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Al Gore: Fraud, Scaredy Cat

Gore backs out of his planned hand-shaking appearance in Copenhagen. Perhaps because anyone allowed to get that close might be able to ask a question. (Should Al Gore's Oscar be rescinded? Take the PJTV climate change survey.)

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AWR Hawkins

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December 5, 2009 - 12:00 am
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Former Vice President Al Gore is the most recognizable face of the anthropogenic global warming movement. He has authored books, starred in a documentary, and spoken innumerable times on the supposed threat global warming poses to life’s very existence.

Gone is the dry, stiff Gore who bored us to death in presidential debates during the 2000 election cycle. His passion for global warming has so enlivened him that he speaks of isotopes and carbon emissions with a fervor befitting an old-timey revival preacher talking about brimstone and fire. London’s Times Online actually went so far as to claim Gore’s passion “invoked the spirit of Winston Churchill” when Gore spoke on global warming at Oxford University in July 2009.

But putting aside the fact that Gore has honed his public speaking skills, the fly in the ointment is that he’s a fraud. Like the very global warming movement to which he has attached himself, he’s a snake oil salesman whose sales pitch is laced with scare tactics designed to push the public into embracing a radical, carbon-free agenda that rests on a combination of half-truths and outright fabrications.

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And Gore’s fraudulence is not only seen in the fact that he pawns a lie, but also in the fact that he refuses to abide by the very lie he pawns.

After all his whining about the dangers of fossil fuels and coal-powered electricity plants, and after assuring us we can be “carbon free” by paying attention to “where we set the thermostat, [and] keeping [our] a/c and furnace filters clean,” Gore’s 2006 utility bills for his Nashville home topped $30,000.

His home energy use was literally 20 times the national average.

But Gore is as blind to his own hypocrisy as he is to reality. And he apparently doesn’t want to take the risk of being corrected. He has refused to engage in an honest debate about the doomsday claims he’s made since he grew concerned over the threat human beings posed to “the spotted owl and the snail darter” in 1992. This was obvious when Gore finished speaking to 500 “environmental journalists” in Madison, Wisconsin, on October 9, 2009. After the speech, Irish filmmaker Phelim McAleer “[asked] Gore to address nine errors in his film identified by a British court in 2007.”

Gore dodged the question. So McAleer pressed further, and Gore had McAleer’s microphone turned off.

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92 Comments, 92 Threads

  1. 1. Robert

    Right on! This is a smackdown 101 piece. Gore is a scaredy cat, there’s no better way to put it.

  2. 2. Terry

    Believe me, he KNOWS he is a fraud. He’s a liar, a self-serving opportunist, & a parasite – another liberal progressive conman typical of the scumbag political class we have allowed to dominate the political life of the country. If we let them, they will eat us alive.

  3. 3. Skip

    How can anyone dispute the evidence presented in An Inconvenient Truth, after all it’s backed by Science Fiction.

  4. 4. rachel peepers

    The possible answers.

    In the basement with Tipper, again counting chads. On the third limb of a giant redwood tree. In the last row of the last Hollywood porno theatre
    in Encino eating a hotdog. At the local car wash sticking dollars into the machine. In Indonesia trying to find Obama’s birth records. On top
    of old Smokey.

    The question: Where is Mrs. Gore’s son, Alan?

  5. 5. Will

    Kick the Phoney off the stage ! !

  6. Hmm, let’s see: a major political figure has blatantly lied about an issue which, if his position were to prevail, would bring him immense power and wealth (some of which he has already)…and we’re surprised at this? Frankly, given his history, I’d have been surprised if he were telling the truth.

    They who’ve signed on to the AGW agenda are divided into two sorts:
    1. The deluded, who lack the intellectual horsepower and/or knowledge to refute the thesis;
    2. The evil, who hope to profit from the deluded and work constantly to enlarge their number.

    I declined, long ago, to be numbered in either camp.

  7. 7. tc

    Algore–high priest of the Church of the Branch Carbonians. He only delives the message, he doesn’t answer for the content. This is such an interesting series of events-interesting in light of the Climategate scandal that ought to rend the process of tenuring professors, peer-review and its influence upon policy from end to end.

    The university system must suffer for this. This liberal guild has been the platform from which attacks upon conservatism, freedom, reasoned thinking and logic have originated for decades. These institutions attempt to portray themselves as secular but develop incestuous selection and tenuring processes that they become insular hotbeds for group think and pseudo-religious cults like the AGW folks.

    I encourage all who read this to prepare deliberate assaults upon the system and guilds that have put your freedom and liberty in jeopardy. The university system linked with its high priests in politics brought us AGW, and its political high priests and universities must now pay for it.

    Go, make it so.

  8. 8. Lars Dane

    The really scary thing about the incident when McAleer confronted The Prophit Gore was that is was actually not Gore who had the camera turned off. It was the journalists who saw to that and thus demonstrated that they have absolutely no interest in journalism. Instead they acted as propagandist of a closed system reminiscent of some notable 20th century dictatorships.

  9. 9. GLASS

    To see how truly uninformed and ill-informed Gore really is watch the YouTube video,
    Gore in an 11/12/09 interview on NBC’s tonight Show with Conan O’Brien, speaking on geothermal energy.
    Not one “fact” he gives is correct, not one, yet he gets away with this crap because of who he is, sad. When I first saw the video I thought it was a spoof, it was that bad.
    This man has mental problems.

  10. I agree with those who contend that the Academy doesn’t really need to take back Gore’s Oscar. It only needs to change the category for which he won it — from “documentary” to “fiction” (or, perhaps,”best comedic performance by a failed politician”).

  11. 11. Stella

    Yes, Gore is a fraud. You know who else is? Obama. For all the adoring fans of his out there making claims at how smart he is I say “show me the transcripts.” Why are they locked away? Transparent my butt!

  12. 12. Arthur Shatz

    The very fact that he has backed out of Copenhagen says it all. Perhaps Climategate will now open the doors for a legitimate study and debate in the issue. The lies always come out in the end.

  13. 13. Fat Albert

    Albert Gore = Very Rich $$$ + Paranoid Schizophrenic + fraudster.

