Al Gore goes nuclear in Davos
It might seem like a fool’s errand to fact check Al Gore. But the man does have a big audience and someone’s got to do it so we rush in....
01 Feb, 2023| Science Notes
It might seem like a fool’s errand to fact check Al Gore. But the man does have a big audience and someone’s got to do it so we rush in....
In the New York Times “Climate Forward” columnist David Gelles denounces “The dissonance of climate promises at Davos”. OK. Good to have you moving away from the WEF there on...
Wrapping up our fact check of Al Gore’s rant in Davos, we now turn to his claim that global warming is “causing these waves of climate refugees predicted to reach...
As someone recently complained about the Gnomes of Davos in their World Economic Forum: “What strikes me most about the WEF is how little disagreement there is. The largest matters...
Continuing our fact check of Al Gore’s rant in Davos we come to his claim that CO2 emissions are causing “the rain bombs”. The what? We hadn’t heard of rain...
We continue our fact check of Al Gore’s rant in Davos, turning now to his claim that CO2 is “sucking the moisture out of the land and creating the droughts”....
Next up in our Fact Check of Al Gore’s rant in Davos we get to his claim that carbon dioxide is “melting the ice and raising the sea level”. Well,...
Note: this post has been edited to correct an earlier version. Continuing with our fact check on Al Gore’s epic rant in Davos, this week we turn to his claim...
Continuing with our fact check of Al Gore’s rant in Davos we come to his claim that you-know-what is “creating these atmospheric rivers”. And “atmospheric rivers” is, admittedly, a very...
...online search. For instance, in Davos in May 2022 he said: “the 1.5° was not something anybody pulled out of the sky or did as a matter of politics or...
...Forum in Davos last week. ‘This year could be the most consequential voting year in terms of the fate of our planet.’” They are voting. Just not for green fantasies...
...Davos elite Harvard and Oxford graduate “outsider” who his main rival has dubbed “Carbon Tax Carney”. And while it may be a bit of an unfair test, it will be...
...Freedland column about Davos in the Guardian bore the headline “As the world finally punches back, was this the week Donald Trump went too far?” Now writers don’t do their...
...the longstanding demands of the Davos set has been that financial markets must take account of the world-ending, extinction-level risks of climate change, in response to which the market has...
...but um nobody’s following. Speaking of not leading, look who hates Davos now. In Heatmap Daily Jillian Goodman complains that “The rich drive climate change…. The wealthiest 1% of global...
The Economist, speaking for Davos Person, conceded that “An influx of Chinese cars is terrifying the West” but argued editorially that “it should keep its markets open to cheap, clean...
...the usual clichés when the Iran war started, and told a business crowd that his actual poke-Trump-in-the-eye Davos speech was such a huge hit because “‘The reaction to that speech...
...indigestible cake that continues to characterize our performance on this as on so many files. With regard to the strange habit “Carbon” Carney has of flying about endlessly exchanging Davos...
...biography as Davos Man incarnate, though some think the glitter is gold and others that it’s scales. That WEF bio we referred to above says: Narrator: “He is also an...
...of England study saying insurance companies were too dumb to understand risk, unlike Davos Man who perceived that: “[T]here are some estimates that currently modelled losses could be undervalued by...
...do these people individually own much of the world economy, not even the gnomes of Davos, and they can’t just say hey, today everyone makes batteries. Nor if they do...
...once he’s said all that, he says some other stuff too that too few people seem brave enough to say. With respect to her call in Davos in February that...
...reconstruction, after the name of Frölich’s institute, the Physical Meteorological Observatory in, ahem, Davos, it had the convenient effect of ruling out the sun as a factor in climate change....
...at eight she knew the science was settled), on which basis she has spoken at the Davos World Economic Summit and the UN climate summit, done a TEDx talk and...
...at the World Economic Forum, the gnomes of Davos. But if you’re looking for plotters on a Dan Brown or Jason Bourne level, guess again. Instead he writes that for...
...Worrall adds, “The Great Reset is a public programme promoted by the World Economic Forum, the group which holds a $50,000 / ticket event every year in Davos, Switzerland. A...
...data” says USA Today) but bad (“[t]he implied claim is wrong”). They should try checking Al Gore’s Davos Rant where the facts are not true; we can even give them...
Among the less revolting things the people living high off the hog at Davos want the rest of us to consume is seaweed. Sorry, “sea vegetable”. And sure, it beats...
...or their capacities, to “transform” key sectors of an economy based on some trendy clichés from Davos, rather than allowing the structure of production to be driven by what consumers...
...you to act as if the house was on fire, because it is. Greta Thunberg, Davos World Economic Forum, January 2019 John Robson And if you try to ask questions,...
Canadian Finance Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland went to the Davos WEF forum, arguably not a good look, especially the paranoia-fueling scheduling note about “meetings with business leaders...
...assures us that at the World Economic Forum in Davos the renewables dream lived on. “Al Gore’s panel about whether the world can avoid a ‘climate recession’ was poorly attended,...
Not long ago we made fun of Al Gore’s claim at Davos that greenhouse gas emissions were “creating these Atmospheric Rivers,” pointing out for his benefit, if not his pleasure,...
...our nation is in the hands of someone who thinks words are deeds and that mountains can be moved by the same elitists mouthing the same Davos Man platitudes at...
...hence are part of a giant conspiracy against you directed from Davos. Trudeau, like John Kerry, simply applies a different standard to himself than to you because he really, shamelessly,...
...the alarmists and they’ll know what posh spots to avoid. But good luck scaring them away from their annual enclave in Davos, given the exceptional 2017-2018 snow season at Klosters....
...huge hero, addressing the Davos forum and the UN Climate Conference, having more Twitter followers than Green Party leaders, getting nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize to Establishment applause and...
...COVID just came along this spring. And nobody who knows anything about anything could be persuaded that Schwab or the Davos set or Prince Charles or any of those people...
...that, again, is not just about this document but about the whole Davos project and mindset: “What is presented as guidance is actually central planning of private capital under a...
...on climate change generally, there’s an ill-tempered quarrel brewing between the political establishment and the common people, with the elite gathering at COP conferences and Davos to sample delicacies (and...
...the sort of sententiously sonorous nonsense that somehow passes for deep thought in places like Davos. And she tries to imagine what might conceivably appear in the long-delayed budget supposedly...
No, contrails are not mind control. And no, the world’s governments are not secretly changing the weather in some vast Davos-centred cabal. If they were, do you seriously think it...
...“Prime Minister Carney meets with Prime Minister of Sweden Ulf Kristersson” and “on the margins of the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland” no less. It was however...
...Davos People acknowledged [h/t Ray Pennings in Cardus’s “Insights”] that there were concerns over ESG, only to brush them aside with their aristocratic brush: “ESG has been under increasing pressure...
...that the ocean ends up in the atmosphere, and that happened to Venus”) to Al Gore’s Davos rant that CO2 is “what’s boiling the oceans” that aren’t boiling to The...