Mar 082010

As the global warming movement falters, Al Gore’s dying Climate Project is folded into The Alliance for Climate Protection

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As Al Gore’s global governance effort via global warming fraud collapses on itself under the heavy burden of Climategate and assorted other scientific scandals, Team Gore has made a laughable announcement:

Washington, D.C. and Nashville, TN — Signaling the historic opportunity before us to transition to a clean energy economy and heal the planet, the Alliance for Climate Protection and The Climate Project, two organizations founded by Nobel Laureate and former Vice President Al Gore, announced today that they are officially uniting their programs and activities under the Alliance for Climate Protection. This unification will strengthen their existing campaigns and initiatives.

In other words, as the size and influence of these two progressive advocacy groups continues to shrink into nothingness, Team Gore has decided to combine the two in the hopes that it will lend some perception of lingering heft to their faltering movement.

The Climate Project is Gore’s brainwashing corps who Al Gore has vested with the responsibility of spreading his lies in public presentations all across the fruited plain.  During Gore’s “salad days” immediately after the release of his science fiction/fantasy movie, An Inconvenient Truth, The Climate Project was flush with newly minted alarmists who volunteered to give Gore’s slide show to a public who, if not falling for Gore’s message hook, line, and sinker, were at least generally receptive to receiving more information on the subject.  Four years later, the public is largely weary of the tediousness of the global warming debate, and this feeling has been exacerbated by a leveling off (or decline) of global temperatures, and the Climategate scandal.  Nowadays, Gore’s brainwashing corps is more likely to be greeted with tough, inconvenient questions rather than the gratitude they often received following An Inconvenient Truth’s post-release afterglow.  In other words, The Climate Project movement has predictably lost its Mojo, and this slide into irrelevance was duly noted by Tom Nelson late last year:

Al Gore’s Dying Climate Fraud Project: Hide the Decline

Nevertheless, Gore has gone into spin mode:

“There has been a very large, organized campaign to try to convince people that it (global warming) is not real, to try to convince people that they shouldn’t worry about it,” Gore said during an interview on the Norwegian talk show Skavlan to promote his newest book Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis.  Gore said:

In my country, the oil and coal companies spent $500 million last year just on television advertising just on these questions. There are now five anti-climate lobbyists on Capitol Hill in Washington for every member of the House and Senate. So it’s been a very massive, organized campaign.

Gore’s compliant media, in this case USA Today, had the audacity to call folding the carcass of The Climate Project into The Alliance for Climate Protection a move that would “bolster their muscle”, but any observer who has been paying attention to the goings on in the world of the global warming movement for the past several months can see that folding The Climate Project into The Alliance for Climate Protection is really evidence that Al Gore’s movement is collapsing on itself.

Hat tip: Climate Change Fraud

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Mar 082010

Exposed: The global warming campaign enters its Emperor’s new-clothes phase

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The Weekly Standard’s Steven F. Hayward has penned what is in my opinion the definitive essay on the state of the global warming movement at this moment, In Denial: The meltdown of the climate campaign. The cover says it all:

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Mar 042010

Everything that’s wrong with Al Gore in a single graph

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Mark Perry likes graphs.  Of course he does, he’s an economics professor for chrisakes!  And if you’ve ever read his blog, Carpe Diem, this quickly becomes apparent.

Professor Perry has applied his graph magic to the much ballyhooed analysis by the Tennessee Center for Policy Research into a graph to visually maximize the Al’s inconvenient electrical usage in 2007:

In 2007, Al Gore’s mansion in Nashville burned through an average of 17,720 kilowatt-hours (kWh) of electricity each month (see Al Gore’s electric bill here, via the Tennessee Center for Policy Research, which first reported on Al Gore’s energy usage in 2007), costing more than $16,000 for the year.

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According to Department of Energy data, that’s about 19 times as much as the electricity consumed by the average U.S. household in 2007 (936 kWh per month), more than 13 times the electricity consumed monthly by the average household in Tennessee (1,344 kWh), and almost 3 times as much electricity as the average U.S. commercial customer (6,408 kWh). See the chart above. Stated differently, Al Gore uses more electricity every 18 days than the average American household consumes during the entire year.

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Mar 042010

Global Warming Hoax Weekly Round-Up, March 4th 2010

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Like clockwork, it’s the Round-Up courtesy of The Daily Bayonet:

The green movement is fracturing under the continued pressure of the truth about global warming, Al Gore wrote for the NYT and is widely ridiculed and British Columbia proves that green taxes can’t stop global warming.  Also, in a Daily Bayonet exclusive, buy your Axis of Upheaval offsets, this week only.

And there’s an all-Canadian hottie, because Canada rocked the Olympics my friends.

Part One: Al Gore & Friends

Al Gore, Apple shareholder and advocate of child labor for increased profits, was called a laughingstock at the hippie-tech’s recent AGM.  Bonus, he was there in person to hear it.

At least Al can show up when their is dollar to be made, because he runs pretty fast if he’s being asked to answer a few questions on the record.

The biggest news from the global warming movement’s spiritual leader was his op-ed in the New York Times in which the profiteer prophet told his people:

I, for one, genuinely wish that the climate crisis were an illusion. But unfortunately, the reality of the danger we are courting has not been changed by the discovery of at least two mistakes in the thousands of pages of careful scientific work over the last 22 years by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. In fact, the crisis is still growing because we are continuing to dump 90 million tons of global-warming pollution every 24 hours into the atmosphere — as if it were an open sewer.

And by ‘global warming pollution’ Al means CO2, or plant food.  Feel the crazy!

