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GORE EFFECT BY PROXY

Country singer Kathy Mattea - one of Al Gore’s climate thetans - recently delivered Al’s message to a Utah crowdlet:

Mattea, one of hundreds of people enlisted by Gore to give presentations like the one featured in his documentary, “An Inconvenient Truth,” spoke to a crowd of several dozen people at the Orem City Council chambers, asking people to take action against global warming.

A few days on, Utah suffered massive Gore Effect coldening:

A man died in Washington County, homeless people were turned away from a packed shelter in St. George and records fell across the state Sunday as an arctic cold front settled over Utah.

In all, 16 record-low minimum and 16 record-low maximum temperatures were set or met.

Meanwhile, in California: “This is one of those freezes that, unfortunately, we’ll all remember.”

Posted by Tim B. on 01/16/2007 at 09:30 AM
  1. Mattea, one of hundreds of people enlisted by Gore to give presentations like the one featured in his documentary, “An Inconvenient Truth,” spoke to a crowd of several dozen people at the Orem City Council chambers, asking people to take action against global warming.

    A few days on, Utah suffered massive Gore Effect coldening.

    Those people obviously weren’t listening.

    Posted by paco on 2007 01 16 at 09:38 AM • permalink

  2. Paco, why is it that those who don’t listen are always the ones to suffer?

    It’s just like South Park said… “We didn’t listen!”

    Posted by Ash_ on 2007 01 16 at 09:48 AM • permalink

  3. “I think every sane person understands the threat to our planet that global warming represents and the necessity of dealing with it in a very, very bold way,” said Sanders, I-Vt.


    Funny that, a socialist has determined that only a socialist solution will do, and anybody who disagrees is “insane”. Whodathunkit?

    Burlington Free Press

    Posted by moptop on 2007 01 16 at 10:19 AM • permalink

  4. Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay off thread, but this is revolting and every other strong word you can think of.

    Posted by Ash_ on 2007 01 16 at 10:20 AM • permalink

  5. Yeah, I’m dealing with that same cold front myself.  Damn you, Algore!  Damn you to hell!!!

    Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 01 16 at 10:26 AM • permalink

  6. I do hope all these Gorelings have saved enough carbon credits to go around haranging lecturing educating us dummies on Goebbels Wehrmachting.

    Posted by rbj1 on 2007 01 16 at 10:29 AM • permalink

  7. #4 Better call Pat O’Shane

    Posted by murph on 2007 01 16 at 10:33 AM • permalink

  8. A couple of dozen?  I think anyone on this site could get a bigger crowd together to hear them sing show tunes.

    Posted by kiwinews on 2007 01 16 at 10:59 AM • permalink

  9. People don’t realize how damning new record lows are.

    Global warming via greenhouse gasses ought to prevent record cold temperatures, because record cold temperatures come from arctic ground successfully radiating away its heat through these same greenhouse gasses, and then cooling the air that subsequently moves to Utah.

    With greenhouse gasses, this ought not to produce record lows.

    Something has cleared the air over the arctic of its supposedly effective greenhouse gasses.

    Whatever is happening to the earth, it’s not the greenhouse effect

    Posted by rhhardin on 2007 01 16 at 11:01 AM • permalink

  10. I think Gore may actually be this fellow in disguise. The family history seems to fit.

    Posted by paco on 2007 01 16 at 11:03 AM • permalink

  11. I think it’s clear that we here in northern California need to go burn down the Gorebot’s new San Francisco luxury condominium. We wrapped our outdoor plants in frost netting, but they still took it in the shorts. It’s a massacre out there—no wonder the citrus crop is toast. Damn you to hell, AlGork.

    Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2007 01 16 at 11:34 AM • permalink

  12. Funny how a pretty chanteuse becomes such an ugly nuisance the minute she stops singing and starts emitting greenhouse gaseousness.

    I wonder if she knows how bad she would look under flourescent stage lighting?

