Monday, November 09, 2009

YouTube - Rachel Maddow-Al Gore on U.S. climate change deniers image abroad

The Carbon Sense Coalition » Snouts in the Carbon Trough
...Sceptics on the other hand do not have a mercenary army of academics, bureaucrats and publicists who can be bribed or bullied to produce scary climate forecasts or doomsdays ads on demand.

Nor do sceptics have the power to silence or sack dissidents in their ranks.

Nor do they have the pulpits and power of the UN which, having failed at “peace keeping”, sees “climate control” as its new business model.
Fox News plays "If we had some global warming" as bumper music - Minnesotans For Global Warming

YouTube - Minnesotans For Global Warming Song (If We Had Some Global Warming)
[Now with over 288,000 views] Get the MP3, or M4V for your iPod or iPhone.
[Now that global warming hysteria has crumbled, is Al Gore still pulling $175k per appearance to endlessly retell the same handful of aging "jokes"?]
Criticized by some observers for being too serious, too eggheaded, during his 2000 campaign for the presidency, Gore introduced himself during his Foreign Affairs Council keynote address with "I'm Al Gore. I used to be the next president of the United States."

When the audience cracked up, he deadpanned, "I don't think that's particularly funny."

He then pronounced himself "a recovering politician" . . . "on about Step Nine." (More laughter.)
2007: Al Gore's $100 Million Makeover - Current TV - Generation Investment Management - An Inconvenient Truth | Fast Company
A l Gore is a funny guy. And, for his $175,000 speaking fee, he tells this story...

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