Harold Hutchison
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Former Vice President Al Gore raged against “polluters” during an address at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Baku, Azerbaijan, demanding that people listen to scientists about climate change.
The COP29 summit, which started Monday, previously featured speakers who proposed taxes on the meat and dairy industry and “climate finance” initiatives for less-developed countries. While addressing the conference, Gore claimed that predictions by climate scientists had been proven to be “dead right.”
“The fact that the scientists who predicted all of this decades ago have been proven dead right should cause the rest of us to pay more attention to what they’re telling us now!” Gore vehemently told the crowd, eliciting cheering and applause from attendees. “Do we listen to the polluters, who don’t want to do anything meaningful that might reduce fossil fuels, or do we listen to the scientists who have been telling us what we need to do?” (RELATED: Speaker At UN Summit Claims ‘Naming Extreme Heat Events’ Will Help Fight Climate Change)
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“This was a very extreme drought in China in the middle of this year, and what’s happening in the Amazon, the Rio Solimões, the Rio Negro, it’s the worst drought on record in the Amazon — 90% of the river flow in Colombia is gone, Ecuador’s losing its hydro because of this,” Gore continued. “In Namibia, and also Zimbabwe, they are now killing livestock — killing wild animals in order to help feed hungry people. How long are we going to let this get worse until we decide to take action?! I’m sorry, I press my own buttons these days.”
Gore claimed that during the hour he was speaking, 30 million tons of ice was melting in Greenland, warning that the melting ice could have catastrophic consequences for the oceans.
“That is fresh water coming off Greenland into the North Atlantic, where a key part of the ocean current circulation system is involved. It could be disrupted,” he said. “Some scientists disagree, but more and more, they’re raising the alarm.” (Click Here To Watch The Daily Caller Documentary “Anarchy U”)
“And if you look at the bottom statement, these peer-reviewed — these scientists say in this peer-reviewed study, ‘We estimate a collapse around mid-century.’ What?! What?!” Gore continued. “Some of the load-bearing elements of our entire Earth ecological system are at risk. And what are we doing? Just talking away, talking away, not making much progress. Again, I’m getting stirred up here so I’ll try to calm down.”
Multiple officials from the Biden administration — which notably backed away from a major emissions initiative at the event — including Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm, White House climate advisor John Podesta and Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, are attending the event in Azerbaijan. Podesta told attendees at the conference during a Monday speech that despite the election of former President Donald Trump, the United States would still be involved in addressing climate change, Bloomberg reported.
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Al jr. has no idea of what he speaks. He is passionate and always wrong.
His wooden demeanor is the result of the fact that he is as dumb as a stump.
I thought it (his wooden demeanor) was because he “Still Has Strings” to hold him up!
Thank God unhinged is going out of style. I’d say what a moron, except he knew what he was doing when he fleeced the taxpayer, the useful idiots and the general idiots.
That’s the way with manbearpig.
He’s super cereal!
“A Fanatic is a person who redoubled his effort after forgetting his original aim.” — George Santayana
He has very vague idea of what he talks about. He has a very good idea of what he does.
See also his previous gig (“Parents Music Resource Center”, which ran into Dee Snyder).
Chicken (Schist) Little! Anyone with a functioning brain would be able to discover that none of these “horrors” have not occured previously.
Oh, and speaking of buttons, someone should press his off button.
Mann claims a drought is a climate issue. Droughts come and go, climate just moves on. The bogus climate claims now fall increasingly on deaf ears. I’m over 80 so I’ve seen some weather. The climate where I live is about what it has always been. What is this “scientists have been saying for decades” business? Climate happens in cycles – but when the cycle is up, alarmists point to it and claim it is caused by human-emitted CO2, although we only contribute about 5% per year.
Not to mention that CO2 FOLLOWS temperature change, not causes it. Set that beer out for a couple hours and see what happens to the fizz…
CO2 can be both cause and effect.
And Beneficial!
Especially where Photosynthesis is concerned
Cause of what?
Not warming.
