Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach
Man, there is just no end to Gore’s hubris. From his website, which I’ll pass on linking to for obvious reasons …
Last night President-elect Trump said he wanted to be a president for all Americans. In that spirit, I hope that he will work with the overwhelming majority of us who believe that the climate crisis is the greatest threat we face as a nation.
I wish him well in these efforts and intend to do everything I can to work with him and his administration to ensure that our nation remains a leader in the global effort to meet this challenge. Moreover, there is reason to believe that it is not naive or Pollyannaish to hope for more than what we fear.
Despite his generous offer, I don’t think the White House will be calling him soon …
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It scares the hell out of me when I think of how close this fool came to being our President.
Maybe he needs to make another fake experiment to validate his position. What a hoot.
I loved watching them take that experiment apart! I’m going to go reread the whole thread for old times sake.
Somehow it doesn’t feel like we dodged the bullet by getting eight years of Obama
Gore isn’t a fool, he knows he has no chance in the private sector, just like the Clintons, which is why they rely on international graft.
What was the line?
Ah, yes.
“Sod off, swampy”
Gore off!
Perhaps he could be.offered the post of ambassador to cell block D
EEgore the donkey – depressed again. Hee Haww Hee Haww
Yes, the climate was conforming splendidly until we started using fossil fuels! Now, we have TE-PAOCC! (The Ever-Present Absence of Climate Conformity).
Too funny….all of their scams are unraveling….and now they want to “reach across the aisle”
…if they had won..they would be shoving it down our throats
Makes me think of a couple of Obama quotes in 2008,
like “The Republicans can ride the bus but they will have to sit in the back”, and “I won”.
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Wonder if they are happy with “A pen and a Phone”, E.O.’s, and bypassing congress now?
That’s the best joke of the day, if not year, if not Century to date
No, it’s not a joke. These pricks just can’t help lying, it’s a pathological condition.
Hey bud, the “overwhelming majority ” just voted for a candidate who said he’s sick of hearing about this BS. Which part of that message are you having trouble understanding.
Like Mickey Mann said : it’s “game over”.
Greg, i think you’ve nailed it… i think that it was the never ending sickness of these scoundrels that has propelled trump into the whitehouse in the first place. People are tired of this kind of crap so they voted the scoundrels out. NOW (and this is important here…), they are going to kick and scream for the next four years to the point where the electorate will again get so sick of them that they vote the scoundrels back IN! i think that this happened in no small part in ’08 after years and years of sliming bush. People tired of the nonsense and said in effect “give the babies what they want ’cause we’re tired of listening to them scream”. The electorate is fickle. And it doesn’t take much to manipulate them. (especially these days when demographics are stacked as such to make the slightest political winds blow the whole republican house of cards down) This should be an interesting cycle to watch. Trump’s an unique fellow. If there’s anybody out there that can confound those scoundrels (like gore), it whould have to be trump…
Greg, it is not the vote but all the polls that show the overwhelming majority of us worldwide don’t give a ratsass about climate change.
Hang on, perhaps it is us not understanding that he means the leftish elite overwhelmingly believe in it not us inconsequential little people. Shame on us for thinking above our station.
In two years, 25 Democrat senators are up for re-election.
Things will have turned around very dramatically by then, and the Rs will have a whole bunch more seats in the senate and house.
@Gerry, England…I think you’ve hit the nail on the head. I recall reading once a History of the hundred years war where the author quoted from contemporary sources reporting on one battle or another resulting in the loss of 80 “men of substance” and the actual casualty toll numbering in thousands. That’s sort of the way our elitists think about the “green war”
Can he possibly have meant by “us” something like “The Real People (not those deplorable scum)”? Do you get the impression that most humans aren’t quite real to him?
Wait!! DiCaprio will be insinuating himself into the proceedings in the next few hours.
They know best, of course, and represent the majority of Americans, of course.
He represents the majority of the minority that agrees with him.
I don’t think Gore’s head can take Trump’s response.
Oy Vey………… what chutzpah
Michael-the-Mannipulator will be next-up offering his services!
These guys are now *desperate*!
What schadenfreude sublime!!!
They are both are desperate.
Gore to protect his profitable ShamWow Go Green Investments and Carbon Tax Trading.
Mann to protect his freeloading ride on government gravy train.
Along with Leo Di Sanctimonio!
I wonder if Lenny de Goat will be offering his services for the film story of Trump’s presidential victory?
Horace:
“Leo di Sanctimonio”? Love it!
