h/t Dr. Willie Soon; You would have thought after making hundreds of millions selling his TV station to big oil backed Al Jazeera, buying a seaside villa, and having his most famous climate prediction fall flat, Al Gore might have settled into a very comfortable retirement. But apparently not.
Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Al Gore looks to youth to spark action on climate change
“We cannot continue to use the sky as an open sewer in a way that is absolutely destroying the future,” Gore said before an audience at the Kennedy Center.
March 25, 2022, 6:40 AM AEST
By Denise ChowAl Gore is fired up.
The environmentalist and former vice president appeared on stage Wednesday evening in Washington, D.C., speaking to young activists from Georgetown University about the youth-led climate movement and excoriating the lack of political will worldwide to address the growing crisis.
“We cannot continue to use the sky as an open sewer in a way that is absolutely destroying the future,” Gore said before an audience at the Kennedy Center.
The talk, part of an exhibition called “COAL + ICE” that uses immersive video and photography to show the consequences of climate change, comes just days before youth leaders are set to hold a global day of protest on Friday against climate inaction.
Speaking across the generational divide, Gore said young people have helped propel cultural shifts throughout history.
“Young people have always been in the vanguard of these morally based social movements demanding change,” he said.
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Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/science/environment/al-gore-looks-youth-spark-action-climate-change-rcna21241
In my opinion there is a reason dangerous cults, climate activists and evil demagogues target children. Children have not had the life experience to ask the right questions, to objectively evaluate the nonsense they are fed. Not that I am suggesting Al Gore is an evil demagogue, of course.
Child abuse is one if the fundamental planks of the AGW “cause” (as M. Mann termed it).
I see old Al is up to his same tricks; showing videos of normal weather extremes and calving ice, saying or implying they are caused by climate change. What a crock.
The Earth’s climate(s) is/are always changing, always has/have done, always will do, & it has always had weather extremes!!! The UK Wet Office is doing its usual backside covering piece by predicting all sorts of good & bad weather so that when it happens they can say, “told you!!!”. Blue skies & sunshine this morning in South-West UK, damn this climate change stuff, gonna have to be boring & breakfast on the beach this morning – again!!! HAGWE everyone, except you Al Gore, hope you have a severe plumbing issue in all your bathrooms in ALL your mansions simultaneously!!!
Today I heard the BBC tell us that Uk windmills were producing 3% of our electricity and that there had been five days of no wind worth a damn. Then I woke up. See gridwatch.templar
There is a high-pressure system (center, marked) sitting on top of you at the moment.
https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/isobaric/500hPa/orthographic=-14.48,39.14,264/loc=-0.839,55.741
Gridwatch shows UK getting 0.43% of their power from wind, at 6AM EST.
“What a crook”.
Fixed it.
. . . no fix necessary; both apply equally in this case.
A crock of crook?
Wasn’t he the Sandusky of Cli… oh maybe that’s something else.
Ah, yes… a 73-year-old ‘Youth Leader’.
Hey kids! Play with somebody your own age.
Come to think of it… Hey Al! Play with somebody your own age.
And oh, by the way, how much did these kids pay to attend?
Friend of the playground per chance!
Second childhood?
No. The attendees are just not experienced enough to ask real questions of the Pied Piper. Much more comfortable.
Actually I got that wrong, he never got out of his first childhood yet. Maybe he”ll grow up some day.
After a bit of searching, in answer to my question, admission to the COAL + ICE exhibit and related events is free, but you must preregister for tickets. Proof of vaccination is required, and masks are required.
So, it appears that taxpayers likely are footing the bill for this.
Another question: How much was Big Al paid to present his schtick?
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Regarding registration for tickets: The organizers will have a nice list of presumably concerned and interested people to target with follow-up propaganda and appeals for donations of time and money.
Al Gore charges between $100,000 and $1,000,000 for a single speaking engagement so chances are this presentation was towards the top end of the range.
I think that’s the problem with kids today, they aren’t outside playing enough. If they did they might realize this spring or summer or winter is the same as the last few years. Being stuck inside means you aren’t experiencing the climate
My builder son says that about office workers and others who spend more time in air conditioned artificial temperature conditions than outside experiencing natural weather.
“Not that I am suggesting Al Gore is an evil demagogue, of course.”
Of course not.
Why, if I was an evil demagogue, I would be pretty pissed off at being compared to a nasty, gormless twerp like Al Gore.
Gormless: lacking sense…foolish. Thanks Martin, my new word for the day. There’s many reasons to check in with WATTS several times per day. Just saying.
Gormless just seems to be custom fit for Gore.
Griff should change his name to Griff the gormless, just for alliteration purposes.
