Surprise: Al Gore Lies

2009 December 10

by bc3b

The Australians actually wrote the headline to read, “Climategate: Gore Falsifies the Record.” Apparently, the former vice president wasn’t exactly telling the truth in his response to Sarah Palin. Of course, Andrea Mitchell didn’t ask any follow-up questions either because she didn’t want to expose Gore as a liar or, more likely, because Andrea is simply too damn dumb.

It’s interesting that while the elites are enjoying their five-star hotels, luxury limousines and caviar wedges in Copenhagen, a massive late fall snowstorm is leaving drifts of up to 15 feet in the central U.S. Oh well, it will soon be times for those wonderful people who are trying to save the world to board their private jets and leave a huge carbon footprint as they fly home, feeling self-rightous and self-assured.

Andrew Bolt writes:

Al Gore has studied the Climategate emails with his typically rigorous eye and dismissed them as mere piffle:

Q: How damaging to your argument was the disclosure of e-mails from the Climate Research Unit at East Anglia University?

A: To paraphrase Shakespeare, it’s sound and fury signifying nothing. I haven’t read all the e-mails, but the most recent one is more than 10 years old. These private exchanges between these scientists do not in any way cause any question about the scientific consensus.

And in case you think that was a mere slip of the tongue:

Q: There is a sense in these e-mails, though, that data was hidden and hoarded, which is the opposite of the case you make [in your book] about having an open and fair debate.

A: I think it’s been taken wildly out of context. The discussion you’re referring to was about two papers that two of these scientists felt shouldn’t be accepted as part of the IPCC report. Both of them, in fact, were included, referenced, and discussed. So an e-mail exchange more than 10 years ago including somebody’s opinion that a particular study isn’t any good is one thing, but the fact that the study ended up being included and discussed anyway is a more powerful comment on what the result of the scientific process really is.

In fact, thrice denied:

These people are examining what they can or should do to deal with the P.R. dimensions of this, but where the scientific consensus is concerned, it’s completely unchanged. What we’re seeing is a set of changes worldwide that just make this discussion over 10-year-old e-mails kind of silly.

In fact, as Watts Up With That shows, one Climategate email was from just two months ago. The most recent was sent on November 12 – just a month ago. The emails which have Tom Wigley seeming (to me) to choke on the deceit are all from this year. Phil Jones’ infamous email urging other Climategate scientists to delete emails is from last year.

How closely did Gore read these emails? Did he actually read any at all? Was he lying or just terribly mistaken? What else has he got wrong?

Meanwhile:

A gigantic storm buried much of America’s Midwest in snow and led to at least 16 deaths yesterday.

The weather system created blizzard conditions, burying cars under huge drifts.

Officials reported more than a foot of snow Des Moines, Iowa, and nearly 19 inches just south of Madison, Wisconsin.

Gusts of up to 50 mph created snow drifts up to 15 feet tall and even knocked down a two-story Christmas tree in downtown Champaign, Illinois.

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