More food
NO, it cannot. If that were the case, life would not exist on this planet. But the real reason is that there are billions of molecules of earth’s surface radiating to space for every single CO2 molecule. Shine your flashlight on your stove with the lights off. Measure the rise in temperature.
Minimal effect.
CO2 can be both cause and effect?
Yes, anything can be both cause and effect.
But not a large cause and effect…
If they were the cumulative effect of any change would be a runaway scenario. The system would be unstable. We would have a snowball Earth or a new Venus.
CO2 cannot be both cause and effect of newsworthy climate global warming.
And that means that adaptation to weather still makes sense as a policy but mitigation – reducing emissions – does not.
“Cause” is a misnomer historically. People acknowledge the fact that CO2 has trailed the increases in temperature. Alarmists say that once the CO2 started increasing then it amplified the warming.
But what almost nobody considers is that CO2 trails the cooling. So something is controlling both warming AND cooling and its not CO2. CO2 is not the control knob, its importance is overstated.
I haven’t seen or heard from any California droughtists in about 3 or 4 years now, with all the rain we’ve had. If it pisses it down this winter, they’ll reappear as California floodists, I’m sure.
You can’t fix mental illness, eh nail, simon, username, nyolci, griff and the rest of the nitwits on here?
….. oh sorry, almost forgot the paid liars, Nick. Anybody else I missed?
Al Gore is “demanding that people listen to scientists about climate change.”
Some of us do … That’s why we ignore crap-heads like Gore & his ilk, preferring to follow data & physics.
I demand Al Gore go and put his head in a bucket full of his own [verbal] spew. !
I thought it was verbal diarrhoea.
Same from both ends.
He is De-Man-DING-DING-DING-DING-DING
I’d like to see that deceptive lying SOB finish his life behind bars. His greed has caused so much unnecessary physical and emotional pain and suffering, especially in poorer nations. He’s an evil arrogant and technically illiterate old Pillock, history will not be kind to him.
Well that didn’t solve anything but I sure feel better.
You are certainly right that Algore is responsible for the poverty and early deaths of millions. Not only the result of denying fossil fuel development in poor countries, but also for his signature CFC scam that made refrigeration less affordable.
My only question is whether he is just as stupid as he sounds. Maybe he is a sincere moron?
Naaaah, moneygrubber. Here’s a clue – he’s a democrat aka useless POS.
Thanks for using Rush Limbaugh’s term: Algore.
Mega dittos Jim
It is almost certain that Gore will not be around in 2050 to witness the failure of this latest prediction.l.
He has finally learnt the golden rule of climate prediction – ensure a timeframe that makes it unfalsifiable in your own lifetime.
Fundamentally, Algore’s argument is an “appeal to authority “, a fundamental logic flaw.
In thinking about it, many ( maybe most?) of the left’s positions are “appeals to authority “
Hmmm ….
Thanks for using Rush Limbaugh’s term: Algore.
Al Gore acts as if no one has any memory of his track record on dread predictions.
One has to seriously wonder why he was invited to speak at COP 29.
I don’t think you can just show up and take the stage without somebody giving prior approval.
The speakers and agenda of all COPs are set a long time before the event actually takes place. What we are seeing is the socialists repeating the same mistake they made for November 5. It’s a belief that showcasing celebrities will somehow benefit your cause. ManBearBig is just another supposed celebrity promoting AGW.
>> The fact that the scientists who predicted all of this decades ago . .
That is a very good point and should be mentioned much more often!
We now know that CMIP5 and older models were incorrect:
https://gmd.copernicus.org/articles/13/3465/2020/
“we find that the ECS increase can be attributed to the more advanced treatment of aerosols, with the largest contribution coming from the effect of aerosols on cloud microphysics”
>> Other models had similar corrections but so far lack the scrutiny to quantify the effect, their scientist are to busy to go to conferences
The statements by climate scientists back then with a certainty we now know to lack a systematic uncertainty of at least 25% (the rough difference between similar CMIP5 and CMIP6 models, older models lack other corrections)!
