We all know Al Gore as that monotone, southern-belle accented straight-talker who is this decade's Gandhi when it comes to fighting global warming and global climate change. He was a pioneer when it came to scaring the shit out of people with terrifying weather facts, models of cities underwater and (in my opinion) deplorable footage of cutesy polar bears dying. Recently however, the climate change crusade bubble has burst all around him. His world was rocked by scandals such as "Climategate" and the The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change fact error scandal. Not to mention Donald Trump calling him out We all know Al Gore as that monotone, southern-belle accented straight-talker who is this decade’s Gandhi when it comes to fighting global warming and global climate change. He was a pioneer when it came to scaring the shit out of people with terrifying weather facts, models of cities underwater and (in my opinion) deplorable footage of cutesy polar bears dying. Recently however, the climate change crusade bubble has burst all around him. His world was rocked by scandals such as “Climategate” and the The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change fact error scandal. Not to mention Donald Trump calling him out. Al Gore, I know you’re better than this and I think it’s time you step up your global warming rhetoric game.
Al Gore and the whole global warming scene have taken a huge hit to their credibility in the last couple of months. There are more scandals surfacing now than ever before, and for good reason. Yesterday we reported on the shifting views of global warming and how all these scandals are playing out. It seems left and right people are denouncing global warming and scientists around the world are trying to win their credibility back.
The global warming movement Gore brought into popularity is being dismissed and debunked everywhere you look. Up until this point people who were skeptical of global warming were often thought to be ignorant and crazy. Now everyone is jumping the anti-Al Gore bandwagon and asking themselves questions like: “should I or should I not buy a blow-up pool for my rooftop in the expectation that next december will feel like august?”
So, what does all this flak about global warming mean to Al Gore?
He’s now a man on a mission and isn’t going to sit idly by and watch his end of the world theory get trampled on. He recently published an Op-Ed piece in the NY Times where he tried to rationalize the anti-global warming trend and remind everyone that global warming is still a real threat. Yes, he did admit “scientific enterprise will never be completely free of mistakes,” but he wants to to remind us all “that the overwhelming consensus on global warming remains unchanged.” Gore also goes on to blame partisan political jockeying for casting doubt on global warming and calls on President Obama to get major world powers to come together and reach a consensus on how to fight global climate change. Maybe oil companies are behind all this anti-Gore media coverage because they hate the idea of people driving hybrid cars and the whole “Go Green” movement in general.
Still, I think more needs to be done. It’s great that he wrote a piece for the NY Times and he is trying to fight back against all the bad press he and his movement have been receiving. Maybe he needs to make a new movie. One that’s action packed, has a really sexy voice over (maybe Will Arnett or Selma Hayek) and totally dejects all the global warming skeptics.
It’s really popular to re-record old fundraiser songs for new purposes. Maybe he could sing that song “What Friends Are For” that raised $3 million for the American Foundation for AIDS research and call it “What Icebergs Are For.” (Sorry first one that I thought of). I think it would be a smash hit and he could get all kinds of zany celebrities to pitch in. Or, maybe he could go on a lecture series and explain to everyone why global warming should still scare the shit out of you.
Al Gore this is a call to you, from all the people who still believe that polar bears will probably be extinct in 10 years and I’ll probably end up communting to work and school on a small sail boat instead of the subway. You have the facts, the power, the money and the media on your side. Let’s see a little more tough talk about global climate change and declare “global warming skeptic bashing time.” Because we all know that the majority of people in the world only respond to fear which is probably why the “Go Green” fad swept the world overnight in the first place.
March 04, 2010 at 2:12 pm, ken chicago said:
Al Gore, clearly funded by George Soros, has lead a crusade of lies that have negatively impacted the ability of emerging economies to survive in the world. His actions, his misinformation has contributed to the death of people in undeveloped countries who have been stifled by the UN IPCC CO2 constraints. Al Gore and his IPCC friends should be charged with crimes against humanity, genocide. Obama appears to be a party to the lies. Jones, Hansen, Mann should all be brought before an international court and convicted for their acts of genocide. News outlets, especially the AP, have supported the junk science and lies. News reporters should be hung from the same gallows. The AGW scam has killed more human beings than any other crime in human history. Al Gore has become the father of Adolf Hitler! The Mainstream News Media has been Gore’s right arm man!
