From The Daily Caller
9:54 AM 05/30/2019 | Energy
Michael Bastasch | Energy Editor
Former Vice President Al Gore said President Donald Trump’s “assault on science” threatens “the capacity of the human species to endure” on Earth.
Gore issued his warning in a speech to Harvard University students and faculty Wednesday, stressing “reason” and “rational debate,” indeed democracy itself, were under threat from the “ideology of authoritarianism.”
Science “is now being slandered as a conspiracy based on a hoax,” Gore said, likely referring to a 2012 Trump tweet where he called man-made global warming a “Chinese hoax.”
WATCH:
“The subordination of the best scientific evidence to the cynical greed of those buttressing the power of a would-be-autocrat is yet another strategy for controlling policy by distorting and suppressing the best available information,” Gore said.
“So the ideology of authoritarianism is not only a threat to democracy in America, now because of the attacks on climate science, it has become a threat to the survival of human civilization as we know it and even potentially to the capacity of the human species to endure,” Gore continued.
“In order to solve the climate crisis, we must solve the democracy crisis,” Gore said.
While Gore, a Harvard alumni and producer of two films of questionable accuracy on global warming, did not refer to Trump by name, the former vice president’s message was clear.
“The system of checks and balances that has protected the integrity of our American system for more than two centuries has already been dangerously eroded,” Gore said.
Gore, however, also went after social media, which he claimed is driven by “surveillance capitalism.” Gore said social media “enhances cynicism and magnifies divisions” that erode society. (RELATED: Supreme Court Asked To Hear Case Involving Leaked ‘Climategate’ Emails)
Former U.S. Vice President and 2007 Nobel Peace Prize winner Al Gore speaks this year’s Nobel Peace Prize Forum, in Oslo, Norway December 11, 2018. NTB Scanpix/Heiko Junge via REUTERS.
Gore went on to blame rampant flooding and tornado sightings in the Midwest on man-made global warming, echoing recent attempts by Democratic presidential candidates to do the same in Iowa.
“Speaking of wind, the winds are increasingly destructive in our world,” Gore said. “Yesterday was the thirteenth day in a row when multiple tornadoes touched down in the United States — 500 this month.”
“Hurricanes have become much stronger. Today, the Arkansas River is four feet higher than the all-time record flood stage. The Mississippi River is setting records as the longest flood ever. Thirty-nine million Americans today are at risk from flooding,” Gore said.
Gore also implored Harvard to divest its endowment from fossil fuel holdings, comparing it to the 1980s campaigns to pull investments in South Africa during apartheid. Gore has often compared climate activism to the anti-apartheid, civil rights and abolition movements.
“It was immoral to continue investing in apartheid,” Gore said before going on to accuse fossil fuel companies of using the tobacco industry’s strategy to keep the American public ignorant of climate science — a narrative pushed by some liberal media outlets.
“The American people have been the targets of a massive, well-organized and lavishly-funded campaign of disinformation, designed to spread doubt and confusion and prevent the formation of a political consensus necessary to adopt new policies to save the future of human civilization,” Gore said.
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” The Mississippi River is setting records as the longest flood ever. ” Gore must have been in a coma all of 1993.
He is right, though. The assault on science IS destroying the country and the corruption of the system is. He’s just lying about who is assaulting science and corrupting the system.
“You see those people who have the audacity to demand scientists follow the scientific method. They are an assault on science. You see those people who have the audacity to demand scientists engage in rational debate instead of irrational ad hominum’s. They are an assault on science. You see those people who have the audacity to demand science be reproducible. They are an assault on science. You see those people who have the audacity to demand that I live the way I command them to live. They are an assault on science.” — Every person who promote belief in CAGW
Gore’s first film held (at least) nine key scientific errors a British High Court judge ruled, and showing the film without correction notes would lead to teachers facing criminal charges of indoctrination.
However, there’s no way the court would deliver the same verdict today, and children are being more blatantly indoctrinated every day.
The climate change cancer is already stage 3.
Al Gore assaults the truth, science, and democracy every time he opens his pie hole. For the love of God and the sake of humanity, he should shut it.
More pearls from Al “The Center of the Earth is Millions of Degrees” Gore.
Socialist labeling other people authoritarian. The irony never ceases.
Al is another trust fund socialist.
MarkW mistakenly equates socialism with authoritarianism. They are not the same. Take Norway for example.