    What’s that make his devout followers .. besides gullible fools?

    I don’t seem to recall the media, Nobel & H’wood committees, environmental advocates singing this high priest’s praises when his family leased strip mines in TN for decades or clearing forests and displacing native communities to make way for Occidental oil pipelines in Columbia. He’s that Fat Cat that so many environmentalists deride and he’s playing them, the UN, NASA, and all climate agencies like a fiddle and they have yet to acknowledge it. The GW fraudster/opportunist has single handedly brought science and environmentalism into disrepute, steered them away from fundamental research into political ether of corruption and misconduct and put them steadily on a road to utter disgrace. The world better wake up from its Goracle induced coma if it wants to tackle REAL environmental challenges responsibly and successfully. This joker is playing you all, and he has all the right operations in place to profit heavily (a potential revenue stream of 135 Trillion in global C&T tariffs) from the collective ignorance of many, and the gross Alarmism he deploys. He’s had you all in the palm of his hands for years – your way of life, your liberties are as important to him as his feigned concern for polar bears, it’s all a show to satisfy what really drives this fat cat from TN – your $$$. You do realize the cost to produce energy is going to triple and also make his Energy producing pals very wealthy also? Underdeveloped nations stand little chance at all at real progress.

    My ? to environmental/social activists is why allow this to happen when it’s this kind of global reach/control you doth protest most all and have for decades? You can have your convictions but they’ll mean little to absolutely nothing in the end by throwing so much support behind a unconscionable individual as Albert Gore, or for that matter a George Soros also.

  14. 14. Larsky

    In the 1950′s Joe McCarthy was in the end taken down, but at least he stood up and faced the opposition. Whether he was a scumbag or not or whether in the end he was even wrong I don’t know, but at least he faced up. Not so with Al Gore. He is the gold standard for cowardice.

    He has no problem saying nonsense such as “The science is complete” (personally this is when I backed away from AGW, this is not science), “The debate is over” (What debate?), his unending role in calling thousands of honorable PHD scientists “skeptics, deniers and telling us that they are just a bunch of red neck hicks (Oh really)or as his many fraudulent MSM messengers have done, the Washington Post said today paraphrased “a few scientists disagree with AGW” (Oh really, just a few?, perhaps the MSM should buy some computers and get web access and throw those pencils,sharpeners and lined notepads away, they are so 19th century).

  15. 15. tanstaafl

    His home energy use was literally 20 times the national average.

    A couple of years ago, AlGore was bragging as to how he and Tipper had changed out the lightbulbs in the mansion, you know, put in those curlicue things that are very hard to read by.

    But, sigh, I think his energy bills still surpass those of about 20 households combined.

    Recently, I saw him on tee vee with a friendly network interviewer defending his continuing to eat cheeseburgers & steaks, you know, from those gigantic producers of methane :) They didn’t get into the private jet & the boat.

    (“do as I say, baby, not as I do”)

    I’ll wager that he cancelled the speech in Copenhagen because not enough people were shelling out the high ticket $1200.

    I’d pay $1200 if Scamster Gore would go away, quietly into the night.

  16. 16. William

    I concurr with Terry. Gore knows he’s fraud – he knows it down to his bones. But he’s enjoying the money.

  17. 17. William

    I concur with Terry. Gore knows he’s fraud – he knows it down to his bones. But he’s enjoying the money.

  18. 18. Danny

    Gore is an embarassment we’ve put up with long enough. Whether he gives back the awards he unfairly won or not, he needs to at least follow Lord Monckton’s advice and shut his mouth. He’s a non-scientist who refuses to let science refute him.

  19. 19. Knotacommie

    “the planet has a fever”. No ALWHORE ,the only “fever” anyone has is the one youre getting from all the cold sweats your experiencing that the Rush Limbaughs,Glenn Becks, John Colemans and Lord Christopher Munktons have you on the lam. Your afraid to show up because INTERPOL might have to arrest you for fraud and being a liar. Gonna go hide behind your buttboy SOROS and his fellow econut pal MAURICE STRONG now ALWHORE?

  20. 20. Sebastian Shaw

    Vice President Gore has always been a politically tone deaf coward; furthermore, he follows the crowd, in this case the limousine liberal Democrat crowd, right into the graveyard of obscurity. Gore never wants to be questioned by people who know their business. He often tries to block them from asking any questions at all.

    Al Gore knows deep down he’s a fraud. Otherwise, he would welcome dissent & not cancel his $1,200.00 handshake in Copehagen. Al Gore would have been better as a used car salesman than a politician.

    Al Gore is still uncomfortable in his own skin & people can sense this. This is a large reason why he’s not convincing as a politician.

  21. 21. clear mind

    But look who he’s defrauded… Kleiner Perkins, the esteemed Silicon Valley VC giant (with partner Colin Powell) and the investors who put over $1 billion in the Gore “green fund”… what a scam… makes climategate look like kids stuff…

    Hi, I’m Al Gore… trust me I invented the Internet!

  22. 22. Sebastian Shaw

    I really believe Vice President Al Gore lost his mind after the 2000 election when he was a hair away from victory–if only had the fraud won his home state, Tennessee instead of turning Florida into a debacle.

  23. 23. ETAB

    Frankly, I wonder if we are naive to expect that the ideological level of AGW will/ought to, move into the scientific level. The two levels of reality and fiction/ideology cannot be bridged.

    Indeed, I’d say that there are THREE levels to this scenario.

    1) The deepest level is the political level. Its agenda is a socialist/communist massive world government run by an unelected Set of Elites. A cabal. Unelected and therefore unremovable.

    To set up this infrastructure, which is after all, unchosen, unelected and essentially a dictatorship, can only be done by war or subterfuge.

    2)Using the second tactic of subterfuge, we arrive at the Second Level, which is pure emotional hyperbole. It uses the emotions of: sin, greed, fear, hope – all of them. It sets up a scenario where Man is a Sinner, and because of his Sins, the apocalpyse is nigh.

