Ken Connor of the Center for a Just Society wonders where Al Gore has disappeared to:

…In the face of the embarrassing Climategate scandal and an unprecedented winter season that has for the first time ever delivered measurable snowfall to all 50 states, Al Gore’s absence from the public stage has been conspicuous.  Perhaps he’s taken a page from Punxsutawney Phil’s playbook and is hibernating in hopes of a sunnier forecast come April.

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The bottom line is that intelligent, responsible people are getting tired of being made to feel guilty for every carbon credit consumed and every mile-per-gallon burned, especially when it’s becoming more and more clear that the current climate change hysteria is being fueled less by solid scientific evidence than by an extreme Green ideology that – much like Agent Smith in the Matrix movies – views humanity as a virus, a plague upon the earth that must be contained and ultimately eradicated.  For the extreme enviro-ideologues, mankind’s devastating impact on the earth is a foregone conclusion; the appeal to “science” is simply a clever public relations tactic…

Read the whole article here.

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This sort of thing would never, unfortunately, be said here.

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On the Google search page today you’ll see this:

The link takes you to a video made using Google Earth and narrated by the Goracle. In it, Gore’s usual global warming hysteria is highlighted with images of sea levels rising in Google Earth. The video also pushes propaganda “tours” that you can download into Google Earth. Now you can host an alarmist conference of your own, right from your home!

Despite their efforts, Copenhagen is looking so far like Nopenhagen.

Update: Talks are back on.

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This is a major scientific scandal. A hacker breached the network of a government-funded, so-called “leading Climate Research Unit” in Britain, and the resulting email exposure has given the global warming community a collective black eye.  The emails demonstrate a clear pattern of data manipulation, organized resistance and obstruction to disclosure, and private admissions to publicly denied faults in the research.

The New York Times naturally couldn’t resist a little spin and damage control:

The evidence pointing to a growing human contribution to global warming is so widely accepted that the hacked material is unlikely to erode the overall argument. However, the documents will undoubtedly raise questions about the quality of research on some specific questions and the actions of some scientists.

Ridiculous.  The evidence has been so thoroughly discredited and dunked that it is unconscionable for a major media organ, even one as biased as the New York Times, to engage in this level of spin.  But while the media doesn’t get it, the public increasingly does.

Opinion polls show faith in AGW continues to be the minority position.  Meanwhile, Al Gore is facing an increasingly emboldened public backlash for both his views and his hypocrisy.

Update: I’ve started a Climategate Link-o-Rama page to keep up with the story.  I’ll update it with the best resources on the controversy as I come across them.

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Today comes an Al Gore edition of We’re All Gonna Die!

First, the Goracle impresses us with his knowledge of the earth sciences, declaring on Conan O’Brien that the Earth’s core reaches a temperature of “several million degrees.”  Our actual best estimate? 4,000-5,000 degrees Celsius.  As NRO’s John Derbyshire puts it, “If the temperature anywhere inside the earth was ’several million degrees,’ we’d be a star.”

Now comes word of how Gore plans to open his next apocalyptic book.  He will use the following quote:

I’m offering you the choice of life or death. You can choose either blessings or curses.
–Deuteronomy Chapter 30, Verse 19

The cover art even manages to be over-the-top hysterical.  As the so-called science of global warming is increasingly rejected, expect the likes of Al Gore to hyperventilate about the coming doom at even greater frequencies.

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Phelim McAleer, director of Not Evil Just Wrong, attended the recent Society of Environmental Journalists conference (he is a member) to engage in some environmental journalism.  Specifically, he asked Al Gore about the UK court ruling that found 9 significant errors in his award-winning documentary, An Inconvenient Truth.

For daring to address The Goracle on whether these errors had been fixed, his fellow “journalists” shut off his microphone:

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Not that the Democrats care.  They aren’t actually interested in “investigating” anything with their “hearings.” Rather, they are just going through the motions so they can pass their cap-and-tax plan.

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Al Gore, still trying to top his invention of the internet, wants to invent a new .eco top level domain.

I call dibs on wereallgonnadie.eco!

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Question: Anytime a skeptic speaks out against the concept of man-made global warming, the immediate reaction is a superficial test of his/her credibility and therefore believability and therefore relevance to the discussion hinging on their academic qualifications in the field of climatology. This of course is merely a tool of convenience for the anthropogenic climate change (AGW) proponent to pigeonhole and discount any contributions this person might bring to the debate. But why is the same test not applied to those who speak in support of draconian government power grabs in the name of combating AGW?

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Got this in an email. It makes a good point.

Look over the descriptions of the following two houses and see if you can tell which one belongs to an environmentalist.

HOUSE # 1:

A 20-room mansion (not including 8 bathrooms) heated by natural gas. Add on a pool (and a pool house) and a separate guest house all heated by gas. In ONE MONTH ALONE this mansion consumes more energy than the average American household in an ENTIRE YEAR. The average bill for electricity and natural gas runs over $2,400.00 per month. In natural gas alone (which last time we checked was a fossil fuel), this property consumes more than 20 times the national average for an American home. This house is not in a northern or Midwestern “snow belt,” either. It’s in the South.

HOUSE # 2:

Designed by an architecture professor at a leading national university, this house incorporates every “green” feature current home construction can provide. The house contains only 4,000 square feet (4 bedrooms) and is nestled on arid high prairie in the American southwest. A central closet in the house holds geothermal heat pumps drawing ground water through pipes sunk 300 feet into the ground. The water (usually 67 degrees F.) heats the house in winter and cools it in summer. The system uses no fossil fuels such as oil or natural gas, and it consumes 25% of the electricity required for a conventional heating/cooling system. Rainwater from the roof is collected and funneled into a 25,000 gallon underground cistern. Wastewater from showers, sinks and toilets goes into underground purifying tanks and then into the cistern. The collected water then irrigates the land surrounding the house. Flowers and shrubs native to the area blend the property into the surrounding rural landscape.

HOUSE # 1 (20 room energy guzzling mansion) is outside of Nashville, Tennessee. It is the abode of that renowned environmentalist (and filmmaker) Al Gore.

HOUSE # 2 (model eco-friendly house) is on a ranch near Crawford, Texas. Also known as “the Texas White House,” it is the private residence of the President of the United States , George W. Bush.

So whose house is gentler on the environment? Yet another story you WON’T hear on CNN, CBS, ABC, NBC, MSNBC or read about in the New York Times or the Washington Post. Indeed, for Mr. Gore, it’s truly “an inconvenient truth.”

Corroborating info on the current Western White House can be found here. Note that Bush’s ranch also has multiple structures, guest houses, etc. I highlight this because the email notes of Gore’s guest houses but not Bush’s. It makes no difference really.

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