Al Gore Declares Mission Accomplished; Gray Lady Hardest Hit
“Lack of Global Warming Means Cold, Empty Chairs at New York Times Environment Desk,” Jim Lakely writes on the Heartland Institute’s blog:
From Inside Climate News [emphasis mine]:
The New York Times will close its environment desk in the next few weeks and assign its seven reporters and two editors to other departments. The positions of environment editor and deputy environment editor are being eliminated. No decision has been made about the fate of the Green Blog, which is edited from the environment desk.
Eliminated. Done. Over. Kaput. And if the Green Blog is not being edited by a non-existent environment desk, the blog may just go away, too — or end up lightly managed by a Times editor who is paid and pressured by a dying paper to do the important work of the newspaper. Any way you want to spin it, America’s “paper of record” no longer considers alarmist, sky-is-falling coverage of the climate and energy beats worthy of the full-court press of a dedicated staff. Go figure.
How can they, when Al Gore has just declared Mission Accomplished for environmentalism? He’s got his $100 payout, and the rest of the world is left wondering why we should care about a religion when its chief practitioner has just signed his non-aggression pact with Big Oil.
At Ricochet, Britain’s James Delingpole piles on: “New York Times Closes Its Environment Desk. Please, Nobody Laugh.” That desk has been the launching pad for “some of the most compelling and moving news stories of the last four years:”
Among them:
Every time you take an unnecessary shower a baby polar bear dies.
No, it’s getting hotter. Really, it’s getting hotter. Dr James Hansen says so and he works at NASA.
Just because global warming stopped in 1997 doesn’t mean it’s not going to start again, no sirree – and when it does it will be worse, much, much worse.
Al Gore: why selling my environmental channel Current TV to oil-funded Jew-haters for $100 million was the morally right thing to do.
Much more on that last thought right after the page break.
Meanwhile, Manbearpig is still on the loose
Algor will be the winner of “Idiot of the DECADE” Award…I know, big competition there (99% of American left), but he’s really worked on that veeery hard
Now he can go by his muslim name: Abdulah Al’Gore!
What happened to the story about big al rushing to skip the tax rules?
I mean, that WAS a story wasn’t it? So how did it end? Anyone?
The deal wasn’t actually closed until Jan 2 as I understand it…which means that anAL GOREtentive didn’t get to pocket as much as he thought he was going to
Can everyone imagine that uber-leftist screaming “F&@*ing Obama!”?
He was just a touch too slow.
Poor man.
From what I understand: The sale was not completed until after Jan. 1st which means the additional taxes are in effect.
The hypocrisy here is just mind blowing. I do not recall reading any article on the HuffandPuffer that details all of this for the sheeple on the left. They should be outraged.
Al Gore issued a statement that basically said that the ideology of Current and Glenn Beck are too far apart for the owners of Current to even consider a sale to Beck. Beck took that statement as a compliment.
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Ohhh Techno! I love it when you finger me!
Judging by the temp in the north pole this winter whats going to prevent the north pole from breaking another low ice record in 2013? It seems to me Al Gore is preparing for the debate to intensify
http://ocean.dmi.dk/arctic/meant80n.uk.php
for 2 years now what is preventing the temp to go well below the green line to bring balance to the high temps above the green line in the fall and the winter? The winter of 2008 brought a nice ice increase after the low of 2007. There would have to be a big shift downward in temp right now to see that happen for 2013 and it is not happening as it did in 2008 but maybe it see will. Satan the Devil must be doing his mischief in the North pole I guess unless someone has a better answer
Quick thought from my post above
China and India northern hemisphere booming nations and if it is not CO2 causing the warming in the winter at the North pole what else can it be from booming China and India?
You do realize that water freezes at the blue line, right?
And, that temperatures are typically noisy at this time of year, that this year is not particularly remarkable, and the green line is an average over all years?
I remember Charlie helping to break the Climategate story. I remember saying at the time how much I would relish watching the green movement go to the mat for this round. Its certainly is taking its time but Oh how the mighty are fallen. PTL!
