Gore: Fighting global warming is like fighting Nazis; Update: ToL scrubs its story of Nazi references
posted at 7:23 pm on July 7, 2009 by Ed Morrissey
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Just when you think you’ve heard every stupid thing a politician can say, Al Gore swoops in to the rescue. Faster than one can say Manbearpig, Gore tells an audience in Oxford that the fight against global warming needs the same kind of commitment that Winston Churchill demonstrated against the Nazis in World War II. Unfortunately, the only troops we see in this fight all wear green jackets:
Al Gore today compared the battle against climate change with the struggle against the Nazis.
The former US Vice President said the world lacked the political will to act and invoked the spirit of Winston Churchill by encouraging leaders to unite their nations to fight climate change. …
Speaking in Oxford at the Smith School World Forum on Enterprise and the Environment , sponsored by The Times, Mr Gore said: “Winston Churchill aroused this nation in heroic fashion to save civilisation in World War II.”
He added: “We have everything we need except political will but political will is a renewable resource.”
Consider this a slightly milder version of Paul Krugman’s Earth-treason argument. Gore isn’t quite calling skeptics traitors, but if politicians don’t stop listening to them, they will let the Nazis win. And we hate those guys, right?
Of course, this analogy suffers on several levels, including intellect and taste. World War II was not a debate over economic theories and governing philosophies, or even a difference of opinion on scientific hypotheses. The Nazis had more mundane concerns, like world domination and the extermination of the Jews. While Winston Churchill had warned about the Nazis for years and had been shunned for it by the British establishment as a war-monger, he had the political will to do something about the Nazis because the Nazis had begun attacking France and Great Britain. With guns, bombs, and real death, too, and not just hyperbole about a Waterworld future.
When advocates resort to this kind of hyperbole, it’s usually due to a lack of factual support to their arguments. Invoking the Nazis is about as hyperbolic as it gets. What’s next, the aliens from Independence Day?
Excelsior!
Update: The Times of London has now scrubbed all of the references to “Nazi” from its article at the link. Simon at Deceiver wonders “who got to them.” Apparently, the ToL doesn’t have the testicular fortitude to stand up to Gore and his disciples. Looks like a white feather is in order.
Update II: Simon managed to grab a screen cap of the header for the article, which they forgot to clean.
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The snows of winter buried the global warming hoax in the driveways of America.
tarpon on July 7, 2009 at 7:26 PM
Memo to Al:
The Nazis were evil; global warming is like Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, and your humility: ALL MYTH.
john1schn on July 7, 2009 at 7:26 PM
More like the tilting at windmills.
the_nile on July 7, 2009 at 7:26 PM
It’s that time of the day.
Taking Excerpts from the book
How to mislabel Rightwingers as Nazi Leftists
Upstater85 on July 7, 2009 at 7:27 PM
pathetic, anyway perhaps he should forswear any and all profit his groups make from any legislation.
rob verdi on July 7, 2009 at 7:27 PM
Al Gore, you are no Winston Churchill.
Upstater85 on July 7, 2009 at 7:28 PM
“We shall tax on the beaches, we shall tax on the runways, we shall tax in the fields and in the streets, we shall tax in the hills; we shall never surrender.” – Al Churchill
Exurban Jon on July 7, 2009 at 7:28 PM
And nobody in the mainstream press will question his sanity.
Ray Flicker on July 7, 2009 at 7:28 PM
Poor Al. He doesn’t pull enough sway to get some dems and some repubs to jump off the cliff of Global Warming with him.
portlandon on July 7, 2009 at 7:28 PM
Like every mandatory tobacco warning, all images of Algore should include the warning that Cap & Trade will likely result in a massive transfer of wealth to the Tennessee charlatan.
R Square on July 7, 2009 at 7:28 PM
Guys, this is cereal.
sammy81 on July 7, 2009 at 7:29 PM
I don’t much like getting compared to a Nazi.
Certainly isn’t going to make me feel warm and fuzzy toward the people or the cause making the charge either.
myrenovations on July 7, 2009 at 7:29 PM
So the Sun is Hitler, CO2 is the Gestapo and SUVs are the Wehrmacht. Who’s the Luftwaffe – cow farts?
