Al Gore Melts Down Over an “Inconvenient Truth” in X-Rant about UN Climate Summit Failure
The real “inconvenient truth”: The Iron Law of Electricity >>> Climate Crisis Narrative
I have been following the climate cult antics at the United Nations climate meeting in Dubai [Conference of Parties (CoP28)].
Even before the meeting began, I predicted it would be the biggest failure yet.
I was wrong.
The staggering level of failure was beyond my ability to imagine, and I can imagine quite a bit. However, I did not count on pushback from the meat industry. And I didn’t foresee that the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) would mount such a sweeping and effective counter-offensive from beginning to end of the meeting.
I noted that climate cultists John Kerry and Al Gore were attending in a desperate bid for relevance. As the conference wound down, Gore melted down in an X-rant about the upcoming failure of the summit to phase out fossil fuels.
It was glorious.
COP28 is now on the verge of complete failure. The world desperately needs to phase out fossil fuels as quickly as possible, but this obsequious draft reads as if OPEC dictated it word for word. It is even worse than many had feared. It is “Of the Petrostates, By the Petrostates…
— Al Gore (@algore) December 11, 2023
A rant like this deserves a good fisking, so I shall now fisk.
COP28 is now on the verge of complete failure. The world desperately needs to phase out fossil fuels as quickly as possible, but this obsequious draft reads as if OPEC dictated it word for word. It is even worse than many had feared. It is “Of the Petrostates, By the Petrostates and For the Petrostates.”
Gore forgot about energy expert Robert Bryce’s Iron Law of Electricity, which says that people, businesses, and governments will do whatever they have to do to get the electricity they need.
Despite significant investments in hydro, solar, and wind, Vietnam is now getting about 60% of its juice from coal-fired power plants. Since 2009, Vietnam’s coal-fired electricity output has grown tenfold and more growth is on the way. Last year, according to Global Energy Monitor, Vietnam commissioned about 1,900 megawatts of new coal-fired capacity. (More on Vietnam in a moment.)
The contrast between the rhetoric coming from the climate claque in Washington and the hard realities of electricity-impoverished countries like India, Vietnam, Pakistan, South Africa, and Bangladesh (which is also in the midst of an electricity crisis), could not be more stark. While the U.S. government is fire-hosing hundreds of billions of dollars on weather-dependent renewables and blue, green, and tutti-frutti hydrogen, developing countries — as well as advanced economies like Japan and Germany — are burning all the coal they can find. Why? The Iron Law of Electricity.
Conclusion: The Iron Law of Electricity >>> Climate Crisis Narrative
Now, to focus on the next sentence in Gore’s statement:
It is deeply offensive to all who have taken this process seriously.
I take all science very seriously. I am offended at the ridiculous ways climate data has been gathered, climate science has been funded, and climate narrative critics have been silenced.
The Sydney Airport thermometer is sandwiched between the motorway, the runway, and the terminal, in the middle of the city. It’s measuring heat from artificial sources. https://t.co/kT8viMvgZl pic.twitter.com/RvFKFEnOgc
— John Dodders (@Dodders75) December 10, 2023
The Fifth National Climate Assessment (NCA5) faces criticism for inconsistencies and potential conflicts of interest. Despite acknowledging a historical decrease in hot days in the U.S., the report projects a future increase, raising questions about its validity. The reliance on… pic.twitter.com/cqr4ElqqCq
— Dr. Matthew M. Wielicki (@MatthewWielicki) December 7, 2023
Not only did the Iron Law of Electricity triumph, but so did natural science, reason, and principled professionals.
The last portion is one of Gore’s fantasy-filled forecasts.
There are 24 hours left to show whose side the world is on: the side that wants to protect humanity’s future by kickstarting the orderly phase out of fossil fuels or the side of the petrostates and the leaders of the oil and gas companies that are fueling the historic climate catastrophe. In order to prevent COP28 from being the most embarrassing and dismal failure in 28 years of international climate negotiations, the final text must include clear language on phasing out fossil fuels. Anything else is a massive step backwards from where the world needs to be to truly address the climate crisis and make sure the 1.5°C goal doesn’t die in Dubai.
I consider this portion of Gore’s rant is just another one of his predictions that will not come true. The deviations between Gore’s assertions about the climate and the realities are vast. There are so many examples of Gore’s erroneous projections, but I have selected this one for its literary reference.
“Within the decade there will be no more snows of Kilimanjaro,” he said to the audience in An Inconvenient Truth. This occurred moments before he makes his prediction for Glacier National Park.
Alluding poorly to the title of the Ernest Hemmingway short story The Snows of Kilimanjaro, Gore was trying to claim that Africa’s tallest mountain, with a peak that stands higher than 19,000 feet, would no longer have measurable snow cover on or before 2016.
As of November 2022, Snow-forecast.com, a webpage for skiers, reported that an average of 93 combined inches of snowfall (almost 8 feet) hits just the middle altitudes of Kilimanjaro during November and December. And 9 inches of combined snowfall is the average expected for the middle elevations for July and August, the lightest two-month period for snowfall on the middle part of the mountain.
I would like to conclude by thanking Beege Welborn of Hot Air Blog, who worked together with me on the coverage of CoP28. She has her own take on Gore’s meltdown: Drink Deeply of Al Gore’s Bitter Tears
#PartnersInExposingCrime Me and my Mut 💝 https://t.co/k1sKZcDYJc
— tree hugging s*ster 🎃 (@WelbornBeege) December 12, 2023
I will drink very deeply!
