Sure looks like a heat wave, doesn’t it?
Repower America Reports His View
By Al Gore from his blog @ algore.com
With all the climate deniers spreading lies about the climate crisis in the media, it’s vital we arm ourselves with the facts. Thankfully, Repower America put together a great fact sheet explaining the relationship between the climate crisis and extreme weather:
“Fact: Climate change causes more frequent and severe snowstorms
Record snowstorms need two things: temperatures below freezing, and very high humidity. On a planet warmer by a few degrees on average, the Northeast US will still have plenty of days below freezing; the big difference will be warmer seas producing higher levels of moisture in the air – and therefore more severe cold-season storms.”
“Fact: We can expect more extreme weather
Scientists tell us that climate change has already led to more extreme weather in the United States and we can expect stronger hurricanes, more wildfires, heatwaves and droughts, to name a few.”
“Fact: The world is warming at a quickening pace
Weather in one region over days or months should not be confused with climate or the patterns of weather over decades and centuries. And the science is clear here: the last decade was the hottest on record. And to put this year’s weather in perspective, January was warmer than average for the continental United States”
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I could spend lots of time pointing out why each one of these claims is false, and that Mr. Gore is atcually the one who is the liar, by why deprive my readers of all the fun?
One thing Gore doesn’t mention: El Nino. Wonder why?
You can bet he’d be making the same claim if we had a below normal snowfall records too.
D (17:21:09) : Al Gore is an idiot? Idiots the world over resent that remark.
These days they offer University degrees in idiocy. The renowned University of East Anglia offers courses in idiocy. World class idiots can be expected to win the Nobel prize.
To the poster from Florida, the data is not out yet for this winter which is through February, but January was much colder in 1977 and 1981.
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/research/cag3/fl.html
To check your own state, just change the state abbrev in the url.
Another acolyte match:
http://www.fortuneforum.org/graphics/Renu%20Mehta%20&%20Al%20Gore.jpg
http://www.fortuneforum.org/images/renu_and_pucharuari_2.jpg
…and Al’s little place in the country:
http://www.tn52.com/al_gore%27s_farm.htm
People around the world are learning what people in Tennessee have known for a long time, that Al Gore is a fraud.
Fact: Cold is the new warm.
….”now take the amulet of knowledge you received as a prize for your last pledge….
…. swing it gently before your eyes. Take another sip of kool aid…..
…and repeat after me…. Snow is not cold. It is really very hot. That is why it’s white. In fact, it’s ash. The ash of a million polar bears incinerated in the blistering heat….
What is climate? For the Climategaters, it seems that climate is whatever weather is not. So, our climate theories cannot be confirmed through prediction because all they can predict is weather – which is not climate. Nonsense, right.
Let me try again.
Aren’t weather events caused by climate and isn’t the goal of climate science to predict weather events? And isn’t climate science successful to the degree that its predictions of weather events are confirmed? So, to say “Don’t confuse weather with climate” is simply to say “Don’t confuse the events caused by climate with climate?” That’s nonsense. Predicting weather (climate events) is the only way we can know that our understanding of climate is true, confirmed, or however you might describe it.
All Climategaters are Orwellian and fervently so. Orwell nailed that strategy, and you know who he was studying when he nailed it – yeah, communists.
Rebuttals:
Percipitation for US (rain and snow): no trend. See NOAA here: http://lwf.ncdc.noaa.gov/img/climate/research/2002/sep/Reg110Dv00Elem01_09092002_pg.gif
Extreme weather – Hurricanes: tracked by Ryan Maue at FSU, here: http://www.coaps.fsu.edu/~maue/tropical/ (How did this guy manage to corner this market as a PhD student? Amazing, the niches people can discover.)
Temps: There are lots of temp measurements around. Paul Clark (who is the living embodiment of altruism) of Wood for Trees has a number of them, and you can plot your own trend lines. Here’s mine: http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/uah/from:1979/plot/uah/from:1979/trend/plot/uah/from:1998/trend/plot/uah/from:2006/trend
On WUWT, the UAH satellite data is probably considered the gold standard for temperatures. No warming since 1998, although a very sharp positive anomaly in January 2010.
Now, if you actually know where to find this stuff, then you should watch this: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x115u4_triumph-the-insult-comic-dog-star-w_fun
Fact: Not one of those mentioned is a fact, the first two are hypotheses and the last one is a possible interpretation of the temperature record.
On the subject of number one there are many scientists that say AGW will affect snowstorms however they are split on how. There are hypotheses out there that say AGW will increase snowstorms and then there are hypotheses that say AGW will decrease snow storms. You can’t have it both ways; you can’t just fit the effect to your desired hypotheses and then claim proof. This is not science. You have to establish proof on a mechanistic level.
With number two we all know scientists have been unable to establish an increase in hurricane activity but the fact that Gore continues to parade this as fact should be reason enough for people not to listen to him.
Finally number 3. ‘Warming at a quickening pace’ can only mean one thing: the rate of warming is increasing. That means that the first differential of the temperature-time graph must be increasing. Anyone can tell by looking at the temperature time graph that the first differential will be highly varied and you would have to be very selective about how you calculate it to make the claim that it had been increasing. Compared to what period exactly is it accelerating and over what FIXED time interval do you use to calculate deltaT? This is in no way a fact and very much down to individual interpretation. After having a play with the GISS data I think you would have to be highly selective to get a significant rate increase. And this is with corrected data not factual data.
Didn’t anyone read this report? http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/02/19/north-america-snow-models-miss-the-mark/
All nine of the models predicted decreasing snow extent. Gore is claiming increasing snow extent, after the fact.
