The Daily Bayonet

Carny futures are down, the European Endarkenment has begun and the EPA introduced the world to the concept of extinction neutrality.  If you have no idea what any of this means, then you need the weekly round-up.  Coincidentally, here it is:

Part One: Al Gore & Friends

Al Gore is a social networking junkie.  Al has added yet another name to those he follows on Twitter, making the total a staggering… 8.  If you’d like Al to follow you, simply devise a way to fill his pockets with millions of dollars or become President of the United States.

The Goreacle eased off on his blogging pace this week after reports that some acolytes found the flurry of posts almost too much to take.  I think it was the post about Tipper’s photography that pushed folks over the edge, and no, I’m still not linking it.  This week Al blogged only to claim that his fake grassroots movement is bigger than your fake grassroots movement.  He also slips in a little snark about the Bonnor letter, but before he gets too sanctimonious, let’s not forget how his friends at the WWF use terrorist attacks for fund raising.

Add ‘carbon baron’ to Al’s list of titles.  Nobel Prize winner, Oscar winner, Emmy winner, Grammy winner and Big Weiner, he’s won ‘em all.

Al’s investment firm, Generation Investment Management took a 12% share in Ireland’s Kingspan.  They’re working on a new high-efficiency insulation, which might be handy for Al if people start asking inconvenient questions about his personal wealth.

Talking of inconvenience, Al has been challenged to a $20,000 bet:

J. Scott Armstrong, a professor at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, has bet Gore $20,000 that he will be able to make more accurate forecasts of annual mean temperatures than those that can be produced by the climate models Gore and his followers base their predictions on.

Nice try, J. Scott, but I wouldn’t run and spend that $20k on a new Hummer just yet.  Al’s famously shy when it comes to debates.  It’s over, you see, the debate is over.  Al said so, I heard him.

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