Video: Goracle descends to earth at Copenhagen
posted at 6:36 pm on December 14, 2009 by Allahpundit
Via RCP, I wanted to give you a longer clip but the audio’s shoddy on the only one I can find. Too bad. It was, says Politico, a Woodstock moment.
If Copenhagen is the enviros’ Woodstock, then Gore is The Who, the Grateful Dead and Creedence Clearwater Revival as a one-man band. The former vice president drew such a big crowd that security had to shut down access, with hundreds of unhappy activists left outside…
Moeller also quoted the 19th century conservative British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli, saying that “to be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge,” drawing a chuckle from Gore who, last week, traded barbs with Sarah Palin, describing her as a global warming “denier.”
Where the Woodstock/Copenhagen analogy breaks down: Woodstock was a success. Note well this data point from the new CBS poll showing just 37 percent consider global warming a high priority (down from 52 percent a few years ago). If the goal of climate-change “awareness” is to convince people that the threat is real and desperately urgent, how is this not an almost total failure?
The columns represent total respondents, Republicans, Democrats, and indies. To rephrase that last question, how do you pass cap-and-trade when even a clear majority of Democrats think green measures should bow before economic development? Answer: You don’t, which is why this issue is going nowhere in Congress until unemployment relaxes a bit. Or, I guess, until newspapers start running a lot more “Eskimos need refrigerators now!” stories.
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Gore arrives.
Weather.com is predicting snow in Copenhagen this week.
More empirical evidence of the Gore Effect? Of course, the science is settled.
Wethal on December 14, 2009 at 7:57 PM
You need new material, race fan! That silly ‘nut waxing’ crap is about as old and tired as that geezer that you guys ran for president last year! Country first!
simplesimon on December 14, 2009 at 7:57 PM
And Attention Really Out There America: I regularly pinch off corn filled logs that have more common sense than this imbecile…carry on!!!
BigWyo on December 14, 2009 at 7:57 PM
As we have found, they’re just vile.
Simon’s term ‘racefan’ is meant to devalue and denigrate. But I can’t get why, unless he’s full of hate.
Sure not everyone owns a doctorate, but there are other good and decent people who don’t need some esoteric credential to be good and decent.
Libs, like simplesimon, demand a credential but then ignore it to feel better about themselves. To me, that defines a low-grade psychopath.
Still, and always, I’ll share a canteen of water with a Patriot before I’ll have a beer with a lib.
Liam on December 14, 2009 at 7:59 PM
I’m curious: I hate libs for reason I’ve never hidden. But I ask, why do you hate Conservatives so much?
No attack, here, I promise. I’m curious.
Liam on December 14, 2009 at 8:00 PM
bet he can get new material faster than you can evolve some intelligence…
right4life on December 14, 2009 at 8:01 PM
If leftists had any independent thoughts they wouldn’t be Leftists.
They are really fond of circular logic – and that’s how they think they’re the smartest in the room.
Juno77 on December 14, 2009 at 8:01 PM
I know some San Joaquin Valley farmers that could use a little more water, but it has nothing to due to “Man Made Global Climate Change Warming Scare HOAX“…
Care to comment on that, Mr. Al “R.I.C.O. Case” Gore…?
Seven Percent Solution on December 14, 2009 at 8:02 PM
Forgot the linky…
Seven Percent Solution on December 14, 2009 at 8:04 PM
I’m not playing around here, simon. I’m dropping my feelings so you and I might have a genuine talk.
Liam on December 14, 2009 at 8:05 PM
Something awfully ironic about that statement there Mr. Creative.
CWforFreedom on December 14, 2009 at 8:09 PM
Climategate:
Speakup on December 14, 2009 at 8:14 PM
I got $5 on ‘daddy’ issues.
Or severe pressure testing on the clothing syndrome….
BigWyo on December 14, 2009 at 8:23 PM
You’re a nut. Why not go rub mom’s feet?
simplesimon on December 14, 2009 at 8:23 PM
If simon’s a boy, I warp out of orbit. But I think simon is a girl.
You have NO idea how I hope I’m right!
Liam on December 14, 2009 at 8:25 PM
As you wish, then. I offered an openness between us, as libs like you claim to do all the time.
But you never live up to what you proclaim about yourselves, do you?
As a Con, I leave open my door to you as you wish to hold it.
I was trying to be a open enough to talk with you, exchange ideas as fellow Citizens. You reject that, and that’s okay.
Liam on December 14, 2009 at 8:30 PM
Forget it, he has no real thoughts, just strings of bumper sticker attacks.