    Posted by Rittenhouse on 2007 01 16 at 11:44 AM • permalink

  13. My sister is visiting me here in Salt Lake City. When I said, ‘Where’s global warming when you need it,’ she gave me a icy, er, frigid, um, cold look.

    Posted by Brentbo on 2007 01 16 at 11:50 AM • permalink

  14. Brentbo, mayhaps your sister gave you an icy stare?  ;-)

    Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 01 16 at 11:51 AM • permalink

  15. way o/t

    it just occurred to me, whilst reading this article, that the economy of Iran (and that of Venezuela) will suffer seriously from inflation as a result of the artificial high price of oil.

    It reminded me of the fact that 15th and 16th c. Spain suffered massively from inflation as a result of the massive amounts of cheaply produced gold which they were bringing back from the New World.  The Spanish monarchy was, temporarily, endowed with massive wealth and power, but the lower classes found themselves in a less than enviable position.

    Posted by murph on 2007 01 16 at 12:01 PM • permalink

  16. Maybe Gore isn’t special, he just thought of it first—we don’t need massive government programs designed to beat global warming. It’s enough that we get together in groups and talk about massive government programs designed to beat global warming.

    Global warming scares easily.

    Posted by tim maguire on 2007 01 16 at 12:20 PM • permalink

  17. Even Gore’s minions have the power! They are like climate vampires.

    Posted by Latino on 2007 01 16 at 01:01 PM • permalink

  18. Hmmm.

    Well we are at the tail end of the last Ice Age.

    Be a real pain in the ass if average temperatures got colder.  ‘Cause wheat don’t like that.

    Posted by memomachine on 2007 01 16 at 01:03 PM • permalink

  19. I see Algore is pulling out the big guns with Kathy Mattea who as far as I know hasn’t had a hit song since the 1980’s.

    Posted by ladcraig on 2007 01 16 at 02:00 PM • permalink

  20. Global warming must have missed Austin.  It’s snowing here!  School cancelled today and likely tomorrow.  The beef stew is on, the fire is blazing and a glass of wine awaits (at a respectable hour, of course).  Children are making probably the weakest snow angels ever imagined.

    Global warming??  Sheesh.

    Posted by Kathy from Austin on 2007 01 16 at 02:59 PM • permalink

  21. From now on, let’s just call it globAL GOREming and be done with it!

    Posted by ElectronPower on 2007 01 16 at 03:28 PM • permalink

  22. Well, global goreming has gotten so out of control, it’s finally triggered our overdue winter.  Can’t we bag the manbearpig and put him someplace where he can’t do this kind of thing?

    Posted by RebeccaH on 2007 01 16 at 03:30 PM • permalink

  23. Hmmm.

    If it’s called Global Warming then why is my ass freezing?

    Posted by memomachine on 2007 01 16 at 03:54 PM • permalink

  24. “globAL GOREming”

    Just brilliant!
    Guaranteed to piss off my greenie friends.

    Paco’s lawyers should trademark the hell out of it and sell it in 750ml bottles.

    “...Best served on the rocks.”

    Posted by monkeyfan on 2007 01 16 at 04:01 PM • permalink

  25. Yes, poor things, it’s what, 63 in Los Angeles and they’re freezing. Gimme a break.

    Posted by rightwingprof on 2007 01 16 at 04:14 PM • permalink

  26. Anybody remember Steve Martin’s “LA Story”? I love where he’s interviewing los angelenos about the “record cold spell” - it got down to FIFTY-THREE! Oh my god!

    Posted by mojo on 2007 01 16 at 04:17 PM • permalink

  27. Brentbo, I’m on the phone to NY and DC all day long, and while at my house in Denver I have received 56” of snow in the past month, New Yorkers have been all sackcloth-and-ashes because the nice weather there is a supposed to be a bad thing.  I have been telling them that, ‘I am burning all the hydrocarbons I can but it’s not helping here’ to the same frosty responses.

