Bill McKibben thinks Al Gore has been ‘diminished’ by skeptics:
We actually had a charismatic leader in Al Gore, but he was almost the exception that proved the rule.
For one thing, a politician makes a problematic leader for a grassroots movement because boldness is hard when you still envision higher office; for another, even as he won the Nobel Prize for his remarkable work in spreading climate science, the other side used every trick and every dollar at their disposal to bring him down. He remains a vital figure in the rest of the world (partly because there he is perceived less as a politician than as a prophet), but at home his power to shape the fight has been diminished.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bill-mckibben/movements-without-leaders_b_3777136.html
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Speaking of Gore’s “diminished role”, this is what he’s up to now*
Duke C. says:
Al Gore at Work: $8.7 Billion to ‘Repair Sound Barrier’?
The EPA has already begun discussions with environmentalist thought leader Al Gore about developing a series of Public Service Announcements to inform the public and to caution them about the damaging effects of supersonic speeds. When reached by phone, the former Vice President and filmmaker shared his newfound expertise on the topic, “Most of the smaller residual sonic disturbances seem to be concentrated in some of the least populated areas, like ranches and rodeo arenas.” He further quipped that, “This truth is looking pretty inconvenient as well.”
*Spoof article
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Mike Bromley the Kurd says:
Oh Noes Department: European Forests aren’t the carbon sink they once were……
http://phys.org/news/2013-08-europe-forests-carbon-saturation.html
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Stresiand effect in 3, 2, 1…
Mr Bliss says: A potentially very damaging story regarding UK wind farms:
“Sources have said that the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) run by Ed Davey, a Liberal Democrat wants to stop Owen Paterson, the Conservative Environment Secretary, publishing a major report that he has commissioned on renewable energy and the rural economy. ”
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It took them this long to figure this out?
NASA scientists relate urban population to air pollution
Live in a large city like New York, London, Beijing or Mumbai, and you are likely exposed to more air pollution than people in smaller cities in surrounding areas. But exactly how a city’s pollution relates to the size of its population has never been measured, until now.
http://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/nasa-scientists-relate-urban-population-to-air-pollution/#.UhKAMT92EhV
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Fearmongering from National Geographic, which is why I don’t subscribe anymore.
Steve Wilent says:
Have you seen the cover of the September 2013 National Geographic Magazine? Cover story: Rising Seas. Image: The statue of Liberty with water up to about Liberty’s waist — more than 200 feet above sea level.
http://press.nationalgeographic.com/2013/08/15/national-geographic-magazine-september-2013/
I wonder if they tell readers how long that will take to get to that level, like I did here:
Freaking out about NYC sea level rise is easy to do when you don't pay attention to history
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UHI and social justice?
ut8t5 says:
Reducing Urban Heat Island effect in Toronto a matter of social justice, “experts” say
Toronto Public Health claims that the urban heat effect makes poorer neighbourhoods even hotter than wealthier neighbourhoods.
“The Urban Heat Island problem “doesn’t affect everyone equally… In Toronto, there is “almost a perfect overlay between poor areas and hot areas,” says Kevin Behan, deputy director of the Clean Air Partnership, an environmental group.”
“Modern scientists have confirmed that the average temperature difference between an urban heat island and its rural belt is usually 1 C to 2 C but can reach as much as 12 C in extreme cases.”
Chicken Little is very worried about this and want to spend our money RIGHT NOW.
“Mitigating the Urban Heat Island effect — which can be as easy as switching roof colours — is a matter of social justice, many experts say. And as climate change continues to amplify weather extremes, that task is increasingly urgent.”
LOL
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Heatwaves Projected to Double by 2020
New Computer Models Project Rapid Increase in Heatwaves
John Marincic writes:
Heatwaves are projected to double by 2020 based on new computer models and reviewing an “exceptional number of extreme heatwaves” over the last decade. The scientists from Germany and Spain use the latest heatwaves in Australia, US, and Russia as examples of what will become more prevalent over the coming decade.
The study is in the Journal of Environmental Research Letters. There is a link to the study in the article (see URL) published by Reuters.
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Environment/2013/08/16/21052391.html
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So much lunacy, so little space!
Now the EPA will want to ban ranches & rodeos.
From Algore article:
And the fact that even at this late point in the article you don’t know that I’m kidding says more about Obama and environmental foolishness that it does about your sense of humor or mine.
That’s a pretty funny spoof, having Al Gore want to “repair the broken sound barrier.”
I wish that National Geographic cover was a spoof as well. Oh, how far the mighty have fallen!
From the Teuters article:
Point one: the sentence about length, frequency, and intensity is heavily hedged to make any observation a confirmation. This is especially true in a system dominated by 1/f noise.
Point two: The Potsdam researcher states, without doubt, that it is the rate of increase of emissions that is the cause of warming and intensifying of climate features. This is not logically consistent with the physics of the problem that the researchers/journalists/politicians/activists keep insisting we do not understand.
“Modern scientists have confirmed ”
What exactly is a Modern Scientist? Is that someone who has a new “scientific meathod”?