Joseph Goebbels’ star pupil shines once again, the hard lefty hypocrisy slime always reach out to the youth to perpetrate their evil objectives, what next, will he be telling the youth of today to rise up against the old people they are not supposed to listen to, & do what, kill us or just enslave us? Don’t know about the US, but the dodgy psychology “profession” in the UK is on record as labelling anyone who questions AGW propaganda as suffering from mental illness. As I have often said, & no wish to incite, but there is never a lunatic around when you want one!!! PS has his 4M$ seaside mansion slipped beneath the waves yet, along with Obama’s 4M$ seaside pad??? Those properties must be absolutely worthless by now being unsellable due to rising sea levels!!!
as someone else pointed out the push to get the vote for kids as young as 13 in some nations has a LOT behind it..like brainwashed kiddies voting for the greentards parties
if a huge number of new voters appear it really could make a serious mess of vote stability
Since they are attempting to lower the age-of-consent to 12, the argument will be that “if they’re old enough to consent to sex with an adult, they’re old enough to vote.”
I always wanted them to raise the age to 26, the age their parents didn’t have to pay for their health insurance anymore
That’s what Joe Biden and the Democrats are hoping for with their open border policy.
“ but the dodgy psychology “profession” in the UK is on record as labelling anyone who questions AGW propaganda as suffering from mental illness.”
Holy crap, that’s what rulers in the Soviet Union said about anyone who challenged their political dogma, using it as a pretense to imprison untold numbers of dissidents. This is another dreadful and disturbing thing I’ve learned about the UK in recent years.
Al Gorbel’s Jugend. The children ‘do what they are told’.
It is not only children that don’t seem to have that life experience these days.
Say that loud. When the UK ‘s Minister for Energy and Climate Change told me that solar was the thing I told him he’ d need to store the energy.
He didn’t know!
JF
That must be a first, a British Minister not knowing something, probably doesn’t even know that the Earth’s climate changes every now & then either!!!
Is there one continent, country, region, county, or city where we can point to and say the climate is different from 100 years ago? 50 years ago?
“He didn’t know”
Jesus wept.
Australia has cabinet ministers who think that a coal fired power station can be replaced with a big battery.
I have Chinese family members who survived the Red Terror by fleeing to the hinterland and staying there for many years.
The Vikings had berserkers. You’d point the berserkers at the battlefield and pray. They were so out of control that there was the terrifying chance they would turn on your own people. Some scholars think the berserkers were high on something but, according to contemporary accounts, even if there wasn’t a battle, folks would try to avoid them because they had a hair trigger at the best of times.
The Red Guard was like having all your kids turn into berserkers. They were seriously out of control and you never knew who they’d turn on.
I spent a lot of quarters playing that damn video game. Was good at it, but I still regret the wasted time and money.
Nobody outside the US has nay idea who Gore is…
really? are you one of the nobodies?
https://www.ft.com/content/d8df5e3c-5845-11db-b70f-0000779e2340
https://www.climaterealityproject.org/press/al-gore-and-climate-reality-project-train-new-climate-activists-berlin
griff, send your brain to wuwt, we can fix you.
Once in awhile, griff posts something that is simultaneously true and false. griff obviously knows who Gore is.
Griff’s main source of information is The Guardian.
So of course he qualifies as “some numptie from outside the US”.
Ignorant f..ckwit!
Are you really that stupid?
Yes he is!
“Nobody outside the US has nay idea who Gore is…”
A British judge ruled that Al Gore’s climate change movie was propaganda and should not be taught to English school children in its original form.
This judge certainly knew who Al Gore was. You missed all that? You live in the UK, don’t you?
We do, if for this alone.
Al Gore’s Oscar-winning documentary on global warming, An Inconvenient Truth, was yesterday criticised by a high court judge who highlighted what he said were “nine scientific errors” in the film.
Gore’s climate film has scientific errors – judge | Environment | The Guardian
Of course they know Frosty the Snowman griff. Gore is the man everyone invites when the kiddies don’t know what snow looks like-
A rare phenomenon, but it has been repeated.. How did the snow fall in the deserts of Saudi Arabia and Algeria? – Teller Report
Down under we have a local version in Tim Flannery. Things get a bit dry and you invite Tim the rain dance man to fill your dams.
He was the Vice President of the United States for eight years. Didn’t he go on trips to various countries and meet with the leaders once in a while?
griff just described big Al as a total non-entity, a worthless unknown.
Just like griff.
griff and Gore => nut zero and net zero.
What is this Democrat desire to destroy civilisation? Are they so convinced they are not part of civilisation, that it’s destruction won’t negatively impact them also?
I came up with the term ‘Socialistopathy’ but I need a grant to flesh out the concept a bit.
Leftists despise the current civilization because it doesn’t provide them with the stuff they feel they are entitled to. They feel the easiest way to build a society that will work properly (IE provide them with all the stuff they want) is to destroy the current one first. They view themselves as being so smart, that rebuilding a new society will be easy peasy.
disgusting POS
Make that a bit more than 10yrs….
Then I will say it: Al Gore is an evil demagogue
Hitler Jugend?
Maybe a cross between that and Komsomol.
Trees are emerging from under glaciers, means it was warmer then.
Actually, he is correct. All these things are caused by climate change and there is nothing humans can do to stop it. Good catch, Alhole!
From the article: “The talk, part of an exhibition called “COAL + ICE” that uses immersive video and photography to show the consequences of climate change, comes just days before youth leaders are set to hold a global day of protest on Friday against climate inaction.”
