{"id":11527,"date":"2021-02-25T17:50:46","date_gmt":"2021-02-26T00:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gelbspanfiles.com\/?p=11527"},"modified":"2021-03-22T11:18:32","modified_gmt":"2021-03-22T18:18:32","slug":"so-mr-gore-can-you-explain-why-your-statement-here-doesnt-match-the-statement-over-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gelbspanfiles.com\/?p=11527","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;<i>So \u2026 Mr Gore \u2026 can you explain why your statement here doesn&#8217;t match the statement over there?<\/i>\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So far, ordinary citizens can get away with the response &#8220;<em>just asking<\/em>&#8221; when chastised for questioning the inconsistencies in narratives about man-caused global warming, but maybe not much longer if that starts falling into what &#8216;Big Tech&#8217; vilifies <a href=\"http:\/\/gelbspanfiles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/FB-censors-AGW-skeptics.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">as spreading misinformation<\/a>. Regarding other controversial political issues in recent weeks, credit the collective far-left with cleverly concocting the propaganda notion that citizens questioning &#8216;established facts&#8217; in the mainstream media about <a href=\"http:\/\/wiseenergy.org\/Energy\/Election\/2020_Election_Cases.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the U.S. presidential election<\/a> or the <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/01\/14\/i-saw-provocateurs-at-the-capitol-riot-on-jan-6\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 6th riot at the U.S. Capitol<\/a> might be dangerous radicals so hopelessly enslaved to conspiracy theories that <a href=\"http:\/\/gelbspanfiles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Axios-deprogram.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">they need to be re-educated<\/a>. How long will it be until it&#8217;s insinuated that anyone who wonders why details in the global warming issue don&#8217;t line up right may be part of the unstable fanatic population posing a threat to democracy? Oh, wait, <a href=\"http:\/\/gelbspanfiles.com\/?p=11356\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">that&#8217;s already happened<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe that kind of reasoning is meets with little opposition in the unreal world of news media \/ social media, but in the very real world of litigation (if the 20+ <a href=\"http:\/\/gelbspanfiles.com\/?page_id=18\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Exxon Knew&#8221;-style global warming lawsuits<\/a> resolve legal technicalities of whether they fall under Federal or state court jurisdiction), the law firms hired by energy company defendants will start questioning the often-repeated accusation from Al Gore that their clients colluded with skeptic climate scientists in disinformation campaigns designed to undercut the certainty of man-caused global warming. Perhaps enviro-activists may try to spin that as &#8220;<em>Big Oil&#8217;s defense lawyers push right-wing conspiracy theories<\/em>&#8221; for the biased news media to repeat, but that intimidation tactic to shut down questioning is not likely to work out well at all within the confines of any courtroom.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Imagine what happens if Gore is ever subpoenaed, but if he dodges that bullet, the contradictory things surrounding his role in the &#8220;Exxon Knew&#8221; accusation might still have to be explained:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>At the 2008 Davos conference, Al Gore <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=I1Do9vut6tc&amp;t=1748s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">categorically said<\/a> that &#8220;<em>Exxon Mobil has funded 40 different front groups that have all been a part of a strategic persuasion campaign to, in their own words &#8216;reposition global warming as theory rather than fact.&#8217;<\/em>&#8221; He spelled out that supposedly leaked strategy phrase full screen in his 2006 documentary movie <a href=\"http:\/\/gelbspanfiles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/AnIncTr-Reposti-Doubt2.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in comparison<\/a> to a sinister leaked memo strategy from the tobacco industry. His movie companion book categorically says <a href=\"http:\/\/gelbspanfiles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/AnIncTr263-Reposit-Gelb2.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ross Gelbspan discovered that memo phrase<\/a>, and Gelbspan&#8217;s 1997 &#8220;The Heat is On&#8221; book not only featured that same leaked strategy memo phrase, it <a href=\"http:\/\/gelbspanfiles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/THio-pg-34.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">also included audience targeting specifics<\/a> of &#8220;older, less-educated males&#8221; and &#8220;younger, lower-income women&#8221; out of that memo set. But Al Gore categorically stated way back in 1992 that the memos <a href=\"http:\/\/gelbspanfiles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/ErintheB-360.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">were leaked to his Senate office by the National Coal Association<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Well, which is it, an effort created by Exxon, or one created in the coal industry?