46 years ago my grandmother gave me a lifetime subscription to National Geographic. It was a fairly good magazine back then that still had the occasional picture of naked breast natives, but sometime around the 1990s it became nothing more than a left wing propaganda machine. All it does now is talk about how humans are destroying the planet.
Al Gore alway was and always will be a pure joke.
Oops. I meant rate of increase of CO2.
Maybe if those Europeans harvested their forests once in a while they wouldn’t be aging so badly. They could cut sections of the forest, use the wood for something (like maybe lumber…) and then replant. They could even setup a rotating schedule. But make sure not to recycle any wood products, that would reduce the demand for fresh cut wood. And you need to make sure not to compost it either. That would release the CO2 back to the air. You need to somehow sequester it, maybe by burying it in a land fill or something…
Jeff in Calgary says:
August 20, 2013 at 8:28 am
Should read, “post-Modern scientists”. Modern scientists were the likes of Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Newton, Lavoisier, Hutton, Darwin, Pasteur, Koch, Rutherford, Einstein, Curie, Chadwick, Pauling, Wegener, Watson, Crick, Franklin, Feynman, Dyson, et al, you know, old fogies such as they, boring data-collectors & hypothesis testers, not up to date computer modelers & spaghetti graphers (or grafters) like the mighty Mann.
National Geolaughic. Not a thing about geography anymore. Everything about leftist demography.
Rising seas are the main fear mongering of AR5 so Nat Geo just plays the game…
As for The Toronto Star’s UHI, that’s brilliant agit prop. Next: are subduction zones racist?
milodonharlani says:
August 20, 2013 at 8:18 am
So much lunacy, so little space!
Now the EPA will want to ban ranches & rodeos.
Especially those with Oblarny clowns.
Al Gore… charismatic?!?
I wonder if Bill McKibben has an extra nickel bag of whatever it is he’s using that he’d sell to me?
At least the statue of liberty does not have the water over her head. How does my expression of attitude fit in with the “seeing the glass half full or half empty”? I am so confused.
Jeff in Calgary says:
“Modern scientists have confirmed ”
What exactly is a Modern Scientist? Is that someone who has a new “scientific meathod”?
Maybe I’m being too pedantic, but you spelled “meathead” wrong.
The WUWT Hot Sheet seems to be working well. Good idea. Thanks.
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Jeff in Calgary says:
August 20, 2013 at 8:34 am
“. . . use the wood for something (like maybe lumber…)”
There is a precedent for this sort of thing:
http://gamblershouse.wordpress.com/2009/07/07/where-they-got-the-wood/
The Chacoan style of architecture, however, features an enormous amount of wood, mostly in the ceilings of rooms but also in the lintels of doorways and vents and in some cases as intramural beams inside the walls. It has been estimated that about 200,000 beams were used in construction in the canyon. Because of the arid climate and the strength of the construction, a considerable amount of this wood has survived quite well and can be seen by visitors today.
On the Kurd’s reference to European Forests not removing CO2 anymore. That is to be expected from a climax forest. It is well known that a forest that is mature has a net neutral impact on CO2 as tress and forest matter are growing and decaying at the same rate. The only way to keep a forest in the absorbing CO2 mode is to harvest it in a “sustainable” manner. And to make sure that you are removing CO2, the harvested wood needs to go into permanent use such as houses. If it is used for fuel or feed to a cellulosic ethanol facility, the CO2 ends up in the atmosphere anyway. But the only really good biomass feedstock available for CE fuel production is forest matter. All other energy crops will take way too much land to produce feed for a biofuels plant. For example, switchgrass as an energy crop will take about 100 sq mi of land dedicated to this crop for 30 years to provide 2000 tons/day of biomass to a CE plant. This will produce 2000 to 3000 barrels of oil equivalent of fuel (ethanol in this example, if the plant works as designed) when our needs are 17 million bbl/day. And with the new shale plays, there is a glut of oil available on the market and we are soon to be reasonably independent of imported crude by maybe 2025.
How times have changed from only a few years ago.
Bob
Those deniers used every trick and every dollar at their disposal to manipulate the local atmosphere to bring “Gore Effect” weather everywhere that man meant.
I’ve broken the sound barrier three times, once even in an old F-100. If I’d known it would cost that many billions to repair, I’d have thought twice about it.
On second thought, naaw. It was too much fun.
I doubt the sceptic side has spent 1% of the money on bringing down Al Gore than he earned from his involvement with alarmism. Probably less than 1% of 1%.
The easiest fix to improve european forests as carbon sinks would be to chop them down. New growth will help. Expect recommendations to this end from leading warmist experts soon, harebrained as it may be.
is Al Gore really interested in ecologic problems – I heard he has a plane and a big ranch with a lot of light on ……..
Jeff in Calgary says:
August 20, 2013 at 8:28 am
“Modern scientists have confirmed ”
What exactly is a Modern Scientist? Is that someone who has a new “scientific meathod”?
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Yes. The stodgy old one has been replaced by one that has been “enlightened” by the inclusion of “Critical Theory”.
Gore does not appear diminished at all.
If anything he may have put on a few kilos…
Ecosystems on the move: http://news.yahoo.com/ecosystems-move-why-climate-change-complicated-op-ed-160439456.html
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot? There’s no such thing as the UHI, but it affects the poor disproportionately?