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Michael Bastasch
3:19 PM 08/17/2017
Former Vice President Al Gore labeled a British reporter a “denier” after he pressed the former vice president about scientific claims made in his recently-released global warming film.
“Are you a denier?” Gore asked The Spectator’s Ross Clark after a private screening of “An Inconvenient Sequel.” When Clark tried to finish his question, Gore said: “You are a denier.”
Clark questioned one part of Gore’s film that “cuts from Gore on his melting glacier to a flooded street in Miami Beach, with a voiceover from Gore making a strong connection between the two,” he wrote in an article.
“The implication is that sea-level rise is happening frighteningly quickly — and it is all down to carbon emissions, if not nature’s revenge for all those hanging chads which denied him victory in Florida and therefore the 2000 presidential election,” Clark wrote for The Spectator.
Clark was curious about the claim, so he asked Florida International University sea level expert Shimon Wdowinski about global warming’s impact on sea level rise. Wdowinski said glacial melt did impact sea level rise, but the recent surge in sea levels in Miami had more to do with “short-term variability caused by changes in ocean currents.”
Wdowinski also noted that subsidence is another major factor for flooding in Miami, much of which is built on reclaimed swamps and barrier islands. Clark wrote that “[s]atellite measurements reveal that some streets now lie 16 to 24 cm lower than they did 80 years ago.”
A recent study supports Wdowinski’s point. Sea levels south of Cape Hatteras rose about six times faster than the global average from 2011 to 2015, according to University of Florida researchers.
The study found “two large atmospheric patterns most likely accounted for the hot spot off the Southeast coast: the El Niño cycle and the North Atlantic Oscillation,” The New York Times reported.
Gore wasn’t interested in hearing inconvenient science. “As soon as I mention Professor Wdowinski’s name, he counters: ‘Never heard of him — is he a denier?’” Clark wrote, adding Gore soon accused him of being a “denier.”
Clark was also confronted by “a frosty PR woman” who told him “this is a film junket, to promote the film,” not an event to ask hard questions.
Clark isn’t the first to confront Gore on his scientific claims. Fox News host Chris Wallace asked Gore about failed predictions made in his 2006 film “An Inconvenient Truth.”
Wallace confronted Gore on his claim that “[u]nless we take drastic measures the world would reach a point of no return within 10 years,” there would be a “true planetary crisis” due to global warming.
“We are going to suffer some of these consequences, but we can limit and avoid the most catastrophic if we accelerate the pace of change that’s now beginning,” Gore told Wallace.
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Suspect Al Gore jumped on the globull warming gravy train precisely because he lost. Had to go rent seeking and publicity hunting elsewhere. A complete and total ar$e.
Gore was on the CAGW Train before he ran for president. He’s been a fanatic about CO2 for a long time.
But not in his private life with a huge carbon footprint.
astounding that the elite left can say one thing while living as a huge Hyprocrite.
Funny, when I read “this is a film junket, to promote the film,” I read it as ““this is a film junket, to promote a junk film,” which seemed like a more honest answer to me.
Though shalt not commit blasphemy against allah gore.
This is best expressed according to my personal impression.
I wish everyone who doesn’t know about the climate debate could read this post to see how corrupt political and immoral the alarmists are. From there, it would motivate many to investigate further & see CAGW for what it is & then loose what little remaining support it has.
From the article: “The study found “two large atmospheric patterns most likely accounted for the hot spot off the Southeast coast: the El Niño cycle and the North Atlantic Oscillation,” The New York Times reported.”
This “hotspot” of higher sea level along the East Coast is caused by “two large atmospheric patterns”, not CAGW, according to the study mentioned in this article. I wonder if Al Gore is familiar with the study? Apparently not, since Al seems to think CAGW is the cause. Someone should tell Al, so he doesn’t continue to embarrass himself.
And let’s not forget to mention the King Tides as a contributing factor to the flooding. No CAGW needed.
CAGW promoters like Al Gore are SO dishonest.
Nobody disgusts me more than ALgore…well perhaps the snide faced hockey stick dude whom I cannot even conjure up it’s name at the moment.
That would Mike “Piltdown” Mann
In each case, Gore avoided answers to scientific questions? Plus ca change.
Shouldn’t the first question to Gore have been, “If you are so concerned about sea-level rise, why did you buy a beachfront property?”
The alarmist community is chock-full of would-be Joseph McCarthys, so convinced of their righteousness that almost any means are defensible to advance their cause.
Al is a genius, his scam is The Emperor’s New Clothes, rewrit and acted with a modern cast.
Instead of the original litmus test,of can you SEE & FEEL the Fabric, Oh wise and intelligent ones..
Its can you SEE & FEEL the virtue, Oh Intelligent, compassionate concerned ones..
If you can’t well.
First version, “You are obviously an ignorant fool unfit for any position of authority.
Second version,”You are obviously an ignorant fool unfit for any position of authority..Denier…
The only other difference is the total number of idiots living in each time span.
Me thinks we have so many more Fools and Bandits than Hans Christian Anderson ever imagined.
Just quote Shakespeare:
“How am I a denier? Let me count the threads …”
Al Gore is not a denier, he’s a liar.
Humm, Kinda surprised he wasn’t called a Racist Denier for good measure. Seems to be the most common way to shut people up.
