Al Gore: "‘This climate thing...it’s not getting warmer.’ Bullshit!"

[drokhole]

Al Gore Lets Loose In Aspen Institute Speech About Bullshit Anti Global-Warming Pseudo-Science
source: Huffington Post

In a passionate rant, Gore says his opponents are a group of people, "washing back at you the same crap over and over and over again. There's no longer a shared reality ... It's no longer acceptable in mixed company -- meaning bipartisan company -- to use the goddamn word 'climate.'"

Gore continues:

"And some of the exact same people — I can go down a list of their names — are involved in this. And so what do they do? They pay pseudo scientists to pretend to be scientists to put out the message: ‘This climate thing, it’s nonsense. Man-made CO2 doesn’t trap heat. It may be volcanoes.’ Bullshit! ‘It may be sun spots.’ Bullshit! ‘It’s not getting warmer.’ Bullshit!"

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Check out the audio at the link. Fantastic!

:applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause:

(Edit to add link to more complete audio)

[Liberalynn]

1. You go Sir!

:bounce:

[ejpoeta]

2. yeah... hottest year on record.... weather getting more extreme.... but nope...

nothing to see here.... droughts.... floods.... nope.... nothing to see here... just explain it away.... the thing is... what's the worst that happens if we put in place a save the earth plan??? we clean up our earth?? even if it ended up being a false alarm, the alternative is.... no place to live. hmmm.... and by the time we realized we were wrong about it being a myth it will be too late.

[Supersedeas]

8. they have a penny to make today; to hell with you people who have nothing tomorrow

the most short-sighted approach to science that you will ever see

[ejpoeta]

13. i think that guy on bill maher said it best...

the scientist... once we stopped going to the moon we stopped dreaming about tomorrow and stopped thinking about tomorrow. it's all about the next quarter, the next election. no one is thinking about the future anymore.

[Supersedeas]

17. I wouldn't say no one, but the voices of the short-sighted certainly have the amplification

of those with monied interests to protect in the short term. So, it is sometimes more difficult to hear those who are looking at this issue long-term.

[TuxedoKat]

60. Do you remember his name?

I think that is true too, sadly.

[ejpoeta]

62. he's the astrophysicist, neil deGrasse Tyson that is on history channel and discovery (?)

I'd seen him but didn't remember his name. here's a link to what he said: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_F3pw5F_Pc

[valerief]

66. deGrasse is great. He's so likeable and breaks down science so that even the average undereducated

American (most Americans, since America hasn't valued education for decades) can follow him.

[TuxedoKat]

71. Thank you! (nt)

[ejpoeta]

72. you're welcome. i was so happy to hear him put it out there the way he did.

i posted this link in political videos also so people could hear it. I think they need to see it.

[vim876]

74. Neil DeGrasse Tyson for President! nt

[WhiteTara]

16. It's so hot in Texas that

that the dry earth is crushing water mains. In one town, the water is completely gone and they shut off the spigots.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4952950

[ejpoeta]

20. that's pretty bad. i wish we could get people to understand that this is a reality and not just

ebb and flow. this is our future if we don't friggin do SOMETHING!

[WinkyDink]

55. Really? Maybe my RW brother-in-law and his adult offspring will change their tunes.

[Joe Bacon]

67. But Slick Rick has all them preachers praying for rain!

Yes, Slick Rick is showing the world that the center of stupid is in TEX ASS!

[IthinkThereforeIAM]

73. Lizzie and the Rainman...

... a hit for Tanya Tucker back in the 1970's, is what I keep thinking about:

Step back non-believers
Or the rain will never come
Someone start that fire burning
Somebody beat the drum
He said some may think I'm crazy
For making all these claims
But I swear before this day is over
You folks are gonna see some rain


<http://www.cowboylyrics.com/lyrics/tucker-tanya/lizzie-and-the-rainman-12756.html>

Maybe they should try what the "Rainman" did, ha.

[Beartracks]

36. Wait until >gasp< it SNOWS in winter again!!!!!

Then there will be hearty chortling among the talking heads again, "joking" and exclaiming how there CAN'T be "global warming" because look, there's SNOWMAGGEDON out there!

:eyes:

If they only understood that a touch of global warming spawns weather extremes (among other shifting weather patterns), they would realize that extremes means hotter summers, longer droughts (um, during summer), colder winters, deeper blizzards (also in winter, duh), bigger or more numerous hurricanes (during hurricane season), long hurricane seasons... etc. It's NOT: "everything gets warmer 24/7." Rather, it's: "everything gets wilder, bigger, and COSTLIER."