Aristotle on July 7, 2009 at 7:29 PM
Not True. Democratic political will involves printing money for ACORN. Is money renewable? I think not. Just because our dollar is green doesn’t mean it’s Al Gore GREEN.
Upstater85 on July 7, 2009 at 7:29 PM
Of course, this
analogyman Gore suffers on several levels, including intellect and taste.ReagansRight on July 7, 2009 at 7:30 PM
Exit question: Would the Nazi’s have embraced global warming? You think I snark… I snark not.
Upstater85 on July 7, 2009 at 7:31 PM
Can I be Rommel?
Jeff from WI on July 7, 2009 at 7:31 PM
This is so annoying. The man lives like royalty. There are no doubt small towns that use less energy than this hypocrite. And yet we are supposed to believe that this a fight against the Nazis, such as in good vs evil.
Well, then let’s see Al change his freaking lifestyle. These bozos always demand that other people make sacrifices they themselves will never make. And for what? Power, influence and money.
Terrye on July 7, 2009 at 7:32 PM
what’s that? al gore’s a friggin nazi………………………i believe it.
SHARPTOOTH on July 7, 2009 at 7:32 PM
Sure Al. Tell everybody you will set the global thermostat for future generations at just plain perfect with your magic weather machine. This is madness. I actually saw a report on Fox that named carbon as a pollutant. Can someone please explain when that happened?
DeweyWins on July 7, 2009 at 7:32 PM
Come on get with it: “Global Warming” is soooo 2006. Ever since it started getting cold, it’s now “Climate Change”, OK? ‘Cause, you know, before we started burning oil, the climate stayed the same forever. And change is bad. Like the Nazis.
Kenosha Kid on July 7, 2009 at 7:32 PM
He has the analogy backwards. We the doubters will become fossil fuel at the hands of enviromental wackos.
fourdeucer on July 7, 2009 at 7:32 PM
“No war for co2″
the_nile on July 7, 2009 at 7:33 PM
ummm, so am I a Nazi because I think Global Warming is a hoax and Algore is a snake oil salesman?
Or is this Nazi correlation just limited to politicians (like Inhofe) who know better.
I’m a bit confused here.
tru2tx on July 7, 2009 at 7:33 PM
So the Sun is Hitler, CO2 is the Gestapo and SUVs are the Wehrmacht. Who’s the Luftwaffe – cow farts?
Aristotle on July 7, 2009 at 7:29 PM
air force one.
SHARPTOOTH on July 7, 2009 at 7:33 PM
My earlier post stands:
Fighting global warming = fighting Nazis
Fighting the leader of climate change = fighting the leader of the nazis.
Leader of Climate Change = Leader of Nazis
Al Gore = Adolf Hitler
ROCnPhilly on July 7, 2009 at 7:33 PM
Hey, give them credit. At least they (Goracles) weren’t dumb enough to keep the “Global Warming” mantra when their rallies were getting snowed out…
Upstater85 on July 7, 2009 at 7:33 PM
Nazi? Gorebull Warming? I don’t see it…
Wouldn’t that be teh AWESOME! At least it would be fake on fake!
upinak on July 7, 2009 at 7:33 PM
The Nazis killed my great grandparents. The last time my great aunt saw her mother was when Mengele separated them at Auschwitz.
You, Mr. Al Gore are an ass!
Shtetl G on July 7, 2009 at 7:34 PM
Framing the environmental debate as simple economics is a bit of a stretch…
ernesto on July 7, 2009 at 7:34 PM
WHO ARE THE JEWS???
Joe Caps on July 7, 2009 at 7:34 PM
Churchill would have had Gore’s head on a pike. Gore should be arrested for trying to steal Churchill’s legacy for the global warming nazis’ use.
progressoverpeace on July 7, 2009 at 7:34 PM
Gore Lies
People DiePeople freeze to death in their homes this winter… /sarcUpstater85 on July 7, 2009 at 7:34 PM
Global Warming Nazis must die !
