Climategate: Al Gore’s Political Tin Ear
I’ve said a few times that the Climategate emails remind me of the Spycatcher affair, with all the efforts of the alarmist establishment to suggest that there’s nothing to see in the emails simply meaning that ordinary people really want to see them (hence the “Tiger Woods Index” issue). Today, Al Gore proves to be economical with the truth in his interview with Slate:
Q: How damaging to your argument was the disclosure of e-mails from the Climate Research Unit at East Anglia University?
A: To paraphrase Shakespeare, it’s sound and fury signifying nothing. I haven’t read all the e-mails, but the most recent one is more than 10 years old. These private exchanges between these scientists do not in any way cause any question about the scientific consensus. But the noise machine built by the climate deniers often seizes on what they can blow out of proportion, so they’ve thought this is a bigger deal than it is.
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Unless Gore is just speaking clumsily, and simply means the most recent email he read was ten-years-old, he’s lying, misinformed, or both. The last email actually dates to Nov. 12 2009. The emails as a whole outline a campaign of disinformation and distraction that has lasted for 13 years. Who is really in denial here?
Now, as to whether the emails indicate any problems for the “scientific consensus,” I can think of three ways in which they do off the top of my head:
1. They call into question the whole notion of “consensus.” There is a clear effort to stop skeptical views being published in the peer-reviewed literature. It is easy to maintain a consensus if you control whose views are heard. That does not make the consensus any more than illusory, though.
2. There are clear problems identified with the paleoclimatogical claims that the recent warming is unusual (problems that Gore just dismisses on the basis of curve-fitted computer models). If it is not unusual, then the “scientific consensus” is nothing more than a curiosity. Little or no political action will be necessary beyond some adaptive measures.
3. The emails indicate that there may be some serious questions to be raised about the temperature record, to the extent of genuinely questioning whether it has been warming. See Willis Eschenbach’s masterful post at Watts Up With That? for the reasons why this may be the case.
All the hand-waving in the world from the alarmists cannot detract from these objections. If Al Gore really thinks that the sound and fury from people worldwide who have actually, unlike him, read the emails is insignificant, then he has once again proven that he possesses the world’s biggest political tin ear.
Remember, algore is the mother of all nutters. He STILL believes the 2000 Election was stolen from him. That he invented the internet. I could go on, but why? The man needs professional help, not more bandwidth burned on him.
So, CRU hits the fan, and Goracle cancels his meet and greet at Copenhagen, then keeps his head down until some of his true believers test fly various forms of denial. Only after he’s done peeing himself that the whole thing has blown up in his face does he pop up and start parroting the ‘nothing to see here’ line that’s gaining (he hopes) momentum.
Kinda like when Hitler ran for his life during the Beer Hall Putsch when the cops opened up on the Nazi mob.
This is the guy who buys (supposedly) carbon offsets so he can gallivant around the countryside in a large SUV – and owns a very inefficient carbon spewing Gulf Stream II.
This is like the Catholic hooker that sells six days a week and gets absolution on the seventh.
Come to think of it – both are a religious experience – eh?
It’s nice to see Al Bore quoting Shakespeare. It’s just unfortunate that he used the wrong quote. Al should have said:
“Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when we first practice to deceive.”
I think I’d like to kick Al Gore in the nuts. If he had any.
anAL GOREtentive
“To paraphrase Shakespeare, it’s sound and fury signifying nothing.”
Funny…that’s my EXACT opinion of anything coming out of the Gorecle’s Mouth!
It is amazing that so many voted for the Tennessee version of “Baghdad Bob” back in 2000. I guess we know what he would have done with the money in that Social Security “Lock Box” of his.
I heard a segment of an interview with Al Gore being quizzed by Andrea Mitchell and it was spooky . He was hissing like a snake and oozing lies like a cartoon character. Funny and kind of scary.
Anytime someone claims consensus in science they are talking out of their posterior orifice. On top of that climatology is a study, not a science, and it is a contaminated study at that.