He is useful in the sense that he is a model liberal..facts, or any thing close to an intellectual dialog is beyond their concept.
I find it refreshing, it reminds me of why I am a conservative…I never realized, until people like him post, just how far apart conservative and liberals are.
We would never be able to post what he does on any liberal website, yet we allow (for amusement but still allow) him to post on a conservative website…yet he would never acknowledge or recognize that, such is a liberal mind.
They are very simple in thought, yet determined, facts don’t deter them, nor does humiliation or shame…interesting creatures, which is why we keep them around…
right2bright on December 14, 2009 at 8:31 PM
Al Gore is a double barreled source of Co2 gas. If he would have been around seventy years ago in Copenhagen, it would have to been a gas bag about Hitler not being a threat. The guy is simply on the wrong side of every issue, and is actually smug about his idiocy.
Hening on December 14, 2009 at 8:31 PM
I listened to NPR today on Copenhagen…
…it went about as well as one might expect.
Diane on December 14, 2009 at 8:33 PM
With a huge following, which is kinda weird in itself…imagine hitching your wagon to that thought process.
right2bright on December 14, 2009 at 8:34 PM
I had to take the shot, it was never a losing proposition for me.
Liam on December 14, 2009 at 8:37 PM
Ignoring the Climategate emails that destroyed your religion is getting harder to do these days, isn’t it?
Good Lt on December 14, 2009 at 8:40 PM
Might also be a gelding…
malclave on December 14, 2009 at 8:45 PM
Simon?
Liam on December 14, 2009 at 8:48 PM
Simon–I have a question.
Why do you hate us Cons so much?
Liam on December 14, 2009 at 8:49 PM
Since you asked, I’ll tell you why.
My mom no longer knows who I am. I’m her only child and she doesn’t remember me.
Feel better there, with that hate you showed me and everyone else who reads you post?
Liam on December 14, 2009 at 8:52 PM
I smell fear of failure.
Simple, can you not reply properly? Anything beyond name calling too demanding for you?
IowaWoman on December 14, 2009 at 8:59 PM
Looks like all the dopes are in Dopenhagen.
txdoc on December 14, 2009 at 9:00 PM
Fat Albert heard that the Euroweenie Greens now believe that all cows must die in order to save the earth. Looks like he lost 50 pounds to avoid some of the ManBearPig jokes.
50 to go.
Jaibones on December 14, 2009 at 9:02 PM
I’ve been to Copenhagen, have you? Have you been anywhere other than where you’re getting second billing to a donkey?
jdkchem on December 14, 2009 at 9:03 PM
Sadly that’s about the level of “genuine talk” we’ve come to expect from the lefty trolls.
Scrappy on December 14, 2009 at 9:03 PM
You try coming across as a lib, someone so full of love.
But you’re truly full of hate, and I use you as a model of all the other libs who post here.
When another lib posts something, I revert back to you; I quote you! They freak and deny you. But I tear them apart with YOUR words. I’m making you famous!
And I’m going to always respect you, by quoting you among all libs who post here.
Nothing like love, is there?
Liam on December 14, 2009 at 9:04 PM
Nobody cares, Liam. Feeding the freaks only keeps them alive — let this cockroach die.
Jaibones on December 14, 2009 at 9:05 PM
Only a fool would be impressed by that garbage.
jdkchem on December 14, 2009 at 9:05 PM
I’ve only just begun…
Liam on December 14, 2009 at 9:05 PM
Does Bawney Fwank ever let you up for air?
jdkchem on December 14, 2009 at 9:07 PM
Ah, but! Libs are my best weapon against them.
Liam on December 14, 2009 at 9:08 PM
How much of the article did you read? What parts didn’t impress you?
oakland on December 14, 2009 at 9:12 PM
Libs, for all their highfalutin’ words, don’t want peace. They can’t attain it within themselves, so all the world has to suffer.
I made an overture, hoping for better but expecting the worst.
What else can a liberal offer?
Liam on December 14, 2009 at 9:15 PM
More like Abbie Hoffman & Melanie!
jdkchem on December 14, 2009 at 9:19 PM
If simplesimon is there, I’m still open to chat, one on one.
Liam on December 14, 2009 at 9:20 PM
Maybe if you found it so impressive you should share what parts you thought were impressive. It’s a bit counterproductive to ask someone to recall all the parts that aren’t impressive.
Scrappy on December 14, 2009 at 9:23 PM
I would be interested to see a RICO indictment of these scientists, especially given how much money they have received from the government as well as how badly damaged the Automobile industry is from this crap. The Coal industry might want a pound of flesh as well, as they were up on the block, tied hand and foot with an apple in their mouth and the Butcher sharpening its knife when this whole scam broke open.
