An Inconvenient Truth proves a real money spinner ...
Al Gore just keeps stuffing money in his pockets.
Another US$750,000 - this time sharing the Nobel Peace Prize with Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
Remember - he gives no talk without a hefty fee attached.
Sharing the prize with the IPCC seems a little unfair - Al Gore gets US$750,000 - with the other US$750,000 shared among 3,000 atmospheric scientists, oceanographers, ice specialists, economists and other experts.
See - More publicity = more money for Al.
Officially, the prize was awarded to: "INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE (IPCC) and ALBERT ARNOLD ( AL) GORE JR. for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change".
What are the odds now on the Nobel Prize winner nominating for President ...
posted by Concerned Ratepayer at 7:00 AM
17 Comments:
Surely he wouldn't keep the prize money?
11:35 PM, October 12, 2007
actually 3001 people won the prize - 3000 scientists etc and one media tart
12:06 AM, October 13, 2007
And Al goes home to his huge house and puts the aircon on!
12:14 AM, October 13, 2007
How does he get this prize when we all know that he is a liar!!!
We all know that on at least 9 occasions he has been found out.
We have always said follow the money trail .
9:47 AM, October 13, 2007
Gore to donate prizemoney - Mr Gore, 59, said he was deeply honoured and would donate his share of the prize money to the Alliance for Climate Protection
Guess he couldn't keep this one.
Still, he'll add a few more lectures at US$100,000 a pop to his schedule.
10:22 AM, October 13, 2007
JULY 17--If you're looking to book Al Gore for a 75-minute "Environmental Multimedia Lecture," the former vice president will cost you $100,000, plus travel, hotel, security, and per diem expenses.
See - Smoking Gun - Gore contract
10:39 AM, October 13, 2007
Notice he didn't get any of the science prizes.
10:59 AM, October 13, 2007
Not everything Al Gore says in his documentary is a proven fact
Oct 10 2007
A High Court judge today ruled that An Inconvenient Truth can be distributed to every school in the country but only if it comes with a note explaining nine scientific errors in Al Gore’s Oscar-winning film.
The Government had pledged to send thousands of copies of the film to schools across the country, but a Kent father challenged that policy saying it would “brainwash” children.
A judge was asked to adjudicate between Stewart Dimmock and the Department of Children, Schools and Families. Mr Justice Burton ruled that the film could be sent to schools, but only if it was accompanied by new guidlines to balance the former US vice-president’s “one-sided” views
The judge said some of the errors were made in “the context of alarmism and exaggeration” in order to support Mr Gore’s thesis on global warming.
He said that while the film was dramatic and highly professional, it formed part the ex-politician’s global crusade on climate change and not all the claims were supported by the current mainstream scientific consensus.
He went on to list those errors:
Error one
Al Gore: A sea-level rise of up to 20 feet would be caused by melting of either West Antarctica or Greenland “in the near future”.
The judge’s finding: “This is distinctly alarmist and part of Mr Gore’s ”wake-up call“. It was common ground that if Greenland melted it would release this amount of water - “but only after, and over, millennia.”
Error two
Gore: Low-lying inhabited Pacific atolls are already “being inundated because of anthropogenic global warming.”
Judge: There was no evidence of any evacuation having yet happened.
Error three
Gore: The documentary described global warming potentially “shutting down the Ocean Conveyor” - the process by which the Gulf Stream is carried over the North Atlantic to western Europe.
Judge: According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), it was “very unlikely” it would be shut down, though it might slow down.
Error four
Gore: He asserted - by ridiculing the opposite view - that two graphs, one plotting a rise in C02 and the other the rise in temperature over a period of 650,000 years, showed “an exact fit”.
Judge: Although there was general scientific agreement that there was a connection, “the two graphs do not establish what Mr Gore asserts”.
Error five
Gore: The disappearance of snow on Mt Kilimanjaro was expressly attributable to global warming.
Judge: This “specifically impressed” David Miliband, the Environment Secretary, but the scientific consensus was that it cannot be established that the recession of snows on Mt Kilimanjaro is mainly attributable to human-induced climate change.
Error six
Gore: The drying up of Lake Chad was used in the film as a prime example of a catastrophic result of global warming, said the judge.
Judge: “It is generally accepted that the evidence remains insufficient to establish such an attribution. It is apparently considered to be far more likely to result from other factors, such as population increase and over-grazing, and regional climate variability.”
Error seven
Gore: Hurricane Katrina and the consequent devastation in New Orleans to global warming.
Judge: There is “insufficient evidence to show that”.
Error eight
Gore: Referred to a new scientific study showing that, for the first time, polar bears were being found that had actually drowned “swimming long distances - up to 60 miles - to find the ice”.
Judge: “The only scientific study that either side before me can find is one which indicates that four polar bears have recently been found drowned because of a storm." That was not to say there might not in future be drowning-related deaths of bears if the trend of regression of pack ice continued - “but it plainly does not support Mr Gore’s description”.
Error nine
Gore: Coral reefs all over the world were bleaching because of global warming and other factors.
