The power of ClimateGate: Al Gore forced to sacrifice Copenhagen cash cow
The chill wind of ClimateGate has blown over Al Gore’s $1,200-per handshake lecture at Copenhagen. He has canceled the hot-air hoedown.
ClimateDepot dubbed the crumbling global warming conference next week “Nopenhagen.”
Blow, winds of change, blow:
Former Vice President Al Gore on Thursday abruptly canceled a Dec. 16 personal appearance that was to be staged during the United Nation’s Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, which begins next week.
As described in The Washington TImes’ Inside the Beltway column Tuesday, the multi-media public event to promote Mr. Gore’s new book “Our Choice” included $1,209 VIP tickets that granted the holder a photo opportunity with Mr. Gore and a “light snack.”
Berlingkse Media, a Danish group coordinating ticket sales and publicity for the event, said that “great annoyance” was a factor in the cancellation, along with unforeseen changes in Gore’s program for the climate summit. The decision affected 3,000 ticket holders.
“We have had a clear-cut agreement, and it is unusual with great disappointment that we have to announce that Al Gore cancels. We had a huge expectation for the event. … We do not yet know the detailed reasons for the cancellation,” said Lisbeth Knudsen, CEO of Berlingske Media, in a statement posted by the company.
The ClimateDepot,com, an online news aggregator that track global warming news reports, referred to the situation as “Nopenhagen”, and evidence that popular momentum for the Copenhagen conference “is fading.”
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I’m not sure I’d lower myself to come in physical contact with slime like Algorebot even if he was offering me $1,200 for a handshake.
Poor poopies.
He couldn’t afford his own carbon offsets. Either that or a 1/4 tonner with cheese is too many kroener for him.
LOL
I think I had one of those in the loo this morning…
Let me guess this “great annoyance” has to do with Climategate kinda like Obama’s “chatter” comment had to do with people questioning his agenda.
Looks like the attendees will be reduced to dithering…
The antendees are going to create plenty of “global warming” while they are wringing their hands over how much damage has been done to their cuase by the truth coming out.
I sure wish I could go, it’s probably going to be the comedy show of the century.
Agree with that. However, $1,200 for a handshake and a light snack. I’m seriously contemplating getting into the Hucksterism business.
Lisbeth Knudsen…love that Danish name.
Hey, Copenhagen, you can recite the “Global Warming” mantra until the reindeer come home; you can start building those high-rise beach condo’s; you can even hire Horatio to run your CSI team but, it’s looking more and more like you’re never going become the new Miami.
He has canceled the hot-air
hoedownho-down.FIFY, Michelle.
Goracle’s afraid another shoe will fall (or another gazillion e-mails will surface) while he’s there. He’s a coward. ‘Bambi OTOH is the gift that keeps on giving. His showing up will be another nail in the ol’ HopeNChange mantra – b’cause, this will get sorted out before the 2010 elections and our very own ‘Bambi is going to look like a fool. We’ve been promised our elected congresscritters will try to vote for CrapNTax in the Spring and they will look like the idiots they are.
All the global warming scammers are worried about where they will get the millions of dollars to support their bogus research.
If he was black you wouldn’t be picking on him.
(Hey MSM still waiting for job offer)
Ha!
His slip is showing. That’s a girl thing.
I’ll bring the pretzels. Who’s got the beer?
K2 – how about we prove they are dealing in fraud and put their sorry b@tts in jail? Better yet, Sheriff Joe has lots of cute little pink uniforms and a couple of tents available.
The convenient lie continually perpetrated is that us lesser minds need to submit to the genius of science. Scientists will tell us what we need to believe as we are incapable of comprehending the data.
The NASA reference is kind of ironic. You don’t need to be a “rocket scientist” to understand average temperatures. You add em up and divide by the denominator and bingo. If the temperatures don’t rise with the carbon accumulation according to the computer models, AGW is debunked. The REAL inconvenient truth.
And now painfully inconvenient for the Goracle. You have to wonder if he knew he was perpetuating a fraud all along…or if he was actually dopey enough to buy into the dogma. I tend to think the latter. The former would make him some sort of evil genius, and he just never seemed to be sharpest tool in the shed. Either way, thank God this goof ball was not our president. He came toooo close.
Before long, the zealots will tell us that the increase in CO2 is leading to cooling and that we must reduce carbon emissions to prevent the next ice age. Just a matter of time…
Thanks, Jeddite. This goes a long way to offset your stinky atheist comments.