    Redemption IS possible, not by contributing to the church..oh wait..yes, by contributing to the church of Redemption, the UN, which will take all your money derived from industrialism, and theoretically, ‘give to the poor’. Right. Remember Oil-for-Fraud run by the UN?

    3) To ‘ground’ this Second Level, which is pure emotion, the scam relies on a Third Level, the ah, scientific level. But note, this ‘research’ is being done only by the Industrial countries. The ‘developing’ world, China and India, aren’t involved in this.

    The scam has moved into political funding of research, where millions and millions have been made available to ‘climate research’. BUT, only within one hypothesis: That industrialism causes apocalyptic global warming.

    This mindset is found only in the West. Not in the countries of China and India which are busily industrializing.
    It’s found predominantly in the anti-capitalist, socialist, left of the Western universities in the UK and the USA.

    That’s the thesis. If you want a grant, and universities and labs totally rely on grants to fund their faculty, their buildings, their students..then, you’ll write up an application that focuses on the validity of this thesis.

    Then, you have the award review bodies, which are infected with leftism, anti-capitalism, and anti-industrialism, and they fund those applications.

    The system, which is heavily biased by the political and funding agendas, ‘narrows’ itself down to exclude ANY applications/research that denies the central thesis.
    Same with publications; the review boards, that famous peer review, is made up of the same people who award the grants, and they refuse to publish ‘rogue’ research which denies the central thesis.

    So, you’ve got THREE levels.
    1)The real agenda which is political.
    2)The emotional scam which hides the political.
    3)The ‘scientific’ scam which hides the political.

    The most expendable is the weakest level, the ‘scientific’. Since it’s based on false data, it can be discarded. And believe it or not, even discarded, those other two levels can remain alive.

    But – don’t ignore those other two levels. Don’t ignore the power of ‘hope-and-change’ emotions.

    What has to be talked about and exposed is that First Level, the real agenda, of a global political structure that removes national sovereignty and sets up a global dictatorship.

    Gore is in Level 1, the Political Agenda of a global government; he uses Level 2, the apocalyptic hysteria.He is completely ignorant of Level 3, science, and indeed, is a member of the group that is corrupting science

    Again, what has to be talked about is not that most expendable level, the corrupt science, but the Real Level, the political agenda of setting up an unelected world governance that is focused on destroying the industrial capacity of the western world.

  24. 24. Jason

    “Spotted Owl Gore” as George H.W. Bush used to call him. When George H.W. Bush speaks bad of someone you know that someone is low. Albert Gore is a joke that got old a long time ago.

  25. 25. David W. Lincoln

    And yet, there are the lemmings who follow Al Gore like the Pied Piper of Hamlin. http://www.edmontonjournal.com/technology/Climategate+doesn+change+facts/2305942/story.html

    The price will be the redrawing of the borders of Canada, if I correctly read between the lines of this column, or the establishment of a Canadian government in exile: http://www.edmontonjournal.com/business/Gary+Lamphier+Alberta+puts+billions+into+coffers+Canada+oilsands+bashers/2306030/story.html

    So, does anyone see either conclusion for the US?

  26. 26. geoffgo

    Arthur@12,

    F*ck the “legitimate study.” What debate? It’s over. It’s been a sham from day 1. I’m looking for thousands, no tens of thousands of immediate dismissals of science staffs, dismantling of ALL the gov’t commissions, bureaus, committees, agencies (first up EPA), councils, counsels, tax-supported NGOs et al, that are in any way justified by this phony “green religion.” Revocation of all laws and recinding all regulations based on the green scheme. It doesn’t seem to be too drastic a response from the taxpayers to demand the criminals be defunded. Now.

    Then prosecutions, stiff sentences, heavy fines, reparations and public humiliation, ridicule and rebuke. Charlatans all. Every participant knew it was a fraudulent enterprise – since at least the “Greening of America” – circa 1970. NYT Bestseller 1971,2

    There is a revolution under way–not like revolutions of the past. This is the revolution of the new generation. It has originated with the individual & with culture, & if it succeeds it will change the political structure only as its final act. It will not require violence to succeed & it cannot be successfully resisted by violence. It is now spreading rapidly, & already our laws, institutions, & social structure are changing in consequence.

    Its ultimate creation could be a higher reason, a more human community, & a new & liberated individual. It is a transformation that seems both necessary & inevitable, & in time it may turn out to include not only youth but the entire American people. The logic of the new generation’s rebellion must be understood in light of the rise of the corporate state under which we live & the way in which the state dominates, exploits, & ultimately destroys both nature & man. Americans have lost control of the machinery of their society, & only new values & a new culture can restore control.

    At the heart of everything is what must be called a change of consciousness. This means a new way of living–almost a new man. This is what the new generation has been searching for, & what it has started to achieve. Industrialism produced a new man, too–one adapted to the demands of the machine. In contrast, today’s emerging consciousness seeks a new knowledge of what it means to be human, in order that the machine, having been built, may now be turned to human ends.

    http://archives.newyorker.com/?i=1970-09-26#folio=042

  27. 27. biblio44

    “(Should Al Gore’s Oscar be rescinded? Take the PJTV climate change survey.)”

    Hmmm … I’m gonna go out on a limb and guess that PJers will vote Aye overwhelmingly. Next PJ survey question: Does a presidential candidate really have to know the difference between a basketball coach and an Indian chief?

  28. 28. arhooley

    Al, can you hear us? People are laughing at you.

  29. 29. Donna V.

    His absence spared Copenhagen the Gore Effect. They’ll probably have nice weather now.

    Was Gore in the vicinity of Houston yesterday? That would account for the snow.

    If ManBearPig wasn’t already super-rich from peddling snake-oil to suckers and rubes, he could make a good living renting himself out to ski resorts.

  30. 30. Donna V.

    Does a presidential candidate really have to know the difference between a basketball coach and an Indian chief?

    That’s your big gotcha? Well, whoop-ti-do. Is it some sort of big threat to national security if a candidate doesn’t know the difference? I’m more concerned with Obama, who alienates America’s aliies and kisses the butt of America’s enemies.

    Hell, Biden thinks the nation was watching FDR on televison in 1929.

