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Breaking News: Al Gore Relinquishes Legacy to Global Warming and Swimming Fish

How Al Gore sleeps at night shall remain a discussion for another day. For now, the topic is on the former vice president's legacy.

In a recent interview on Fox News Sunday, Chris Wallace challenged Gore's claims --- made over a decade ago --- while promoting his film An Inconvenient Truth:

Wallace: In 2006, you made the following comments as part of your publicity for the movie. You said unless we took, quote, drastic measures, the world would reach a point of no return within ten years, and you called it a true planetary emergency. We're 11 years later, weren't you wrong?
Gore: Well, we have seen a decline in emissions on a global basis. For the first time, they've stabilized and started to decline.

How convenient for Gore to change the parameters of his catastrophic prophecy that didn't come true.

Incredulously, Gore continued and somehow made this claim with a straight face:

Gore: I went down to Miami and saw a fish from the ocean swimming in the streets on a sunny day. The same thing is true in Honolulu.

Gore --- and President Obama --- made the same claim in 2015, as reported and debunked by the Miami Herald.

"Do people not care about how [they're] remembered?" Glenn asked Monday on radio. "I just think everything is going to come undone with all of this stuff. Lies only stand for so long. The truth eventually comes out."

It may not happen within the next five, 10 or 20 years --- even 100 years --- but eventually, everybody will make fun of Al Gore.

"At some point, Al Gore's children to great-grandchildren are sitting in class going, oh, jeez. I'm not brining up my stupid great-grandfather," Glenn said.

Enjoy the complimentary clip or read the transcript for details.

GLENN: I don't think so.

Hello, America. Welcome to the Glenn Beck Program. We're glad you're here.

There's a book out called Mistakes Were Made, But Not By Me. We've talked about it a couple of times. I went and I earmarked some things in this that are -- the book is trying to understand cognitive dissonance and why we -- why we have such an aversion to making an apology or -- or saying, yeah, that was my fault. When we claim we are hungry for people to do that. We are in our own lives don't do that. Some amazing stories out of this book I want to share with you, and how they apply to our life.

Also, we want to get to the big news. There is big breaking news out of Miami that is stunning and I'm -- I'm not sure why the media is not -- don't laugh.

PAT: No, I'm -- it's only so I wouldn't cry. That's why.

GLENN: It is -- you know, Al Gore was on television yesterday telling a story. And it's more than a story.

PAT: It's heart-wrenching.

GLENN: It's heart-wrenching. And it's news. It's hard news. And why the media won't cover this is beyond me.

PAT: It's a cover-up. It's a cover-up.

GLENN: Call Alex Jones. Wait until you hear the latest from Al Gore. We begin there, right now.

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GLENN: Welcome to Monday. So glad that you are with us. Let's start with Al Gore breaking some pretty amazing news yesterday on Fox. Listen to this.

MEGYN: In 2006, you made the following comments as part of your publicity for the movie. You said unless we took, quote, drastic measures, the world would reach a point of no return within ten years, and you called it a true planetary emergency. We're 11 years later, weren't you wrong?

AL: Well, we have seen a decline in emissions, on a global basis. For the first time they've stabilized and started to decline.

GLENN: Stop for a second.

PAT: He always changes the parameters there. Because he was -- the question was, you said we had to take drastic measures. Now, everybody knows drastic measures have not been taken. They've not been taken. And we're still not in a crisis.

GLENN: Well, here's the deal. Here's the deal: He is using the 2008 financial crisis and the global recession that we have been in as a good thing.

PAT: Uh-huh. That's true. That is true.

STU: That is the best proven way to reduce emissions is economic catastrophe. It happened in the Soviet Union.

GLENN: Yes. Yes. Yes.

PAT: Still, those were not drastic measures. You know, the economic downturn did not cause drastic changes.

GLENN: But it's also not the way carbon emissions work. You don't stop driving your car and then tomorrow, the earth is like, oh, I can breathe for a --

PAT: Exactly. And he would admit that, right?

STU: Of course. It's up to 200 years, between 80 and 200 years usually for CO2 to dissipate out of the atmosphere.

PAT: It's crazy.

GLENN: So if we stopped it all, it would still take a minimum of 80 years.

PAT: If you stopped all cars --

GLENN: It would still take a minimum of 80 years to impact the earth.

