FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 10/29/12

WUWT-TV to debut on November 14th to counter Al Gore’s “Dirty Weather Telethon” on November 14th and 15th starting at 8PM EST (5PM PST)

Al Gore is forming another 24 hour media event on November 14th, focusing on “dirty weather”, which you can read about here. It is yet another example of what has been called “Tabloid Climatology”.

Gore’s program is another transparent attempt to link climate and weather, and to make people fearful of common weather events that we’ve seen all throughout history. WUWT hosted a 24 hour event last year, thanks to the talents of our contributing cartoonist, Josh. You can review that here.

Last year during his “24 Hours of Climate Reality”, Mr. Gore created a video called “Climate 101” in which he purported to show a laboratory experiment showing the warming effects of CO2. Unfortunately it was discovered that Mr. Gore fabricated the experimental results using video post production techniques. You can read about it and see the evidence here:

Video analysis and scene replication suggests that Al Gore’s Climate Reality Project fabricated their Climate 101 video “Simple Experiment”

and

Replicating Al Gore’s Climate 101 video experiment shows that his “high school physics” could never work as advertised

Due to Mr. Gore broadcasting fabricated and impossible science experiments, and then failing to correct the video even when glaringly obvious falsifications were pointed out, and partly due to WUWT’s founder Anthony Watts recent interview (and backlash) on PBS Newshour, a donor has stepped forward and offered to equip WUWT for professional Live TV over the Internet and has purchased a complete web enabled TV studio setup for use this year, seen here:

http://www.newtek.com/products/tricaster-40.html

It includes two cameras, live video over net input, and live graphics/slideshow input.

It has been tested and has succeeded a 24 hour live web broadcast burn in period. When in production, the WUWT-TV web channel will have all of the elements of a professional TV production.

During the event, WUWT-TV will be able to conduct live video interviews via Skype online video, plus will feature simultaneous PowerPoint presentations run in high quality HD to go with the live interview, while the guest narrates. These can be full screen or split screen depending on the setting.

PowerPoint presentations will be pre-loaded into the system, and to facilitate remote control, WUWT has engineered a remote ‘clicker’ that allows guest presenters to control the presentation from their end, using a web page with a forward and back button on it.

WUWT-TV has invited a number of individuals to give presentations, here is the list so far.

SCHEDULED TO APPEAR:

Andrew Montford (Author of The Hockey Stick Illusion)

Richard Lindzen (Alfred P. Sloan professor of Meteorology, MIT)

Marc Morano (Climate Depot)

John Coleman (Founder of the Weather Channel, now at KUSI-TV)

Chris Horner (Senior Fellow, Center for Energy and Environment, CEI)

Steve McIntyre (editor of ClimateAudit.org)

Dr. Ross McKitrick (University of Guelph)

John Christy (Alabama State climatologist, co author of UAH dataset)

Joe D’Aleo (WeatherBell)

Joe Bastardi (Weatherbell)

Senator Jim Inhofe

Bob Tisdale (author of Who Turned on The Heat?)

Dr. Ryan Maue (Weatherbell)

Burt Rutan, (Engineer and Aviation Pioneer)

Dr. Sebastian Lüning (co-author of Die kalte Sonne)

Harold Ambler (Author of Don’t Sell Your Coat)

Donna LaFramboise (Author of The Delinquent Teenager)

Pat Michaels (former State climatologist of Virgina, fellow of the Cato institute)

Pete Garcia (Producer of the movie The Boy Who Cried Warming)

Christopher Monckton (SPPI)

Invited but still undecided or have not returned RSVP:

Judith Curry (may appear by pre-recorded presentation she offered)

Burt Rutan (no reply)

John Kehr (no reply)

David Stockwell (no reply)

Jo Nova (undecided)

Dr. David Evans (no reply)

Zeke Hausfather, BEST (undecided)

Invited but declined:

Dr. Walt Meir, NSIDC (declined)

Dr. Roger Pielke Sr. (conflicting commitments prevent appearance)

Dr. Roger Pielke Jr. (declined but offered supplemental materials)

Bill McKibben (declined due to other commitments)

There are still a few slots open. For those on the opposite side of the debate, as well as those on the skeptic side we invite you to participate, and welcome slide and narrative presentations from 15 minutes to 1 hour in length.

For questions or to request a time slot, please use the contact form if you will be able to participate. Given that Mr. Gore wants to sell the American public on ‘dirty weather’, which we know is an act of desperation, unsupported by the current state of the science (see this Nature editorial on the lack of linkage between climate and extreme weather) your voice will be particularly important.

If you cannot participate live during that time, we can arrange to pre-record the segment and play it at the appropriate time on November 14th or 15th. All that is required is a functional webcam (with headset preferred for best audio quality) A Skype account, and a short PowerPoint presentation or video clip.

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Contact WUWT here: http://wattsupwiththat.com/about-wuwt/contact-2/

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