    What will the next thrilling revelation from the Palin haters be? “Oooooh, Sarah mixed up the names of an actor and a rap star! That proves she can’t be president!!”

    Now, back to the topic at hand – is Gore a liar, a hypocrite, and a totalitarian with, as P.J. O’Rourke put it “the intelligence of a King Charles spaniel?” Yes! Nevertheless, he managed to sucker you, biblio.

    That shows you are less intelligent than either Gore or Palin, hick. What an easy mark!

  31. 31. MikeD

    Yes, Al Gore is a fraud and a coward. He is also a minor intellect with a massive ego. With those four qualities and the support of a legion of people, most of them unthinking , but others as equally dishonest and self serving as Gore himself, society has marched to the precipice of economic ruin. But the wheels are slowly coming off of the AGW bus and, hopefully, an awakening will occur. Ridicule and a beating of the drum of truth strike me as the most effective weapons in this war. We all need to repeatedly point out that Al Gore is a false prophet surrounded by real dwarfs. That is an analogy that even the unthinking can grasp.

  32. 32. David W. Lincoln

    For those from Commonwealth Countries, did Queen Elizabeth poison the well with these remarks: http://www.india-server.com/news/queen-elizabeth-ii-opens-the-chogm-2009-16952.html

    As long as she does not reciprocate loyalty to her, frankly she and her collection of worn out funks should wind up like the rest of the royal houses which are currently republics: Part of the Euro trash scene.

  33. 33. Berlet98

    Climate/Climategate Updates Part One

    . . . U.N. to Probe Climategate Leaks: The ever-watchful folk at the United Nations, the same folk who have perpetrated the whole fraud of anthropogenic global warming, have now decided to investigate the matter.

    Said investigation will not focus on why the U.N. has for decades persisted in propagating the patent falsehood of evil mankind causing climate change with our greenhouse gas emissions.

    Rather, the Chairman of the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Dr. Rahendra Pachauri, reflecting some Brit diction, has declared, “We will certainly go into the whole lot and then we will take a position on it. We certainly don’t want to brush anything under the carpet.”

    Why anyone would believe that Pachauri or his henchmen at the United Nations would even think of under-the-carpet brushing is mystifying.

    After all, pinning climate change on the industrial world, principally on the United States, has only been a prime raison d’être for the U.N. in its quest to level the playing field and sharing the planet’s (America’s) wealth with the Third World. . .

    (Read the rest at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1358)

  34. 34. chris

    #14 Larsky
    In the 1950’s Joe McCarthy was in the end taken down, but at least he stood up and faced the opposition. Whether he was a scumbag or not or whether in the end he was even wrong I don’t know, but at least he faced up. Not so with Al Gore. He is the gold standard for cowardice.

    Actually, when the details of the Venoma project were made public it turns out the Joe McCarthy WAS RIGHT. They knew who to go after. In forty years no one will remeber Al Gore

  35. 35. John McLachlan

    Extraordinary claims require extraordinay proof. Prior to the current fad for belief that climate change is the result of human activity, rather than natural variations which were well documented, until a relatively small number of people rewrote history, it was recognised and taught in schools that even in comparatory recent times, when there were written historical records, there had been long periods when the average global temperature was warmer than today and colder than today. The focus, hitherto has been on proxy records for temperature, for the time before it was possible to measure temperature directly. The proxies, however are deemed to be valid only for years prior to 1960, whereupon they cease to be considered as valid proxies, because they do not conform to a preferred hypothesis. No convincing explanation has been given why tree rings are a good indication of temperature before 1960, but not afterwards.
    Are historians able to provide any reliable anecdotal evidence, such as alledged vegetation in Greenland, grapevines growing in northern England, which could suggest that the mean global temperature is subject to natural variation? How likely is it that someone writing hundreds or even more than a thousand years ago would falsify evidence, so that a false impression was given to future scientists that the world was warmer than it is today? How many independent sources are there? How many directly contradictory sources? Until relatively recently, it was considered that climate change was natural and unavoidable. It was also regarded as cyclical. Somehow, it has become solely a consequence of human activity and in particular, Western industrialisation. I think that the proponents of AGW should be prepared to justify their extraordinary claim using original source data, with their methodology subjected to critical review by partisan opponents, as is proper in a scientific debate. I also think that anyone who has advocated political change on the basis of an unproven hypothesis should face the prospect of trial for “crimes against humanity”. The potential consequences to the people of the world for the proposed policies to alledgedly ameliorate the alledged causes of global warming are unacceptable to most of the world’s people. To visit hardship or death upon millions because of legitimate error is, in principle, forgivable, but to visit hardship and death upon millions in pursuit of a politically motivated lie is evil and those who have falsified data, in furtherance of a politically motivated agenda should be held to account for all the misery that they intended to cause.

  36. 36. jd

    It is my sincere hope that ClimateGate will allow reality enough time to set in.

    One can clearly see that the koolaid drinkers are still riding their wave of AGW and don’t tell them otherwise.

    In Dan Rather mode they are saying that “Just because my evidence is phoney doesn’t mean I’m lying.”

    I’m hopeful that the Climategate will slow down legislation long enough for the cold to set in effectively enough to put an end to this nonsense. Heaven knows the political class aren’t going to give in just because they’ve been caught red handed in a lie.

    Al will be back on stage when he can control the scene and ClimateGate has had enough time to blow over.

    Never forget Who and What the REAL motivation behind “The Sky Is Falling” really was. Chicken Little ended up being an agent in the end.

    jd

  37. 37. Poor Citizen

    It is quite amazing. Al Gore is much more popular now than when he was BC.s running mate or a presidential candidate in 2000 in his own right. I remember, like so many millions of others, when we were told by the supreme court that it had decided to appoint GW Bush despite Bush losing the election 2000. And we all know what happened to our country after that fiasco. Our democracy condemned to the scrapheap. But was Al Gore bitter? no way. Mr. Gore was gracious and used his celebrity to focus our attention on an impending environmental calamity unless we chose to do something about it. Which after Bush, progress is now starting to be made. Is it too late, yes, in many ways, but we can try. I wish Al Gore all the luck in his corageous efforts as we all should. Dont you agree?