STU: So it's got nothing to do with -- by the way, leveling off because of, largely, a financial crisis. And some other factors. But, still, this is not like some incredible downturn.

PAT: No. Nothing drastic has happened.

GLENN: So he's saying that we're not seeing the results that he predicted in the movie. Because we've had a leveling off. Which he said, the only drastic measures happening today would be able to stop them.

AL: Well, the responses over the last ten years have helped.

PAT: Have helped.

AL: But unfortunately, regrettably -- a lot of serious damage has been done. Greenland, for example, is losing 1 cubic kilometer of ice every single day.

I went down to Miami and saw a fish from the ocean swimming in the streets on a sunny day. The same thing is true in Honolulu.

GLENN: Wait. Wait.

PAT: Wait. In Honolulu. I missed that the first time. It's Miami and Honolulu, where fish are swimming in the streets on sunny days.

GLENN: Fish.

PAT: That is heart-wrenching. Heart-wrenching.

GLENN: Now, how did the news media miss this?

PAT: I don't know.

GLENN: As you were driving your car in Miami, I want to hear from you now. Are you seeing the fish swimming in the street next to you on a sunny day?

PAT: And why are Americans in America hiding that? Why won't they tell America?

GLENN: They're hiding it. Are they all working for Halliburton?

PAT: Of course, they are. Of course, they are. They must all be on the payroll. Fish are swimming in the streets, on sunny days!

GLENN: How many global warming supporters -- people who say, I support Al Gore. How many of them had to die to cover up the video footage of the --

PAT: Too many.

GLENN: -- fish swimming in the streets of Honolulu and Miami?

JEFFY: Got to be video footage. Right? Got to be.

GLENN: Got to be.

PAT: When you take out your cell phone if that was happening in Dallas, I would get my camera out and shoot that.

STU: Now, of course, fish, as you may know, live in water. Occasionally when it floods in various areas, there are fish that could be theoretically on a street.

PAT: Not on a sunny day, for the love of heaven, Stu.

STU: But the Miami is an interesting addition. This was actually something Barack Obama has talked about as well.

JEFFY: Yeah.

STU: This is in 2015. He says, I think -- this is in 2015. I think as the signs around climate change is more accepted, as people start realizing that even today you can put a price on the damage that climate change is doing, you know, you go down to Miami. And when it's flooding at high tide on a sunny day and fish are swimming through the middle of the streets, you know, there's a cost to that.

PAT: How much does it cost?

JEFFY: Yeah.

PAT: How much does that cost for the fish?

STU: Well, there's a fish toll to cross the street.

JEFFY: Thirty-five cents.

PAT: Fish on land. I think that is -- yes, there is a toll.

GLENN: And here's the problem, fish don't have pockets. They have no place -- if you don't have a toll tag -- they don't have a toll tag --

(laughter)

-- to where they get the sun pass. Where they can just --

PAT: This is unbelievable. Do we have Miami residents who are willing to fess up to this cover-up?

GLENN: Now, there's a difference between -- there's a difference between when there's a storm, when there's a tornado, when there's a flood, and just the other day, I saw fish swimming in the streets on a sunny day.

JEFFY: Not to him.

GLENN: I know. Not to him.

STU: By the way, the title of the story that I read that story from: Do fish really swim in Miami streets? Well, not exactly.

(laughter)

And it's the Miami Herald, by the way.

PAT: So great.

GLENN: When did that come out?

STU: 2015. And Gore was also talking about it in --

GLENN: And he's still talking about it --

STU: So this is still one of his lead arguments. The other one being that he called the flood in New York City.

PAT: Yeah, that's a big one. Because that is a prediction come true. That's a straight-out lie. It's a straight-out lie.

STU: I mean, it's a straight-out lie. But the levels this man has to go to, to accomplish this lie is fascinating. Because he said -- well, in the movie, An Inconvenient Truth, he shows the World Trade Center memorial site being flooded. And he's like, this is what would happen.

PAT: And if Greenland were to melt, it would --

STU: Well, this is the point because he starts with that. And his new pitch is, see, I told you, the World Trade Center could flood, and it happened way before I said. That's his new pitch for the sequel of the Inconvenient Truth.

PAT: And according to some of the research from Dr. Maslowski in some summer months.

GLENN: I was actually reading something that quoted a Dr. Maslowski.