William Amos on July 7, 2009 at 7:35 PM
Excellent, Exurban.
sondiehl on July 7, 2009 at 7:35 PM
https://twitter.com/Pethokoukis/status/2516039487
Godwin
Mark1971 on July 7, 2009 at 7:35 PM
“I hate Illinois global warming deniers.”
Exurban Jon on July 7, 2009 at 7:35 PM
How so?
What “solutions” to the issue have been presented that do not include economics?
Joe Caps on July 7, 2009 at 7:36 PM
I feel kinda bad for him. I don’t think he has any friends.
SteakRules on July 7, 2009 at 7:36 PM
No sweetie, that is called Cap and Trade.. due to Obama’s hate for coal and love for everything fake, unicorns, moon flowers and Environmentally Friendly!
upinak on July 7, 2009 at 7:36 PM
“
RommelGore… you magnificent bastard, *I refuse to read your books*!”ReagansRight on July 7, 2009 at 7:37 PM
First step to fight the global temperature change…
cut out the cow flatulence coming out of Congress.
Upstater85 on July 7, 2009 at 7:37 PM
Obama doesn’t hate coal… just the people that depend on it.
Upstater85 on July 7, 2009 at 7:38 PM
Well first that would be the California Senators. Would you wanna slaughter Pelosi and eat her? That would give you indigestion.
upinak on July 7, 2009 at 7:38 PM
Climate Depot
LegendHasIt on July 7, 2009 at 7:38 PM
Books?
Wow, I haven’t been keeping up with Goracle. I didn’t know he actually wrote books. I thought he just had power point presentations and showed up in cartoons.
Upstater85 on July 7, 2009 at 7:38 PM
Im not ignorant of the fact that environmental issues carry with them a set of economic circumstances.
Im just saying that there’s more to it than those economic factors, especially areas of the issue that have actual economic effects, but are not given a set value by any market mechanism, and therefor ignored.
ernesto on July 7, 2009 at 7:39 PM
60% of Americans can’t be
wrongwarm.upinak on July 7, 2009 at 7:39 PM
I don’t eat silicon, but I’m sure you could recycle half of her.
Upstater85 on July 7, 2009 at 7:39 PM
Conservatives?
Romeo13 on July 7, 2009 at 7:39 PM
The glaciers, of course!
Aristotle on July 7, 2009 at 7:39 PM
We must be careful of our treatment of Mr Gore. If he unleases Swamp Thing we are all toast.
Limerick on July 7, 2009 at 7:40 PM
Und ve haf vays of making you talk… which exhales CO2… and poisons ze Earth!
Mu hAA HAAA
Romeo13 on July 7, 2009 at 7:40 PM
No
soupheat for you!Only ACORN employees get heat ;)
Upstater85 on July 7, 2009 at 7:40 PM
I like how Gore points out how the scientists in the Apollo Control Room were average age 26. Now that was a really valuable use of resources. We got Tang!
pedestrian on July 7, 2009 at 7:41 PM
5 bucks Pelosi has more plastic then the late MJ? Deal?
upinak on July 7, 2009 at 7:41 PM
Does ANTBODY really care what Al Gore has o say??
Yawnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn….
dugbru on July 7, 2009 at 7:41 PM
Until a few days ago, I thought they were one in the same…
OK 5 [virtual] bucks. That’s not really worth a lot, but then again, what is $5 American worth these days?
Upstater85 on July 7, 2009 at 7:42 PM
DUDE! it is 85 right now… hazy. That is HOT in Alaska..
upinak on July 7, 2009 at 7:42 PM
I think you mean silicone. And botox.
pedestrian on July 7, 2009 at 7:42 PM
Nevah, in the history of human conflict, have so many, paid so much tax, to so few. If capitalism shall last a thousand years, let them say, this was socialism’s finest hour.
Ted Torgerson on July 7, 2009 at 7:42 PM
The Goracle has had his 15 minutes. Why doesn’t he just retire to his mega-mansion and burn 10 times the energy of the average US household.