“For you, it doesn’t mean anything. For [Al-Jazeera] to say that they have such credibility that the former Vice President of the United States is on their board, and is a consultant to them, was worth several hundred million dollars. That’s, I think, an inarguable fact.”
I guess every hypocrite has his or her price, and Al-Jazeera just reached Gore’s price. And to think that a lowlife like this was almost president of the United States is just mind blowing. But you know what Al Gore REALLY is? He is just your plain, everyday, liberal Democrat, full of hypocrisy, lies, scams, and fraud. He’s cut from the same cloth that John Edwards is, who, by the way, was almost Vice President under John Kerry. Hmmm, kind of tells you something about liberal Democrats, doesn’t it?
I agree with all this and have said so but the Pravda you refer to is the online Pravda , and while it isn’t owned by the Russian Federation which owns the printed Pravda, I do not know and haven’t been able to find out who owns and manages it.
Well if they weren’t paying $500 million for the Current channel, what were they buying? Al Gore as their chief spokesmen for anti-American oil which means anti-
American prosperity. After all, you have to keep U.S. drilling down, so the Arabs can profitably drill and sell their oil. They have to keep the oil money flowing to fund the terror networks. And it takes a lot money to spread Jihad around the globe. Both soft Jihad (burrowing in) and hard Jihad (blowing up).
The prophesy of II Timothy seems to be playing out before our very eyes.
Al Gore (a lefty/red) is deeply in bed with the greens – and I am not referring to climate change freaks!
As such, his sell out of America is of piece with his greed and his anti-American sentiment. In no small measure, he is emblematic of the red/green alliance, the potential death kneel of western civilization – http://adinakutnicki.com/2012/11/17/the-radicalislamist-in-chief-his-forward-march-towards-a-green-red-tyranny-commentary-by-adina-kutnicki/
Implant Gore’s name within the commentary and the results are one and the same.
The global warming jig may be up but the ongoing damage in the form of entrenched regulatory over-reach will live on.
Coal-fired power plants will continue to be closed as though AGW is an indisputable key driver of warming/climate change/cooling/weather – whatever.
The media may not tout it with the same zeal – but our faithful and unaccountable eco-regulators will forge ahead as though the planetary end is near.
The Al Gore story is a useful tool. In your next discussion with a professed progresivist, point out his hypocrisy and then ask how else have they been fooled and how deep does this hypocrisy go? They will get angry at you first but you will have planted the seed.
Al Gore a terrorist? Who would have thought? But, then, if you lay with swine you get up covered in . . .
believe it or not, this whole thing could really be a boon for everybody here swapping spit. it is rumored that the donald is looking to buy the whole kit & caboodle. word also has it that a lot of arabs, underneath the head wear, actually have hair a lot like donald’s; and, are looking forward to a potantial new show by the donald himself called ‘the stylist’.
who knew?
i wonder, are all the women working there going to wear burkas? or do they allow women to have a career? perhaps a new show for amerikan women to get some tips on how to dress/act, when their new masters (they elected to office) announce the new ‘new deal’, that would bring in a growing audience?
talk about the pendelum swinging the other way. for 40+ years amerikans have been buying every tenet of feminism on marriage, abortion, men, and such, with much success (50+% divorce rate, free abortion on demand, and so forth). now, they have saddled their star to a bunch of extreme fascist muslims. i smell a clash of expectations coming soon to a theatre near you.
useful idiots at every turn.
need a commercial here so i can make some more popcorn. this is just starting to get good.
Seems like we’ll never really be rid of Gore. Once known as The Goracle – now known as Al.Gore.Jazeera. This guy is as past-pull-date as anything on the shelves of a supermarket. His ideas are as stale as three month old bread. I guess he’s got his revenge on We The People for not electing him though – he’s made his millions – maybe half a billion or so and leaves us with a cable tv network nobody is, has, or likely ever will watch other than the militant eco-nazis. Now even they will tune out ‘Current TV’. I’ve asked Dish to remove it from their channel line-up. No response from them yet.
Al.Gore.Jazeera should waddle off into the sunset with his yap shut and pockets stuffed with cash so we’ll never have to be reminded of AGW ever again? It’d be a good end.of.story but it looks like he’s going to be a front man for Al-Jazeera? Hypocrisy and all of its iterations must have been removed from his thesaurus at an early age.
