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Al Gore: Supercomputers can reverse climate change
Original at ITworld.com
• Thu, Nov 19
Supercomputing technology, according to Al Gore, will aid the expansion of renewable energy use and create models that help people understand the severity of global warming.
Al Gore entertains the supercomputer troops
Original at Register
• Thu, Nov 19
Seeks political scientists SC09 Former vice president and Nobel Prize winner Al Gore did his self-deprecating politician and climate change champion routine as a keynote for the HPC (high performance computing) faithful at the SC09 trade show in Portland, Oregon, this morning and di...
Notes from the Protest: Al Gore and Teabaggers Descend on Portland
Original at Willamette Week
• Thu, Nov 19
As promised, this “near-naked Mother Earth” was outside Al Gore’s talk in Portland last night, asking the former vice president to bolster his green beliefs by going vegetarian. Amber Tegantvoort, a 22-year-old from Seattle, made her demands on behalf of People for the Ethical Treatme...
Al Gore Photoshops Hurricanes Into New Book's Cover
Original at NewsBusters.org
• Thu, Nov 19
By Noel Sheppard Update: NBer Dim Bulb humorously pointed out in the comments section that Gore might be eliminating Florida in this picture to exact revenge for 2000's recount debacle. Maybe they'll give him another Nobel Peace Prize for such sentiments.
The Puck Stops Here -- By: Mark Steyn
Original at National Review Online Blogs
• Thu, Nov 19
By webmaster@nationalreview.com (Mark Steyn) Prior to the Briffa graph revelation, he had also caught a statistical error that undercut another exalted "hockey stick" graph prominently featured by the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change or IPCC, this one by Michael Mann, head of Pennsylvania State University's Eart...
Gainor Column: Ready to Pay Your $6 Trillion 'Climate Justice' Bill?
Original at NewsBusters.org
• Thu, Nov 19
By Dan Gainor The $1,000 bill has President Grover Cleveland’s face on it. The $100,000 bill has the dour image of President Woodrow Wilson. “President Obama and other world leaders have decided to put off the difficult task of reaching a climate change agreement,” according to the Nov. 14 New York Times.
Al Gore’s New Book – Yet More Scaremongering (and Photoshopped) Fakery
Original at scottthong (WordPress)
• Thu, Nov 19
By Scott Thong Many more facts, graphs and photos with citations at my collection, Global Warming is Unfactual, and excellent overview for those uninitiated into serious global warming debate. He lies about his true motives for scaring us about global warming.
Al Gore Fails on Sciences Other Than Global Warming Too
Original at scottthong (WordPress)
• Wed, Nov 18
By Scott Thong Al Gore got a D grade in Natural Sciences at Harvard: But remember, global warming that will doom humanity is real and factual. Real I tell you, factual!!! We must all stop global warming now!!!! (Or backdated to 11 years before we start trying to stop it now.)
Al Gore Speech Venue Graffitied: 'Don't Buy False Solutions'
Original at NewsBusters.org
• Wed, Nov 18
By Noel Sheppard For the second time in only six days protesters have emerged at venues where Nobel Laureate Al Gore was scheduled to speak about global warming. Vandals on Thursday spray-painted graffiti on the walls of Keller Auditorium in Portland, Oregon, just hours before the former Vice President...
Al Gore: Earth's Interior 'Extremely Hot, Several Million Degrees'Original at NewsBusters.org
• Wed, Nov 18
By Noel Sheppard For several years as uneducated sycophants in the media gushed and fawned over every utterance from former Vice President Al Gore, NewsBusters has informed readers of just how absurd the junk science he's peddling really is. On Tuesday, National Review's John Derbyshire noted:
PETA Vs. Al Gore!! Coming To Portland!!!
Original at Willamette Week
• Tue, Nov 17
Veep, or veg? Just ahead of Al Gore’s stop this week in Portland, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has challenged the former vice president to back his green talk by giving up meat. At Gore’s book discussion Wednesday night at Keller Auditorium, PETA warns that the former vice pr...
Al Gore Calls For A Green Revolution To Fuel The Economy
Original at Huffington Post
• Sat, Nov 14
What's Your Reaction? "We have a climate crisis at the same time we have an economic crisis at the same time we have a national security crisis," Gore said to a cheering crowd of thousands at Chase Field in Phoenix. "We need to create millions of good new jobs.
IBD misrepresented Gore on hurricane frequency
Original at Media Matters for America
• Thu, Nov 5
By J.K.F. In fact, Gore has said there is "no consensus" linking global warming to hurricane frequency Gore: "There is no consensus linking the frequency of hurricanes to global warming." As noted by science reporter Chris Mooney, Gore stated during a March 21, 2007, congressional hearing on cli...