PAT: Really?

GLENN: And I'm like, shut up. It can't be the same guy. It's not. There's another Dr. Maslowski.

STU: That's another long-time Al Gore quote if you're a long-time listener. So he -- so he says this.

PAT: Yeah.

STU: First of all, what he predicted was not a temporary two-day flood from Sandy, which he's trying to take credit for now.

PAT: As of Greenland melted, come on.

STU: He predicted a permanent flood of these areas. A permanent flood caused by the entire melting of the Greenland ice shelf. So there's no ice in Greenland at all anymore. Okay?

It all melts. Falls into the sea. The sea level rises 20 feet, and then these areas are flooded like this. He's taking credit as if that prediction was right. Now, what's amazing about it, is he plays a clip from the movie to explain how right he is.

Legitimately, the sentence -- it's either the sentence before or the sentence after it, explains that what he is saying is not true. It talks about how Greenland would have to melt, or half of west Antarctica would have to melt, and half of Greenland, for this to happen. Which we know has not happened, as he just explained in that clip, where he says, what is it? 1 cubic kilometer or whatever he says.

PAT: Whatever it is. Yeah, which is also kind of picking and choosing his stats. Because it's growing in some areas. The ice is growing in some areas and melting in others. That's what happened -- it happened in the '30s. It happened in the '50s. When it warms up on the planet, Greenland melts a little bit. And then in some other places, it actually increases its ice mass. So he's always doing this. Picking and choosing his numbers and changing the parameters of things.

GLENN: I'm just so glad that we're not like that. That we'll admit that we're wrong when we're wrong.

PAT: Yeah. He will not. He's got too much invested in this.

GLENN: Yeah, I know. But you're going to end up -- do people not care about how you're remembered? I mean --

PAT: No, because the media helps him with how they're remembered. Look how celebrated this guy is. He's nothing, but a charlatan and a liar. But he's celebrated --

GLENN: But how is the media going to be remembered? I just think everything is going to come undone with all of this stuff. Lies only stand for so long. The truth eventually comes out. It may not be in the next five years or 20 years. But eventually, everybody is like -- everybody makes fun of Al Gore. At some point, Al Gore's children to great-grandchildren are sitting in class going, oh, jeez. I'm not brining up my stupid great grandfather.

STU: I don't know. I'm less and less confident of that fact every day.

PAT: Look at how Woodrow Wilson is remembered.

STU: It's starting to turn around. So that's positive.

PAT: It's starting to.

GLENN: It's taken 100 years, but he was the president of the United States.

STU: Yeah, but he's been dead for 100 years. He doesn't care what happens to him now. I mean, he may have cared at the time.

JEFFY: Al Gore should have been the president of the United States, I'll tell you that.

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Could passengers have SAVED Iryna Zarutska?

Surveillance footage of the murder of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska in Charlotte, NC, reveals that the other passengers on the train took a long time to help her. Glenn, Stu, and Jason debate whether they were right or wrong to do so.

Transcript

Below is a rush transcript that may contain errors

GLENN: You know, I'm -- I'm torn on how I feel about the people on the train.

Because my first instinct is, they did nothing! They did nothing! Then my -- well, sit down and, you know -- you know, you're going to be judged. So be careful on judging others.

What would I have done? What would I want my wife to do in that situation?

STU: Yeah. Are those two different questions, by the way.

GLENN: Yeah, they are.

STU: I think they go far apart from each other. What would I want myself to do. I mean, it's tough to put yourself in a situation. It's very easy to watch a video on the internet and talk about your heroism. Everybody can do that very easily on Twitter. And everybody is.

You know, when you're in a vehicle that doesn't have an exit with a guy who just murdered somebody in front of you, and has a dripping blood off of a knife that's standing 10 feet away from you, 15 feet away from you.

There's probably a different standard there, that we should all kind of consider. And maybe give a little grace to what I saw at least was a woman, sitting across the -- the -- the aisle.

I think there is a difference there. But when you talk about that question. Those two questions are definitive.

You know, I know what I would want myself to do. I would hope I would act in a way that didn't completely embarrass myself afterward.

But I also think, when I'm thinking of my wife. My advice to my wife would not be to jump into the middle of that situation at all costs. She might do that anyway. She actually is a heck of a lot stronger than I am.

But she might do it anyway.