Norway is not socialist.
Dave Fair, please look up who owns Equinor.
Why?
There’s some further irony too:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_Norway
“Norway is a large energy producer, and one of the world’s largest exporters of oil.”
As was explained to you earlier, Norway is a welfare state sitting on top of a capitalist economy.
The only way to implement socialism is via control of people. The more socialism, the more control needed.
MarkW, in Norway, the government owns the oil company Equinor. That is how “socialism” is defined. Has nothing to do with control of the population.
Then Saudi Arabia is socialist?
Socialism is all about using the coercive powers of the State to (ostensibly) redress social inequalities, real or perceived. Authoritarianism is in its DNA.
People are not equal. Every attempt at social equality has led to disaster.
Equality under the law does not allow for socialism; people gain or lose primarily based on individual ability, drive, etc.
Under any economic system, it pays to pick your parents well. Under capitalism, it is less important.
Fire and brimstone Al.
What a twit. Hard to know where to start there are so many errors and lies in his address. The most egregious is the amount of flooded land. Or that levies break, or that there were more tornadoes, or that apartied somehow equates to AGW skepticism.
Frankly, I despair. 10 years since climategate and we still have to put up with this idiot. I have been looking through the emails again recently, and I came across this little gem:
http://www.di2.nu/foia/foia2011/mail/0813.txt
An exchange between Peter Fox and Simon Shackley where they are discussing which “scenario” to choose to achieve the desired socio-economic outcome. Anybody who doubts that CAGW is a political project need doubt no longer.
Emails searchable at http://www.di2.nu/foia/foia.pl
The Democrats want to portray Trump as some authoritarian dictator, but Trump is about as far from that as he could get.
Trump is the most transparent president in U.S. history along with being the most vetted president, who appears to be “pure as the driven snow” considering the extent to which the Democrats have gone to dig up dirt on him.
President Trump has done nothing illegal in his run for the presidency or after he assumed Office. It’s not illegal to disagree with partisan Democrats. The House Democrats want to claim Trump is violating the U.S. Constitution when he doesn’t knuckle under to their demands but Trump has every right and duty to challenge the Democrat’s Witch Hunt and it is legal for him to do so. Not only does Trump need to protect himself from harrassment by the Democrat Congress, he also has to protect the presidency by insisting the Congress follow the Constitution.
Trump ignoring a judicial ruling would be a different matter, but Trump has not done so, and doesn’t intend to do so, as far as I can see. So Trump is not an authoritarian dictator operating outside the law, he is well within the bounds of the law in his actions.
Democrats always portray Republican presidents as dictators and warmongers and racists and homophobes and the personification of every other evil in the world. It’s standard operating procedure for the Left. Al is just putting in his two cents worth. Which is about how much his opinion is worth.
Yeah, thank God Al was not elected president. That’s two socialist/authoritarian bullets the U.S. has dodged since the turn of the century.
Third time’s a charm, as they say.
They may have to wait until AOC’s out of her diapers.
Gore: “The American people have been the targets of a massive, well-organized and lavishly-funded campaign of disinformation ….”
For a list of 20-plus things that would be happening (but aren’t) if climate contrarians were actually well-organized and well-funded, see my 2012 WUWT guest-thread, “Notes from Skull Island” at:
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/12/16/notes-from-skull-island-why-skeptics-arent-well-funded-and-well-organized/
Here are some WUWT comments on FGore from way back when:
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Dimsdale says: February 2, 2011 at 7:14 am
Considering that Gore got C- and D in the few science courses he took in his brief college career (http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&contentId=A37397-2000Mar18 – see the fourth paragraph), one has to wonder why anyone listens to any of his scientific hallucinations, er, I mean prognostications, at all.
“Albert Gore Jr. won the Nobel peace prize was vice president for 8 years without scandal …”
Not quite. Here are a few interesting quotes from the book, The Stupidest Things Ever Said by Politicians:
On Illegal Fund-Raisers at Buddhist Temples, Al Gore on:
Explanation number 1: It wasn’t a fund-raiser, it was a “community outreach event.”
Explanation number 2: It wasn’t a fund-raiser, it was just “finance-related.”
Explanation number 3: It wasn’t a fund-raiser, it was a “donor-maintenance meeting.”
There’s also this amusing tidbit:
On Historical Knowledge, Vice-Presidential:
“Who are these guys?”