    Posted by Matt in Denver on 2007 01 16 at 04:19 PM • permalink

  28. Well, let’s see, about four inches of sleet and some freezing rain in Oklahoma City, and it hasn’t been near freezing since last Thursday; something like 40K people without power in the eastern half of the state; single-digit lows tonight…

    Globalist warmering my ass, Al, it’s COLD here!

    Posted by Firehand on 2007 01 16 at 04:20 PM • permalink

  29. There is no pleasing some people.  It’s warmer than normal, so I don’t need to run my snow blower or heat the house as much.

    Posted by MarkD on 2007 01 16 at 04:23 PM • permalink

  30. #24: I’m pretty sure Rebecca’s already got the copyright.

    Posted by paco on 2007 01 16 at 04:38 PM • permalink

  31. #21 ElectronPower:

    From now on, let’s just call it globAL GOREming and be done with it!

    Since some of the Warmists are starting to hedge their bets by hinting that maybe warmening really means coldening, I say we call it “Global Warning”.  That covers all possibilities, and only requires a one-letter change on the signage and letterhead.

    Posted by Dave in Chicago on 2007 01 16 at 04:56 PM • permalink

  32. hey - don’t know if anyone mentioned this already, but the great Paco has hit 5,000 posts.

    Heartiest congratulations Paco!

    Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 01 16 at 05:09 PM • permalink

  33. #32: Why, thank you, MM. In my commenting, I try to apply the tried and true philosophy of Paco Enterprises: “Go for quantity, and leave quality to the perfectionists.”

    Posted by paco on 2007 01 16 at 05:30 PM • permalink

  34. #32—MM: What, this month, so far?
    ;-)

    Posted by Forbes on 2007 01 16 at 05:43 PM • permalink

  35. who is Kathy Mattea? and congrats Sir Paco

    Posted by missred on 2007 01 16 at 05:44 PM • permalink

  36. #31 Dave,

    “Global Warning” might be easier, but it is readily confused with “warming” by the lazy or the alphabetically challenged. Global Goreming, on the other hand, is sexier and it means warmening and/or coldening anyway. Besides that, Rebecca has already stolen the copyright from me.

    Hey Paco, congrats! I already have about 15 postings, so watch out or I’ll catch you by February 2050, when will have finally reached mature Al-Goreheating.

    By the way my favorite author was Isaac Asimov, and he also followed that overarching principle of quantity over quality.

    Posted by ElectronPower on 2007 01 16 at 05:50 PM • permalink

  37. #34 Forbes: Just think of my stuff as ballast.

    #35 Thanks, Miss Red. Kathy Mattea is one of Al Gore’s little frost elves, a harbinger of winter; like fuzzy caterpillars, or squirrels digging up acorns.

    #36 EP: We should probably consider the possibility that the volume and speed of these posts is creating friction, which undoubtedly leads to global warming.

    Posted by paco on 2007 01 16 at 06:03 PM • permalink

  38. Re#15 The flow of silver from the Americas (and Asia) was more inflationary than the increase in gold supply.

    Adam Smith on the subject.

    http://www.adamsmith.org/smith/won-b1-c11-digressions-variations.htm

    Posted by phil_b on 2007 01 16 at 06:34 PM • permalink

  39. Also, Will the Sun cool us?

    Worth reading.

    Posted by phil_b on 2007 01 16 at 06:38 PM • permalink

  40. It’s been so cold here in CA I thought for sure al-Gore had been here talking up global warmening!

    Posted by Patricia on 2007 01 16 at 07:05 PM • permalink

  41. Dear Paco and ElectronPower:

    Greetings to you, kind sirs!  As this esteemed person has received ownership of the wonderful copyrights, I will be willing to share royalties with you.  Please send your banking account information soonest to the person whose name is in red, and the copyrights royalties will BE FORTHCOMING!!  Thank you.

    Posted by RebeccaH on 2007 01 16 at 07:05 PM • permalink

  42. #39 phil_b

    That isn’t the first article I’ve seen that suggests that man-made “greenhouse” gases may temper a future solar-generated cooling cycle.

    Warming and cooling periods are not uncommon, and in fact, are fairly regular.

