Gore responds to Palin on climate change: “It’s like gravity. It exists.”
posted at 4:16 pm on December 9, 2009 by Allahpundit
Don’t be daunted by the length. His comments on Palin and Climategate, replete with lies about how old the e-mails are, come within the first four minutes. (The Goracle’s never been good with guesstimates.) The left’s been breathing into a paper bag since last night over WaPo’s decision to run her op-ed, but Gore’s response here is comparatively restrained. Instead of grandstanding for his base by calling her a yokel or whatever, he sticks to his argument and declines to attack her personally. Presumably that’s because he’s a bit more politically savvy than his carbon-belching pals at Copenhagen and would rather not make this more of a partisan issue than it already is. Or maybe he simply doesn’t want to alienate someone like Palin who accepts that climate change is happening and even concedes that man may be contributing to it. She could be useful to him eventually in forging a consensus that global warming is real, even if the debate over its chief cause will rage on.
For the moment, however, the message machine is preoccupied with the scandal du jour:
COPENHAGEN — “Climategate” has muddied the good green message that was supposed to come out of the United Nations climate change talks here, forcing leaders to spend time justifying the science behind global warming when they want to focus on ending it…
“I think this is a completely annoying distraction,” added Kim Carstensen, leader of the World Wildlife Fund’s Global Climate Initiative. “It’s very clear that this has been done to discredit climate research. … It’s a bluff. There’s nothing in it; it’s just a huge distraction.”…
“It’s another Internet frenzy thing,” Goldmark told POLITICO Wednesday. “These things get a life, and they reproduce themselves like little bacteria. … Our attitude is, it’s the same old stuff from the same old people, and it doesn’t change the science at all. None of the NGOs pay a lot of attention to it.”
Actually, the most interesting exchange here isn’t the Palin or Climategate, it’s Gore’s palpable disappointment at around 11:45 that The One decided to make ObamaCare the focus of his first year instead of cap and trade. That’s good political sense — health care has been the left’s top domestic priority for ages and it’s always stood a better chance of getting through the Senate than C&T — but like George Will said yesterday, if Earth truly is in the balance then what the hell are they doing putting this off until next year? How much of a crisis can it really be?
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I’m sorry. Simply saying something exists doesn’t make it exist.
/Believe!
Enoxo on December 9, 2009 at 4:18 PM
What “science”??!! The raw data that got thrown out? Or the “science” that was manipulated to show increases in temps when they were actually going down? Inquiring minds want to know!
4shoes on December 9, 2009 at 4:20 PM
And he almost got away with it in Florida.
SouthernGent on December 9, 2009 at 4:21 PM
I believe I can fly
rob verdi on December 9, 2009 at 4:21 PM
I can’t even articulate how disgusting I find Al Gore.
Basically his argument is the same as it always has been. It exists because he says so.
ORconservative on December 9, 2009 at 4:22 PM
I’ll see it when I believe it.
midlander on December 9, 2009 at 4:22 PM
I believe! Because I’m a mindless member of the leftist cult and totally trust whatever a former VP says!
amerpundit on December 9, 2009 at 4:23 PM
He’s making good money off the ignorance of the American people. There is no way he wants to damage his income potential or his eventual legacy.
Asher on December 9, 2009 at 4:23 PM
What do we think is causing the ice caps to melt? Why you, Al Gore. You have one of the largest “carbon footprints” of any single citizen that I know. We wish you’d stop all this polluting.
4shoes on December 9, 2009 at 4:24 PM
Each of us can conduct our own experiment to prove the existence of gravity.
AGW has not been proven to exist even when the data has been manipulated.
Does pursuit of power instantly make people stupid?
rukiddingme on December 9, 2009 at 4:24 PM
And I would’ve gotten away with it, too, if it weren’t for those meddling kids!
rogerb on December 9, 2009 at 4:24 PM
That’s exactly right. Their “attitude” is that all AGW skeptics are crackpot wingnuts who are to be shouted down before the sheeple can be infected by doubts.
Cicero43 on December 9, 2009 at 4:25 PM
We can see gravity at work, Drop a brick it falls. Now let’s prove global warming is caused by man.
Herb on December 9, 2009 at 4:25 PM
falling Body:
y(t) = 1/2*g*t^2 + v*t + y0 where t is time
Global Warming model (mean earth temperature):
T(t,c) = 66*1.005*t where t is time and c is carbon.
