Goracle delivers “one of the stupidest statements ever put on film”
posted at 8:25 am on August 17, 2007 by Bryan
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Robert Bryce reviews An Inconvenient Truth. It’s not a positive review.
It is the nature of civilization to use energy and it’s the nature of liberalism to feel bad about it. That’s my conclusion after finally sitting down to watch “An Inconvenient Truth,” the Oscar-winning documentary that has turned Al Gore into a rock star (and rock music promoter). Here’s my review: it is an overly simplistic look at a complex problem and it concludes with one of the single stupidest statements ever put on film. Yes, that’s harsh criticism. But it’s the right one, given that just before the final credits, in a segment addressing what individuals can do about global warming, the following line appears onscreen: “In fact, you can even reduce your carbon emissions to zero.”
We breathe out carbon dioxide with each and every exhalation. The only way one could reduce one’s carbon footprint to zero would be to die. Maybe Gore’s secretly a member of the voluntary human extinction movement?
Or he’s just not terribly bright.
Or he thinks everyone else isn’t as smart as he is.
(h/t Newsbusters)
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By buying carbon offsets from Gore’s company, per chance?
Niko on August 17, 2007 at 8:36 AM
Bryan, did you figure that out all by yourself or was it handed to you by a committee of idgits?
TunaTalon on August 17, 2007 at 8:36 AM
To think that if this guy had carried his home state of Tennessee, the Florida vote would not have mattered. Shows how fragile the course of history is for our country.
volsense on August 17, 2007 at 8:45 AM
I saw Al Gore with Queen Latifah, Leonardo diCaprio and I think that MarKOS guy.
Man he knows a lot of famous people. I wonder if he ever met Princess Di or Madonna. That would be wild.
JiangxiDad on August 17, 2007 at 8:48 AM
Don’t know about you guys, but I exhale fire and phosphorus.
mikeyboss on August 17, 2007 at 8:51 AM
If Al Gore tripped and fell in a forest, and no one was around, would anybody care?
N. O'Brain on August 17, 2007 at 8:53 AM
Well, you know, if we just find the “useless” people in the world and get rid of them, less of a carbon footprint. ‘Cause that’s worked out so much for other countries when they do it. Like Germany, the Sudan, Bosnia, Soviet Russia…… Oh, wait, not so much.
As soon as the famous people stopped lecturing me about the geopolitical consequences of George Bush and started lecturing me about global warming, I stopped listening. Just because DiCaprio and Clooney think they’re oh-so important and intelligent does not make it so. I believe it’s called narcissism.
And under absolutely no circumstance would I support a genocide of anyone. No country can exist in a stable manner when it’s built on a culture of death.
mjk on August 17, 2007 at 8:55 AM
Leonardo Di Caprio? You mean the climate change expert?
Niko on August 17, 2007 at 8:55 AM
Don’t know about you guys, but I exhale fire and phosphorus.
I fixed it for you with a helpful link (NWS – also, main reference site is down).
In addition, I have been thinking about the AlGorecalypse for awhile now, and to me it seems that the extinction doesn’t stay voluntary for long.
angryoldfatman on August 17, 2007 at 9:00 AM
Is it just me, or do any of you still shudder when you think how close that guy was to being President?
BacaDog on August 17, 2007 at 9:01 AM
Is he? Kewl.
JiangxiDad on August 17, 2007 at 9:02 AM
I shudder just thinking how closely he resembles a human being.
jdkchem on August 17, 2007 at 9:06 AM
Just the poor small forest creatures he landed on.
Kowboy on August 17, 2007 at 9:09 AM
I think what the Goracle means when he says you can reduce your carbon footprint to zero is to spend your way to it, through the purchase of carbon offsets. Like from the companies he has a stake in!
William Teach on August 17, 2007 at 9:14 AM
“Mourning the Ancient”? Your web surfing habits are beginning to worry me, Bryan.
flipflop on August 17, 2007 at 9:15 AM
The Universal truth, your intrinsic value increases the more famous people you
blowknow.jdkchem on August 17, 2007 at 9:17 AM
He didn’t even carry his old congressional district – even though they elected a Democrat to the House.
