21 August 2017
There are plenty of theories about what led to the Brexit vote. Now, Al Gore, has a new one to add to the pile. The former vice president – who has been busy promoting his new film by labelling those who question him ’deniers’ – says the EU referendum result was brought about because of… climate change.
Gore suggested that the war in Syria was caused by ‘climate refugees’ flooding into the cities. This, in turn, by Gore’s version of events at least, kickstarted the wider refugee crisis – eventually leading Brits to vote out last June. Here’s what Gore told the New European:
‘Long before the civil war in Syria began from 2006 to 2010 80% of livestock were killed by the drought, 60% of farms were destroyed, 1.5 million climate refugees were driven into their cities where they collided with another 1.5 million from the Iraq War… And soon thereafter the civil war – which had other causes as well – erupted and opened the gates of hell, and the refugee crisis, which also had other causes, began to shake the foundations of the European experiment.
Of course there were many causes of Brexit, but one of them was this, and the most powerful ad in the campaign was that billboard showing the endless lines of refugees at the borders of Europe with the implicit message ‘do you want them coming here?’
Read the full story at The Spectator
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Remind me to not eat sugar-glazed donuts if that visage is the result…..
Be careful just what you imply about “His
eminenceImmenseness”All of the surveys done since the Brexit Referendum have shown that the key reason for the public voting to leave the EU was to restore sovereignty to the UK.
We have had enough of our laws made elsewhere. We have had enough of electing politicians who are then unable to make the 70% of our laws and policies dictated to us by the unelected and unaccountable in Brussels.
I have long believed that the EU is the ‘dry run’ for creating the unelected and unaccountable World Government that the UN and the Liberal Elite crave and are trying to create off the back of the climate change scare. The EU has rehearsed the mechanisms for removing true decision making from the nation state whilst leaving the appearance of democracy as a sop to the disenfranchised voter.
Returning to Al Gore it reminds me of the old joke about how do you know someone is lying and the answer to which is ‘their lips are moving’.
All of the surveys done since the Brexit Referendum have shown that the key reason for the public voting to leave the EU was to restore sovereignty to the UK. It had nothing to with that advert – it simply suits Gore to use it as fake news and a fake explanation.
It was about sovereignty to most people , We have had enough of our laws made elsewhere. We have had enough of electing politicians who are then unable to make the 70% of our laws and policies dictated to us by the unelected and unaccountable in Brussels.
I have long believed that the EU is the ‘dry run’ for creating the unelected and unaccountable World Government that the UN and the Liberal Elite crave and are trying to create off the back of the climate change scare. The EU has rehearsed the mechanisms for removing true decision making from the nation state whilst leaving the appearance of democracy as a sop to the disenfranchised voter.
Returning to Al Gore it reminds me of the old joke about how do you know someone is lying and the answer to which is ‘their lips are moving’.
Sovereignty? That’s a direct consequence of a runaway global warming. Case closed.
Mr. Denier-in-chief even denies that he is a denier.
All of the surveys done since the Brexit Referendum have shown that the key reason for the public voting to leave the EU was to restore sovereignty to the UK.
We have had enough of our laws made elsewhere. We have had enough of electing politicians who are then unable to make the 70% of our laws and policies dictated to us by the unelected and unaccountable in Brussels.
I have long believed that the EU is the ‘dry run’ for creating the unelected and unaccountable World Government that the UN and the Liberal Elite crave and are trying to create off the back of the climate change scare. The EU has rehearsed the mechanisms for removing true decision making from the nation state whilst leaving the appearance of democracy as a sop to the disenfranchised voter.
Returning to Al Gore it reminds me of the old joke about how do you know someone is lying and the answer to which is ‘their lips are moving’.
If we did not have the word “buffoon” in our vocabulary well Al Immensus would inspire its creation.
Please, let him keep going.
Someone famous, somewhere, once said something like, don’t interrupt your opponent when he’s making a cnut of himself.
Well yes; Brexit was a result of “climate change”.
Sharia just didn’t look so great to the Brits.
And just in time, I might add. Ca-tration, is not usually reversible !!
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Finally, something good that we can blame on Global Warming.
