Gore’s 24 Hour Climate Show Gets Negative Reviews From Fellow Global Warming Activists

Marc Morano
Climate Depot
Sunday, September 18, 2011

[Update – Sept. 18, 2011: Yet Another Key Claim of Gore Bites the Dust! NOAA lead author of U.S. Climate Science Assessment Report on Texas drought: ‘This is not a climate change drought’ — For constant updates on Gore see here.]


Former Vice President Al Gore 24 hour climate “reality” show is surprisingly facing strongly negative reviews from Gore’s fellow global warming activists and environmental allies. In addition, two German scientists ridiculed Gore for his “apocalyptic” tone and his “promise of salvation.”

Climate activist Bob Ward was tepid about Gore’s show. “One could complain that some of the presentations overstated the certainty and wrongly implied that individual weather events could be attributed to climate change,” lamented Ward. Ward is the Policy Director, for the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Mike Shanahan, of the International Institute for Environment and Development, bragged that he purposefully avoided watching Gore’s climate telethon.

“I actually avoided the Goreathon, and I guess that says something in itself,” Shanahan wrote. He added that a journalist sent him a text declaring: “Gore gets gold for most boring and least galvanizing talk on climate, ever…That, and possibly damaging.”

Shanahan was blunt in his opinion of Gore: “Climate Change needs a Gandhi or a Martin Luther King or a Mandela, and Al Gore is none of those.”

Other global warming activists were just as wary of having anything to do with Gore’s attempt to link al bad weather to man-made global warming.

“Overall, I don’t think this (Gore’s) initiative will do much good. For one thing, Al Gore is now as much a hindrance as a help on climate change advocacy, as he’s been characterized (probably unfairly) as a highly partisan figure, and so immediately gets about half of all folks offside,” Barry W. Brook, the director of climate science at the Environment Institute at University of Adelaide in Australia, said.

“Gore is in the situation that certain X-wing fighter pilot was during the assault on the Death Star (in the film Star Wars), when Luke Skywalker called out over the intercom: ‘Pull out Wedge, you can’t do any more good back there!’”

Brook went even further, declaring the entire man-made global warming debate to be futile.

“I think the climate change debate is over. It’s like a snow mobile slipping on slush — it isn’t moving forward any time soon.”

The UK Guardian’s Leo Hickman, a prominent media activist for man-made global warming, was embarrassed by Gore’s extreme weather link to man-made global warming linkage.

“I was a little nervous this morning logging into Climate Reality…And, I have to say, my heart immediately sank,” when viewing it, Hickman wrote. Hickman asked: “Is Gore now a help or hindrance to global warming cause?” See: Hickman on Gore’s ‘Death by PowerPoint’– “I have suffered this torture too many times over the years…[Gore’s show had] slide after slide of extreme weather events… linking everyone, it seemed, to rise in [man-made] emissions…that is a very contentious peg on which to hang your hat…That kind of talk traditionally requires lots of caveats and careful explaining. Done with abandon and raw emotion – as this presenter seemed to be doing – and you are quickly labeled in some quarters as a climate ‘alarmist.’”

Professor Judith Curry, the chair, School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta echoed these sentiments.

“If the intent of Al Gore’s telethon is to garner broad support for climate and energy policies such as proposed by the UNFCCC (e.g. the Kyoto protocol), I anticipate that this effort will backfire and energize the opposition to such policies,” Curry, who has shifted her views more towards the skeptical view of global warming in recent years, wrote on her blog.

“As a scientist I find the mantra ‘remove the doubt, reveal the deniers’ to be objectionable and antithetical to the scientific process. Gore’s effort will further polarize an already inflamed and politicized debate surrounding the science and policy response to climate change,” Curry explained. She also noted that Gore’s tactics will lead to more scientists declaring their dissent from man-made global warming. “Just today, Physics Nobel Laureate Ivar Giaever explains his resignation from APS,” Curry noted.

Gore’s ‘promise of salvation’

A pair of German scientists noted the religious overtones of Gore’s 24 hour climate telethon. “There was only one message, an apocalyptic one, with the respective promise of salvation; sometimes the discourse almost switched into a religious sermon: once we behave climate friendly, there won’t be any storms or other natural disasters anymore,” wrote German scientists Hans von Storch Werner Krauss of the Helmholtz Centre for Materials and Coastal Research in Geesthacht, Germany.

Storch and Krauss chided Gore for seemingly linking every bad thing to man-made global warming. “Highly speculative (and deterministic) assertions such as the interpretation of the Arab upheavals as a result of global warming were made repeatedly, sold as scientific knowledge and without being challenged,” the scientists noted. Also see: DudGate! Gore’s Last Gasp – German Media Completely Ignores His Bitter Slur-athon

Skeptics of man-made climate change fears were also brutal on Gore’s latest climate science effort.

