Gore-Watch 2010...Day 56
So Al Gore has yet to contact me, but he did write an Op-Ed for the New York Times on Saturday. Al has been conspicuously missing for some time as the snow and ice has been taking over most of the country. So on Day 56 of Gore-Watch 2010, Al shows up and doubles down on his ridiculous theory called global warming climate change.
Now unless you’ve been living under a rock or are a Democrat President or Congressman, you’ve no doubt heard about the scandals, the incorrect information, and the disgraced IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change). But in case you haven’t been aware of the shots heard round the non-warming world, here’s a little primer:
* The University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit had some emails hacked that showed that the “scientists” were cooking the books by altering the data to fit into their climate models in order to show warming trends. They were also preventing their material to be peer reviewed and kept dissenting points of view from being presented and published. The University’s CRU supplies the majority of the research on which the IPCC and Al Gore formulated their Nobel Prize-winning research. Their data was used in Michael Mann’s notorious “hockey stick” graph which purported that the temperatures for the late 20th century were skyrocketing which caused all of the panic.
* We also had the report that the Himalayan glaciers would melt by 2035. The IPCC and Al Gore included this in their research which I’ll remind you again won them the Nobel Prize in 2007. But alas, this wasn’t actual research, but an article based on speculation and observation. The result? No melting glaciers.
* We heard that the Amazon Rainforest was in danger because of global warming. Yes, it is diminishing, but not because of anything related to the climate. Logging and agriculture are to blame.
* Remember those fast-rising sea levels that will turn Cleveland into oceanfront property? Not so fast there Al. The sea levels are actually slowing not accelerating, and that little report that said the Netherlands were now mostly under water? Turns out it’s not because of climate change. They have always been below sea level. It was just one of those convenient little lies.
* Phil Jones, the University of East Anglia’s lead climate scientist who played a pivotal role in the IPCC’s and Al Gore’s reports recently “admitted that the world might have been hotter during the Medieval Warm Period 1,000 years ago than it is today, that before any rise in CO2 levels temperatures rose faster between 1860 and 1880 than they have done in the past 30 years, and that in the past decade their trend has been falling rather than rising.” And that “there has been no warming for the past 15 years.”
The UK’s Telegraph puts it very nicely HERE that “Those glaciers are not vanishing; the damage to the rainforest is not from climate change but logging and agriculture; African crop yields are more likely to increase than diminish; the modest rise in sea levels is slowing not accelerating; hurricane activity is lower than it was 60 years ago; droughts were more frequent in the past; there has been no increase in floods or heatwaves.”
So enter Al Gore. How does he explain all of this? Al wrote in his Op-Ed HERE that he still believes “that the overwhelming consensus on global warming remains unchanged.” Huh? Really Al? Despite the overwhelming evidence to the contrary, he still believes that global warming is causing the heavier-than-normal snow storms. Did you get that? The warming is causing the cooling and at the same time, the warming is causing the warming. Oh, and that CO2, the stuff we breathe out is a pollutant. You see he has to either double down on these, dare I say stupid theories, or admit that he is nothing more than a low-life crook intent on making billions from gullible people who actually believe we can do something about the climate.
CNNMoney.com reported HERE that at the last Apple stockholders meeting, old Al was ridiculed, and besides receiving more stock options which now total $750,000, someone named Sheldon Ehrlich called Gore a laughingstock. “The glaciers have not melted,” Ehrlich said, referring to Gore’s frequent warnings about the effects of global warming. “If his advice he gives to Apple is as faulty as his views on the environment then he doesn’t need to be re-elected.”
It’s time to give it up Al and get out of town. Nobody is buying your Chicken Little warnings anymore. Now if you excuse me, I need to go throw some more wood on the fire. The “consensus” is that it’s going to be pretty cold again tonight.
