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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This is serial.
Fletch54 on December 14, 2009 at 6:38 PM
What a tosser. In a world with any sanity at all, he’d be laughed out of the building.
Scott P on December 14, 2009 at 6:39 PM
ManBearPig sighting in Europe?
Romeo13 on December 14, 2009 at 6:40 PM
Ya ya I go to Hoaxenhagen to see the Goracle.
darwin on December 14, 2009 at 6:40 PM
UnPresidented.
Del Dolemonte on December 14, 2009 at 6:40 PM
Eskimos need refrigerators, damn that racist Sarah Palin!
/nyslimes
eaglewingz08 on December 14, 2009 at 6:42 PM
Until he is man enough to debate Lord Monckton he has nothing to say about settled science or concensus.
The man is a fraud and he knows it. He runs from all who would stand up to punch holes in his theories big enough to drive a Mack truch through.
Scrappy on December 14, 2009 at 6:42 PM
Thank you Florida voters, especially the stupid ones who couldn’t read a butterfly ballot, that you saved us from this global idiot.
Mojave Mark on December 14, 2009 at 6:43 PM
The Gore has programed a prophecy: “Polar ice may vanish in 5-7 years”
deidre on December 14, 2009 at 6:43 PM
Hey, why are we even talking about this?
It’s settled man … settled.
darwin on December 14, 2009 at 6:43 PM
I thought the government there was trying make the whores take a lower profile…
BigWyo on December 14, 2009 at 6:44 PM
As a licensed geologist I take great offence every time ManBearPig opens his mouth. If I did ANYTHING similar I would lose my license.
Some states allow “teachers” to practice critcal science without applying for license. Rap you mind around that thought.
obleo on December 14, 2009 at 6:45 PM
Kneel before
ZodGoracle!Guardian on December 14, 2009 at 6:45 PM
The global temperature has to shoot up like 5-6 degrees centigrade immediately for that to happen in that time frame.
darwin on December 14, 2009 at 6:45 PM
Goracle is on the wrong side of history just like his RACIST old man was. I’m not usually for forced sterilization, but for the Gore’s I’ll make an exception.
BTW didn’t tipper fight to censor music? So the Woodstock analogy is totally laughable.
Daveyardbird on December 14, 2009 at 6:46 PM
I was actually asked today if its a good idea to buy flood insurance because of GW. Had to take the high road and splain some things.
obleo on December 14, 2009 at 6:48 PM
Did they listen to you?
darwin on December 14, 2009 at 6:48 PM
Exactly, FALST prophet ;)
deidre on December 14, 2009 at 6:49 PM
…..And in other news, Copenhagen experienced it’s first seismic activity just as Goracle lands at the airport.
HornetSting on December 14, 2009 at 6:49 PM
Coming out of Al Gaia, CO2 and every thing he says is a pollutant.
fourdeucer on December 14, 2009 at 6:49 PM
SUPER cereal!
NTWR on December 14, 2009 at 6:50 PM
Don’t forget to thank us Tennesseans as well. We are after all his home state and we rejected him and voted for Bush, without which how Florida went would have been irrelevant.
You’re welcome. :)
powerpro on December 14, 2009 at 6:51 PM
Woodstock was only a sucess if you measure the number of drug overdoses in one place at one time.
Gore does look less fleshy.
Perhaps he’s visiting Jenny Craig so that he can garner some more worshippers with his new svelt and streamlined appearance.
Putting bear grease on a horny toad doesn’t make him any more believeable.
I’ll wager the bozos who couldn’t get in were hoping to get a job on his journalism staff.
They’d like to visit N. Korea for a chance to live their Soylent green lifestyle.
Badger40 on December 14, 2009 at 6:51 PM
Say, that gives me an idea. Think I’ll start selling “warming insurance”… :)
JusDreamin on December 14, 2009 at 6:51 PM
The Earth’s core is millions of degrees.
nitzsche on December 14, 2009 at 6:51 PM
..the Hindenburg had landed..
“Oh the humanity!”
VoyskaPVO on December 14, 2009 at 6:52 PM
AGW must explain the earth quakes that we have been having in OK. All of the ice melting at the poles must be relieving stress from the crust.
farright on December 14, 2009 at 6:52 PM
Who needs cap-and-trade? Obama will destroy the economy more effectively by executive fiat via the EPA.