Bigfoot on August 17, 2007 at 9:18 AM
OMG! KARL ROVE?!?! You hang out at HotAir?! That is so cool!
aero on August 17, 2007 at 9:19 AM
If Al Gore tripped and fell in a forest, and no one was around, would anybody care?
N. O’Brain on August 17, 2007 at 8:53 AM
Remember when Gore got lost in the woods once and the Secret Service had to go get him? Now that’s stupid….
soulsirkus on August 17, 2007 at 9:20 AM
No big secret there. Except that like most of the environmentalist crowd of thugs, he doesn’t want to wipe out all of us. After all, in their eco-Utopia, somebody will have to be the peasants spreading “night soil” by hand in the rice paddies so that the elite (like Al) can have their macrobiotic brown rice diet without having to actually do any real work themselves.
They’ll settle for wiping out 95% of us. After all, we make great compost, as far as they’re concerned.
It’s about time we recognized that “environmentalism”, in its present radicalized form, is nothing more than a genocidal madness every bit as threatening as anything the world has yet seen. It is conceived and led by arrogant elitists who have an utter and complete contempt for, not merely our technological civilization, but humanity as a whole, and who long for a mythical Eden run rather like Cambodia under Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge. With themselves in charge.
Considering their goals, their agendas, and their track records, it’s about time we asked ourselves whether or not we should be letting these groups have the political influence they do. The stakes could just be the future survival of the human race. (But definitely not the way the environmentalists claim.)
Incidentally, if you want a good portrait of how the world might be run if this lot were in charge (and somehow resisted the temptation to wipe us all out so they could “begin anew”), you might want to read the “Empire of Man” novels by David Weber and John Ringo; March Upcountry, March To The Sea, March To The Stars, and We Few. The “Saints” described in those novels are Weber & Ringo’s commentary on, and extrapolation of, the modern “environmentalist” movement. Warning; they do not consider environmentalists to be either ethical, honest, or even especially rational.
cheers
eon
eon on August 17, 2007 at 9:21 AM
Well said. I think the Prophet of Doom is in it for the money.
Dork B. on August 17, 2007 at 9:22 AM
Which Gore would be fine with. It’d much easier for Dems, if we were dead.
amerpundit on August 17, 2007 at 9:24 AM
Well, let him be the first to bring it to zero.
In the mean time, if he would put a cork in the south pole he could reduce a lot more dangerous emissions.
ricelchew on August 17, 2007 at 9:26 AM
Actually… a human body starts to give off methane and hydrogen sulfide after four days or so, so even if you’re dead, you’re still contributing to global warming.
On the other hand, if you were never born in the first place…
P.S. When is Rock Star Al going to accept any of the many challenges to a debate? Host a Bon Jovi concert to stop global warming? Check. Debate the facts with…anyone? crickets
saint kansas on August 17, 2007 at 9:27 AM
“…and then I saw the monkey frantically trying to put the cork back into the pig’s….”
Old joke. This man is contemptible beyond words.
bbz123 on August 17, 2007 at 9:28 AM
You know, to save exhalation effort we could just rename carbon into ‘Gorebon.’ The atomic symbol could easily change to ‘Gb.’ There’s only one hitch with this plan…the atomic weight would also have to change to 300+ lbs.
James on August 17, 2007 at 9:31 AM
Personally I exhale primarily Jack Daniels vapor.
conservnut on August 17, 2007 at 9:32 AM
JAMES BOND: Do you expect me to use compact fluorescent light bulbs?
ALGORE: No, Mr. Bond. I expect you to die. MUAH HA HA HA HAAAA!!!(Looking around suspiciously) Who said “Narf”?
aero on August 17, 2007 at 9:32 AM
I shudder to think how much my personal carbon footprint is increased by the popping CO2 bubbles in my beer.
flipflop on August 17, 2007 at 9:39 AM
Well, of course Al Gore is stupid. The professor he so lovingly cites in “An Inconvenient Troof,” the one he took a science course from in college, well he barely stayed awake in the class. He squeaked by with a C, which was par for the course for Al Gore, Liberal Genius.