Judge: The IPCC had reported that, if temperatures were to rise by 1-3 degrees centigrade, there would be increased coral bleaching and mortality, unless the coral could adapt. But separating the impacts of stresses due to climate change from other stresses, such as over-fishing, and pollution was difficult.
11:06 AM, October 13, 2007
Past Nobel Peace Prize winners:
- Nelson Mandela
- Aung San Suu Kyi
Adding Al Gore hardly seems appropriate but they did give it to Yasser Arafat one year.
Remember that Al Gore was vice president when he and Clinton failed to intervene in the 1994 slaughter of 800,000 people in Rwanda. Former U.S. President Bill Clinton regrets his failure to prevent it.
And now they give Gore a prize for peace? A prize for standing on the sidelines watching genocide.
11:33 AM, October 13, 2007
If nothing else maybe the prize will help focus attention on how we harm the planet by cutting down trees and polluting the environment. Don't think it'll stop third world countries in Asia cutting down their forests though.
1:23 PM, October 13, 2007
Malcolm Turnbull's view:
Some people had criticised Mr Gore's film as being in parts more dramatic than scientific, Mr Turnbull said, but he did not share that view.
"It's a movie, not an article in the Royal Journal of Climate Change Science."
2:08 PM, October 13, 2007
Funny how Garrett and Rudd were at pains to say they had personally congratulated Gore. Hoping some of his gloss would rub off on them. Mr pulp mills in Tasmania are fine by me and Mr can I get elected without anyone guessing the real labor party policies.
3:41 PM, October 13, 2007
Excerpt from the Courier Mail:
Gore's climate theory savaged
13 October 2007
One of the world's leading meteorologists has described the theory that helped Al Gore win a share of the Nobel prize "ridiculous".
Dr William Gray, a pioneer in the science of seasonal hurricane forecasts, spoke to a packed lecture hall at UNC Charlotte and said humans are not responsible for the warming of the earth.
His visit, arranged through the meteorology program at UNCC, came on the same day that Gore was honoured for his work in support of the link between humans and global warming.
"We're brainwashing our children," said Gray, 78, a longtime professor at Colorado State University. "They're going to the Gore movie (An Inconvenient Truth) and being fed all this. It's ridiculous."
Gray, whose annual forecasts of the number of tropical storms and hurricanes are widely publicised, said instead that a natural cycle of ocean water temperatures - related to the amount of salt in ocean water - is responsible for the global warming that he acknowledges has taken place.
However, he said, that same cycle means a period of global cooling will begin soon and last for several years.
"We'll look back on all of this in 10 or 15 years and realise how foolish it was," Gray said.
During his speech to a crowd of about 300 that included meteorology students from several Carolinas universities and a host of professional meteorologists, Gray also said those who have linked global warming to the increased number of hurricanes in recent years are in error.
He cited statistics, showing there were 101 hurricanes from 1900-1949, in a period of cooler global temperatures, compared to 83 from 1957-2006, when the earth warmed.
"The human impact on the atmosphere is simply too small to have a major effect on global temperatures," Gray said.
He said his beliefs have made him an outsider in popular science.
"It bothers me that my fellow scientists are not speaking out against something they know is wrong," he said. "But they also know that they'd never get any grants if they spoke out. I don't care about grants."
4:48 PM, October 13, 2007
one thing for sure - it's a contentious issue
5:23 PM, October 13, 2007
Who can respect the Nobel Peace Prize ever again
6:17 PM, October 13, 2007
I think he doth protest to much.
He will respond to the call and stand for the Presidency of the USA and then watch the fur fly.
This has been his grand plan all along.
10:01 AM, October 14, 2007
Excerpt from the Daily Telegraph:
'Sinking Fort Denison a victim of climate change'
15 October 2007
Sydney's historic Fort Denison is sinking, wreaking havoc on the sandstone walls and threatening the former penal site's survival.
The tower is one of 64 sites around NSW which the State Government has identified as victims of climate change.
"We don't want this icon to become the first victim of climate change," Environment Minister Phil Koperberg said yesterday as he announced a $1.5 million rescue package.
It comes as the Government will announce 25 coastal and 39 estuary grants, each to be matched dollar for dollar by local councils, in a bid to battle erosion.
A standing tribute to Sydney's convict past, Fort Denison celebrates its 150th birthday this week.
It was built more than a century ago to defend the Harbour from the French and the Russians.
"In the past 100 years we have seen sea levels rise by some 10cm and the dire predictions are that during the 100 years it is not going to be another 10cm, but 100cm or a whole metre," Mr Koperberg said.
Increased Harbour traffic, coupled with the rising sea levels, has already destroyed the slipway and the sandstone fort takes the brunt of the Harbour's waves; the porous sandstone drinking in the salt right down to the fort's foundations.
It is one of many icons around the state that are beginning to see the effects of climate change with the coasts of Byron Bay, Tweed Heads and Rockdale's Lady Robinson's beach just some of the sites targeted for restoration.
At Byron Bay storm weathering has become so serious the council is considering a project to move coastal houses away from the beach.
Other councils are investigating dredging and raising the height of some beaches.
Specialist stone masons will be working on restoring Fort Denison.
10:46 AM, October 15, 2007
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