Just in time for the Gore-a-thon, Facebook shuts down a significant portion of email story alerts | Watts Up With That?

Perhaps Facebook was concerned that Al Gore was convincing thousands of unsuspecting dupes to hand over their Facebook account control, which would mean “post at will” on thousands of user accounts, resulting in millions of SPAM messages being send out to friends of the FB enabler. Here’s the pitch from Al:

- Bishop Hill blog - The Gorathon

In honour of Al Gore's latest 24 hours to save the planet, Bishop Hill is proud to present...the Gorathon, a 24-hour extravaganza of Josh cartoons inspired by the great Goracle himself!

Climate Lessons: Albert Gore: how much harm can one man do?

Today sees some kind of last-ditch fundraising effort by Al Gore, a profoundly unpleasant man whose movie, 'An Inconvenient Truth' is full of untruths and should never in a month of Sundays have been issued to schools in the UK. The harm from it must include the needless and shameless frightening of children, and probably a great many teachers as well. Further harm will arise from the misleading information presented. Further harm will come from the cynicism about science and politics and teachers that must follow as the nonsense about climate is, as is happening almost daily, more widely exposed for what it is: non-sense. Harmful nonsense that has helped bring about increased famine through bio-fuels, increased energy prices through windfarms and the like, increased pollution through relocation of industries, and general distortion of the commerical and political 'marketplace' through excessive and sometime corrupting obsessions with 'carbon'.