Gore is a Divinity and Law school drop out.
Jeremy,
We have at least one Nobel winner who posts here regularly. His invention has changed the way we experience life. I will be indebted to him, for life, as I use his invention daily for communication and for recreational art. I will leave it to you, to discover his “voice” here at WUWT.
Intellectually, he is not someone I would want to find my self dueling in a forum unprepared.
Suffice it to say, not all Nobel’s were created equal.
Jack
And, of course, it’s ‘precipitation’. And nuclulur.
Bob,
Didn’t Hansen make very specific predictions in a 2005 paper re: large increases in ohc? Did that constitute a falsifiable hypothesis wrt co2 dominated agw? Has that hypothesis been falsified yet by the decline in ohc over the past several years? There is a huge gap between Hansen’s prediction and ohc reality, right?
“With all the climate deniers spreading lies…”
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Now we are just plain “climate deniers” ??
I guess, I’m worse than I thought.
History will be the judge.
” Severian (17:30:11) :
Fact. Al Gore spells sciance with an A.”
Fact. Al Gore spells sceance withan “E”.
Best definition I’ve heard this week: AGW = Al Gore’s Weather.
L Nettles (17:18:59) :
Did Boxer and Jackson throw the IPCC under the bus?
http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/breaking-senator-barbara-boxer-and-epa-administrator-lisa-jackson-throw-ipcc-under-the-bus
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That seems like a big deal because the EPA outsourced the agw evaluation to the IPCC. It is definitely time to rescind that decision and reevaluate agw.
” Severian (17:30:11) :
Fact. Al Gore spells sciance with an A.”
Fact. Al Gore spells sceance with an “E”.
Best definition I’ve heard this week: AGW = Al Gore’s Weather.
1.
Simply, the snow happens where warm meets cold.
If the warm-meets-cold line moves north, the snow happens further north.
If the warm-meets-cold line moves south, the snow happens in the south.
Why does the warm-meet-cold line move? The simplest answer is because the planet as a whole is warming or cooling.
Oh sure there are some complex bits involved. Wind and water currents, and bumps in the road mix it up a bit. But apparently the snow line has moved south for the entire northern hemisphere.
Warming cannot make the snow-line move south. Warming only makes the snow-line move north.
2. While it was warming 10 years ago, there were fewer hurricanes not more.
3. We have lots of snow now that it has been cooling for the last 10 years.
Frank (17:28:39) :
More wildfires?
As an old Airtanker driver, I agree. Also, closing of facilities, grounding aircraft,
laying off or not hiring Fire fighters, and-letting fires burn in areas and conditions they shouldn’t-is clearly caused by Global Warming-so sayeth the
Profit…
“Fact: Climate change causes more frequent and severe snowstorms.
Fact: I made this up.
“Fact: We can expect more extreme weather
Fact: Yup, this one too.
“Fact: The world is warming at a quickening pace
Fact: Oh yeah, big time fib here too. Wanna buy some caarrbbon…?
For those who want rebuttals of AlGoreisms 1, 2, and 3, here they are:
“Fact: Climate change causes more frequent and severe snowstorms.”
Fact: the number of snowstorms and snowshowers over north Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia has been declining for several years now. Given AlGoreism 1, there should have been more.
“Fact: We can expect more extreme weather.”
Fact: The number of tornadoes, from Mississippi to Florida, has declined over recent years. Since July of 1995, with the exception of the years 2004-5, one hurricane made landfall on the Florida mainland – that was Floyd and damage was eeny-tiny. Tropical storms do not count as hurricanes and the panhandle is part of Alabama.
“Fact: The world is warming at a quickening pace.”
Fact: daytime highs in the area from Mississippi to Florida have been no higher than in earlier fifteen year spans.
But that fact must be supplemented with the main question which is: How do you measure the warming? The nerds who measure temperatures for Climategaters have created a measurement system that is deficient in all ways. However, even if their system were perfect, they record temperatures on incredibly stupid assumptions. They avearage the daily temperatures, which gives prominence to higher lows at night time. Who the hell cares if Atlanta’s average low in January is 34 degrees rather than 33? It is caused by all the d*man neon and pavement.
Al Gore is living proof that if you try to make something idiot proof someone will come along build a better idiot.
zt writes:
“…and Al’s little place in the country:”
OMG, Al has those tacky horse farm fences. Every true farmer, including true horse farmers, bellows out loud when he sees those fences, even in Lexington, Kentucky. They are part of “the trade,” you know, as when aspiring movie stars wear real or fake diamond necklaces.
Fact: We`re tired of this garbage.
Warmer, colder, wetter, drier.
Al, you simply can`t have it “everyway”.
“South Park” Manbearpig (2006)
Al Gore: Manbearpig is in there and we all have to kill him while we all have the chance, I’m cereal!
Policeman #1: Mr. Gore, please, we need you to calm down. Now, what exactly do you suggest we do?
Al Gore: I told you, we need to fill the cave with hot, molten lead, ’cause it’s the only way to make sure Manbearpig never comes out. And I’m saying it and I’m totally cereal but everyone just keeps digging!
Policeman #1: Well, see, the problem is, if we fill the cave with hot, molten lead, it will kill those boys too.
Al Gore: They’re already dead, didn’t you listen to me? They got attacked by Manbearpig and Manbearpig leaves no one alive, I’m super cereal! And nobody’ll listen to me. I’m cereal!
[starts blubbering]
Firefighter: Do you want me to get the ex-vice president out of here?
Policeman #2: No, I feel kinda bad for him. I don’t think he has any friends.
Please Mr. Gore, give it a rest. You’re scaring the children. Adults recognize your act by now and are really really tired of it.