Al Gore and the Farce of Global Warming
August 24, 2006 · By H. Cameron
Mr. Lindzen, a Professor of Atmospheric Science at MIT, sets the record straight on the farce that is Al Gore’s move, The Inconvenient Truth.
First, nonscientists generally do not want to bother with understanding the science. Claims of consensus relieve policy types, environmental advocates and politicians of any need to do so. Such claims also serve to intimidate the public and even scientists–especially those outside the area of climate dynamics. Secondly, given that the question of human attribution largely cannot be resolved, its use in promoting visions of disaster constitutes nothing so much as a bait-and-switch scam. That is an inauspicious beginning to what Mr. Gore claims is not a political issue but a “moral” crusade.
Lastly, there is a clear attempt to establish truth not by scientific methods but by perpetual repetition. An earlier attempt at this was accompanied by tragedy. Perhaps Marx was right. This time around we may have farce–if we’re lucky.
“The nation’s [U.S.] top climate scientists are giving “An Inconvenient Truth,” Al Gore’s documentary on global warming, five stars for accuracy.”
http://www.climateark.org/arti.....nkid=57790
The consensus of climate scientists can be found in peer reviewed journals. The only place arguments really matter, when trying to determine the truth.
“This analysis shows that scientists publishing in the peer-reviewed literature agree with IPCC, the National Academy of Sciences, and the public statements of their professional societies. Politicians, economists, journalists, and others may have the impression of confusion, disagreement, or discord among climate scientists, but that impression is incorrect.”
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/...../5702/1686
Thanks for the links Scruffydan,
I can do the same:
Science based on consensus is bad science, RealClimate:
Thank you for your intelligent insight to this bag of garbage that al and his morons are trying to use to divert attention from the true threat,terror,and to rob taxpayers on a “chicken little”premise.Keep up the good fight.
Mr. Cameron above links to http://www.bbc.co.uk/climate/e.....tics.shtml, but fails to quote all of the interesting things said there. One paragraph stands out to me:
“On top of that, some experts believe it is impossible to be certain about how our climate will change as it can be very unpredictable. They also believe, the climate is supposed to change and it has done before. Many believe activities from humans can not be to blame for changes in the climate.”
I would agree that it could be very difficult if not impossible to precisely forecast the future of the climate. I would also agree that the climate has changed in the past, though I might suggest that just because the climate changed catostrophically in the past does not make me any happier about it happening again, nor does it make me want to ignore the issue.
However, that “experts” would assert that human action cannot be responsible for changes in the climate, or in other words cannot affect the climate is truly alarming. Do we all live in a bubble? Mankind is incapable of altering our reality around us? The earth can take any punishment we mete out?
While the changes we are bringing to the atmosphere may or may not be seriously damaging, to suggest that it is impossible for our actions to have any effect is a cowardly way to dismiss what could be a real problem. Sticking your head in the sand just makes your vision blurry when you finally pull it back out.
First it was ‘overpopulation’ Then came ‘The Coming Ice Age’. And don’t forget the ozone hole. They were sensational but no increase in tax revenue. They didn’t ‘pay’. Voila! Climate Change - a pretext for tax increases in every western nation for the next generation and beyond! And is it going to pay! No, sorry, You’re gonna pay.
We should not forget that 20 yrs. ago the alarmists were warning us of “Global Cooling”or,the next ice age.Come to find out,that very cooling of Antarctica was the reason for the hole in the ozone at that time,which since has gotten smaller!At one time.the Vikings were farming on Greenland!Why is there no outcry from the Looney Left about India and China`s ramp up of industrial polutants?Anything to take the uneducated,media-politically indoctrinated public`s eye off of the real threat.Islamic facists right here in out own country,much less,the rest of the world!
Is science more accurate today than 20 years ago? The coming ice age may have had less science behind it than the thinking we now have, but then again it could make sense that scientists were right both times. Particulates in the air can cause a mirror effect that reflects sunlight and we are actually receiving less protons and warmth from the sun because of visible pollution, but now the atmosphere has so much greenhouse gas in it that more heat is being retained even with less sunlight reaching the earth. Imagine what could happen if the skies became clean again of reflecting particulates while the greenhouse gases remain — very very scary.
* Geologists Think the World May Be Frozen Up Again.
New York Times. February 24, 1895.
* Prof. Schmidt Warns Us of an Encroaching Ice Age.
New York Times. October 7, 1912.
* Fifth Ice Age is on the way. Human race will have to fight for its existence against cold.
Los Angeles Times. October 1912.
* Penguin found in France “is an ice-age harbinger.”
New York Times. September 20, 1922.