Meat Al Gore. Proof that Al Gore is wrong.Original at waitingonthenewmoon (WordPress)
• Wed, Nov 4
By poetryman69 Al Gore claims we are all going to die from Global Warming or Climate Change. The very organizations that Al Gore relies on for this information say that eating meat is 20 times more harmful than driving a car. Al Gore refuses to become a vegetarian and still drives a car. Al Gore house uses 20 t...
Al Gore's Our Choice: Progressive Book Club Review
Original at Huffington Post
• Tue, Nov 3
What's Your Reaction? There's been a certain amount of debate about whether Barack Obama deserved his Nobel Prize. About Al Gore there is no argument. He singlehandedly managed to wrest the topic of global warming on to center stage around the world.
Podcast: Couric Glorifies Al Gore as 'Godfather of Green, the King of Conservation'
Original at NewsBusters.org
• Tue, Nov 3
By Brent Baker Monday's CBS Evening News carried a brief excerpt, sans the excessively laudatory introduction: “Today I spoke with someone who knows a bit about Washington politics and the environment, former Vice President Al Gore. He's out with a new book and is on the cover of this week's edition of N...
Opinion: The must-read solutions book — “Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis” by Al Gore.
Original at Climate Progress
• Sun, Nov 1
By Joe The long-awaited sequel to An Inconvenient Truth comes out Tuesday. If you want a preview, Gore and the book are featured in an excellent Newsweek cover story, The Thinking Man’s Thinking Man. In September, Nature Reports Climate Change asked me (and several others) to suggest three boo...
Conveniently Incomplete: Gore Claims British Court Vindicated School Showing of Movie That 'Violated Laws'
Original at NewsBusters.org
• Sun, Oct 11
By Tom Blumer Thanks to Drudge, the Internet will likely be abuzz with the news and video about Irish filmmaker Phelim McAleer's challenge to former Vice President Al Gore over correcting the nine errors found by a British judge in Gore's Oscar-winning "An Inconvenient Truth" documentary.
As Earth Cools, Nobels Demand Refund From Gore
Original at conchapman (WordPress)
• Sun, Jul 12
By conchapman STOCKHOLM, Sweden. The Nobel Foundation, which awarded a Nobel Peace Prize jointly to former vice president Al Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, today announced that it would seek a refund of the prize money as the earth’s temperature has dropped since his film...
The Shrinking Consensus
Original at National Review Online Blogs
• Fri, Jun 26
By Jonah Goldberg Kim Strassel: Among the many reasons President Barack Obama and the Democratic majority are so intent on quickly jamming a cap-and-trade system through Congress is because the global warming tide is again shifting. It turns out Al Gore and the United Nations (with an assist from the medi...
Al Gore Invests Millions to Make Billions in Cap-and-Trade Software
Original at Say Anything
• Sat, Jun 6
By thecynicaleconomist Kleiner Perkins, a venture capital firm in which Al Gore is a partner, invested in Hara just last year. Chatterjee told Reuters that, “This company would not have existed if Al Gore had not bought off on the idea.” Here is the video from April 24, 2009. Is Al Gore lying? I say - yes.
Podcast: On CNN, Obama Advisor Hits Cheney: Not a 'Statesman' (Skips Gore's Attacks on Bush)
Original at NewsBusters.org
• Mon, Apr 6
By Warner Todd Huston It is always interesting to see the Democratic pot calling the Republican kettle black and here we have only the latest example of that with Obama's top advisor attacking former Vice President Dick Cheney for his outspoken position on the failures of the Obama administration's early ef...
Opinion: Al Gore vs. The Aristotelian Method - or The Moral Irrationality Of Climate Scaremongering
Original at omniclimate (WordPress)
• Tue, Mar 3
By omnologos Overall remarks As a complete non-expert in the field of documentary movies, my opinion is that Gore is a natural born actor and “An Inconvenient Truth” (AIT, directed by David Guggenheim) such a well-paced work, that it is hard not to feel the involvement.
Fox News' Hemmer, Gallagher, Wilson baselessly suggest short-term weather impacts global warming debate
Original at Media Matters for America
• Thu, Jan 29
HEMMER: Meanwhile, former Vice President Al Gore braving the snow in Washington to testify on global warming today. The environmental activist making his case to a Senate committee, pressing for U.S. leadership in fighting climate change. Now, the elements outside on the Hill today makin...
Podcast: BANKRUPTCY OF THE ATMOSPHERE
Original at The Radio Ecoshock Show
• Thu, Jan 29
By noreply@blogger.com (Alex Smith) opening Quote from John Kerry on the looming catastrophe in climate change] Al Gore told the Senate that top scientists are screaming from the roof tops: this is our last chance for action to stop a massive heat shift on planet Earth.
Opinion: Guess Where THIS Comes From
Original at blogs.heraldtimesonline.com
• Sun, Jan 4
By Cory Franklin You are probably wondering whether President-elect Obama owes the world an apology for his actions regarding global warming. The answer is, not yet. There is one person, however, who does. You have probably guessed his name: Al Gore. Again, Mr. Gore, I accept your apology.