The sound and fury coming from Gore would be hypocrocy but he is lying for his own benefit so is it realy hypocrocy if he doesn’t believe in it in the first place?
Now he lies about “but the most recent one is more than 10 years old”. He is the disciple of the big lie.
Gore will be seen as one of the greatest hucksters in the history of this world.
Al WHO?
To: number 8 Just AL…
you got it wrong again there justAl…
Baghdad AL Gore actually had nothing to do with these wars pal.
That would be George W. Bush. Your totally wrong JustAl…
Bush started that war. that George Bush said it would last three weeks and cost a hundred lives.
Oh by the way…. its still going on and has cost 35, 000 dead and wounded ..a million civilian dead….and 10 trillion dollars and is still not over. Which… my family has to fight…while you sit there ..doing nothing…staring at your wife… thinking about your girlfriend. Sippin Whiskey..waving your mentally ill flag…
So next time think about that…the next time you say.. Baghdad Bob”
think about us real people. …think…
Not particularly a believer in AGW, but I think the Climategate thing is more than a bit overhyped…. just like everything else related to the topic!
Note that Al Gore (“Goracle”) buys carbon offsets from his own companies so he can galavant around the world in private jets and rent large carbon emitting limos and consume more energy in his home than multitudes of families consume in the same year. Hey but he’s not a hypocrite since he “buys” carbon offsets from his own companies. No hypocrisy there!!!
Al Gore, the Jim Jones of our generation -
“hurry children hurry, before it is too late, hurry!”
And we all know how that turned out.
as i said before…
“He Lied to us. He played on our fears.” ..a direct quote…
karma kicks us in the butt when we least expect it,and shoves our own words back down our throat…althougth I wonder if this man even understands shame..
Poor Citizen,
Great to hear from you again. I take it you have no earthly idea who Baghdad Bob is and therefore do not understand the reference to him. As to your other points, Al and others in the Clinton administration are on record about their beliefs on WMDs in Iraq.
I also don’t know where you get your statistics on 35,000 dead but since most of that number would be the enemy I can not see it as a bad thing. Also, please thank those in your family who serve (assuming they are on our side), but don’t think for a moment yours is the only one. My sister-in-laws son did three tours in Iraq, my son served one tour in Iraq and is still in uniform, my brother’s son served a tour in Iraq and is still in uniform, my sister -in law’s nephew on her husbands side is in Iraq now, my brother’s nephew on his wife’s side has served tours in both Iraq and Afghanistan and is still in uniform.
Poor Citizen only multiplied the number killed by about ten. The correct numbers are:
Since war began Total killed Total killed in combat
3/19/03 4403 3488
This is the same psycho who said on Conan O’Brien – just @ a month ago – that 2km’s down into the earth’s crust, temperatures reach up to 2 million degrees yet the media still accept him as a rational commentator. He is, as are they, really creepy.
Al Gore has always had a political tin-ear as a result of not being comfortable within his own skin; he also has the instincts of a dead horse left to rot in the Summer heat.
Even if Al Gore was the most honest and honorable man in the world, it would be incredibly hard for him to come out and admit that he was wrong.
The fact that he is none of those things only makes what he is saying all the more explicable.
The AGW hypothesis has been proven wrong, and eventually it will be common knowledge that it is wrong.
Al Gore will end his life hosting a cooking show or the cable equivalent.
Tin ear or protect revenue stream. Don’t forget, he makes $700 million global warm-mongering, is on the way to be the first “green” billionaire.
Notice that VP Gore only talked about the e-mails. He was mum about the code and that is where the real cheating took place. But I though he invented the internet because it’s based on algore_rythms, and so the code for him should be a snap (or is it?).
AGW? It means Al Gore’s Windfall. And boy, has he made millions out of this scam.
Did anyone hear about the interiewConan O’Brien had with Gore recently, when Gore claimed that the interior of the earth is several million degrees in temperature; when it’s actually around seven thousand. Oh well – that’s Gore..and no-one chastized him for this error.
Everyone knows Al was totally for attacking Iraq as humvee sales skyrocketed thus causing a lot of carbon emissions.
