So...am I supposed to fake some sort of opaque outrage over this or just post a South Park picture?

I wonder if Gore would accept a Supreme Court appointment?

I would just like to offer my acceptance of any and all monetary offers. No amount is too big, no amount is too small. I am ready for your money.

abb3w: I wonder if Gore would accept a Supreme Court appointment?

You know, head of the EPA isn't a Cabinet position.

How about a cookie? I'll bet he'll accept a cookie.

CravenMorehead: How about a cookie? I'll bet he'll accept a cookie.

Or a cheeseburger, a double cheeseburger with extra bacon...

He might accept a cheezburger post.

remus: CravenMorehead: How about a cookie? I'll bet he'll accept a cookie.

Or a cheeseburger, a double cheeseburger with extra bacon...

I was a little slow, looks like we're all on the same page here.

CrankMyBlueSax: I was a little slow, looks like we're all on the same page here.

Let's call it the "Cheeseburger Effect" of politics. We can write a joint paper to publish for a Master's Thesis.

HAI GUYSZ. HAVE YOU HEAR D OF MANBEARPIG!!! LOL!!!1

remus: Let's call it the "Cheeseburger Effect" of politics. We can write a joint paper to publish for a Master's Thesis.

We'll need some pointless stats and graphs and stuff.

Jubeebee: abb3w: I wonder if Gore would accept a Supreme Court appointment?

You know, head of the EPA isn't a Cabinet position.

I thought it was. I thought the office was promoted to cabinet level when Whitman was appointed.

I will also not accept Scarlett Johanssen's naked body being rubbed on me for hours. So don't try it. Please, Ms. Johanssen, restrain yourself.

/Reverse psychology?

STOP GLOBAL WARMING: BECOME A PIRATE!

If anybody asks, I've gone to the Strait of Malacca to scuttle supertankers headed for China.

The difference is that no one is publicly suggesting that anyone should offer subby $5 million.

abb3w: I wonder if Gore would accept a Supreme Court appointment?

That would be good because then he'd know what the controlling legal authority was every time he shaved in the morning.

In related news, Submitter will not accept $5 million, no matter who offers it

I'm a whore, I'll take $5 million directly from Hitler or those people who club baby seals, I don't care.

Gimme.

That's a shame subby, 'cuz I was just looking for someone to give away $5 mil. to, to reduce my tax penalties. Would you accept 2 or 3 big ones?

A. Pippi Longstocking.

Q. "What do you get when you cross Little Orphan Annie with a pirate?"

You know, someone should offer subby $5 million.

BMulligan: The difference is that no one is publicly suggesting that anyone should offer subby $5 million.

NYEAH!

on topic:
I think Gore's figured out that he can make a lot more money, with a lot less effort, get a lot less criticism, and have a lot less responsibility just by getting people pissed off about things without actually having a job title to back it up.

(This is not a comment on the validity of global warming. It's a comment on the validity of Al Gore)

Yep. John "Family Man" McCain doesn't even file a joint return with his sugar momma, but Fark conservatards would rather biatch that Al Gore would rather spend his time using the free market to bring about change.

Al Gore will not accept a cabinet post, no matter who wins. Which is convenient, because no one has offered him one.

As far as I know, nobody has been offered a cabinet post. Does that mean nobody is going to take them?

Owl Gorr is fat so we don't have to listen to him. Nobody gives a shiat what Dan Quayle says anymore; why do we listen to this blowhard has-been? He's a failure. But please, continue to jump on the global warming fear train while he grabs up your money to fund another cross atlantic flight in his private jet or maybe just to power the lights in his million square foot house. farking sheeps.

There was an SNL skit in the 90s that showed him staring at a potted plant and caressing it and talking to it. Just .... staring.

He would be great for the new post of The Plant Whisperer.

Is this the thread where we beg for money?

kyoryu:

You know, someone should offer subby $5 million.

I stand corrected and thoroughly chastised.

Shaggy_C: Owl Gorr is fat so we don't have to listen to him. Nobody gives a shiat what Dan Quayle says anymore; why do we listen to this blowhard has-been? He's a failure. But please, continue to jump on the global warming fear train while he grabs up your money to fund another cross atlantic flight in his private jet or maybe just to power the lights in his million square foot house. farking sheeps.

Newt? Is that you?

In other words he is making a shiat load of money right now and doesn't want to be distracted by a political position.

Al already spent 8 years in office doing nothing about the environment. He's much more effective when he's making movies and shrieking about it than when he's actually a position to affect any change.

CrankMyBlueSax: We'll need some pointless stats and graphs and stuff.

Pirate numbers actually are increasing in recent years. That graph is inaccurate.

Well you can't find Manbearpig sitting around an office in DC all day. Everyone knows he was spotted out West recently.

Marshmallow Jones: Al already spent 8 years in office doing nothing about the environment. He's much more effective when he's making movies and shrieking about it than when he's actually a position to affect any change.

Er, you do actually know what the powers of the veep are, right? (Cheney excepted, perhaps.)

Skleenar: Pirate numbers actually are increasing in recent years. That graph is inaccurate.

It's also been getting cooler. They just need to update the graph; the pirate/temperature relationship holds.

Manfred J. Hattan: It's also been getting cooler.

You must live in the Southern Hemisphere.

And it's called Autumn.

Skleenar: You must live in the Southern Hemisphere.

Nope, just living la nina loca. That wasn't a comment on what's going to happen in the future, just an observation that even the five people on the planet who still think the Statue of Liberty will be up to her eyeballs in ocean by 2010 (the Goreacle is one of them, unless he's lying, which is of course also a possibility) agree that the short-term temperature trend since the 1998 high has been downward, and, as you say, the number of pirates has been increasing (even though they aren't the cool pirates with eye patches and parrots).

