[Muad Dib]

An Inconvenient Day? Al Gore Preps 24-Hour Global Warming Broadcast

Published September 12, 2011
FoxNews.com

Green guru Al Gore is seeing red -- and might just talk himself blue.

The former vice president and outspoken climate-change defender plans a 24-hour worldwide presentation called "24 Hours of Reality" to combat the country's growing disbelief in his contention that man's actions have dramatically shaped the planet's climate and caused a rash of extreme weather.

The project will broadcast a new presentation by Al Gore every hour for 24 hours across 24 different time zones from Wednesday to Thursday. It will be carried on Current, the TV and website platform Gore cofounded in 2005, and will take over social networks as well.

"Each hour people living with the reality of climate change will connect the dots between recent extreme weather events — including floods, droughts and storms — and the manmade pollution that is changing our climate," the website for the project says.

"The deniers may have millions of dollars to spend, but we have a powerful advantage. We have reality," the website reads.

The battle Gore faces is not against a nameless group of well-heeled competitors, however, but against the public itself.

Public perception of climate change has steadily fallen since the "Climategate" scandal in late 2009. A Rasmussen Reports public opinion poll from August noted that 57 percent of adults believe there is significant disagreement within the scientific community on global warming, up five points from late 2009.

The same study showed that 69 percent of those polled believe it’s at least somewhat likely that some scientists have falsified research data in order to support their own theories and beliefs. Just just 6 percent felt confident enough to report that such falsification was "not at all likely."

Gore was clearly upset by this.

He made headlines last month with a curse-filled rant at an Aspen Institute media forum aimed at those skeptical of the theory that man's actions are warming the planet.

In the speech, Gore thundered “Bulls---!” repeatedly as he denounced skepticism of global warming.

“It’s no longer acceptable in mixed company … to use the godd--- word ‘climate’!” he yelled. This time, rather than bluster, Gore intends to broadcast more of the presentations he popularized in his movie, "An Inconvenient Truth."

The Climate Reality project also aims to incorporate social media to help spread its message. To that end, the campaign asks for volunteers to hand over control of their Facebook and Twitter accounts for a few days -- to donate their social networks, the site says.

"We will only post content relevant to 24 Hours of Reality and climate change, and we won't post more than a few times an hour," the website explains, and after September 15, people will be able to reclaim their accounts.

Nearly 850,000 people have already agreed to do so, as of noon on Monday.


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24 hours of Algore...

Worst TV programming since Cop Rock!

[John Castle]

To that end, the campaign asks for volunteers to hand over control of their Facebook and Twitter accounts for a few days -- to donate their social networks, the site says.

Interesting idea. "We really, reeeeeeeeaaaaaally want people to believe us again! Would you let us borrow your accounts so we can at least satisfy ourselves with the appearance that more people believe us than actually do anymore? Pleeeeeeaaaaaase?!"

[Muad Dib]

Originally Posted by John Castle

Interesting idea. "We really, reeeeeeeeaaaaaally want people to believe us again! Would you let us borrow your accounts so we can at least satisfy ourselves with the appearance that more people believe us than actually do anymore? Pleeeeeeaaaaaase?!"

I'll hand over my Facebook account when they pry it from my cold, dead fingers.

[El Chup]

Originally Posted by Muad Dib

I'll hand over my Facebook account when they pry it from my cold, dead fingers.

Or someone says the F word...

[Caboose]

Sounds like incontinent day would be a better name for it.

[Captain J]

How much carbon will be generated by this 24 hours of horseshit?

[Clyde]

The project will broadcast a new presentation by Al Gore every hour for 24 hours across 24 different time zones from Wednesday to Thursday. It will be carried on Current, the TV and website platform Gore cofounded in 2005, and will take over social networks as well.

Never heard of the Current TV channel, and this sorta ideological telethon ain't exactly drawing me in.

[Starchaser]

Originally Posted by Clyde

Never heard of the Current TV channel, and this sorta ideological telethon ain't exactly drawing me in.

Another program I wont watch.

[Starchaser]

The former vice president and outspoken climate-change defender plans a 24-hour worldwide presentation called "24 Hours of Reality" to combat the country's growing disbelief in his contention that man's actions have dramatically shaped the planet's climate and caused a rash of extreme weather.

[Ron Paul]

I bet he will cook the ratings.

[Ward]

Gore must be trying to start a new Ice Age. Every time he announces one of these "events" of his a blizzard of epic proportions is sure to start up over the site. Doing it on a worldwide basis is practically a threat to humanity. We really need to get him off the planet stat.

[Kuranes]

Al Gore would better serve Mother Earth by being chained to a tree in the middle of grizzly territory.

Goddamn liberal pinkos.

[Starchaser]

All Gore can go suck a tailpipe.

[Uncle Albert]

Ah, good old Al. He's super cereal.

[Ward]

Originally Posted by Kuranes

Al Gore would better serve Mother Earth by being chained to a tree in the middle of grizzly territory.

Goddamn liberal pinkos.

Sprinkling the area "liberally" with bells and and pepper spray, of course...

(Old Scout joke)

The National Park Rangers are advising hikers in Glacier National Park and other Rocky Mountain parks to be alert for bears and take extra precautions to avoid an encounter.

They advise park visitors to wear little bells on their clothes so they make noise when hiking. The bell noise allows bears to hear them coming from a distance and not be startled by a hiker accidentally sneaking up on them.

This might cause a bear to charge.

Visitors should also carry a pepper spray can just in case a bear is encountered. Spraying the pepper into the air will irritate the bear's sensitive nose and it will run away.