GLENN: How pathetic, but how true.

STU: Yes. But that would not be my advice to her.

GLENN: Uh-huh.

STU: Now, maybe once the guy has certainly -- is out of the area. And you don't think the moment you step into that situation. He will turn around and kill you too. Then, of course, obviously. Anything you can do to step in.

Not that there was much anyone on the train could do.

I mean, I don't think there was an outcome change, no matter what anyone on that train did.

Unfortunately.

But would I want her to step in?

Of course. If she felt she was safe, yes.

Think about, you said, your wife. Think about your daughter. Your daughter is on that train, just watching someone else getting murdered like that. Would you advise your daughter to jump into a situation like that?

That girl sitting across the aisle was somebody's daughter. I don't know, man.

JASON: I would. You know, as a dad, would I advise.

Hmm. No.

As a human being, would I hope that my daughter or my wife or that I would get up and at least comfort that woman while she's dying on the floor of a train?

Yeah.

I would hope that my daughter, my son, that I would -- and, you know, I have more confidence in my son or daughter or my wife doing something courageous more than I would.

But, you know, I think I have a more realistic picture of myself than anybody else.

And I'm not sure that -- I'm not sure what I would do in that situation. I know what I would hope I would do. But I also know what I fear I would do. But I would have hoped that I would have gotten up and at least tried to help her. You know, help her up off the floor. At least be there with her, as she's seeing her life, you know, spill out in under a minute.

And that's it other thing we have to keep in mind. This all happened so rapidly.

A minute is -- will seem like a very long period of time in that situation. But it's a very short period of time in real life.

STU: Yeah. You watch the video, Glenn. You know, I don't need the video to -- to change my -- my position on this.

But at his seem like there was a -- someone who did get there, eventually, to help, right? I saw someone seemingly trying to put pressure on her neck.

GLENN: Yeah. And tried to give her CPR.

STU: You know, no hope at that point. How long of a time period would you say that was?

Do you know off the top of your head?

GLENN: I don't know. I don't know. I know that we watched the video that I saw. I haven't seen past 30 seconds after she --

STU: Yeah.

GLENN: -- is down. And, you know, for 30 seconds nothing is happening. You know, that is -- that is not a very long period of time.

STU: Right.

GLENN: In reality.

STU: And especially, I saw the pace he was walking. He certainly can't be -- you know, he may have left the actual train car by 30 seconds to a minute. But he wasn't that far away. Like he was still in visual.

He could still turn around and look and see what's going on at that point. So certainly still a threat is my point. He has not, like, left the area. This is not that type of situation.

You know, I -- look, as you point out, I think if I could be super duper sexist for a moment here, sort of my dividing line might just be men and women.

You know, I don't know if it's that a -- you're not supposed to say that, I suppose these days. But, like, there is a difference there. If I'm a man, you know, I would be -- I would want my son to jump in on that, I suppose. I don't know if he could do anything about it. But you would expect at least a grown man to be able to go in there and do something about it. A woman, you know, I don't know.

Maybe I'm -- I hope --

GLENN: Here's the thing I -- here's the thing that I -- that causes me to say, no. You should have jumped in.

And that is, you know, you've already killed one person on the train. So you've proven that you're a killer. And anybody who would have screamed and got up and was with her, she's dying. She's dying. Get him. Get him.

Then the whole train is responsible for stopping that guy. You know. And if you don't stop him, after he's killed one person, if you're not all as members of that train, if you're not stopping him, you know, the person at the side of that girl would be the least likely to be killed. It would be the ones that are standing you up and trying to stop him from getting back to your daughter or your wife or you.

JASON: There was a -- speaking of men and women and their roles in this. There was a video circling social media yesterday. In Sweden. There was a group of officials up on a stage. And one of the main. I think it was health official woman collapses on stage. Completely passes out.

All the men kind of look away. Or I don't know if they're looking away. Or pretending that they didn't know what was going on. There was another woman standing directly behind the woman passed out.

Immediately springs into action. Jumps on top. Grabs her pant leg. Grabs her shoulder. Spins her over and starts providing care.

What did she have that the other guys did not? Or women?

She was a sheepdog. There is a -- this is my issue. And I completely agree with Stu. I completely agree with you. There's some people that do not respond this way. My issue is the proportion of sheepdogs versus people that don't really know how to act. That is diminishing in western society. And American society.

