Saint Al Of The Ecopalypse »
Posted By bobo-in-texas 12 months ago in NewsA couple of days before Al Gore was awarded his Nobel Peace prize, Michael Burton, an English High Court judge and apparently a fine film critic, ruled that Al's Oscar-winner An Inconvenient Truth was prone to "alarmism and exaggeration" and identified nine major factual errors.
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AlphaGnosisComment removed: User banned.6 Replies
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aniokly12 months ago
You have to give Al credit, first he grabbed onto Global Warming, talked about it for years, then produced a movie, making a few dollars, started a company that cons you into buying offsets you cannot see, so people can pollute as much as they want with a clean conscience. I wish I would have thought of it.
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toph197312 months ago
Hey man, you gotta do what you gotta do to make a buck. I never understood the whole carbon credits thing. Now they're talking about carbon taxes, carbon yada, yada. Well then, I want a tax credit for every blade of grass I have in my yard. For every leaf on my tree.
We need to get off the oil for the simple reason that all of us. No matter Chinese, Indian, Russian, American, British, etc. We all fund and support terrorism by merely filling up our tanks. Why?
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RedRiverJ12 months ago
What now Al? Very sad indeed.
I believe there is some Global warming, but I DO NOT blame all of it on America, there is India, China two of the worst polluters that have a HUGE share in polluting the planet. Sunspots also cause climate changes. Everyone needs to do their part in cleaning up the planet, not just the USA or just the middle & poor class. If we change our lives to help with GW the rest of the world needs to do the same, rich included.
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Commodore112 months ago
Yes but Al is a nazi liberal. Liberals don't admit their mistakes. They spin them. And I'm sure Al paid a little extra for his prize, under the table.
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joeblowe12 months ago
That should be a clew for everyone right there: they can smell Al's B.S. from all the way down in Australia.
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bobo-in-texas12 months ago
I can get you more info later but when he split from his wife, she kept living in the Mayors mansion and he moved in with a gay couple. I think that says a lot in itself.
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hyperbola12 months ago
Well of course you would be for Rudy. Nothing like killing americans for zionist crimes against humanity. The real question is whether we shouldn't try rudy and the zioncons for treason to america.
Giuliani's proposal for endless Middle East wars on behalf of Israel
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2007/09/...
More Zion-Cons for Giuliani
http://www.ips.org/blog/jimlobe/?p=70#more-70
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Harbeas12 months ago
I certainly didn't agree with awarding Gore the peace prize, unfortunately they can't take it back!
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hyperbola12 months ago
Well we certainly know that the denier William Gray was wrong in predicting that Hurricane Catarina could never happen.
"If We Can't Predict the Weather Next Week, How Can We Predict 100 Years into the Future?"
Part of the common arguments from skeptics/deniers series
Gray vs. Climate
Round I : Catarina
In 1979 William Gray said the formation of a hurricane in the South Atlantic was an impossibility:
Yet the United Kingdom's Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research, a branch of the UK's Met Office, had predicted that a hurricane would form in the South Atlantic in a globally warming world. So what the models said would occur, Gray said would "never" occur. In March of 2004 such an 'impossible' hurricane formed. Her name was Catarina.
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hyperbola12 months ago
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2004 went on to be a record shattering year for hurricanes. The number of intense storms were double of that predicted by William Gray. His explanation was simple: "This year did not behave like any other year we have studied." . Gray's forecasts are based upon comparison to the past. Perhaps in a warming and changing world past observations of seasonal trends won't apply anymore. On the other hand the GCM models forecast based upon our understanding of the laws of physics. This brings up a rather famous quote: "The laws of physics are eternal and cannot be changed with additional research, venture capital or majority votes."