    Posted by Spiny Norman on 2007 01 16 at 07:09 PM • permalink

  43. Ditto #5.  He’s apparently been in south Texas too!  We’ve been switching back and forth between rain, freezing rain and sleet pretty steadily since last night, and they’re predicting it’s going to get worse overnight and into tomorrow morning.  #%*@!!

    Posted by texasred on 2007 01 16 at 07:11 PM • permalink

  44. Spiny Norman, a frequently repeated claim by the warmening crowd is, that as solar radiation hasn’t increased in the last 35 years, this is proof the sun hasn’t contributed to recent warmening.

    If you look at multi-year average of global temperature changes (ignoring the unreliability of such measures) then surprise, surprise the only significant warmening in the last 50 years or so, occured as a step change about 35 years ago.

    Posted by phil_b on 2007 01 16 at 07:25 PM • permalink

  45. Yep, right about the time we were hearing dire predictions of a New Ice Age from many of the same Chicken Littles . . .

    Posted by Spiny Norman on 2007 01 16 at 07:39 PM • permalink

  46. The GlobAL GOREming forces have, apparently, adopted a distributed warfare model. Now they send small teams of GlobAL GOREmingers to many different places simultaneously to create massive disruptions with wide spread “arctic blast” attacks.

    Are they terrorists yet? Officially, I mean.

    Posted by Grimmy on 2007 01 16 at 07:40 PM • permalink

  47. Dear Rebecca:

    I would love to send you my banking account information, more so in view of your generous offer. However, I’m afraid I cannot do it at this time. My bank account, which usually topped US $50,000 in cash, is not accesible to me at this moment. This happened after I sent the account information to a wonderful Somali lady who wanted to use it to deposit $50,000,000 of her family’s fortune to save it from her country’s turmoil.

    After the troubles are over, she will withdraw $49,000,000 from my account and leave me $1,000,000 for helping her. As soon as I can figure out why I can’t access my account, I will send you the information.

    Best regards,
    EP

    Posted by ElectronPower on 2007 01 16 at 07:50 PM • permalink

  48. #47, ElectronPower:

    Wow, you too? She must be a UN employee to have so much money that needs hiding.

    Posted by Grimmy on 2007 01 16 at 08:01 PM • permalink

  49. at my house in Denver I have received 56” of snow in the past month

    #27, I think I’ve found your problem:

    Democrats Award Denver 2008 Convention

    Posted by Art Vandelay on 2007 01 16 at 08:13 PM • permalink

  50. O/T, but have you guys ever heard of this creep, mentioned over at the Jawa Report? Seems to be posting from Australia.

    Posted by paco on 2007 01 16 at 08:40 PM • permalink

  51. Y’know, with Algore wandering around with his globAL GOREming, I’m thinking we need to play a new game similar to this one.

    Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 01 16 at 08:54 PM • permalink

  52. #50, paco, If he lives in Tully as his bio says, he’s likely to be a rainforest-dwelling hippy living off unemployment benefits in order to be free to attend any anti-whatever protest going. Tully is a beautiful little town in tropical far-north Queensland that is unfortunately infested with tree-huggers. It’s also the wettest town in Australia, in more ways than rainfall.

    Posted by mareeS on 2007 01 16 at 09:06 PM • permalink

  53. #52: Pity. It seems that all the really nice places attract that sort.

    Posted by paco on 2007 01 16 at 09:48 PM • permalink

  54. The big news here is the Kathy Mattea is still alive! Haven’t heard a peep from her since about 1989 when she covered a Nancy Griffith song!

    Who else is on Gore’s team, Hank Williams Sr.?

    Posted by Shaky Barnes on 2007 01 16 at 09:49 PM • permalink

  55. It was so cold in Minnesota this morning(-15F) my truck was frozen and would not start. When I took vehicle 2 to put air in the tire, my hand was instantly frozen after picking up the air doohicky. I had no feeling for about three hours.

    Interestingly enough, there has been no stories about global warming in the local media since the temps dipped below 15F.

