There is a story on ClimateDepot,about a fainting woman at the COP21 climate conference, who “faints” into Gore’s arms. This just happens to be a TV news Anchorwoman from Bloomberg, who I’m sure is well past any stage fright associated with her job.
The caption reads:
Francine Lacqua, the London-based anchor for Bloomberg Television, faints onto former Vice-President Al Gore as he delivers a lengthy response to her question, “Why are we still using fossil fuels?”
I’m not at all convinced this is real, it wasn’t even a faint as the video title claims, just a stumble, and Gore seemed ready to catch her…and, it sure looks like stagecraft to me, something Gore is no stranger to. In fact, there’s precedence for this behavior. Russell Cook writes to tell me:
As Al Gore said once, “We’ve seen this before.”*
Second to last paragraph, out of an Ozone Action Feb 24 2000 media release, second-to-last paragraph: http://web.archive.org/web/20000902025335/http://commondreams.org/news2000/0224-08.htm
Throughout the month of March, Global Warming 2000 activists will continue to urge the candidates to lay out comprehensive plans to solve global warming. …
Yesterday, one team activist even feigned fainting into the arms of Vice President Gore to highlight the impacts of heat related illness due to global warming in Florida.
* At the 1 hour 13 minute of the Inconvenient Truth movie, after reading spelling out the “reposition global warming as theory rather than fact” memo phrase, “We’ve seen this before.” – whereupon he dived into the Brown & Williamson leaked tobacco memo, “Doubt is our Product”. Do remember, the “reposition global warming” leaked memo set was “obtained by Ozone Action…”
UPDATE: It appears Ms. Lacqua has fainted on live TV before, see this clip:
So perhaps it wasn’t stagecraft, but given Mr. Gore’s penchant for producing outright lies using stagecraft before, such as faking an entire scientific experiment and then refusing to retract it when called on it, it seemed entirely plausible this was yet another stunt on Gore’s part.
I hope Ms. Lacqua can find help for her condition.
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I watched and cut it off a livestream yesterday. After I cut and posted the clip, I found another YouTube video of Lacqua fainting on air. She may have a history of this…
You’ve been healed, Sister Francine!!! Now go forth and pollute no more!! He’s just a slap on the forehead away from Benny Hinn.
Anthony. I just visited tamin’s open mind Web site ,via your link. Here is part of her top story for today. I hope you will notice that your agreement with her to tone down the name calling is not working.
Idiots
Posted on December 5, 2015 | 9 comments
Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.
— Mark Twain
Despite deniers’ neverending claim that they’re “winning” their campaign to spread doubt about global warming, they’re losing. Big time. They just can’t win against nature. With heat waves on four continents at the same time this summer, once-in-a-thousand-years drought and flooding, wildfire on the rise in western North America, sea level rise enough that coastal cities now flood at extreme high tide even without storms or rain, an astounding record-breaking hurricane year in the Pacific, their precious “pause” in temperature rise shown to be a sham all along, and two record-hottest years in a row, people are catching on. Even tea party republicans can’t swallow the lie any more.
James Francisco-
You seem to have confused the blog “Tamino’s Open Mind” with someone else, who is also a woman. The owner of that blog is a MALE who as far as I know, has never agreed to anything with Anthony, or with Anthony on any thing.
Possibly Prof. Tamsin Edwards, researcher at Bristol University?
Aphan. You are right. I was wrong. Very sorry.
Not to mention your post is off-topic.
I think her brain went to sleep and she was trying to wake herself. Really, wouldn’t you fall asleep?
Or maybe she forgot her tin-foil hat?
other reporters babbling..
Must be some “good” acid going around nowdays!
“She’s as full as a state school” …
and, Gore is
‘stuffed tighter than the Christmas turkey’
as my father would have said.
Can’t tell for sure if she was faking it. I can tell you what my USAF basic training instructor said when a fellow trainee appeared to faint during mail call. He said he was faking it because he didn’t fall backwards. I have fainted many times, once after getting several shots in basic training. I went over backwards every time.
The high priest Goracle was casting out the global warming demons at the alter of Gaia – didn’t you hear her speaking in tongues before she was overwhelmed by the spirit of almighty greenness?
Yes, I think she did faint, firstly she looked comatose with boredom then nausea which often precedes vomiting and fainting.
Hope she didn’t make a mess of that nice green carpet.
She had an overdose of CO2 from Gore’s breath (long speech)
That used to be called a “swoon” before most women wised up. Shouldn’t have had the tofu I guess.
I find myself weakened after just looking at an Al Gore Video, frequently even asleep. Exposure to the Mann himself must be even more weakening. She has suffered the normal reaction to exposure to the Gore’s tedious droning. She did well to remain standing that long.
The way in which you, Watts, and Climate Depot have responded to this incident makes you look callous, petty, and desperate. The faint/seizure may or may not be a genuine medical problem, but it’s none of your business. You should have the tact and good judgement to abstain from comment and mockery of what is most likely someone else’s medical problem.
If there were a similar incident during a speech by a skeptic, and warming alarmists chose to focus on the medical problem instead of on the content of the speech, the skeptic blogs would rightly scoff at how weak the alarmists’ position must be that instead of commenting on the content they resorted to mockery and ad hominem attacks.
Before you claim that you weren’t doing the actual mocking, it was only those article commenters over whom you have no control that did the mocking, remember that you are a community leader as a direct result of placing yourself in that position. You are responsible for setting an example. And the example you chose to set is sticking your nose in a issue where it had no right to be.