  38. 38. Donna V.

    Berlet98:

    After all, pinning climate change on the industrial world, principally on the United States, has only been a prime raison d’être for the U.N. in its quest to level the playing field and sharing the planet’s (America’s) wealth with the Third World. . .

    Bingo. That’s really what AGW is all about – the only thing it is all about.

    And Western elites like Gore have jumped on the AGW bandwagon (in Gore’s case, of course, he’s leading the parade) because they can atone for their Western white guilt without making any personal sacrifices themselves (the sacrifices are for the little people). Heck, not only can they continue to pamper themselves, they can become fabulously wealthy peddling the 21st secular version of indulgences.

    Imagine fury they must be feeling at watching their perfect scam unravel by the day. What I wouldn’t give to be a fly on the wall of ManBearPig’s lavish and well-lit home these days,…,

  39. 39. Knotacommie

    To all the human caused global warming crowd I have a question. Im wondering if DINOSAURS drove SUVS or caused CO2 emissions to increase? After all, during the Jurassic and Createous periods, didnt the cold blooded land reptiles dominate the earth? Wasnt Yellowstone Park like the subtropics then? After all, where do we find most dinosaur bones? Montana and Alberta Canada are two of the largest areas of dino fossils, indicating large numbers of the reptiles lived there. Funny how you dont find many cold blooded snakes or crocs there now do you? Guess TREX must have driven an SUV then-lots of them. Guess Rex needed them to scare Triceratops into becoming dinner.

  40. 40. Al Gore

    As my good friend George Costanza once told me “It’s not a lie if you believe it”
    So true.

  41. 41. Robbins Mitchell

    anAL GOREtentive….he made ‘midnight basketball’ what it is today.

  42. 42. Donna V.

    I wish Al Gore all the luck in his corageous efforts as we all should. Dont you agree?

    Er, no, we don’t. As should be obvious from this thread.

    ManBearPig was worth a couple of million in 2000. Now he is worth somewhere in the neighborhood of $100 mill – thanks to the fact that he has managed to gull a lot of silly and credulous people into believing his fairy tales. That’s “courageous?” No, it’s knowing easy marks when you see them.

  43. 43. trent from NJ

    For more than fifteen years, Al Gore has worked diligently and unceasingly trying to get the truth out about the undeniable threat to our planet that global warming surely is. Is it settled science? Of course not. There are too many paid off scientists who try to muddy the waters.

    Thankfully, though, our wonderful, all knowing, highly intelligent President, the amazing Barack Obama, will soon be traveling to Copenhagen to set the records straight. Let’s face it, if you can’t believe an American President of such impeccable character, integrity and honesty, who can you believe? To me, President Obama is the straight shooter of all straight shooters.

    Early in his Presidency, he was faced with economic problems of biblical proportions and turned everything around with a visionary Stimulus Plan that saved our banks and car companies, free enterprise and, in effect, the nation.

    Then Obama was faced with charges of voter intimidation against the patriotic, constitutionally upholding Black Panthers, and almost single handedly convinced Eric Holder, our attorney general, to drop the case against them; a case that was about to be won by the government. How can hundreds of voters be intimidated by two well dressed, articulate, virtually weaponless black men? Duh?

    It wasn’t long that President Obama had to take to task the racist Cambridge police officer, Sgt. Crowley who arrested a black man in his own home. Talk about constitutional infringement of the highest order. Almost simultaneously, President Obama was faced with an illegal, immoral attack on a not for profit enterprise called Acorn. A number of racist Republican senators were trying to take away the billions that Acorn receive to help people turn their lives around. Obama turned to his attorney general, Eric Holder, to find a loophole in the law, albeit, a good loophole, seeing to it that Acorn would continue to receive the taxpayer funds that is their due.

    President Obama is now about to provide healthcare for 30,000 presently uninsured Americans, many of which have stories of family members
    suffering and even dying as a result of unholy rich, white executives running filthy rich insurance companies that accept black people’s premiums until there’s a claim, then drop them like hot potatoes. At the same time, lowering the premiums that we all pay. We can no longer allow a broken, bleeding healthcare system to go untreated. Like the cavalry in olden days, universal healthcare is coming to rescue us.

    Barack Obama. Al Gore. Two of the finest examples of what America is all about: justice, freedom, equality. One saved our country from economic
    oblivion. The other is saving the planet.

  44. 44. Donna V.

    trent from NJ: Hilarious post! You shouldn’t have left off the /sarc tag at the end though.

  45. 45. Pa Musing

    #37 Poor: “I remember, like so many millions of others, when we were told by the supreme court that it had decided to appoint GW Bush despite Bush losing the election 2000. And we all know what happened to our country after that fiasco. Our democracy condemned to the scrapheap.”

    In a sad way I agree. The derangement syndrome that infected half of this country when the Clinton Frat Party was abruptly ended did indeed condemn us 8 years later to a bizarre sheepish acceptance of the frighteningly unconstitutional excesses of our current regime.

  46. 46. genghis

    Maybe Algore is worried aobut swine flu. Prudence would suggest avoiding unnessecary handshaking and social kissing. It raises an interesting question: Did Algore receive the swine flu vaccine??? He is not in a high risk category. However he is among the elite. Do the elite a la Algore get special dispensation?? Are our ‘superiors’ getting preferential treatment? Somebody should ask, no?

  47. 47. steeple

    Gee, Trent 43. Thanks for setting me straight. For the longest time, I’ve thought that Obama was a self-absorbed narcissist who had never had a job before holding the highest office in the land. And I mistakenly believed that Al Gore was a hypocrite politician who was defrauding us for his own personal benefit by using unproven science as a scare tactic.

    What a relief that you made such a convincing case for the millions of us bigoted morons!

  48. 48. spawn44

    We don’t need to study the climate any longer. Atfer spending over 70 billion these frauds can not predict the climate any better than the farmers almanac. If there was anything to report, these frauds would not have had to cook the books. The climate is a completely natural occurance.

  49. 49. genghis

    steeple:

    You nailed it.