    God I love this weather.

    Posted by Teaparty on 2007 01 16 at 09:52 PM • permalink

  56. #20, no kidding, I think Al Gore must’ve had a secret mission to Texas and Mexico recently, anyone know his travel itinerary? Is he smuggling illegals in his spare time?

    Posted by Shaky Barnes on 2007 01 16 at 09:54 PM • permalink

  57. Here’s some great pictures of Texas ice and snow.  Al-Gore must be fit to be tied!
    It’s snowing!

    Posted by Patricia on 2007 01 16 at 10:46 PM • permalink

  58. #57 Patricia:  I can authenticate those pictures even if Ann Althouse can’t.  The same fate met my car this afternoon.  Must be a record here, three snow days. 

    Wronwright, did Algore make a stealthy trip to Austin and San Antonio?  We of warm climes are house-bound and slip-sliding around.

    Got the scoop, Wronwright??  Inquiring minds want to know.

    Posted by Kathy from Austin on 2007 01 16 at 11:50 PM • permalink

  59. #52 mareeS
    “It’s also the wettest town in Australia, in more ways than rainfall.”
    At the risk of kicking off WW3 (or is that continuing the epic battle?), Tully is not the wettest town in Australia. Babinda owns that title and has the Golden Gumboot award (displayed proudly in the window of the local Post Office) to prove it. A massive 5446 mm of rain was measured in the gauge in 2006, nearly 1.4 metres ahead of Tully ... that’s just on 214 1/2 inches or not far short of 18 feet of rain for you non metrics up yonder. Global moistening perhaps?
    It may well claim the title in the ways other than rainfall though.
    Retiring to lead lined bunker and firmly closing door ...

    Posted by galenmk on 2007 01 17 at 12:34 AM • permalink

  60. #59 galenmk:  why the hell don’t you capture it so that Australia can become the continent it was meant to be with 300MM population??  My understanding is that the reason it is at 28MM is because of water.  You go, girl! Bambinda is the future, surely enough!

    Posted by Kathy from Austin on 2007 01 17 at 12:54 AM • permalink

  61. Anyone heard of this crowd? [part of an Australian job advertisement:

    The Hawke Research Institute for Sustainable Societies (HRISS) delivers excellent cross-disciplinary research in the Humanities and Social Sciences that supports an ecologically diverse and sustainable world of tolerant and inclusive democratic societies.

    Wow!!  You mean such a world exists already?
    Maybe a Front for Goreism?

    Posted by Barrie on 2007 01 17 at 01:15 AM • permalink

  62. #59 galenmk, I bow to your superior knowledge. My figures must be out of date for external wetness, but intercranial precipitation in Tully holds good. I’ve spent enough time there to know.

    Posted by mareeS on 2007 01 17 at 06:16 AM • permalink

  63. I have never heard of Kathy Mattea, but I just looked her up on iTunes and had a listen to her sample tracks.

    Nice voice. Pity she is a ratbag.

    Posted by Pedro the Ignorant on 2007 01 17 at 07:21 AM • permalink

  64. “This is one of those freezes that, unfortunately, we’ll all remember.”

    Believe me, I will make sure that the environuts in my vicinity never, ever forget it.

    Posted by Achillea on 2007 01 17 at 03:26 PM • permalink

  65. #60 - Kathy from Austin - A cousin of mine lives in Austin, I hope to visit next summer, if it doesn’t snow. 8-) Cousin in Cheyenne helped her son move to Nevada just before the storm. I’m assuming they’re ok because my aunt hasn’t called. My brother chases trains & has sent me some LOVELY pics of the beauty in Kansas, Oklahoma, Wyoming, & a couple other places I don’t remember right now.

    I’ve become a real wimp, living in NEFlorida all this time - but I remember the ice storm in 1979 (New Years Eve?) when I lived in Dallas, & I prefer not to do that at my age, thanks.

    Posted by KC on 2007 01 17 at 08:36 PM • permalink

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