Al Gore apparently has no command of the most basic details of anything related to Earth and climate. His last idiotic gaff in the media was that the temperature of the Earth 2 kilometers or so down was millions of degrees! Apparently, Slate editors who look equally like dufuses for printing this dreck didn’t notice his latest one either. Maybe all those trips around the world in the private jet have damaged his ability to tell the time and date? Too many trip across the International Dateline perhaps?
Here’s an interview question put to him from Slate:
Q: How damaging to your argument was the disclosure of e-mails from the Climate Research Unit at East Anglia University?
A: To paraphrase Shakespeare, it’s sound and fury signifying nothing. I haven’t read all the e-mails, but the most recent one is more than 10 years old. These private exchanges between these scientists do not in any way cause any question about the scientific consensus. But the noise machine built by the climate deniers often seizes on what they can blow out of proportion, so they’ve thought this is a bigger deal than it is.
But wait there’s more…
Q: There is a sense in these e-mails, though, that data was hidden and hoarded, which is the opposite of the case you make [in your book] about having an open and fair debate.
A: I think it’s been taken wildly out of context. The discussion you’re referring to was about two papers that two of these scientists felt shouldn’t be accepted as part of the IPCC report. Both of them, in fact, were included, referenced, and discussed. So an e-mail exchange more than 10 years ago including somebody’s opinion that a particular study isn’t any good is one thing, but the fact that the study ended up being included and discussed anyway is a more powerful comment on what the result of the scientific process really is.
These people are examining what they can or should do to deal with the P.R. dimensions of this, but where the scientific consensus is concerned, it’s completely unchanged. What we’re seeing is a set of changes worldwide that just make this discussion over 10-year-old e-mails kind of silly.
Earth to Al, Earth to Al, come in Al.
Despite the fact that some of the 10 year old emails discussed important issues like the 2001 IPCC report and what made it into it…the most recent emails in Climategate were from November 2009. Last month, this year, earth time.
For example, here’s one from November 12th from Phil Jones:
And there are dozens to hundreds more within the last month, the last year, and the last 10 years.
Search for yourself here: http://eastangliaemails.com
Jeeez!! Gore. What a vacuous nimrod, and people pay to listen to him.
h/t to WUWT reader “debreuil”
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By the way, these low records for Central Oregon exceed the bottom limit of their climate zone in some areas. That means that rooted landscape plants could experience root damage or death from the hard freeze. If this continues for more years, climate zone designations could change.
On a cheerier note, the Washington Post has run an excellent op-ed by Sarah Palin, calling for “sound science” and for Obambi to boycott Copenhagen (no chance of that, of course):
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/08/AR2009120803402.html?referrer=emailarticle
/Mr Lynn
Here are a few interesting quotes from the book, The Stupidest Things Ever Said by Politicians:
On Illegal Fund-Raisers at Buddhist Temples, Al Gore on:
Explanation number 1: It wasn’t a fund-raiser, it was a “community outreach event.”
Explanation number 2: It wasn’t a fund-raiser, it was just “finance-related.”
Explanation number 3: It wasn’t a fund-raiser, it was a “donor-maintenance meeting.”
There’s also this amusing tidbit:
On Historical Knowledge, Vice-Presidential:
“Who are these guys?”
Al Gore, referring to the busts of Jefferson, Washington, Franklin, and Lafayette on a televised tour of Monticello. (p. 109)
And this:
“A zebra cannot change its spots.” (p. 54)
And this:
On Senator’s Sons, Typical Days of:
“[My father] taught me how to clean out hog waste with a shovel and a hose. He taught me how to clear land with an ax. He taught me how to plow a steep hillside with a team of mules. He taught me how to take up hay all day long in the hot sun and then, after a dinner break, go help the neighbors take up hay before the rain came and spoiled it on the ground.”