WashJeff on December 9, 2009 at 4:25 PM
Crisis? I don’t see no stinking Crisis!
Oh come on S.G., they did get away with it. Carbon Dioxide!
upinak on December 9, 2009 at 4:25 PM
Al Gore does cause a lot of gravity.
Oil Can on December 9, 2009 at 4:26 PM
I am not going to listen to this. Sorry.
Terrye on December 9, 2009 at 4:27 PM
“Palin says she can see Russia from her house, but she chooses not to see that the Arctic ice is all but gone!!!!!!!!!!!”
-Algore
red winger on December 9, 2009 at 4:27 PM
Rush Limbaugh said it best. I don’t believe mankind has the power to destroy the world that God created.
technopeasant on December 9, 2009 at 4:28 PM
One day when AlGore was sitting under a tree outside his enormous mansion, he was hit on the head by a piece of melting iceberg. Even as a C student in college, AlGore remembered the apple hit Newtons’ head story, and immediately concluded the existence of AlGlobal Warming. ;)
poxoma on December 9, 2009 at 4:28 PM
Odd. I don’t recall the stories of Isaac Newton bullying scientists who disagreed with him, and journals into not publishing contrary papers.
JohnGalt23 on December 9, 2009 at 4:28 PM
algore – the original HotAir (no offense, AP, Ed)
Mark Boabaca on December 9, 2009 at 4:28 PM
Heh – Palin really frosts their pumpkin, doesn’t she? It’s fun to witness…
Logic on December 9, 2009 at 4:28 PM
She’s irrelevant. That’s why everybody keeps talking about her.
/sarc
cs89 on December 9, 2009 at 4:29 PM
No, Mr. Gore, the arctic ice is actually growing before our very eyes according to your own sources:
See, in 2007 it was 4.3 million, in 2008 it was 4.67 million, and this year it was 5.1 million.
That’s called “getter bigger.”
Abby Adams on December 9, 2009 at 4:29 PM
If we put a prickly suit on him.. can we stickhim in a pipeline and call him a pig?
upinak on December 9, 2009 at 4:29 PM
The Goracle, if he says it, it’s supposed to be taken as fact. That’s what most would call arrogance. Or outright fraud.
Anybody know what Al Gore’s investors are thinking and/or doing about now?
tarpon on December 9, 2009 at 4:29 PM
Gravity is causing the plummet of Obama’s poll numbers now.
technopeasant on December 9, 2009 at 4:29 PM
What a global bore/snore/whore.
Monica on December 9, 2009 at 4:29 PM
OMG, listening to him talk, I keep thinking, thank God he did not become president.
4shoes on December 9, 2009 at 4:29 PM
I think the Goracle has reached a tipping point. His denials of the importance of the hacked data and emails borders on the ridiculous.
darwin on December 9, 2009 at 4:29 PM
If global warming exists, then HOW THE HELL DID IT SNOW IN HOUSTON LAST FRIDAY?!
Doughboy on December 9, 2009 at 4:30 PM
Al Gore’s secret Latin Name: Magnus Ignoramus Illegitimi.
Holger on December 9, 2009 at 4:30 PM
I wonder if Newton had to fake data to prove the existence of gravity too.
poxoma on December 9, 2009 at 4:30 PM
Hey As Gore
How about another POTUS run? Or a Senate run?
HAHAHAHAHA
ConservativeTony on December 9, 2009 at 4:30 PM
Rush apparently hasn’t considered the consequences of detonating all 50000 nuclear weapons that the US and USSR ha at one time. Personally, I have no problem imagining that wiping out mankind with a rather brutal efficiency.
JohnGalt23 on December 9, 2009 at 4:30 PM
Positive article by lefty Clarence Page of The Chicago Tribune on Palin’s Gridiron appearance…
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/chi-oped1209pagedec09,0,1268390.column
LurkerDood on December 9, 2009 at 4:31 PM
And how many millions of degrees is it inside the Earth, Einstein?
Cicero43 on December 9, 2009 at 4:31 PM
Gore is totally full of crap. If he really believed in man-made global warming he would shrink his fat-ass, private-jet, 28000sf home, carbon spewing footprint. But he doesn’t because he knows it’s just a money-making scam.
mrsmwp on December 9, 2009 at 4:31 PM
Seven things a con man will do..
and Gore and Obama, and the left do them all.