GarandFan on July 7, 2009 at 7:42 PM
Interesting that Gore casts himself as part of the Allied forces, when truly he should be wearing the Swastika and locking all the Unpure Non global warming believers in state run concentration camps to re-educate the masses.
portlandon on July 7, 2009 at 7:42 PM
Believe me, the only value Alaska has for Al Gore is it’s federal land…
Upstater85 on July 7, 2009 at 7:43 PM
I thought the Nazi’s where just misunderstood….
Hog Wild on July 7, 2009 at 7:43 PM
True. My bad. Doesn’t one come from the other?
Upstater85 on July 7, 2009 at 7:43 PM
The only fascists around here, are Obama and his administration.
Rebar on July 7, 2009 at 7:44 PM
Pat Sajack smacks down Rosie O’Donnell and Al Gore ?
William Amos on July 7, 2009 at 7:44 PM
Serious question — Did you know we have satellites in orbit that can actually measure that warm blanket of CO2 that Al (NAZI) Gore talks about? No? Do you know why you don’t know about it? Because it fails to find that warm blanket of CO2 that all the computer gibberish predicts should be there. After all, CO2 is going up up and away.
Next question — Did you know we can use isotope analysis and tell how much of the added CO2 is due to fossil fuels? Yes we can. And do you know why you haven’t heard about it? Simple because it’s about 3%, the rest is coming from … wait for it, no one knows where.
Last question — Do you know what would happen if all the CO2 is removed from the atmosphere. You are on your own to figure that out. But safe to say, carbon lifeforms will not be happy.
tarpon on July 7, 2009 at 7:44 PM
Ah, if only good old Winston was still alive. He would 8itch slap that fat creep and then stick his lit cigar where the sun don’t shine for invoking his name in this farce.
conservnut on July 7, 2009 at 7:44 PM
Good effort, but conservatives are not the target of global warming.
We have a winner!
Joe Caps on July 7, 2009 at 7:45 PM
I thought Aryans were like conceived on glaciers or something…
Upstater85 on July 7, 2009 at 7:46 PM
What an idiot but hey he making money off this crap
bwconq on July 7, 2009 at 7:46 PM
Yes, along the same lines as the islamofascists. OOps I mean freedom fighters.
Joe Caps on July 7, 2009 at 7:48 PM
Are the two tests you describe analyzing different environments? Is there added CO2 in the atmosphere or not?
ernesto on July 7, 2009 at 7:48 PM
10 days into the month of July and I have yet to turn on my air conditioning and have only turned on a fan twice.
I miss the old days of hot summers.
myrenovations on July 7, 2009 at 7:48 PM
Al Gore also lacks the will to use less electricity and burn less fossil fuels than I will this year.
gwelf on July 7, 2009 at 7:48 PM
Umm did Gore take over HotAir again?
I just got kicked off.
upinak on July 7, 2009 at 7:48 PM
Watts Up With That had a post explaining that results now in show that over this century temperatures are basically average and noted that Climate Change advocates now have three enemies — Warming, Cooling and Averageness.
Dusty on July 7, 2009 at 7:49 PM
Too much computer = not enough reading Al Gore books.
Upstater85 on July 7, 2009 at 7:49 PM
That’s one mental image I could do without (Homer Simpson shudder)
Del Dolemonte on July 7, 2009 at 7:49 PM
Seems that Al Gore may be fighting himself. In any case, he’s trivializing Nazis once again.
BottomLine5 on July 7, 2009 at 7:50 PM
Interesting that Gore casts himself as part of the Allied forces, when truly he should be wearing the Swastika and locking all the Unpure Non global warming believers in state run concentration camps to re-educate the masses.
portlandon on July 7, 2009 at 7:42 PM
Not until my last JHP is spent.
fourdeucer on July 7, 2009 at 7:51 PM
The internet Czar tried to take me out.
upinak on July 7, 2009 at 7:52 PM
A member of the DHS Right-wing extremist Task Force has been dispatched to your house to escort you to reeducation camp. Please cease communications with others immediately.
Note: CO2 is an evil toxic pollutant that will destroy the earth and kill babies. High levels of CO2 keep the unicorns from being able to survive in our environment. Once we destroy all CO2, they will spring into existence. Also, they can climb rainbows.