Vice President Al Gore on the virtues of farm life, not mentioning that, as a rich senator’s son, all this was presumably learned on summer vacation from Harvard. A real farmer’s son, Republican National chairman Jim Nicholson, replied, “Mr. Vice President, with all due respect, you’re shoveling a lot more of it right now than you ever did back then.” (p. 141)
And this:
On Timing is Everything:
“[Due to pollution, cars pose] a mortal threat to the security of every nation.”
Senator Al Gore in his 1992 book, Earth in the Balance.
“Here in Motor City we recognize that cars have done more than fuel our commerce. Cars have freed the American spirit and given us the chance to chase our dreams.”
Vice President Al Gore — while gearing up for his 2000 presidential run — in a 1999 speech to the Economic club of Detroit. (p. 253)
http://www.copenhagenclimatechallenge.org/
Open Letter to Secretary-General of United Nations
His Excellency Ban Ki Moon
Secretary-General, United Nations
New York, NY
United States of America
8 December 2009
Dear Secretary-General,
Climate change science is in a period of ‘negative discovery’ – the more we learn about this exceptionally complex and rapidly evolving field the more we realize how little we know. Truly, the science is NOT settled.
Therefore, there is no sound reason to impose expensive and restrictive public policy decisions on the peoples of the Earth without first providing convincing evidence that human activities are causing dangerous climate change beyond that resulting from natural causes. Before any precipitate action is taken, we must have solid observational data demonstrating that recent changes in climate differ substantially from changes observed in the past and are well in excess of normal variations caused by solar cycles, ocean currents, changes in the Earth’s orbital parameters and other natural phenomena.
We the undersigned, being qualified in climate-related scientific disciplines, challenge the UNFCCC and supporters of the United Nations Climate Change Conference to produce convincing OBSERVATIONAL EVIDENCE for their claims of dangerous human-caused global warming and other changes in climate. Projections of possible future scenarios from unproven computer models of climate are not acceptable substitutes for real world data obtained through unbiased and rigorous scientific investigation.
Specifically, we challenge supporters of the hypothesis of dangerous human-caused climate change to demonstrate that:
1.Variations in global climate in the last hundred years are significantly outside the natural range experienced in previous centuries;
2.Humanity’s emissions of carbon dioxide and other ‘greenhouse gases’ (GHG) are having a dangerous impact on global climate;
3.Computer-based models can meaningfully replicate the impact of all of the natural factors that may significantly influence climate;
4.Sea levels are rising dangerously at a rate that has accelerated with increasing human GHG emissions, thereby threatening small islands and coastal communities;
5.The incidence of malaria is increasing due to recent climate changes;
6.Human society and natural ecosystems cannot adapt to foreseeable climate change as they have done in the past;
7.Worldwide glacier retreat, and sea ice melting in Polar Regions , is unusual and related to increases in human GHG emissions;
8.Polar bears and other Arctic and Antarctic wildlife are unable to adapt to anticipated local climate change effects, independent of the causes of those changes;
9.Hurricanes, other tropical cyclones and associated extreme weather events are increasing in severity and frequency;
10.Data recorded by ground-based stations are a reliable indicator of surface temperature trends.
It is not the responsibility of ‘climate realist’ scientists to prove that dangerous human-caused climate change is not happening. Rather, it is those who propose that it is, and promote the allocation of massive investments to solve the supposed ‘problem’, who have the obligation to convincingly demonstrate that recent climate change is not of mostly natural origin and, if we do nothing, catastrophic change will ensue. To date, this they have utterly failed to do so.
Signed by:
Sid,
At what cost? The main reason the price of oil climbed as it did is because people with your politics are keeping American oil in the ground, and trying to do the same thing with Canadian oil. How did the Great Leap Forward” work out for the Chinese? Do you remember? Probably not, but villages attempted to melt down their hand farming implements to make modern plows. Result, mass starvation.
And Sid, I ask this sincerely. How many times does the Left have to make the same mistake before you learn from it? Don’t you guys even have a song about it?
Ursus maritimus (04:58:51). I liked your haiku. Here’s mine.
The Goreacle lies
But we knew that already
As polar bears thrive
Daryl M (22:59:52) :
It’s shocking to see what a pathological liar Al Gore is.