Al Gore, referring to the busts of Jefferson, Washington, Franklin, and Lafayette on a televised tour of Monticello. (p. 109)
And this:
“A zebra cannot change its spots.” (p. 54)
And this:
On Senator’s Sons, Typical Days of:
“[My father] taught me how to clean out hog waste with a shovel and a hose. He taught me how to clear land with an ax. He taught me how to plow a steep hillside with a team of mules. He taught me how to take up hay all day long in the hot sun and then, after a dinner break, go help the neighbors take up hay before the rain came and spoiled it on the ground.”
Vice President Al Gore on the virtues of farm life, not mentioning that, as a rich senator’s son, all this was presumably learned on summer vacation from Harvard. A real farmer’s son, Republican National chairman Jim Nicholson, replied, “Mr. Vice President, with all due respect, you’re shoveling a lot more of it right now than you ever did back then.” (p. 141)
And this:
On Timing is Everything:
“[Due to pollution, cars pose] a mortal threat to the security of every nation.”
Senator Al Gore in his 1992 book, Earth in the Balance.
“Here in Motor City we recognize that cars have done more than fuel our commerce. Cars have freed the American spirit and given us the chance to chase our dreams.”
Vice President Al Gore — while gearing up for his 2000 presidential run — in a 1999 speech to the Economic club of Detroit. (p. 253)
Wade (06:46:18) :
Ah yes, Al Gore. Does anybody remember the fuel additive MTBE? It just so happens that this fuel additive was ground water poison. It can be cleaned up, but it ain’t cheap. Does anybody remember who was the one pushing MTBE? Answer: Al Gore and Carol Browner.
Here is what is known. A disciple (and yes I mean disciple) of Al Gore, Carol Browner, knew MTBE was groundwater poison but destroyed those documents. The data was suppressed that showed a dissenting viewpoint; sound familiar?
For sins like this, Al Gore gets an honorary doctorate. Hey, I recycle a lot. I haven’t damaged groundwater and aquifer supplies. I guess I should dump nuclear waste in my local groundwater if I want to be awarded an honorary doctorate.
MTBE shows us that obviously a tiger can’t change his stripes. Once an eco-scammer, always an eco-scammer. And what is worse, people think the tiger is this safe innocent cute kitten who couldn’t harm anybody.
If you want a history of Al Gore and MTBE, don’t use Wikipedia. Magically, Wikipedia doesn’t include the connection between Al Gore and MTBE, not anywhere. Not even under the page dedicated to the MTBE controversy. Just use your search engine of choice and search for the words Al Gore MTBE. This link will get you started.
http://www.mail-archive.com/ctrl@listserv.aol.com/msg67617.html
“The Education of Al Gore (The Washington Times)
“Mr. Gore’s high school performance on the college board achievement tests in physics (488 out of 800 “terrible,” St. Albans retired teacher and assistant headmaster John Davis told The Post) and chemistry (519 out of 800 “He didn’t do too well in chemistry,” Mr. Davis observed) suggests that Mr. Gore would have trouble with science for the rest of his life. At Harvard and Vanderbilt, Mr. Gore continued bumbling along.
“As a Harvard sophomore, scholar Al “earned” a D in Natural Sciences 6 in a course presciently named “Man’s Place in Nature.” That was the year he evidently spent more time smoking cannabis than studying its place among other plants within the ecosystem. His senior year, Mr. Gore received a C+ in Natural Sciences 118.
“At Vanderbilt divinity school, Mr. Gore took a course in theology and natural science. The assigned readings included the apocalyptic, and widely discredited “Limits to Growth,” which formed much of the foundation for “Earth in the Balance.” It is said that Mr. Gore failed to hand in his book report on time. Thus, his incomplete grade turned into an F, one of five Fs Mr. Gore received at divinity school, which may well be a worldwide record.””
“The displeasure with Gore among the staff [at Current TV] was thick enough to cut with a scimitar.”
Gore is misinformed about the nature of “science.” It is not the process that is operated by people calling themselves “scientists” as he seems to think but rather is “verifiable knowledge.” Today’s climate models provide us with no verifiable knowledge about the outcomes of the future for Earth’s climate system. See Vincent Gray’s essay entitled “Spinning the Climate” for details.
Gore seems to get dumber and more delusional with age.
Its of interest to wonder what sort of President Al Gore would have made..
