It was cringe-worthy, quite dull, and sadly not very compelling. At 6:15pm last Thursday evening I headed down to the London School of Economics for Al Gore's latest stunt: the London segment of his 24 Hours of Reality, which was to launch his new and improved campaigning slideshow about climate change science - An Inconvenient Truth 2.0, if you will, brought bang up to date by references to events from just a few months ago. Go To Site

“Al Gore is not a scientist … He’s made a lot of money by whipping up scares and frightening children, but he is no longer heeded by anyone who takes this matter seriously. The IPCC is the scientific authority of his side of the case, and it says very plainly you get fewer extreme cold and fewer heavy snow events. That’s what the IPCC says, and if that’s what the IPCC says, then Al Gore has no business trying to say the opposite.” - Lord Christopher Monckton of Brenchley, chief policy adviser to the Science and Public Policy Institute Go To Site

Quote of the day: 'Greenpeace member fears Al Gore may have done as much damage to environmentalism as Stalin did to socialism' -Marc Morano Go To Site

Warming, Science

Furthermore, skeptics were consequently labeled “deniers”. There was only one message, an apocalyptic one, with the respective promise of salvation; sometimes the discourse almost switched into a religious sermon: once we behave climate friendly, there won’t be any storms or other natural disasters anymore.

Environmentalist, Warming, Fraud

The figures refer to the number of "views" for Gore's special "24 Hours Of ManBearPig" which this column helped celebrate the other day. Gore claims that as many as 8.6 million flocked to his thrilling festival of climate fear; but a nasty cruel man called Charles the Moderator at Watts Up With That? has "done the math" and reckons the figure is probably more like 17,000.