It is very annoying when your Nobel Prize-winning presentation is based on information whose fraudulence is splashed across the headlines of the newspapers on sale just outside of the auditorium.
Certain lawyers of the Marxist persuasion think the same thing when one of their own gets criticized….
You are so wrong. Al Gore is a very busy and important person.
He never knows from one hour to the next who will be demanding him at their salon.
ManBearPig will never be satisified
He was such a failure in his fathers eyes that he will stop at nothing to find or steal his way into any niche of power
Michelle his ego is his weak spot, that and that weak brain.
He cannot withstand being ridiculed
Keep it up
Excellent way of putting it.
pure – Good evening madame! Indeed, he is a legend in his own mind.
Oooh, that’s gonna hurt. Gore broke his contract to appear costing someone $3.6 million . Someone should sue.
Duh, how about the fact that “climate change” is a hoax and too many people know that now.
Living in a blue state it ticks me off that the brain dead elites around here treat me like a leper whenever I have said I did not believe the hype of global warming. Even when I agree that clean energy and energy independence is a good thing, but did not agree that we should destroy our economy trying to get there. Many people owe me an apology, won’t hold my breath though.
That’s just “Lisbeth Knudsen, CEO of Berlingske Media” channeling Charlie Gibson.
News is he’s invited the 3000 peeps to his boat. and for 1,250 smackers you get a fishing rod to catch your snack. or is it sea kitten?
All this and nary a story in the MSM.
Not that anyone watches them anymore.
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
I’m hoping a bounty has been put on algore’s head and he’s gone into hiding.
The real news is that NASA might be taken to court for not responding to FOIs. If it is shown that they are in the same boat as East Anglia CRU then the AGW people will have very little data to stand on. The NASA satelites don’t measure temperature, they measure radio emmissions from oxygen melecules. That data has to be calibrated/translated into a temperature reading. I believer they use East Anglia CRU data for those calibrations. East Anglia, remember, no longer has their original data. That data no longer exists. NASA data will show what ever bias East Anglia has cooked up.
A house of cards falls to the ground very quickly. I wish we had a real press to cover what happens in Copenhagan.
His ship is slowing. Titanic, meet iceburg.
With climate-gate and money drying up (pun intended) from global warming, perhaps he’s busy converting all his notes and material for next year’s announcement of massive global cooling.
Y’know, if you just want my A/S/L/#, there are more direct ways of going about getting that information.
On the brightside, thousands of gallons of Purell was saved by the people, not having to shake hands with ManBearPig!
I am a 51 year old female who didn’t get their first computer until 40.
Yeah, that’s pretty apparent. =]
He’s got snow down south.
Not trying to hide it.
I consider it a breath of fresh air.
Put the Gulfstream back in the hangar. Al’s spending the weekend at home.
Ahhhhh! Yet another true popcorn moment, brought to me by the very Interwebz, that Al himself invented!
Epic!
*John Stewart will probably report this news long before the Minor League Media gets to it, as if they ever will.
*Man-made global warming, the biggest hoax ever perpetrated on mankind, all thanks to Spotted Owl Bore; If he had lived in the era of Newton, then by now he would be swinging from one of the trees on his property; Now that’s going green!
OT Alert!
*Has anyone has seen the January cover of Golf Digest with Tiger Woods and P-BO?; The title should read “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Imam”!
Lordy! We be feeling the spirit of the soul in these here places.
Can I, for one, say that I am enjoying this to the n-th degree? I’ve long thought
global warming, sorry – global climate change – was a hoax.This is too big to ignore, and it’s killing them. How, or how, will Al Gore pay for his massive mansion and lifestyle?
Nothing, absolutely nothing will give me greater satisfaction than to see this pompous windbag being publicly “outed” as a fraud and a cheat. He almost succeeded in destroying our country’s economy while enriching himself. Traitor is too mild a word for the likes of him. He makes me sick.
I shook hands with Al Gore once when he was on some sort of trip on Air Force Two. I was working the communications setup with White House Communications.
The only reason I shook hands with him was because he was comming right at me and I couldn’t make a hole in the brick wall of the hanger I was backed up against.
(Took me two weeks to get the funk off my hand)
I honestly cannot think of anyone that is more rotten than Al Gore, and that’s sayin’ a whole lot!
You could have used his head – he would have never felt it.
May it fall in on him.