Skandia Recluse on December 9, 2009 at 4:31 PM
If these folks are annoyed, I am thrilled. I hope this is only the beginning.
Cindy Munford on December 9, 2009 at 4:32 PM
No…
It’s like your face….it’s fake!
jrab01 on December 9, 2009 at 4:32 PM
Of course, like gravity, climate change exists. It existed waaaay before humans existed on this planet, and it will exist long after we’re gone. SUVs, breathing, and cow farts have ZERO to do with it.
Hey Gore! Read a friggin’ geologic history of the planet you moron.
ornery_independent on December 9, 2009 at 4:32 PM
I find it friggin’ hilarious that the liberal heads are EXPLODING over her WaPo Op-Ed.
There’s several hundred comments over at the article, and not a single other article would bring that many comments.
Liberals, in their fit, are giving WaPo a reason to run another Op-Ed of hers later on–money.
Enoxo on December 9, 2009 at 4:32 PM
This friggin moron really is irrelevant (unlike Palin), why must we have a story about him on here?
MobileVideoEngineer on December 9, 2009 at 4:33 PM
That is a priceless statement.
It was political hacks, on his side, masquerading as scientists that falsified and manipulated data as well as intimidated any who didn’t tow the line. Who was it that discredited this farce?
He’d better hope irony doesn’t cause global warming or we’re headed to a catastrophic meltdown.
elduende on December 9, 2009 at 4:33 PM
50000 nuclear weapons?
We had 10000 and they had 40000? Oh, wait that may have been before SALT I and II when we were left with 250 or so.
/sarc
ConservativeTony on December 9, 2009 at 4:34 PM
What? Did he say they were Millions of years old?
- The Cat
MirCat on December 9, 2009 at 4:34 PM
And why are we DE-ICING planes @ San Jose Airport today
macncheez on December 9, 2009 at 4:35 PM
Ugh I am so tired of the “science is settled” BS. Science says that if man-made global warming is true, we should be able to consistently, reliably, show that increasing CO2 levels correlate to increased temperatures. Clearly the warmer scientist can’t do that without making, er, “adjustments,” to the data they collect, and we’re supposed to completely overhaul the way we live because of fake results? Come ON!
Skt510 on December 9, 2009 at 4:35 PM
I really want to see a Lord Monckton v. Gore debate.
Gore is a bloated joke. When was he ever an expert on global temperatures?
cubachi on December 9, 2009 at 4:35 PM
Someone should throw a net over Fat Al. He can live like a serf in the 1700s, if that is what he really believes, but no extra energy will be left for Fat Al’s electric shock therapy. I’m going to start hoarding malarial prophylactics and polar bear jerky and I’m not sharing.
MayorDaley on December 9, 2009 at 4:36 PM
It’s a matter of physics.
The same physics that tells you the Earth’s core temp is millions of degrees.
justkevin on December 9, 2009 at 4:36 PM
It is times like this that I wish real physicists like Einstein, Fermi, Newton, and a host of other legends in the field could come back from the dead long enough to expose this blowhard fraud and his junk science buddies once and for all.
pilamaye on December 9, 2009 at 4:37 PM
I’ve often wondered: Was Al Gore nuts when he was the VP, or is this a relatively new condition? Seriously. I’ve often wondered that. The guy is certifiable. Watching him is like watching old tape of Jim Jones down in Guyana. Only Gore’s at the UN, and the people drinking the Kool-Aid should know better. They’ve hitched their wagon to a cuckoo bird, and the nuttier he gets, the more they become true believers. Al Gore and global warming is a textbook case of cultism under an insane — but apparently persuasive to some — leader. You just wanna smack every one of his followers and scream, “Look at him! Take a good look! Have ya lost your mind?!”
Rational Thought on December 9, 2009 at 4:37 PM
Mental illness.
If he was an unknown person , and blathered on and on about an environmental apocalypse coming and cities being washed away because cows are farting too much, and how a mile under the earth it was several million degrees, he would fit right in with everyone else ambling up and down the hallways of an institution, wearing slippers and a robe, waiting for his afternoon meds and a pudding cup kibble for taking them without making the staff blowgun a tranquilizer dart into his neck.
How are these fools getting away with it?? How??
