The Goracle Assaults Reason

Al Gore's Insolent Assault on Reason
By Robert Tracinski

Early coverage of Al Gore's new book, The Assault on Reason, has focused on
the fact that the book is largely an assault on the Bush administration. But they have glossed over the most significant and alarming theme that Al Gore has taken up: his alleged defense of "reason" includes a justification for government controls over political speech.

Goracle’s book replaces Bible in green spa

It just doesn't get any more ridiculous than this folks (well, let's hope not!).

Two good posts from Roger L. Simon: one on the Goracle, one on Seymour Hersh(ey squirts)

Does Al Gore ever wonder that he could be wrong about global warming?
I know I do, all the time. Sometimes I suspect he never does - or doesn't want to - even though this article - by an MIT meteorologist, no less - should give him pause. What about my colleagues at the Academy who awarded Al's second-rate film that Oscar? Do they think twice? Talk about " an inconvenient truth." That film was like Discovery Channel filler. The only reason to give it a prize was that it was "right." But what's if it's wrong? Or what if - more likely - it's only half right? Do they take back half the Oscar? Don't hold your breath. People who could give an award to a film like that are highly unlikely to examine anything.

Seymour, An (Iranian) Introduction
Because Pajamas and this site have been covering events in Iran, we were sent last night the interview with Seymour Hersh conducted by state radio of the Islamic Republic. In this interview Hersh calls Iran "probably the most democratic country" in the Middle East. You could call that damning with faint praise, but it is much worse. I have described on here a recent encounter I had with one of the leaders of their student movement. His face had been bashed in like a Picasso from his multiple stays in Evin Prison. He and his brother (also an activist) were tortured in front of each other in the same prison. Later the brother was murdered by the Regime. Hersh is evidently not interested in such matters. He probably thinks he's some sort of scion of Orwell. Lots of people do. But Orwell best described the likes of Hersh when he called them "objectively pro-fascist."

Goracle tag

Hi all,

I've added the 'Goracle' (aka Al Gore) as one of my Noggr subjects as I will be tracking his lunacy a little bit closer as I just can't stand him and his ridiculous ranting any longer. So watch this space: http://noggr.blogspot.com/search/label/Goracle.

- NtB

Some counter-punches against the Goracle

See Phillip Brennan's article over on NewsMax. Some of the main points are:

• World Climate report Jan 15 - Five of the seven sea ice in [Hudson Bay] stations show either significant trends of increasing maximum ice thickness, earlier occurrence of the maximum thickness, or both.
• "Anchorage on track to set record for coldest March," according to the Anchorage Daily News. As Alaskans continue to endure frigid weather and blustery wind, March is headed to being one of the coldest on record, weather experts say
• Fairbanks had the coldest mid-February to mid-March since weather records began in Fairbanks back in 1904, according to the National Weather Service.
• That frigid weather didn't remain static up north — it moved south into the northern U.S. On March 9, for example there were record lows at Island Pond, Vt., where it was an incredible -34 degrees below zero, -31 degrees below zero in Sutton, Vt., and Whitefield, N.H. It hit -29 degrees in Saranac Lake, N.Y., -18 degrees in Glens Falls, N.Y., and -11 degrees below zero in Bangor, Maine. Kinda cold up there, eh, Al? I hate to be repetitive, but it should be axiomatic by now that the Arctic region is the Northern Hemisphere's refrigerator. It sends cold air south. If, as Al Gore insists, the refrigerator is losing its coolant, how can it continue to send bitterly frigid cold fronts southward? If the freon leaks out of your kitchen refrigerator it will stop doing its job of keeping its contents cold. That's just plain common sense, an asset obviously lacking in the fevered minds of the global warming fanatics. Much of the so-called evidence that the planet is warming is also evidence of the opposite — that it is also cooling.

Monday's post on the Goracle

A few good videos on the Goracle.

Consensus is reached: Gore's global warming alarmism is overblown

Oh, really? Gee, there's a surprise.

After a year of concentrated effort that includes a multimillion-dollar p.r. campaign on top of An Inconvenient Truth and slavish media coverage parroting the climate-alarmist line, recent polls show that public opinion has barely budged. Only about a third of Americans, according to a recent Gallup survey, are agitated about climate change, and even people who say the environment is their most important issue rank climate change behind air and water quality in importance.

Meanwhile a backlash in the scientific community has begun. Last week, New York Times veteran science reporter William Broad filed a devastating article about scientists who are "alarmed" at Gore's alarmism; Gore's account of global warming goes far beyond the evidence. The dissents from Gore's extremism, Broad explained, "come not only from conservative groups and prominent skeptics of catastrophic warming, but also from rank-and-file scientists" who have "no political ax to grind." It appears Gore refused to be interviewed directly for the article; he responded to e-mail questions only.