Opinion: Mr. Gore: Apology Accepted
Original at Huffington Post
• Sat, Jan 3
By Harold Ambler You are probably wondering whether President-elect Obama owes the world an apology for his actions regarding global warming. The answer is, not yet. There is one person, however, who does. You have probably guessed his name: Al Gore. Again, Mr. Gore, I accept your apology.
Podcast: Prager H1: Obama, the Transformer
Original at Town Hall
• Fri, Dec 12
By Info@townhall.com (Dennis Prager) Prager H1: That’s what Charles Krauthammer calls our President-elect. Foreign policy? Not interested. Financial crisis? Let some smart people deal with it. Rooseveltian transformation, that's where you'll find Barack Obama’s passion. A good example is his appointment of Carol Browne...
Opinion: Memo to Gore: Don’t call coal ‘clean’ seven times in your adOriginal at Climate Progress
• Thu, Dec 4
By Joe Al Gore and a bunch of enviro groups have launched the “Reality” Coalition to tell the public there is no such thing as clean coal. The three words Americans are looking for in an environmental policy, they are “safer”, “cleaner”, and “healthier”.
Podcast: Flashback to 2000 VP Picks: Dan Rather Chided Bush-Cheney and Championed Gore-LiebermanOriginal at NewsBusters.org
• Mon, Aug 18
By Brent Baker Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore officially introduced his history-making running mate today, Senator Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut. History-making because Lieberman is of Jewish heritage and faith. The two started running right away. In their first joint appearance th...
Podcast: Gore-spel, or The Al Gore Bible: How the Waylay, the Inconvenient Truth and the Lies Began
Original at scottthong (WordPress)
• Tue, Jun 24
By Scott Thong The Creation According To Saint Albert 1:3 And The New York Times said, “Let there be sales:” and there were sales of The Book. ….. …… ….. ….. This is probably what was meant when Jesse Jackson Jr. said Obama’s achievements merited a new chapter added to the Bible:
How To: WIRED.com: Make a Presentation Like Al Gore
Original at newsroom.eastwick.com
• Fri, Jun 20
On June 20, Nancy Duarte of Duarte Design was featured in a How-To Wiki article on WIRED.com about how to create a slide show presentation like Al Gore’s in the movie An Inconvenient Truth. Duarte Design is the company behind the innovative presentation and Duarte shares her advice on how to...
Opinion: Bozell Column: Gore Endorses Obama, So What?
Original at NewsBusters.org
• Tue, Jun 17
By Brent Bozell In the New York Times, reporter Jeff Zeleny found no space for negative evaluations of Obama or Gore. Instead, Zeleny passed along how Obama smiled as Gore compared Obama to George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and Christopher Columbus, all of whom accomplished great th...
Opinion: How Al Gore Almost Stole an Election
Original at Flopping Aces
• Mon, May 26
By Wordsmith President Bush won. So how could he steal what was already his? It was Al Gore and his blitzkrieg of lawyers who attempted to steal the 2000 presidential election, by being selective in their recount methods. Enjoy your HBO fantasy movie, and dream on, Democrats!
Podcast: Gore Used Fictional Video to Illustrate ‘Inconvenient Truth’Original at NewsBusters.org
• Tue, Apr 22
By Noel Sheppard TOMMY LEE JONES (ACTOR) CLIP FROM "AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH" Voiceover) Al Gore's 2006 documentary, 'An Inconvenient Truth," makes the same point with actual video of ice shelves calving. Which shots have more impact? AL GORE (FORMER UNITED STATES VICE PRESIDENT)
Podcast: Albright Critical of Presidential Campaign Media Coverage; Blames Minnesota Bridge Collapse on Iraq War
Original at NewsBusters.org
• Sun, Jan 20
By Jeff Poor Albright revealed that to an audience January 19 at a Borders bookstore in Tysons Corner, Va., outside of Washington, D.C., to promote her new book “Memo to the President Elect: How We Can Restore America's Reputation and Leadership.”
Podcast: NR’s Goldberg: Global Warming Alarmists Tactics Akin to Fascism
Original at NewsBusters.org
• Wed, Jan 16
By Jeff Poor Goldberg appeared on January 15 at a Borders Bookstore in downtown Washington, D.C. to promote his new book, Liberal Fascism. According to Goldberg, tactics like comparing climate change skeptics to people "who believe that the Earth is flat," is comparable to those used by the power brok...
Opinion: A Short History of Recent U.S. Presidential Politics - Part 9: The Press v. Bill Clinton Al Gore Hillary Clinton
Original at The Left Coaster
• Mon, Dec 31
By eriposte THE PRESS v. HILLARY CLINTON (paging Eric Boehlert :-)) THE PRESS v. BILL CLINTON Let us not forget how the New York Times (and the Washington Post as well), participated in the extensive fraud against the Clintons - and never apologized for it.