At Ricochet, Britain’s James Delingpole piles on: “New York Times Closes Its Environment Desk. Please, Nobody Laugh.”
No . . . laugh, out loud, rolling on the floor.
They can have him.
Maybe $500,000,000 is now the price of a single black chip, being coincidentally the price at which Solyndra went boom. Must be nice.
“Every time you take an unnecessary shower a baby polar bear dies.”
How do the baby polar bears know the difference between a necessary and an unnecessary shower?
The science on global warming keeps on getting stronger as the glaciers continue to melt, forests burn, and sea level continues to rise. On another front, the American right attempts to crawl up its own ass on the issue. Recent evidence suggests it will succeed.
The Times is contracting these days. In case you hadn’t noticed, print journalism is in a state of near collapse. Whatever you think of Al Gore, the end of an environment desk simply doesn’t mean that the New York Times has decided that environmental issues have become less important or that global warming is a fraud.
Even for you world-class tools, Driscoll’s story is a pretty big glass of Kool Aid. But maybe you can believe anything after all.
So what are your thoughts on Al Gore selling out to big oil?
Al Gore is irrelevant.
Wow, he’s an awfully prominent figure to suddenly become an unperson, as they say in IngSoc.
Please don’t waste your time and energy on the likes of Jim Hitlerson. He has venomous opinions on every topic, even ones he knows nothing about. He is simply too ignorant to understand how ignorant he is. However, he thinks he knows everything about everything and thinks he has the solution to all of the world’s problems. The guy is what Thomas Sowell might call a self-anointed messiah. He believes that civilized and successful people and countries are intrinsically evil and he has a vicious hatred of Jews and Israel. His posts are often incoherent ramblings. He evades questions, he tells outright lies and he throws tantrums. Please don’t waste your time and energy on this immature, malignant, narcissistic, attention-starved, anti-Semitic demagogue.
I agree with you in thinking that the closure of the NYT’s environmental desk and Al Gore’s sale of his white elephant channel to al-Jazeera seem somehow worth considering in connection with each other. However, I’ve tried to figure out how to link this post for the benefit of my Facebook friends, and what to say about it, and I’m at a loss. Broadly, my friends range from Christian Left to Christian Right, along with a few quite interesting outliers. None of them are political junkies, and I can’t just drop them into the middle of this tangle of hypertext and hyperbole with any expectation that it will it make sense to them. I tend to agree with what I take to be your broad point, that we have signs here of a political movement in severe disarray. The NYT’s action looks like a capitulation of some sort. Al Gore looks as if he’s sold out in some way or other. However, the matter as a whole needs some sustained development in order to cohere and make sense, especially to anyone who does not give his whole day to thinking about political issues and keeping up with politically relevant events.
Your heading for example, “Al Gore Declares Mission Accomplished; Gray Lady Hardest Hit,” is clever, as long as one knows the antecedents and knows better than to interpret it very literally. However, it does not announce the subject matter of the post, it is extremely hyperbolic, and it relies very much on shared understanding.
As for the body of the post, well, I can appreciate your admiration of James Delingpole and what he has to say here and there, and it would have been reasonable for you to make a post summarizing it and linking to the sources. However, in your post, his hoo-hah and chortling about “Pravda” is an unnecessary complication and a distraction. There’s no “perfect dovetailing,” just a digression that relegates your excerpt of the quite pertinent Ricochet podcast onto your second page, where a reader is likely to overlook it, as I nearly did.
I must cut this well short of a thorough critique. You have something here that piqued my own interest. However, it is written as if for daily readers who are already persuaded, who will catch all the references, and who will make all the necessary allowances. And the question is: Why? Why bother to write for them, at the cost of making one’s post incomprehensible to the many readers whom one might be able to reason out of their current opinions and attachments? I wish you had written all this in such a way that I could offer it to my diverse friends and acquaintances and expect some large number of them to understand it without a guided tour.
You know what JDW? I also did not understand most of the references when I first glanced at the article. But, perhaps in anticipation of this, the author wisely laced his article with many hyper-links. And, upon following said hyper-links for the past 15 minutes or so, I learned… certainly enough to provide me with a minimal context necessary for the article.