It is also a good idea to keep an eye out for fresh bear scat so you have an idea if bears are in the area. People should be able to recognize the difference between black bear and grizzly bear scat.

Black bear droppings are smaller and often contain berries, leaves, and possibly bits of fur. Grizzly bear droppings tend to contain small bells and smell of pepper.

[Ron Paul]

"Pulling a .50 S&W out, pointing it at the bear and firing 5 times will also make the bear not kill you."

[Paladin]

It's all slipping away, Al. No green totalitarianism for you. So sad.

I know your whole sense of being is tied up in this now, but the science just isn't as settled as you contend it is. We've had a decade of non-warming in the face of increasing CO2, satellite studies have indicated that feedback from CO2 isn't nearly as strong as you claim, and a new study (nervously released from CERN, knowing the impact it would have on your little green schemes) shows that fluctuations in the sun's magnetic field can have large effects on cloud formation, thus serving as a basis for global temperature changes. Your models don't predict and are known to be incomplete.

Scream "bullshit" all you want. Skepticism's here and that's a good thing. If it turns out the skepticism is wrong, then things will move back your way. But I don't think that's going to happen. We'll move on to another phase of the cycle and you'll be warning us about global cooling...

[Uncle Albert]

But by then it could be too late!!! We've got to do.....something!!!

[Paladin]

Originally Posted by Uncle Albert

But by then it could be too late!!! We've got to do.....something!!!

When I was in junior high, I had a class that discussed techniques of persuasion. One of them was the "Act now before it's too late!" pressure tactic. I still remember the advice for that scenario: refuse to act rashly, step back, and gather more information. The seller is not concerned for YOU, but rather that more information on your part might lose the sale.

[Ward]

Sounds an awful lot like the arguments made for the economic stimulus bill and the, what?, 18+ times Obama told Congress to pass his latest jobs bill the other night right before he ran off to watch football.

[Tamar Garish]

He really thinks "borrowing" 850,000 accounts and spamming the fuck out of skeptics is going to do anything but piss those people off more??

He's getting desperate. It must be getting to the point that his scams aren't pulling in the money they used to, so he needs a fresh round of fear to get the checkbooks of the believers out.

[Tamar Garish]

Originally Posted by Ward

Sounds an awful lot like the arguments made for the economic stimulus bill and the, what?, 18+ times Obama told Congress to pass his latest jobs bill the other night right before he ran off to watch football.

Yeah....I heard he's begging for a bill to be passed that doesn't exist yet...it isn't even written.

[Captain J]

This should be called 24 hours of

[Ward]

Originally Posted by Tamar Garish

Yeah....I heard he's begging for a bill to be passed that doesn't exist yet...it isn't even written.

S.O.P. whatareyagonnado?

[jack]

Ok, so climate change is a myth, voodoo science? What about all this weird weather we've been having? Waterbury Vermont was destroyed by Irene, for example, and thats in the middle of landlocked New England an hour from the Canadian border.

It's all still falling into averages, and I agree skepticism is healthy. But things aren't different weather wise?? No one notices this?? I don't give a damn about Gore's bully pulpitting, he's a blowhard and has an agenda. But if you were sitting in your home in northern VT when the storm hit, that sound you suddenly heard was the Winooski River 6 feet above flood stage 35 minutes after the storm hit.

How's that for an inland surge?

[Ron Paul]

Originally Posted by Tamar Garish

He really thinks "borrowing" 850,000 accounts and spamming the fuck out of skeptics is going to do anything but piss those people off more??

He's getting desperate. It must be getting to the point that his scams aren't pulling in the money they used to, so he needs a fresh round of fear to get the checkbooks of the believers out.

"Borrowing" 850,000 accounts could violate anti-spam law if the TOS of the original signup did not indicate the email address could be shared. Hmmm...

[evenflow]

Originally Posted by 100Drummers

Ok, so climate change is a myth, voodoo science? What about all this weird weather we've been having? Waterbury Vermont was destroyed by Irene, for example, and thats in the middle of landlocked New England an hour from the Canadian border.

It's all still falling into averages, and I agree skepticism is healthy. But things aren't different weather wise?? No one notices this?? I don't give a damn about Gore's bully pulpitting, he's a blowhard and has an agenda. But if you were sitting in your home in northern VT when the storm hit, that sound you suddenly heard was the Winooski River 6 feet above flood stage 35 minutes after the storm hit.

How's that for an inland surge?

Sigh...

On a short enough time line, every weather event is unprecedented.

[Lanzman]

First, weather /= climate. Second, the debate isn't over if the climate is changing . . . it plainly is. The debate is over how much, if any, of the change is due to human activities. The alarmists are screaming that we have to enact economy-wrecking changes NOW NOW NOW or face a disaster movie. The skeptics are saying the evidence is thin at best and let's not go nuts.

[jack]

Yeah, well that's utter bs. We need to figure some stuff out though, because the ice is starting to melt more in the summer and the weather is getting wilder.

You see what really happened with that earthquake in Japan for example? Freaking plate of bedrock the size of new england got ejected off that side of the shelf skipping 700 miles over the sea floor like a freaking frisbee.

[Ancalagon]

Originally Posted by Lanzman

First, weather /= climate. Second, the debate isn't over if the climate is changing . . . it plainly is. The debate is over how much, if any, of the change is due to human activities. The alarmists are screaming that we have to enact economy-wrecking changes NOW NOW NOW or face a disaster movie. The skeptics are saying the evidence is thin at best and let's not go nuts.

And then you've got people in the middle who think that man has some impact but that many of the changes called for by GW alarmists are needed anyway to help insulate us against rising energy costs, resource depletion, pollution, top soil erosion, deforestation, etc.