I’ll plant a tree for ya and save da world!
Please remit payment of $14574.87 and a picture of your carbon dioxide eliminating plant will be sent to you via email.
Has anyone even seen a PICTURE of a tree that this fraud has planted? As everyone has heard from me–I still hate him for the 3 flush toilets!
“12. Poor Citizen:
Which… my family has to fight…’
Kudos to them, like has been noted..IF they are on our, not your side. For you are a jackel, flying their flag, their sacrifice and condemning your country. All the while riding their patriotism and wearing it as if YOU are worthy.
I once attended a seminar given by a guy who was a expert in radio communications. During a break, he told us a story about how he had developed a burst transmitter design for an agency within the “intelligence community”. In the process, he described how not only did this intelligence agency have guys designing radio transmitters that could be hidden, they had another set of guys, a “counter group,” who’s job it was to detect hidden radio transmitters. These two groups would go after each other in an attempt to come up with the best possible transmitters and the best possible methods of detection.
In climate science, we have a bunch of seemingly half drunken academics who live off the government dole while they concoct ridiculous schemes to prove something that it seems has been predetermined to be true, no matter the actual empiric data. The only group of guys trying to test they schemes are underfunded or doing work on their own time pro-bono.
This process is obviously corrupt. It was never meant to provide the truth. If it was, the government research community would also have a fully funded “counter group” to try to prove that “Anthropogenic Global Warming” doesn’t exist, has little impact or at least can be easily mitigated and therefore save billions, if not trillions, of dollars/Euros/pounds on trying to prevent a non sequitur.
The fact that there is no “counter group” immediately brings into question the purpose of the activity and whether it is meant to be part of that “waste, fraud and abuse” that so often infiltrates all vestiges of government. The fact that this is an international activity makes one wonder if the UN has any real function except to give heads of state a chance to go shopping in New York City from time to time and travel to useless conferences where they can dine well and come up with new ideas on how to fleece their citizens at home.
The leaked CRU FOI documents don’t question consensus, they answer exactly what it means: Fraud and suppression of opposing views.
Can ol’ Al “I invented the Internet” Gore explain this?
“Storm Dumps Snow on Midwest, Bitter Cold to Follow,” Yahoo News, December 9, 2009
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091210/ap_on_re_us/us_storm_rdp;_ylt=AhC41_ogBUTykKINhI4m1KRv24cA;_ylu=X3oDMTMxcnY0OGg1BGFzc2V0A2FwLzIwMDkxMjEwL3VzX3N0b3JtX3JkcARjY29kZQNtb3N0cG9wdWxhcgRjcG9zAzEEcG9zAzEEc2VjA3luX3RvcF9zdG9yaWVzBHNsawNzdG9ybWR1bXBzc24-
Must be that global warming kicking in.
He’s got one thing right: AGW is a tale told by an idiot. Poor Al. He was never the same after the Great Butterfly Ballot Debacle back in aught-aught.
Just saw this posted over on AT and laughed out loud its hilarious and made more so by being so TRUE.
Russ Vaughn
I’m a Believer
(With apologies to The Monkees and dedicated to Senator Barbara Boxer – Ma’am)
I bought into Al Gore’s climate fairy tales,
Meant for tin-hat lemmings just like me;
Al was out to get me,
With his scary themes,
Disappearing icecaps haunted my dreams.
Then I got the faith, now I’m a believer
Not a trace of doubt in my mind
I’m with Al, I’m a believer
I couldn’t see truth if I tried
Climategate is such a very little thing,
Meaningless to moonbats just like me;
Deniers are such liars,
That’s the way it seems,
Dumping stolen emails on Al’s schemes.
But I’ve got the faith, I’m a believer
Not a trace of light enters my mind
I’m with Al, I’m a believer
I couldn’t see truth if I tried.
I thought global warming was a given thing,
Seems the more I give the more Al’s got;
What’s the chance he’s lyin,’
All for his own show,
When he’s needin’ heat waves he gets snow.
