The Gore Effect Strikes Again!

Global Warming Protesters Met With Bitter Cold, Snow

"A small group of global warming activists protesting oil and gas drilling outside the Department of Interior office in Colorado Thursday morning were met with bitter cold weather and snow.

About 10 “Keep It In The Ground” activists waved signs next to a busy road in the Denver area, calling for the Obama administration to stop issuing leases so companies can drill on public lands. Activists say drilling only exacerbates global warming.

The irony, however, is activists stood outside about four inches of snow with temperatures hovering in the 20s, degrees Fahrenheit. The official low temperature was negative ten degrees early Thursday morning, according to the National Weather Service.

Activists with 350.org and Food and Water Watch braved the cold to protest hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” after two measures to restrict the drilling technique failed to make November’s ballot. The pro-fracking Western Energy Alliance took photos of activists trying to stay warm. You can view the photos here.

“While it is clear that the national activist groups behind these efforts are not abandoning their goal to ban fracking, they picked a day to protest the use of fossil fuels when most Coloradans are likely more thankful than ever for the affordable energy provided by domestic energy development,” Randy Hildreth, a writer for the industry-backed, Energy In Depth, wrote in a blog post.

Now, of course, one cold day doesn’t disprove global warming, but it continues a trend of activists being beaten by cold weather when holding events trying to highlight how fossil fuels are warming the planet.

This phenomenon is called the “Gore effect,” coined after a global warming rally held by former Vice President Al Gore in 2004 was met with frigid weather. A similar rally held by Gore in 2006 in Australia was also hit by unusually cold weather.

It’s not just Gore who’s held freezing global warming rallies. Yale anti-fossil fuel campaigners postponed a protest in early 2015 due to “unfavorable weather conditions and other logistical issues.”  New Haven had negative nine degrees Fahrenheit when the event was canceled.

In 2013, environmental protesters in Washington state were hit with cold weather and snow flurries protesting global warming. Activists tried to encourage the crowd that “climate and weather are two different things,” but words didn’t warm anybody up that day."

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Note: It has become a great joke that every time Al Gore speaks at a climate conference, where he will never do a press conference or debate in spite of offers up to $25,000, it snows.  It happened, for the first time in history when he spoke in Acapulco.  It happened again in Colorado, but this is the season for snow.  However, it was a much stronger storm than normal for this time in the season, but then according to our studies Earth is 40,000 years overdue for an ice age!  Could it be happening now?

We have been in cooling trend for 20 years and it is ironic that CO2 added to the atmosphere actually reduces the heating effect of water vapor as CO2 drives it out per the Le Chatelier Principle.  This had been the effect predicted by the meteorological scientists of the 70's and they made predictions of a coming ice age, but without a plan for extracting power and taxes from it the presentations to Congress were ignored.  

When Albert Gore, Jr. took Roger Revel's science survey course at Harvard he saw the political potential in spite of the fact he only got a "D" in the course.  Thus, a poor student and a man who rejected his own concept late in life, just before death, changed the course of history with their own boondoggle. 

Adrian Vance