People send me stuff. Today I got a “please send money” solicitation from multi-millionaire climate crusader Al Gore, who reportedly has increased his net worth north of $200 million since losing his Presidential bid in 2000.
You’d think with all that cash at his disposal, he could hire a proofreader before he starts making pitches for money. Here is what was sent with the subject “Science must trump politics”:
The cheesy subject line is of course, a jab at president-elect Trump. In the email, the Gorebots go on to tell us how terrible it is:
Let’s face it: we have a long, hard road ahead of us in 2017. A president-elect who has denied the reality of the climate crisis is about to move into the White House, and he has nominated a list of oil industry insiders to serve in key cabinet positions responsible for the nation’s public lands, environment, and even foreign policy.
But despite these circumstances, we still have hope. That’s because people like you are standing up every day to support common-sense solutions to the climate crisis.
-, please make a gift today. With your support, you’ll help us mobilize activists around the world to accelerate the shift to clean energy and ensure President-elect Donald Trump follows through with the US’ commitment to the Paris Agreement. And for the next two days, your tax-deductible contribution will have 3X the impact.
Our challenge is crystal clear – but so is our opportunity to build on the incredible progress the movement for climate solutions has made this year.
This is our chance to speak up and stand tall.
This is our time to make a difference and create a healthy, sustainable future for our planet.
Science must trump politics in 2017. You can help. Give now.
– Your friends at Climate Reality
I’ve redacted the links to donations, for obvious reasons. I had to chuckle at the claim of “incredible progress”. Yes, it is incredible, just not how they view it.
But what’s really funny is the picture Gore’s people used. Of course they had to put the obligatory evil power plant in the pitch for money, and usually, they pick a smokestack that has been photoshopped to have darker, more menacing smoke and invisible CO2.
Today, hilariously, they used cooling towers venting water vapor, not CO2. They don’t even mention CO2 in the pitch, as they seem to be all about fighting Trump instead. Despite searching, I have not been able to locate the source photo to determine what power plant that photo is from, but wouldn’t it be doubly funny if it turned out to be cooling towers at a nuclear power plant?
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Climate Reality is not our friend!
Their Facebook page is almost dead.
good!
It’s interesting that you didn’t make the same comment about the recent carbon rather than CO2 post.
Chris December 30, 2016 at 2:00 pm
“It’s interesting that you didn’t make the same comment about the recent carbon rather than CO2 post.”
How many Carbon Credits do you get payed to foist upon the whole world the idea that
CO2-Climate Change is always a disaster? I wouldn’t get payed anything either if I told everyone I saw as a Patient only that “You have a Disease.”Name of original image file at the Climate Reality site is “CR-EOY3-lightbox-20161220-smokestacks-r1.png”. Even there, objects shown are mis-identified as “smokestacks”. Hopeless.
We knew that from the website before you conclusively proved it again.
Stares in disbelief.
These people are the most ignorant know it alls in the world. I mean you couldnt possibly think there’s a smokestack. Unless you are a moron not knowing anything about energy production.
Hyperbolic or natural draft cooling towers are not unique to nuclear power. They are found in very large, 1,000 MW +/- coal or NG Rankine plants where local ambient conditions allow for effective operation. Brayton Point is an example. Palo Verde Nuclear has low profile round crossflow towers, three each or nine of them, because hyperbolics don’t work well in the desert. It’s a trade off between cost, fan horsepower, heat load, etc. As much as 50% of the energy that enters the steam turbine is released to the atmosphere from condensing the turbine’s exhaust steam. Thermodynamic fact of life. Another reason why combined cycles are so popular. Typical Rankine is abut 35% efficient. Typical CCPP about 60%.
More precise numbers. Nuclear ~31% efficient, cooling tower thermal energy loss 69% (reason is safety, as risk increases with steam temp and resulting pressure). Conventional subcritical coal ~34%, 66% cooling tower loss. USC coal ~45%, so 55% loss. By comparison, CCGT is 61% efficient. So 39% loss. Abut 2/3 of that is direct post heat exchanger exhaust gas loss, like in a car tailpipe. Only about 1/3 is in steam recondensation (like a car radiator), which is why CCGT dont have cooling towers at all. They use radiator equivalents.
The cooling water ‘steam’ is not from the ultrapure (therefore ultra expensive) boiler turbine circuit water. It is ordinary water ( like from a river or well) that showers onto and evaporates in the cooling tower to recondense the exposed pipe pure boiler circuit steam. The hyperbolic towers use natural convection to remove the heat now resident in the ordinary water vapor evaporate. Cross flow towers use base fans to move the evaporate heat up and out.
Al-a-gor-ical what a great scientist! ;(
“ensure President-elect Donald Trump follows through”
Presuming the Goracle was actually personally involved with this debacle, can you imagine how painful it was for NEVER-gonna-be-President Al Gore to write that? 😀
‘Science trumps politics’ is a tired slogan aimed at claiming the one ‘true’ science.
But it is supposed to contrast with others’ – what? data manipulation?
This when Gore’s own torturing of statistics is a scientific Guantanamo!
+1
When all the donations are electronic transactions the funding drives don’t have to be as careful about who gets their requests for donations as they do with old style mailers. I read an article on that years ago, several fund drive directors making the same point about their mail donation processors having traumatic experiences opening those envelopes when they came back from people who hated their cause. They didn’t want to say what the worst items they received were, but I know a work acquaintance of mine who was extremely pro-gun rights got a mailer from a gun control group and he sent their envelope back with toilet paper in it. USED toilet paper. Can’t get stuff like that in an all electronic fund raising effort. I do not condone the TP thing. Maybe send the global warmist organization a picture of a hockey stick, though that humor would surely be missed by the peons they’ve conned into processing their mail.
just discovered this guy. Forgive me if you think it off topic
Not really off topic, but Milo makes a claim I had not heard – that he worked for a climate organization and was present at some conferences (he mentions Bali, for example). Anybody know who he worked for? He makes some pretty strong statements about scientists fudging results, that he says are from personal experience.
