Posted on 03/17/2015 5:02:26 AM PDT by HomerBohn
Every year, Al Gore pauses from his overscheduled itinerary of making a fool of himself at climate change speeches around the world to pause at the South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas, where he drops by to make a fool of himself in front of hipsters, activists and a sizable jumble of uninterested partiers.
This year, the rhetoric got harsh — as in “punish-the-deniers” harsh.
While Gore was talking specifically about politicians who reject the idea that government should divert public funds to combat the effects of a changing climate, his tone toward anyone who thinks the jury’s still out on whether climate change is even a problem was especially condescending and totalitarian. According to the Chicago Tribune, Gore invoked Nature itself as a corroborating force in his call to action:
Former Vice President Al Gore on Friday called on SXSW attendees to punish climate-change deniers, saying politicians should pay a price for rejecting “accepted science.”
“We have this denial industry cranked up constantly,” Gore said. “In addition to 99 percent of the scientists and all the professional scientific organizations, now Mother Nature is weighing in.”
Gore suggested meting out punishment — or, in his words, a “price on denial in politics” — by shaming elected leaders who don’t share his agenda into legislating punitive cap-and-trade regulations that remove profits from the fossil fuel industry.
Gore’s more direct, ad hominem approach may be part of a coordinated marketing effort enjoined by the Obama administration. The White House released a March Madness-style “bracket” of lawmakers who oppose government action on climate change, attempting a public shaming of each with the promise that one eventually will be crowned a “champion denier.”
Kuhn’s book should be required reading for college-bound students.
Gore displays a classic case of “Payme.”
iGore’s Current TV sold to Al Jazeera for $500 million:
He has never had JUST One prediction come true, Killer Hrricane's , Flooding of Florida ,etc.
That 99% number is as cooked as the rest of the fraud.
He knows the Marxist media will never call him on it.
Pray America is waking
He couldn’t do the weather on morning TV...
Austin: Hanoi in the Hill Country
Actually, Pol Pot, the infamous dictator of Cambodia, improved on the idea. He emptied the universities and sent them to the jungles to fend for themselves where they died in great numbers. He didn’t even have the expense of bullets to get rid of them.
Al Gore: The national joke that is retold now everywhere, every time the weather changes.
Burn the heretics at the stake!
It is settled science that the world is flat. The flat Earth deniers should be punished.
It is settled science that the sun orbits the Earth. The Earth centric deniers should be punished.
It is settled science that disease is caused by too much blood and that bleeding people with leaches is an effective treatment. The blead people with leaches deniers should be punished.
It is settled science that man is causing Global Cooling. The Global Cooling deniers should be punished.
It is settled science that man is causing Global Warming. The Global Warming deniers should be punished.
It is settled science that man is causing Global Climate Change. The Global Climate Change deniers should be punished.
I am starting to see a pattern here.
Manbearpig is a waste of perfectly good oxygen.
I was born in Austin and lived there off and on for almost 40 years.
Comparing Austin to Hanoi is insulting to Hanoi.
Funny how, after hibernating all winter, gore comes out of his cave on the cusp of spring screaming “THE WORLD IS BURNING UP”.
Since Tipper bailed out of this marriage with stupid who is he cohabitating with now?
(Smoky the Bear?)
It also used to be “accepted science” that the sun revolved around the earth.
Any time Algore feels he can take me out for my beliefs, he’s welcome to try.
Amazing that this guy started his career fighting for content warnings on albums to “protect” families...... to punishing people who won’t believe in climate change and “protect” our planet.
Al Gore is just the Al Sharpton of the Climate Change crowd. Both need to be slapped silly and sent home.
Wish I’d been introduce to it before grad school.
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