[The Penguin actually escaped from Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Antarctic Explorer ship.]
* Menace of a New Ice Age.
New York Times. June 10, 1923.
* “The possibility of another Ice Age already having started… is admitted by men of first rank in the scientific world, men specially qualified to speak.”
Los Angeles Times. June 28, 1923.
* Explorer Hopes to Determine Whether new ‘Ice Age’ is Coming.
New York Times. July 4, 1923.
* “Great increase of the glaciers in the Arctic as compared to earlier measurements.”
Atlanta Constitution. July 21, 1923.
* Scientist says Arctic ice will wipe out Canada: “ Another world ice-epoch is due.”
Chicago Tribune. August 9, 1923.
* MacMillan Reports Signs of New Ice Age.
New York Times. September 18, 1924.
* “When all winds will bring snow, the sun cannot prevail against the clouds, and three winters will come in one, with no summer between…”
Los Angeles Times. April 6, 1924.
* Is Another Ice Age Coming?: “Most geologists think the world is growing warmer, and that it will continue to get warmer.”
Los Angeles Times. March 11, 1929.
* This Cold, Cold World: “We do know that the climatic gait of this our world is insecure and unsteady, teetering, indeed, on an ice age, however near or distant the inevitable fall.”
Atlantic. 1932.
* “The earth is steadily growing warmer.”
Washington Post, May 15, 1932.
* American in Longest Warm Spell Since 1776: “Temperature Line Records a 25-Year Rise.”
New York Times. March 27, 1933.
* There is a “wide-spread and persistent tendency toward warmer weather.”
Federal Weather Bureau “Monthly Weather Review,” September 1933.
* “Man is responsible for heating up the planet with carbon dioxide emissions. Such influence is not only possible, but is occurring at the present time.”
Journal of Royal Meteorological Society. G. S. Callendar. 1938.
* Experts Puzzle Over 20-Year Mercury Rise. “Chicago is in the front rank of thousands of cities throughout the world which have been affected by a mysterious trend toward warmer climate in the last two decades.”
Chicago Daily Tribune. November 6, 1939.
* “We have learned that the world has been getting warmer in the last half century.”
New York Times. August 10, 1952.
* “The Arctic pack ice is thinning and that the ocean at the North Pole may become an open sea within a decade or two.”
New York Times. February 20, 1969.
* “How long the current cooling trend continues is one of the most important problems of our civilization.”
Science News. November 15, 1969.
* Colder Winters Held Dawn of New Ice Age: “Get a good grip on your long johns, cold weather haters–the worst may be yet to come.”
Washington Post, January 11, 1970.
* “As for the present cooling trend a number of leading climatologists have concluded that it is very bad news indeed… It is the root cause of a lot of that unpleasant weather around the world and they warn that it carries the potential for human disasters of unprecedented magnitude. Despite all you may have read, heard, or imagined, it’s been growing cooler — not warmer — since the Thirties.”
Fortune Magazine. February 1974.
* Scientists Ponder Why World’s Climate is Changing: “A major cooling considered to be inevitable.”
New York Times. March 21, 1975.
* “The threat of a new ice age must now stand alongside nuclear war as a likely source of wholesale death and misery for mankind.”
New Scientist. 1975.
* “The cooling has already killed hundreds of thousands of people in poor nations… If the proper measure’s aren’t taken, then cooling will lead to world famine, world chaos, and probably world war, and this could all come by the year 2000.”
The Cooling. Lowell Ponte, 1976.
* “About 10 million residents of Bangladesh will lose their homes and means of sustenance because of the rising sea level, due to global warming, in the next few decades.”
Al Gore, Earth in Balance. 1992.
* Past Hot Times Hold Few Reasons to Relax About New Warming.
New York Times. December 27, 2005.
I especially love the 1992 quote out of “Earth in Balance.”
10 Million residents over the next few decades huh? Well, it’s been a decade and a half since he wrote that and guess how many residents in Bangladesh have lost their homes and means of sustenance because of rising sea levels?
That’s right: Zero.
Steve, You are brutal. Keep up the barrage of info. It is our only hope in this world of sheep who love to hear gloom and doom forecasts.
I have an equation for you all:
CO2 rises = Temperature rising
Temperature rising = Polar ice caps to melt
Temperature rising = Increased evaporation
Increased Evapotation = Lower water levels
Increased Evaporation = More clouds
More clouds = Ultra Violet rays to be reflected from Earth
UV rays reflected = COOLER GLOBAL TEMPERATURES!
The Earth is just one big ‘eco-saftey valve’ the Earth is balanced to sustain life everything that happens has a counter action that activates at the appropriate time arises.