Speaking as a observer here in Australia its clear to me that he did win, but
the Bush camp had better lawyers.
But what would it have been like, could he have forced the USA to go down
the anti fossil fuel road as President Obama attempted to do.
And how would he have handled the attack on the Twin Towers. One can
have a lot of fun in the world of “What if”.
MJE VK5ELL
I’m sure popes said something equivalent during such times as inquisition, witch hunting and heretic burring crises.
The Al Gore Effect is showing up in Australia.
The science is in.
This has the AGE fingerprint all over it.
https://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-ideas/ski/polar-conditions-bring-unusually-large-snow-falls-across-australia/news-story/452cafe01f8f49743564db34d686b0cd
He is due on 5th of June.
The three-day event at the Brisbane Convention Centre 5 to 7 June 2019 – run by the Climate Reality Project – will see business and community leaders trained to be educators and take action with climate solutions, as the world moves to meet its commitments under the Paris Agreement.
https://reneweconomy.com.au/al-gore-to-conduct-climate-leadership-training-in-brisbane-30284/
A local politician says that the GBR is struggling under warmer water conditions.
Since the GBR does far better under rising seas and warmer seas, this is a hard one to swallow, as recently stated on this site in an interview of Peter Ridd.
The northern part grows twice as fast as the southern.
But then, the local Queenslanders just rejected the latest political science from the ALP, consigning them to
the political dustbin.
We are in dire need of validated science about the GBR.
More Leftist irony…
Leftists believe in ”*SIGH*ence! (TM)”, which is actually anti-human and anti-science based on: empirical, ethical and moral relativism, pal-review, raw data manipulation, political agendas, corruption, PC, and numerous logical fallacies (post hoc ergo prompter hoc, argumentum ad hominem, argumentum ad verecundiam, argumentum ad absurdum, petitio principii, etc.)
*SIGH*ence! (TM) is the pursuit of power and control, while science is simply the pursuit of knowledge, understanding, and the truth.
*SIGH*ence! (TM)” leads to tyranny, moral and social decay, bankruptcy and chaos, while science leads to virtuous enlightenment, peace, prosperity and improved living standards..
Algore’s *SIGH*ence! (TM)” is evil.
It’s theology. Specifically, theology of American “Blue State”/Progressive sects.
We know “consensus” is not a procedure of science, but a procedure of theology. Harvard of all things used to be a major theological school first of all… then it changed clothes and miraculously happened to “derive from pure reason” exactly what it used to preach before. ;] Well, after the great takeover in the first half of ⅩⅩ century (ending in WWII) Harvard became dominant in half the world, which spilled into the other half (also running derivations of the same theology). Now whatever bureaucrats didn’t convert into paperclips is overrun by theology and quackery. But what else could come from this?
Forecast Earth In Depth: David Suzuki, Part 2
http://tinyurl.com/n3pkcun
Suzuki explains the process. Gore in 1988 tells Suzuki to go forth and proselytize the climate faith until the brainwashed public demands action from the pols
“Science is now being slandered as a conspiracy based on a hoax”
Or maybe slandered by activism disguised as science.
https://tambonthongchai.com/2019/05/13/greta2/
“The American people have been the targets of a massive, well-organized and lavishly-funded campaign of disinformation, designed to spread doubt and confusion … ”
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He’s being a bit hard on himself.
A long standing military aphorism relates to the most dangerous people to have around. It is variously quoted but one of my favorites is: “…whoever is stupid and industrious is a menace and must be removed immediately!
They should be shot.”
Scientific truth us buried in the Harvard Yard. The real nature of the Harvard Yard? – it’s only two inches.
See the definitive video : The Harvard Yard The fraud of modern education.
Chancellor Merkel was there for an honorary law degree about the same time as Gore, and did everything to rail at Trump without mentioning his name. Trump meanwhile was 2,400 miles away .
Al Gore appears to be saying that Donald TRUMP is conducting a assault
on science.
Well from my point of view Pres. Trump is busy undoing all of the massive
mess of regulations left by Pres. Obama as a collection of land mines,
designed to slow the growth of the USA. Its Gore who is assaulting science
because he prefers his version of Climate science, not the real thing.
MJER VK5ELL
How DID Algore get into Harvard with his grades?
Ask Laurie Laughlin…who is headed off to jail.
The length and breadth of hypocrisy attached to Algore is staggering…but typical of anything related to the Democratic Party today.