March 04, 2010 at 2:26 pm, Nick Nicoludis said:
I think it’d be more important to put people like g.w. bush or karl rove up for charges of crimes against humanity rather that al gore. the man is trying to help people become conscious of how their wasteful habits affect the world. sure, it’s hard for people in poor countries to bend to some kind of international treaty but isn’t it more important that he educate people on the facts? I don’t think more political melodrama is in order. i mean, isn’t that why nothing gets done in congress? not because there is a lack of ideas or viable plans but because of everyone’s belief that their opinion is most important and everyone else is criminally wrong. Al Gore is doing good work educating people, and ridiculous calls for him to be indicted are just inconsequential whines.
March 04, 2010 at 3:00 pm, pojoe said:
The ones that should be charged with crimes against humananity are thopse people who spread this properganda that Global warming is not real,you kniw who yiu are and how much money is to be made if G.W is proved untrue .These same industries don’t care about human life or how difficult it will be for our children and grandchildren they only care about greed .this was tried by the tabacco companies in the 1980′s and the 1990′s this is the same approach by these industries to mislead ,twist the truth and get as much off public oppinion on there side as possible ,why polluting our planet so the uninhabitable for our future generations off humans
March 04, 2010 at 3:15 pm, Nick Nicoludis said:
i kinda agree. big industries like Oil don’t really give a f about us little guys. they have lots of sway and can get pretty much anything they want done. who knows if they’re behind the push to discredit global warming but i guess i wouldn’t be surprised. i guess i hope they aren’t that greedy/evil…maybe they are.
March 04, 2010 at 3:17 pm, Phil said:
The problem is that Climate Alarmists are exactly that: Alarmists. Al Gore doesn’t have a solution that solves ever increasing levels of C02. You can look at CO2 going up somewhere in the range of 1.5 – 2.0 ppm/year. Driving your Prius, using paper bags, combining car trips, using less energy are all good things. But together they do not dent the rate of release of C02. Implement all the solutions and you might reduce the rate of increase by 10%. So what? You get to 500 ppm in 100 years instead of 90.
Sorry, bud, that’s not a solution. We have to change our fundamental source of energy. it takes research, it takes concerted effort, it takes long term focus. You can think you are solving excess CO2 emissions by ranting and stroking your liberal ego of being a “do gooder,” but you are not solving the problem. Go ahead, drive your Prius, you aren’t actually affecting the final outcome.
It’s hard to tell a liberal that they don’t have a solution because they are so sure they are “right” and therefore what they say is a solution. Gore doesn’t have a solution only that he is raising the alarm bell. Solution lays in new energy sources (solar, nuke, wind are all good ideas but none of them can replace our fossil energy. You need a new energy source (algae or other biofuel not based on food).
Try thinking of real solutions and not ones that line the pockets of the self-proclaimed “intellectual elite.” This same group of intellectuals just screwed up their own scientific process.
March 04, 2010 at 4:01 pm, Nick Nicoludis said:
true. we do need actual solutions to the problem of global climate change. but no action will happen in this day and age without reason. alternative energy is possibly the best way to curb global warming. but, when a government is tied into special interests like big oil companies, what motivation is there for them to do anything? there are possibly hundreds of solutions to global warming, but none of these solutions with be realized until the government gets the picture that the people genuinely want a change–even then i’m not sure anything will happen. the grave reality, as i see it, is that big oil companies suppress alternative energy ideas (for obvious reasons) and all solutions are mott until the government decides to break those ties and do what it right for everyone.
March 04, 2010 at 3:19 pm, A1, AKA SteakSauce said:
Al Gore’s goal with ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ was to set up a moral imperative to act. What Gore must recognize is that whether he see’s it or not, he stands on the precipice of a movement. Many people agree with Gore’s reasoning that because we understand what we are doing, we have the ethical responsibility to do the right thing. Gore is far from the first person to make this argument. The Revolutionary war was fought by individuals who found the moral imperative to act. The salt marches that predated the skadhi movement in India, led by an individual who reminded people that they were the ones responsible for their future. The anti-apartheid movement, the civil rights movement, the back-to-the-land movement, all brought together by individuals and leadership who found the moral imperative to take action.
Sometimes I think Gore losing the 2000 election might of been the best thing that ever happened to him. It brought him down to earth. It allows him to speak more openly about that political process, not one of majority rule, that rebuffed him, and consistently works against the will of its own people in a blind support of the status quo.