  50. 50. Delia

    Okay, lefties, it’s time for you all to finish the kool-aid, put on some white tennies and do the Gore Hale Bopp bop!

  51. 51. mac

    Gore is a fat, stupid (look at his college grades), lying, criminal. This fat, stupid, lying criminal was elected Senator from Tennessee, was VP of this nation for eight years, came within an ace of becoming its President, won an Oscar for a completely fraudulent film, was awarded a Nobel Peace Prize (what a joke THAT award has become!), and is now worth $100 million.

    Again, he IS a fat, stupid, lying criminal. That is beyond question. What does it say about America in particular, and Western society in general, that this fat, stupid, lying criminal has managed to do so well in that society? Just how bad a calamity will it take to wake Western people up and get them to see what is directly in front of their faces?

  52. 52. Odysseus

    Orrrrr . . . . ghenghis and steeple, Trent #43 is a master of irony. I particularly liked his assertion that 30K are about to be insured – at the cost of nearly a trillion. Sounds about right.

  53. 53. Forrest

    As I’ve been saying all along; due to the looming (temperature) decline AlGore has backed out of Copenhagen because he is frantically trying to dump all of his “carbon credits” and alternative energy stocks in order to invest all of his capital in coal futures. He may be the biggest scam artist in history, but he’s not a complete fool, and he has a very, very large carbon footprint to maintain in the forthcoming wintry days.

  54. 54. Sandy P

    I’ll wager that he cancelled the speech in Copenhagen because not enough people were shelling out the high ticket $1200.

    According to the article linked by Instapundit a couple of days ago – a light snack, a photo and 3000 suckers.

    $3 million gross. He canceled.

    Where’s P.T. Barnum when you need him.

  55. 55. clever by half

    Am I the only one to notice that life imitates art, to wit: Gore is the ral life manifestation of Forest Gump. Gore like Gump is probably moderately retarded but has achieved so much because of family money and connections plus he was lucky enough to be in the right place at the right time so often. Thank god he lost in 2ooo or we would still be negotiating with the Taliban over Bin Laden.

  56. 56. Banned by Huffpo

    AlGore is a pimple on the ass of civilization, a typical “Do as I say, not as I do” liberal who feels entitled to consume 50,000 times the average family’s energy usage while shaking his fat finger in their faces telling them to freeze and crap in a bucket.

    Fortunately, just like the other fat white fraud Michael Moore, AlGore is rapidly eating and drinking himself to death, and will be buried in a coffin made out of an industrial freezer.

    Thankfully, his stunningly boring voice is growing dimmer, and he’s reverting to being the laughing stock he was as Slick’s butt boy.

  57. 57. M. Report

    When the hanging chads finally settled out,
    I was surprised to find that Bush actually
    had won the election; I was certain that it
    had been rigged.
    Now, with 20-20 hindsight, I thank whatever
    gods there be that Al Gore was not POTUS on
    9/11, and would not fault Bush&Co. if they
    _had_ rigged the election.
    As for Obama, he can tap-dance around the
    deck of the Titanic as much as he likes;
    He will be overtaken by events by 2010, if
    not sooner, because his policies are poison
    for the economy, and that is again the only
    issue the voters care about.

    What ? AGW ? Oh, right; If the Warmists were
    right, they would also get run over by economic
    reality; In fact they are wrong, and the only good
    thing to come out of all the argumentation is a
    realization that cooling has happened much more
    quickly than previously thought, and we do need
    to watch out for that.

  58. 58. Anway

    The carbon credit market appears to have collapsed. Wonder how much he lost. Maybe Gore is just dealing with that.

  59. Who put the Scientology in Climatology? Algore! Let’s have a clambake.

  60. 60. zfredz

    $30,000 utility bill for his Nashville home: how many days did he and Tipper stay there during 2007? Must have left on the lights and a/c.

  61. 61. Letalis Maximus, Esq.

    Of course, Al Gore is a fraud. We have known that for years.

    Remember his passionate cigarette speech that talked about his sister dying of lung cancer?

    The Gore family grew tobacco for decades. Al bragged about it to his TN constituents before the Clinton Machine plucked him out of TN to be the Veep.

    His environmental concerns?

    His family also owned hard rock mining interests.

    When in TN, he received an A rating from the NRA.

    Once the Clintons tapped him, he became Sarah Brady’s next best bud.

    Oh yeah, he also owns a multi-million dollar condo in a spot in San Francisco that Governor Arnie seems to think will soon be underwater.

  62. 62. Fen

    I wonder how many carbon credits Gore unloaded after ClimateGate.

    And how many suckers bought them up.

    Where’s the “controlling legal authority” for these transactions? Because Gore should be investigate for financial fraud.

  63. Of course, Gore’s running away.

    He’s been serving:

    FRUIT OF THE POISON TREE, TARTS FROM THE POISON FRUIT

    http://naturalfake.wordpress.com/2009/12/03/fruit-of-the-poison-tree-tarts-from-the-poison-fruit/

  64. 64. twolaneflash

    The Left has co-opted language and pop music to preach their dogma and chant their propaganda. The Chicken Little approach to evangelizing the climate pseudo-religion could just as well be a Progressive fable about making an omelette: “Oh, THE HORROR!! The perfect eggshell is b…b..broken, and the viscous life-giving gelatinous mass ruptures forth, destroying hopes and futures…” I’m reminded of the Simon & Garfunkel song, a sad ballad, called “Mother and Child Reunion”, which was a menu item in a California restaurant consisting of fried chicken and hard-boiled eggs. A little truth, wrapped in emotion, twisting the weak mind into relinquishing thought in favor of feeling.

    I grew up believing religions had the corner on instilling fear, guilt, and shame in people to control their behaviour, and to reach into their pockets. Since then, I’ve seen the American government and media become willing tools of, and co-conspirators with, enemies of The People, The Constitution, and The Republic, using these same behaviour-controlling strategies and tactics, especially in government schools. Submitting to the government does not achieve the same results as submitting to God. We must tell this government we will not submit to their establishment of a climate religion.

