Junk Scientist Al Gore Still Beating Dead Horse
Posted by Jim Hoft on Sunday, February 28, 2010, 12:31 AM
It was all a lie.
The Top Climate Scientist Admitted in February That Man-made Global Warming Was a Farce–
* The data for the vital ‘hockey stick graph’ had gone missing
* There had been no global warming since 1995
* Warming periods have happened before – but NOT due to man-made changes
In February one of the chief scientists at the center of the “Climategate” scandal admitted that there had been no significant global warming in the last 15 years.
But, Al Gore is still beating that dead horse.
At least The New York Times will still publish his crackpot propaganda:
I, for one, genuinely wish that the climate crisis were an illusion. But unfortunately, the reality of the danger we are courting has not been changed by the discovery of at least two mistakes in the thousands of pages of careful scientific work over the last 22 years by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. In fact, the crisis is still growing because we are continuing to dump 90 million tons of global-warming pollution every 24 hours into the atmosphere — as if it were an open sewer.
It is true that the climate panel published a flawed overestimate of the melting rate of debris-covered glaciers in the Himalayas, and used information about the Netherlands provided to it by the government, which was later found to be partly inaccurate. In addition, e-mail messages stolen from the University of East Anglia in Britain showed that scientists besieged by an onslaught of hostile, make-work demands from climate skeptics may not have adequately followed the requirements of the British freedom of information law.
But the scientific enterprise will never be completely free of mistakes. What is important is that the overwhelming consensus on global warming remains unchanged. It is also worth noting that the panel’s scientists — acting in good faith on the best information then available to them — probably underestimated the range of sea-level rise in this century, the speed with which the Arctic ice cap is disappearing and the speed with which some of the large glacial flows in Antarctica and Greenland are melting and racing to the sea…
…The heavy snowfalls this month have been used as fodder for ridicule by those who argue that global warming is a myth, yet scientists have long pointed out that warmer global temperatures have been increasing the rate of evaporation from the oceans, putting significantly more moisture into the atmosphere — thus causing heavier downfalls of both rain and snow in particular regions, including the Northeastern United States. Just as it’s important not to miss the forest for the trees, neither should we miss the climate for the snowstorm.
Here is what scientists have found is happening to our climate: man-made global-warming pollution traps heat from the sun and increases atmospheric temperatures. These pollutants — especially carbon dioxide — have been increasing rapidly with the growth in the burning of coal, oil, natural gas and forests, and temperatures have increased over the same period. Almost all of the ice-covered regions of the Earth are melting — and seas are rising. Hurricanes are predicted to grow stronger and more destructive, though their number is expected to decrease. Droughts are getting longer and deeper in many mid-continent regions, even as the severity of flooding increases. The seasonal predictability of rainfall and temperatures is being disrupted, posing serious threats to agriculture. The rate of species extinction is accelerating to dangerous levels.
OK. I’ll bring the tar. Who has feathers?
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James Doulos commented:
Of course Al is still pumping up his theory – he’s got a big financial stake in the advancement of Global Warming. Anyway, when was the last time ‘truth’ ever affected the actions of a Democrat?
jim commented:
One can’t argue with the science. And the science is this: Liberal = Liar
Right Wing Extreme commented:
I’ll bring the feathers. One can not help but question, why are additional feathers needed for a turkey like this.
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dallasdan commented:
Gore is a fool with no credibility. Ignore him.
Andreas K. commented:
Even if it was warming, there is absolutely no proof that mankind is causing it.
This is a classic example of how it works today. All it takes is a bird falling off a tree and at once mankind is at fault without anyone ever actually investigating it and doing proper research.
Take the hole in the ozone layer. Bad mankind. Evil mankind. However, the hole has totally disappeared from the media and actual research has shown that the size and thickness of the “hole” (which isn’t an actual hole anyway) is heavily influenced by the activity of what?
The sun.
Right now it’s rather warm outside here in Vienna. Why? Because of global warming? Because of our CO2? Or simply because there are no clouds in the sky and the sun can burn down without obstacles?
Kenny Solomon commented:
Gonna take more than tar and feathers.
