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[[Steve Benen]] of the ''[[Washington Monthly]]'' called focus on the claim "insulting",<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2008_11/015816.php |first=Steve |last=Benen |title=Political Animal: 'The Gore Effect' |publisher=''[[The Washington Monthly]]'' |date=November 25, 2008 |accessdate=2010-01-12}}</ref> and environmentalist A. Siegel has called the jokes a "shallow observation" from "those who don't get that weather isn't climate".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/a-siegel/fire-and-ice_b_171064.html |title=Fire and Ice... |first=A. |last=Siegel |work=[[The Huffington Post]] |date=March 2, 2009 |accessdate=2009-01-10}}</ref>

[[Stephen McIntyre]] blogged on December 25 2008 about ''How Al Gore Saved Christmas'' and claimed a coincidence between Gores visits in [[Toronto]] 2007 and 2008 and strong snowfall afterwards.<ref>[http://climateaudit.org/2008/12/25/al-gore-saves-christmas/ How Al Gore Saved Christmas], Climateaudit 25. Dezember 2008</ref>

''[[The Washington Times]]'' editorial staff has said, "If nothing else, the Gore Effect proves that God has a sense of humor,"<ref name="WT-GoreEffect" /> and a [[Competitive Enterprise Institute]] spokesperson has expressed a similar view.<ref name="dufor">{{cite news |url=http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/YeasandNays/If_its_Al_Gore_its_cold_0127.html |first=Jeff |last=Dufour |coauthor= Patrick W. Gavin |title=Yeas &amp; Nays: If it's Al Gore, it's cold |publisher=''[[The Washington Examiner]]'' |date=January 27, 2009 |accessdate=2010-01-08}}</ref> [[Harald Martenstein]] agreed with the latter and described the alleged effect in the German weekly [[Die Zeit]] as 'Gores personal Climate Disaster'- Martenstein goes as far as to explain Gores Fight against Global Warming as a classical case of [[Self hatred]] against a personal ability to locally change the weather.<ref Name="Stoin">[http://www.zeit.de/2009/09/Martenstein-09 Kältetote in Peru] Unser Kolumnist enthüllt Al Gores persönliche Klimakatastrophe, (Frozen Corpses in Peru - Our columnist uncovers Al Gores personal climate disaster) by Harald Martenstein, ''[[Die Zeit]]'', March 13, 2009</ref>