Canada’s Sun TV commentator with Charles Adler compared Gore to scandal ridden U.S. televangelist Jimmy Swaggart and warned of a “dangerous cult of personality” surrounding Gore. Adler mocked Gore as a prophet who was “going to hold back droughts.”

Physicist Dr. Lubos Motl also ridiculed Gore for being a “prophet.” “Gore had to personally train about 3,000 random people from the whole globe. The idea is that he is the prophet so anyone who ever touches him immediately gets the status of a priest in his community, a kind of medium religious rank,” Motl wrote.

“The media almost totally ignored the non-event in this case. Well, in fact, even a huge majority of the alarmist blogosphere (not just Real Climate) remained silent about this bummer,” Motl noted.

Meteorologist Anthony Watts noted how boring Gore’s climate telethon was becoming four hours into it. See: Gore’s 24 hour show a flop!? ‘After hour 4 it is starting to look like a massive dud’

Watts also unloaded on Gore for comparing global warming skeptics to tobacco company propaganda. See: Meteorologist Watts Tells Gore to shove his tobacco analogy up his A@* — ‘For the record, Mr. Gore, both of my parents died of smoking related illnesses. As a result, I abhor everything about tobacco. Therefore Mr. Gore, you can take that comparison and forcefully insert it into the bodily orifice of your choice’

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Watts also noted that Gore brought on a former Miss Rhode Island contestant ‘to talk about sea level rise — while warmist Paul Higgins of AMS sputters to non-answers

Steve Milloy of Junk Science, called Gore a “tobacco hypocrite.” “Gore his family were quite content to profit from tobacco users for more than 20 years after 1964 publication of first Surgeon General report on smoking.” Milloy wrote.

The skeptical website Real Science mocked the timing of Gore’s 24 hour climate telethon. Scientist Steve Goddard, the publisher of the website noted the massive cold spell in the U.S. and the inconvenient climate data that coincided with Gore’s event. See: Breaking: Sea Level Continues Its Historic Decline — ‘Envisat shows that the 2 year long decline is continuing, at a rate of 5mm per year’ — The ‘Gore Effect’ extends to sea level! ‘No doubt Gore will pass this good news on to all his viewers’

Goddard also noted that during Gore’s 24 hour show, Arctic ice made impressive gains in size. See: ‘Arctic Gained A New Manhattan Of Ice Every Two Minutes Yesterday — ’16 city blocks of new ice forming every second!’ The ‘Gore Effect’ Hits Arctic Ice! 2,200 Manhattans Of New Arctic Ice Growing In The Last 5 Days — ‘A new Manhattan of ice is being born every 3 minutes!’

The skeptical website Tom Nelson, also noted the so-called “Gore Effect.” See: ‘Gore Effect’ strikes again: During Gore’s 24-hour climate show, and while it’s still summer in the N. Hemisphere, 16 new city blocks of Arctic ice formed every second!’

CFACT (the parent company of Climate Depot) mocked Gore for “jumping the shark.” See: ‘Note to Al Gore: You’ve jumped the shark’ Skeptics at CFACT react to Gore’s 24 show: ‘We tuned in. What we found exceeded our worst expectations’ — ‘Speaker after speaker showed slide after slide of tragedy. Flooded houses, parched crops, starving kids. Shameless…Not only is human progress not responsible for severe weather, it is the best chance we have to meet these children’s nutritional needs in the future’

Climatologist Dr. Roy Spencer pulled no punches in evaluating Gore’s scientific claims. See: Gore’s 24 Hour Climate Astrology Show Slammed: Gore’s beliefs are ‘matters of faith, not observable scientific reality’ — Current weather is NOT ‘outside realm of natural climate variability’

News Round Up of Gore’s 24 Hours of Climate ‘Reality’: (for continuous updates, please go here)

Watch Now: Climate Depot’s Morano on Canadian TV: ‘Gore is a desperate man. Gore has utterly and completely failed…Gore is promoting ‘climate astrology’ (Int. begins at 06:40) – Morano: ‘No matter the weather, it’s just what global warmists would have expected. It is now akin to predictions of Mayan calendar or Nostradamus…But, the science is clear: Big tornadoes are on decline since 1970s, hurricane activity is near 40 year lows, sea level is dropping…polar bears (doing fine), Mt. Kilimanjaro gaining ice. From A-Z, Gore has egg on his face when it comes to man-made global warming’