How could that happen and were these climate scientists back then behaving so unscientifically?
As experts they must have known about these weaknesses, Lindzen pointed them out 30 years ago:
https://www.epw.senate.gov/105th/lind0710.htm
“The trouble with current models is that they generally lack the physics to deal with the upper level water vapor budget, and they are generally unable, for computational reasons, to properly calculate a quantity like water vapor which varies sharply both vertically and horizontally (Sun and Lindzen, 1993, Lindzen, 1995). Indicative of these problems is the recent work of J.J. Bates and D.L. Jackson at NOAA who found, using satellite data from infrared sounders, that, on the average, current models underestimate zonally averaged (averaged around a latitude circle) water vapor by about 20%. This is illustrated in Figure 2. It should be noted that this represents an error in radiative forcing of about 20 Watts per square meter, as compared with the forcing of 4 Watts per square meter due to a doubling of carbon dioxide (Thompson and Warren, 1982, Lindzen, 1995). More recent observational analyses by Spencer and Braswell (1997), using satellite microwave data, suggest that even Bates and Jackson have overestimated water vapor, and that the discrepancy with models is still greater. Under the circumstances, there seems to be little actual basis for the most important positive feedback in models. Given our inability to detect expected warming in the temperature data, one might reasonably conclude that models have overestimated the problem.”
Did these climate scientists just not know what they are doing or are they consciously misleading?
Either way, Gore you have a point, these climate scientists cannot be trusted until the mistakes from back then are worked out!
aka Gore´s claim that climate scientists back then “knew” something others didn’t (beside in a religious sense maybe) is demonstratively absurd!
It is impossible for any situation to be “worse than we thought” without being wrong about it when you first thought it up.
It is okay to be wrong in science and part of the process.
But it is about time that the scientists among the climate scientists start to discuss that the upgraded models disqualify all older models and statements made from it.
Otherwise they are lying by omission of truth!
How do you code “worse than we thought” into a current climate model if the old model was “settled science”?
From the above article:
” ‘The fact that the scientists who predicted all of this decades ago have been proven dead right should cause the rest of us to pay more attention to what they’re telling us now!’ Gore vehemently told the crowd, . . .”
Let’s see, decades ago would be in year 2004 or earlier . . . there’s been so much progress and learning since then, but perhaps Al Gore hasn’t noticed. 😳
So does “predicting all of this” include:
— the slow increase in Antarctic sea-ice since 1979 (https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/11/16/antarctica-sea-ice-has-slowly-increased-since-1979-science-paper-finds/ )?
— climate change increasing crop yields (https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/11/06/right-our-world-in-data-climate-change-is-increasing-crop-yields-concern-about-future-decline-is-unwarranted/ )?
— the increase in atmospheric CO2 being the result of global warming, not the cause (https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/11/02/the-geological-record-of-climate-change-and-why-todays-increase-in-atmospheric-co2-is-the-result-of-global-warming-not-the-cause/ )
— the 2024 scientific finding that plants absorb 31% more CO₂ than previously believed (https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/10/29/oops-science-was-settled-until-it-wasnt-plants-absorb-31-more-co%e2%82%82-than-we-thought/ )
I could go on and on, but need I? One can click on the “Predictions” tab in the menu bar at the top of this WUWT webpage, then clicking back to Pages 7 through 12, to see just how pitifully WRONG some “scientists” predictions about climate have proven to be since they were made “decades ago”.
As for Al Gore’s claim . . . well, there’s just no excuse . . . a dyed in-the-wool politician desperately trying to stay relevant in a world that has fully discounted him.
Quite right. He was a rejected candidate for the Presidency in 1988 and 2000. And he’s been irrelevant to US national politics ever since.
Irrelevant. He’s been proven wrong so why he is allowed to continue is the question.
He made the money with his scams to be able to afford a ticket to current events.
