Can Gore change political climate?

I'm ready for the nay sayers.. bring it on creationists!

And did any reporter think to ask Al Gore what gas-guzzling jet and limo brought him to DC today?

Al Gore's carbon footprint is as big as, well, Al Gore. I'll start taking what Gore says seriously when Gore's lifestyle indicates HE takes what he says seriously.

For the latest research paper which basically laughs at Preacher Gore and his faith-based belief system, see http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/press/proved_no_climate_crisis.html
Among the highlights of this paper that the Trib will never let you see:

• The IPCC's 2007 climate summary overstated CO2's impact on temperature by 500-2000%;
• CO2 enrichment will add little more than 1 °F (0.6 °C) to global mean surface temperature by 2100;
• Not one of the three key variables whose product is climate sensitivity can be measured directly;
• The IPCC's values for these key variables are taken from only four published papers, not 2,500;
• The IPCC's values for each of the three variables, and hence for climate sensitivity, are overstated;
• "Global warming" halted ten years ago, and surface temperature has been falling for seven years;
• Not one of the computer models relied upon by the IPCC predicted so long and rapid a cooling;

What I can see is that there are a lot of people who look old and reactionary; where I can see opportunity. They only see loss and cost. If Americans doesn't take the lead in this field, somebody else will. It seems that yet again America will miss a great opportunity and lose yet another (huge) market. The future belongs to those who can see opportunities. Evidently, these critics are not among them. If our ancestors had practiced this brand of foresight we would still be burning whale blubber for light and paying through the nose for the last whale. I'm sorry to say that the future of energy is not in that 19th century oil based technology. There may be money to be made for the oil industry in this dwindling resource. I don’t foresee prosperity battling with China, India, and the rest of the world for dwindling oil resources. The market volatility and inherent restraints posed by an oil economy will stagnate, if not kill, any chance of prosperity for the rest of the economy. It is asinine supporting an industry which should be resigned to the annals of history. Oil is bad for national security, bad for the long-term growth and independence of the United States, and detrimental to the health and well-being of the rest of the economy. Get with the program.

What a HOAX !

It turnes out somebody (not the press, of course) DID check to see what the Gore entourage drove to his DC speech.

"Of course, we saw plenty of hypocrisy -- especially the fact that Gore didn't ride his bike or take public transporation to the event. He didn't even take his Prius! Instead, he brought a fleet of two Lincoln Town Cars and a Chevy Suburban SUV! Even worse, the driver of the Town Car that eventually whisked away Gore's wife and daughter left the engine idling and the AC cranking for 20 minutes before they finally left!". See the video at
http://www.americansforprosperity.org/index.php?id=6070

The democrats and their fear mongering are at it again.

Duncan, that was the most educated, literate thing anyone has ever said on this blog! Terry again you're a donkey. The rest of you nay sayers, well. I suggest you re-read Duncans post and think about it real hard! Opportunity, freedom from dependency on oil, jobs, prosperity, clean air, less skin cancer, the positive list just goes on and on and yet the republicans and the right want to continue with the status quo of polluting the planet and our health!

And one more point. For all of you who suggest Gore should ride his bike or walk, must I remind you that he IS the ex Vice President of the United States and there's this little thing called SECURITY involved! Grow up people!

Duncan - you have a point when you state "The future belongs to those who can see opportunities." Well, ol' Al has saw an opportunity and he exploiting the American people for all its worth with his carbon credit risky scheme.

Scotty - Whose party has the donkey as a symbol?

Back in 2005, ol' Al said we only had ten years left, so we only have seven years left. What the hell, let's live it up.

http://www.useless-knowledge.com/1234/07feb/article011.html

Here in 2007, he stating we only have ten years left - so now in 2008 we have nine.

http://newsbusters.org/node/13975

Here's a 2006 article with Al saying we have 10 years left, so now the end of the world is 2016.

http://highsurfwarning.blogspot.com/2006/06/scientists-respond-to-gores-warnings.html

I wish old Al would make up his mind, I have to plan my remaining days on the planet.

If ol' Al is the spokesman for this "crisis", why won't he debate anyone? Wouldn't this be the one time, once and for all, to put sceptics like me to rest?

http://www.heartland.org/Article.cfm?artId=20873

Care to explain while Mars is going thru global warming. Do they have a Hummer Factory on Mars? Is that little Marvin the Martian from Bugs Bunny driving an evilllllll SUV?

Or are you still trying to figure out your last math problem?

http://www.heartland.org/Article.cfm?artId=17977

papers, not 2,500;
• The IPCC's values for each of the three variables, and hence for climate sensitivity, are overstated;
• "Global warming" halted ten years ago, and surface temperature has been falling for seven years;
• Not one of the computer models relied upon by the IPCC predicted so long and rapid a cooling;
Posted by: Kefauver | July 17, 2008 6:09 PM

Let me guess, the Exxon-funded climate change-denying Competitive Enterprise Institute turned you down for an internship, so you're stuck in your basement writing lame screeds and eating old pizza?

Blakey-.....less skin cancer, the possitive list goes on.

I've got some cold cream in the cabinent that can do the same thing ha.

DRILL HERE DRILL NOW !

For another admission from climate scientist David Evans:
"There is no evidence to support the idea that carbon emissions cause significant global warming. None. There is plenty of evidence that global warming has occurred, and theory suggests that carbon emissions should raise temperatures (though by how much is hotly disputed) but there are no observations by anyone that implicate carbon emissions as a significant cause of the recent global warming."

