“Don’t tell my boss, but two-thirds of the delegates here are mad.”
I nearly didn’t go to Bali. The UN, which had not wanted any dissent at this carefully-staged event, rejected my journalistic credentials out of hand, and without explanation. However, a non-government organization came to the rescue and the high priests didn’t dare to say No a second time. That would have looked too obvious. I proved my journo-cred by writing a major article in the Jakarta Post on day 1 of the conference, cheekily claiming my share of the Nobel Prize because the IPCC had made a correction to its latest Holy Book at my suggestion, and concluding that, since our influence on the climate is a non-problem, and the correct approach to a non-problem is to do nothing, my fellow-participants should have the courage to do nothing and push off home.
[…]
Ever since the high priests tampered with the scientists’ text of the IPCC’s 1995 Holy Book, deleting multiple references to the absence of credible evidence for any anthropogenic effect on climate and inserting the directly contrary statement that there was now a discernible human influence, anyone who dares to check the science is regarded as a heretic for daring to question the Holy Books of voodoo. Never mind the facts: just believe the nonsense, even when it doesn’t add up.
I couldn’t resist baiting the stallholder at the stand run by a certain national weather bureau. This particular tax-gobbler, reliably Messianic in its Siotological fervour, had a childishly imaginative poster that ramped up the imagined disasters as global temperature rose by each additional degree Celsius. At just 2 degrees, the poster said the Greenland ice sheet would be permanently destabilized. Oo-er. The message was illustrated by the usual picture of a glacier calving spectacularly into the water.
“’Scuse me,” I said, Earl-of-Emsworth expression in place, “but isn’t that a picture of a glacier that cuts across a freshwater lake in Argentina?” For it wasn’t Greenland. It looked suspiciously like a grainy vid-grab from the traditional collapsing-glacier footage shown every few minutes on the unspeakable BBC. As the waters of the freshwater lake build up behind the glacier, it breaks apart spectacularly every eight years. Or rather, as I pointed out to the stallholder, every five years these days, because much of the southern hemisphere is cooling. This image did not demonstrate “global warming” but regional cooling.
[…]
Therein lies a danger that Gore has not yet seen. For he failed, yet again, to declare his financial interest before whipping up worldwide alarm with his trademark errors and exaggerations in Bali. He is a director of Lehman Brothers, a global finance house that wants to control the worldwide managed market in carbon-emissions trading. He founded his own “green” corporation, Generation Investment Management. He is a paid member of the Board of a renewable-energy company. In the UK, if he made a speech containing so many deliberate and unidirectional errors as he did in Bali, and if he failed to declare his financial interest, he would be committing a criminal offence.
It is surely only a matter of time before a complaint is filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, alleging that, through the numerous, extreme and scientifically-unwarranted exaggerations which Gore has relentlessly continued to peddle notwithstanding the warning in the UK judge’s verdict, he is in effect fraudulently promoting a false prospectors to potential investors. Indeed, his exaggerations are on such a scale, and have commanded such attention, and have done so much damage, that he may even have committed an offence under the Federal racketeering statute. I wanted to ask Gore about his failure to disclose his financial interest, but – as usual – he does not dare to take questions.
RTWT.
‘It’s Dead, G.I.M.’
(with apologies to Dr. McCoy)
Kate, excellent read, thanks for the pointer, and in general a huge thanks for informing your readers on the utter crookedness of the global warming crowd.
Pardon my stupidity but what does the acronym RTWT mean?
yup,
The Goracle is a fraud who has pocketed over $100,000,000 SO FAR.
When this scam is finally put to rest, I want jailed scientists all over the world. Every scientist who used public money to lie to us is guilty of fraud and we’re talking large dollars. Good, long jail terms are what is needed to ensure these liars are appropriately punished.
Then they can start working to pay back every penny they stole.
RTWT means Read The Whole Thing
There is a free site out there called acronym(something) dot com
where every imaginable acronym is defined
I admit I have to use it occasionally …
Does Al Gore think he’s above law?
Great article…
It is sometimes hard to believe the utter lack of knowledge that people base their beliefs on.
Sad really!
Personally I like the idea of Mr. Gore and his minions being held accountable in a court of law for fraud.
Gee with 20 foot rises in sea levels Catepillar stock should have been stratospheric with all those dikes The Netherlands should be reinforcing!!!
The Goracle isn’t half as clever as some tulip bulb salesmen I know.
I know I know, lets sell “Rising Tide Futures”.
Is there an SEC offense for “Capital Charlatanism”?
Oceans of ignorance brought to you by the Goracle.
Cheers
Hans-Christian Georg Rupprecht BGS, PDP, CFP
Commander in Chief
Frankenstein Battalion
2nd Squadron: Ulanen-(Lancers) Regiment Großherzog Friedrich von Baden(Rheinisches) Nr.7(Saarbrucken)
Knecht Rupprecht Division
Hans Corps
1st Saint Nicolaas Army
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Was the press covering two different meetings in Bali ?
