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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Think this is it.
http://www.istockphoto.com/photo/power-plant-at-sunrise-gm465512027-33518722
Caption reads:
Power plant at sunrise – Stock image
Coal-fired Power Station, Concrete, Dawn, Industrial Building, Power Station
Yep, good find.
You got it, Greg. The picture keywords include “North Rhine Westphalia.” That was enough to track it down to the North Rhine-Westphalia, Grevenbroich, brown coal power station.
This image shows a cooling tower with the same profile and the same piping as in the head-post images and the same distant power pole to the lower left.
Anthony Coming from Refinery work I know that large heaters all have to be completely purged with steam to safely eliminate any combustibles before the first match is struck in the fire box during start up. Virtually all the photos I have seen associated with global warming promotion showing these steam plumbs coming from heater stacks are merely capturing this pre start up phase before any combustion and therefore with absolutely no CO2 involved. Many are purposely captured with shaded light to make the pure white plumbs look ominously dark. In southern california, as I assume is true around the country, operators are fined for having any visible smoke at all coming from their stacks. These pictures are very disingenuous, and I presume most of the promoters and publishers know this. Certainly Al Gore does. The photo shown is I believe of a cooling tower which continuously emits only pure water vapor from the cooling process. Again no CO2 at all involved. Shameful
Same photo is used elsewhere:
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Threesome at the New Years Eve (from The Times)
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/imageserver/image/methode%2Ftimes%2Fprod%2Fweb%2Fbin%2F2a3f693a-cec8-11e6-90d4-32d09e9feb7c.jpg?crop=2582,1721,615,229&resize=685
Truly religion for the stupid?
What you can learn from Yahoo finance
https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/AAPL/holders?p=AAPL
Direct Holders (Forms 3 and 4)
Name Shares Date Reported
LEVINSON ARTHUR D 1,133,283 Aug 9, 2016
COOK TIMOTHY D 1,039,809 Aug 31, 2016
FEDERIGHI CRAIG 510,482 Oct 1, 2016
GORE ALBERT JR 442,994 Feb 1, 2016
I see Al Gor4 Jr is the fourth biggest Apple shareholder, with nearly 443,000 shares., currently trading at 115 per share, so based on his Apple shares alone, he’s worth about $50 million.
They are using the CO2 feedback on your dollar. Give a dollar and C02 will multiply it to 1.45, methane will up it to 1.50 then water vapors feedback with a doubling to $3.00. Now when they go to the bank and demand that their balance be tripled would be a hoot to see.
Possible explanation of the triple business:
Freely donated funds can be used without restriction. That means $240,000 can be spent on fundraising campaigns which will raise $1,000,000. That will leave $760,000 net. Normally the income is earmarked to a particular ’cause’. Mind you the million will be in the bank. That’s how to raise a million in earmarked money for a particular project.
This in not an unusual tactic in the NGO community, the yield seems low, however. If the yield is only three to one, it means they turn $240,000 in free money into only $720,000 of project funds. The free money is written off but it was other people’s money so it’s okay.
The push to get the money before year end is likely because they spent it already and are trying to cover the bill. Because the ’cause’ money has been raised and spent, and the free money was short, they are scrambling to meet the ad bill/fund raising obligation before year end. Why not carry it over into the next financial year? Because they may have spent other earmarked funds on it expecting the free money to continue to arrive, but it didn’t.
This sort of activity is common in the donor community. They often get caught spending earmarked funds on other things (slush-funding). Suppose you get ten grand in free money. You spend all of it on ads that brings in fifty grand and put ten aside for the project, spending the rest on more ads. The plan of course is to “get it rolling”. Suppose it doesn’t roll? Maybe they had raised $510,000 after spending $250,000. Oops. So appeal for the missing amount as free money, then cover the shortfall for the project. Accounting-wise, it all gets written down as ‘money donated’, ‘money raised for the project. The ‘temporary mis-spendings of earmarked donations on fundraising goes unreported because it was covered by year end, hopefully.
Science trumps politics ?
Should read, Climate science triumphs via politics ?
That image of water vapour doubling for invisiible CO2 is used all over including Australia’s national broadcaster the ABC
Whenever climate change is mentioned on the TV of that organisation they predictably cut to a stock shot of a steam cooling tower belching
water vapour
If people want to give to the global warming religion so be it . Just quit trying to push their religion on everyone else that isn’t drinking their cool -aid .
Guaranteed they raise less than a quarter of the failed Green party election recount .
Without tax payer subsidies , grants and loan guarantees the earth has a fever religion is finished .
The phony smoke is certainly a trading/advertising standards issue. In the UK anyway, I don’t think many adverts would be allowed to show competing products in a falsely negative manner. The implication is that competing energy sources belch out pollution even from their cooling facilities. This is a deliberate lie.
Maybe someone in the USA could take this up.
I would say it’s double-plus-funny-good indeed if they are cooling towers for a nuclear power plant!
Could that be the Davis-Besse nuclear power station?
Plumes of water vapor in the light of the setting sun make awesome photos. The plumes take on the visual substance of a dark solid. They have been featured in Green propaganda since forever.
Remember back in November 2010, when experienced observers misattributed the water vapor plume of a jetliner as a submarine missile launch off the coast of California? The jet was moving toward the observers, low to the horizon in the light of the setting sun. Guys on the Internet quickly corrected the news services and even identified the flight as originating from Hawaii and on its descent path into the LA area.
I hope that Mr. Trump to take advantage of their knowledge which is confirmed by the work of Nikola Tesla and it will not be “stranded” in the shallows of knowledge on climate change that are based on stupid basis that the human factor is stronger than natural, and the natural factor is formed and the people .
I would ask Trump to explain when the main “culprit” of climate change, and in short, it is a magnetism that is a kind of “network magnetism” of the planets and the sun.
What man is so ignorant that claims that people are stronger than this overwhelming force produced by the planets and the sun, their mutual effect.