KLS
JR Dogman commented:
HELP!!!
If anyone here can enlighten me re the following, I would greatly appreciate it.
I keep hearing/reading that the present decade is “the warmest on record”.
I also keep hearing/reading that there has been NO notable warming in the last ten years.
So which is it? Where are these readings coming from, on both sides? Can any of them be trusted?
Robb76 commented:
Tar and feathers indeed. But first a world wide video of Algore doing the perp walk, please.
nadadhimmi commented:
Are we not underestimating algore’s expertise in this area? After all, the man did get a C in his Earthscience 100 class. Surely that level of education is enough upon which to base changing the worldwide economy!
Andreas K. commented:
Just for the files:
The Alfred Wegener Institute, a German Arctic research center, found record ice growth in the Arctic seas in April 2008. They called it record ice, because never since the beginning of recording the ice on the Arctic seas has there been that much ice in April.
They also found out that the ice is a lot thicker than everybody had believed.
Dana White commented:
Why should Al Whore let the facts get in the way of a damn good theory.
Gandalf commented:
Just remember the lesson from Bill Clinton “it all depends on what the definition of is is”. What is the definition (period) of the time series of temperature observations? Is it 10 years, 160 years, 500 years, 1000 years or 10,000 years? The longer the period the more absurd Gore and other AGW crackpots look. Data truncation is like a magician’s trick – “prove” any point with selected data sets. I thank the Lord that GWB won.
Nahanni commented:
Al Gore better hope that Nazi Nancy and Dirty Harry can hang on the legislative branch.
Why?
The RICO Act.
BigAlSouth commented:
Gore has been MIA for the last month in order to come up with THAT? Dang, is that what a hollow ring sounds like?
BTW, the Obama Administration is requiring mandatory Nationwide Hurricane Insurance:
http://itsaboutfreedom.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=general&action=display&thread=636
Scott commented:
#9
Phil Jones of England’s Climate Research unit is under fire and may be prosecuted as his e-mails indicate that the Climate Research unit was hiding a decline in worldwide temperatures…He has since admitted that there has been no appreciable warming since 1995. So, how can the last decade be the hottest on record? The climate research unit is a key advisor to the IPCC…
eaglewingz08 commented:
I think Al Goreacle is doing a disservice to public policy by conflating two separate ideas: pollution vs. manmade global warming. Most of us, conservatives moderates and liberals would like to have a cleaner environment, lessen pollution and toxins in the environment thought we disagree on methods to reach goal. But to take the next two leaps that pollution will cause global warming and that this warming will cause catastrophic climate change witin our lifetimes is a bridge too far and tends to discredit everything coming out of the pieholes of these alarmists.
reliapundit commented:
GORE’S DEFENSE OF AGW IS WRONG ON THE FACTS
IN TODAY’S NYTIMES, GORE WROTE:
“The heavy snowfalls this month have been used as fodder for ridicule by those who argue that global warming is a myth, yet scientists have long pointed out that warmer global temperatures have been increasing the rate of evaporation from the oceans, putting significantly more moisture into the atmosphere — thus causing heavier downfalls of both rain and snow in particular regions, including the Northeastern United States. Just as it’s important not to miss the forest for the trees, neither should we miss the climate for the snowstorm.”
GORE IS WRONG ON THE FACTS:
SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN:
… since 2001 there has been less water vapor in a narrow, lower band of the stratosphere thanks to cooler temperatures in the tropopause, and that may just be holding back global warming at ground level, according to new research published online in Science
“We found that there was a surface temperature impact due to changes in water vapor in a fairly narrow region of the stratosphere,” explains research meteorologist Karen Rosenlof of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Aeronomy Laboratory, one of the authors of the study. “The reason for the water vapor change is the temperature drop at the interface between the troposphere and the stratosphere over the tropics. What we don’t know is why the temperature dropped.”
That temperature does seem to correlate, however, to sea-surface temperatures in the Pacific that, of course, follow El Niño–La Niña cycles, along with other trends.
A new El Niño cycle—warmer surface waters—began last summer, which may mean that stratospheric water levels could change again.
