Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 05/25/2008 11:54:39 AM PDT by RogerFGay
The end of civilization as we know it, is not at hand. Dire warnings on climate change issued by Al Gore, based on an extreme set of computer predictions, are a dead issue. So is the credibility of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC); the UN committee that tried to bring credibility to the predictions with claims that its views represent a consensus among scientists on global warming.
The problem with the alleged scientific consensus is that it has always been a half-truth; or less than half, depending on how you calculate. We are in a natural warm period. That's true, but Gore, and other activists – including the IPCC – stepped over the boundary when giving the impression that scientific consensus supported a list of scary predictions intended to promote political action, as well as the claim that the primary cause of global warming is human pollution, especially in the form of carbon dioxide – CO2. Ice has been melting; but since a warm period is pretty much opposite an ice-age, that is what one would expect. Polar bears are still killing and eating seals, happily I suppose.
In the scientific debate, the straw that broke the camel's back was the last decade of real temperature data. Reality just hasn't held with the IPCC predictions. Not only has it not gotten hotter at an increasing rate, as Al Gore's presentations with absolute certainty predicted, it just hasn't gotten hotter. CO2 has been increasing but there's nothing to suggest that it's a dangerous substance. The evidence actually contradicts the idea that it is a major contributor to warming. There's more CO2 but it's not getting hotter. You don't have cause and effect if you don't get the predicted effect. The so-called “global warming skeptics” have won. Al Gore and the IPCC are wrong.
Data over the past decade is not in fact, the first to be out of sync with the IPCC models. Scientists have been pointing to cooling periods as well as data inaccuracies, poor analysis, and misrepresentations for years. These scientists simply weren't counted in Al Gore's idea of scientific consensus. It's been understood for decades; in order to matter in the politics of global warming, you had to get on-board. That of course, created a conspiracy rather than getting to the truth.
The IPCC's credibility has been shattered. The debate can no longer be thought of as involving two groups of well-intentioned scientists with different data, theories, and predictions. If that were so, the IPCC would be admitting the significance of new data and assuring the public that they have no real evidence that the climate future will be as scary as they had previously claimed. That is exactly what scientists have asked them to do (see related article) The IPCC instead claims their predictions have not been proven wrong; they have just not yet been proven right. Nature's expected behavior has been delayed, according to the IPCC. Why it has been delayed is another scientific mystery awaiting billions more in funding to solve. They've given reality another ten years to catch up with their predictions. If we have a very hot summer or two during the next decade – the sort of thing not unknown to human history – one might expect they'll claim vindication.
And what of Al Gore – self-appointed soothsayer and modern leader of the environmental movement, winner of a Nobel Peace Prize, an Emmy, and other awards for frightening school children with tales of doom? Publicly, he struggles to explain why there are so many determined detractors in discussions of his far-reaching and expensive vision for political action. But, reportedly making millions from his environmental activism, he should be able to contemplate this and other questions in luxury after this swan song of his political career has finally ended.
When the history books are written and if the truth is told, people will be wondering why Algore and his enviro-cohorts weren’t put in prison for perpetrating their money making scam on humanity.
here in WA state we’ve had RECORD snowfall in the mountains this year. It’s Almost June and we’ve had no spring. I have pictures of Lake Kacheelus, just east of Snoqualmie Pass, two weeks ago, that look like an arctic tundra because it was frozen. We drove over last weekend again to see it was half melted, but only because we had TWO hot days in a row. WooHoo. Snowmelt for two days caused rivers to rise, and of course the news wants you to think it’s global warming.
I’d post the pics but don’t know how to here. anyone know the code? [img .....
well, phooey, go to my photobucket account.
http://s143.photobucket.com/albums/r135/ballbusterspics/?start=20
It's the modern version of "The Sky God is angry, you must bring the priests more sacrifices". They just dressed the language up a little different.
Does this mean the documentary “The Day After Tomorrow” is a fraud????? NOooo!!! I loved that movie!!!
Al, where’s my refund check for how much taxes we wasted on your BS?
I dunno! Here in Texas it is starting to get quite warm. An old timer whispered to me that it's because Summer is coming but he was quickly hauled away by the "Global Warming Police" before he could explain to me the term "Summer." He also incoherently mumbled something about "seasons?"
We had snow on Miller Peak yeaterday morning. Miller Peak is 7,100+ feet and only a 10 minute drive from my house in Arizona and viible from my patio.
Are crops being planted in Western Washington chardonnay?
I’ve chatted with some folks in Wis. and they still are having a late winter as well.
I haven't however history shows that it started billions of years ago.
Thank God we still have it. ; )
My sister in Cd’A, Idaho told me yesterday that the 170 inches of snow on the mountain tops began to melt in earnest last week when the NW had those few days of 85 + degrees. Lake Cd’Alene is now high enough to cover the famous boardwalk in front of the large lakeside hotel there. They expect the lake will rise another 5 feet at crest.
Changes in the Sun’s Surface to Bring Next Climate Change
Today, Director of the SSRC, John Casey has reaffirmed earlier research he led that independently discovered the sun’s changes are the result of a family of cycles that bring about climate shifts from cold climate to warm and back again.
“We today confirm the recent announcement by NASA that there are historic and important changes taking place on the sun’s surface. This will have only one outcome - a new climate change is coming that will bring an extended period of deep cold to the planet. This is not however a unique event for the planet although it is critically important news to this and the next generations. It is but the normal sequence of alternating climate changes that has been going on for thousands of years. Further according to our research, this series of solar cycles are so predictable that they can be used to roughly forecast the next series of climate changes many decades in advance. I have verified the accuracy of these cycles’ behavior over the last 1,100 years relative to temperatures on Earth, to well over 90%.”
Thanks for sharing your pictures, Chardonay - they’re interesting!
I notice we’ve been keeping the heat on in the month of May here in PA. Worst May I ever saw.
I never have figure out how to post a chart or picture on here.. but, there a really great chart at the link in this article.
Any help on posting a jpeg?
In California, this has to be the coldest Memorial Day weekend in the last 50 years. Only had one 3-day streak of real warm weather so far.
” Not only has it not gotten hotter at an increasing rate, as Al Gore’s presentations with absolute certainty predicted, it just hasn’t gotten hotter.”
When did it start?
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