Here Al Gore responds to Bill O’Reilly of Fox News on his blog:
An Answer for Bill February 1, 2011 : 11:43 AM
Last week on his show Bill O’Reilly asked, “Why has southern New York turned into the tundra?” and then said he had a call into me. I appreciate the question.
As it turns out, the scientific community has been addressing this particular question for some time now and they say that increased heavy snowfalls are completely consistent with what they have been predicting as a consequence of man-made global warming:
“In fact, scientists have been warning for at least two decades that global warming could make snowstorms more severe. Snow has two simple ingredients: cold and moisture. Warmer air collects moisture like a sponge until it hits a patch of cold air. When temperatures dip below freezing, a lot of moisture creates a lot of snow.”
“A rise in global temperature can create all sorts of havoc, ranging from hotter dry spells to colder winters, along with increasingly violent storms, flooding, forest fires and loss of endangered species.”
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Apparently, Gore has never noted that climate scientists once thought snowfall would disappear. But wait, there’s more.
According to Dr David Viner, a senior research scientist at the climatic research unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia,within a few years winter snowfall will become “a very rare and exciting event”.
“Children just aren’t going to know what snow is,” he said.
Apparently, Mr. Gore is unable to track the global monthly temperature either. There is no “global warming” this month.
Note to Al, the global temperature has been falling in December and January in concert with a strong La Niña.
When values are Negative: Cooling/La Niña | Positive: Warming/El Niño
Al, please note the pretty blue colors:
NOAA Aqua satellite TLT channel 5 shows us globally below normal at this point. I’ve helpfully added a big purple arrow to help Mr. Gore read the graph.
Dr. Roy Spencer takes him to task here. We’ll have the final January UAH global temperature anomaly in the next day or so. I hope Bill O’Reilly points it out to him on Fox.
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h/t to my local friend David Walton, who has been trying for two years now to get me a tip that I was not already on top of, proof that persistence pays off.
Again, there’s almost no reason to pile onto Gore anymore. His words are pure humor at this point.
So air warmed by man-made CO2 holds more moisture than naturally warmed air? Hmmm …
So al says ” Snow has two simple ingredients: cold and moisture.” So global warming cause both moisture and cold?
Snowjob.
http://astuteblogger.blogspot.com/2011/01/how-al-gore-could-save-world-admit-man.html
Man-made climate-change – or anthropogenic climate change, or anthropogenic global warming – is what is driving the world to ruin.
HOW?
SIMPLE:
It’s driving up the cost of everything including food. This is increasing global unemployment and national and international conflict.
ALL OVER A HOAX.
Oil is nearly TWICE as expensive now as in 2005, even though consumption/demand is only up 9%.
YUP: In 2005 the world consumed 77 billion barrels and in 2009 only 85 billion – but TODAY, the price is nearly twice as high.
SURE: the price isn’t any where near the outrageous BUBBLE PRICE of 2008 (a bubble which helped push the USA and world into a horrific recession!).
Nevertheless, the price remains TOO DAMNED HIGH BASED ON DEMAND – especially if you consider that since 2006 BILLIONS MORE barrels of proven reserves have been located. OPEC had at least a 4% increase – and natural gas is in a global glut – we know have at least a 250 year reserve!! And Canadian oil sands and Brazil’s off-shore finds have all increased the supply of proven global energy reserves.
One of the MAJOR reasons THE PRICE OF OIL IS TOO DAMN HIGH is … Al Gore.
Well… er um: not just oil, but ALL ENERGY! And food. YUP: 2 of our most basic needs.
Yup: Gore and his army of alarmists dupes and alarm-exploiters have successfully raised the cost of ALL ENERGY (and also FOOD because crops once reaped for food are now reaped for industrial energy).
Costs for all manufacturing has gone up as a result – and manufactured goods, margins have declined for many, and the cost of living has suffered a double whammy: goods are more expensive and so is food.
Al Gore can stop this INSANITY by admitting AGW was all wrong.
Carbon taxes and other subsidies for so-called “green energy and the so-called green economy would vanish – meaning governments could cut deficits and this would immediately help lower interest rates.
The use of CHEAP COAL could once again be increased, and quickly – thus lowering energy costs for everyone – including all industry.
Food costs will come down for two reasons: more supply of food, and fertilizers (which need a lot of energy to be manufactured) would become cheaper again.
People would immediately feel wealthier as gas prices and food prices decline almost immediately.
This wealth effect would mean they would spend and invest more and this will make the global economy grow – leading to more prosperous and healthy lives for everyone – especially the poor.
And the Third World could abandon fear of industrialization and begin to invest in the power plants and cement factories and asphalt factories – and yes sweat shops – so they can build homes and highways and roads and electrical grid which will lead them as it led us: to better way of life for all their people.
THERE ARE ONLY TWO THINGS PREVENTING AN IMMEDIATE, ROBUST AND SUSTAINABLE GLOBAL ECONOMIC RECOVERY:
AL GORE AND AL QAEDA.
OSAMA WON’T LISTEN TO REASON.
WILL AL GORE?
Well here in Oz the ABC is in full swing because of the heat in the higher 30’s. Last night- wait for it- “this warm weather is predicted to last for the next week” now here’s the punch line-” this is unprecendented”. No waiting to see what will actually happen of course.! The ABC journos are in full global warming mode.
Guess what ABC , you know its called summer in Australia.
“Mr Gore, could you please cite for us the author and journal dated five or more years ago in which higher-than-average snows were discussed to be “consistent” with catastrophic anthropogenic climate disruption?”