This backlash has been quietly building for a while. In November, Mike Hulme, director of Britain's Tyndall Center for Climate Change Research, expressed his unease about climate alarmism to the BBC:

I have found myself increasingly chastised by climate change campaigners when my public statements and lectures on climate change have not satisfied their thirst for environmental drama and exaggerated rhetoric. It seems that it is we, the professional climate scientists, who are now the [catastrophe] skeptics. How the wheel turns. Why is it not just campaigners, but politicians and scientists too, who are openly confusing the language of fear, terror and disaster with the observable physical reality of climate change, actively ignoring the careful hedging which surrounds science's predictions? To state that climate change will be 'catastrophic' hides a cascade of value-laden assumptions which do not emerge from empirical or theoretical science.

Hehe - Gore made $500K from toxic mines

This guy is a living contradiction. Just thought I'd post this little 'gem'. Hehe.

It's snowing in March - Stop Global Warming Now!

Gore Planet blog on NRO

This is great - a dedicated blog on NRO discussing the ridiculousness of this idiot and some his questionable theories.

Enjoy:

http://planetgore.nationalreview.com/

The great global warming swindle

Did anyone catch this interesting program on Channel 4 (in the UK)? I haven't seen it - is there a video available on the net? Many thanks. The synopsis is below fyi.

In a polemical and thought-provoking documentary, film-maker Martin Durkin argues that the theory of man-made global warming has become such a powerful political force that other explanations for climate change are not being properly aired.

The film brings together the arguments of leading scientists who disagree with the prevailing consensus that a 'greenhouse effect' of carbon dioxide released by human activity is the cause of rising global temperatures.

Instead the documentary highlights recent research that the effect of the sun's radiation on the atmosphere may be a better explanation for the regular swings of climate from ice ages to warm interglacial periods and back again.

The film argues that the earth's climate is always changing, and that rapid warmings and coolings took place long before the burning of fossil fuels. It argues that the present single-minded focus on reducing carbon emissions not only may have little impact on climate change, it may also have the unintended consequence of stifling development in the third world, prolonging endemic poverty and disease.

The film features an impressive roll-call of experts, including nine professors – experts in climatology, oceanography, meteorology, environmental science, biogeography and paleoclimatology – from such reputable institutions as MIT, NASA, the International Arctic Research Centre, the Institut Pasteur, the Danish National Space Center and the Universities of London, Ottawa, Jerusalem, Winnipeg, Alabama and Virginia.

The film hears from scientists who dispute the link between carbon dioxide levels and global temperatures.

Video: A terrifying message from Al Gore

And this article is also quite amusing in light of Gore's recent publicity push: Bush's House More Eco-Friendly Than Gore's

Roger L. Simon on Al Gore's hypocrisy

Good post - I've copied all of it below.

Al Gore must be pretty embarrassed this evening seeing the headline at the top of the Drudge Report: POWER: GORE MANSION USES 20X AVERAGE HOUSEHOLD; CONSUMPTION INCREASE AFTER 'TRUTH'. You almost feel sorry for the guy. He can't catch a break the day after he wins an Oscar. (Okay, it was a gift. The movie as film was tenth-rate. But he did win.)

But there's a deeper question beneath all this. Does hypocrisy count? Does it matter than Hollywood stars parade around in Priuses while keeping private planes and multiple homes that burn up who-knows-how much energy (in many cases enough to dwarf Al's)? Is it just that these people mouth off that raises our eyebrows or should they actually practice what they preach ?

Now I don't have a particularly Green Lifestyle, although I am thinking of buying a hybrid for my next car (primarily because I can't stand to stick another dollar in the Saudi gas pump) and the next time I build something I'll probably pay more attention to good window sealing (the code will probably make me do that anyway). But what's with Gore? How could he be so thoughtless and, yes, arrogant to go out there banging the drum for his film at the very time, according to public records, he increased his already sizable personal energy consumption. How embarrassing and how terrible for his cause. Maybe he doesn't really care about it at bottom - maybe it's all about him.

In the movie business you see a lot of that, a kind of narcissistic politics in which how you appear is so much more important than what you really are. It's as if there were two people - the private one bossing around the staffs while burning up more fuel than the Sultan of Brunei and the public one wagging a finger at the rest of us. Gore seems to have fit in well with these folks. In the long run, I suspect that doesn't augur well for the environment.

Gal Aore

Otherwise known as Al Gore. This fool is up for an honorary degree in the field of climate change, something on which he has no academic credentials. I guess this is not as bad as Khatami being given an award by St. Andrew's University in the UK, but it's not very good. For more on Gore's supposed (environ)mentalism, see the below video.