This guy flunked out of two graduate schools. Of the eight courses he took in divinity school, he got an F in five of them. I don’t even know how that’s possible. Usually, one F in grad school should kill ya, two would be an atom bomb on your possibility of ever graduating. I don’t know how you could survive to get five F’s unless this were some kind of faculty prank. And divinity school sounds like a pretty easy grad degree to get.
Tantor on August 17, 2007 at 9:46 AM
Wouldn’t our decomposing bodies then begin producing methane, which is also a greenhouse gas?
Mike Honcho on August 17, 2007 at 9:56 AM
shhhhh. You’re not really supposed to know that.
JiangxiDad on August 17, 2007 at 9:59 AM
Dumber than “I invented the internet”…? too close to call. what a tool.
fulhamfc on August 17, 2007 at 10:05 AM
Lost in all this is the fact that CO2 does not, repeat does not, cause warming of the atmosphere. It’s ability to trap heat is insignificant to the ability of say, water, to do the same thing. More to the point, carbon dioxide is a tiny proportion of the gas in the atmosphere at any rate. The whole notion of carbon causing warming is a fraud. Not only does it not cause warming, but it can’t cause warming.
And even if it did, and we buy that incredulous notion, mankind does not produce enough of it to make any difference any way. The largest emitter of carbon dioxide is the ocean. By a factor of thousands. Then it is volcanos. Then it is decaying plant and animal matter. CO2 is how life functions on earth. What mankind produces, in relation to those other sources, is not even measurable.
Yet, the left tells us that mankind is destroying the planet. More accurately, capitalist mankind is destroying the planet. And their solution: bring the capitalist economies to heel. Could this movement be any more transparent?
Rather than chide Algore for hypocrisy, we should be faulting him for outright lying about this thing they call global warming. His real sin is not hypocrisy. His jet does not contribute to any global warming because there is no manmade global warming, neither CO2, nor jets and SUVs, would have any impact on it. His sin is being a tool for a worldwide pseudo-marxist movement to reduce the GNP of western economies, especially America’s.
jihadwatcher on August 17, 2007 at 10:10 AM
Tantor, I don’t doubt you, but I could use a link or a cite of some sort. Thanks.
Labamigo on August 17, 2007 at 10:14 AM
Algore, the Left and the marxist are kinda ruining my planet for me.
JiangxiDad on August 17, 2007 at 10:17 AM
“In fact, you can even reduce your carbon emissions to zero.”
Come on Guys he’s sooper sooper cereal, about this AND have you all forgotten about ManBearPig already? He’s probably still on the loose. These are pressing issues.
Joey1974 on August 17, 2007 at 10:18 AM
kiakjones on August 17, 2007 at 10:18 AM
Did you see any photos of him when he was in Singapore recently?
I think he’s been eating his carbon credits.
What a pantload this guy is.
JammieWearingFool on August 17, 2007 at 10:19 AM
Attempting to use one line taken out of context does not discredit Gore. It discredits the idiot Robert Bryce who made the statement.
It is exactly this sort of pointless attack that causes no one to listen to the right on Global Warming. (If I weren’t concerned about illegal immigration and our war with the muslims, I wouldn’t be on this site reading your anti-environmental agitprop.) Why doesn’t Bryce try to actually discredit some relevant part of Gore has to say?
thuja on August 17, 2007 at 10:22 AM
Surely you’re joking.
He fits right in with Hollywood, the poseurs that feel we’re all morons for paying as much as we do for their particular escapism and for them to pretend to be like, real people.
TinMan13 on August 17, 2007 at 10:24 AM
See. dumb again. The best carbon credits I ever ate were in HK.
Isn’t AG criticism supposed to stop at the water’s edge anyway?
JiangxiDad on August 17, 2007 at 10:26 AM
Just because he’s wrong doesn’t absolve him of hypocrisy.
James on August 17, 2007 at 10:27 AM
Oh man, you nailed it. Turns out the libs have been ahead of the global warming curve all along. Get an abortion, save the planet. Now all that’s left to consider is how much global warming in introduced by doctors driving to the clinic to give the abortion.
fogw on August 17, 2007 at 10:35 AM
Heh,haha ha he !!! I lost it at that one! My kids are looking at me like I’m nuts!