“Do we listen to the polluters, who don’t want to do anything meaningful that might reduce fossil fuels,
No you listen to those of us pulling our weight rather than jet fuel pulling it to Azerbeijan and you stay home too. Either that or I get credited the same Azerbeijan jet miles and don’t forget the missus or it’s misogyny.
Give me that old time religion, here are two of the great man’s predictions from his Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit 1992:
“Up to 60 percent of the present population of Florida may have to be relocated.” (within a few decades)
In 2024, Florida’s population is estimated to be 22,976,000. It is currently the fastest growing state in the US.
“About 10 million people in Bangladesh will lose their homes and means of sustenance because of the rising sea level, due to global warming, in the next few decades. Where will they go? Whom will they displace? What political conflicts will result?”
Bangladesh’s landmass has increased by 20 square kilometres (eight square miles) annually.
(Via WUWT Predictions) hallelujah!
I think he has gone from a money hungry con man to a mentally ill delusional.
He’s a rich mentally ill delusional.
I don’t think Al Gore is a very nice person.
And there is evidence to back that up. Way back in 1994, Al Gore attempted to use ABC News Nightline’s Ted Koppel to impugn the credibility of Dr S Fred Singer. It blew up in his face. But that was the last time anyone major in the legacy news media challenged Gore on his political accusation angle.
“Al Gore’s 1994 ABC News Nightline ‘Crooked Skeptics’ Name-Calling Failure“
Podesta told attendees at the conference during a Monday speech that despite the election of former President Donald Trump, the United States would still be involved in addressing climate change
You reckon? That’s not exactly where Trump was coming from and it’s goodbye comical ali and hello Sabre Tooth Tiger in that regard-
New Trump Press Secretary SAVAGELY Shreds Media LIARS
Wow!
Some of us are hoping the Dutton Opposition can grow some real cohones and emulate Trump’s lead in the runup to the Federal election early next year-
New trial off of WA coast trying to make wave power a commercial reality | Watch
Welcome to Albo and Bowen’s renewables superpower! Like the US we desperately need adults in charge of the purse strings.
more gore lies
https://x.com/JimSteeleSkepti/status/1857535253432381904
Prior to the US election, I noted that John Kerry was stepping down as US climate ‘special envoy’ to help Biden win the election. Have we heard from old mate Kerry at all over the last few months?
I note Trump proposing a young vibrant executive going forward. Have not seen his pick yet for climate envoy? haha!! – This department will be abolished.
US Special Presidential Envoy For-Climate
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John Kerry stepped down as US Climate envoy in April 2024 to “do whatever he can to help re-elect President Joe Biden in 2024 by campaigning on what Biden has accomplished on the climate issue.”
So he worked pretty hard for 3 months before Biden withdrew. He then immediately endorsed Kamala Harris, but failed to “do whatever he can to help elect President Kamala Harris in 2024 by campaigning on what Harris has accomplished on the climate issue.”
He couldn’t have done much. Biden hasn’t accomplished anything on the climate issue.
I suppose it must have been the use of fossil fuels that caused the numerous droughts in South America over thousands of years.
The only thing Gore is known for, is his “Verbal Diarrhea” which makes him a High Bishop of “The Church of Climatology” What governments are doing, should be criminal, but, I guess it’s not bad enough yet, for the people to rise up and stop them!? SMDH
Hey, Al. How did you get to Baku?
Well, Al the Charlatan, how are those blind fish going in South America, as you describe in your Book Earth in the Balance? The ones suffering from increased ultra violet in natural light?
How are the poor people of the globe doing, the ones with inadequate energy, food and futures because the World Bank believes your claptrap and reduces loan monies to parts of Africa seeking to develop faster?
This is mass murder, not Christian charity. Fix it and apologise.
Geoff S
Does he have an OFF button, dare we hope?
Gore is still a thing? I laugh in his general direction.
Why do we have more Polar Bears than in 1980?
Why is water and air cleaner than when I was born?
Why are crops growing faster and taller?
Maybe some climate change is good.
A fair amount of the Changing Climate is happening BECAUSE the air is cleaner so more solar influence reaches the surface instead of being reflected back to space