This one and that one.
I sent those links to a couple of “leading” Canadian journalists. I recieved (am grateful)very weak responses — no counter scientific argument, just something about Prime Minister Harper getting bad press over there.
For he failed, yet again, to declare his financial interest before whipping up worldwide alarm with his trademark errors and exaggerations in Bali. He is a director of Lehman Brothers, a global finance house that wants to control the worldwide managed market in carbon-emissions trading….and on and on
ahhaaaa – now the urgency for Gores claims are coming into focus — indeed!
I sent the following questions to a pro Kyoto Journalist a jew days ago:
“Personally I am of the opinion that AGW is a hoax, clearly you are not.
What kind of dynamic would need to occur climactically for you to change
your opinion? Would the next 5 years being colder than the previous 5 be
enough to convince you?”
Her response: “Sorry. I ll leave you to that debate.”
Obviously did not want to commit to any discussion or set any kind of benchmark that could be referenced, for if it occurred she would then be forced to back off of the Kyoto pimping.
Essentially she is saying that it does not matter what happens with climate or how far it veers from the predictions of the doom mongers, I am reserving the right to continue to promote climate change hysteria.
I think that there must be some kind of onus placed upon journalists to set a benchmark though, for there has to be one. What if temperatures cool for the next 20 years and glaciers expand dramatically? There has to be a line in the sand.
So I plan to write each AGW journo that I find and ask them that very basic question, for again there has to be a line.
Just recieved a response, on the ‘two Bali meetings’, from Lorrie Goldstein; “Thanks, now that’s funny”.
He is one Canadian journalist who has been calling Gore’s fraud all along.
Also, Terrence Cocoran, Peter Foster, Lisa Corbella, Solomon, and others.
Ron,
That in a nutshell is what is wrong with the “profession” of journalism.
They are propagandists for their agendas and not unbiased purveyers of truth as they so dishonestly claim.
Ron Lorrie must have changed his tune somewhere. In an email to me he wrote:
“Noted. I’m aware of all these arguments I’ve read seven books on the subject, and dozens of lengthy magazine articles and hundreds of news stories and columns and as far as I’m concerned, man-made global warming is real, it is effecting climate and it needs to be addressed, but not through blind panic, pointless and stupide treaties like Kyoto, or thinly-veiled Marxism and global wealth redistribution disguised as environmentalism.”
A truly excellent article. Thanks for the great link, Kate. I’ll be sure to hat tip you on my traffic-minuscule site. 🙂
Anyone who has ever heard Kevin Newman on Adler knows that he is a complete wacko when it comes to “global warming”. He is a radical proponent and it comes through in everything he says and does. Global cannot be considered the least bit neutral or honest in its reporting of global warming given this incredible bias.
Year of global cooling
By David Deming
December 19, 2007
Al Gore says global warming is a planetary emergency. It is difficult to see how this can be so when record low temperatures are being set all over the world. In 2007, hundreds of people died, not from global warming, but from cold weather hazards.
Since the mid-19th century, the mean global temperature has increased by 0.7 degrees Celsius. This slight warming is not unusual, and lies well within the range of natural variation. Carbon dioxide continues to build in the atmosphere, but the mean planetary temperature hasn’t increased significantly for nearly nine years. Antarctica is getting colder. Neither the intensity nor the frequency of hurricanes has increased. The 2007 season was the third-quietest since 1966. In 2006 not a single hurricane made landfall in the U.S.
South America this year experienced one of its coldest winters in decades. In Buenos Aires, snow fell for the first time since the year 1918. Dozens of homeless people died from exposure. In Peru, 200 people died from the cold and thousands more became infected with respiratory diseases. Crops failed, livestock perished, and the Peruvian government declared a state of emergency.
Unexpected bitter cold swept the entire Southern Hemisphere in 2007. Johannesburg, South Africa, had the first significant snowfall in 26 years. Australia experienced the coldest June ever. In northeastern Australia, the city of Townsville underwent the longest period of continuously cold weather since 1941. In New Zealand, the weather turned so cold that vineyards were endangered.
Last January, $1.42 billion worth of California produce was lost to a devastating five-day freeze. Thousands of agricultural employees were thrown out of work. At the supermarket, citrus prices soared. In the wake of the freeze, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger asked President Bush to issue a disaster declaration for affected counties. A few months earlier, Mr. Schwarzenegger had enthusiastically signed the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, a law designed to cool the climate. California Sen. Barbara Boxer continues to push for similar legislation in the U.S. Senate.