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>As I just noted above, Gore said Gelbspan discovered the memo, Gelbspan quoted the relevant phrases that appear even today within the current <a href=\"http:\/\/gelbspanfiles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Hoboken-reposit.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Hoboken v Exxon<\/em> lawsuit<\/a> \u2026. but Gore&#8217;s 1992 book featured those same memo targeting phrases <strong><em>years<\/em><\/strong> before Gelbspan <a href=\"http:\/\/gelbspanfiles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/NPR-LOE-Gelb-reposit-12-15-95-1024x591.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">first mentioned<\/a> them.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Who had the memos first, then?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Immediately before Gore compared the &#8220;reposition global warming&#8221; leaked memo to the tobacco industry memo in his 2006 movie, he featured a prominent graphic \u2014 928 science papers &#8220;agreeing with the global consensus that greenhouse gases cause global warming,&#8221; zero against \u2014 that is <a href=\"http:\/\/gelbspanfiles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/OreskesSciMag928toZip.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">attributed to Naomi Oreskes&#8217; 2004 study<\/a> published in the December 2004 issue of <em>Science<\/em>. Oreskes categorically described her study <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=suz_13pXgEw&amp;t=281\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">as &#8220;no big deal,&#8221; little more than a personal exercise of curiosity, a single &#8220;cross check&#8221; illustration<\/a> that she could use in a presentation of 100+ other slides on another matter, and how the reaction to this prompted her to elaborate a bit more on it for her paper she submitted to <em>Science<\/em> magazine. But Al Gore, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.govinfo.gov\/content\/pkg\/CHRG-110shrg55923\/pdf\/CHRG-110shrg55923.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">at a March 2007 U.S. Senate hearing<\/a>, described the study as, &#8220;<em><strong>The University of California<\/strong> did a very well respected, well picked-over peer-reviewed study. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>The team<\/strong> was led by Professor Naomi Oreskes<\/span><\/em>. <em><strong>They<\/strong> took a very large sample of almost 10 percent of them, 928 &#8230; of those that dealt with the main consensus, the number that disagreed with the consensus was zero.<\/em>&#8220;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><img src=\"http:\/\/gelbspanfiles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Gore-U-of-C-928-consensus.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Which was it? An informal tally done on a whim, or a serious research effort done at a major academic level, undertaken by a team of accredited researchers. Did Al Gore commit a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/11\/15\/779353180\/roger-stone-political-operative-and-trump-aide-guilty-in-false-statements-trial\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8216;Roger Stone-like&#8217; crime<\/a> of making <a href=\"http:\/\/gelbspanfiles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/18-USC-1001.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a false statement to Congress<\/a>, or was Naomi Oreskes vastly understating what it took to carry out her study?<\/p>\n<p>Just askin&#8217;.<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/gelbspanfiles.com\/?p=11560\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Part 2<\/a>: Al Gore said what he said there about &#8220;<em><strong>The team<\/strong> was led by Professor Naomi Oreskes<\/em>&#8221; for a specific reason.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So far, ordinary citizens can get away with the response &#8220;just asking&#8221; when chastised for questioning the inconsistencies in narratives about man-caused global warming, but maybe not much longer if that starts falling into what &#8216;Big Tech&#8217; vilifies as spreading &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gelbspanfiles.com\/?p=11527\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[166,157],"tags":[107],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gelbspanfiles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11527"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gelbspanfiles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gelbspanfiles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gelbspanfiles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gelbspanfiles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11527"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/gelbspanfiles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11674,"href":"https:\/\/gelbspanfiles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11527\/revisions\/11674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gelbspanfiles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gelbspanfiles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gelbspanfiles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}