Al Gore Wishes He Never Invented The Internet

It used to be a lot easier for people in power like Al Gore to control peoples opinions.

Not too long ago you if you said something stupid on national TV it was no big deal, just a phone call to a couple of big newspapers and the story went nowhere. But now if you say anything wrong at all, like the earth's core is several million degrees instead of several thousand degrees, all the little bloggers with no credentials jump all over it and make a big deal about it.

Or when Senator John Kerry, in explaining the need for a climate change bill, noted that in "the last eight years emissions in the United States of America in greenhouse gasses went up four times faster than in the 1990s" when in actuality they went down in that time period. In the olden days the press would just take Kerry's word as gospel.

And now with the release of the leaked emails from AirVent.com I bet Al Gore Wishes he never would have invented the internet.

The Global Warming Extremists had a good thing going for a while. All it took was one U.N. entity, a few scientists, a few scientific journals, one chart based on one tree, one politician and his documentary plus the main stream media, and Voilà! You have a worldwide crisis that requires a worldwide tax and a worldwide government. But all it took to bring it down was one comment on one little blog. Even the New York Times is talking about it.

It will take a long time to decipher what was said in these emails but here is one of my personal favorites so far.


if McIntyre had a legitimate point, he would submit a comment to the journal in question. of course, the last time he tried that (w/ our '98 article in Nature), his comment was rejected. For all of the noise and bluster about the Steig et al Antarctic warming, its now nearing a year and nothing has been submitted. So more likely he won't submit for peer-reviewed scrutiny, or if it does get his criticism "published" it will be in the discredited contrarian home journal "Energy and Environment". I'm sure you are aware that McIntyre and his ilk realize they no longer need to get their crap published in legitimate journals. All they have to do is put it up on their blog, and the contrarian noise machine kicks into gear, pretty soon Druge, Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck and their ilk (in this case, The Telegraph were already on it this morning) are parroting the claims. And based on what? some guy w/ no credentials, dubious connections with the energy industry, and who hasn't submitted his claims to the scrutiny of peer review.

The Global Warming Extremists controlled the argument for years by saying, it's only legitimate science if it's published in certain journals and peer reviewed, and if you control the Journals you control the science. But sadly with Al Gore's invention, the anointed few are losing control, much like the medieval church did with the invention of the printing press.