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Gore Blames Heavy Rains on Global Warming

by Phantom Ace ( 117 Comments › )
Filed under Climate, Democratic Party, Liberal Fascism, Progressives, Tranzis at March 16th, 2010 - 2:30 pm

Al Gore, a Global Warming Totalitarian Fascist, is at it again. He was mysteriously missing during the heavy snow storms that effected North America and Europe this winter. But it’s Spring again and as a bear waking up from it’s winter sleep, he’s back! Gore is now claiming that the heavy rains and winds that hit the Northeast are signs of Global Warming!

If there’s a drought – it’s global warming. When there’s a hurricane – it’s global warming. If there are heavy snows or even blizzards – it’s somehow global warming. And amazingly, the latest round of rainy and windy weather in the Northeast, well that’s consistent with this phenomenon as well, so says former Vice President Al Gore.

Gore, the self-anointed climate change alarmist-in-chief, told supporters on a March 15 conference call that severe weather in certain regions of the country could be attributed to carbon in the atmosphere – including the recent rash of rainy weather.

“[T]he odds have shifted toward much larger downpours,” Gore said. “And we have seen that happen in the Northeast, we’ve seen it happen in the Northwest – in both of those regions are among those that scientists have predicted for a long time would begin to experience much larger downpours.”

Read it here: Gore Attaches Global Warming as Cause to Last Weekend’s Storm in Northeast

AL Gore is a fraud and has no credibility. He is pushing the Global Warming scam to make money for his green products and carbon credits. Gore belongs in a mental hospital at this point. His paranoia is clearly on display and he needs help.

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AlGore: The Scientific Enterprise will Never be Completely Free of Mistakes

by snork ( 142 Comments › )
Filed under Climate, Media at February 28th, 2010 - 7:00 pm

The Gore hath (finally) spoken. And of course, the NYT gives this person, who has no particular scientific, let alone climatological training have access to their op-ed page. That says a lot more about the NYT than about Gore.

Be that as it may, the central issue is a few “mistakes”. I could put a lot of effort into debunking this, but Christopher Booker at the Telegraph did it for me. The difficult thing about debunking someone as ignorant as Gore, is that it becomes impossible to distinguish honest ignorance from dishonest propaganda. Either way, what Gore refers to as “mistakes” are nothing of the sort; they were improper conclusions from improper sources, very deliberately placed in the report in order to support their summary conclusions.

The chief defence offered by the warmists to all those revelations centred on the IPCC’s last 2007 report is that they were only a few marginal mistakes scattered through a vast, 3,000-page document. OK, they say, it might have been wrong to predict that the Himalayan glaciers would melt by 2035; that global warming was about to destroy 40 per cent of the Amazon rainforest and cut African crop yields by 50 per cent; that sea levels were rising dangerously; that hurricanes, droughts and other “extreme weather events” were getting worse. These were a handful of isolated errors in a massive report; behind them the mighty edifice of global warming orthodoxy remains unscathed. The “science is settled”, the “consensus” is intact.

But this completely misses the point. Put the errors together and it can be seen that one after another they tick off all the central, iconic issues of the entire global warming saga. Apart from those non-vanishing polar bears, no fears of climate change have been played on more insistently than these: the destruction of Himalayan glaciers and Amazonian rainforest; famine in Africa; fast-rising sea levels; the threat of hurricanes, droughts, floods and heatwaves all becoming more frequent.

Which gets to the second excuse; the “fake but accurate” argument that none of this disproves the science. Heads up. They’re moving the goalposts. You don’t get to buttress a weak case with phony arguments, lose the phony arguments, and then say that the case still stands. The truth is that the warmists have never had a solid argument in physics from first principles, and have always been arguing that any warming signal seen in the data must be proof that “it’s worse than we thought”. But then when the earth stops cooperating with them, and the warming (for practical intents) ceases, they demand that the basic physics is still beyond doubt.

Sorry, no dice. You can’t play that one both ways. Either the physics stands on its own (in which case they can’t defend their high climate sensitivity claim), or your case is based on the data (in which case they just lost the argument).

But I believe that Mr. Gore is too ignorant to even see that. He’s a poster boy for our political elites – privileged, mediocre, and too ignorant to understand how ignorant he is.

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Gore rambles about a lot of things in his three pages, but there’s one in particular that needs to be addressed:

Of course, we would still need to deal with the national security risks of our growing dependence on a global oil market dominated by dwindling reserves in the most unstable region of the world, and the economic risks of sending hundreds of billions of dollars a year overseas in return for that oil.

This argument is nonsense, because carbon caps don’t reduce oil imports, they reduce domestic coal consumption. There’s a very simple, straightforward way to reduce dependence on imported oil: remove restrictions on domestic production.

And we would still trail China in the race to develop smart grids, fast trains, solar power, wind, geothermal and other renewable sources of energy — the most important sources of new jobs in the 21st century.

This is the Van Jones “green jobs” mirage. These things, like all things, will happen on their own if they make economic sense, and if they don’t make economic sense, let the Chinese toil fruitlessly.