My husband told me about that comment last week, (that you can cut your emissions to zero)I haven’t seen the stupid movie yet… I reached the same conclusion, you’d have to be dead, or else Gore means that you’d have to pay pay pay, your way to zero…
This thread is hilarious!
4shoes on August 17, 2007 at 10:36 AM
But as I said, hypocrisy is not the crime we need to be focusing on. By doing that, it creates the impression that global warming is real and that CO2 can cause it – exactly his message, and his only sin is partaking of it. We need to avoid that charge lest we enforce the message of his own lie.
jihadwatcher on August 17, 2007 at 10:37 AM
Aaaack! Thuja is onto our clever anti-environmental scheme! We Republicans are against the environment. We really want to ruin the Earth. RUIN IT! We want the sky to turn black and the coasts to flood and the air to become unbreathable! We want everyone to die or at least live in misery. We want to use every last bit of energy in the most wasteful way possible, preferably while killing as many innocent animals as we can. We HATE the environment. We HATE nature. We HATE being healthy. Above all, we DO NOT WANT to leave a planet to our children and grandchildren. That would clearly be stupid.
You figured this out because we mocked Al Gore, didn’t you? Damn, we need to get sneakier in our environment-hatred.
aero on August 17, 2007 at 10:37 AM
I wonder how much the Cult of Carbon puts out in CO2 just by screaming about the “problem”?
Catseye on August 17, 2007 at 11:01 AM
It is confusing. I can’t quite decide if Al is dumber than me or if I’m smarter than him. But he has me wondering if there is a way I can have a negative carbon footprint. Al would have us think the end goal is to have an oxygen saturate atmosphere, cause that would be a good thing, wouldn’t it?
Balance – it’s what liberals hate, in that nondenominational sort of complete acceptance non-judgemental kinda way.
GPE on August 17, 2007 at 11:04 AM
I’ve said it before. The earth IS getting warmer. Little ice age, a few hundred years ago.
6,000 years ago ( a half second in global time) the Sahara desert was a tropical rain forest with cattle and insects galore (goregalore).
12,000 years ago Europe was under ice and the ice caps went as far south as St. Louis ( well the city wasn’t quite there yet).
So, yes the Earth is getting warmer, again, and people are not causing it this time either.
Gore is smart, he has two brains.
Yet one of them is lost and the other is out looking for it.
Headline in the year 2099:
SCAM of the Century; CARBON OFFSETS. ( and 100 years ago they almost voted the scammer into the presidency)
shooter on August 17, 2007 at 11:11 AM
Yep.
Ordinary1 on August 17, 2007 at 11:12 AM
Yeah, ditto. I have a leftist friend in seminary — is there any other kind? — and I absolutely cannot wait to have this conversation with her.
Jaibones on August 17, 2007 at 11:13 AM
Able to guzzle more energy than dozens of normal men! Producing more hot air than a locomotive! Able to pile up carbon credits higher than a tall building in a single bound!!!
Look UP in the sky! It’s ChickenLittle! It’s FlyingSnakeOilSalesman! It the Sultan of Chad! It’s the Ayatollah of Heat! No, it’sCarbonMan in a private jet painted green using the internet that he invented himself to fix all that heretical GISS data while holding his carbon emitting breath while doing it!!!
CarbonMan, strange visitor from an alternate reality who came to Earth with claims and scary predictions far beyond those of mortal men, disguised as Fat Albert, and now joined by other members of the Royal Green
League such as BioFuelHummerMan and EcoCleaningWoman, they all fight a never ending battle for science-fiction, hypocrisy and the Hollywood way!
MB4 on August 17, 2007 at 11:17 AM
Never mind, Tantor; I got it. Someone named Jennifer Braceras, Globe columnist and research fellow at Harvard.
Heh.
Jaibones on August 17, 2007 at 11:25 AM
No one would care
ThinkingForMyself on August 17, 2007 at 11:28 AM
Carbon dioxide emissions is a solved problem.
Search “Carbon sequestration” and “Klaus Lackner“.
It was on NPR, even. Science Friday.
Gore doesn’t listen to NPR?
Carbon can be scrubbed from the atmosphere with existing technology, so the entire continuing hysterical doomsday nonsense of this issue is merely pandering political b.s. to gain all-important sucker vote (idgit bloc).