What would Gore argue? Gore would argue that it’s not buisness that is the problem, but buisness as usual. It is not democracy which has failed us, but a nepotism that runs so strong through our local, state, and national leadership that we must find the courage to effectively act against it. He would also, and importantly so argue, that it is not morality or religion that relegates us to this debacle, but the passive ‘laissez faire’ approach to morality, a function of the hedonism and self serving aspects of our culture, and would remind people of what a great preacher once spoke, about a year before his untimely death at the hands of his own government(1):
“On some positions, Cowardice asks the question, “Is it safe?” Expediency asks the question, “Is it politic?” And Vanity comes along and asks the question, “Is it popular?” But Conscience asks the question “Is it right?” And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must do it because Conscience tells him it is right.”
March 04, 2010 at 3:55 pm, Nick Nicoludis said:
i think you’ve hit it just right. al gore’s role is to inspire others to act. he is the voice of the global climate change movement and a good one at that. our country is marred with partisan politics, self-centered and self-aggrandizing ramblings and politicians who aren’t motivated to change. gore calls us to act. his campaign for global warming education is exactly what needs to happen. it is not his position to make people do things, but to educate them enough so they can act on their own accord. he has said what he has to say, and i’m sure he has more to say on top of that. now it’s our turn to change those ideas into actions.
March 04, 2010 at 3:23 pm, NETTA said:
READ THIS -
Rapid cooling
Wouldn’t a warmer Earth mean vineyards in Scotland and Mediterranean beach holidays on the UK South Coast? Rising sea levels, floods, heat-waves, hose-pipe bans and malaria – won’t these be the main results of our big gamble with the Earth’s climate?
Certainly these are all risks. But they are not the only possible scenario. There is an alternative future of frostier winters, later springs and earlier autumns. This is what we might have to face if global warming shuts down the Atlantic heat conveyor – known to oceanographers and climate scientists as the Atlantic thermohaline circulation or THC, and to the rest of us somewhat inaccurately as the Gulf Stream.
The ocean is a moderating influence on climate in Western Europe. Warm water from the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico flows north and east across the Atlantic. Heat from the tropics is released to the atmosphere and makes our climate warmer and wetter than expected from the latitude we’re at. Were this flow to stop our winters would become like those at similar latitudes on the eastern shores of the Pacific. IPCC projections for future changes to the THC suggest that the Atlantic overturning will slow down, but not stop.
Rapid cooling has happened before. Possibly more than once since the last ice age. And paradoxically at least one of these events was a direct result of the Earth becoming warmer.
So could it happen again? How likely is it? How would it happen? How soon could we expect the change to begin? If it starts, how could we detect it? When and how did it happen in the past? Is the situation now sufficiently similar to then? These are the questions the RAPID science programme is working to answer
March 04, 2010 at 6:24 pm, Chris said:
I hardly think its accurate to say that the global warming theory is being debunked by these recent events. Sure, it looks bad. And sure, its snowing like crazy in the eastern United States. But none of these relatively small things effect the basic scientific principle that CO2 in the atmosphere traps in heat that the earth is trying to radiate out into space. I think that alarmism – if used only as a scare tactic – backfires when it turns out that CO2 levels in the atmosphere cause a more gradual warming trend than stated. If you tell people they’re all going to die in year X, and they survive it, you’ve lost all your credibility…
March 04, 2010 at 9:18 pm, Derek said:
I read all these articles and they are all true about the scandals and the fraud. What so very few people are mentioning is that Al Gore, Barack Obama, and Goldman Sachs are large owners in the Chicago Climate Exchange where cap-and-trade would be carried out. Currently carbon futures are traded there… amongst other things. These guys stand to make millions of dollars off this fraud. With the anger the public has over banking and Wall Street right now, this is something people should be talking about. Obama and friends give bailouts to banks and then the banks help them out with the Climate Exchange. It is expected that cap-and-trade will make CO2 the largest traded commodity in the world in dollar volume. Already on the European Exchange CO2 trades over $100 billion euros per year. Imagine the money to be made.
March 04, 2010 at 10:57 pm, tomdavie said:
Here is a message for all you scam artists. If you believe in this global warming bull , and believe the planet is going to fry, then YOU crack open your wallet and give your money to Al Gore. Stop whining and moaning and blogging. DO SOMETHING other than stick your hand out and ask for money from us. I would rather take the money and wipe my rear end with it . I would rather burn it. Flush it. Tear it up. Anything but I will never give a red cent of my money to this mother of all scams.