“In that case, “let us wait twenty minutes; when the enemy is making a false movement we must take good care not to interrupt him.” ~ Napoleon 1805
Man Bear Pig 2.0
He is shameless in his lying
And having Islamic Terrorist getting control of the waterways just added to the turmoil. Not Climate Change, which is generally equated to ‘Average of 30 years of Weather”. Algor needs another 20 years before claiming this.
The Islamic State’s quest for hydrological control began in northern Syria, where in early 2013, it captured the old Russian-built Tabqa Dam, which barricades the Euphrates as it flows out of Turkey. The dam, which is the world’s largest earthen dam, is a major source of water and electricity for five million people, including Syria’s largest city Aleppo. It also irrigates a thousand square kilometers of farmland.
The Islamic State’s control of the Tabqa Dam has been haphazard, to say the least. In May, the reservoir behind it, Lake Assad, dramatically emptied. Many blamed Turkey for holding Euphrates water back behind its own dams upstream. But the Arab news service Al Jazeera quoted engineers at the dam as saying that their new masters had ordered them to maximize the supply of electricity. That required emptying the reservoir’s water through the dam’s hydroelectric turbines.
http://e360.yale.edu/features/mideast_water_wars_in_iraq_a_battle_for_control_of_water
Vote for the Cause – ISIS or Climate Change
A silly question. Don’t you know that ISIS was caused by climate change? [sarc]
al gore is 100% dishonest and rather stupid
I think WILLFULLY stupid!
Weapons grade stupid.
Gore ain’t so daft, his original movie made him millions supporting his renewables funding scam.
Never underestimate an idiot.
I speak from experience, I have been underestimated many times in my life.
All Gore is caused by …… climate change
Of course Al Gore is right, The political climate in the United Kingdom did change.
You know what’s the cause of Al Gore? Climate change! Without climate change, Al Gore would not exist.
When does Gore take delivery of the clown costume?
Oh and talking of fruitcakes, the latest stupidity here in the U.K. announced on the BBC news just now is that Admiral Nelson’s statue should be removed from Trafalger Square on the grounds he was a pro-slavery white man (even though I think I’m correct in saying he never owned any slaves).
Mind you I’ve always blamed the ancient Greeks and Romans for all this aggressive imperialism lark (especially Alexander the Great trashing the much more civilized Persian world); instead of returning the Elgin marbles to Greece the British Museum should take them out into the courtyard and invite visitors to take hammers and destroy them. Along with every other Greek and Roman statue. Oh and then the Egyptian things too, they were imperialists too.
Who needs any knowledge of history anyway when we have the true belief of anything before yesterday is monochromatically evil and coated in CO2.
Al-Gore don’t need a clown suit, just a plain white one with straps around his back …
It almost seems that the inevitable end of this stream of thought will be a desire to erase all vestiges of history since slavery or coercive labour practices were rather common and widespread practices among most postindustrial cultures that were in conflict with neighboring cultures and in competition for the same resources. This includes many indigenous cultures in the west and elsewhere. Trying to judge the past by present standards is a fool’s errand. We should just be grateful that we live in a world where most of us can live a very comfortable life while supporting a high level of human rights and protections for all. Our efforts are better directed toward providing the same in areas where people are not so fortunate.
Slavery was a constant for all of human history in every culture and practiced by every race until , wait for it, Western protestants realized that they couldn’t reconcile individual liberty bestowed by god with slavery. Guess what happened than, they want around the world waging war and wiping out the slave trade everywhere. Talk about an inconvenient truth. And i am not even a christian!
Of course “postindustrial” should have been “preindustrial”. I blame a coffee deficiency.
Nelson may not have owned slaves but he did pressgang a lot of Scots, Irish and lowly English into his navies. Same thing in the end.