Attention, right-wingers: COSTLIER.

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[ejpoeta]

57. frankly, i think they know exactly what they are doing. they know what global warming means and are

purposely distorting it to make it seem as if it just means getting warmer because their audience just believes what they are told instead of looking things up for themselves.

[AlbertCat]

38. hottest year on record.... weather getting more extreme....

Many deniers don't contest this. Their new thing is it's not man made. But they ignore the fact that the carbon isotopes in the CO2 are the result of burning fossil fuels, not erupting volcanoes.... or they don't know what an isotope is. (in which case their assessment is not worth anything)

[ejpoeta]

58. acknowledging factors that are able to be changed by changing how we live (ie: not using

gasoline or oil) forces people to think about doing things differently which they don't want to do. If they pretend it isn't from us, then they can say we can't do anything about it so oh well. that way they can just keep doing whatever they want.

[argyl]

3. The best President we never had. What might have been if dumber'n dogshit

hadn't won that 5 to 4 vote.

[HughBeaumont]

5. Thank "Mrs 5-4" for that.

[Javaman]

11. she can rot in hell.

she knows what she did and she has to live with it.

[Ignis]

24. +1

She knew better, too. :argh:

[HughBeaumont]

26. Key Phrase right there: SHE KNEW BETTER.

Her choice came from purely selfish reasons and dozens of millions of people are STILL paying the price for that horrible decision. She's expressed not one iota of remorse for it either.

This was her JOB. Never ONCE did she ask "are we overstepping our bounds in the interference of a State election/recount?" Never ONCE did she ask herself "how bad can this potentially be for America?" Sometimes you simply have to act for the good of the nation when it's demanded.

[Ignis]

27. You got it, Hugh. It drives me up the freakin' wall!

:argh:

Some days, it makes me think she's worse than outright assholes like Scalia. At least with him, you know up-front he's out to screw us with his reactionary, regressive ideology.

[Uncle Joe]

28. I believe O'Connor came to regret her decision after the fact, when it was too late.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x465715

As for former Justice O’Connor, she is quoted as saying of Bush v. Gore: “I don’t think what emerged in the last opinion was the court’s best effort. It was operating under a very short time frame, to say the least. Given more time, I think we probably would’ve done better.”

Or at least she attempted to make a bullshit excuse for it, which is still more than the other four members of the felonious five could/would do.

Most likely had they left this to state of Florida, Bush would have ended up in the White House anyway even if Gore got more votes in the recount because the Republican controlled Florida legislature was prepared to send its' own separate slate of electors and the Republican controlled U.S. Congress would have certified them.

However by interfering with the election, the Supreme Court let the Republican Party off the hook from making such an anti-democratic decision and made it less likely that Gore could/would mount a momentum favoring challenge four years later along the lines of Andy Jackson.

[Jim_Shorts]

39. No, she doesn't regret her decision

I watched her in an interview where she said something to the effect - in hindsight we made the right decision because you know they went back and recounted the vote and George Bush still won.

I wish someone would mail her the results of the recount because she is delusional.

[Uncle Joe]

70. It was a cosmic irony of timing, the papers that recounted the vote determining that Gore won were

overshadowed in the news by 9/11 which occurred about the same time.

[hamsterjill]

4. That's why I love that man!

He has passion!!!

[Stuart G]

6. k & r

[lovuian]

7. I love him too ....We were cheated out of his presidency

America was taken over that day

[Javaman]

9. Oh Al, I know you have sworn off politics, but you would be

a wonderful primary challenger.

[Bluebear]

14. You said it

[drokhole]

32. Gore/Damon?

;)

[abelenkpe]

37. +1000 nt

[JDPriestly]

44. Great idea!

[spanone]

10. tell 'em

[in_cog_ni_to]

12. That's the Al Gore I LOVE! Give 'em hell Al and take no prisoners.

I'll never understand the anti-climate change freaks/psychos/sociopaths.

Wouldn't anyone with children prefer the anti-climate change people are correct and work to make it better? Because if they're RIGHT, by the time you know they were right, it's too fucking late to do anything about it! What then? What do you do when you have no clean water to drink? What do you do when the air is too polluted to breath? YOU DIE. Dumb asses. They are too stupid to be wasting good oxygen. :grr:

[drokhole]

19. It's seriously mind-boggling. And, not only when considering their children, or grandchildren...

But their grandchildren's grandchildren, and their grandchildren's grandchildren, and ad infin-fucking-itum. I know they have trouble seeing (and caring for) anything past their own noses - and hardly consider their children's environmental plight, as is - but existence (both humanity and otherwise) will extend FAR beyond their selfish stint on this planet, and basic operation for future-future inhabitants will only get exponentially more difficult if we continue business as usual.