AUINSC on December 14, 2009 at 6:52 PM
darwin on December 14, 2009 at 6:48 PM
I found myself to be less convincing than ManBearPig. Just don’t have the snake oil mentality.
obleo on December 14, 2009 at 6:52 PM
If I put a methane vacuum pack on this bag of hot air I may be able to capture enough gas to run New York City’s electric for a year!
upinak on December 14, 2009 at 6:54 PM
ManBearPig!
bluelightbrigade on December 14, 2009 at 6:54 PM
This is what I find funny:
deidre on December 14, 2009 at 6:54 PM
Gee! Global Warming insurance. Guess who’s looking into forming my own insurance company.
BruceB on December 14, 2009 at 6:55 PM
I know what you mean. Sometimes I just people to start believing their own five senses. You know, “hey! why are you shaking and covered in white stuff? You’re cold? Do you know why?”
darwin on December 14, 2009 at 6:56 PM
Could that be considered a Gorebasm?
Juno77 on December 14, 2009 at 6:56 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfGmf8L3-z0
manbearpig
Daveyardbird on December 14, 2009 at 6:56 PM
Ya, it’s sort of like watching anorexics count calories, isn’t it?
bluelightbrigade on December 14, 2009 at 6:56 PM
After watching this little flick I have noticed, yet again, that Al continues to hold up emotional examples of melting ice in 3rd world countries.
I’ll wager that most of the planet DOESN’T get most of their drinking water from melting glaciers.
This guy does nothing but talk out of his A-hole, never discussing the true science behind this laughable idea.
I’ll wager it’s bcs he doesn’t know the difference between millions of degree’s and several thousand degrees C.
Tell me why the world considers this man an expert on any scientific subject???!?!?!?!?!
Badger40 on December 14, 2009 at 6:57 PM
The scientific data is the bad acid.
And let’s not forget the condition in which Woodstock left Yasgur’s farm.
malclave on December 14, 2009 at 6:57 PM
LMAO!
That’s what all those folks outside must have been experiencing.
And for $100 you, too, can experience a Gorbasm by just purchasing a few carbon credits.
Badger40 on December 14, 2009 at 6:58 PM
Hey just because you posted 1st, don’t think you can cut me our of my share.
Paging Chappy
BruceB on December 14, 2009 at 6:58 PM
I thank Tennessee every night in my prayers for saving us from Gore-Al the unbearable.
May God bless you all.
DeweyWins on December 14, 2009 at 6:58 PM
There will be no cap and trade
Gave all the power to the EPA
mmm mmm mmm
txag92 on December 14, 2009 at 6:58 PM
Which makes my residence in the center of a-supernova?
White Dwarf?
Badger40 on December 14, 2009 at 6:59 PM
This nut job should be locked up. Very very dangerous man.
Hummer53 on December 14, 2009 at 6:59 PM
Have you seen the folks that were at Woodstock lately? No longer swoon worthy.
Cindy Munford on December 14, 2009 at 7:00 PM
Who is Al Gore that he should garner so much of our attention? Why are people so afraid of him? Is he a scientist? For that matter, is the lord Monckton a scientist?
oakland on December 14, 2009 at 7:00 PM
Never fear, SuperO will fly over to Copenhagen and promise to refreeze the icecap with his superbreath — better yet, he can just offer to insulate the icecap with a thick layer of $100 bills. Scenario two is more in keeping with his prior ‘cures’.
GnuBreed on December 14, 2009 at 7:00 PM
I don’t think so … but it’s extremely difficult to catch Lord Monckton in a lie, or challenge his facts. The guy knows his stuff.
darwin on December 14, 2009 at 7:02 PM
Heh.
Patrick S on December 14, 2009 at 7:03 PM
Didn’t Arthur Smith give Monckton a good rebutting?
oakland on December 14, 2009 at 7:03 PM
I don’t know … who’s Arthur Smith?
darwin on December 14, 2009 at 7:04 PM
So many are in need of a good education. As John Wayne said “life is hard…its harder when your stupid”.
My older brother told me once “don’t believe anything you hear and only half of what you see”. Good advice these days.
obleo on December 14, 2009 at 7:06 PM
Oh God, when is it over????
Oil Can on December 14, 2009 at 7:06 PM
Won’t someone please shut this idiot up? He’s not a scientist; he’s a politician who, in true televangelist fashion, has hit upon a formula to make him oodles of cash while costing him next to nothing in comfort and convenience. He’s the king of “don’t do as I do, do as I tell you to do”. Totally caught up in the “rock star” persona that he has developed. What a putz.
uncivilized on December 14, 2009 at 7:07 PM
I think I just threw up a little in my mouth…
lovingmyUSA on December 14, 2009 at 7:07 PM
Er…that sounds a little, um, freaky.
uncivilized on December 14, 2009 at 7:08 PM
obleo on December 14, 2009 at 7:08 PM
http://altenergyaction.org/Monckton.html
oakland on December 14, 2009 at 7:08 PM
Eeeeeewwwwwwww … Gore + Orgasm = need for brain bleach.
darwin on December 14, 2009 at 7:08 PM
Sorry Cindy Munford!
obleo on December 14, 2009 at 7:09 PM
Here’s to wanting Rush to resurrect the Gorbasm theme!