Di Sanctimonio – perfect! Brilliant!
Having endured several of Leonardo DiCrapio’s performances I can understand his position on environmental matters, he has definite similitude with trees.
Horace J
Apologies, as I am a little off the pace with Sanctimonious Pseuds of our house of planets.
I know Mann. Of course. Of blooming course.
There appear to be rather a lot of SPs, especially this week . . . .
My good lady indicates that the Leo you reference may be an actor, practised, and likely very competent, at speaking other people’s words – just as if he understands them.
Please, if I have goofed here [and I have goofed before in public], do correct me – thanks in ADVANCE for your guidance.
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Ohhh – you all know I am – and half a billion others, including many (very many) commenters here, are – a co-Nobel Laureate, being then [although not for very much longer!!!] a citizen-prisoner of the EU, when the EU won a Nobel prize for – IIRC – drawing a straight line.
Or was it showering nearly every day for a week?
Putting half of Club Med out of work?
Doubtless something very worthy.
Next year Queen Elizabeth II and Mrs May [PM] may well welcome Madame La Presidente Marine Le Pen of our neighbour and co-half-decent defence-budget country, France.
PS – Angela M. [per German privacy laws] – please do look at my previous sentence, please.
Gore just wants to be in the news again.
A new example of chutzpah!
5 stages of grief.
Everyone progresses through them at their own pace.
Algore is at “bargaining.”
I’m waiting for him to attain “seppuku.” I’ve got the corn ready to stuff into the microwave.
“Algore is at bargaining”
No, in the 5 stages of grief I’m certain Gore is in the ‘Denial’ phase and unlikely to move to any other stage!
Maybe he needs counselling like some of the EPA staff!
http://www.eenews.net/stories/1060045642
They say science progresses one funeral at a time. The same goes for political systems that appeal to religion to foist control over the masses using a meme that has no basis in fact.
May Al Gore rest in peace.
Best humorous analysis is here:
http://hollywoodlife.com/2016/11/10/jimmy-kimmel-donald-trump-presidency-5-stages-of-grief-video/
Or directly via YouTube here:
https://youtu.be/H4o1jrzuPi0
Here’s a post-election headline I just thought up:
Shock and Owww!
rogerknights — Shock and Owww! — Too funny!!!! — Eugene WR Gallun
Hopefully the left will stay stoned for the next 8 years ’cause it’s a lot better than listening to them scream for 8 years…
But #4 depression could last for a VERY long time.
Forrest
Mr Al Gore should be, accorded the same respect and consideration by The New Administration that the previous Climate Administration has given to Mr Fred Singer, Mr Roy Spencer, Ms Judith Curry and Mr Willie Soon.
Unlike Mr Gore all the above can accurately state to be qualified and real world experienced Scientists.
I’m no expert in the Carbon-credits scam, but I sincerely hope the egregious, self-serving Gore gets his come-uppance from it’s collapse.
A 10 lb bag of briquets is worth a bunch more than a ton of CO2
“Comeuppance” may be more than collapse. Possibility in future of Federal Agents looking into Massive Fraud using RICO.
>>Gore Offers To Work With Trump On Climate
Nice of him to offer, but I’m not holding my breath. The last time Gore did any “work” in his life it was for Big Tobacco.
Speaking of work, my link didn’t, sorry.
The last time Gore did any “work” in his life it was for Big Tobacco.
Nice little hypocrite.
Gore blimey, didn’t see that one
+1000
Ban this guy totally. He has caused enough of trouble.
“Hubris, thy name is Gore.”
Perhaps dear Al could stand in as a tide gauge to alert us to the rapidly rising seas. I know some will be disappointed with the less than dramatic outcome of damp socks only but I don’t wish him any harm, just an education.
Damn, I thought you were going to concrete him in place so we could get accurate readings.
/disapointed
I think having big Al “stand in” as a tide gauge is a bad idea. The “Observer Effect”, which according to Wikipedia “refers to changes that the act of observation will make on a phenomenon being observed”, will definitely come into play. When big Al wades into the ocean, his presence will affect tide measurements.
Yeah, they should cement him into the shoreline somewhere and give him a GPS, then say : hey Al, give us a call when it gets up to your knees and we’ll come and take you out and make you president , OK?
No actually, because Algor has no gravity of his own.
That idea has already been done. The british sculptor Antony Gormley has placed full size naked statues of himself on a beach near Liverpool . When the tide comes in , only the heads are visible I believe .