Opinion: Which came first: The Intellectual or the Leader?
Original at whateversowhat (WordPress)
• Thu, Dec 20
By Angie There's been a lot of talk within the past, oh three election cycles, about how the "smartest" or most "intellectual" candidate would make the best president. Coincidentally, they are all Democrats: In 2000, Al Gore was considered more "intellectual" than George W. Bush, despite the fac...
Opinion: Al Gore's Nobel acceptance speech
Original at Northwest Progressive Institute Official Blog
• Tue, Dec 11
By Andrew In the last year of that war, you gave the Peace Prize to a man from my hometown of 2000 people, Carthage, Tennessee. Cordell Hull was described by Franklin Roosevelt as the "Father of the United Nations." He was an inspiration and hero to my own father, who followed Hull in the Congress and the...
Podcast: CNN’s Mann: ‘For the First Time... We Can All Share the Nobel Prize’
Original at NewsBusters.org
• Mon, Dec 10
By Matthew Balan CNN International’s Jonathan Mann, during an hour-long "love fest" in honor of Al Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s reception of the Nobel Peace Prize, gushed over the former vice president. "You went from being 'Ozone Man' to 'The Goracle.' This became -- the Nobe...
Podcast: KOA's Newman, KFKA's Oliver repeated myth that Gore claimed to have "invented" the Internet
Original at Colorado Media Matters
• Tue, Nov 27
Oliver alluded to Gore's purported claim to have invented the Internet while discussing an upcoming United Nations Climate Change Conference in Bali, Indonesia, scheduled for December 3 through December 14. During a March 1999 CNN interview, while trying to differentiate himself fr...
Opinion: Al Gore for science czar?
Original at MSNBC
• Mon, Nov 19
By Charlie, Washington, DC I have a degree in meteorology and can tell you that we can't even accurately measure temperature around the globe. We measure it best at weather stations, mostly at airports, that experience a lot of growth in population and industry around them. Temperature is only one of the atmospher...
Al Gore for science czar?
Original at MSNBC
• Sun, Nov 18
By Matthew Kennel, San Diego CA The change of CO2 from the roughly 200 parts per million to 300 parts per million was extremely significant in climate change, it corresponded to the difference between the Ice Age and today. On the Kelvin scale (true physics) the change was maybe 5 degrees (C or K), about the same as what gl...
35 Scientific Errors (or Intentional Lies) in An Inconvenient Truth
Original at scottthong (WordPress)
• Tue, Oct 30
By Scott Thong THE 35 BLATANT ERRORS OR LIES IN ‘AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH’ 9. Coral reefs “bleaching” It was caused by an unusual El Nino pattern, not global warming. 26. Larsen B Ice Shelf “broke up because of ‘global warming’” The ice shelfs have been breaking up since 10,000 years ago.
35 Errors Discovered in Al Gore’s Film
Original at NewsBusters.org
• Sun, Oct 21
By Noel Sheppard It should come as no great surprise that such was forecast in April when NewsBusters warned readers of the dangers associated with Gore’s propaganda. For those that have forgotten, a federal judge cited “An Inconvenient Truth” in his ruling against the government for its financing of ov...
James Boyce: Al Gore: How To Count To 2,182
Original at Huffington Post
• Mon, Jul 23
By James Boyce Last week, I wrote about Al Gore and the need for him to start an Exploratory Committee by September 1 and explore the possibility of running for President in 2008. In this post, as the other Democratic contenders gather for... Al Gore can raise the money. Al Gore can get to 2,182.
Opinion: The Gore/Nader conflict all over again, but this time its inside the DemParty
Original at TPMCafe
• Sat, Jul 14
By csampson In 2000, I was quite aware that BushCo. LLP, would be bad for the US. He'd ruined our state of Texas as governor and now suddenly after one term as Gov. he wanted crack at the White House, er...I mean,...a crack at the White House. The two viable options on the table were of course Al Gore, and his...enemy?...Ral...
Podcast: Presidential politics getting attention here
Original at Wisconsin Radio Network
• Wed, Jun 20
For democrats, unannounced candidate Al Gore and Hillary Clinton with Gore actually beating Clinton by two points. But Walsh thinks that's because the candidates have been so much time in Iowa prior to the straw poll and Iowa caucuses next year.
Opinion: Nader - Still In the Crosshairs
Original at tribe.net
• Fri, Feb 2
By Dave-Leon Felt compelled to post this as a spin off from a conversation in another thread - d. Nader - Still in the Crosshairs by MickeyZ posted on Guerilla News Network gnn.tv I was at the gym, walking by a television tuned to one of the many insipid morning chat shows…but that’s not what stopped me dead i...