MUST READ: In Anticipation Of The Gore ‘Lie-A-Thon’ – Severe Weather Reality From The 1950s, 1960s 1970s

Paging Al Gore: Read this ‘list of severe weather incidents that took place during the 50s, 60s and 70s. These terrible and destructive events occurred well before the current decade’s hysteria about CO2 emissions. These events represent empirical evidence (reality) that refutes Al Gore’s type of climate science’

‘A study published in 2011 in Geophysical Research Letters on causes of the 2010 Russian heat wave deduced that it ‘was due to internal atmospheric dynamical processes’ — Paging Al Gore: Peer-reviewed Study: ‘It is unlikely that the warming attributable to increasing greenhouse gas concentrations contributed significantly to the magnitude of the [Russian] heat wave’

Climate Depot Response to Gore: “Gore has severely overreached in his 24 hour ‘reality’ show by claiming virtually every weather event to be a result of man-made global warming. Even global warming activists are cringing at Gore’s unscientific climate astrology claims. Gore wants us to believe that our SUV’s are weather machines — will he blame witches for crop failures next? Memo to Al Gore from Climate Depot: The UN and Congress cannot legislate, tax or regulate the weather.”

Gore’s spokesperson Maggie Fox ducks radio debate at last minute with skeptic! ‘They know that their claims will not withstand critical scrutiny’
DudGate: Gore’s Climate Reality Project: a massive dud – even warmists are panning it now

Gore brings on Miss Rhode Island to talk about sea level rise — while warmist Paul Higgins of AMS sputters to non-answers

‘Note to Al Gore: You’ve jumped the shark’ Skeptics at CFACT react to Gore’s 24 show: ‘We tuned in. What we found exceeded our worst expectations’ — ‘Speaker after speaker showed slide after slide of tragedy. Flooded houses, parched crops, starving kids. Shameless…Not only is human progress not responsible for severe weather, it is the best chance we have to meet these children’s nutritional needs in the future’

Flashback: Watch Now: Climate Depot’s Morano on Fox News Mocking Gore’s ‘Climate Astrology’: ‘This is now akin to the predictions of Nostradamus or the Mayan calendar’ – Morano: ‘There is no way anyone can falsify the global warming theory now because any weather event that happens ‘proves’ their case…Man-made global warming has ceased to be a science, it is now the level of your daily horoscope’ — Gore [in 2006 film] did not warn us of extreme blizzards and record cold winters coming’

The ‘Gore Effect’ Hits Arctic Ice! 2,200 Manhattans Of New Arctic Ice Growing In The Last 5 Days — ‘A new Manhattan of ice is being born every 3 minutes!’

Arctic Ice fails to reach record low — But Gore still claims record low!?

The ‘Gore Effect’ is Back! Early Freeze Could Severely Damage Minnesota Crop Production

It’s official, NOAA shows the ‘Gore Effect’ hitting America tonight – Cold Wave Has Perfect Timing!

Surprise summer snow in Colorado

Climate Depot Factsheet on the ‘Gore Effect’ Phenomenon: ‘Happens when global warming-related event, or appearance by Gore is marked by exceedingly cold weather’

Hour by Hour analysis: 24 Hours of Climate Reality: Gore-a-thon – Hour 6

Analysis: Gore’s effort to ‘expose’ climate change skeptics will instead show that Gore is a charlatan’

‘It is a mistake to blame human activities for current weather extremes. The NIPCC concluded that ‘the data reveal there have not been any significant warming-induced increases in extreme weather events.’ The report’s authors showed that this was the case whether the phenomenon being studied was precipitation, floods, drought, storms, hurricanes, fire, or other weather-related events’

Wash. University’s College Democrat student says paying well over $100k for Gore to speak on campus was a ‘steal’ — ‘Thank you Treasury for funding Al Gore’

‘The University’s treasury absolutely did the right thing by approving money for the purpose of bringing Al Gore to campus. Gore is a generational figure…Bringing Al Gore will up our ‘going green’ street cred in a big way…this is a steal…the cost to the students, because of the alternate funding, is substantially lower than it would normally be to bring Al Gore to campus’






 
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40 Responses to “Gore’s 24 Hour Climate Show Gets Negative Reviews From Fellow Global Warming Activists”

  1. People emmit carbondioxide CO2. Cars emmit carbonmonixide CO1. Two COMPLETELY different gasses. Maybe you think your exhaled air, and your cars exhaust are the same. If so, you are perfect prey for global warming scams: just a stoopit person

  2. You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.
    Abraham Lincoln

  3. As I’ve said for years, the global warming SCAM has done more to hurt REAL environmental problems than any other single thing.