But I still got faith, I’m still a believer
Still no trace of doubt in my mind
I’m with Al, I’m a believer
I really don’t care if he lied.
Russ Vaughn
# 19 JustAl: The PC MC moonbat ‘Poor Citizen’ doesn’t know a lot of things as anyone reading the mush he posts on here can testify. We are STILL waiting for him to tell us if CO2 is or is NOT a Pollutant. Then to tell us just HOW much CO2 in the atmosphere is MAN MADE and what percentage that is of both the WHOLE atmosphere and of the TOTAL CO2 in the atmosphere NOW.Then tell us HISTORICALLY what has been the level of CO2 for the past 1.5 Billion years along with a TEMPERATURE graph for the whole period too (CRU and IPCC graphs are not acceptable TRICK, MANIPULATE and HIDE THE DECLINE tells you why). Then of course he has to PROVE that this MINISCULE percentage of of total CO2 that is MAN MADE CO2 is causing all the problems. Something of course NO SCIENTIST has yet been able to do maybe PC knows something they don’t LOL. All we have from them is the ASSUMPTION that because the Earths temperature WAS (and I do mean WAS) rising and than MAN MADE CO2 was increasing that MAN MADE CO2 was the cause. Of course in making this assumption they totally IGNORED the big yellow thing in the sky and ALL the other factors that effect Climate filed under too difficult and not POLITICALLY acceptable to the CONTROL FREAK Green NAZI CAUSE I suppose.
12: Poor Citizen: that war…cost….a million civilian dead…
Poor Citizen, you are a poor repository of knowledge. The Lancet study,which was the primary “research” source for civilian deaths of the magnitude you claim, was long ago discredited. The figure for civilian deaths is around 100,000. Which would have been much under the number Saddam would kill in a six year period.
D.C. Chatter
Why do people choose to enter politics?
Some surely become politicians out of purely altruistic reasons. One such person is New York Democrat Rep. Carolyn McCarthy who ran for office on an anti-gun platform after her husband was murdered and her son seriously injured by black maniac Colin Ferguson on the Long Island Rail Road in 1993.
Dyslexic and not the brightest crayon in the box, after being rejected as a candidate by the Republican Party in the heavily GOP 4th CD, she ran as a Democrat and won in 1996 and has been in office since.
Since then, McCarthy has firmly aligned herself with liberal causes and has become a reliable vote for Speaker Pelosi’s agenda.
Despite her evident pique-voting, I can respect Rep. McCarthy who at least seems like a decent person, a characteristic not applicable to the majority of Democrats.
Those are the mass of the other people who get involved in Democratic politics out of a sense of self-importance, to advocate for leftist causes, and to achieve higher office and who will compromise whatever principles they ever had in their quest for that goal.
One such over-achiever is Pennsylvania Senator Robert Patrick Casey, son of a true rarity, a Democrat conservative governor and arch-opponent of abortion, Bob Casey.
After failing to follow his father’s footsteps as PA governor, the son ran for and won a Senate seat in 2006. The rest has been a downhill trajectory that would have made his dad disown him were he still alive.
A master of equivocation, Casey has defended . . .
(Read the rest at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1366)
Al Gore said on TV yesterday that the Polar ice Caps will be GONE in ten years time and that they are shrinking fast now. REALITY tells us that Polar ice Caps shrink and grow in line with the NATURAL swings of Climate and are in FACT bigger now than at any time in the last 40 YEARS , how INCONVENIENT for Al.
Al also said that JUST 2 Kilometers below ground the Earth is at a temperature of MILLIONS of degrees. Perhaps he should tell some miners who work at that level and Oil Drillers who drill down to that level too I am sure they would be AMAZED at Als superior knowledge. Especially as the SUN’s surface temperature is ONLY 6000 degrees or so. Then tell me I should believe ANYTHING scientific this MORON Al tries to tell me. No i leave believing Al to his natural constituents Left Wing PC MC Islamophile MOONBATS.
Fraud it is, maybe even the greatest in world history.
They got wise to it in Australia the other day, and immediately voted down their cap ‘n trade bill.