So this effect could either be the result of natural variability in Earth’s climate, or yet another effect of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases like water vapor trapping more heat and thus warming sea-surface temperatures.
All told, stratospheric water vapor declined by 10 percent since 2000, based on satellite and balloon measurements, yet that was enough to appreciably affect temperatures at ground level according to climate models.
“Reduce the water vapor and you have less long-wave radiation coming back down to warm the troposphere,” Rosenlof says.
Conversely, an apparent increase in water vapor in this region in the 1980s and 1990s exacerbated global warming.
THERE IS LESS H20 IN THE AIR, NOT MORE; THEREFORE GORE’S EXCUSE IS WRONG.
reliapundit commented:
the rest here:
http://astuteblogger.blogspot.com/2010/02/gores-defense-of-agw-is-wrong-on-facts.html
Flyover Sam commented:
It’s a shame that the global warming truthers are represented by such “high self-esteem, low intellectual capability” upper class flunkies. It’d just about kill me to be so passionate about a cause, attending Earth Liberation Front rallies, embracing the proletariat’s rise above the bourgeois only to have a reject from the elite’s prestigious Ivy League come hang with us. It’s worse than the football coach’s geek nephew being forced to ride on the team bus – he’s now calling the plays.
Greg commented:
Need to include Lindsy Graham in the tar and feather participants as he quietly works with Kerry to develope a global warmng congressional plan. Global warming is junk science and no amount of wordsmithing will change that
jcraig commented:
so where did the adage “you can’t bulls**t a bullsh***er” come from ? It seems to me that all
of the AGW believers accept and spread whatever their “prophet” says as if it would be heresy to suggest an alternative point of view. They have invested themselves and our children so deeply into their dogma that there seems to be no way out without denouncing their entire philosophy.
Zachriel commented:
Andreas K: The Alfred Wegener Institute, a German Arctic research center, found record ice growth in the Arctic seas in April 2008. They called it record ice, because never since the beginning of recording the ice on the Arctic seas has there been that much ice in April.
Actually, the researchers found that 2008 had the next lowest Arctic ice cover ever recorded, after 2007, and are concerned that summer ice may disappear completely as early as 2040.
reliapundit: Conversely, an apparent increase in water vapor in this region in the 1980s and 1990s exacerbated global warming.
You’re confusing water vapor in the stratosphere with water vapor in the entire atmosphere. Water vapor in the mid-troposphere is a significant forcing for global warming.
Terrye commented:
Carbon Dioxide is not a pollutant, it is a naturally occurring gas in our atmosphere…in fact life as we know it, would perish without it.
Neo commented:
Proof …
a) There had been no global warming since 1995
b)
… all the warming occurred between 1989 and 1995
QED
So it this weather or climate ?
Karen commented:
We must never stop fighting these fascist pigs. Google Agenda 21 Sustainable Development–this is all part and parcel of the UN’s plan for a “green world order.” These communist freaks will not stop until they have control of every part of our lives under the guise of “social justice and protecting the environment.” If you cannot see it taking place incrementally day by day, you are not paying attention and need to wake up. The fools on the left who support this treasonous agenda will be mighty surprised when they wake up one day to find the “social justice” they have been touting as the solution to everything unfair in life has made their life WORSE NOT BETTER. Fools better wake up quickly.
Opus #6 commented:
Neither Gore nor Obama know when to say “when.”
Arch commented:
Two mistakes? It’s good that Gore is finally admitting that Global Warming is flawed.
Is Gore concerned about airbrushing out (1) the Medieval Warm Period and (2) the Little Ice Age?
Has the Gorcle researched (1) the Milkankovih Cycles and (2) solar flares?
Is he’s talking about (1) the rain forests and (2) the glaciers not going away?
Or perhaps, a (1) flawed green house gas concept and (2) lack of empirical evidence that it has ever caused global warming?
Maybe he means, (1) adjusting measured data to conform to his theory and (2) only taking measurements where it is warm?
Did he refer to ignoring the laws of (1) thermodynamics and (2) hydrostatics?