Do you have any idea how much power he'd have to give up to be a Cabinet member?

Manfred J. Hattan: That wasn't a comment on what's going to happen in the future, just an observation that even the five people on the planet who still think the Statue of Liberty will be up to her eyeballs in ocean by 2010 (the Goreacle is one of them, unless he's lying, which is of course also a possibility) agree that the short-term temperature trend since the 1998 high has been downward,

ORLY?

The red line is the annual global-mean GISTEMP temperature record (though any other data set would do just as well), while the blue lines are 8-year trend lines - one for each 8-year period of data in the graph. What it shows is exactly what anyone should expect: the trends over such short periods are variable; sometimes small, sometimes large, sometimes negative - depending on which year you start with. The mean of all the 8 year trends is close to the long term trend (0.19ºC/decade), but the standard deviation is almost as large (0.17ºC/decade), implying that a trend would have to be either >0.5ºC/decade or much more negative (

from here

Shaggy_C: Owl Gorr is fat so we don't have to listen to him. Nobody gives a shiat what Dan Quayle says anymore; why do we listen to this blowhard has-been? He's a failure. But please, continue to jump on the global warming fear train while he grabs up your money to fund another cross atlantic flight in his private jet or maybe just to power the lights in his million square foot house. farking sheeps.

I'm a neocon loony, and even I think that was the failingest troll I've seen all day.

Granted, I only skimmed through the responses, but I actually like Gore...

Am I weird?

/expects someone to quote this and say "yes"
//har har

Skleenar: Manfred J. Hattan: That wasn't a comment on what's going to happen in the future, just an observation that even the five people on the planet who still think the Statue of Liberty will be up to her eyeballs in ocean by 2010 (the Goreacle is one of them, unless he's lying, which is of course also a possibility) agree that the short-term temperature trend since the 1998 high has been downward,

ORLY?
The red line is the annual global-mean GISTEMP temperature record (though any other data set would do just as well), while the blue lines are 8-year trend lines - one for each 8-year period of data in the graph. What it shows is exactly what anyone should expect: the trends over such short periods are variable; sometimes small, sometimes large, sometimes negative - depending on which year you start with. The mean of all the 8 year trends is close to the long term trend (0.19ºC/decade), but the standard deviation is almost as large (0.17ºC/decade), implying that a trend would have to be either >0.5ºC/decade or much more negative (

from here

But Rush Limbaugh said this was the coldest April on record. Global Warming can not be true.

Gore is too busy realizing that spreading the fear of global warming (no, i'm not denying it's happening) is far more lucrative than a government job where he could actually make some headway in reducing or reversing global warming.


For a guy who spent 8 years as VP, does he really not know that the only way to get businesses to change their polluting ways is to FORCE them to do it? As in with laws and stuff? And he doesn't want to even try to become the single most powerful man in the world? And work with a Congress that will be damn close to 60% democratic when he could have taken office in 2009? Really, Al? Really?


Flying around the country in a private jet and lecturing college kids (for a $50,000 dollar fee, of course) will not do a damn thing to combat global warming. I know Al Gore is not an idiot, so I'm left to conclude only that he is a global warming war profiteer. And an enormous hypocrite.

DaSwankOne: Yep. John "Family Man" McCain doesn't even file a joint return with his sugar momma, but Fark conservatards would rather biatch that Al Gore would rather spend his time using the free market to bring about change.

Hideously Gigantic Smurf: Do you have any idea how much power he'd have to give up to be a Cabinet member?

About 20 times the power of the average family?


/Oh, wait, I thought you were talking electric power

Anagrammer: DaSwankOne: Yep. John "Family Man" McCain doesn't even file a joint return with his sugar momma, but Fark conservatards would rather biatch that Al Gore would rather spend his time using the free market to bring about change.

So you are a conservatard?

Skleenar: The red line is the annual global-mean GISTEMP temperature record (though any other data set would do just as well), while the blue lines

Jesus are you disaster fundies ever sensitive. I knew that, but I didn't realize that you are so sensitive that you have lost both your sense of humor and your ability to read your own links. There are two things you should know.

The first is that I was talking about freaking pirates!

The second is that your article agrees with what I said. I said that the short-term pattern over the last decade showed a cooling trend and I said that that trend was not indicative of the future. The entire point of the article you linked was that the short-term cooling trend was not, of itself, an argument against a longer-term warming trend (which is true). In other words, there IS a short-term pattern of cooling since 1998 which the article acknowledges AND that short-term trend does not say anything about any future long-term trend. In other other words, I was factually correct.

In other other other words, over the last decade the temperature has been falling and the number of pirates has been increasing. Over the longer term, the temperature has been increasing and the number of pirates has been decreasing. Those are not contradictory. However, what we do know is that one of the following will definitely happen: a) the temperature will resume increasing and the number of pirates will resume decreasing; b) the temperature will continue to decrease, dooming the planet to an increasing number of pirates; or c) the temperature will stay about the same and the number of pirates will stay about the same. So sayeth the FSM.

Ramen.

Good to see these global warming threads are out of the science/tech threads and into the politics threads where they belong.

Manfred J. Hattan: In other words, there IS a short-term pattern of cooling since 1998

No, there isn't. The only way you can claim that is to take the extreme temperature in 1998 and compare it, singly, with a lower temperature that exists in later years.

This is not indicative of a trend, as the 8-year trendlines in my graph clearly show. It, instead, is indicative of cherry-picking data to make your point.

I do concede that they article says that short term trends are not indicative of anything. I linked to it to say "you're wrong, but even if you were right, it wouldn't mean anything".

I would offer $5 million, but I need $2,500 to free it from my Nigerian bank account.