What about all the dirty, rotten, stinking, filthy lies that have been drilled into our kids’ brains for damn near 10 years? I’m sitting here right now helping my 13 year old with this topic – trying to get his mind back from the dark side as we post!
Because there is nothing new under the sun. It wasn’t so very long ago that this was the huge worry from “all knowledgable scientists”.
Al Gore cannot has canceled this event to in order help Climatic Research Unit scientists organize some other seminars for Copenhagen:
Useful Tricks for Presenting Data
Selection and Control of Peer Reviewers
Advanced Techniques in Data Loss and Destruction
New Mathemantical Models to Include Researcher Bias
I pray you all are NOT under the impression the Dems will give up on this! The Dems have figured out a way to tax the air we breathe and will never give up on the idea. Look what they have done with welfare…
I sent you an email on this Michelle:
A couple interesting articles from the stenographers at AP. In the first one posted to the internet this morning, they report (FINALLY!) on Climategate, but in the second one, written this evening by the SAME author is reporting dire gloom and doom about Gorebull Warming, and never mentions anything about Climategate.
First article here.
Second article here.
Who says AP “reporters” don’t make good stenographers.
How pathetic would you have to be to pay $1,200 to get a photo op with Fat Albert? I wouldn’t stand close enough to that crapweasel to be in the same photo if he paid me $1,200. And he can keep his cheesy $9 light snack too.
How’s this for the “detailed reasons?”
Ol’ Al got wind that a few of the boys were mixing up a batch of tar and and feathers in the back room and decided to exit stage left before the main event.
Methinks Fat Al is going to maintaining a very, very low profile for awhile.
Meanwhile, let’s call up Omar the Tentmaker and have him get to work on Fat Al’s orange jumpsuit.
all this means nothing to the governor of mexifornia.
he applauds boxer and kerry! the guy is braindead.
tab corrected.
I am waiting for the people who cut off/out thier privates to save the planet from manmade global warming to sue.
now THAT would be a very spoof vid.
That is one helluva whoopsie.
I wonder if sheryl crow is using more than one square of TP now?
FYI —
I saw a Nat Geo show last night on an actual bus-sized asteroid impact in 2008. One of the scientists used the “trick” term in the context of calculating trajectory and the impact site on earth.
It was clear to me that the term has dual meanings depending on the intent of the user: 1. Adjust the algorithm to achieve an accurate result. 2. Adjust the algorithm to achieve a desired result.
Apparently with AGM proponents the political calculus always outweighs the mathematical.
Damn Al, and we thought you had the world by its thermometer………
“Nopenhagen”
Always good for a chuckle over the years whenever I’d see them in my inbox, various companies offer stuff related to AGW with the assumption that their investment in AGW lobbying/propaganda will pay off someday.
Well you’d ~think~ that whoever these people are that they would have sort of tried to stayed a little more on top of things and ‘gotten the memo’ by now about Climategate but…
NOPE, I just got another one this morning from company called Carbeion LLC offering software to track my company’s carbon footprint. Their latest ‘news’ as of December 1 is a brand spanking new release, (probably to be made available very soon at a steep discount in 3…2…1… while supplies last), with new stuff like:
The name of the of guy who wrote the software is Thomas John. He’s probably not a bad person, just another entrepreneur moving along writing code, starting new companies around it then selling the companies.
For guys like him and many others who have invested their time and money into developing software, gizmos or whatever around this BS, what can they do? Sue Al Gore for what they wasted in this ‘green’ hoax? Protest outside of Henry “ice is holding down the tundra” Waxman’s office?
Boy I sure hope he and those like him have learned a valuable lesson here – NEVER trust any liberal agenda because they are NEVER based on sound principle and are ALWAYS intended to bolster their position of control over us.
So listen up Tom, first get off your entrepreneurial high horse once in a while and investigate what’s going on in the world that might impact what you’re spending your time on. Secondly, please don’t just get angry at charlatans like Al gore, get angry, join us and do what you can to get even and put them out of business.
I just have this vision of Al Gore dressed in black with a broad Pilgrim hat banging his fist on a table screaming, “But there are witches; they are in our midst brethern. Do not believe these soothsayers.”
Hand; cookie jar………..
The rats scurry into the darkness to find cover…
You’ve hit on one of my pet peeves concerning the lack of funding for tracking killer asteroids. Over 30 BIILION has been spent on this AGW nonsense but NASA cannot scrape up a measley $300 million to catalog the larger ELE sized asteroids over the next 20 years.