    Another cruel hoax is so called “biodegradable plastics” and other “biodegradables” which in reality destroy the environment. The global warming scam is partially a smokescreen for the biodegradable scams, worldwide oil spills which the lamestream media won’t tell you about, the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, etc., etc.

    SEARCH WORDS: biodegradable plastic scam
    and
    “Ecuador oil spills”

  4. Recent climate “change” can be directly linked to the fact there have been nuclear meltdowns,volcanos and a $hit load of bombs being dropped in last twenty years.We need are forests and thats a fact. They hold the soil,they hold are medicines, they hold our futures.Forests need to be managed for the long term. Everything needs to be managed long term, if we want the next generations to have a future. Seems to me, too much fighting over these resources, wasting the cash so to speak, instead of managing and understanding the resources.

    • What change? Just eight tenths of a degree in 150 years? Factor in the change in measurement sites during those 150 years and the +8/10th of a degree could just as well be -8/10 degree, or more. Any truthful geologist will tell you that the geologic record shows we are presently enjoying a warm cycle which has lasted for thousands of years, but is nearing it’s end. When that happens, Earth will return to its normal cold state. That will be the next ice age and will last for TENS of thousands of years. Now, that’s CHANGE we can expect, although we may not see it during our relatively short lifetimes.

      Remember that geologists, and other scientists, who are funded with, or expect to be funded with GRANTS $$$ will NOT tell you the truth, unless it just happens to fall in line with their “re$earch” ($$$$$$)

  5. Vampire Gore your blood drinking days maybe numbered.

    You could convince anyone you invented internet and you are not going to convince anyone about climate change unless you can convince us you invented HAARP.

    • Correction…
      You could NOT convince anyone you invented the internet……..

      • He Gingrich got NAFTA passed though they deserve the noose for that one alone.

  6. A Scientist has done some research into the atmosphere of Venus, which is mostly CO2. There is tremendous pressure and, consequently, great heat at “sea level”. He discovered, though, as one goes up higher in the atmosphere the pressure and temperature becomes less and less. At an altitude that is the equivalent to Earth’s pressure at sea level, (1 Atmosphere), the temperature was almost identical to Earth’s. Now that is logic and real Science, not the flatulence that is emitted daily from Mr. Gore’s lying face orifice. It proves that CO2 is NOT a warming gas at all. This has been suggested by other Scientists who have concluded that CO2 is, rather, a cooling gas.

    I would suggest Mr. Gore should talk to Mr. Sol, that smiling, beaming guy in the sky, and he will discover that Mr. Sol is behind the climate and any changes to our weather are probably caused by Solar activities. Do you comprehend Man Bear Pig?

  7. i bet this fat hogbeast eats steaks ultra rare. stupid man bear pig

  8. Gore Blood

  9. I (very fairly) characterize Gore as a Communist with an oil company, and a father who filibustered the civil rights act and was close to uber-Commie extraordinaire, Armand Hammer.

  10. Gorewhore = roflmao 

  11. this demon won’t ease up…… but his scam is going down

  12. co2 global warming movement is not about protecting the nature, it’s all bout money making business politic.

  13. Worldwide legalization of Hemp would be the ‘greenest’ place to start so our civilization can push forward on the right foot, it’s prohibition is a crime.

  14. Boy, if I wasn’t already confused about Climate Change, I really am NOW! I don’t think these other scientists are any more “on the money” than Gore is. I can guarantee you, tornadoes have NOT gone down 70% and neither have Hurricanes! Our famous southern storms have become huge in comparison to 20 years ago. I should know I live here! Ask anybody from Alabama, Florida or Louisiana why they moved north after living there and you’ll get a similar answer! “The Storms and Hurricanes Just got too bad to deal with anymore!” so forgive me if I don’t believe half of the other STATS up there in this article. Maybe it’s only partially man made and we shouldn’t blame it on man’s activities but take a look at our activities, something has to give and we certainly aren’t helping the situation by poisoning our planet like we do with industry and gasoline filled automobiles. So we’re not huge Gore fans, I get that, but to believe the other bullshitters on climate change really have better answers, especially the ones quoted here is laughable!!
    For years we’ve been hearing from some of these same scientists that the ocean is rising, now we hear it isn’t. So what are we to believe? I don’t think any of them have a F**ing clue what is going on and they’re all too arrogant to admit it!!

    • From what I have read yes the number of tornados has declined slightly, but the fact they have hit large urban areas has indeed increased, thereby increasing the coverage because of the catostrophic results and the appearance of increasing frequency. But then again the time frame for the reporting and recording of these storms is of a very short and insignificant duration in the history of the earth.

      For even a 100 year trend can be nothing but a mother earth hiccup.