It is either an exercise in self aggrandisement or a test of global warming. I do not know if the taxpayers of Liverpool paid for the installation but if they did they must have got the money back by now because it quite a tourist attraction.
The Gormley statues are on Crosby Beach. As Crosby Beach is in the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton, not Liverpool, I don’t see why the good citizens of Liverpool should have paid towards their installation but knowing the generosity of Liverpudlians you never know.
OR… maybe trump could make him the u.s. ambassador of antarctica!
(and make him wear a tux all the time to make the penguins feel happy…)
If we’re lucky, while he’s in Antarctica, ManBearPig (the original, aka Al Gore, not our ironic WUWT ManBearPig) will be dragged off by an amorous Yeti and live happily ever after in an ice cave, never to be heard from again.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Good one, Al. 😀
Oh, wait – he was serious?
Lolz
Trump is the world’s greatest threat to Gore’s mega-income.
There is indeed a place for algore in monitoring the climate.
He needs to go to Adak Alaska for a 2 year monitoring of the climate.
at his own expense.
. . and to help any polar bears that might still be clinging to life, Steve . ..
Steve of SC,
why do you hate the good people of Adak to curse them with the AlGoreEffect?
Antarctica, to take direct measurements.
Isn’t being in Antarctica trouble enough without wishing him on the people there?
… He will sit into that thermometer and cook that temps. All the way up.
It will read a constant 37.9 C.
It has to be a wind up. Someone is having a lend of both Gore and Trump, surely?
“Pollyannaish … ” Did he really say that? He is unreasonably or illogically pessimistic, not unreasonably or illogically optimistic. Or maybe he’s optimistic that further ill-gotten gains will come his way …
Let’s hope if a meeting takes place someone with a camera catches the body language.
Martin Clark November 11, 2016 at 6:57 pm
I found that whole statement most peculiar, viz:
So it’s reasonable to “hope for more than what we fear”? Say what?
So if I fear I might lose my job, it’s reasonable to hope I might not get canned? Set the bar low much? If I understand that the way it’s written, it’s as dumb as a bag of ball bearings.
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“it’s as dumb as a bag of ball bearings”
I dunno – ball bearings are at lease useful.
Consider the source.
I think he was trying to be Churchillesq, and all he ended up being was esq.
Is Gore still around?
Just think, he almost became president. We escaped another disaster back then, like the one we just escaped last tuesday.
Is Gore still around?
Yes he’s almost spherical
Icwutudidthar
Yea they announced he would campaign for Clinton on national TV before they realized he had been involved in an incident with police involvement in Portland, Oregon trying to do “inappropriate” things with a masseuse he’d called to his hotel room. I don’t think he actually did any campaigning.
Maybe Gore would be willing to put his convictions against Myron Ebell in a public forum. If Al can get past Myron with any vestige of credibility, maybe Don would be willing to talk to him.
Convictions? I wasn’t aware he has a criminal record?
See definition 2.
con·vic·tion
kənˈvikSH(ə)n/
noun: conviction; plural noun: convictions
1. a formal declaration that someone is guilty of a criminal offense, made by the verdict of a jury or the decision of a judge in a court of law. “she had a previous conviction for a similar offense”
synonyms: declaration of guilt, sentence, judgment “his conviction for murder”
antonyms: acquittal
2. a firmly held belief or opinion. “his conviction that the death was no accident”
synonyms: belief, opinion, view, thought, persuasion, idea, position, stance, article of faith
“his political convictions”
Oh SMC, I’m betting that was some of that pesky sarcasm. You know, “/sarc” and all. A joke. Ha ha.
Cube, you’re probably right. Just double tapping to make sure.
I’m sure he could be hired to run a snow-blower around the White House. That would be very helpful.
Considering the Gore Effect, if Gore’s in D.C., they’ll need a lot of snowblowers.
Give him a push snowblower(like a push lawnmower), He musn’t be seen using fossil fuels.
Very nice. Maybe we can set up a call for him with climate criminal Ebell.
I suspect Mr. Ebell going to be too busy running Al Gore’s climate legacy through the cross-cut shredder.
Don’t think the Al Gore Warmists will surrender so easily .
After all , Hillary actually won the popular vote .
Have they counted the military vote yet?
Or discounted the dead vote?
Don’t forget the felon vote too.