Itchee Dryback on December 9, 2009 at 4:37 PM
the monkey vs butt equation?
upinak on December 9, 2009 at 4:37 PM
Don’t want to sound homophobic or sissyphobic or anything, but is AlGore getting more effeminate?
chaswv on December 9, 2009 at 4:37 PM
Hey Al,
Global warming is like the tooth fairy. It exists in the minds of children. Well in the case of ALGORE – it exists in the mind of fools, cheats, and morons.
Kuffar on December 9, 2009 at 4:38 PM
Since he won’t debate anyone, he just made a HUGE mistake calling her out by name. Her Facebook (irrelevant & silly, of course) response is gonna serve up some delicious pain to the blowhard’s “arguments”.
And to think this fraud was almost President! We dodged a bullet there.
/And since I live in Florida…”you’re welcome!“
ornery_independent on December 9, 2009 at 4:38 PM
Mankind may perish but life on the planet or one form or another would persist. Gore is saying we’re going to destroy the planet not mankind. There’s a big difference.
Kronos on December 9, 2009 at 4:38 PM
Gore: “It’s like stupidity. I exist.”
ConservativeTony on December 9, 2009 at 4:38 PM
Tigers Woods has more credibility.
JammieWearingFool on December 9, 2009 at 4:38 PM
I believe…I believe he is a con man…
right2bright on December 9, 2009 at 4:39 PM
At least he can grow his green.
upinak on December 9, 2009 at 4:39 PM
Nice…. every good conspiracy needs a Name…
We used to have the Illuminati!
May I suggest the Illegitinati for these Warmist Conspirators?
Romeo13 on December 9, 2009 at 4:40 PM
Recent letter from some physicists to the members of the American Physical Society. Apparently the physicists don’t think the “science is settled.”
Wethal on December 9, 2009 at 4:40 PM
I can’t stand this debate being set up as climate change vs skeptics or deniers. Every sentient human being knows climate change occurs, skeptics (should a doubting scientist be viewed as a skeptic which usually concerns matters of religious or philosophical doctrine as opposed to scientific endeavors)don’t doubt ‘climate change’ we doubt anthropogenic global warming which is being falsely marketed as ‘climate change’.
eaglewingz08 on December 9, 2009 at 4:40 PM
Thanks. That made me laugh.
Blacksmith8 on December 9, 2009 at 4:40 PM
Gore doesn’t read
He invents
macncheez on December 9, 2009 at 4:40 PM
Bend over and spread your butt cheeks…we’re about to get Gore’d.
Wyznowski on December 9, 2009 at 4:40 PM
John Galt, you are an idiot.
75,000 years ago the Toba Caldera in Indonesia erupted with the equivelant of 1 Gigaton of TNT. It expelled a few hundred million tons of Sulfur aersols into the atmosphere which lowered Global temps by 6-15 degrees Celsius for about 30 years. This happed in the middle of an Ice Age. It reduced the human population to a few thousand. The Climate had recovered within a few decades.
65 million years ago. A rock as big as Mount Everest slammed into the Yucatan Penninsula traveling at usual asteroid speeds (10-50 kilometers per second). It released an amount of energy equal to 100,000,000 Megatons of TNT, that is more than all the nuclear weapons in existence. The Earth had recovered in about 100 years. The earth didn’t turn into little tiny earth dust, the Atmosphere was not blasted away from Earth.
Holger on December 9, 2009 at 4:41 PM
Hey did you guys now the center of the earth is hot?
Like, several millions of degrees hot? Al Gore said so.
Jim R. on December 9, 2009 at 4:41 PM
sorry, *know*
Jim R. on December 9, 2009 at 4:42 PM
I am getting a headache off the Gore vs the rest of the non AGW believers.
Explain why permafrost is “thickening”? Explain to me why Pingo’s are getting bigger? Explain to me why the seals, Polar Bears and whales are thriving more then ever now then before? Explain to me why If I stand on the land during the summer looking out over the arctic ocean I can see the Ice Cap closer now then I did 7 years ago.
Explain to me why the glaciers are GROWING not melting? Explain to me where the “aurora” has gone?
Let me get my fur and wrap myself up so I can listen to the story of the hockey stick theory!
upinak on December 9, 2009 at 4:43 PM
Global warming is just Chuck Norris doing too many earth-downs. It creates friction. All he needs to do blow on the planet and it will cool down. In fact, then we’d run the risk of entering an ice age.
