By FITSNews || Internet “inventor” and former U.S. Vice President Al Gore isn’t feeling the love these days.
With the so-called “science” of global warming continuing to unravel, the UN’s “climate czar” resigning in disgrace, the scam of “green jobs” finally being exposed and his ego taking a major shellacking, Gore took to the pages of the only newspaper in America that’s still willing to print his nonsense (The New York Times) to wax indignant.
From the lead-in to Gore’s oped:
It would be an enormous relief if the recent attacks on the science of global warming actually indicated that we do not face an unimaginable calamity requiring large-scale, preventive measures to protect human civilization as we know it …
Ummm … okay.
You know what?
We’re not even going to dignify Gore’s garbage with our indignation … except to say that a bunch of lying “scientists” who manipulate and destroy data deserve to be “attacked.”
Fortunately, Americans aren’t buying what Gore is selling.
Pic: Here
By Have you seen Mike Hunt March 1, 2010 at 12:23 pm
Al Gore is a freakin idiot. His only place in the media should be on the cartoon or comics page along with Bazzaro or The Wizard of Id.
By countryboy March 1, 2010 at 12:43 pm
Al needs to just stay on his horse farm, with the rest of the horse $hit and shut the f*ck up.
By Bill Butler March 1, 2010 at 1:56 pm
Actually, Global Warming / Climate Change is alive and continuing. 2009 was the second warmest year in history as per the GISS database. 2005 was the warmest. http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/tabledata/GLB.Ts+dSST.txt
As measured by the University of Alabama Huntsville satellite, Jan. 2010 was the warmest January on record. http://www.drroyspencer.com/2010/02/january-2010-uah-global-temperature-update-0-72-deg-c/ Preliminary data for Feb. 2010 indicates Feb. will set another record for monthly warmth. If you disagree, you may argue with the satellite.
The glaciers continue to melt. (Then-and-now pictures from my web page)
http://www.durangobill.com/SwindlePics/SwindleGlBay1941.jpg (1st of a pair)
http://www.durangobill.com/SwindlePics/SwindleGlBay2004.jpg (2nd of a pair)
http://www.durangobill.com/SwindlePics/SwindlePortageGl.jpg
http://www.durangobill.com/SwindlePics/SwindleAthabascaGl.jpg
http://www.durangobill.com/SwindlePics/SwindleFurggGlacier.jpg (Recognize the mountain?)
http://www.durangobill.com/SwindlePics/SwindleAletschGlacier.jpg
http://www.durangobill.com/SwindlePics/SwindlePasterzeGl.jpg
( Details and descriptions at http://www.durangobill.com/Swindle_Swindle.html )
The only “hoax” is the manufactured delusions by the Global Warming Deniers.
By Natasha March 1, 2010 at 2:12 pm
2012, duh!
By Walking Around Money March 1, 2010 at 2:19 pm
You should learn the difference between weather and climate change. Let’s see, it’s snowing 3-4 times in SC this year, Vancouver can’t get enough snow for the Olympics, Quake in Haiti and Chile, and threats of Tsunami’s….yeah, it’s just coincidence
By hans March 1, 2010 at 2:59 pm
Even the Catholic Church had convincing “models” that the Earth was the center of the solar system.
Satellite pictures can be doctored—especially if one’s employer demands it–just ask those scientific frauds who selectively and repeatedly discarded data which did not “jive” with their THEORY of MAN-MADE GLOBAL WARMING.
By Sid's boyfriend March 1, 2010 at 4:25 pm
I don’t like Al Gore, but FITS is only playing to emotions here….for the seemingly millionth time (yawn) on this topic. There are no new facts to this debate, just the same propaganda. There are many scientist that say we need to be concerned, many who know much more about climate than Dic Willie.
Yes, the Southeast has had a pretty hard winter. No, the Southeast is not the entire globe. As the photos posted above show (really this is more of the type of hard core evidence that needs to be posted), get ready to kiss dem’ glaciers goodbye.
By Red March 1, 2010 at 5:04 pm
Iowa had the coldest February since records have been kept. Of course, that is averaging and comparing the high temps of the day. I am sure if you threw out some reporting stations and doctored around with the data like the IPCC did with their global data (before they lost it all) it could become the warmest on record too.
Gore is now pushing “climate shifting” . The earthquakes are obviously caused by our oil extraction and I can pay scientists to prove it is true. Only with an energy tax can we stop future earthquakes from destroying us all .
By Snowdog March 1, 2010 at 7:37 pm
You will need to give me a reference if you are going to peddle that Iowa has seen its coldest February ever. I can name some really cold winters in the 1970s and 1940s that would make this last winter seem like a summer day to my good friends in Iowa.
For those not in the know: A state average temp is computed by averaging all daily temps over all stations within the state and over all days of the month. Also, February just ended yesterday, which also happened to be a Sunday, which is a holiday for most government employees. This computation is not usually done in one day (Today is freaking March 1). One has to quality check the monthly data, and the government is usually damned slow in doing this.
Do you understand the magnitude of the BS you are purveying here, Red?