We see it all the time in these critical actions. I mean, circumstances.

There are men and women, and it's actually a meme. That fantasize about hoards of people coming to attack their home and family. And they sit there and say, I've got it. You guys go. I'm staying behind, while I smoke my cigarette and wait for the hoards to come, because I will sacrifice myself. There are men and women that fantasize of block my highway. Go ahead. Block my highway. I'm going to do something about it. They fantasize about someone holding up -- not a liquor store. A convenience store or something. Because they will step in and do something. My issue now is that proportion of sheepdogs in society is disappearing. Just on statistical fact, there should be one within that train car, and there were none.

STU: Yeah. I mean --

JASON: They did not respond.

STU: We see what happens when they do, with Daniel Penny. Our society tries to vilify them and crush their existence. Now, there weren't that many people on that train. Right?

At least on that car. At least it's limited. I only saw three or four people there, there may have been more. I agree with you, though. Like, you see what happens when we actually do have a really recent example of someone doing exactly what Jason wants and what I would want a guy to do. Especially a marine to step up and stop this from happening. And the man was dragged by our legal system to a position where he nearly had to spend the rest of his life in prison.

I mean, I -- it's insanity. Thankfully, they came to their senses on that one.

GLENN: Well, the difference between that one and this one though is that the guy was threatening. This one, he killed somebody.

STU: Yeah. Right. Well, but -- I think -- but it's the opposite way. The debate with Penny, was should he have recognize that had this person might have just been crazy and not done anything?

Maybe. He hadn't actually acted yet. He was just saying things.

GLENN: Yeah. Well --

STU: He didn't wind up stabbing someone. This is a situation where these people have already seen what this man will do to you, even when you don't do anything to try to stop him. So if this woman, who is, again, looks to be an average American woman.

Across the aisle. Steps in and tries to do something. This guy could easily turn around and just make another pile of dead bodies next to the one that already exists.

And, you know, whether that is an optimal solution for our society, I don't know that that's helpful.

In that situation.

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Max Lucado on Overcoming Grief in Dark Times | The Glenn Beck Podcast | Ep 266

Disclaimer: This episode was filmed prior to the assassination of Charlie Kirk. But Glenn believes Max's message is needed now more than ever.
The political world is divided, constantly at war with itself. In many ways, our own lives are not much different. Why do we constantly focus on the negative? Why are we in pain? Where is God amid our anxiety and fear? Why can’t we ever seem to change? Pastor Max Lucado has found the solution: Stop thinking like that! It may seem easier said than done, but Max joins Glenn Beck to unpack the three tools he describes in his new book, “Tame Your Thoughts,” that make it easy for us to reset the way we think back to God’s factory settings. In this much-needed conversation, Max and Glenn tackle everything from feeling doubt as a parent to facing unfair hardships to ... UFOs?! Plus, Max shares what he recently got tattooed on his arm.

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Are Demonic Forces to Blame for Charlie Kirk, Minnesota & Charlotte Killings?

This week has seen some of the most heinous actions in recent memory. Glenn has been discussing the growth of evil in our society, and with the assassination of civil rights leader Charlie Kirk, the recent transgender shooter who took the lives of two children at a Catholic school, and the murder of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska, how can we make sense of all this evil? On today's Friday Exclusive, Glenn speaks with BlazeTV host of "Strange Encounters" Rick Burgess to discuss the demon-possessed transgender shooter and the horrific assassination of Charlie Kirk. Rick breaks down the reality of demon possession and how individuals wind up possessed. Rick and Glenn also discuss the dangers of the grotesque things we see online and in movies, TV shows, and video games on a daily basis. Rick warns that when we allow our minds to be altered by substances like drugs or alcohol, it opens a door for the enemy to take control. A supernatural war is waging in our society, and it’s a Christian’s job to fight this war. Glenn and Rick remind Christians of what their first citizenship is.

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Breaking News: Al Gore Relinquishes Legacy to Global Warming and Swimming Fish

Could passengers have SAVED Iryna Zarutska?

Transcript

Max Lucado on Overcoming Grief in Dark Times | The Glenn Beck Podcast | Ep 266

Are Demonic Forces to Blame for Charlie Kirk, Minnesota & Charlotte Killings?

Here’s what we know about the suspected Charlie Kirk assassin