And who is David Evans?
"I DEVOTED six years to carbon accounting, building models for the Australian Greenhouse Office. I am the rocket scientist who wrote the carbon accounting model (FullCAM) that measures Australia's compliance with the Kyoto Protocol, in the land use change and forestry sector...
When I started that job in 1999 the evidence that carbon emissions caused global warming seemed pretty good: CO2 is a greenhouse gas, the old ice core data, no other suspects.

The evidence was not conclusive, but why wait until we were certain when it appeared we needed to act quickly? Soon government and the scientific community were working together and lots of science research jobs were created. We scientists had political support, the ear of government, big budgets, and we felt fairly important and useful (well, I did anyway). It was great. We were working to save the planet.

But since 1999 new evidence has seriously weakened the case that carbon emissions are the main cause of global warming, and by 2007 the evidence was pretty conclusive that carbon played only a minor role and was not the main cause of the recent global warming. As Lord Keynes famously said, "When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?"

Read The Australian at http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24036736-7583,00.html
for more from this man who, unlike Al Gore, is a climatologist.

Terry,
We've been thru this before. You bring up Mars because you heard thru some deranged talking points that increased solar activity is the result of global warming on Earth and Mars. Yet we've shown you scientific FACTS time and time again that refute that hypothesis to be true on Earth. If increased solar activity was the cause, the warming of the Earth's atmosphere would be uniform across all layers. As scientific instruments have recorded this is not happening. Heat is being "trapped" with over 90% probability it is being trapped by a heat trapping gas, CO2, the levels of which have increased dramatically since human industrial activity in the mid to late 19th century.
PS I still find it HI-larious that half or the Republipukes say that the Earth is cooling and the other half says the Earth is warming but it is not the result of human industry.

Janet,

You are correct, we have been thur this before and you are consistant. You arecstill wrong.

Show me these deranged talking points you refer to. By the way, scientist believe there is also global warming on Pluto.

BTW, we are supposed to take that Al Gore's word for this - the guy that flunked out of studying GOD?

Here is one of "my deranged talking points" from right-wing National Geographic

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/02/070228-mars-warming.html

Here's global warming on Pluto from another right-wing publication - Space

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/pluto_warming_021009.html

and one more from that right-wing institution MIT

http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2002/pluto.html

As far as your "scientific instruments", see where these measurement instruments are being placed

http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2007/07/contributing-to.html

At last, someone with enough gravitas, the American Physical Society, declares that Emperor Al Gore is wearing no clothes.

Terry,
Are those "stations" measureing temperature or temperature change?

climate change should not be a partisan thing. unfortunately, too many brain-dead knuckledraggers like the ones above insist on making it that way. the deniers are incapable of understanding rather simple science, while the rest of the well-read and educated world looks forward for solutions.

And one more point. For all of you who suggest Gore should ride his bike or walk, must I remind you that he IS the ex Vice President of the United States and there's this little thing called SECURITY involved! Grow up people!

Posted by: Scot S. Blakeley | July 17, 2008 9:50 PM

How about an armored Prius? he could park it next to Bill Clinton's presidential limousine, the Dodge Drafter.

Grants aren't given to those scientist not going along with the HOAX.

They have these poor Dems so scared out of their minds. It's the saddest thing ever.

I read somewhere that they admitted that this was over- the -top-scare to get the point across that we need to keep the planet better.

They are showing this Gore Scare Film in the schools to boot. That's BS !

Crud - glad to have you call out Scotty, Janet, and Little Johnny E., but there is no-need to call them "brain-dead knuckledraggers".

How about an armored Prius? he could park it next to Bill Clinton's presidential limousine, the Dodge Drafter.

Posted by: DaveB | July 18, 2008 12:14 PM

I have to laugh at this one. So you voted for Bush who dodged the draft as well as his buddy Dick! LOl You opened the can of worms!

posted by teresa 2:02 pm

spoken like a true creationist. screw the fact-based, irrefutable and peer-reviewed science behind climate change. focus on the tiny discrepancies in the science and damn higher education. when that fails, commit to the ever-failed follow-the-money mentality. just keep spinning in the wind while the rest of us move forward on solving the crisis.

That's a bunch of Crud ha.

I'm a creationist, you got that one wrong too.

Before you were born we were waiting for an ice age to come any day now, and before I was born there was more polution than there is today, because everyone burned coal and cars ran on leaded gasoline.

So, it's just another cycle that the environment goes thru. We have no control over it. The sky is not falling. You'll learn that with age!

t, i know more about the subject and the science behind it than you will bother learning throughout the rest of your life.

Crud

Now, they are talking that it's actually global cooling. It was a colder than normal winter across the states oops ha.

Global warming AND Global cooling are natural occurances remember the potatoe famine in Ireland. You will survive. They fight over what stage we are in. It's not the end of the world.

Crud - you haven't demonstrated any of that knowledge in here. Probably what you know is what was shoved down your throat while you were in school. Try sitting back and doing a little critical thinking on the subject instead of regurgetating your high school notes.

ter, i've debated the subject with you and others ad nauseam on other posts. i have followed the ipcc since their inception and have also read reports from nasa, and other peer-reviewed and reputable sources. it's not worth the effort any longer trying to pull your heads out of rush limbaugh's back side. dr. william gray, 60 deniers, 30,000 signatures (some even from dead people), even down to the "it's a hoax, look out your window, it's snowing in june!"

here's a decent article on the subject:

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/02/27/global_warming_deniers/

good reading.

250 years??? What was causing global warming back around 1800 - emmissions from musket fire?

Simple math 250 divided by 3,500,000,000.

http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/ice_ages.html

Crud-

It must be true if dead people are signing it ha ha ha.

Who is Rush Limbaugh?

: )

Crud

I heard this on the radio after Carlin died. I found it just for YOU! It says it all.

YouTube - George Carlin - Saving the Planet