I think not. Press gangs were a perfectly normal feature of life in and around ports during that time. If you wanted to avoid being press-ganged – avoid ports. He didn’t actually press gang anybody personally though he may well have had press-ganged crew onboard, but he can’t be blamed for that. Moreover, he made a point of looking after his crews, insisting after one battle that a lower deck sailor be treated before him because the sailor’s injuries were worse – an act unheard of in those days. Moreover Nelson introduced the “Divisional System” into the Royal Navy to ensure that his men were looked after and that they had redress. It is STILL in use to this day. All crew were paid (so not slaves), were free to leave when hostilities were finished (unlike slaves) and were in receipt of prize money – and after Trafalgar that was quite a considerable amount (slaves are unpaid)
If anything, Nelson was loved by his crew’s because he recognised their worth, he looked after them, went to great pains to ensure they were well fed (over 5,000 calories per day per man). Unlike many captains he would talk to his men personally and visit them in the lower decks, and as mentioned earlier, receive treatment after them. In the 18th/19th century this was revolutionary stuff, but this combined with his leadership, tactical brilliance and personal bravery ensured that his men would follow him into hell if need be – and they did.
You simply cannot judge someone who lived in those times by the standards of this age.
ModCross – “Oh and then the Egyptian things too”
Definitely had a hand in the start of the Black Slave Trade.
While there had been slaves in Egypt since the beginning of its history, their numbers greatly increased during the New Kingdom, when the pharaohs were committed to a policy of foreign involvement and conquests in Nubia, Canaan and Syria brought in many prisoners of war, seqer-ankh, who were enslaved, at times branded with the sign ki
Someone should take a hammer to Karl Marx’s statue in London.
He is responsible for millions of deaths.
No one is calling for this statue to be removed……see the difference
He’s too busy eating locusts and searching for honey
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Moderately Cross of East Anglia
A bit like the pig story. Firemen went to a burning barn, pigs threatened, firemen saved them…..Yadayada.
Much later, farmers wife sends sausages from slaughtered pigs to firemen as a thank you, they BBQ them, pronounce them delicious, then are condemned for doing so by the animal rights mob.
Seriously. Where does this idiotic campaign against everything, ever end? A moral crusade over pigs that were going to be killed and eaten, saved from being roasted alive, humanely slaughtered as normal, then served up as perfectly normal sausages.
These people really need to get a grip.
… and algore was caused by a broken condom….
A ‘broken condom’…so he could have been a ‘con’ or a ‘dom’. I think we all know what he became.
Dom Corly-Owe me……….a living and a large fortune?
Al Gore is the shining light for climate “science”. Mann, Hansen and others are in his likeness!
Perhaps “likeness” could be replaced by “darkness”. It is as if the Goricle cause a total eclipse of reality.
Really Al Gore . No… Brexit was caused by a globalist agenda and stupid border policies that are
straining societies who are now tapped out . It is rather pathetic that scary global warmest
are so desperate to blame the demise of their crumbling industry on the earth having a fever .
The Climate Clowns really should move on to a new manufactured crisis . Global cooling refresh might be worth a shot . Time magazine is still around to do a few updates of the 1970’s campaign .
What a shame some massive Hurricane hasn’t been conveniently available to help hype the
failing sequel The Gore flop .
Check out my spoof on the shifting narrative–global cooling morphing into warming: Winston Smith loves Big Brother even more now that he has returned to the fold and discovered global warming.
By the way, if some people don’t like the source, I probably wouldn’t care for a few of the websites they like either. But if a site has something that appears valid, I’m willing to judge it on its own merits rather than falling into the genetic fallacy.
How long can this idiocy continue?
Ad Infinitum, Ad Nauseum
“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary”
H.L. Mencken (1880-1956)
“How long can this idiocy continue?”
How many idiots are there in the world?
Until there is significant cooling.
They believe without any evidence of significant warming, what makes you think significant cooling will make a difference? Heck most of the true believers are so young they have lived most of their lives during the great pause, they have never experienced physically any warming, yet they all will tell you how much warmer it is now than when they were little kids.
The “true believers” may continue to believe despite cooling, but their credibility with the rest of the populace, including politicians, will decline. Even IGPOCC’s reports will have to lower their climate sensitivity estimate-range if there is significant cooling.
Until the money stops rolling in.
As sure sunset follows rather than leads sunrise, the money will stop rolling, as we are running of borrowed money to spend.
I guess that is kind of a prediction. The end of the age of deficit spending.
