United Nations security officials have once again prevented a journalist from asking attendees at the climate change conference in Copenhagen questions about the growing ClimateGate scandal.
This time, the person on the receiving end of the apparently forbidden queries was Nobel Laureate Al Gore.
Much as when Ireland's Phelim McAleer tried to ask Stanford professor Stephen Schneider questions Thursday about the controversial e-mail messages obtained from the British Climatic Research Unit last month, McAleer was similarly rebuffed by Gore and his entourage Monday.
Not only did the former Vice President completely refuse to answer questions about his blatant misrepresentations of the age of the most recent e-mail message obtained from Britain's CRU, a U.N. security official actually disconnected McAleer's microphone to make sure any answers would be unrecorded (video embedded below the fold, h/t Climate Depot):
As reported by Not Evil Just Wrong Monday:
In several recent interviews the former vice president said that the Climategate emails were "sound and fury signifying nothing...the most recent one is more than 10 years old."
However the reality is that the most recent email from Climategate is less than two months old. The emails undermine the science of Climate Alarmism and that is why the alarmists are so reluctant to address them or like Mr Gore they make factually incorrect statements about how relevant they are.
Mr. Gore says he cares a lot about science and scientific accuracy. His whole theory of Climate Alarmism depends on it but today at the United Nations Copenhagen Climate Conference he refused several opportunities to correct the record when asked about his errors by journalist and film maker Phelim McAleer. Instead his Press Secretary grabbed McAleer's microphone to stop questions being put to the vice-president.
Have U.N. security officials been instructed to prevent journalists from asking climate realists uncomfortable questions?
Consider what happened when McAleer tried to ask Gore confidant Dr. Schneider about ClimateGate days earlier:
This is some scary stuff, folks.
Yet, according to LexisNexis, the only major media outlet to report the Schneider incident was the Washington Times.
Will this episode go similarly ignored?
More importantly, will Gore EVER have to answer questions concerning the falsehoods he continually spreads?
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disconnecting someones mic
Tue, 12/15/2009 - 14:45 ET by dark_dsdisconnecting someones mic is just polite way of silencing voices .... there are other ways and dont think these folks arent fully capable of escalating this ... its for the planet after all
_______ Him and the Unicorn he rode in on
Well...the problem is....
Wed, 12/16/2009 - 11:23 ET by Patriot IIPeople just won't accept "DUH" as an answer anymore!
Gore Goons
Tue, 12/15/2009 - 14:45 ET by upcountrywaterThat carbon con job, really pays well..
If you are feeling colder, It's because it is, (graph)
We know cooling cycles
Tue, 12/15/2009 - 19:31 ET by ApacheWe know cooling cycles easily bring more death and destruction than warming cycles. If these hacks are promoting a warm cycle with no tolerance of dissent when in fact we are entering a cooling cycle, then I think they will have blood on their hands and should be held accountable.
The Goreacle: "Damnit,
Tue, 12/15/2009 - 14:58 ET by HockeyKidThe Goreacle: "Damnit, what part of 'the debate is OVER' do you people not understand?!!"
"Beauty is only skin deep, but liberal's to the bone." - me
Someone tell Helen Thomas.
Tue, 12/15/2009 - 15:07 ET by metaphorsbwithuSomeone tell Helen Thomas. Quick!
metaphorsbwithu
It's actually astonishing
Tue, 12/15/2009 - 15:07 ET by SickofLibsIt's actually astonishing they didn't yank McAleer's credentials and ban him outright.
tipping the climate
Tue, 12/15/2009 - 15:11 ET by spepperthe microphone that the questioner was using to attempt to ask Gore, was found to be tipping the climate over the edge-- it had to be unplugged to prevent San Francisco and Cuba from going under the ocean!
Schneider says "...I don't
Tue, 12/15/2009 - 15:30 ET by TruthMattersSchneider says "...I don't make comments on redacted emails presented to me by people whose values I do not trust"
Well, excuse me Schneider dude, but why should we accept the notion that the AGW science is settled from people whose values I and many others don't trust? You are exemplifying the problem, not addressing it.
What arrogance!
FYI
Tue, 12/15/2009 - 15:39 ET by BluegillSchneider was in on the Climategate emails up to his eyeballs. Over 70 of them ex)From: Michael Mann To: Stephen H Schneider Subject: Re: BBC U-turn on climate Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 09:00:44 -0400 Cc: Myles Allen , peter stott , "Philip D. Jones" , Benjamin Santer , Tom Wigley , Thomas R Karl , Gavin Schmidt , James Hansen , trenbert , Michael Oppenheimer extremely ...
Blue.. excellent
Tue, 12/15/2009 - 15:50 ET by celatorBlue.. excellent research.
No citizen's right to life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, or property is safe as long as Obama is President of the United States.
Mr. Gore says he cares a lot about science...,
Tue, 12/15/2009 - 15:17 ET by CarlosSbut now we know what he and the other "scientists" meant when they said "The debate is over" much like the three simian science panelists in "Planet of the Apes"
defend against heretics!
Tue, 12/15/2009 - 15:40 ET by jon_torlinBoy, those climate-change/global warming wackos will go to any lengths to protect the wise and benevolent Algore.