Lastly, her episode bears all the signs of a genuine loss of consciousness or seizure. Your opinion that it was faked just shows how ignorant and lacking in compassion you are. You make Gore look downright gallant in comparison. If you had had the sense to keep your mouth shut on this topic you could have seized the moral high ground.
I second Leo’s comment.
Well, to be fair, the content wasn’t worth talking about.
the whole global warming thing is a fraud and there seems to be no normal people around any more ,GOD please bring us some normal people
You’re right, of course. I hope Francine is doing fine. But keep things in perspective. People who perpetuate fraud on the public belong in prison, and even more so when the public has been forced to fund the fraud through no choice of their own. That is the seriousness of what is going on here.
The meeting at issue here is nothing more than an instance of the machine’s marketing arm. A trade show. Marketing dollars spent with the hope that people will finally agree to tax themselves, further enriching the UN and all of their crony associations.
These are the same people (roughly) that bilked the “oil for food” program for enormous amounts of money. So, while I sincerely hope Francine is doing well, Gore deserves all the criticism people can muster. And it seems to me most of the insult here is directed at Gore, not Ms. Lacqua.
Also keep in mind far worse things are done to those who challenge the “consensus” in a serious manner. People have lost livelihoods, been sued, mocked far worse in public and in the media, etc. Gore and the alarmist crowd have a pretty long list of casualties they’ve inflicted.
“Lastly, her episode bears all the signs of a genuine loss of consciousness or seizure.”
No, it doesn’t. In all due respect may I ask if you’ve ever been either the object of a 911 call or the maker of one? I’ve been both. Trust me, they’re quite a bit more dramatic than what you’re seeing in that video.
Yes. I have been the patient and the caretaker for serious 911 calls.
More importantly, I have been the primary care provider many times for people having seizures. I am trained specifically in the handing of an array of seizure types. Most seizures don’t require a call to 911. Some do. Those that do are indeed much more dramatic than the above video. I have had numerous patients who have mild seizures routinely, sometimes as often as several every day. Obviously, a 911 call is not advisable when seizures are mild, frequent, and there is a caretaker present.
Not all seizures cause loss of consciousness. Not all loss of conscious is accompanied by seizure. I have myself experienced loss of consciousness a few times under widely differing circumstances: once due to orthostatic hypotension (wasn’t well, stood up, all the blood ran out of my head), once due to blood loss following a wound, and once where the cause was never determined.
The last one was the most freaky. It happened in stages, rather than all at once (like the other two times). I felt empty (hollow, cold, very weird), then sounds began to echo strangely, then there were pinpoints of light before my eyes, I had vertigo and my legs gave way, I reached for the kitchen counter, and with my arm jerking spasmodically clutching the countertop with all my remaining strength and muscle control, I managed a reduced-speed crash on the hard tiled kitchen floor, before I blacked out completely. The whole thing took probably 30 seconds, with the bulk of the time being spent in the preliminary stages before my legs gave out, while I was trying to resist what was happening to me.
Ms Lacqua seems to be going through the resisting stage before and as she gradually loses control of her limbs and balance.
Remember, Gore’s breath is probably 10% CO2. Combine that with his halitosis and you have the makings of a lethal weapon. Gore breathes, people collapse. Is it any wonder he blames CO2?
I understand that during Apollo 13, the astronauts were beginning to lose their mind after deactivation of the CO2 capture device.
Could the entire climatism craziness be the result of rooms with too much CO2, possibly caused by energy saving measures?
I think we can all agree that she increased the entertainment value of that event by 100% and at least gave the audience something REAL to care about for a few, brief seconds. 🙂
I sincerely hope Ms. Lacqua has fully recovered. It looked frightening to me. If this is recurrent condition I commend her bravery for staying in a job so public and I commend Bloomberg News for keeping her on air and standing by her. Her CV available off the Bloomberg News website is impressive to say the least. My best wishes go out to her and her family. I wish her a complete recovery. I hope this thread ends with a report that she is in good health and back at her job. As far as I know she may have a family and to them I express heartfelt wishes for a quick recovery with no lasting after effects.
I agree with others here. The reporter was just seconds away from being bored to death by Al “The Bore” Gore, but thankfully recovered before receiving a fatal dose of hot air.
I wish the reporter would have hurled all over Algore’s Armani suit like President Bush did to PM Miyazawa back in ’92.
http://abcnews.go.com/Archives/video/jan-11-1992-president-bush-sick-japan-9357727
Whenever Gore goes through his litany of laughable lies, I get nauseous and want to puke, too…
Hot air induces sleep. We will all sleep better with global warming.
The difference between 0 °C and 1 °C?
Apparently this clown doesn’t know water remains liquid at 0 °C (if it was liquid) and solid (if it was solid).
And seawater can get past 0 °C and still remain liquid.
I cannot believe I just wasted nearly 2 minutes of my life watching that video!
Perhaps too much champagne ? I’m told the booze that flows at these events is stupendous! Or perhaps she tripped over the truth about AGW?
Sense of humor failure by some people here.
She got hot standing under the lights listening to Gore and fainted. Could have happened to anyone, most people would laugh it off and be on the receiving end of jokes about it. Don’t make out she is stricken with epilepsy or some terminal condition, nobody here would be joking about it if they thought that was the case.
She fainted while listening to Gore, in this context that’s funny, get over it.
There is something in the water?
Joke aside, this matter may be serious. In September this year an LSD-like drug ‘brought chaos to a celebration of pseudoscience’ in Germany.
https://www.inverse.com/article/5969-german-homeopathy-conference-gets-interesting-thanks-to-hallucinogens