Juno77 on December 14, 2009 at 7:09 PM
Why do you even waste a drop of anguish on him?
oakland on December 14, 2009 at 7:09 PM
Bleh. I need bleach and a wire brush. :)
HornetSting on December 14, 2009 at 7:10 PM
May this whale, a.k.a. Gore’s ego, slowly deflate.
Schadenfreude on December 14, 2009 at 7:13 PM
Attention Real America: Copenhagen is an actual place, not just a beloved product that you place between your cheek and gums.
Thank you.
simplesimon on December 14, 2009 at 7:14 PM
Gore says the ice caps might be gone in five years.
By the same token, he might die next time he doesn’t watch what he’s doing crossing the street tomorrow.
Temps at the polar caps are about -30 degrees for an average. That means a 60 degree or so jump in temps. So the Equator will have to average about a 140 degrees for years to come to get the ice caps to melt.
Do the math. According to the libs’ whines and forecasts for decades about the Amazon rain forest, all those palm trees died 80 years ago. Again, do the math.
That being the libs’ case, I guess all those NASA sat photos from last week are fake, right?
Liam on December 14, 2009 at 7:15 PM
Satan descended to Earth, apparently.
OldEnglish on December 14, 2009 at 7:16 PM
The only thing that might melt is Al Gore’s profits from this scam. This is an interesting read, and the connections to BO and Goldman Sachs are worth noting:
“• It’s restraint of trade. Climate Exchange PLC of London wholly-owns the European Climate Exchange, the Chicago Climate Exchange, and the Chicago Climate Futures Exchange. The trading of carbon credits is a global monopoly.
• Carbon credit futures are derivatives. The exchange’s web site home page even uses that term. Hasn’t Main Street America suffered enough from the effects of derivatives invented by financiers (Wall Street and London)?
• It’s a financial scam. Waxman-Markey contains language that specifically allows non-users to buy, sell, trade, and hypothecate carbon credit futures. This means that hedge funds and other “sophisticated investors” can legally game the carbon credits markets in the same way they currently inflate oil and energy derivatives. Allowing them to invest/speculate will only raise, not lower the cost of carbon credits.
• Undisclosed relationships and interests. Both President Obama and former Vice-president Al Gore have ‘unclean hands’ here. Both were instrumental in helping to set up the Chicago Climate Exchange. Obama, for 3 years (1998-2001), was on the Board of the Joyce Foundation which helped fund it. Their cronies, Dr. Richard L. Sandor and his business associates, will literally become centi-millionaires, if not billionaires, overnight if Cap and Trade passes. Sandor was a major Obama supporter.
Where in the hell is the transparency here?”
cont’d: http://www.russellmeansfreedom.com/2009/crap-betrayed-sam-kephart-exposes-obama-gores-ties-to-carbon-credit-derivitives/
Cody1991 on December 14, 2009 at 7:17 PM
interesting that you know about this product, and I’ve never heard of it…guess you’re a real ameriKKKan!!
right4life on December 14, 2009 at 7:18 PM
Lord Monckton has you in a tizzy doesn’t he? looks like the TRUTH HURTS sonny.
right4life on December 14, 2009 at 7:19 PM
Eh … I read the first five or so “rebuttals” and it was extremely picky e.g. “Lord Monckton said half of whereas the IPCC report said most of”
The guy goes on … Monckton said we’ve no no warming after 1998 and the guy say yes we have. Only by using UEA and GHCN fraudulent numbers have we had warming.
Monckton cites the UN’s climate models and their failures. Smith argues that they didn’t fail and did not predict Multidecadal temperature rise. Yes they did, I’ve seen them myself. That’s how they tried to scare people into buying their snake oil. “Look! By 2050 the temperature will be this and the sea level will be this.”
As far as I’m concerned he really didn’t refute it.
darwin on December 14, 2009 at 7:20 PM
Its not only Al Gore whose moolah is on the way up
Its his Nobel co-winner ( Pachauri) partner in crime whose profits will soar too
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=118953
Those evil big corporations who want to get rich by killing Mother Earth and poisoning little children….Oh wait
macncheez on December 14, 2009 at 7:20 PM
Don’t know about scientist, but Lord Monckton is a certified genuius; he created the Eternity Puzzle, a complex puzzle consisted of filling a large almost regular dodecagon with 209 irregularly shaped smaller polygons.
