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Audacity of Truth
Spinsational:
"We were so busy just getting stuff done and dealing with the immediate crises that were in front of us that I think we lost some of that sense of speaking directly to the American people about what their core values are and why we have to make sure those institutions are matching up with those values."
-Obama, explaining recent Democrat losses, 1/20/10
Velvet Lair- The sexiness of winning the battle of good versus evil January 26, 2010
- Ever wonder why? January 12, 2010
- The decision to bench Peyton Manning: Right or wrong? December 28, 2009
- Is my dad turning into a metrosexual? November 24, 2009
- My “Things To Do For Christmas” list November 23, 2009
The Goracle exposed
No, not in that way (*shivers!*). In a way that we’ll all enjoy reading (h/t: several ST readers):
Many of the assertions Gore makes in his movie, ”An Inconvenient Truth,” have been refuted by science, both before and after he made them. Gore can show sincerity in his plea for scientific honesty by publicly acknowledging where science has rebutted his claims.
For example, Gore claims that Himalayan glaciers are shrinking and global warming is to blame. Yet the September 2006 issue of the American Meteorological Society’s Journal of Climate reported, “Glaciers are growing in the Himalayan Mountains, confounding global warming alarmists who recently claimed the glaciers were shrinking and that global warming was to blame.”
Gore claims the snowcap atop Africa’s Mt. Kilimanjaro is shrinking and that global warming is to blame. Yet according to the November 23, 2003, issue of Nature magazine, “Although it’s tempting to blame the ice loss on global warming, researchers think that deforestation of the mountain’s foothills is the more likely culprit. Without the forests’ humidity, previously moisture-laden winds blew dry. No longer replenished with water, the ice is evaporating in the strong equatorial sunshine.”
Gore claims global warming is causing more tornadoes. Yet the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change stated in February that there has been no scientific link established between global warming and tornadoes.
Gore claims global warming is causing more frequent and severe hurricanes. However, hurricane expert Chris Landsea published a study on May 1 documenting that hurricane activity is no higher now than in decades past. Hurricane expert William Gray reported just a few days earlier, on April 27, that the number of major hurricanes making landfall on the U.S. Atlantic coast has declined in the past 40 years. Hurricane scientists reported in the April 18 Geophysical Research Letters that global warming enhances wind shear, which will prevent a significant increase in future hurricane activity.
Gore claims global warming is causing an expansion of African deserts. However, the Sept. 16, 2002, issue of New Scientist reports, “Africa’s deserts are in ’spectacular’ retreat . . . making farming viable again in what were some of the most arid parts of Africa.”
Make sure to read it all.
Think any of the participants (both stars and fans) of next weekend’s “Live Earth” concert efforts would change their minds after reading something like this? Of course not. It’s generally not very productive to confuse the willfully ignorant with the facts, after all.
On a related note, the NYT features a piece from the Goracle himself, titled “Moving Beyond Kyoto” in which he implores people who will listen or attend the Live Earth concerts to, among other things, sign a “personal pledge to take specific steps to combat climate change.”
Speaking of pledges, I think it’d be funny if, sometime during the interviews Gore is (I’m sure) scheduled to do next weekend during the concerts, one of the interviewers asks him to, in turn, sign the Personal Energy Ethics Pledge Senator James Inhofe asked him to sign 102 days ago. Can you imagine the look on his face if asked that? Probably something like this:
“Sign a Personal Energy Ethics Pledge?
I don’t need to sign no stinkin’ pledge!”
Related: Sun’s Shifts May Cause Global Warming (thanks, again, to ST reader Sev for the link)
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No matter what the problem, you can always blame it on Global Warming.
Uh oh….this one will have the Global Warming loons and Eco-palyptics going nuts. ExxonMobil told them to get lost:
Expect a new public relations assault on the evils of Big Oil.
Too bad that Taylor resorted to fabricating a quote to attack Gore. Doesn’t that bother you?
Tim’s referring to this, from his own web site:
The problem is, if you follow the links, you find that Tim is quoting from the abstract, not the paper.
Apparently Tim’s never read the paper, but that doesn’t stop him from making accusations about its content.
Doesn’t pretending to know what’s in a paper without reading it bother you, Tim? Or is that just SOP for leftists?
SOP for the AGW faithful unfortunately GWR. They usually have so little experience with scientific papers they have no idea what an abstract is.
I blogged about this op-ed piece on my website Is It Getting Warmer? (http://www.globalwarming-factorfiction.com) as well.
I wish Mr. Gore well in his efforts to have a successful concert and I hope that the careers of the entertainers prosper.
I do have some problems with some of Mr. Gore’s statements regarding comparisons to other planetary bodies. He is walking a thin line doing comparisons with Venus and Mercury and opens himself up to a host of arguments. Can you just hear Jay Leno: “News flash from Venus – SUVs are no longer allowed on the streets of the cities in Venus.” He also gives credibility to others to discuss the warming on other planetary bodies (which I have also blogged about).
Also, what happened to Mr. Gore’s claims of calamity if we don’t do dramatic changes? There was a little bit here but I would have expected more.
The “argument” (if I may be so charitable to call it that) that if the sun is warming up Pluto it would be “blowtorching” earth is one of the more idiotic ones out there, and reflects little to no understanding of the processes involved. It reminds me of the students in the “physics for students too stupid to realize they should have been taking intro to biology” classes gave on gravity. The question was given “why doesn’t the moon fall into the earth” and they would parrot the correct answer that it falls away from the straight line path it would otherwise have taken due to the earth’s gravity. When asked why the earth doesn’t fall into the sun, the answer was “it’s too far away.” Ignorance, possibly willful in the case referenced relative to solar heating of other planets, is no proof.
It’s the delta, or change, that is important, talking about absolute magnitudes is either disingenuous or ignorant, and is usually the sign of someone desperate to preserve a favored viewpoint despite all contrary evidence. If solar output increases X%, it increases X% no matter what the difference. Sure Pluto is a frozen ball, but it doesn’t mean increases won’t have effects, to claim so is ridiculous.
But it’s also part and parcel of the typical AGW proponents usual approach, strong correlation in any other cause other than CO2 is just a “coincidence” while extremely weak correlation with respect to CO2 levels and temperature is “proof” requiring massive changes to the world to save us all. Bah. Hypocrisy at it’s finest.
Great catch, GWR.
If looks could kill — algore looks severly pissed in that picture, could it be he knows the hoax he is spinning will be knocked down and Tim, go home to kos or whatever.
Well, well, lookee here. Apparently Tim Lambert’s got quite a track record of mischaracterizing other people’s quotes, as he did for Mr. Taylor in his comment above. He’s been caught doing it here and here, and that’s from just a casual search on Al Gore’s Internet.
Makes you think James Taylor probably got it right in the article ST linked.
LOL GWR – I’m starting to think I should re-name this thread “Tim Lambert Exposed”
Oh this is just too rich:
Heh. Wonder how long before they’re targeted by the ‘global warming experts party line enforcement patrol’?
Targeting by the Global Warming Church Inquisition in 5…4…3…2…1…
Where’s the smiley face with it’s fingers in it’s ears, singing al al al al al al al al al …….? I meant la la la la la la la la la …… Inverse proportionality rules apply even to the Goracle!