While nobody to date has been able to prove that CO2 has significantly affected climate in the past or will in the future – it’s a SLAM DUNK that asteroids have affected our ‘climate’ in the past and therefore highly likely they will in the future. Just how long into the future is anyone’s guess for now. (Your weather forecast for Saturday – a 5000 degree shockwave with traces of Iridium , flying molten glass and dirt, dust plumes to 150,000 feet followed by extended period of ‘nightfall’ and dying crops.)
Yes, for Cosmic Justice, I hope a bus sized asteroid slams right into Al Gore’s house.
Algore is a white man. He doesn’t have any rithm.
On December 3rd, 2009 at 7:03 pm, BayStateRepublican said:
Before long, the zealots will tell us that the increase in CO2 is leading to cooling and that we must reduce carbon emissions to prevent the next ice age. Just a matter of time…
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I remember back in the late 70′s/early 80′s some people actually were talking about cooling/another ice age coming. Here we are about 30-40 years later and . . . wait, let me check . . . still no global ice age.
The simple fact is that we mere humans did not create nature, we cannot predict with certainty what it will do, and we cannot control or change it (which is not to say things like recycling/trying to conserve electricity are not worthwhile).
Al Gore invented the internet, he discovered Love Canal, he was a home builder in Alabama, Eric’s Segal’s book Love Story and the movie also were based on Al and Tipper, Al Gore put Ta. Governor Blanton into prison on the strength of his newspaper reporting, he went in the airplane with the FEMA director to see Texas fires first hand, his mother sang “read the union label” to him in his crib, gosh who would not want to pay $5000.00 dollars to be with such a man.
his mother sang “read the union label” to him in his crib,
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I read somewhere that, if you figure his age versus when that song was actually written, his Mommy must still have been tucking him in well into his adulthood.
…and this possibility is still on the table for discussion, frostrt
LOL
On December 4th, 2009 at 10:15 am, spaceycakes said:
his Mommy must still have been tucking him in well into his adulthood
…and this possibility is still on the table for discussion, frostrt
LOL
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When anyone challenges him, he sure acts like he needs a hug and a lullabye.
This is already being staged! “Scientists” are now claiming that global warming may cause the Greenland ice sheet to collapse which will cause the ocean current “pump” to fail which in turn will bring on a rapid ice age. Thus, global warming really is a crisis – but they are not biased, they just follow the data…. You cannot make this stuff up.
This is very telling! The heat is on and Goracle shows he’s running scred his lies adn rhetoric are catching up to him!
Just saw over on Foxnews.com that a few people are saying that Mr. Gore should give back his Oscar (since the basis for “Inconvenient Truth” is apparently fraudulent).
That’ll happen the day I buy carbon credits or install solar panels on my apartment .
And if anyone could be forced to give up their Oscar on the basis that their “documentary” was misleading/outright lying, Michael Moore would have had his taken as well.
Jeddite said:
What is this?
FIFY
To aid the cause in this time of difficulty, I will host my own “meet and great” as planned. Algore may be a weenie but I am not!
Furthermore, I am prepared to publish all raw data relating the the temperature in my home, room by room, over the past 10 years.
VIP tickets to this gala event will include a signed napkin and a digital photo as you shake my hand.
To make the event even more green, the venue has been moved from Taco Bell to that famous and fine Scottish restaurant known as McDonalds.
Also, I promise to walk to and from the event rather than drive my car.
Michaele Salahi has been invited to this event if she wears her Redskins Cheerleader outfit but I have asked her to leave her Palestinian-loving hubby at home.
Tiger told his “old lady” that he is planning to attend but a) I didn’t invite him and b) he asked if he should bring a lot of $1 bills…
VIP tickets are only $8.99 and I promise that Algore won’t be there which makes it a real bargain.
For more details and to purchase tickets visit “www.AlgoreIsABigFatHypocrite.org.net.tv.cash”
They said that an asteroid 150 feet in diameter would hit with the force of a 1meg hydrogen bomb. That’s a crapload of rock.
Is it casual dress, or black tie and kilts?
STOP THE PRESSES!! .. errr ahh.. blogs…
FREE, (yes you read that right folks, FREE!), Copenhagen Climate Summit Sex! (say it real fast three times)
You simple CANNOT make this stuff up.