Take a look at this my friends:
” The oceans with their large thermal and dynamic inertia provide a buffer that delays the response of the surface climate to changes in greenhouse gas concentrations. The oceans will continue to warm over about 500 years. Their waters will expand as they warm, causing sea level rise. Ice sheets are thought to respond over timescales of centuries, though this is challenged by recent data from Greenland and Antarctica, which show evidence of a more rapid, though possibly transient, response. Their full contribution to sea level rise will take centuries to manifest. Studies of climate change abatement policies typically end in the year 2100 and thus do not take into account that most of the sea level rise due to the emission of greenhouse gases in the next 100 years will occur decades and centuries later. Sea level is projected to rise 0.2–0.6 meters by the year 2100, primarily as a result of thermal expansion of the oceans; however, it may eventually reach values up to several meters higher than today when the disintegration of glaciers and ice sheets contributes more strongly to sea level rise. (A sea level rise of 4 meters would submerge much of southern Florida.)”
Source: Dr. Tapio Schneider, climate scientist and Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering at the California Institute of Technology.
Link: http://www.skeptic.com/reading_room/how-we-know-global-warming-is-real/#.WZG9zH6k6RM.twitter
Really? does he have to claim that nonsense to keep his job out there in La La land. might be helpful to look at the datar
Even if that alarming sea level rise prospect is true, it doesn’t mean the West should try to mitigate the problem unless the rest of the world is on board with cutting its emissions in sync with us. And on board with reporting on them honestly (if it can even measure them accurately). None of that is happening or going to happen, so we shouldn’t go it alone at all: it would just be an economically self-defeating gesture. As Monckton said, anything that’s affordable is insufficient, and anything that’s sufficient is unaffordable.
If, down the road, the problem looks like it might be dire, the only option will be to try geo-engineering. And to move, belatedly to nuclear (or hopefully to compact fusion, if it’s been proven by then).
Not quite sure what you mean by nuclear. Can you elaborate a bit more on this?
I mean get-4 nuclear plants, which supposedly are safer and cheaper than what we’ve got so far. And maybe thorium plants, or part-thorium, if it doesn’t have a hidden flaw.
Al Gore then Truth Hater. He should be brutally beaten.
Lolz- sounds like pretty much every argument with an alarmist.
“I am left feeling like the guy in Monty Python who paid for a five-minute argument and was allowed only 30 seconds.” -Ross Clark
I wonder if the Great Gore still promotes the idea that the Earth is several million degrees a few kilometers down (?)
It is, isn’t it? I mean, he said so.
Besides WUWT, has a single reporter / scientist / policy wonk ever held him to accounts for this?
Strange how such outrageous lack of science is supported my the MSM if Gore says it with a D in general science to add to his accomplishments.
Just Al being Al.
Not a surprise really for someone whose only training was as a Doctor of Divinity. You either believe and accept all the church’s sacraments or you’re a heretic. Just be glad this isn’t the 15th century and Malleus Maleficarum is no longer in force.
Gore failed his divinity courses, and got a gut degree in governmental studies or the like instead.
cgh Are you sure it isn’t? Malleus Maleficarum was, after all, the original “precautionary principle”
AL has run out of credibility and this just demonstrates what happens when he is confronted with all the BS prophesies used to make millions on the scary global warming caper .
Gore likes to present this air of just a good guy trying to stop the earths fever that he invented.
Nobody is buying it except for those who need a religious substitute to believe in
or are panning for gold .
What ever happened to Mini – Al the great flood profit of doom ? The off shore cash fraud investigation
taking up a little too much time ?
Now that the obstacle Bannon is gone can we expect to see a White House circle back . Count on it .
Of course Al Gore has never heard of Prof. Wdowinski. Wdowinski does actual scientific research, not propaganda.
Should have replied I’m not a denier, sir you are a liar
Let’s see now who to believe 30,000 scientists or Al Gore a failed politician with no scientific credentials ?
Why the global warming name change ? Caught in a massive exaggeration (earth has a fever ) so time for the rebrand to Climate Change . Everyone knows climate changes and sooner or later the odd hurricane is going to happen so a pretty safe bet to run from the tall tales of climate fever that had run it’s course . But hey scary global warming paid well for a while and divorce isn’t cheap after all .
No Denying one thing Al Gore created a product (hot air ) turned into $millions and not everyone could have pulled that off . OK Enron and a few others but those guys really had a lot of help .
If science were to be as Gore, Brain Cox, and so many others would have it, there would be no true research. And certain truths would never be discovered. A pertinent example, due to the increased awareness of ocean pollution, is coral bleaching.
If Gore, et al, were to be believed, the only cause is global warming. End of story! The topic is CLOSED! But real science has revealed there are at least four other factors that interfere with these marine ecosystems:
* plastic micro particles
* leaching of estrogen-like compounds from plastic
* petroleum pollution
* oxybenzone toxicity (a chemical found in many sunblock products)
The most obvious common factors linking all four of these forms of pollution are human population, its waste, and marine transportation.
The question now is whether there is any correlation between instances of coral bleaching and the proximity of human habitations and areas of increased tourism. Has anyone researched this aspect yet?
This is all going end very sadly for Al Gore. History will not be kind.
Gore acts as if he has some scientific credibility, knowing all along that he is lying by both omission and commission. At some point the reporter should take the same role of “lying actor” too. To the standard “denier” response the “lying actor” reporter could respond that he has a PhD in Physics from “impressive university name” and point out that Gore is spewing nonsense, scientifically speaking… pointing out that the reporter had no such credentials and was lying just points out the equivalence to Gore’s ranting.