Carlo

This is the real rhetoric that stands out. Soooo typical and rather shameful.

“Make no doubt, however, if tipping points are passed, if we, in effect, destroy Creation, passing on to our children, grandchildren, and the unborn a situation out of their control, the contrarians who work to deny and confuse will not be the principal culprits. The contrarians will be remembered as court jesters. There is no point to joust with court jesters. They will always be present. They will continue to entertain even if the Titanic begins to take on water. Their role and consequence is only as a diversion from what is important.

The real deal is this: the ‘royalty’ controlling the court, the ones with the power, the ones with the ability to make a difference, with the ability to change our course, the ones who will live in infamy if we pass the tipping points, are the captains of industry, CEOs in fossil fuel companies such as EXXON/Mobil, automobile manufacturers, utilities, all of the leaders who have placed short-term profit above the fate of the planet and the well-being of our children. The court jesters are their jesters, occasionally paid for services, and more substantively supported by the captains’ disinformation campaigns.”

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Another original presentation by A. Gore, page 94 of “Earth in the Balance”. I have added the red for clarity. The length of the hockey stick blade makes the print too small on the axes. Perhps his advisors said to trim it a little for the movie. But we should have passed a temperature change exceeding 50 deg C between year 2000 and now.

For a dead guy, yorick, you make a great straightman, albeit a might stiff.

I refuse to make any jokes or insinuations about gavins position relative
to the blade or the shaft of the aforementioned stick. It wouldn’t be cricket.

Gore’s error in AIT was more than just the use of an incorrect diagram. Gore noted that the temperature chart had the same shape as the CO2 chart. The point wasn’t just hockey stick temperature but that the chats showed that temperature is directly correlated to CO2 and nothing else of significance affects this relationship.