March 05, 2010 at 1:08 pm, pojoe said:
Chris remember Iraq and G.Bush how much money did he spend an the war ?was it 2.3 trilion dollars on a war for one reason only so he and his buddies can get very rich ,you did’nt mention that little fact. Derek If you only care about your money and not about nothing else ,you fit right in with the rest selfish and greedy people off this world i hope they bury you with your millions My philosophy off life is “take what you need and leave the rest for future generation off humans” or you don’t care about you children and grandchildren .as far as a scam use humans have been burning coal for 1000 years and oil in mass quantity for the last 150 years so where did all the pollution go? WHO IS PEPERTRATING THIS SCAM
March 07, 2010 at 3:53 pm, John A. Jauregui said:
Question: What are the chances an infinitesimal (.04%) trace gas (CO2), essential to photosynthesis and life on this planet, is responsible for run away Global Warming?
Answer: Infinitesimal
The IPCC agrees. See the IPCC Technical Report section entitled Global Warming Potential (GWP).
March 07, 2010 at 8:37 pm, Trevor said:
Its like everyone went blind for the last three months the evidence for AGW (Man caused Global warming/climate change) is disappearing faster then any glacier. In the last 2 months look at the scandals that have rocked the IPCC where all Gov’t get their AGW facts.
IPCC Recent Failures and Revelations:
1.African crop yields loss (Wrong)
2.Dutch Sea Levels (Wrong)
3.Himalayan Glacier melt as well as size of Glacier (Wrong)
4. Hurricanes caused by Global warming will increase (Wrong see attached news article)
5. Amazon Rain forest depletion due to Climate change (Wrong)
6. Antarctic Sea melt (Wrong has increased since 2007 by 19%) (This ice is 90% of the worlds ice is in Antarctica as well)
7. Hockey stick model of Temperature showing an upward extreme change in Temperature only after 1850 (Wrong a Canadian exposed this one.)
8. Temperature data at UK MET office (Wrong) 150 scientist calling for redo of data
9. Polar Bear extinction (Wrong)
10. The closing of 1000′s of ground temperature stations around the world in colder areas (Embarrassingly Wrong move)
11. The loss of coast for Bangladesh (wrong)
12. The predictions of severe weather and climate catastrophes because of climate change (wrong)
13.The spread of insect related disease to Norther Hemisperies (Wrong USA, Russia and other nOrthern Countries have all had Malaria epidemics through history DDT wiped most of it out till it was wrongly banned based on no scientific data it has since been reintroduced by the World Health Organization)
14. The earth is warming as we pump more Co2 into atmosphere (Wrong Pjhil Jones admitted to the BBC in an interview I sent all of you that there has been no statically significant warming of the globe for the past 15 years, the New York time and others have quoted this as well.)
15. Climate Gate scandal many said it was nothing but private emails (Wrong now we know that primary climate data was deleted, Freedom of information requests where ignored and violated, the Scientific peer review process was tampered with and influenced
Yet time and time again the IPCC says none of the above changes the the evidence for the Theory and we need to just make some changes to process and procedure and and move on. What? When does a Theory fall apart, how much evidence needs to be eliminated and found to be wrong before a Theory collapses?
March 08, 2010 at 10:53 pm, Paul Revere said:
American Traitor, Global Elitist liar, opportunist, Monopoly Man and Con -Artist!
Just like his friends at the United Nations ( the sooner they shut that den of thieves and rogues down the safer the world will be!) and the International Monetary Fund!
Re:For your own defense watch: “Shadow Government” http://snardfarker.ning.com/profiles/blogs/videos-shadow-government-full?xg_source=msg_mes_network
March 11, 2010 at 9:09 am, larry nicoludis said:
The problem with the Dems in this case is they tried too heavily to focus on society change rather than what really works – economic factors. If they would have made the case for tax cuts to promote real green jobs like building solar panel factories in the US or 0% loans for residential solar hot water installations the economy would have carried the load by itself.
Society has such a wide spectrum of social tolerances and political philosophies but, everyone cares about thier wallets.
March 15, 2010 at 3:15 pm, Nick Nicoludis said:
well said. (thanks dad)
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