The Western Countries are still borrowing money based on GDP growth of 3 to 5 percent. Unfortunately, due to shipping millions and millions of jobs to Asia, the Western Countries GDP growth, is around 1 to 2 percent.
https://www.amazon.com/When-Money-Runs-Out-Affluence/dp/0300205236
When the Money Runs Out: The End of Western Affluence
http://www.tradingeconomics.com/united-states/government-debt-to-gdp
Thanks, WA.
Greece and Italy are examples of what will happen.
I am afraid it will continue until the left pushes us into a civil war.
The only problem with Gore’s fantasy world is that global warming had nothing to do with the conditions that caused those people to move. Small problem, I’ll admit.
Al Gore and his religion had more to do with it than global warming.
The so-called “climate change refugees” were in fact opportunists who wanted to leave their poverty and war stricken countries to settle in Europe. We saw 1000’s of people trying and succeeding to get into Europe, usually fighting age males. They have no intention of assimilating into our culture, in fact they want us to assimilate into theirs. This was ONE of the reasons I wanted to leave; the high-handed, corrupt (the EU auditors have refused to sign off the EU accounts for twenty consecutive years), unelected Brussels elite who tell us how much renewable energy we must produce, the maximum power of irons and vacuum cleaners we are permitted to have, lavatories that don’t flush and light bulbs that don’t light.
Agree, we have a number of those people now in Sweden, that after being granted to stay, admit (with laughter) that the only reason they got here, was to get a better life (and still keeping their cultural habits up to date …)
By their admission, they are nothing but wellfare tourists …
How much as Al Gore cost the world so far?
$Trillion$
That sounds like an understatement …
Uh-uh, Bryan A. Knudsen didn’t ask how how much he’s made…
Apparently the CO2 emissions from Gore’s vast array of residences were the direct cause of the drought in Syria. The subsequent migration of refugees from the Mediterranean to northern Europe was a gravitational wake effect when Gore left the Pope to go chat with Queen Elizabeth. His sense of self importance has caused his ego to form a small black hole with it’s own dark irresistible center. So when calculating his cost impact keep those factors in mind.
Snake oil salesman extraordonaire
The man’s a bloomin idiot govn’r.
All Lies Going On Religiously Everyday
What an idiot. 👎🏻
I suppose I could sit around all day like Al constructing implausible, ludicrous, chains of causality, but I have real work to do.
Brexit was partly caused by a CO2 spewing global elite who, no matter what the problem, manage to find us plebs guilty and for which we have to pay, and pay, and pay.
That certainly figured in my vote to leave, the desire to be free of EU eco-zealots, so AG may be partly right, but not for the reason he cited.
Quite, and I voted leave for the same reason so many “deplorables” voted for Trump. I got fed up with being slandered, smeared and patronised. My main reason was to make my country a free, sovereign nation state again in charge of its own laws, and borders, Nothing too radical you understand!
Tens of thousands of refugees fleeing Libya and dying while trying to cross the Mediterranean are also caused by AGW. It has nothing to do with our overthrow of the Libyan government.
Many of these stories (like Al Gore’s lies) skirt around much bigger topics, like, the U.S. gov., in bed with the media and lying to us about all of the important issues. The vast majority of our mainstream media (tv, newspapers, magazines, radio, etc.) is owned and controlled by 6 corporations. This, of course, means that unless you’re already consciously avoiding these mainline media sources, then most of the news and entertainment that makes it onto your screen and into your mind comes from a small pool of corporate sources, all of which play important roles in delivering propaganda, social programming and perpetual crisis narratives to the public.
/endrant
Or how about US policy to drive up fuel prices and switch a lot of grain production to fuel production driving up the price of food around the world, any chance any of that had something to do with it. The green movement has more to do with starving people around the world than any drought does.
Yet another positive for more CO2.
Well he is right that it was the refugee crisis that tipped the balance – before it, David Cameron could reasonably expect that the referendum would go as he intended and the UK would stay in the UK. Of course, the refugee crisis is caused not by “climate change” but by the undeclared wars in Syria and Libya. I had hoped that Trump would put an end to or at least dial back US military interventionism, but it seems he won’t.
I am pretty sure it was the UKs refugee POLICY that caused the change, just saying.
Except that is wasn’t the UKs refugee policy was it? it was the EU’s refugee policy.