Algore, on the other hand, is a certified idiot.
Norwegian on December 14, 2009 at 7:20 PM
The Gore has programed a prophecy: “Polar ice may vanish in 5-7 years”
deidre on December 14, 2009 at 6:43 PM
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Let’s hope he goes with it.
Dopenstrange on December 14, 2009 at 7:21 PM
There is no Satan. Just ask a lib to confirm I’m right about that.
Liam on December 14, 2009 at 7:22 PM
Yes, we know … thanks. By the way, I understand that’s where you attended nut waxing college. How’d ya like it there? Hard to wax those chilly gonads I bet.
darwin on December 14, 2009 at 7:22 PM
He’s in the media. That doesn’t make him right. That makes him a target.
Liam on December 14, 2009 at 7:23 PM
Only Al Gore would be so bold as to continue on with the “The polar ice caps are going to melt in 5 – 7 years” furphy the day after it snows in Australia during summer and Canada gets hit by one of its worst snow storms on reccord.
Hellrider on December 14, 2009 at 7:23 PM
Darwin, try reading into the article. You might be impressed (not by Monckton).
oakland on December 14, 2009 at 7:24 PM
why can’t you answer that question I asked you earlier about Watson’s racist statements…hmmmmm?? do you agree with what he said….after all he is a SCIENTIST!!
right4life on December 14, 2009 at 7:26 PM
That’s not bold (I know you were being sarcastic).
That’s, “Oh, crap! I’m gonna lose money on this!”
Liam on December 14, 2009 at 7:27 PM
Norwegian, maybe Monckton should stick to making puzzles? Isn’t that more on his level? Certainly, he is no scientist, is he?
oakland on December 14, 2009 at 7:27 PM
Were there any questions from the audience?
d1carter on December 14, 2009 at 7:28 PM
Patriot! Libs NEVER answer direct questions with direct responses to the point.
I’ll answer you, though, as a lib would: “But what about the Crusades?”
Feel better, Friend?
Liam on December 14, 2009 at 7:29 PM
you certainly are an idiot.
right4life on December 14, 2009 at 7:29 PM
From those not arrested like the other day, you mean?
Liam on December 14, 2009 at 7:30 PM
thank you..I guess oakland is too busy teabagging scientists to respond…
right4life on December 14, 2009 at 7:30 PM
I did. I’m not. Especially when he discounts solar radiance.
darwin on December 14, 2009 at 7:33 PM
Just admit you are a believer and move along troll.
Your silly childish game is just stupid.
CWforFreedom on December 14, 2009 at 7:36 PM
We know how it goes. If they can’t answer directly to their cause, they revert to tactics, not discussion.
Like how simon here uses the term ‘racefan’ and saying Copenhagen is a chew–him again denigrating us. No–lawyers here, and others of education however they found it in their personal lives, are just trailer-park trash in his eyes. So much for his brand of liberalism and being ‘fair-minded’.
I tell you–I rather be thirsty and share my canteen with you than sip a beer with simon or any other lib.
Liam on December 14, 2009 at 7:36 PM
Algore is a one man joke. No cred, no nothing. Instead of doing something positive like feeding polar bears he wants us to drive around in unsafe clown cars. And that ain’t no joke.
TBenton on December 14, 2009 at 7:36 PM
Right on target.
Notice troll cannot refute Monckton.
CWforFreedom on December 14, 2009 at 7:37 PM
How did he discount solar radiance?
oakland on December 14, 2009 at 7:39 PM
He didn’t discount it. He ignored it.
Liam on December 14, 2009 at 7:41 PM
You Lie!
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/copenhagen/article6956783.ece
(Gore’s office admits the 5-7 year claim isn’t accurate… after the climatologist behind it comes out with criticism).
cs89 on December 14, 2009 at 7:45 PM
thank you!
I always find it amusing that the libs think they’re the smartest people in the room…when the truth is they’re dumb as dirt, and cannot respond with any form of intelligence or logic, all they can do is parrot talking points.
libs aren’t known for independent thinking…
right4life on December 14, 2009 at 7:53 PM
Mother Nature!!! NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!
Lily on December 14, 2009 at 7:55 PM
When the Obomb arrives, will he bow before the Gore?
mobydutch on December 14, 2009 at 7:55 PM
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