Another of Dr. Maue’s excellent twitter threads.
https://twitter.com/RyanMaue/status/1135555013772808193
https://twitter.com/RyanMaue/status/1135556193374625792
https://twitter.com/RyanMaue/status/1135560250646507521
https://twitter.com/RyanMaue/status/1135561195405099008
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Australia is thankful to Mr. Gore for visiting his “Gore Effect” on them at the moment.
Blizzards, deluges and freezing temps all up and down the east of the the continent.
Yay Big Al!
The falsehoods that Al Gore portrays are indicated by his policy solutions. Like other catastrophists Gore forgets the basic theory. CAGW is supposedly being caused by global emissions. Yet the policy solutions are not global but national, local or even personal. They exclude “developing” countries containing over 80% of the global population, and exclude countries who rely on produning fossil fuels for a large part of their national income, such as Russia, Saudi Arabia and Iran. In the language of the alarmists, even if global policies might save the planet for future generations, current climate policies will make life harder for the current generation without greater returns later.
As an indication of the scale of the problem I have graphed the top 20 fossil fuel producing countries, expressing the approximate value of annual production and expressed as a percentage of GDP. USA and China are the biggest producers, but their economies are vast. Russia’s economy is about 1/13th of the US economy and Saudi Arabia’s about 1/36th, so lower fossil fuel production is far more significant to them.
Thirty years ago when I was in major Australian resources management, I also had other tasks like government interactions and President of a Chamber of Mines and Energy. These gave scope for involvement in social matters apart from the main thrust of discovery, development and rehabilitation.
Two social matters dominated, coping with ever-increasing bureaucratic demands and minimising our reputational damage when the several main enviro NGO groups like WWF, Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth would spread a burst of their inaccurate, hate-filled, tailored or general propaganda.
For the latter we maintained good media relations with a major part of the press and we used the Press for initial corrections to the NGO garbage, which was usuall not very clever garbage. Immature school student level, commonly.
We proceeded on the assumption that deliberate attacks on our reputation were able to be settled in a Court. In our State jurisdiction there was case law derived from an event whereby an actor was hired to “find” the tail of a rat while dining in the top pie restaurant whose reputation was the target. People “smelled a rat”, the dodge was exposed and the perps punished.
Back to the NGO problem, rightly or wrongly, we acted with the confidence that the rat tail case allowed us but we never tested the precedent in Court.
After all that preamble, what is the present situation in jurisdictions like USA, UK and Oz? Is there well known case law, what is it, is it being used, are there alternative ways to protect corporate reputations? Or are we past a tipping point that allows these toxic NGOs to harm how they wish? In my days we would have sued and spent big $$$ to minimise repeat attempts to damage us. Geoff
‘Just as former US vice-president and climatic catastrophist guru, Al Gore, visits the Sunshine State to lecture Queenslanders on runaway, man-made global warming, the temperature plummets and the snow begins to fall.’
Mirage News
Al the Gorebull has yet to explain winter events like snow tornadoes (whirlwinds forming in a snowstorm with high winds involved) and thundersnow and lightning in the winter. We get that a lot around here in the winter. The lightning is the only thing that gets my attention. No. really – that’s it.
I’m sure he can’t explain wind shear, either, even though it is the seminal part of a tornado’s birth and existence.
He also can’t explain why the temperature drops so suddenly when a tornado is approaching, but then, if he acknowledges any of these realities, it cooks his moose. (Yes, moose.)