Joe Caps on July 7, 2009 at 7:52 PM
If elected, would Al Gore have become the Jimmeh Carter 2 or do I have it backwards. Perhaps if Jimmeh Carter had never been elected, he would have become the Al Gore 0.
Upstater85 on July 7, 2009 at 7:52 PM
Nat King Cole could not be reached for comment. Still dead.
Here in New Hampshire on a July 7th evening, it’s a balmy 56 degrees and my neighbor across the road has his woodstove going.
But I have hope, because it was 56.0 degrees at 6 PM, and now it’s 56.3 degrees.
Del Dolemonte on July 7, 2009 at 7:53 PM
[myrenovations on July 7, 2009 at 7:48 PM]
Heck, today almost got me to turn the heat on. For the last few weeks we consider ourselves lucky that it breaks 70F.
Dusty on July 7, 2009 at 7:53 PM
Gore is an unmitigated moron.
rplat on July 7, 2009 at 7:54 PM
Obama, Gore, and team: “Where’s a heat wave when you need it?”
Upstater85 on July 7, 2009 at 7:55 PM
You are having the summer I had last year. get use to it!
upinak on July 7, 2009 at 7:55 PM
Well, uh, they both had something to do with “gas” — or something, right…??
Global warming: the Loch Ness Monster of weather.
fivefeetoffury on July 7, 2009 at 7:56 PM
Al started a hoax. Which started the whole world thinking they were going to be a frying.
But what Al didn’t see was that the joke would be on he.
Oh, no, Al started to cry. Which started the whole world laughing.
Oh, if he’d only seen that the joke would be on he.
Al looked at the skies. Running his hands over his snowed up eyes.
And he fell from his throne. Cracking his head on the ice and choking on things that he’d said.
Till Al’s power finally died. Which started the whole world
livingdrilling.Oh, if he’d only seen that the joke would be on he.
Oh, no, that the joke would be on he.
MB4 on July 7, 2009 at 7:56 PM
I do not think God is too happy with the eco-marxists.
He will not throw them a bone.
My faith is now tenfold stronger after watching the protesters get snowed on this past winter. Glorious.
Joe Caps on July 7, 2009 at 7:57 PM
He is an actual BooB!
faol on July 7, 2009 at 7:58 PM
I agree with Al Gore. This is an exceptional analogy.
Fighting Global Warming is like fighting Nazis.
Al Gore is like the Hitler of the Global Warming movement.
Global Warming alarmists use fear and propaganda to get people behind their movement. Those who do not conform will be dealt with harshly.
Global Warming alarmists = Nazis
Vegi on July 7, 2009 at 8:00 PM
Gaia must be so insignifacant that puny mankind can destroy her creation.
fourdeucer on July 7, 2009 at 8:00 PM
Agreed.
You’d think that the eviro-fascists (that’s what I prefer to call them) would start worrying about getting everyone off earth… After all, the sun is going to die one day…
I think they are driven off by the lack of fear they can instill in people (Fear? Maybe in the Biblical sense…)
Upstater85 on July 7, 2009 at 8:00 PM
And the High Goracle spoke all these words, saying: I am thee Goracle thine Oracle.
ONE: You shall have no other Oracles before Me.
TWO: You shall not make for yourself any carbon images–any likeness of anything carbon that is in heaven above, or of anything carbon that is in the earth beneath, or anything carbon that is in the water under the earth.
THREE: You shall not ever take the name of thee Goracle thine Oracle in vain.
FOUR: Remember My birthday, and keep it carbon free unless you have credits that you bought from Me.
FIVE: Honor Me instead of your father and your mother especially if they don’t believe in Global Warming.
SIX: You shall not ever malign Me or else you be apostates and Nazis.
SEVEN: You shall not commit adultery with My wife, but I can with your wife and daughters and goats.
EIGHT: You shall not ever steal My carbon credits.
NINE: You shall not raise any challenges to the most holy doctrine of Global Warming.
TEN: You shall not covet any of My mansions; you shall not covet My private jets, nor My SUV’s, nor My pizza, nor My Krispe Kreame dounuts, nor My Biggie Fries, nor My hot fudge sundaes.
MB4 on July 7, 2009 at 8:00 PM
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