Former Vice President Al Gore: “The language that the IPCC used in presenting it was torqued up a little bit, appropriately – how [else] do they get the attention of policy-makers around the world?” Video follows.
Gore admission that the UN IPCC report was “torqued up” in order to “get the attention of policy-makers around the world” is just the latest in a long line of evidence that the UN climate panel is nothing more than “a purely political body posing as a scientific institution.”
PBS NEWSHOUR – ONE-ON-ONE – Broadcast: October 12, 2018 – (Gore’s quote begins at 1 min. 30 into video)
PBS host Judy Woodruff to Former Vice President Al Gore: “They are painting a much more alarming picture of what we face than we had previously known…”
Gore: “The language that the [UN] IPCC used in presenting it was torqued up a little bit, appropriately – how [else] do they get the attention of policy-makers around the world?”
h/t to Climate Depot
It’s simply more of this, pioneered by the late climate doomster Dr. Steven Schneider:
On the one hand, as scientists we are ethically bound to the scientific method. On the other hand, we are not just scientists but human beings as well. To do that we need to get some broad based support, to capture the public’s imagination. That, of course, means getting loads of media coverage. So we have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified, dramatic statements, and make little mention of any doubts we might have. Each of us has to decide what the right balance is between being effective and being honest.
“… Gore: “The language that the IPCC used in presenting it was torqued up a little bit, appropriately – how [else] do they get the attention of policy-makers around the world?” …”
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Which is another way of saying that there was no real reason for anyone to paying attention to the IPCC’s blather. They just wanted to undermine politics and public debate all around the planet and of course, derail science altogether.
Turds.
“Each of us has to decide what the right balance is between being effective and being honest.”
Sorry, my 1925 POED doesn’t define “effective” as meaning lying!
“Wolf! Wolf!”
He invented “torqued up” so this is mirroring or envy.
If you torque up too much you strip the thread.
Good old Man-Bear-Pig, you can always count on him to pretend to know what’s happening in the Earth’s climate, and then putting things in terms of Hirosima bomb equivalents.
What a putz.
No climate rebuttal seen within this segment from the skeptic side of course, except for the bit from Judy about “other scientists are saying they these dire future predictions are just not borne out by evidence” to which Gore responded with a talking point ultimately sourcing from the late IPCC scientist Stephen Schneider ( http://gelbspanfiles.com/?p=1886 ), “You still have some people who say the Earth is flat and not round, but you don’t give them equal time and saying some people say round, some people say flat.” I wonder if those two rehearsed that.
But if folks wonder whether the NewsHour has provided any rebuttal that’s principally detailed climate science assessments from skeptic climate scientists …. no, they never have in the 20+ years of their online broadcast archives. I’ve quantified the ongoing bias here: “NewsHour Global Warming Bias Tally, Updated 10/12/18: 61 to 0” http://gelbspanfiles.com/?page_id=3834 . Their overall count of ‘direct discussions / prominent mentions of the global warming topic’ after October 12th, including this Gore segment, stands at 772, in which only 7 individuals going back to 1996 were ever permitted to offer NewsHour viewers any semblance of skeptic climate science points.
What the debate boils down to is how much time the media is giving to so called denier scientists. Here in SA it is not much.
I am not too much worried.
Nature will prove us right. Eventually. The effect of global cooling is beginning. Drier and warmer at the higher latitudes in summer. Colderbin winters at the higher latitudes. Simple physics. Click on my name to read my final report.
Unsaid is that Gore has made a fortune off of the torqued up IPCC reports
Fortunately there are no torqued up BOMBSHELLS! round here. It’s all just plain speakin’ with none of that emotive hyperbole. Not even a little bit.
If scientists are willing to “torque up” the IPCC report, why wouldn’t they also be willing to torque up the temperature data to get the attention of policy makers? It just doesn’t make sense that they would fudge one official record but not another if they saw it to be an advantage.
Folks need to take the PBS Ombudsman to task for all the false claims and propaganda spewed by the interviewer and Gore.
Maybe PBS changed something. I can’t find link for Ombudsman any longer, but rather for Public Editor feedback: here http://www.pbs.org/publiceditor/feedback/
If as many people would send PBS feedback as post comments, that would make more of a difference than our mutual admiration society that we have here. Editor also on twitter https://twitter.com/PBSPubEd
Big Al is guilty of shyly torqueing the facts on climate change for many years. He is full of shy torque, in fact.
“So we have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified, dramatic statements, and make little mention of any doubts we might have.”
They never told us before. Maybe they thought “They’re old enough. Let them sort it out.
So the logic appears to be:
– We have published many previous reports, with many predictions, nothing much has happened
– The public are starting to notice that our doomsaying amounts to nothing
– The public are starting to ignore us, pretty soon politicians will to and the $ will dry up
– So, we will ratchet up our predictions and use even more emotive language
– At least we will have bought a few more years , until its clear nothing much is happening again
– We need a rather large LOOK SQUIRREL !!!! any ideas?
Perhaps a new acronym?
CAACC: Catastrophic Anthropomorphic Apocalyptic Climate Change?
“IF” AGW is real, proven with statistically significant verified (verified meaning un adjusted, or homogenized or pasturize, massaged, cherry picked or otherwise manipulated) empirical data of more than once source then WHY does anyone need to “sex it up” , unless……………….?
With that one interview the Goreon opened his maw and spewed forth what any discerning and numerically competent physicists have been pointing to for the last 20 years, namely that they have been repeately been jazzing up what is in reality the scam of all scams and THEY know it! What effect there is is minimal and the link to man will never be proved because nature TRUMPS all because the effect is SO small! My bet for the absurd sillyness which is global average temperature is that the effect of man is < 5% of the total and I would not be surprised if in reality it is a fraction of 1%. Also any multi trillion dollar industry which has to rely on ignoring the differency between eustacy and isostasy needs putting down as quickly as is reasonably possible for the good of mankind. Let us then get back to spending the money where it is needed and celebrating our good fortune at being alive during an INTERGLACIAL because it WILL get colder!
Amen!
Let me get this straight.
Al says the IPCC reports are “torqed up” to get the attention of policy makers. In other words, a supposedly scientific body lied for political purposes.
Yet he then claims Trump doing away with the regulations based on the lies is “literally insane”!?!?
Sure, Al. You and the IPCC are credible.
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