Everybody knows that next week thousands of world-saving heroes are jumping into their private jets to fly off to Carbonhagen, er, Copenhagen for the big UN Climate Change Conference. Or as I like to call it, ConArtistCon ’09. But guess who’s starting to, ahem, scale back his busy schedule at the event?
Courtesy of Copenhagen’s Berlingske Tidende newspaper (which, thanks to Google Translate, sounds like one of those guys from Dethklok):
Al Gore has this morning told Berlingske Media’s great annoyance has canceled his planned major climate talks for Danes 16th December 1 Tap in the old Carlsberg because, under the title “Climate Conclusion”.
Cancellation comes with regard to unforeseen changes in Al Gore’s program for the climate summit, COP 15.
Scheduled for Al Gore to show his new multimedia show, which fits just been published in his book “Our Choice”, which comes with solutions to the planet’s global climate problems.
Berlingske Media is incredibly disappointed
Around 3000 the Danes had already secured a ticket for Berlingske Media’s event, planned since August and should have taken place just two days before the climate summit, COP 15, will end.
“We have had a clear-cut agreement, and it is unusual with great disappointment that we have to announce that Al Gore cancels. We have welcomed us and had a huge expectation for the event. We have appreciated that we have been able to give the Danes the opportunity to get close to the Climate Summit via Al Gore. We do not yet know the detailed reasons for the cancellation,” says Lisbeth Knudsen, CEO of Berlingske Media.
The Danes must be a hardy folk, to not only wants Al Gore anywhere nears them, but to be disappointed when it don’t gets to happens.
Would this be the same event where people were paying $1,200 to touch Gore’s HandPawHoof? Looks like it. You’d think those folks would be about the friendliest audience possible. If you’re going to put up that much scratch just to hang out with the guy, you’re probably not going to ambush him with questions about Climategate. But it sounds like he’s not taking any chances. These days everybody’s got a cell phone with a video camera, and he hardly needs yet another Youtube moment where he utterly fails to make a coherent argument.
How great would it be if Al Gore skipped Copenhagen altogether? If I were him right now, I’d be propped up in bed with my laptop and pint after pint of Chunky Monkey, watching the Google search results for “Climategate” skyrocket, weeping and whispering, “Why? Why, Gaia, why?” Hey wait, that’s what I’m doing right now.
Maybe Obama can fill in for him. One teleprompter is like any other, right?
In other shameless ecocrite news: The BBC’s Jeremy Paxman asks a visibly mortified Sting, “‘Do you feel uncomfortable travelling between various homes in various continents at enormous carbon cost?” Not as uncomfortable as he feels being confronted with it!
Update: Visitcopenhagen.com, which originally announced the Al Gore event, has now deleted that page. Is the AGW coalition unraveling?
(Hat tip to Ace of Spades and Deceiver reader Paul)
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Things are starting to smell pretty rotten in Denmark. Police and tax investigators across Europe are investigating hundreds of millions of euros worth of fraud involving carbon quotas originating in Denmark. Most of the suspects are company directors.
And how many think there’s a “no refund” clause in His Goreness’ contract for the appearance.
Yeah. Thought so.
God bless George Bush! If not for him, we would have had Gore for president.
For my people on their behalf, I hereby apologize blanketly for the grammar of ours.
Stuff of nightmares Conrad.
Easier way to watch the Sting interview.
http://xrrf.blogspot.com/2009/12/sting-vs-paxman-youre-not-being-blamed.html
I like how growing a large beard makes you an expert on your chosen topic of interest and gives you that scholarly look.
YOU ALL VOTED FOR PETA AS DECEIVER OF THE YEAR! INSTEAD OF MY MAN AL! HAPPY NOW?!?!
Filthy lefty hippies are right, pouting and yelling IS fun!
I love the computer translations of foreign articles. I did it to a German Wikipedia site for a project (yeah, I don’t consider it a real source, but it was one of the only actual sites to cover the particular subject, and it was sourced from several German books), and I could actually tell from the English translation what the original German words (especially verbs) were. I read German fairly well, but I was trying to get the info quick, and I didn’t have time to look up all the obscure words (stupid seventeenth century gardening terms). Babelfish for the win.
Who else thinks Obama is unaware of Climategate, and is merely showing up because he heard that a lot more reporters are coming than originally scheduled? Let’s hope he and Gore don’t go in the same room, the hot air really WOULD cause global warming.
Did anyone else see the article about a new study that says the world plunged into a major cooling period about 12,000 years ago? Apparently a glacial lake burst and world temps dropped within a few months. Now the alarmists are saying that’s going to happen because Greenland is melting. If the Climate people took the measurements, I’m not investing in Polertec. Really, shouldn’t they be excited? It’ll cool the earth back down from all the temperature increases that are inevitable because of all the carbon!
Let’s start a drum circle!
Amen, Pasta!
He’s probably booked a spa appointment instead, followed by a nice steak dinner. You would think these global warming fanatics would quit writing books too… wasting the trees and all.
I take comfort in the fact that since I am a bit younger than most of these assclowns they will die before me and I will not have to listen to them for the rest of my life. Sure, others morons will fill their place but at least their fat faces will be different.
Yeah, but Hurricane, unfortuately for us, they reproduced. Now their spawn can take up where they left off.
good for them!!!
Take Back Al Gore’s Oscar, 2 Academy Members say
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2009/12/al-gore-oscar-global-warming.html
I’d have more respect for the global warming crowd if they did all their meetings on computers in their bedroom while eating Chunky Monkey. At least they wouldn’t spew all those pollutants in the air while flying to and fro. But I don’t want to see Al Gore in his jammies.
I just read that two academy members demand Gore return his oscar. Can we start a petition demanding he also return his noble prize?
i meant nobel. Nothing noble about Gore.
jenn – Gore and Obama both please!!!
No one wants to see Gore in his jammies. Actually, I’m surprised anyone wants to see him at all.
I think that there are several Nobel Peace Prizes that should be confiscated. They can give them to the Iranian woman (I think she won in 2003) who had hers taken by the Iranian government for not paying taxes on the prize money that is exempt from taxes by Iranian law. Think Obama will bother condemning that during his award ceremony?
Me neither.
I’d consent to seeing Gore in his jammies only if they were made entirely of killer bees.