Hillary actually won the popular vote
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hillary won 20 states, trump won 30, in the United States of America.
in many respects the founding fathers got this right, because it prevents one or two big states like California and New York from imposing their choice on the rest of the country. to win the presidency a candidate must appeal broadly across the states.
furthermore for consideration,
the electoral college rules dictates who candidates run their campaigns and who they spend their message time on.
if the constitution spelled out a popular vote winner take-all, the candidate’s campaign strategy both bith parties would wildly different.
So given the system and rules as they are (not what the Liberals wish they were ex post facto), the plurality vote argument is meaningless.
“how” candidates run the campaign, not “who”. It’s been a long week. A good week. Hallelujah! Semper Fi! HooYaaahh!
The problem with regional tallies is that they may completely suppress the voice of a party which has uniform support over all regions. It promotes the success of parties which have just over 50% of the vote in more than 50% of the regions, but it also works against parties with 100% of the vote in less than 50% of the regions. Thus it gives rise to nonsensical outcomes where a minority party may be granted power.
We have that situation in the UK where UKIP have almost no parliamentary representation owing to the evenly distributed nature of their support across regions. If it was based on national voting they would be the main opposition party.
“hillary won 20 states, trump won 30, in the United States of America.”
It’s always good when things are put in proper perspective.
+++ 1000
Bob, do you have a source for that which includes the late counts?
Thanks.
Crispy,
NYTimes is still the best data on this.
http://www.nytimes.com/elections/results/president?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=span-abc-region®ion=span-abc-region&WT.nav=span-abc-region
Hillary has an approx. 588,000 vote lead (60.8M Hillary, 60.22M for Trump) with today’s latest numbers from the states.
That is out of about 130,000,000 votes cast for all Presidential candidates.
Trump has sealed the deal with 306 EVs. Even if a few Electoral College voters flipped, Trump is safely across the line.
Mainly in two states (one on east coast and one on west coast). That was the purpose of the electoral college in the first place.
Yeah, and you have to wonder how many voters on the Left Coast were illegal aliens. I would bet that’s a large number. Maybe more than 588,000.
There are 100,000 voting precincts across the US.
In some, there was likely only a few illegal votes, but in others, we can be quite certain the number was very high.
Do the math.
The fix was in, and that is why the losing side was so confident.
They just misunderestimated the amount they would lose by.
The rules are the rules…and they are what they are for very good reasons, not the least of which is we are a country of 50 individual states.
As has been pointed out, if the rules were different, the game would have been played differently.
We do not score football games by how many yards a team got in the game, or baseball by how many hits a team had.
Both sides strategized and organized their campaigns according to the rules of the contest…saying Hillary would have won is pure sophistry…a fake, untrue, and completely invalid argument.
@TA Some reports say there were as many as 1 million illegal voters in California alone.
Clinton’s problem is that the states where the Democrats can most easily commit electoral fraud were the ones where she was going to win anyway.
I don’t get this popular vote thing. If popular vote counted for anything at all, clearly Republican electoral resources could and would have been allocated as necessary to maximize those numbers. Obviously the campaign requires resources be directed towards the Electoral College numbers. Needlessly bolstering popular vote totals would be a wasteful exercise in irrelevant egotism. IMHO, of course.
Trump did make a few campaign stops in California, and even claimed he might win California. He said that about New York, too. Neither happened, but I would bet he got more votes than Romney did in those places.
So then the question becomes, do you return to California yet again for the certainty that doing so would increase your popular vote given the enormous population base, or instead take that day to campaign where the likelihood is that your efforts would be rewarded with an increase in collegiate total at the expense of popular vote? Which contest is he supposed to be fighting here?
@Arbeegee… I think Trump went to California to help out with some of the Congressional campaigns there. “Riding his coattails” as they say, to their possible victories.
@Dahlquist. Don’t disagree at all. But taking that further, the more he worked at those visits, the more his popular vote would rise. He could easily have made a decision to continue such visits and raise his popular vote, but given that being first with the popular vote is not relevant to election night success, why would anyone want to do that? If popular vote mattered, I’m sure he would have changed his tactics to accomplish that. I’m not sure how else to express that point.
From where I’m sitting, and with what I have read, Hillary also won the unpopular vote.
+1
Not once you subtract out all the ballot box stuffing and illegal voting.
Trump won handily.
Yes. He won by not only more than the margin of error, but by more than the margin of fraud.
And that ‘s killing the ‘Rats.
George Soros is paying for demonstrations against Trump Presidency.
George Soros is the multi billionaire hedge fund owner.
Hedge funds only make money when the economy is forced into crisis mode.
He became famous 20 years ago by driving the British Pound into devaluation.