KillerKane on December 9, 2009 at 4:43 PM
God, I hate this man!
WhatsRight on December 9, 2009 at 4:43 PM
Why does the left hate science?
patriette on December 9, 2009 at 4:43 PM
Gore three questions:
1. What should the temperature be today? ( How much are we off track? )
2. Why do you hate plants? ( They love CO2, warm weather, and water )
3. What is your take on the dangers of dihydrogen monoxide?
Conservative Voice on December 9, 2009 at 4:44 PM
Well, HELL, if the inventor of the Internet says Global Warming exists, IT EXISTS!
marklmail on December 9, 2009 at 4:44 PM
Actually, a brief perusal of Wikipedia shows the USSR had 39000 nukes at its peak, and the US had developed 70000 nukes (although certainly some of them had been dismantled and recycled over the course of the cold war).
Either way, if mankind wanted to destroy itself, an efficient deployment and use of those weapons would do it easily.
JohnGalt23 on December 9, 2009 at 4:44 PM
I’ve wondered that same thing. It might have been simmering but seems to have come to a boil when he lost to GWB.
Both Biden and Gore are off when it comes to sanity but there is a difference there, I just can’t think of the right words.
sherry on December 9, 2009 at 4:46 PM
I agree. It’s so incredibly disingenuous…hell you could call winter into spring “climate change” and it would be accurate.
Skt510 on December 9, 2009 at 4:46 PM
weren’t you the moron that said that NO ONE would ever stand up to the government nor the military?
How old are you again?
upinak on December 9, 2009 at 4:46 PM
Not a problem. Gore’s buddies at CRU will simply replace actual data by model data in order to “hide the increase.”
jwolf on December 9, 2009 at 4:46 PM
Weird Al Gore is the biggest political villain in American politics for the last 30 years.
Captain Kirock on December 9, 2009 at 4:47 PM
Will you kiss us Mr Gory ? Will you atleast take us for a dinner and a movie ? Before you do….
macncheez on December 9, 2009 at 4:47 PM
Call me when we’re farming in Greenland again.
Even if that were to happen, causality would still be in question.
TexasDan on December 9, 2009 at 4:47 PM
One lies about Home Depot and a resturant.. the other is the maker of the internet?
I think Biden is illusional… but Gore is delusional grandure-esqe!
upinak on December 9, 2009 at 4:47 PM
AGW otherwise known as anthropogenic global warming is soley caused by a creature called a Gore(Homo ridiculous feces). When said creature processes information through its underdeveloped mind it spews misinformation and in a copraphagic fit swollows a load of hooey while simultaneously blowing hotair and regurgitated nonsense.
canditaylor68 on December 9, 2009 at 4:48 PM
How disheartening it is to know that millions around the world believe the idiocy this foul human being spews forth.
HAnthonyWayne on December 9, 2009 at 4:48 PM
Don’t forget, they have only been recording this for what a few decades?
WitchDoctor on December 9, 2009 at 4:48 PM
Ok, so throwing trillions of dollars at it will make it go away?
What a jerk.
stenwin77 on December 9, 2009 at 4:48 PM
You might want to try reading posts before you go around calling people “idiots”.
All i said was that if mankind tried to destroy itself with nukes, it could. If you can point to where I said the Earth would dry up and blow away, please do so.
If you can’t, than STFD and STFU until you learn to read for comprehension.
Dumbass.
JohnGalt23 on December 9, 2009 at 4:48 PM
come on it is redistribution of wealth! heh
upinak on December 9, 2009 at 4:49 PM
Yeah, those pesky facts sure are annoying!
NoLeftTurn on December 9, 2009 at 4:49 PM
You want to know why Gore’s so worked up? M O N E Y.
Check out the “Chicago Climate Exchange” (no bullsh!t)
Right here
CapedConservative on December 9, 2009 at 4:49 PM
First: BS (And I am not to proud to admit I know nothing about nuclear weaponry.)
Second: Did you overlook my sarc tag on purpose?
ConservativeTony on December 9, 2009 at 4:49 PM
Exactly. I think these people must be doing acid.
The brown acid.
jaime on December 9, 2009 at 4:49 PM
Oh, and whatever happened to the “ice Age” they predicted in the 60′s?
I remember their scare-mongering then. Had me really worried. Discussed it with my Dad who burst out laughing.
stenwin77 on December 9, 2009 at 4:50 PM
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