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Fun fact, Al Gore’s business partner is David Blood. Together they are Blood and Gore.
Hört sich gut an für mich….
I don’t know about his “gut”, but he appears to have had considerable plastic surgery on his face.
für much sounds like it has something to do with bears.
Ich auch.
Al needs to learn the law of nomitive determinism, Algor means Cold or Chilliness, not heating and anger.
Boy would it be fun to punch Al Gore right in his lying mouth. What a demented, grifting punk. That wanna-be-fascist bitch would be happy to sit in his mansion (that he did NOTHING to earn) and watch 2/3 of the world population remain mired in poverty and misery due to his grift. Fu*k you ManBearPig, fu*k you.
Grifter.
If any climate activist had brains and really cared about the environment, they would have been demanding Gen IV nuclear development and implementation all this time. All they did was create an unfortunate, binary choice: stupid kooky extremist hysteria or just keep things the way they are. And we knew which one they would achieve all along. I am not terrified about fossil fuel use, but so much more would possible with nuclear.
I agree that any self-styled “environmentalist” or “climate change” activist who hasn’t been staunchly and abashedly supporting the expansion of nuclear power plants is a brazen hypocrite.
If it hadn’t been for the Dhimmi-crats’ dishonest hysteria and fear-mongering spread in opposition to U.S. nuclear energy, the U.S. would ideally have around 60% of its electricity generation coming from nuclear power plants, currently.
*…staunchly and unabashedly…”
In my view, the big problem with environmentalists is that they refuse to listen to scientists.
I’ll sit out the celebration of drinking his tears — he makes more money in a day scolding us on climate change than most working class people make in a year.
So all the major oil exporters in OPEC + Russia can really be trusted to comply??
UN climate summit is diplomatic theater. Al gore needs to get real job.
One problem with that: Al Gore has no useful job skills. I wouldn’t trust him to sweep a floor.
His last paying job was to be a bucket of warm spit.
He thinks he invented the internet and Bruce Jenner thinks he’s a girl. Go figure.
Here’s an inconvenient truth: Al Gore is an asshole.
And about as useful as a fart in a space suit.
What is the execrable and vile Gore’s net worth, now — probably north of $100 million (at least), after selling his TV channel to Qatar, and, getting some private equity action?
The “climate change” hustle has been exceedingly profitable for this hypocritical reprobate.
Are you kidding me? Al Gore’s net worth is north of a billion. This climate change has been very good to him.
If his net worth is that high, he would rank as one of the greatest hustlers of all time.
Tell me how I can offend this schmuck some more.
I wonder, did gore row his fat a$$ over to Dubai, or did he take his private jet, along with all the usual suspects
I think he went over on one of his yachts; the plane was in the shop or something.
The US cleaned up its air and water pollution sources decades ago, to the point that the envirofrauds and the EPA had to declare an essential nutrient, carbon dioxide, a pollutant.
They couldn’t find any other thing to worry about, so they moved to a minor greenhouse gas, blamed it for heating up the earth’s atmosphere without ever bothering to take the real greenhouse gas, water vapor, into account, or learning how clouds work.
It’s almost like the envirofrauds are too lazy to do any science, and they expect us not to notice.
If the EPA declared victory over pollution, they’d all be out of jobs. That’s never going to happen.
The sole purpose of the EPA has always been to destroy American manufacturing. The one thing that all environmentalists have in common is that they have never left a tangible item built by their own hands in their wake.
Sweet! Thank you OPEC and meat lobby!
Few people are as reliably kooky as Al Gore. Thank you, Al, for being YOU!
I’m still nonplussed that South Park chose to redeem him as a character, then plunged into Trump bashing. I thought I understood those guys, but apparently I don’t. Or maybe they just didn’t want to be as one-sided as their competition at SNL.
Climate change was originally Climate Cooling with dates that never worked out. Then it became Climate Warming with dates that again never worked out. The people screaming about warming and making money bought mansions on the coasts yet said the sea levels would rise high. One of these was Gore.
So with the failure of Cooling and Warming the scam becomes Climate Change. Now the rich and powerful that are driving the issues are flying Private Jets to a compound that is sealed off so the non-corporate media can not report. This is not about the Climate but about power and money.
The 2000 election broke the inventor of the internet. He’s been a mental case ever since. Gore is only slightly more coherent than the average wino on the street corner.
On a related note I read that the mid Atlantic power region (Maryland, Virginia and DC in particular) are in for a tough row. They have eliminated about a dozen coal fired electricity plants but electricity demand keeps rising. Lots of server farms popping up in NoVa which draw lots of power. They are apparently looking at potential brown out to black out conditions potentially as soon as this winter. Here’s hoping that a dose of reality about the importance of reliable delivery of electricity will at least cause some of the bureaucracy and political class to pause and consider before continuing their headlong rush to failure.
Lol, as a ex-DC suburbanite, this is the only way the seemingly brain-dead people in that area will ever acknowledge any problem with their “system”.
Well, at least I can hope 🙂
Fossile fuels would go the way of whale oil all on their own, as soon as overtaken by a superior substitutable technologies; “superior” and “substitutable” for the people using it, for the same use, at point of use,
How about more tech development; less mandates. More *empowering* people to use less to do what they want; less *demanding* that people do less of what they want, to use less of what they don’t much care about.
I suspect the secret sauce that dare not speak its name is flexible generation and intelligent management of use by users, at point of use.
To paraphrase Churchill, “If you believe in CO2 global warming in your 20s, you don’t have a brain. If you still believe it in your 70s, then you don’t have a heart or a soul either.