Will our Senate and House of Representatives do likewise?
No, they won’t. How do I know?
They’re ready to pass the health bill, maybe the greatest scam in US history, that’s how.
… Global Warming is REAL, and it is progressing FAST ! ! I know this because, when I went to school, the Earth’s mantle (extending 70-140 miles below the surface) was 1600 F (870 C). ….
Now, Albert Gore tells me the temperature just 2 km (1.5 miles)below the surface is MILLIONS OF DEGREES…. …. Surely this is a clear case of Global Warming.
But, I guess we can ask the miners who work at that depth, and much deeper.
19. JustAl: Poor [deluded] Citizen is apparently another troll who mistates as much as he can and moves on. He’s neither logical or truthful so spending time on his blather is akin to explaining “why” to a three year old. Your earlier comment was spot on. Cheers.
It would be nice to see Al Gore’s distortions and fabrications noticed, written about or broadcast by someone other than a member of the conservative media. Why isn’t the plain obviousness of his denial not picked up on by the MSM? Can anyone provide links to show otherwise?
Did you people not know that Al was talking about the temp deep down using his new algoretempindex. sheesh!
Gore never was any good at science in school, when he should have been learning about it, and now is simply confirming it by playing ostrich on the appearance of new evidence.
He’s quite good at crooked politics, however, and well understands how to support his crusade using the (former, now crippled) ‘authority’ of scientists to get rich and influence governments based on mendacious AGW predictions.
Anyone who gets their science from a man who has no degrees in science, and failed divinity school, is a bigger fool than Gore.
The primary reason why the Beloved “Bad Boys” (i.e Obama..The LA welfare gangstas) of people like Gore and the Hollywood rich throw trash on the ground is not because they believe they are invested in creating “jobs”..It is because they believe in the “power” of having other people pick it up for them…It is their ghetto mentality.
Iain – Apparently Al Gore is not the only one with a tin ear. Stanford’s Steve Schneider was caught in a whopper of a lie by Roger Pielke, Jr. The erstwhile Mr. Schneider denied that the IPCC was ever swayed by the Mann-made hockey stick. Totally untrue of course. I don’t know how guys like Schneider can claim to be scientists when they are willing to lie in the face of bald evidence that contradicts them. For Roger Pielke’s blog on that, see http://rogerpielkejr.blogspot.com/2009/12/not-true-trick.html
(h/t Edward John Craig @ the Planet Gore site of NRO).
Update on non-warming in Copenhagen: As emergency AGW conference continues, it is perhaps ironic to calmly study some weather information readily available on the internet. I apologize that the figures are not absolutely precise because they are taken from graphs at weatheronline.co.uk. Anyone can check my calculations, which took about 20 minutes and were not taxpayer funded.
In the last 28 years (as far as the online records go back), the highest December temperature in Copenhagen was 11 degrees C and that was back in 1983. Over these years, the average highest December temperature was around 7 C.
First day: a high of 7 C, exactly the same as the average high of the last 28 years and 4 degrees COOLER than the high of the last 28 years.
Second day: a high of 7 C, the same.
Third day: a high of 6 C, 5 degrees COOLER than the December high of the last 28 years.
Fourth day: a high of 6 C
Fifth day: a high of 5 C, 6 degrees COOLER than the December high of the last 28 years.
Can someone please point this out to the Met, the BBC and all the eminent and learned delegates?
Fairy Tales and Children Stories have a lot in common with Al and his gang. Remember Chicken Little and The Boy That Cried Wolf? Al fits in the shoes of both. When the desert gets snow, two years in a row, we really need global warming so bring it on. Please! My cactus are frozen.
Fairy Tales and Children Stories have a lot in common with Al and his gang. Remember Chicken Little and The Boy That Cried Wolf? Al fits in the shoes of both. When the desert gets snow, two years in a row, we really need global warming, so bring it on. Please! My cactus are frozen.
At several million degrees the earth’s core could melt the polar ice caps faster than an SUV.
Algore is the Elmer Gantry of Global Warming.