[snappyturtle]

15. K&R

[drokhole]

18. Just listened to the extended highlights, and LOVE his passionate call for shared reality...

...and shared (and more evolved) consciousness. He absolutely nails it by identifying that we too often operate from false premises - which means any conclusion/result we reach will, by default, be wrong. The entire highlights are seriously magnificent. And here is his complete talk.

[catzies]

69. Thank you very much!! Bookmarking for later n/t

[emmadoggy]

21. LOVE him. I've never heard him so angry and fired up.

:loveya:

[DefenseLawyer]

22. I can't help but wonder

If he had shown that kind of passion and strength as a candidate, what a landslide two term president he would have been.

[WinkyDink]

54. Gore won.

[DefenseLawyer]

68. Yes, but it was close enough to steal.

When he was the cautious DLC Gore, it was close. This Gore wins in a landslide.

[callous taoboy]

23. Help me out here. My RW brother claims that NOAA site predicts a cooling trend

in the next, I forget what he said, 15 to 20 years during which time the drought we are in will have subsided. Is NOAA backed by the anti-climate change crew?

[greyl]

48. Here's help for that and other stupid statements from your brother.

www.skepticalscience.com/argument.php

[WinkyDink]

51. Does "your brother" know what the word "climate" means?

[Uncle Joe]

25. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, drokhole.:thumbsup:

[progressoid]

29. Damn Al

Way to go.

[DonRedwood]

30. bravo

[wakemewhenitsover]

31. Well said, President Gore.

:patriot:

[BackToThe60s]

33. More Gore!

R

[Martin Eden]

34. President Gore addresses the nation on SNL

video:
http://www.hulu.com/watch/1451/saturday-night-live-parallel-universe

[AnnieBW]

35. Where was he in 2000?

Listening to handlers telling him to wear earth tones, no doubt.

[WinkyDink]

52. Gore won.

[Admiral Loinpresser]

64. Irony, I hope. If not,

are you aware you are spouting a fabricated GOP meme? See dailyhowler.com archives for details.

[politicasista]

40. Kick

:kick: :patriot:

[harmonicon]

41. my president (nt)

[dash_bannon]

42. I wonder what it'll take...?

What will it take to get past the well-funded deniers?

At some point, it's going to be blatantly obvious there's global warming. (It is now, actually.) I fear we'll be 2 to 3 degrees warmer before take serious and necessary action.

I just hope the angry mobs take pitchforks and torches to those responsible for delaying action.

[MilesColtrane]

43. Kickeroo

[PhoenixAbove]

45. K&R - I miss Al Gore

During Boston's snowmeggdon last winter, one of my facebook friends wished this global warming thing was really upon us. I couldn't believe my eyes. When I have to give basic science 101 classes on facebook, you know things are bad.

[orbitalman]

46. One of Al's most poinant rants!!!!!! n/t

[Zax2me]

47. So, we'll have the hottest winter then if he is right.

Taking bets.

[road2000]

49. He's why my name includes 2000.

Always, Al.

[GoldenThunder]

50. Where in the FUCK

was this guy in 2000.
Sorry, Al. But this rant is more than a few years too late. And it's a shame.

[WinkyDink]

53. Gore won.

[Myrina]

59. Fascinates me that after all this time, people still don't get that.

Over 500k votes more than Dimson.

GORE WON.

[Admiral Loinpresser]

63. Before further embarrassing yourself

by spouting mainstream 2000 misconceptions, you might want to educate yourself at the archives of dailyhowler.com. If you have never been to that website, there is a high statistical probability that you haven't a clue as to what actually happened in 2000. Ever heard of the War on Gore or felon scrubbing?

[ThomThom]

56. Is Al running for Pres, if so I'll vote for him

primary challenge???

[Admiral Loinpresser]

65. +1 googool

n/t

[Zoonart]

61. Al Gore- the last Statesman?

Who hasn't wondered how the world might have changed if SCOTUS had not destroyed the republic.
I have always admired Al as what used to be called a STATESMAN. I want to share with you all my painting of Al Gore: