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
HT/PM
The algorisms never end, do they?
I wonder why, does Gore ever hear a detached and reasoned explanation of the uncertainties, specifically AGW’s magnitude, surrounding this issue?
Sure, we are adding (via fossil fuel combustion) CO2 to the atmosphere, no question. How does that change the climate?
Yes, CO2 is a radiative molecule that absorbs and disperses energy in the far infrared around an amplitude of 15 microns for which the corresponding temperature is cold, really cold, over 50 degrees C below zero.
To what extent this property increases surface temperatures so as to change the climate is not determined. The evidence is lacking, there is no test and no accepted method of calibration.
There is evidence of warming, however that is consistent with the recovery from the last neo-glacial (The Little Ice Age). The numerical models suffer from mathematical imagination and the proxy reconstructions lack the decadal resolution for a valid comparison with the instrumental record.
Good grief this is madness, will it ever end?
The only thing that saved Clinton from being impeached was the collective recognition by the Senate that it would make ALGORE the Prez.
Al Gore was caused by climate change.
So, being told how to live their lives by a foreign, unelected group of overlords had nothing to do with it?
I need some money for a new theory of mine. A 1.2 million dollar grant will suffice. My theory is that FDR decided to round up and put in camps Japanese-Americans because of … climate change. The Dust Bowl forced families to uproot and head west in the 1930’s. Most of these migrants/refugees were white (and since they were not elite coastal whites they were all racist), so with this influx of racist whites from the plain states mixed with a War forced FDR to round up Japanese-Americans and stick them in camps. I really need a 1.2 million dollar grant to study how climate change caused this travesty.
“My theory is that FDR decided to round up and put in camps Japanese-Americans because of … climate change.”
Was that the same reason FDR put Germans and Italians in camps?
I have some advice for Al: “When you find yourself in the bottom of a hole….stop digging!”
No Al please keep digging.
Well, OK if we can begin filling in the hole from above while he is still digging.
We had frost on the roofs this morning, August 23rd, still awaiting my share of global warming.
Please when talking about algore, do we have to have a picture of him? Speaking of such things, can anyone instruct me on how to post a jpg pic? Have some great eclipse photos I took Monday. Totality with carona. Read the section on posting articles but all I want to do is post a photo or two now and then.
Just upload the pic to a free hosting site such as tinypic, then post here a link to the pic.
Is there a way to post the pic insread of a link to the pic?
I tried tinypic recently, and it failed, and failed, and failed.
I found http://postimages.org/ It worked well.
After you get your pics uploaded, simply paste the url into your comment.
Put the url link on a new line of its own. Make sure the url is the first, and only thing on that line.
When the WordPress engine sees a valid url ending in .jpg or .png, it retrieves the image and automagically displays it.
Tony,
Thank you.
JimG1
Tony L,
Did my first post using postimages.org on the eclipsified leaf gap shadows article. Thanks again.
Jim G1
Actually it is the other way around, Brexit caused global warming acting retrospectively. In few decades as the Brexit drills its way back into the past, we may find out that Brexitiers caused the American Civil War, and further along on the climate front, the Brexit was direct cause of the Little Ice Age.
I know this because I’m Remainer.
I thought George Bush was the cause of all these problems, i am so confused. Wait maybe it was Reagan.
Actually Reagan (along with Thatcher) founded the IPCC through G7
I knew it was Reagans fault
Why is this surprising?
Gore blames ‘climate change’ for everything that’s not aligned with his political bias. It’s his go-to justification for any position he holds that can’t otherwise be supported with logic and reason.
He is right it was caused by climate change. There was a change in the political climate where the British people realised we could no longer absorb yet more into this tiny overcrowded island just because Merkel thought it a good idea to invite a million refugees of whom one in a thousand would be a terrorist. More if you find the idea of a young male brought up to believe women are for their entertainment to use as they see fit if the women is not a Muslim to be terrifying.
Mass hysteria is no accident, it’s created by liars preaching to the masses.
Mass hysteria is caused by the idiocy of the mass.
what’s new? In 2005 in Turkey, a suicide sheep jumped off a cliff and 1500 sheep followed the first one!
The best commentary on Al Gore can be found here at Jo Nova’s site: http://joannenova.com.au/2017/08/global-warming-hallelujah-an-inconvenient-music-video/
Almost time to pick up my “Minnesotans For Global Warming” parka at the cleaners: I suspect I’ll need it soon. :)) :))
I have been to Syria three times. It has several very large ancient cities. The rest is farmland and a lot of deserts or mountains so the amount of cultivable land is not that high.
There have been severe droughts throughout its history. Adjacent Jordan had a well travelled trade route through it, which in Roman times was controlled by them and a variety of others and there was endless warfare over water scarcity as the climate fluctuated.