Couldn’t happen to a
dumber,fatter,more pompous, more deserving guy.Well, can you imagine how the kilts would be flapping if we held this gala event at Taco Bell?
I’ll be wearing “business casual” by which I mean really old, unpressed and unstarched fatigues (that used to drive my step-father crazy!)…
To make the event even more green, the venue has been moved from Taco Bell to that famous and fine Scottish restaurant known as McDonalds.
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Perhaps I’ll have an Angus Mushroom & Swiss meal this weekend in honor of Mr. Gore (although PETA has apparently failed to convince him to give up meat for the sake of the planet).
Hey, watch it. There’s a difference between Micks and Macs. Now, if you say fine Irish restaurant, it would be ok by me. Don’t be associatin’ the Scots with something called, in the local parlance, ‘mickey-ds’
When Gore grows his beard back, we’ll know he’s in full retreat.
The Algore (in his best Marcia Brady voice):
“Something suddenly came up!”
I believe this will be an example of what goes around, comes around.
Remember, the first Earth Day was all about Global Cooling. I remember because I was in high school and all of the mush-brained, dope-smoking, morons were handing out flyers and pamphlets showing how the earth was cooling too much. The flyers had graphs and charts and pretty pictures showing how we were all going to die from the cold by the year 1999. Wish I would have kept those just to shove it in their faces.
The flyers had graphs and charts and pretty pictures showing how we were all going to die from the cold by the year 1999.
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So, we made it to 1999 without freezing to death and then survived Y2K!
Good on us!
You Better Be Good You Better Not Cheat….
Who says there is no Santa? It’s beginning to feel a lot like
Christmas. Santa’s helpers were busy hacking emails earlier this year;) Just one of the early gifts Americans received. He does live at the North Pole.
youhavetobethistalltogoonthisride.blogspot.com/2009/12/tgif-circus-life-yes-virginia-there-is.html
Who Say’s There’s no Santa Claus?
And Climate-Gate on this side of the pond may find its way to the courts soon of FOIA requests that have been stonewalled.
If they spent a little more time on actual research rather than stonewalling we might have a really nice space station by now…
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/dec/03/researcher-says-nasa-hiding-climate-data/
Shorthand for asking age, sex, location and phone number.
This is the likely reason that Gore decided to cancel his $1200 a handshake deal.
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The Speaker of the Danish Parliament has issued a damning criticism of the climate debate, saying politicians gullibly turn theories into facts.
As the world prepares to converge on Copenhagen for the COP15 Climate Summit, Denmark’s Speaker of Parliament has expressed serious doubts as to the way in which the climate debate has developed.
“The problem is that lots of people go around saying that the climate change we see is a result of human activity. That is a very dangerous claim,” Parliamentary Speaker and former Finance Minister Thor Pedersen (Lib) tells DR.
“Unfortunately I seem to experience that scientists say: ‘We have a theory’ – then that crosses the road to the politicians who say: ‘We know’. Who can be bothered to hear a scientist who says ‘I have a theory’ when politicians go around saying ‘I know’” Thor Pedersen says.
SPEAKER Thor Pedersen (Lib) “Scientists say: ‘We have a theory’ – then that crosses the road to the politicians who say: ‘We know’”
No temperature rise
Thor Pedersen adds that the temperature has not risen in the past decade.
“I’m not saying that in the decade that the temperature has fallen or stagnated is enough to evaluate developments. But one should only say what one knows,” the Speaker adds.
“You should say that although we believed in our models, that the temperature would rise from 1998 to 2008, we have to admit that it has not risen. We cannot explain why it has not risen, but we believe we still have a problem. I’m just asking that people say what they actually know,” Pedersen tells DR.
Pedersen says that a major challenge is how to ensure energy and food to cater for the major population growth the world will be experiencing, and that the COP15 Climate Summit could result in an agreement that reduces the pressure on the Earth.
“We should all shake hands and agree to do everything possible to create good living conditions. That has nothing to do with the climate debate, in which we try to determine the globe’s temperature. It is common sense,” Thor Pedersen says in his interview with DR.
Thanks iamgman !
But what kind of language is that?
Programming?
One of these rocket scientist is going to come out and say that they forgot a negative sign in their calculation and it not global warming, but global cooling. Same ol’ song and dance. I would like to know the companies, Congressmen/ladies and folks around the world that are going to profit from this climate change scam.
It’s threads like this that make me miss lgm.
That’s why they call it climate change now- not global warming. They get you coming and going.