    The climate frauds and hucksters are on the defensive now, like ACORN and several other Leftist schemers. This means hide, run, sacrifice some elements for diversion, pick your battles, and string out the war. The AGW Sting is in place, billions of dollars have been stolen from The People already, and hundreds of billions more are about to be. Too many in high places have invested in this Ponzi scheme. Some of those people have foul motives and dreams of power beyond just robbing the treasury. We cannot depend on this Congress to pursue the truth, this President to protect us, or this Justice Department to enforce the law.

  65. What’s a real shame is the way the Democrats are wanting to go after the whistle blowers, but not go after the perpetraitors of this fraud called “global warming.” Or is it “global cooling?” I can never keep them straight.

  66. Forgot the link to my blog. I have opened up this can of worms there: http://babaje2.wordpress.com.

  67. 67. Rick

    Gore should have had an answer to the polar bear extinction question. He just refused to deal with it. How can he not have an explanation ready for such a simple subject. I’m not so impressed with the guy.

    He could have said this: “The bears are doing well now, but they are about to lose everything. When the ice goes, these 25,000 bears are going to ALL starve to death, possibly in a single season!”

    I have no idea if that’s true or not but this guy is doing a lousy job with his saving the world bit.

  68. A few days ago Al Gore wrote an editorial about “sustainable capitalism.” I wonder if he sees his global warming gig coming to an end and is looking for a new cause to embrace.

  69. 69. rick

    I must admit I have not laughed this hard in a long time just reading my fellow blogger’s comments. We have known for a long time that agm is about politics not science. We should also have been tipped off about this hoax when we realized that an imbecile like
    algore was promoting it.
    r.s.

  70. 70. DGF

    1. Interested in addressing the manner of curtailing damage control or casualties of this perpetrated fraud.
    How many children, teens, and young adults have been “influenced” & perhaps indoctrinated in the culture of the “Made Made Global Warming” movement the public schools?

    2. Personally had an experience of overhearing expressive outright anger out of the mouths of 9 – 10 year old children blaming USA adult operators/owners of autos, lawn mowers, meat eaters & Cattle ranchers for the looming devastation of mankind..
    “What About other countries?” senario tossed into it by an adult non-believer, seemed to only confuse them.
    Your thoughts?

  71. 71. Fen

    “A few days ago Al Gore wrote an editorial about sustainable capitalism.”

    Even better, he called for transparency and accountability, in the financial markets, not CRU. Priceless.

  72. 72. scythe

    Has anyone noticed that with the proper lighting Al Gore’s face bears an incredible likeness to a Satanic Holloween mask? Coincidence? It’s a marvel to see and quite unsettling. With every hysterical outburst and hyperventilation the resemblance becomes more pronounced. Before our eyes his appearance is beginning to reflect his agenda. Is there any scientific basis for an….exorcism? Because if looks are the barometer this man should be taking a shower with holy water. Collected from a glacial melt.

  73. 73. Highlander

    Delia @ 50:
    .
    Thought you’d appreciate this, relative to the kool-aid remark.
    .
    BIG AL’S RAP in 4/4 time:
    .
    Take a step to the left, and then another,
    And shake your butt like you really had one!
    .
    Drink that Kool-aid and hope to get made,
    Cuz you know otherwise you’re never gonna!
    .
    Big Al in a suit is your bit-playing tuna,
    But he knows he’s not the BIG Kahuna.
    .
    Big Al is all about the THE plan to hatch,
    But he knows their plan is really a scratch!
    .
    The plan of the elite is all about our defeat,
    What they have in mind is US at THEIR feet!
    .
    But NOW we know the name of THEIR game,
    And to allow THAT would be totally insane!

  74. 74. Highlander

    scythe @ 72:
    .
    An ‘exorcism’ of Al Gore would leave nothing but an empty suit …
    .
    :o )
    .

  75. 75. 438miler

    It snowed yesterday.

  76. 76. Btok

    Canadian Issues:
    $10 Billion Dollars & more per Year For a Fraud?
    Canadians are interested in results of what is going on about Climategate in Canada! As it has to do with our lives,lifestyle whether or not we are going to be living in a Democracy or under a Dictatorship?
    Jim prentice has stated & PM Harper advocates this as well otherwise Prentice wouldn’t be uttering it”Canada will be paying it’s fair share of Carbon Emmissions! To the tune of $10 Billion per year!” Really, we are already $70 Billion in debt thanks to Michael Ignatieff & the Liberals who up’ed the anti to the Canadian debt load on stimulus!
    This begs the question where Jim Prentice plans to dig the $10 Billion per year out of? Did somebody say more Tax?
    What is so disheartening about that is the fact that now it’s been found that the whole Climate Emission scam has been proven to be Fraudulent as credible Scientests around the world who were previously locked out of putting their work and findings forth by Jones of East Anglia University and the CRU,were pushed out of the picture with thier observations and experiment results on Climate Change found that not only is the earth not heating up in reality it has been cooling since the 1960’s!
    How much more fraudulent can this Scientific Data be? The United Nations and the Globalists are using this false Data at Copenhagen, to transfer our wealth to third world countries? Yet Environment Minister Jim Prentice and Prime Minister Stephen Harper feel so generous with Canadian Tax payer dollars that they are willing to toss in $10 Billion per year on the “hot air” that Ban Kai Moon and Pompus PM Gordon Brown and the rest of the Criminal Rogues that are involved in this bogus Carbon Emission Treaty! As the Bible says,”A Fool and his money are soon parted”! To request that PM Harper doesn’t sign the Copenhagen Treaty, causing Canadians to lose their Sovereignty and Freedom email the PM at: pm@pm.gc.ca,Protest Copenhagen Treaty http://www.gopetition.com/online/32485.html