In other words, you spend more time decrying the lack of context than it would have taken you to simply follow the links distributed courteously throughout the article.
I think you undersell you “Christian” friends. I think they may have the intellectual wherewithal to follow these links as I did. We’ll never know.
I don’t think you managed even to read what I wrote with much care, FF, nor to give due weight to my own expressed reason for writing. As for the rest, I don’t know how you would know.
And you know what, FF? You lost me at, “You know what,” you cliché-mongering cliché-mongerer. Now go reply to someone who was writing to you, not to someone else.
“The science on global warming keeps on getting stronger…”
Indeed, it does. Science gets stronger when errant assumptions are falsified. And, the assumption of a link between human generated CO2 and climate has taken a massive body blow as temperatures have stagnated for the past 17 years while CO2 levels continued to rise.
It’s the giant nuclear inferno known as the Sun combined with Milankovitch cycles, stupid.
Rejecting false apocalypic theological constructs designed for the purpose of scaring the yokels into adopting your eviro-gaia religion, doesnt make me a tool. Rather the opposite of a tool.
Interesting. Al Gore becomes the front man for Terrorism.
Now the question is, who is the real power?
any thoughts?
The Western Environmentalist – Arab Muslim Oil Alliance. The Arab States and Sheiks fund the Western Environmentalists to shut down Western Oil production. This is especially evident in the Canadian Oil Sands and Artic Ocean drilling. Lots of money to be had by the Enviros from the Arab Oil Sheiks….who both share similar interests/goals with regards to Western Oil Production.
imo, Qatar’s export LNG markets are threatened by expansion of fracking in the USA, which, if it actually did expand would make the USA an exporter of LNG.
Qatar’s gas exports are also threatened by Israel’s offshore natural gas finds.
If Gore has any value to the Qataris, it will be about stopping fracking.
Maybe even the NYT understands that more fracking is the only way to re-start the US economy. I stopped reading the NYT, but did they not just leak the NY study that shows fracking does not contaminate groundwater?
Bingo and the development of Shale and Sands Oil, and any production in the Artic.
Enviro-nazis are in bed with the Arab Oil Sheiks.
In reply to #17. Jim Harrison: The climate of the earth is always changing, and has done so for the billions of years it has been in existence. Thank goodness it has warmed up since the last Ice Age 10,000 years ago!
The fundamental cause of the climate is the sun. Of the atmospheric gases involved in the climate temperatures, the most plentiful is water vapor. Carbon dioxide makes up perhaps 2%, – and thank goodness for the carbon dioxide! It provides the food for green plants!
I think I’ll go kill a couple baby polar bears with a long hot shower. I agree w the enviro-whackos on one thing – they need cold showers!
A buddy of mine once posited that the “reason” AlGore got so mean and anti-usa was that “the people” turned on him during his failed election bid and because they didn’t support him he was somehow “justified” in his mean-spritied rancor towards the USA.
He got really silent when I pointed out that “maybe” he had it BACKWARDS, that “the people” did’t support him back in the because folks always kinda knew Gore was a arrogant blowhard and bully that had trouble with the facts.
They didn’t support thim THEN because they knew he was like he is behaving NOW.
Not that those of the Left would call him on it–rant about killing the planet while living McMansion and flying everywhere in ones own private jet. Ranting about rising sea levels while buying a BEACHFRONT MCmansion (in addtion to the OTHER MC’Masion you already own)
Ranting about people needing to “pay their fair share” while trying to push the Al Jeezera deal through PRIOR to 2013 to avoid paying precisely those self-same “fair taxes” he is wanting to push on everyones else.
My guess is–and the weeks going by is near proof I’m right BTW–almost NOBODY on the Left is going to speak out and call him on it.
Oh, the irony. Writing about the demise of journalism, Ed writes:
Ed, it’s FEWER journalists on the payroll, not LESS journalists!
ARRRGGGGGH!!! [sound of cloth tearing]
I will refrain from commenting on your rather loose use of the term, “journalist”, in reference to these leftists.