In April, a killing freeze destroyed 95 percent of South Carolina’s peach crop, and 90 percent of North Carolina’s apple harvest. At Charlotte, N.C., a record low temperature of 21 degrees Fahrenheit on April 8 was the coldest ever recorded for April, breaking a record set in 1923. On June 8, Denver recorded a new low of 31 degrees Fahrenheit. Denver’s temperature records extend back to 1872.
Recent weeks have seen the return of unusually cold conditions to the Northern Hemisphere. On Dec. 7, St. Cloud, Minn., set a new record low of minus 15 degrees Fahrenheit. On the same date, record low temperatures were also recorded in Pennsylvania and Ohio.
Extreme cold weather is occurring worldwide. On Dec. 4, in Seoul, Korea, the temperature was a record minus 5 degrees Celsius. Nov. 24, in Meacham, Ore., the minimum temperature was 12 degrees Fahrenheit colder than the previous record low set in 1952. The Canadian government warns that this winter is likely to be the coldest in 15 years.
3w.washingtontimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071219/COMMENTARY/10575140
Al Gore could be a leader of the LPoC, he has the necessary credentials;
Liar, cheat and thief.
I am sitting here looking out the window at Bedford Basin. There is skim ice on the Basin. Thirty plus years I have lived here and the only other time I have seen ice in the middle of the Basin was when pack ice was blown into the harbour. Not even in the deep freezes of February but we have it now, three days before winter even begins.
“Monckton’s Rule: the further Left, the tackier the make-up.”
Priceless! I suppose the most tarted up old whore there was the Goracle.
Actually Jim, one of the consequences of climate change is cold snaps where they don’t belong, at least in the short term. But in any case, much as I take climate change seriously, I can’t take the activists seriously. Bali? Oh, let’s spend half a billion dollars holding a conference in what conveniently happens to be a tropical paradise. I take these people as seriously as I take Bono weeping for Africa from his private jet and luxury Manhattan penthouse.
As someone once said: I’ll start believing its a problem when the people telling me it’s a problem start ACTING like it’s a problem.
This gem from Cathrine Porter
Liu’s next study is on the increased waste divorced households send to landfill, and their carbon emissions.
I admire Monckton’s patience and persistence. I’ve given up. I now ride the train when it travels in my direction, and hop off when it does not, smiling gently at all the kool-aid drinkers I meet.
A “leading” Canadian journalist sent me a video link as an example of why the media supports the Alarmists cause.
Thanks very much, Kate, for this post. If folks read no other AGW material this month, they should read Lord Monckton’s report from Bali.
Thanks God, for Lord Monckton. Or, for those who prefer, Thanks, Goddess of Reason (early French Revolution deity) for Lord Monckton. A shining star in the ever dhimming British firmament.
No wonder the Goreacle wouldn’t respond to Monckton’s debate challenge. Not only does he have no facts to match the Lord, he sounds like a babbling illiterate in comparison to Monckton.
I just googled active volcanos of the world therer is roughly 25 active volcanos, can anyone here figure out how much greenhouse gases is being put out by those per day, and if so can u email steffi and ask him how hes going to sell carbon credits to those. lmao
Minor point, but the word siotological isn’t in Webster’s IIId or the OED, and Google can’t find any reference except the above article. Does anyone know what it means or was meant?
One of our Chilliwack global warming worshipers calls AGW skeptics Rats.
The rats have taken over the ship
The Times
http://www.canada.com/chilliwacktimes/news/letters/story.html?id=155780a0-c55f-4f31-a448-94f8c902048a
Vitruvius,
Sioto == C02
Some commenters are looking forward to penance of some kind from the eventual exposure of the fraud of catastrophic AGW from their High Priests. Considering the fraud of what regularly passes for environmental science and if the experience of Paul Ehrlich (proven wrong historically on virtually all of his sky-is-falling scenarios) is any indicator, the Greens will remain in total worship of these Saints regardless of proven reality.
The neo-Marxism of modern environmentalism doesn’t stop to reconcile with the truth, it will have moved on to the next crises well before the emperor has been widely seen naked. The cheerleaders and parrots in the MSM and much of tenured academia will just go along with them.
@felis corpulentis:
Yes, Lord Monckton has been quite persistent over the issue, and he does deserve credit for being so. As of about a year ago, he even stuck up for a group of Canadian scientists who stated that the AGW proponents had gone beyond the science. It was nice of Lord Monckton to stick up for our fellow Canadians in that way.
Of course, the Conservatives’ ‘temporizing’ over the issue may now be seen in a different light….
Gah, I’m glad I’m not the only one that needed crib notes to decipher the Siotu reference. Best as I could come up with was that the harbour of Siotu Ko was a stone’s throw away from the city of Kyoto… and maybe some negotiating was held there.