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hyperbola12 months ago
cont'd
Gray vs. Climate Models
Round II: Seasonal Forecasts
In December of 2004 Gray announced that he did not expect "anything close to the U.S. land-falling hurricane activity of 2004" for the 2005 hurricane season. Gray predicted 11 named storms, 6 hurricanes and 3 major hurricanes. Only a slightly above average year. Unfortunately 2005 was going to to shatter all records. By late may 2005, Gray had upped the forecast to fifteen named storms. While this was an increase it was still only about half of what to come. Meteo-France on the other hand, was using a new form of hurricane forecasting which employs climate models. They predicted 22 named storms. The end game resulted in 28 storms. While both forecasts were off Gray was much farther off than the climate models. Meteo-France was off by 6 while Gray was initially off by 17 and later 13 named storms....
http://logicalscience.blogspot.com/2007/08/if-w...
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hyperbola12 months ago
Ah my! The bobos again chanting phony slogans fed to them by Exxon/Mobil!
Revealed: the man behind court attack on Gore film
Fuel and mining magnate backed UK challenge to An Inconvenient Truth
.... The Observer has established that Dimmock's case was supported by a powerful network of business interests with close links to the fuel and mining lobbies.....
.... co-authored a report with the George C Marshall Institute, a US body funded by Exxon Mobil...
http://film.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,219080...
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bobo-in-texas12 months ago
Damn! You reminded me that I forgot to read my daily talking points from the Exxon/Mobi... overlords.
Hopefully they won't send me to the re-education camps.
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hyperbola12 months ago
well, numerous members of the bushie regime and of the military have already told us that. Here is one more. Kind of emphasizes the quality of your psy-ops propaganda efforts.
'We've Treated The Arab World As A Collection Of Big Gas Stations'
... During a round table discussion on "the Fight for Oil, Water and a Healthy Planet" at Stanford University on Saturday, Gen. John Abizaid (Ret.), the former CENTCOM Commander, said that "of course" the Iraq war is "about oil":
"Of course it's about oil, we can't really deny that," Abizaid said of the Iraq campaign early on in the talk...
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/10/15/abizaid-mid...
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vor12 months ago
Funny that many of those that rip into Gore for his beliefs based on sciencific evidence believe that someday Jesus will ride down from heaven on a cloud upon a white stead. They believe in the literal Bible and tales like Noah's Ark which are not scientifically sound (no wooden boat has ever been successfully constructed of that size in modern times).
I would say that Gore's predictions are much more likely to come true than the idea of a seven headed monster coming out of the sea missing one head and trumpets blaring from above signally the end for much of humanity as is read in the Book of Revelation.
I don't agree with much of Gore's hypothesis but it is hard to argue that man has indeed affected his environment. If only that message gets through then his work is of some merit. We are warming, that is hard to dispute. How much and how fast are the salient questions. Don't expect anyone to get this quite right.
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vor12 months ago
I do not totally disagree with you about Gore and sanctimony. He just comes across as strange in an almost alien way. Intellectuals usually are not the most normal people and Gore tends towards megalomania, oddly a trait I often also attribute to Cheney (a serious case). What would the world be like now if Gore had defeated Bush in '00? A different place for certain. But one can only hypothesize as to what that difference would be. 9/11 was in motion and there is no reason to believe Gore would have prevented that attack.
As for the comfort issue, it is just a fact that the leading politicians (although Gore has no office currently) in this country all live quite comfortably.I don't know of any that live a paupers or even commoners existence. Now that would be a novel campaign! Kucinich always claimed he once lived in his car but he has never been a major national candidate. Of course Gore is stinking rich from various ventures but that is the capitalist, free market way.
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Truzseeker12 months ago
Al Gore's Wacky Facts, Inconvenient Corrections
http://www.counterpunch.org/bryce10162007.html
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KobraJeedai11 months, 4 weeks ago
I recently read this somewhere:
"When you can't attack the message, you attack the messenger.
"Typical. Predictable."
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icono112 months ago
Rev A Gore the first ECO-evangelist. "In green we trust" the green being in USD instead of chlorophyll.
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bobo-in-texas12 months ago
It's about St. Albert the Goracle, one the most prominent evangelists of our generation.
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hyperbola12 months ago
Denial of global warming is part of the "faith-based" ideology of the christian zionists.
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