-Jon
Your a Liar!
Tue, 12/15/2009 - 16:00 ET by PJManWhen Al speaks, you know it's BS. Just read the 100 reason's why Global Warming is a hoax, http://www.dailyexpress.co.uk/posts/view/146138 , it's a good read from the Drudge report.
This is proof of an active coverup, not just disagreement
Tue, 12/15/2009 - 16:03 ET by c5thenThe UN is actively engaged in a cover-up of this information. It has been shown many times that most of the UN ofiicials and the scientists involved in the IPGW have inappropriate and unethical ties to companies or institutions that stand to make lots of money off of the carbon trade or other AGW schemes.
Throw 'da bums out!!!
Before it's too late.
www.loyaltoliberty.com
"Manmade Global Warming" is terrorism at its worst
Tue, 12/15/2009 - 16:13 ET by kevinm13Algore will never answer questions because he is a terrorist, trying to extort billions from the wealthy on faulty premises at best, or pure science fiction at worst. If there was true science to his allegations, he could refer to papers, studies, research, none of which exists.
Algore, Phil Jones, Michael Mann and every other liar should be tossed in jail for fraud, theft and deceipt. Take the money, grants, tax receipts and the jobs lost from this fraud away from these liars and they will find something else to do. As with any fraud, FOLLOW THE MONEY!
Gestapo
Tue, 12/15/2009 - 16:30 ET by KansasgirlSo basically tyranny.
fanatical left wing global warming loons
Tue, 12/15/2009 - 16:35 ET by AcoustechWe need to gather up all of these fanatical left wing global warming
loons....bring them to a public square....and "tar and feather them....and Al
Gore should be arrested and brought up on fraud charges.
There is no conspiracy here folks...
Tue, 12/15/2009 - 16:41 ET by stage9...move along...move along.
"If God is dead, somebody is going to have to take his place. It will be megalomania or erotomania, the drive for power or the drive for pleasure, the clenched fist or the phallus, Hitler or Hugh Hefner." — Malcolm Muggeridge
The Weather Outside Is Frightful
Tue, 12/15/2009 - 17:09 ET by oldestgenxerOh the weather outside is frightful
but cap and trade is so delightful
its global warming if we say so
it aint snow it aint snow it aint snow
Fossil fuel we will be stopping
and there will be no more shopping
civilization turned way down low
that's the goal thats the goal thats the goal
When we finally win the fight
capitalism will be lost in the storm
but if al gore is really right,
all the whole world will be warm
We'll say the planet is slowly dying
and carbon credits we'll all be buying
but as long as al gore says so
it aint snow it aint snow it aint snow
Gore is a fraud and a
Tue, 12/15/2009 - 17:10 ET by fitzfongGore is a fraud and a coward...as are the pseudo-scientists whose talking points he parrots.
"I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered." -George Best
Gore is a coward..............
Tue, 12/15/2009 - 17:19 ET by BEGRUNTa liar, a hypocrite, and a stench in the nose of honest men!!
"A nation can suffer it's fool's, but cannot survive the traitor"
Cicero
Here is another soot study
Tue, 12/15/2009 - 17:20 ET by upcountrywaterRun for your lives the glacers are melting..
“Over areas of the Himalayas, the rate of warming is more than five times faster than warming globally,”
Sooty black carbon travels east along wind currents latched to dust –
its agent of transport – and become trapped in the air against
Himalayan foothills. The particles’ dark color absorbs solar radiation,
creating a layer of warm air from the surface that rises to higher
altitudes above the mountain ranges to become a major catalyst of
glacier and snow melt.
If you are feeling colder, It's because it is, (graph)
The left and their gestapo tactics
Tue, 12/15/2009 - 17:59 ET by earth56Someone once asked me why I have my doubts about "Global Warming"
I simply answered that if I know the answer to 3 times 3 is nine than I don't have to try to avoid answering as to why. I don't have to act like a bully to someone who questions me and I don't have to shut someone up in order to prove my point.
I simply explain.
and they call themselves "Progressive " ?
disconnect mic...
Wed, 12/16/2009 - 07:40 ET by CCsteelcity... disconnect jaw! totally ludicrous. when are these people going to wake up to the lies and deceit. You can't ask a question without being silenced? That is news that people need to know... literally frauding the people of the truth, which we know already, but will never get the answers out of their mouths.
"I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts." - Will Rogers
This is the
Wed, 12/16/2009 - 10:01 ET by jessieHThis is the guy that almost became president. Scary stuff. You know how to tell if Gore is lying? He stands in front of a mic.
arrogance personified
Wed, 12/16/2009 - 11:23 ET by sometimesrightit was hard to watch this man get paraded off surrounded by security, not answering any questions, like the arrogant man he is. he had a security entourage as if he was a high ranking government official instead of the alarmist, uninformed money-grubbing buffoon that he is.
"right minded on the left coast....."
----ME
Where our loveable lefties on this thread?
Wed, 12/16/2009 - 17:36 ET by BO STINKSDon't understand their non-appearance here. Seems to me that those who claim to love the 1st Amend. so much would surely express their outrage about this supression of free speech. /sarc off
"How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the Plain Meaning of Words!" ~Sam Adams