Al's Journal : Congratulations 350.org

It was truly an amazing day and one that will have a tremendous impact.

T-43 Days? Is the UN Secretary General Hitting the Reset button? » The Foundry

“A reasonable success?” He thinks? What happened to “[f]our months to secure the future of our planet”? How can such a critical date for the fate of humanity be as flexible as when one does a load of laundry? It doesn’t seem to make sense, unless of course, the never really was such a crisis.

More on Secy. Chu’s convoluted climate economics | GlobalWarming.org

Chu should at least consider the possibility that pricing carbon would vitiate what little competitiveness the U.S. clean-tech sector has. Low-cost energy is a source of competitive advantage, as China powerfully demonstrates. By increasing energy costs, cap-and-trade would make all U.S.-based manufacture less competitive, including companies specializing in clean-tech products.

The price of inconvenient reality | The Australian

After years of inflated expectations of what can be achieved in curbing carbon, it is clear that any deal that would make an appreciable difference in emissions levels will be costly. As a responsible global citizen, Australia should play its part. But we have no obligation to join any push to use climate change to redistribute global wealth to assuage the consciences of climate change billionaire Al Gore and social campaigners such as Bono, whose carbon footprints far exceed those of the ordinary Australian taxpayers they expect to foot the bill.

The Age kisses Gore’s backside | Australian Climate Madness

To the editors of The Age and all the other Fairfax media outlets, Al Gore is a brave warrior for the planet, courageously flying all over the world by private jet in order to make more money out of an imagined climate crisis. I beg to differ – the man peddles misinformation and refuses to debate, in other words, he’s a snake oil salesman.

Live blogging the Al Gore [climate hoax promotion] event at Lisner Auditorium  [Washington, DC]

7:23 Gore is telling jokes now. He said that while he was writing the book, he was sitting in a fast food restaurant with a friend. A woman walked by him and gave him an odd stare two times. Gore said he said hello to the woman, who proceeded to say to him, “Do you know if you dyed your hair black you would look just like Al Gore.” The joke drew laughter from the crowd.
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7:19 Gore just took the stage to a standing ovation from the crowd.

7:16 The president of Politics and Prose is now speaking, and said the bookstore is committed to the sustainability movement. She said she cannot understand how everyone in the U.S. is not on board with the movement, and said she feels Gore’s new book will be a great tool to get more Americans on board with the “Green Revolution.”

Tired joke Al Gore tells: A woman walks up to Gore and says, "If you dyed your hair black, you’d look just like Al Gore" | GORE LIED

So, this story that Gore keeps telling of the woman who says he looks “just like Al Gore” is perhaps the last time that Gore was actually out in public with strangers in an unscripted moment. If Gore would just climb out of his cocoon, and have a few more unscripted moments with strangers and face a few of the tough questions, not only would probably get some new material for his comedy routine, but he just might get a little more respect from those that he’s failed to persuade.