Are the two flaws (1) misunderstanding that warmer temperatures make storms less severe and (2) not accepting that CO2 will enhance plant growth making food less expensive?
Is this revelation an admission in the green house gas model (1) that CO2 is 1/1000 as important as water vapor and (2) that CO2 levels rise after warming occurs?
Is Gore talking about (1) false data and (2) invalid computer models?
Still, I welcome the humbler, more introspective ManBearPig.
jcraig commented:
so where did the adage “you can’t bull***t a bull****ter” come from ? It seems to me that all
of the AGW believers accept and spread whatever their “prophet” says as if it would be heresy to suggest an alternative point of view. They have invested themselves and our children so deeply into their dogma that there seems to be no way out without denouncing their entire philosophy.
bill-tb commented:
The fact that he still thinks people are stupid enough to buy this is beyond priceless.
Daniel commented:
AG needs to go back to Divinity School and pray for forgiveness.
It just won’t come from us.
wildman commented:
Forget the tar and feathers. The best way to remove mr elmer gantry gore is to impoverish him. He couldn’t care less about global warming. what he does care about is his rather large investment in the carbon trading scheme that he and his enablers at goldman sachs created. Start the lawsuits, the tort lawyers will take care of the rest. with the evidence uncovered so far, it should be an open and shut case. If the firm you have investments in has ‘gone green’, sell your shares and invest the money in a business that provides value and does not divert profits to assuage the rantings of the econuts.
Zachriel commented:
Arch: Has the Gorcle researched …
Al Gore is not a scientist, however, nearly every major scientific academies in the world has determined that anthropomorphic climate change is a significant problem.
averagemelon commented:
I still stand by proof with your own EYEBALLS not “data” on a piece of paper.
If our world is indeed in “crisis” there should be NO PROBLEMS witnessing it. I should SEE the end of species and dramatic changes myself. THERE IS NONE. There is nothing dropping over dead, no unbelievable sustained weather patterns, no rivers, creeks, streams and oceans either overflowing or drying up permanently.
Kiss off, Al. You are a liar.
IOpian commented:
The editorial sounds like Al Gore is having a Capt. Queeq moment.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zgeQmzV9kk&feature=related
Algore commented:
I predict a catastrophic tsunami will hit the Hawaiian islands after the earthquake in Chile and the scientific community confirms this.
Woodshedder commented:
Actually, there has been warming since 1995, but it is not statistically significant at the 95% confidence level. This means there is still the possibility that the warming is within the range of statistical variation.
However, in order to get to that point, you have to believe that all of the data used to create that result is good data, unbiased, unaltered, and can be independently verified.
Due to the antics of a small group of climate scientists, we can not trust the data.
The sad fact is that there might be significant global warming, or there might not be at all, but at this point we’ll not know anytime soon because these “scientists” have approached data collection and analysis from the point of advocacy of a particular political ideology rather than from a pure scientific method.
aprilnovember811 commented:
AL BELONGS IN PRISON FOR FRAUD! HE IS PEDDLING HIS SNAKE OIL. COME ON AL, WHY NOT HAVE A BIG TOWN HALL WHERE YOU CAN TAKE QUESTIONS, WITH REAL SCIENTISTS? WHY NOT HAVE A DEBATE WITH LORD MONKTON, YOU FRAUD.
anon commented:
In addition, e-mail messages stolen from the University of East Anglia in Britain showed that scientists besieged by an onslaught of hostile, make-work demands from climate skeptics may not have adequately followed the requirements of the British freedom of information law.
It’s always somebody else’s fault, no?
What is important is that the overwhelming consensus on global warming remains unchanged.
I’ll beat the dead horse too: there was an overwhelming consensus that the Earth was flat, as well.
Lily Ledbetter commented:
There is that moment in the Wizard of Oz where the curtain gets pulled back and the Wizard is revealed. For the briefest moment the Wizard still turns his dials and pushes his buttons and demands Dorothy and Tinman and Lion and Scarecrow to ignore the man behind the curtain. This is Al Gore’s Wizard moment. As we all know, the next scene is the realization that the Wizard is all flash and no substance. Al needs to find a good agent to control the next scene for him. Maybe Tiger has one or two to spare.