There was a long line of people waiting to tear up Al’s portfolio-protection racket, notably Ace,  Alan Caruba, Ann Althouse, IBD and the always read-worthy Donna LaFramboise, who really puts the boot in:

While Gore finds it convenient these days to portray tobacco as the moral equivalent of the Great Satan, to anyone aware of his family history this rings grotesquely hollow. Six years after his own sister died of lung cancer, he himself was still accepting political campaign donations from “tobacco industry political action committees.” It took several years following her death for his family to walk away from the income they earned from this crop.

The reason this is important is because the tobacco analogy isn’t being deployed randomly or accidentally. It’s become a consistent part of Gore’s rhetorical arsenal. Last December, he tried the same trick. When asked about the lack of political action in the US on carbon-dioxide related matters, he compared “carbon polluters” to big tobacco and appeared to blame their lobbying and advertising activities for the lack of legislative progress.

Ouch.

Al’s mockumentary An Inconvenient Truth may no longer be shown in British schools, if the UKIP takes power (which is, unfortunately unlikely).

At least Al is a smart gambler.  By ducking this bet, he’s saved some of those precious greenbacks he’s so fond of.

There may be a medical diagnosis for what ails Al, ‘Narcissistic Personality Disorder‘.  Yes, global warming causes failed presidential candidates to crave the spotlight.  Or something.  I don’t know if Al’s sick or not, but he sure makes me nauseous.

Oh, did you know that global warming causes coral reefs to ‘disintigrate’.  Me either, but Big Al says it is so, and he’s almost Doctor Gore.  Oh, wait, here’s an inconvenient truth.

Al has teamed up with Richard Branson, the UK’s biggest global warming hypocrite, to make lots more money for each other sell a mini traffic light for truck cabs, or something.

Et tu, Guardian?  Al Gore, ghost of climate change past:

Yet even though I admire Gore, on some level I couldn’t help but cringe. His 2006 film on global warming, An Inconvenient Truth, helped bring the issue to prominence for millions of people. I’m afraid, though, that he has not only spent his political capital, but is running a deficit. Mocked by the right every time he pops up, he is no longer in a position to convince anyone who isn’t already convinced – especially when he writes for our most liberal daily newspaper.

From a Guardianista, that’s like getting smacked upside the head with Tiny Tim’s crutch.  God bless ‘em, every word.

Heh. Good job.  You’ve successfully completed Part One.  Now get on over to The Daily Bayonet for the other four parts.  There’s a hottie waitin’ for ya.



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Mar 042010

CONSENSUS WATCH – 3/1/2010 – ‘Because without Consensus, scientific conclusions could be subject to public scrutiny’

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Biting sarcasm straight from Planet Moron:

An ongoing series dedicated to vigorously monitoring emerging threats to The Consensus that global warming is real, caused by humans, and must be addressed at all costs.

Because without Consensus, scientific conclusions could be subject to public scrutiny.
As a result of the minor climate contretemps of the past several months in which the entire construct of global warming theory has been called into question, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has decided to launch an independent review of its research vetting process with a specific focus on IPCC chief Rejandra Pachauri, plus re-examine 160 years of temperature data.

Call it a scientific “do over.”

This, of course, should not in any way impede our progress towards manic implementation of hastily conceived measures meant to address the very real threat of manmade public hysteria over impending climate catastrophe.

After all, we already know the conclusion.  Think of these investigations as more of a formality, like a real estate closing only without as much uncertainty.

In another positive development, the multi-talented, Nobel Prize and Academy Award winning Al Gore broke his weeks-long silence (no doubt spent in quiet contemplation with his spiritual advisor and tax accountant) to address a world desperate for his guidance.

While we had hoped he would deliver his message through an interpretive dance routine, thereby all but ensuring a Tony nomination, he chose instead the more conventional path of writing a piece for The New York Times in which he addressed the “two minor errors” of the IPCC reports.

Read it all on Planet Moron.

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Mar 032010

Newspaper’s inconvenient juxtaposition proves wind power is definitely not free

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We’re told that wind is free energy.  130,000 Google search results prove that this is an incontrovertible fact, right?

Wrong:


The newspaper’s web edition of this story didn’t contain the wind farm photo that my dead tree edition did (as pictured above), which juxtaposes so inconveniently the truth about the cost of wind power.

Company officials acknowledged that it’s a terrible time for rate increases, but said the investments were in many cases being driven by state and local mandates for more renewable power and pollution controls.

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Mar 032010

Doubling down vs. going all in: Card playing strategy and the man-made global warming movement

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Pajamas Media’s PJTV has a new 26 minute video interview with Lord Christopher Monckton. Al Gore was discussed, of course, and specifically mentioned was Al Gore’s “doubling down” on man-made climate change via his blizzard of lies op-ed he wrote for the compliant New York Times. However, in my opinion the “doubling down” analogy is a weak one. Doubling down is a strategy that is used in blackjack, and is done when playing from a positon of strength rather than weakness, e.g. when a player is dealt a ten or an eleven, or when the dealer is showing a very weak hand to your own nine:

Double Down: double your initial bet following the initial two-card deal, but you can hit one card only. A good bet if the player is in a strong situation.

On the other hand, “going all in” is a more apt analogy for the collapsing global warming movement.  “Going all in” is a poker term, and is a strategy that is generally employed out of weakness or desperation:

This is often the act of desperation, when a player is close to being eliminated from the game.

It has become apparent to anyone who is paying attention, i.e. global temperatures decreasing for a decade, Climategate, Amazongate, et. al., that the hand of cards that Al Gore and the rest of the alarmists are holding is not a strong one.  Therefore, when Al Gore penned his NY Times op-ed, “We Can’t Wish Away Climate Change“, he was certainly employing the more desperate “going all in” poker strategy, rather than “doubling down” on a strong hand as is done in blackjack.

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