      The only thing that can be held as a truth is that it will change and there is nothing mankind can do to stop or even diminish natural climate change.

    • PP1,
      You think about things differently when it happens in the area where you live. You have to think about it as in the whole planet, not just where you live. This has been the premise of global warming. Just because one area is warmer or seems to have more storms does not make the whole planet warmer. In fact some areas have had colder weather than normal even snow. Don’t jump to conclusions without all your facts.

      I would also tell you to look up HAARP it is an interesting read about how the military has the abilty to, and can manipulate weather.

  15. Al Gore’s mission to tax plant food (CO2), to reap the benefits for himself and a few friends is little different than say, Newt Gingrich addressing a convention of young Republicans, pointing into the audience and aghast saying: there’s a white guy! GET HIM!!!!!!………… oh and uh, bring me his wallet!

  16. Looks like even his paid cronies are turning their backs on him. lol

  17. GORE is just “SHOWING THE WORLD” . . . that he is nothing but an “IDIOT”. “NOW”, the rest of the world, is “SEEING IT”.

  18. AJ is obsessed with Gore. And what’s more, he’s foisting that fetish onto you, trying to get you all worked-up.

    It was only a 24 hour chat show FFS. It wasn’t a congressional or policy hearing or anything.

    Al Gore is the winner here, this site has given more exposure to his cause than any other media outlet I’ve read this last week (if you can call this site a media outlet) – exactly what Gore intended.

    • LOL, keep believing that, Gore is not the winner by any shape or form, his agenda is crashing down as more and more people actually do their own research into the subject. Not too mention all of these scientists have been reporting that the science and figures just dont add up!

    • I love how these media experts keep coming out of the shadows, laying it out to us. I guess you know it better then Morano.

      “if you can call this site a media outlet”
      douchebag alert!

  19. it would be funny… except Here in Australia our government is just putting through the carbon tax and we will soon be slaves to this forever
    I am pissed!! How dare they

  20. Al Gore’s New Program
    Al Gore was entertaining Joe Leiberman and decided to show off his new home. Upon entering the bedroom, Joe noticed a very large wooden box with 5 empty beer cans and about $1500.00 in cash.

    Out of curiosity, Joe asked “AL, I see you’re a beer drinker, I am too! you see, we DO have something in common”

    With a condescending voice, Al quipped, ” yes, of course we do Joe”

    Joe then asked ” Al, why the 5 empty cans and all that cash”

    Al gladly told Joe about his new program. ” Joe, since last month, I have decided to turn a new leaf and become a more accountable person, while at the same time rewarding myself for my efforts. Whenever I tell a lie, I drink a beer and put the can in this box”

    “That’s really impressive”, Joe replied, “only 5 beer cans in a whole month, but tell me, where did all that cash come from”?

    Without missing a beat, Al responded, “Whenever the box gets full of beer cans, I take it down to the recycling center, you know how concerned I am about environmental issues”.

    • Good joke but when I retell it I’m going to have to increase the amount of emptys cash the size of the box!

  21. ERRRRRG.Man, Big Al always seems to be in a bad mood.Everytime i crank up my old classic 81 z28 i give it a couple good rev ups just for him.What a damn looooser.Probally the most unbeleivable politician out there,no one really takes him serious.And he needs to go on the slim fast diet. And by the way,dont we (humans)supply co2 for the plant/tree world and they in turn supply us with oxygen?If i remember correct thats what i was taught in school.So whats the big deal bout co2?

    • If John Mcain is a Maverick—-does that make Obama an AMC Pacer?

      • They’re both Pintos.

  22. Goreman and Polar Bear: TO THE SNOWMOBILE!

  23. Plants breathe co2 and exhale oxygen during the day, and breathe oxygen and exhale
    co2 at night.

  24. If Al Gore/whore was a security I would short it naked, as this scam is sooooooooo obvious I will not have to cover
    Peace

  25. he needs to be audited for financial fraud as well.

  26. “Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be-because sooner or later, if you’re posing, you will forget the pose and then where are you?”
    ~ Fanny Brice

  27. Bumperstickers are popular in America?

    CO2 makes plants grow, I do my bit for nature

    Save the trees, help raise CO2 levels, they’re only 0,03% now

  28. looks like the joker!! … isn’t really funny though.
    bleh*

    • true

    • Al Gore is the windbag MAN in Man-Made Global Warming. His big fat maw emits more CO2 than the entire human population. Gore also uses more of our precious natural resources than any other human on the planet (perhaps other than the Soetoro puppet pair and their endless vacations).

      GORE IS AN ENVIRONMENTAL DISASTER.

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