“As “Wagner”, he worked as a speechwriter for Bianca Jagger, and is listed as her assistant on the World Future Council’s website, in an entry about a UN Framework Convention on Climate Change held in Bali in December 2007.”
http://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/other/who-is-milo-yiannopoulos-everything-you-need-to-know-about-donald-trumps-alt-right-poster-boy/ar-AAkKAtm
So the have a “goal” of $240K total, and with the tripling (where is that coming from I wonder) they say they need up to $110K in donations. Wait, what? $240K / 3 = $80K. So why are they looking for up to $110K? As usual, the numbers don’t add up.
Also, I like the bit about “Climate Crisis Denier”. So now it’s climate crisis instead of climate change. LOL. At least being a “climate crisis denier” is closer to the truth. I deny that there is any reasonable proof that a crisis with the climate is happening or about to happen.
Oh C’mon now.
Pity the poor underpaid graphic artist:
‘Come up with a sinister feeling of time running out and CO2 being emitted’
‘What is CO2?’
‘Oh FFS. Who knows?’
It’s a trick so stupid even a mentally challenged child would recognize it’s fake…ergo they know their audience is stupider than that.
The image is named “CR-EOY3-lightbox-20161220-smokestacks-r1.png”, found by searching through the page source-code. Google finds only one instance, presumably because of the added text. Their filename says it all. They’re the fattest and squattest “smokestacks” I’ve ever seen.
They say they have “big news” and follow that with -: Seriously?
The cover art of my ebook Blowing Smoke illustrated the same trick, discussed in the preface. The cover art professional was concerned about image copyright. She was relieved when I assured her it was public domain– lifted directly from the EPA who were perpetrating the deception.. She cropped the EPA image and added/placed all the lettering. She got a special mention because did such a good job
Did EPA also call it a smokestack?
I am waiting for some brave soul to report this to the police as a solicitation scam, that the information used to elicit the payment is deceptive and therefore constitutes fraud. For example by not explaining how the donation gets multiplied by three and the use of the deceptive image.
“We need your help to reach our goal of raising $240,000 before the 2016 comes to an end.”
Hmm..can’t even proofread their begging appeal. Anyone know who is the “generous supporter” who will tripple your donation?
Perhaps all cooling towers should be modified like some I saw at a power plant in Chile. They had “IT IS NOTHING BUT WATER VAPOR” in huge letters written on them (in spanish of course). It both informs the public and makes pictures of them politically useless.
Do you have a link to photos? I’d love to grab a copy.
It is to laugh.
I do agree with the last in-bold statement. It is a laugh that President-Elect Trump and his Cabinet Officers will be the ones who actually have a good chance and in their efforts, Science will Trump Climate Politics and Al Gore in particular.
So we should help Al spend his $200 million, and very quickly at that during 2017.
By the way, Al Gore has been on the Board of Directors at Apple Inc. since 2003. In 2013 he has some options to vest and netted a sweet $30 million. So I do hope that President-Elect Trump and his Cabinet Officers will give Al Gore a lot of motivation to loose that $200 million in 12 months.
With Al’s hand firmly yanking on the Sow’s Tit the Sow may have other ideas!
Ha ha
Adding more H2O to the atmosphere has a net cooling effect as evidenced by the fact that the wet lapse rate is significantly less than the dry lapse rate. Global cooling is suppose to be good since global cooling is required to stop and reverse sea level rise.
Accordiing to the Paris Climate Agreement, the effort is suppose to be funded by the rich nations. The USA has a huge National Debt, huge annual deficits. and hugh annual trade deficits. We have become a poor debetor nation and cannot afford to fund anything. So it is totally not necessary for those of the USA to donate anything to the cause. It is all to be funded by other nations.
The photographing at low light (sunrise/sunset) is a common trick, to make the nice white fluffy clouds of water vapour look like evil plumes of planet-punishing dirty black smoke. (Leftie warmist loopies wouldn’t know the difference, let alone being able to distinguish a coolong tower from a chimney).
But the best I’ve seen was Australian leftie actor, Michael (clueless) Caton, trying to con people in an ad campaign, to “embrace” the unmandated carbon tax foistered upon the Australian people.
http://resources3.news.com.au/images/2011/05/30/1226065/365931-michael-caton-carbon-tax.jpg
So dopey were the producers of this propaganda, that they stood him affront of a picture of Battersea power station – decommissioned in 1983 in the UK !!
Pigs will fly before that lot tell the truth. This would have made a better background.
http://flacmusic.info/uploads/posts/2012-03/1331566516_s.jpg
Seems my image has been pulled down. Maybe somebody who originally posted the fake news doesn’t like it being exposed as fake news. Not to worry. Here it is again
https://postimg.org/image/a3rdzzfux/
The turbine hall was a tragic loss.
https://www.architecture.com/Explore/Buildings/BatterseaPowerStation.aspx
Anyone who donates must certainly understand they are financing other people to enjoy the high society life style hobnobbing all around the world.
Bwahahahahahahahahaha. That has to be the most asinine,stupid,completely illogical statement of 2016. If they understood ANYTHING,they would not donate a cent.
Ignorance can be fixed through education….stupid is forever.
“I had to chuckle at the claim of “incredible progress”. Yes, it is incredible, just not how they view it” What is incredible is how they have been able to fool so many people, including a lot of smart ones. For those in the science profession it has to be tied to the money to be made. To bad they have sold their reputation for the bucks.