Is there anybody on the planet who knows less about science than Al?
http://www.kscnet.ru/ivs/kvert/current/kzm/index.html
But this couldn’t possibly be a driver, huh?
Al Gore has a political agenda. Nothing what he says or infers can be taken as truth ( like all politicians ) . Hey ! The debate is NOT over, and the so-called science is not settled. Thats the real world.
I got this from Zero Hedge.. I think it is apt.
…just as I am affected by the maniac, so I am affected by most modern thinkers. That unmistakable mood or note that I hear from Hanwell [an insane asylum], I hear also from half the chairs of science and seats of learning to-day; and most of the mad doctors are mad doctors in more senses than one. They all have exactly that combination we have noted: the combination of an expansive and exhaustive reason with a contracted common sense. They are universal only in the sense that they take one thin explanation and carry it very far. But a pattern can stretch for ever and still be a small pattern. They see a chess-board white on black, and if the universe is paved with it, it is still white on black. Like the lunatic, they cannot alter their standpoint; they cannot make a mental effort and suddenly see it black on white.
~C.K. Chesterton
Gore is completely right; since the snow storms of last year, the AGW scientists fall all over themselves to predict more snow through AGW. (Before those snowstorms, they predicted no snow, obviously, but they’re smart dogs. I guess they will also predict heavy floods in Australia from now on.) 😉
So Al, answer me this very simple question if you can:
What type of weather can we expect to see if global warming was not happening?
Since the ocean around US is pretty colder than average, where is that additional moisture coming from?
http://www.osdpd.noaa.gov/data/sst/anomaly/2011/anomnight.1.31.2011.gif
Dear Globull Warming God –
The high today in my Denver suburb was ZERO. Could I have a little global warming please? We’re supposed to be around -20 tonight with wind chills in the -40 range.
If we could get back to Friday’s 66 degrees, I would appreciate it.
Signed,
Freezing My A** Off
PS: The dogs don’t want to go outside to do their business, so this is really important.
Other questions answered by Al Gore, as being caused by man-made global warming:
1) Does this dress make my backside look big? Global Warming! (even Tipper didn’t buy that one)
2) Is this lunch meat still good? Global Warming!
3) Shirts or Skins? Global Warming!
4) Coke or Pepsi? Global Warming!
5) Planes, trains, or automobiles? Global Warming!
6) Beef or Pork Fried Rice? Global Warming!
7) Can Luke eat 50 eggs? Global Warming!
8) Hot things hot, cold things cold – Styrofoam, how do it know? Global Warming!
9) Can a woodchuck chuck wood? Global Warming!
10) Are there any funny questions that haven’t been made into an amusing GEICO commercial? Global Warming!
Jeremy says:
February 1, 2011 at 2:20 pm
C’mon, Jer, let’s pile on, anyway! He’s better than Spongebob Squarepants any day!
It hits a “patch” of cold air? So it’s not climate anymore but weather? No wonder he is in denial—no, more than denial, absolute The entire USA is just a “patch”, as the whole country sits in deep freeze.
There are still plenty of reasons to mock Al Gore. He still wields power as one of those lobbyists that so many people despise. As an ex-VP and as the Nobel Prize winning global warming scam artist, there are many reasons to take him to task.
But as Nolo asks, Is there anybody that knows less science that Al Gore, I consider that very, very unlikely. Certainly other than his ability to say that beetle infestation rates are caused global warming, he has nothing else.
I would love the chance to debate him on global warming.
John Kehr
Severe weather permitting, Al Gore is scheduled to be the keynote speaker at this global warming conference: http://www.fortheforest.org/page_77
Hey, Big Al forgot to mention that global warming causes more teen pregnancies and erectile dysfunction as well. Where are the man’s priorities?
“What type of weather can we expect to see if global warming was not happening?”
That is easy: AGW causes all weather. Therefore, you would need a significant period of *no weather* to disprove AGW.
“Last week on his show Bill O’Reilly asked, “Why has southern New York turned into the tundra?””
The historical average temperature for Central Park, New York City in January is 32.1 degrees F, in January 2011 it was 29.7, 2.4 degrees F below normal.
The historical average precipitation for Central Park, New York City in January is 4.13 Inches, in January 2011 it was 4.93 inches, .8 inches above normal.
The data is available here;
http://www.weather.gov/climate/index.php?wfo=okx
The reason that “southern New York turned into the tundra” is not because it received an additional .8 inches of precipitation in January, but rather because it was 2.4 degrees F below normal.
So, when snowfall isn’t disappearing forever, it’s reappearing in greater quantities than ever?
All we really need to know about the current state of climate science is that every time an anomaly occurs, virtually every climate scientist reflexively invokes AGW.
Forget natural variability and a dearth of meaningful data on the history of our own climate. Nah, we don’t need facts, and what little facts we do have can be manipulated and tortured into saying pretty much whatever we want them to say.
What an effing scam.
Richard Lawson says:
February 1, 2011 at 2:38 pm
I’m not Al Gore but I can answer that! There would be no weather; temperatures would be perfect, the sun would shine most of the time and all wind would be a gentle breeze. It would only rain at night and just the right amount.
Any other questions?
Jeremy says:
Again, there’s almost no reason to pile onto Gore anymore. His words are pure humor at this point.
But it’s so much fun. Especially, since Spotted-Owl has done his best to get filthy rich at the expense of the rest of this country and, indeed, the world. I have no sympathy.