Thursday, March 5, 2009

Will Al Gore Ever Back down? Probably not.

He's already looking pretty foolish because of our record cold winters and snow fall over the last 2 years. Also the fact that his carbon foot print is enormous and bigger than nearly all Americans. Will he ever admit he just might have jumped the gun in blabbing his big mouth about Global warming without even caring what the other side said? If you don't agree with him and your a scientist, I guess you just don't matter.

A scientist forces Al Gore to back down
Apocalypse is political theater, not good science


For years, Al Gore has predicted that man's sins of carbon dioxide will bring calamity and apocalypse. He cited an increase in natural disasters.
Gore quietly dropped the contention that the increase is connected to manmade global warming this week after being called on it by Roger A. Pielke Jr., a professor of environmental studies at the University of Colorado.
"Gore is pulling a dramatic slide from his ever-evolving global warming presentation," reported Andrew Revkin on a blog for the New York Times.
"When Mr. Gore addressed a packed, cheering hall at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Chicago earlier this month, his climate slide show contained a startling graph showing a ceiling-high spike in disasters in recent years.
"The data came from the Center for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (also called CRED) at the Catholic University of Louvain in Brussels."
The slide has since disappeared from the show, Revkin wrote.
This was not happenstance. Pielke called Gore on his assertions. The link between manmade activity and natural disasters has not been established.
CRED, the source cited by Gore, even said so.
"Indeed, justifying the upward trend in hydro-meteorological disaster occurrence and impacts essentially through climate change would be misleading.
"Climate change is probably an actor in this increase but not the major one - even if its impact on the figures will likely become more evident in the future," CRED said about its own database.
We don't know what effect human activity is having on the climate.
I do not discount that better record keeping makes it appear as if conditions are getting worse.
It seems as if every rainstorm in the Atlantic in September gets a name now.
But Gore has been seizing on anything that moves as proof of his predictions of pending catastrophe.
I might take Gore seriously if he cut back on his own consumption of the Earth's resources, but since he consumes far more than I do, I just assume the guy is after political power. He was born into politics and will remain there until he dies at a very, very old age.
I interviewed Harold Stassen in 1984. He was running for president. Again.
As Mo Udall said, only embalming fluid removes the lust for the presidency from one's blood.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

is al gore that out of touch? has he not been to the northeastern part of the country this year? this has been one of the coldest winters we have ever had and the longest....i guess if one sequesters himself in an enormous home, sitting around and getting fatter by the moment, one can write whatever and think people will swallow it...but those of us who live in the real world, see him as being totally out of touch with the scientific world and the realists world. perhaps, he should get a real job!