    There are four reasons the UN and IMF, Global Elitist Members Re: Ban Kai Moon ( Who has openly expressed his stong desire for Global Governance ), PM Gordon Brown, Bilderberg Member Henry Kissinger, Senior Bilderberg Member David Rockefeller as well as an unprecedented number of Dictators that run various countries who are members of the United Nations this Copenhagen Treaty that was designed to acquire four goals, the least of them being climate improvment or protection as Lord Moncton has stated!
    (1.) To de-industrialize Sovereign Countries ( No Jobs keep you dependant on State ) ( 2.) Take your money and assets – Hence, Fraudulent Carbon Emmissions and Carbon Gases for Carbon Credits and Carbon Taxes! (3.) Take away your property (4.) Take away your Sovereignty and Freedom!
    Check out what Government is doing behind your back at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VebOTc-7shU

  77. The fact is there’s a tremendous amount of money tied up in Governmental ponzi-schemes associated with Global Warming, especially given their ability to tax entire national populations – and that’s what Government’s do, create open-ended self-perpetuating ponzi-schemes driven by tax monies.
    A few billion her and a few billion there and pretty soon you’re talking real money – and there’s nothing funny about that, just ask George Soros.
    Meanwhile the humorless Left in a bit of mis-direction freely demonizes the Oil companies – they’re like Carry Nation calling for prohibition.

  78. 78. Birdzilla

    Al Gore has canciled his trip to COPENHEGAN over this CLIMEGATE incedent TOO BAD GORE BUT YOUR BEING EXPOSED AS A CHARLATENT now give back your ill gotten gains

  79. 79. Sharpshooter

    For felony fraud, he should be, paraphrasing the words of a hard left California AG (?)) “…duck walked to jail where he can be Bad Bubba’s girlfriend.”

  80. 80. Sam Deakins

    I understand Al Gore has a severe rash in both of his palms. I dare not think what he has been doing to acquire such a malady.

  81. 81. Jeff

    Great piece. Make no mistake – Gore is in it for the money.

  82. 82. Allan

    Gore is heading down the L Ron Hubbard path. Pretty soon warmyism will be a recognised as a religion and qualify here (Australia) for all the tax breaks etc afforded to other religions. When it achieves this status, Gore will be umntouchable.

  83. 83. Chuck

    Gore has a lot of kids to support, and a >$750/hr shrink to pay (see below) thus, his lying, thieving, fearmongering & demagoging to become rich at the hands of useful idiots giving him money & taking money from the rest of us by force under the pretense of a massive hoax.

    Gore was groomed to be President from the time he was a little kid. He has to have a tough time sleeping at night, knowing:
    1. He’s not as smart as Bill Clinton; and,
    2. He wasn’t smart enough to steal the 2000 Presidential election.
    That has to sting.

    The guy’s a living, breathing, walking, talking embodiment of failure. Hopefully, with his cancellation of the Copenhagen signing, he’ll fade away into oblivion.

  84. 84. Deadman

    Mr. Gore’s magnificent poetical effusion (from his book, Our Choice, p.28) has drawn criticism from some uncultured yahoos who believe that poetry should at least scan, or have a set number of syllables in each line, even if it have no rhyme. I thought I’d treat it as a damaged MS and reconstructed what it could have been before he edited or damaged it. My interpolations are italicized:

    One thin September soon, which is next year, you know,
    A floating incontinent Santa disappears
    In a land of the midnight sun with lots of snow.

    Vapors rise as quickly as a sad neurosis;
    Fever settles on an acid sea and, therefore,
    Neptune’s bones dissolve from osteoporosis.

    Snow glides from the mountain —set off by some villain—
    ice in father’s gin, floods of salt, for a season,
    a hard rain comes quickly for we do like Dylan.

    Then dirty Al is parched from a sad lack of beer.
    Still, let’s party! Kindling is placed in the forest
    for the lightning god’s celebration. Over here,

    unknown creatures, like Bear-pig, with his human face,
    take their leave, unmourned, and I hope your heart is stirred
    as Horse-men must ready their stirrups for a race.

    An old passion seeks heroes and friends who are young
    though the bell of the city bike needs a good clean.
    On the hill is a ladder with a broken rung.

    The shepherd cries, Hey, voters are deluded fools!
    The hour of choosing a global hoax has arrived!
    I gave you the warming notion,
    here are your tools.

  85. 85. jack

    al is truely a genius…in the mode of goober,or gomer….or maybe a pile of monkey scat

  86. Al Gore is a scoundrel; He will go down as one of history’s worst criminals and biggest frauds. Al Gore is a liar and thief. He is truly the most despicable person.

    End of story. Period. Anyone that can’t see it; anyone that needs further proof; and, especially anyone that respects this criminal, is either a fellow crook or an idiot.

    Done!
    Now, somebody please prosecute this fraud Al Gore and get him in prison where he belongs.

  87. 87. Flu-Bird

    Al Gore is a 24 karit phonie and a liar as well as a hypotcrit and a blabbering hit-wit

  88. 88. Birdzilla

    THE REAL INCONVENT TRUTH is AL GORES a LIAR,HYPOTCRIT and CON ARTIST

  89. 89. PChop

    Al Gore is a fraidy cat phoney and as such this blob ‘o’ -hit has made more money than any criminal could dream of. Orange jumpsuit and soap on a rope soon.

  90. 90. Robert

    This isn’t Gore first scam. It’s just the successful one. Remember the Ozone hole? Gore pushed that fraud, but then not only was it exposed to soon to be bullshit, but he didn’t have any way to make money on it.
    Now the Global Warming/Climate Change scam—it already had momentum from James Hansen and other “Scientists (frauds)) who had already developed the scam to ensure their Gov’t grant money would never stop. Gore, smart enough to see a good scam when the opportunity presented itself, jumped on the bandwagon and conspired to set up his Carbon Credit trading brokerages, getting them well into position in advance of the tidal wave of hysteria generated by the frauders.
    But remember “Ozone Hole” Gore? This fraud has been a frauder all of his life. Red Diaper baby, he was born into a corrupted political situation. While he was in charge of the EPA and Klinton’s environmental affairs, nothing could veer get done about the Zinc mine on his family’s Tennessee property that was polluting nearby waterways. Amazing, imagine that!
    He’s been a Hypocrite, Liar, and Fraud all his life.

  91. 91. King Condor

    Al Gore is afraid of debating his idiotic theories becuase he is afaid of being proven a liar and hypotcrit

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