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Al Gore: The Global Laughing Stock

by Phantom Ace ( 140 Comments › )
Filed under Climate, Liberal Fascism, Progressives at February 28th, 2010 - 6:00 am

Since the mid 2000’s Al Gore has been considered a wise man by the Progressive media. His propaganda film, Inconvenient Truth, was hailed as prophetic and even won him a Nobel prize. Times have now changed since the Climategate emails and the record winter we are experiencing this year. Gore has turned into a laughing stock and a butt of jokes. He runs away when questioned on his claims and refuses to debate any AGW skeptic. Even at an Apple board meeting he was ridiculed to his face. Copenhagen was a disaster and the whole AGW theory has been exposed a scheme to impose a Totalitarian money grabbing scheme.

Al Gore won a Nobel Prize and an Oscar for his film, An Inconvenient Truth. But in the last three months, as global warming has gone from a scientific near-certitude to the subject of satire, Gore — the public face of global warming — has been mum on the topic.

Al Gore won a Nobel Prize and an Oscar for his film, An Inconvenient Truth. But in the last three months, as global warming has gone from a scientific near-certitude to the subject of satire, Gore — the public face of global warming — has been silent on the topic.

Read it all: You Can Call Him Al … But Al Won’t Call You Back

Al Gore has no credibility and has been exposed as a scam artist. The whole AGW theory was a scheme designed by Tranzi Totalitarian Progressives to create a Global Neo-Feudal System. The Elites would keep their higher standard of living, but the masses would wouldn’t. Gore has become a caricature and he deserves to get mocked.

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Jim Hanson’s self-parody

by snork ( 288 Comments › )
Filed under Climate, Humor, Media, Open thread, Science at December 25th, 2009 - 8:15 pm

The one notorious famous climate scientist who has been generally clear of all of the Climategate sludge is James Hanson, Gavin Schmidt’s boss, and a rather odd duck, who’s done everything from writing rambling letters to the Queen of England, to advocating Greenpeace-organized trespass and obstruction of coal plants to writing obscene allusions comparing coal to the Holocaust.

He has a new book out, and the title sounds a lot like another book that’s received a lot of media attention in the past few years. The title is: Storms of My Grandchildren. Really. I’m not making this up. But what’s even funnier is the screen cap showing the top right menu item. I think this is a Freudian slip. It says “Beyond the Boo”:

boo

I guess that must mean that he’s given up on trying to scare us all, and has to try another approach.

Back to the title. A shrink could have a field day here. What does it mean when this left-wing icon models a book title after one of the most iconic (and utterly phony) left-wing books of the generation? Is it just clever marketing? Possibly. Hansen’s known to be connected to a left-wing PR firm (Fenton Communications) that has been trying (without much success) to make a charismatic product out of him.

Maybe, but I suspect that there’s some deeper psycho stuff going on. Just as the author of the other book is heralded as a messiah, he too fancies himself a messianic figure. Not a general messiah like the other guy, but more like Jor-El. More of a prophet than a messiah.

The website is thick with hubris. What more can a narcissist want? There’s a testimonial from Al Gore!

When the history of the climate crisis is written, Hansen will be seen as the scientist with the most powerful and consistent voice calling for intelligent action to preserve our planet’s environment.

Um Al… the planet’s environment is space. We need to preserve space? Is that it Al?

And there’s more! The world renowned moonbat and self-made man Robert Kennedy, Jr.:

Dr. James Hansen is Paul Revere to the foreboding tyranny of climate chaos—a modern-day hero who has braved criticism and censure and put his career and fortune at stake to issue the call to arms against the apocalyptic forces of ignorance and greed.

Umm, yeah. Hansen’s riding on his horse in the night yelling “the BTUs are coming! The BTUs are coming!”. Well, I guess BTUs are British Thermal Units, so Paul Revere would warn us of their arrival. And they are tyrannical because of their chaos.

Oh, and the genius of “the apocalyptic forces of ignorance and greed”. I thought this was supposed to be beyond the boo, and he’s talking hellfire and damnation. Damn, those BTUs are nasty buggers, chaotic, ignorant, greedy, and apocalyptic. You wouldn’t want you daughter marrying one of them would you? And keep your sons away, because they’re HOT!

And then we have this Bill guy, whoever he is:

Jim Hansen is the planet’s great hero. He offered us the warning we needed twenty years ago, and has worked with enormous courage ever since to try and make sure we heeded it. We’ll know before long if that effort bears fruit—if it does, literally no one deserves more credit than Dr. Hansen.

I think Al already said that. You’re right, Jimmy issued that warning 20 years ago. In the US senate. You know the Jimmy Hansen who RFK jr said can’t get his message out because of all the censors? So, yeah. We’ve had lots of warning. That’s not what we’re waiting for.

And then we have Dr. Chuck (no relation to Chuckles):

If you want to know the scientific consensus on global warming, read the reports by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. But if you want to know what the consensus will be ten years from now, read Jim Hansen’s work.

He must be the witch doctor dude with the ouija board, because he can predict the future.

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