STOP THE LIES AL!
STOP THE CARBON DECEPTION!
profitsbeard on August 17, 2007 at 11:45 AM
If everyone in the U.S. reduced their carbon footprint to zero, the Democrats would still carry Chicago in the Presidential election.
TunaTalon on August 17, 2007 at 11:46 AM
MB4-
LOL! (All good, but that was very good.)
profitsbeard on August 17, 2007 at 11:47 AM
Like talk radio imbalance Global Warming (capitalized because it’s a religion) is due to a structural imbalance. There is too much wealth in the Northern Hemisphere and not enough in the South.
Not to worry Algore knows how to fix that.
TunaTalon on August 17, 2007 at 11:56 AM
I have solved global warming with my amazing nickel-plated tiolinic prolanderator. The earth is now cooling again and the whole Global Warming hysteria movement is beginning to wane and will go away for about 25 years.
You can look back on this day and this post right here and thank me for my efforts.
And the best part- I did it free of charge.
BelchSpeak on August 17, 2007 at 12:17 PM
Actually your dead body would still emit gases during decomposition so just dying isn’t enough, you would need to be buried deep underground in a sealed container.
clghitis on August 17, 2007 at 12:54 PM
Is there such a thing as negative carbon?
And what would it be, exactly?
Kini on August 17, 2007 at 2:02 PM
Actually…. Don’t our corpses release CO2 as we decompose?
liquidflorian on August 17, 2007 at 2:25 PM
Gore once told me I could reduce my methane emissions to zero. But I didn’t want to, so I farted anyway.
radjah shelduck on August 17, 2007 at 2:39 PM
Actually, we don’t stop emitting carbon gases when we die. Our body’s decay causes emissions as well.
I am pretty sure that Al Gore’s Govt should own us from cradle to Grave and then some…until we have been suitably vaporized and thus stop our relentless abuse of Mother Gaia.
We are allll sinners in the Church of Eco-Gaia!!! Ye verily!! Praise the Goreacle and forgive us our sins against the green Earth!! Praise Mother Gaia and her Tears of Rain!!
Ahem…sorry..got caught up in the rapture of what is Liberalism’s latest trend religion.
Gunna go fill up my SUV with premium gas now.
Montana on August 17, 2007 at 3:02 PM
That’s what I am waiting for…all of the progresives, democrats to be zero carbon emissions.
If they truly loved their planet, they would begin volunteering now.
right2bright on August 17, 2007 at 3:48 PM
I’ve long said that if liberals want to cut down on carbon, offing themselves would be a good start.
I don’t know if Gore is part of that movement, but UN/NWO/Global Warming types have long been. The groups that are behind all this BS and all the “humans = bad” rhetoric we here have long subscribed to the “we need to vastly reduce the human population on the planet”. More UN control over our lives is the goal, but they’ll ease in to it. They’ve got their winner with global warming, which will help us get used to the idea of a world governing body… somewhere down the line, likely in our lifetimes we’ll be introduced to the idea of population control.
(And if you don’t think groups promoting this already exist, Google a bit. There are even lobbying groups, and UN reps who’ve made statements similar to that professor in Texas who took a lot of heat for wanting to reduce the population by 90% a couple years ago)
RightWinged on August 17, 2007 at 3:52 PM
Well yeah, but that eventually stops. Because you’re, ya know, dead.
Bryan on August 17, 2007 at 3:52 PM
Am I the only one that sometimes seriously wonders … if maybe the whole thing is just a big gag? A joke we aren’t in on?
Maybe the entire left-wing establishment has just punk’d all of us … and we fell for it?
If so … good one, guys. Well done.
They can’t really be serious … can they?
————————–
On a happy note, every single time I have doubts about President Bush’s leadership … I read a story about Al Gore, and feel much, much better.
President Bush isn’t perfect. From immigration to Harriet Miers to his now lukewarm prosecution of parts of the war on terror, there are times I’m less than pleased.
But, my God … look at the alternatives.
If I have to choose between Al Gore, John Kerry, or Dubya, well, there is no choice. And it really has nothing to do with the political ideologies.
Just … look at them. C’mon. President Al Gore? Really?