Chris Wren,
I used a similar quote the other day and both of us got it wrong. The someone is Glenn Reynolds and the correct quote is:
“I’ll believe it’s a crisis when the people who say it’s a crisis start acting like it’s a crisis.”
Yeah, Gore is a Liberal alright, perfect fit with the Liberals right here. He’s on the same page as Dion, they’re a mutual admiration group.
Wonder if the Nobel Prize award was ever rescinded?
Surely they can’t allow the prize to be devalued by awarding a phony, a real charlatan the prize.
Global Warming is a Leftist Movement. Mo Strong is the Granddaddy of Kyoto. We should soon be having him flushed out from his hiding place and be forced explain his theories. It’s not a global warming phenomenon, it’s a phenomenal global scam.
Kate, you must read this story:
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/908
New Peer-Reviewed Study Finds ‘Warming is naturally caused and shows no human influence’
Thanks!
The major difference between arguing with a Kyotoist vs arguing with a Jehova’s Witness is that at least the JWs have read their own canon. The Kyotoists simply declare “The science is settled.” ™? in the same way that the ancients declared “The oracle has spoken.” All further discussion is futile. At least with the JWs there are knowable scriptures and tenets of doctrine which can be read and debated. With most Kyotoists there is simply the blindest of blind faiths. Believe or be declared heretic!
Kate, this is even better than the last thing you had to read:
http://ace.mu.nu/archives/249804.php
Kyoto Fever: Non-Signatory US Slows Greenhouse Gas Growth More Sharply Than Three-Quarters of Protocol’s Signers
Rub it in leftists’ (and Stephan Dion’s) face!
While nothing is really gained at Bali..
Low income India makes a vast difference. The wave [ not evident in Canada much ] has started.
FYI; 25 km per litre converts to 58.8 miles per gallon. In the past, Tata has said its $2,500 car, which is due for release next June and will be on display next month, will be the cleanest in the world.
Tata also has plans to make a compressed air and fuel cell car but most greens are not happy because dropping the price for a car so dramatically will mean an increase in the number of cars and, likely, more pollution.
Nissan may import the car to the United States or Europe, so the question is, might you buy the 59 miles per gallon $2,500 car in 2008?
AutoblogGreen.com = TG
I’m shocked! Shocked I tell you. The priests (scientists)that minister at the temple (IPCC) are lying to the people! I’m aghast. Who would have thunk it. Don’t they use logic as they examine their chicken entrails? Isn’t the theory impervious to mankind’s tinkering? They should think of the children. If scientists lie about simple things like the weather what does that say about St. Darwin? Oh the humanity! sob
Thanks Fred for posting the David Deming reference. The interior of BC has been a lot cooler with much more snow than usual this year. At least there’s lots of beetle killed pine to feed the stove with.
Al Gore’s self-serving actions require much more publicity and if Conrad Black gets 6.5 years for allegedly stealing a few million, how much time behind bars will Al Gore eventually get?
some one should start a “group” to sue algore
would be interesting to see him testify under oath in a court of law:-))))
Good read , btw , someone go throw a cold pail of water on Vitruvius …… heh .
ron in kelowna:
You have just given us an explanation for reason our MSM is letting the Alarmists of the hook.
They are watching vids of tractors.
Quite the contrast from the depth and quality of Lord Moncton’s essay.
Step right up ladies & gentlemen, cold water for sale here.
Reasonable prices, after-sales service, satisfaction guaranteed.
Free-market profit for one and all. Form a line, form a line 😉
Et tu Brutus
or
Si o tu Al Gore
That’s not a question!
Vitruvius … would have liked to see the CLICK in person .
TG:
I always seem to have trouble understanding your posts. On reason we don’t have 60 MPG cars is because nobody will buy them. Can I strap my canoe to the top, or tow a trailer, or carry the cubscouts to camp?
The other problem with air or hydraulic or battery electric powered cars is that the energy has to be generated somewhere, somehow, by a thermal cycle that is little or no more efficient than an internal combustion engine. It makes much more sense if you build nuke plants.
And speaking of nuke plants, more people will die from exploding batteries or from collisions in those small cars than will ever die from nuclear plants. Nuclear waste? Sure it’s a problem, but an easily managed problem if we have the will power to do so.
Vitruvius
I’ll qualify that with I always enjoy your posts .
Honestly Bill, I have no idea what you’re talking about. Feel free to clue me in.
And Joe, the Canadian translation is Et touque, Brute?
Since it was our own Jean Cruton who signed onto this Koyoto thing- then he should be our official representative for it. Can you imagine- our own little ‘petit gar from Shawinigan, standing up at the United Nations, and saying:
“Da poof of da poof is da poof! And when you have good poof, it is poofen!”
Science has given you people everything,now it gives you something you dont like and you hate it.
Dont worry the rest of us will clean up after all you slobs.Hows your karma bank account doing?