In 1960 the population of Syria was 4 million. The rural population are quite poor and the govt not inclined to spend their limited finances (they are not an oil power) in improving the infrastructure.
Consequently when the population grew rapidly this caused severe rural problems and many people moved to the cities to look for work.
Add in two dictators-I met Assad’s father in the 1970’s -with the son increasingly ruthless and you have a combination of drought, rural poor seeking jobs, the govt unwilling to create new jobs and when the population reached over 22 million around 2010 you only need a very moderate downturn in climate for there to be a severe drought, no food and a further movement to the cities.
So in this case blame Malthus. The population was far too high to be supported by a variable climate. Syria would need the finest climate ever in its history and a far more sympathetic ruler willing to spend money to have avoided catastrophe.
Several decades ago Al gore wrote a fine book on the climate in the area and around the world called ‘earth in the balance.’ He has obviously forgotten it.
tonyb
“Add in two dictators”
Yes, any article that doesn’t mention this can be safely binned very quickly.
Assad, his family, and his cronies have total control over water-intensive (and highly profitable) crops like cotton.
You don’t need to know much about dictators, especially those from the Middle East, to understand where the water that could be used to grow food is actually going.
Doesn’t everyone know this?
We should, out of 27 or so nations I think the only democratically led country in the area is Israel, the leadership of the rest?…an embarrassing collection of thugs, oligarchs, monarchies and theocracies…such is the cradle of civilization.
Of course, the Sykes-Picot boundary decisions along with the exclusion of the Arab nations involvement in the process didn’t help, so the West must share some of the blame in this fiasco.
“Of course, the Sykes-Picot boundary decisions along with the exclusion of the Arab nations involvement in the process didn’t help, so the West must share some of the blame in this fiasco.”
Agreed. I’m nowhere near the left politically, but even conservatives have to admit that the mistakes made by Britain and France in this neck of the woods particularly are pretty significant. Iraq (Kurds, Sunni, Shia) makes sense in a “divide and conqueror” sort of way, but its NOT a true nation.
No, Brexit was caused by someone carelessly leaving a turtle on a fence post and then blaming it on the French rather than accepting responsibility for their actions.
Depending on your perspective, and investments, it was catastrophic anthropogenic climate change.
The climate changed to favor science over prophecy, but even that’s not quite true. Brexit rejected the concept of clean wars that force catastrophic anthropogenic immigration reform. Specifically, Brexit opposed the progress of a global anti-native momentum.
“global anti-native momentum”
i like that
Notice that he always adds and other causes to any statements he makes regarding climate change as a cause for anything. Being the slippery slimey politician that he is he will always leave himself an out just in case someone actually calls him on such an outrageous idea.
There goes Algore and his trusty hammer again.
From a collaboration I did with the CEO of Vote Leave, the actual reasons Leave won:
https://www.kingdomcomment.com/blog/why-vote-leave-won-brexit
Al Gore’s hallucinations don’t make the list.
Despite his 12 reasons, he manages to avoid the fact that without Nigel Farage and UKIP there wouldn’t have been a referendum in the first place. UKIP winning the 2014 EU elections and their growing support (4 million votes in 2015) ensured that Cameron had next to sod all wiggle room.
In a way, he’s right – because Climate Change regulation is one of the primary reasons the population is finally beginning to see through the constant, destructive propaganda of the Progressives.
Climate Change contributed to the election of Trump, too. Particularly when endorsed by an exploitive, pompous ass like Gore.
You could almost look at Gore – a divinity-school dropout – as a failed priest and a false prophet.
Kinda Biblical when you think about it.
Al Gore thinks climate change causes everything. Indeed his forcing of a plank in the Democratic platform that called for an end to coal mining cost him West Virginia (a previously Democratic state) and thus the Presidency.
I voted for Brexit.
We got the Brexit referendum because Prime Minister David Cameron had just won a general election and a Scottish independence referendum using his Project Fear tactic. He thought he had a winning formula and could put the thorny EU question to rest for at least another 20 years.
We were promised everything that could go wrong would go wrong if we voted to leave, in fact the EU was the only thing holding Europe together and Brexit would probably trigger WW3.
Brexit campaigner Boris Johnson was actually pro-Europe but he wanted clear water between himself and Cameron just in case there was a leadership contest. Everyone knew they could not possibly win.
What Cameron forgot was that politicians of all parties had been promising referendums on Europe whenever they knew they were going to lose. It was always a vote winner. Often promised but never delivered.
Nearly half a century ago I voted to stay in to the Common Market. I then watched as it morphed in to a European super state. They never asked us if this was what we wanted, they just told us how lucky we were to live in a multicultural society.
I knew I would not live long enough to get another chance, so I voted Leave. No regrets.
Advice to Gore: “When the only tool you have is a hammer, everything begins to look like a nail.” You need a new tool.
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’.
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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’.
How would we know if they did? 😉
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