Greg commented:
Aww, come on guys, Al just wants to trade his co2 spewing jet for a rubber band powered eco- friendly one. Give a moron a break………..
SirKnob commented:
Gee, Al doesn’t give up. Of course his MSM facilitators keep on carrying water for him.
How can we trust the MSM when they have to ask a guest what nine meters in English is
http://wp.me/pLGBN-6M
I was waiting for Uncle Al to come forward with some inane claim of doom and gloom, while blaming others for the lack in public support for his self serving agenda, instead of his lack of factual detail and outright lies.
Lynn commented:
Lake Erie froze over for the first time in 15 years. What the hell is he talking about? We also had a heavy snowfall, but Gore’s statement doesn’t account for the FROZEN LAKE. Forest meet tree.
bg commented:
++
Earth’s Heartbeat
Zachriel @ 8:43 am #27
hmmm, wonder how thick it was
when Greenland was “Green”??
Zachriel @ 9:22 am #37
hah!! if today’s so called “scientists” are anything like today’s so called “journalists”, we might as well go back to the caveman days & start over..
eh, CC probably wiped out the Inca’s, and many others before them, like man is either causing or going to stop Mother Nature from doing her thing, get real..
==
bg commented:
++
CLIMATE CHANGE = CLIMATE CHANGES
has been since the beginning of time, and will continue to until the end of time.. else we wouldn’t have ever had earthquakes, tornado’s, hurricanes, tsunamis, glacial melts & freezes, etc, etc, etc, duh..
the world warms & cools with or without “scientists”..
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wanumba commented:
wildman
February 28th, 2010 | 9:19 am | #36
Forget the tar and feathers. The best way to remove mr elmer gantry gore is to impoverish him. He couldn’t care less about global warming. what he does care about is his rather large investment in the carbon trading scheme that he and his enablers at goldman sachs created. Start the lawsuits, the tort lawyers will take care of the rest. with the evidence uncovered so far, it should be an open and shut case. If the firm you have investments in has ‘gone green’, sell your shares and invest the money in a business that provides value and does not divert profits to assuage the rantings of the econuts.
……
Second that!
He’s saying ALL this becausee HE has a FINANCIAL INTEREST in encouraging people to INVEST in HIS COMPANY.
“Class action suit” anyone?
archer52 commented:
From the website:
http://truthandcommonsense.com/2010/02/28/al-gore-finally-speaks-he-pleads-for-senate/
The problem I see is that the dems who are committing suicide over healthcare are going to take cap and trade with them. How many times can they die politically. Sure, some are zombie-like and keep getting back up. But the vast majority of them will go down for good.
This leaves us at the mercy of the greed inherent in all politicians. Are they willing to give up their careers for Nancy and Harry? It is not something I wish our entire future was riding on, but it is what it is.
Joanne commented:
I have a branding iron – will that do.
jl commented:
To me, the whole problem in a nutshell- We`ve had “climate change” for 4 billion years, but now apparently there is an ideal state of temperature that has to maintained? The arrogence behind any human being thinking that they somehow know what that “ideal state” is, is mindbogling. And, as with anything in science, there is never amything that happens that is either totally positive or negative. If it is warming, why wouldn`t warmer be better in at least in some respects? Longer growing season, ect.
AuntieMadder commented:
“What is important is that the overwhelming consensus on global warming remains unchanged. “
That’s what’s important to manbearpig and the rest who seek to make fortunes on the AGW lie. Because as long as they stand by their lies and doctored “scientific” proof, the believers will continue to believe and their plans will remain unchanged.
A_Nonny_Mouse commented:
Have you seen the quote from Al-Gore’s op-ed, emphasized by Darleen Click at Protein Wisdom?
http://proteinwisdom.com/?p=16967
“From the standpoint of governance, what is at stake is our ability to use the rule of law as an instrument of human redemption.” -Al Gore, NYT, 02/27/10.
Britain was right – AGW is a religion.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/6494213/Climate-change-belief-given-same-legal-status-as-religion.html