GunRunner on December 14, 2009 at 9:25 PM
As much as I could handle without vomiting. When your opening salvo is nothing more than whining about the difference between most and more than half, you’re an idiot. When you argue cherry picking data and cite 2008 as an anomaly, you’re an idiot. Furthermore the math he based his paper on was wrong.
jdkchem on December 14, 2009 at 9:26 PM
Do you know what article I’m referring to?
oakland on December 14, 2009 at 9:27 PM
I don’t get the point of Simon saying racefan all the time. WTF? Like it really insults me.
Holger on December 14, 2009 at 9:27 PM
My boy, lollipop?
OldEnglish on December 14, 2009 at 9:29 PM
What did you think of the author’s criticism of Monckton’s confusion of climate with weather? Also, the perceived mis-application of feedback in the equations?
oakland on December 14, 2009 at 9:30 PM
Gore actually had to admit he made an error….gasp!
deidre on December 14, 2009 at 9:33 PM
Hey, fat Albert – where is the warming trend in this NOAA chart of total global sea ice?
Duh.
Go home to your TN energy-wasting mansion, you lying idiot.
fred5678 on December 14, 2009 at 9:36 PM
This thing is looking more and more like a UFO abductee convention.
iceman1960 on December 14, 2009 at 9:37 PM
Zo has a new rant, in this one he talks about how AGW evangelists are violating the Establishment Clause. Boy howdy! Nail, meet hammer!
smellthecoffee on December 14, 2009 at 9:38 PM
Pols concerned about reelection may show some hesitation (like they are on Obamacare), but make no mistake – these evil bastards and their sinister (not just stupid/wrong) motives are VERY determined, and they feel so close now that they can taste it. Do you really think that the population control, GIGANTIC global government SOBs are just going to let this thing go? They’ve failed to push through their crap with SARS scares, Bird Flu scares, etc. “Global Warming” is supposed to be their winner and they will not go quietly.
BTW, I’ve been predicting for a while that if the cooling trend continues we’ll see the “science community” decide that “global cooling” is the real threat (remember, this is what they send through the last cooling phase, and flipped to “warming” alarmism after the 1970s). Don’t think for a second that they aren’t arrogant enough to pull this crap.
RightWinged on December 14, 2009 at 9:40 PM
The graph doesn’t show temperature. However it appears to me that there is a statistically significant decrease in sea ice for the last ten years. Am I correct or not?
oakland on December 14, 2009 at 9:42 PM
The same thing I think of any idiot who pulls “confusion of climate and weather” out of their ass. All they’ve demonstrated is that they’ve nothing to support their claims. When you fail to modify your model to reflect real world data then you’re a fool. All anyone in the church of holy warming has done is claim real data contrary to their model is wrong and a travesty.
jdkchem on December 14, 2009 at 9:48 PM
Not. Sea has has remained largely unchanged over the last 30 years.
jdkchem on December 14, 2009 at 9:49 PM
UFO abductees are far more believable.
jdkchem on December 14, 2009 at 9:51 PM
But, Smith gives a very strict and narrow definition of climate in terms of weather. Is this distinction not stark enough? Please explain.
oakland on December 14, 2009 at 9:52 PM
Owl Gore lies again:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/copenhagen/article6956783.ece
Better fact check everything that comes out of his mouth.
He has had some howlers recently.
Geochelone on December 14, 2009 at 9:52 PM
Then why the seemingly strong anomalies over the last decade. Can you give me a source for the raw data on which this graph is based? I would like to do a statistical analysis. Thanks.
oakland on December 14, 2009 at 9:53 PM
Your strategy might be working. You scared the little twerp away.
Geochelone on December 14, 2009 at 9:56 PM
The Rush “Algore Doomsday Clock” (which is counting down from 10 years) is down to 6 years, 1 month, 12 days. And when time is up the planet will be in for a scorching. LOL
tbear44 on December 14, 2009 at 9:57 PM
When ObaMao arrives for the festivities, Woodstock II will be complete: Country Gore and the Fishy Gov.
onlineanalyst on December 14, 2009 at 10:07 PM
Got the science wonk thing happening there, Oakland. Maybe you can explain to me why it is that the scientists who are the major proponents of AGW don’t act like scientists? Why don’t they do what scientists do? Share their data and their models, so other scientists can do what they do, which is to try to duplicate their results? Why won’t AGW scientists engage in debate? If they are so all-holy right, they should clean up and win new converts right? But no, debate never happens–in fact–anyone who has another point of view is attacked and smeared. If they would treat it like science, people would believe that it was a science. Since the AGW scientists treat it like a belief system, in which non-believers are vilified as “deniers,” it appears more and more to be a secular religion.
smellthecoffee on December 14, 2009 at 10:17 PM
I forget where I read the piece on sea ice being largely static over the past 30 years. I suspect it might have been from Moncton. He referred to the University of Illinois.