I’m afraid it’s not shocking any more…..still despicable, but the shock factor of his lies has now faded into banality.
Alarming logic:
Al Gore lying is no news.
No news is good news.
Therefore, Al Gore lying is good news.
..sung to the sound of “San Francisco” by Scott McKenzie
If you’re going to Copenhagen
Be sure to wear some dollars in your hair
If you’re going to Copenhagen
You’re gonna meet some crooked people there
For those who come to Copenhagen
Wintertime will be a fraud-in there
In the streets of Copenhagen
crooked people with dollars in their hair
All across the nation such a strange vibration
People in motion
There’s a whole generation, with a false explanation
Misrepresentation, misrepresentation
For those who come to Copenhagen
Be sure to wear some dollars in your hair
If you come to Copenhagen
Wintertime will be a fraud-in there
If you come to Copenhagen
Wintertime will be a fraud-in there
David Alan (03:02:05) :
Al Gore is a buffoon.
The real point is Al is a Buffoon because he chose to champion AGW in the first place.
The whole AGW is such a house of cards. I am amazed it has managed to stay alive this long
Daryl M (22:59:52) :
It’s shocking to see what a pathological liar Al Gore is
He is not pathological in any way. He is after his wallet. This is a too big business to lose it.
We, who do not participate in this global swindle and who do not share their unconsciousness, should say, instead, how a bad guy he is. Obviously he is the kind of guy who can do anything, but anything!, to get one more buck.
I will resist. Saying something about Gore and his comments is like kicking puppies. It’s too easy and morally wrong to tease someone so obviously challenged
Yep. Me too. Sometimes, You just have to let the easy ones go…..
He invented the internet! WUWT wouldn’t even exist…
He has a brilliant mind!
PS.Hey Al, send me some bucks..☺
in de dutch newspaper he told us that he never readed the emails. he say’s the emails are irrelevant and that he did not read them.
Having Gore in their midst lowers both the IQ and respectability of politicians – and that ain’t easy to do.
Gore may be wrong about the dates and the temperature of the Earth’s interior, but what about the two papers he mentions that were included in the IPCC report. Does anyone know which papers are being talked about?
Cap and Trade, United Health Care, Government Motors, One big bank….it’s all coming and will not be stopped. Satin deals in lies, not sure what everyone expects.
I’m a Minnesotan. I present to you a little Christmas present.
he has trouble counting votes too
AJStrata (05:20:05) : I’ve twittered your piece but WordPress won’t allow me to leave a comment [weird] so apols for doing so here.
Al Gore not only didn’t look carefully at the emails, his staff is incompetent, too. The most recent email is dated November 12, 2009. Apparently he didn’t bother to scroll down to the bottom of the page, but looked at the email on top, and assumed it was the most recent. This says a LOT about his general research method.
Midwest Mark (05:41:58) :
The AGW crowd is fighting…
There is not such a “crowd”. If we discard the ones that are paid by their “services” and naive populace believers, we are left with just a few bankers behind, and perhaps with just one.
-Mark Bowlin (06:53:30) :
-Ursus maritimus (04:58:51). I liked your haiku. Here’s mine.
-The Goreacle lies
-But we knew that already
-As polar bears thrive
Well done!
Barry Foster (01:15:39) :
Al Gore ‘quoted’ from
MacbethThe Scottish Play, not paraphrased it! The man’s an idiot.Just thought I’d help you out there.
I posit here that one can suppose that Gore’s poem was once less modernist. Using paleography mixed with a little dendrochronology, with a fudge factor of the number I first thought of, we can take this,
and turn it into:
I think these attacks on “The Goracle” are unfair and mean-spirited. The man can’t help himself. He has a “condition”. Show a little empathy for Pete’s sake! Imagine yourself unable to tell the truth, no matter how hard you tried, and every time you opened your mouth utter gibberish spewed out. Imagine the humiliation of getting up before a crowd and finding your mouth saying, “The Arctic Ice Cap will be completely melted in five years!” (four and counting now).
CH