By Snowdog March 1, 2010 at 7:43 pm
BTW,
Nice post Bill Butler. To answer your question, I do believe that’s the Matterhorn, perhaps photographed from Zermatt looking SouthWest?
By David Byrd March 1, 2010 at 8:12 pm
Right message Wrong messenger.
By Red March 1, 2010 at 9:11 pm
Snnowdog, the truth is going to hurt but you need to hear it. According to the Iowa state climatologist Harry Hillaker(please google it) February ended up about six degrees colder than average.
According to Hillaker, this ENTIRE Iowa winter looks like it will be the 21st coldest in the last 138 years.
Snowdog, I am citing the Iowa state climatologist. What method or source were you citing?
By Bill Butler March 1, 2010 at 9:27 pm
Note to Snowdog:
http://www.durangobill.com/SwindlePics/SwindleFurggGlacier.jpg
It is of course the Matterhorn. You can generate a similar view if you have Google Earth on your computer. (http://earth.google.com/ and download) The view looks west from a small lake on the Gornergrat with the view spot at about 45.9835 N, 7.7633 E.
The white area in front of the Matterhorn in the 1904 picture is the Furgg Glacier. The dark area in front of (below) and slightly to the right of the Matterhorn that can be seen in the 2003 photo is the shadow from a 500-foot high ridge. In 1904 the ridge was covered by 500+ feet of ice. Over the course of 100 years, 500 feet of glacial ice has melted.
What we should be asking regarding Global Warming / Climate Change is:
1) Given human nature and human population, can Global Warming be stopped?
2) If Global Warming can be stopped, what will it cost?
Given the current political bickering, there appears to be little chance of a rational discussion of these two questions – nevermind finding intelligent answers.
By bob March 1, 2010 at 10:11 pm
someone forgot to take his medication
By Mike at the beach March 2, 2010 at 1:59 am
I’ll ask it again- Did we also cause the ice to melt during the last Ice Age? Obviously not.
Oh, and only the most knuckleheaded theories are able to link earthquakes to air temps. I would love to see the science on that one.
By Mrs. Ethel Krabitz March 2, 2010 at 5:46 am
Al Gore has become a really rich (er) guy from promoting this hoax. But i guess he needs that money to pay for all his carbon inducing plane trips around the world and the power bill at his Tennessee mega-mansion. He could put his money where his mouth is by STAYING HOME and Skyping all those high paying speaking appearances…..sure would save on his carbon footprint……..I’m just sayin’.
By Red March 2, 2010 at 7:26 am
snowdog,
Still waiting on your factual data. You said,”I can name some really cold winters in the 1970s and 1940s that would make this last winter seem like a summer day to my good friends in Iowa.”
I hate to see you lose total credibility like those IPCC scientists so please reference the exact years that would have made this 21st coldest winter in the last 138 years feel like summer and please show the difference in degrees too to help us ignorant folks out who are just relying on the Iowa state climatologist .
By Bill Butler March 2, 2010 at 12:29 pm
Note to “Mike at the beach”
Climate scientists already know why the glaciers melted starting about 20,000 years ago until up to about 6,000 years ago. In the past, variations in eccentricity, axial tilt, and precession of the Earth’s orbit determined climatic patterns. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milankovitch_cycles
In these earlier instances, the heat that the earth received at high northern latitudes was the initiating factor which in turn generated a carbon dioxide feedback (from natural causes) that greatly amplified the temperature change.
It is extremely important to note that if our climate were currently being controlled by Milankovitch cycles, then the earth would now be the coldest that it has been in 10,000 years. Again, please see the above web page, and in particular http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:InsolationSummerSolstice65N.png
(Note, knowledge about these Milankovitch Cycles has been known for decades and may have contributed to the “Global Cooling” speculation during the 1970s. See the “Birth of the Astronomical Theory” chapter in Imbrie’s book “Ice Ages – Solving the Mystery”.)
Yet the earth is now the warmest that it has been in the last 100,000 years. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Co2-temperature-plot.svg
Climate scientists again know why. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming This time, man-made carbon dioxide is the initiating factor. There will also be feedback/amplification factors from natural causes. These feedback systems will be active for many hundreds of years into the future.
As a final note, as measured by the University of Alabama Huntsville satellite, this winter is setting warmth records for the earth as a whole. Near real-time temperature information is available at http://discover.itsc.uah.edu/amsutemps/ Click on “Draw Graph”. (Add other years back thru 1998 and redraw, etc.)
By Snowdog March 2, 2010 at 12:49 pm
Feb 1899 is the coldest February in Iowa’s history. Check the NCDC depository or books on extreme weather (Burt 2004, for example). What about the winter of 1935-1936? That was brutal on the plains, and I think some of the worst came in February.
You are quoting the state climatologist? I happen to serve that role in Georgia and you insult me. There are only 50 of us. How would you know him/her? They are certainly not allowed to say such stuff. Your BS detracts from the legitimate point that this has been a cold winter in Iowa.
Again, you claimed that Feb 2010 was the coldest in Iowa’s history. Again, I need proof. Don’t put it back on me!