For the record – I voted in Tennessee in 2000, so you all owe me. Our state save all your collective backsides from a Goracle in the White House.
I still say the whole thing is just a joke … gotta be. I’ll bet Jon Stewart came up with the idea. Pretty funny, really.
Professor Blather on August 17, 2007 at 3:56 PM
Speaking of jokes … this is from that “Voluntary Let’s All Die” website:
Somebody’s overdosing on their Cocoa Puffs.
Although he has a point. If there was nobody left but Jessica Alba and I, in no time at all there’d be teen pop, strip malls, and global warming. Again.
But everybody’d be so hot it wouldn’t matter.
Professor Blather on August 17, 2007 at 4:10 PM
The usual way to make a gag funny is to put an almost believable twist on something that is very real.
Wait, that’s not funny.
TunaTalon on August 17, 2007 at 4:16 PM
thuja – why don’t you go back to RealClimate and immerse yourself in environmentalist agitprop. You’ll feel better.
You won’t accomplish anything except immunizing yourself against scary reality, but you’ll feel better.
I’ve been having these arguments for over ten years. The facts have evolved, somewhat, and there are plenty of new ones.
But the people I’ve been arguing with haven’t removed their fingers from their ears yet.
Maybe some other day I’ll get dragged into another pointless recitation of facts and presentation of documentation, but so far the argument always ends with the lefty environmentalist storming off in a huff to try to “convert” some ignorant SOB, because it doesn’t work with people who can read and do math.
Merovign on August 17, 2007 at 5:11 PM
The libs aren’t telling us about the Gore/Enron Alliance to lobby for Kyoto so Enron would have the Carbon Credits Trading. But alas, Enron wasn’t able to stay around to collect on its investment in lobbying AT Kyoto and investment in Gore, their No.1 Man.
Kermit on August 17, 2007 at 10:45 PM
But why do it ? Firstly, even if Carbon dioxide caused excessive warming, which it doesn’t, the amount of CO2 generated by humans is insignificance to the amount created naturally. Second, CO2 is beneficial to the atmosphere, without it, plant life does not grow, and plants grow faster when it is more prevalent in the air. Taking CO2 out of the air would be a direct attack on our food supply. The idea is anti-human as is the whole Global Warming sham.
Maxx on August 17, 2007 at 10:56 PM
I’ve got bad news, everyone. Even dying won’t reduce your carbon footprint to zero, since your body then gets to decompose-adding all of its carbon back into the world. And every tech we have to keep that from happening also uses carbon.
Have a nice day.
Lancer on August 18, 2007 at 11:42 AM
So, you have a problem with plant life? If you decrease atmospheric carbon you will kill trees.
But from the larger picture, CO2 doesn’t produce a warmer planet. A warmer planet produces more CO2. Increases in global mean CO2 states have FOLLOWED increases in global mean temperature, by 80-200 years. Al’s got the cart before the horse.
Ayn Rand will tell you everything you need to know about people like Al. He’s a looter. He doesn’t know how to MAKE money, he doesn’t know how to have IDEAS that might PRODUCE something of VALUE. So if he can’t MAKE money, he’ll GET money. Through guilt, influence peddling, and the world’s most devious protection scheme, he’ll use government’s power to have your money moved to him and his friends. If he’s done his job and made you feel guilty about the damage you’re doing to your planet, then you won’t mind at all that you have to pay money to make up for it. It’s called the politics of pull, or alternatively socialism.
When looters are allowed to take control, a country crumbles. The producers of ideas, material goods, and wealth must be in power for a nation to prosper. Watch how quickly Venezuela descends into anarchy now that Chavez has gotten well under way with the nationalization of business.
Freelancer on August 18, 2007 at 1:25 PM
I passed a Honda Pilot in Austin the other day with, among other things, a bumper sticker which said:
“Draft the SUV drivers first.”
On a Honda Pilot. No, no, really. And given the context of the other sentiments on this car, I think we can safely rule out a deeply sarcastic sense of humor on the part of the driver.
So, the useful idiots have got one thing right: they want to reduce other people’s carbon footprint to zero, not their own.
TexasDan on August 18, 2007 at 3:21 PM
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