Let’s see: Friday has come and gone, and I haven’t heard a thing about a global day of protest taking place. Did I miss something?
Sponsored by the Asia Society.
Al Gore first went to a divinity school. I don’t think heal ever get that preacher swagger(t) out of his system.
Exactly!
It was always in the back of Al’s mind that the easiest way to rake in lotsa $$$$$s is to spruik some bullshit religion to the rubes and get a “movement” going.
He had many templates to follow – Al Sharpton comes to mind.
From the article: ““Young people have always been in the vanguard of these morally based social movements demanding change,” he said.”
Al Gore shows his real agenda: Social movements demanding change.
Al is using the scam of Human-caused Climate Change to push his socialist agenda. Al wants to change our current society into a socialist society with Al running things.
Al is not alone. Many socialists are using the climate change issue to push their political agendas.
Al has a lot of dishonest baggage. Al has been known to lie about the climate. I wonder if those students he is speaking to know that?
Probably why he is addressing students in the first place.
From the article: “In my opinion there is a reason dangerous cults, climate activists and evil demagogues target children. Children have not had the life experience to ask the right questions, to objectively evaluate the nonsense they are fed.”
That’s exactly why these evil people target kids.
I couldn’t find the quote offhand, but Stalin said (paraphrasing) if you give him the children to educate for a few years, he will own them for life.
I think it is the Jesuits who claim that, not Stalin.
Didn’t we have this same discussion last year? Stalin said something along the lines of if you give me children from the age of seven, they’ll be mine for life. The leader of the Jesuits said something different – show me the boy and I’ll show you the man he’ll become. Something like that anyway – slightly different quotes.
The media is the real open sewer for dispensing this sort of thing.
Al Gore targets children because they don’t know any better, and most adults have grown wise to his chicanery.
Is a classic example of pollution of the English language with Orwellian-style Greenspeak, wherein CO2 is conflated with actual air pollutants, which generally are a local problem, to be dealt with on a localized basis, usually urban areas. Ironically, what Al Gore and his ilk are doing, brainwashing kids with their Klimate Propaganda will do more to destroy their future than anything else.
I give him a big “OK Boomer” – and I’m 67!
I like “OK Doomer” better.
From the above article:
“We cannot continue to use the sky as an open sewer in a way that is absolutely destroying the future” — Al Gore, March 2022 (my underlining emphasis added)
Hey, Herr Gore, you got any facts (aka hard data) to support that specious claim?
Just one will do.
As for your reference to “morally based social movements demanding change”, I think the Hitler-jugend (aka Hitler Youth organization) from 1933 to 1945 would qualify for this same characterization, albeit their demands for change were a bit different than those of today’s teenagers that seem, for some strange reason, to be enamoured with you.
This man is the inhuman embodiment of ignorance and malevolence. He is basically saying, without a shred of proof, that ever breath these youths expel is a noxious insult to nature and every calorie of energy expended in their life and development is a sin against the environment. Yet he continues to blow hard at every opportunity, flies luxuriously around the globe on a whim, sucks up the wealth of poor people like it was his daily bread, buys houses as if they were socks and swells like the glutton he is. While he preaches a sermon of guilt for the gullible, he heartlessly slobbers at the public trough while holding back the little people lest he miss some tasty morsel. If Dickens still lived, the Al Gores of the world would be his most hated and illustrative characters of human degradation.
Hey, Andy,
Now tell us your really feel . . . 🙂
And he almost became our president
Eric:
“Not that I am suggesting Al Gore is an evil demagogue, of course.”
Of course not. Who would think that a bloated hypocrite spewing stercobilin-like dialog while having a bigger energy use footprint than 99% of humanity, would have ignoble purpose. Certainly not inexperienced youth since he is so popular within that demographic.
See, my sarcastic gene is still active.
Is it Man Bear Pig season?
Hitler’s Nazi youth movement was well known https://www.facinghistory.org/books-borrowing/heil-hitler-confessions-hitler-youth … the very first priority was to captivate the young with carefully planned propaganda. Twice a week class on the Master Race designed to indoctrinate German children on the Master Race and their superiority over all others… with Jews being the most inferior race of all mankind. See video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJ6umV7CVY8
He’s not?
Will he be getting uncle Joe along to sniff their hair ?
No fool, like an old fool.
.It is not necessary to suggest that Al Gore is an evil old demagogue, as it is written all over him now.
Gore is right, kids can be manipulated.
Ask Mao, or pol pot
Give us the child for 8 years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.
Vladimir Yenin
‘The talk, part of an exhibition called “COAL + ICE” that uses immersive video and photography to show the consequences of climate change, …’
Why bother with data and facts when an emotional appeal based on visuals stripped of context will do the trick? We are all familiar with photos of industrial chimneys belching out water vapor being taken with backlight to turn white clouds dark & menacing. My local favorite is pictures of flooding from summer rains in Dixie Highway in Miami being passed off as sea level rise. Climate alarmists are passed Masters of visual manipulation.