I do recall where I read the latest excuse for increasing ice at the poles, Rotten Ice.
jdkchem on December 14, 2009 at 10:22 PM
I thought you were kidding, but you’re right:
http://www.weather.com/outlook/travel/businesstraveler/tenday/DAXX0009?from=36hr_topnav_business
LOL!
Snow in Copenhagen is rare, due its coastal climate and the effects of warm water current from the Atlantic. Annual snow fall in Copenhagen is probably less than 3 inches. Many years they don’t have any measurable snow at all.
Norwegian on December 14, 2009 at 10:24 PM
Oh, the irony in that one sentence. NASCAR NASCAR race fan race fan Caribou Barbie inbred moron. Mix and match and there you have a simplesimon post.
ddrintn on December 14, 2009 at 10:29 PM
Yes, climate is not weather. The domain of an ignorant buffoon. The distinction is wrong, period. Climate is weather, furthermore when you argue that a drop in temps in the antarctic is regional and not global you’re an idiot. Smith has no clue as evidenced by his “I don’t understand calculus” brain fart he submitted to APS.
jdkchem on December 14, 2009 at 10:32 PM
Additionally, anyone who refers to the “hockey team” in support of their position should be considered a useless buffoon.
jdkchem on December 14, 2009 at 10:48 PM
Al Gore is a sore loser. The end……..
adamsmith on December 15, 2009 at 7:01 AM
At Woodstock Pete Townsend of The Who belted Abbie Hoffman with his guitar. Leftist Hoffman stormed the stage and grabbed the Who’s mike and ranted about a “political prisoner”. After smacking down Hoffman, Townsend announced that the next person coming on his stage was dead.
Unfortunately there wasn’t the same sort of greeting for Al Gore.
wraithby on December 15, 2009 at 8:49 AM
If the Goracle is the star of HopenChangin’, I’ll be Grateful when Cap and Trade is Dead.
On Fox & Friends this morning, Gore was quoted as saying that the Arctic Ocean would be ice-free by 2014, although the scientist Gore quoted said he was wrong. Fox and Friends didn’t name the scientist, but this would be VERY useful information.
How about a “fuzzy math” question for the Goracle: Since Arctic sea ice areas (at the same time of year) have INCREASED over the last two years, how does an increasing trend extrapolate to zero five years from now?
Steve Z on December 15, 2009 at 9:49 AM
To do what? Keep their baby-seal and polar-bear meat cool?
By the way, Great Goracle, refrigerators have compressors, which need electricity to run them. You wouldn’t want the Eskimos burning stuff and emitting CO2, and leaking chlorofluorocarbons into the polar stratosphere, would you?
Steve Z on December 15, 2009 at 9:56 AM
Eskimos use refrigerators to keep things from freezing.
mojo on December 15, 2009 at 10:24 AM
Rarely snows there! The GORE EFFECT is REAL! This buffoon is a walking cold front!
marklmail on December 15, 2009 at 12:25 PM
First, take a look at this …
… then, take a look at email 1256765544.txt
OMG !!! YIKES !!!
.. and AP said there was nothing in ClimateGate
J_Crater on December 15, 2009 at 12:48 PM
THE ELECTION IS SETTLED….
Gore you still lost.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
PappyD61 on December 15, 2009 at 1:50 PM
I thought he canceled this trip?
Oh well.
Dr. ZhivBlago on December 15, 2009 at 4:33 PM
More like a game show host.
Barnestormer on December 15, 2009 at 7:06 PM
The title of this post and the caption confuses me. How can he have “descend[ed] to earth” but be “risen”?
I think it’s more like he fell down to earth- flat on his face.
xax on December 15, 2009 at 7:12 PM
So what. Gore lies.
proconstitution on December 15, 2009 at 8:09 PM
Gore the rock star. That tells you all you need to know about the global warming movement.
Terrye on December 15, 2009 at 9:02 PM
That weasel in a human suit should be the subject of at least ten class-action lawsuits and fraud investigations.
Dark-Star on December 15, 2009 at 11:39 PM
I’m not wishing this on him, but it would be hilarious if a bull GORED him.
miron on December 16, 2009 at 2:06 AM
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