is produced daily (http://www.hawaiianelectric.com/images/OahuReWatch.png) and where it comes from (mostly wind and solar). It is interesting to note that the solar takes a bite out of the 8am to 4pm energy needs for Honolulu. That saves a lot of imported oil.
The people of Hawaii fully embrace sustainability, forward looking preparation in case of calamity, and work very hard to remove the worst of the thin-card supports to its economy and livelihood. The Native Hawaiians new this inherently. Those that move here learn quickly whether due to a dock strike or a hurricane. And those who own the multimillion dollar homes and billion dollar hotels on the beach are watching climate change carefully as the beaches are noticeably beginning to change, most for the worse. Al Gore was greeted enthusiastically by the audience in the arena, as well as most of the residents of Hawaii, because his underlying message, sustainability for future generations, resonates with those who live in the shadow of unsustainability daily.
Tying global warming to a *specific* extreme weather event is different from saying global warming causes increased risk of such events.
Former VP, Nobel prize winner, film maker, author and multi-millionnaire. Al Gore is a legend and a sharp contrast to the current nutjobs on the GOP and libertarian tickets.
How’s that Mann vs Steyn case going by the way?
Al Gore, like Joe Biden after him, was picked as Clinton’s running mate for one reason – it rendered Clinton unimpeachable. I can imagine Slick Willie and Hillary cackling and high-fiving, saying, “We’re untouchable as long as that moron’s #2! Hey, we better bump up the size of his security detail.” Gore, with his half-lidded vacuous smile, his perpetually open mouth, and halting wooden locution convincingly comes across as a slack-jawed dolt.
He tried to speed up his fraud, by causing fear, saying that within 5 years polar ice would be gone, yet there is more of it.
Reporting from Florida, where the coastlines are exactly where they always have been in my 23 years.
reasonablyliberal1 says:
April 18, 2014 at 10:47 am
Yes, Cambodia took time & planning too.
Who was the stupid @SS group that would get Al Gore to speak anyway. They sure must be a board bunch over there on these Island’s. Al Gore is coming to an end with his BS theory, he has made his money form this Global Warming BS and now it’s tome for him to pass away or move from the public eye. He now has Obama and his EPA followers on the “JOP” now so they don’t need Al Gore no were. Let him go home in his Big gas using Limo and his coal burned warm and cool home and never be seen again. People don’t this because it a farce and now the whole world knows it and his great plan is coming to an end. Al Gore sucks and to think I voted for him OMG what if he had gotten in office we would already be under more than Obama has already taken us.
Hawaiians travel between the islands and receive their imported goods in boats and planes that run on what, exactly?
Wow…actual journalism on Yahoo???? Actually doing some research AND putting some facts into climate change is a welcome debate instead of propaganda. I don’t mind the fact on the table, as long as it is factual and science to let the public weigh on the issue.
And…Al Gore is nothing but a snake oil salesman, that is profiting off the stupid!
Al Gore is a hypocrite and is all about lining his pockets with money. Did he sail to Hawaii or paddle to Hawaii? I don’t think so. Anyone who makes money doing business with Al Jazeera has to be a sleeze ball.
The warmists/changers are useful idiots and outright morons.
Al Gore is second only to Hussein Obama is gall, lies, ego, and Treason upon America
BernardP: What is profoundly depressing is that 9000 people were present to listen to Gore’s gospel.
The AGW religion seems unstoppable.
I am surprised no body mentioned where the 9000 people came from? on Hawaii free pine apples/……
Nope,
Free Whackey Tabacci ???
Just maybe YES, and from a tobacco farmer no less, I think his family may have had advanced technologies to get the product to market.
-Not long ago it snowed in Cairo, Egypt for the first time in 112 years.
-2013 was the largest one-year temperature drop ever recorded in the United States.
-The extent of the Antarctic sea ice is at record highs.
-In 2013, the UK had the coldest spring since 1963.
-In March 2013, Northern Japan received record snowfall–up to 16 ft thick just south of Aomori.
-In October 2013, the worst frost in more than 80 years hit Chile and damaged 50 million boxes of fruit for export—damages were over $1 billion.
-an expedition vessel full of Climate Change scientists became trapped in Antarctic sea ice 10 feet thick on Christmas Day 2013
-in the winter of 2013-2014 the Great Lakes completely froze over
Global warming or …..it was really cold this last winter.
Fool to argue against the truths on the left, when the truth on the right is bigger and more important. We are increasing our food supply, by increasing the carbon in our atmosphere. In the last 50 years; CO2 up 25%, average worldwide crop yield up 120%, population up 133%. Figure it out, understand it, make it your main argument. Make Al stand in the shoes of the denier, and say “carbon does not cause plant growth”. Anything else is foolishness.