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.
No wonder he needs three computers in his study. If he typed all three “facts” on a single computer, their sheer illogic would cause the poor machine to self-destruct.
jackhbarnesjr
Indeed “these days” is the qualifier as in the past the Nobel Prize meant something.
If you are speaking of someone who worked at Bell Labs then I know who you mean. Myself I have a Nikon based on this technology.
Thank goodness we have Al Gore to remind us that all “extreme” weather is now the result of the climate “crisis”. Before the “crisis”, extreme weather never happened, or was very unusual.
Yes, I remember those days when the climate was dull, predictable, boring, and we never had any “unusual” weather. Then suddenly we were in a crisis situation with “extreme” weather events happening all the time!
Good thing we have “experts” to remind us of these “facts”.
Gary (20:31:48) :
This is typical of people who have no clues about meteorology! They and many here should read Leroux’s Dynamic Analysis of Weather and Climate Atmospheric Circulation, Perturbations, Climatic Evolution”, Springer-Praxis books in Environmental Sciences, 2nd ed., 2010 available on amazon.com!
So how does more moisture in the air lead to more droughts and wildfires? The contradictions in their reasoning for their forecasts are mind numbing.
That’s not your place to worry about. Just give them their money and nobody gets hurt.
D (17:21:09) : edit
“Al Gore is an idiot?
Idiots the world over resent that remark.”
But hes thuper, thuper, cereal!!!
Accelerated warming?? Au contraire Mr Gore. Even your own team don’t agree. Comments by Tremberth and Jones (et al) (al not Al)… ‘It’s a travesty…’ ‘Hide the decline,’ come to mind.
PS:
Compliments of ‘Queen,’ Al Gore’s Theme Song. “Any way the wind blows.”
Fact: Northern hemisphere has quietly cooled back to 1990 level and falling fast.
http://climexp.knmi.nl/data/icrutem3_hadsst2_0-360E_23.5-90N_n_1980:2011.png
“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.”
Factier Fact: Weather patterns in the Northeastern US are primarily influenced by pressure gradients originating from the west (the continental US) and northwest (Canada). Storms originating over the Atlantic are uncommon enough (and nasty enough) that they have their own name — the Nor’Easter.
The New England coast is also famous for a phenomenon called ice fog. It’s one of the few places on earth where ice crystal fog will form in wind exceeding ten knots, and it ain’t caused by “climate change” — we have accounts that it’s been happening at least since the first English settlers arrived in the early 1600s.
Fact: AGW is changing EXTREMELY fast, but is ROBUST Science.
A haiku for Mr. Gore:
Al’s junk science
Gore’s deniers spreading lies claim
Transparent as a December snowflake
REPLY
a proper haiku
is supposed to have
but seventeen syllables
close but no cigar
we appreciate
your effort at any rate
~Evan
If the world does not warm up the way Gore has been barbecue-forecasting, he’s going to get thrown under the bus. You live by the political sword, you die by it.
This is NOT a warm El Nino by any means, and that ‘warm’ pocket of Canadian air is anything but balmy.
I would want to call this pattern a “Younger Dryas – Laurentide”, what with all ‘balmy’ air coming down out of Canada and the southerly track of snows in the US.
And I though Global Warming was caused by the earth’s crust a few kilometers below the surface being several millions of degrees. Was that F or C or doesn’t it matter?
Oslo: “It is probably the warmest winter on record!”
Strangely enough, the globe as a whole IS rather warm this winter. Go see Roy Spencer’s website, which has data based on satellite observations rather than dubious weather station data:
http://www.drroyspencer.com/latest-global-temperatures/
Hint: It’s an El Nino year, which is part of the reason behind all those West Coast storms. He has a nice map plotting the temperature anomalies too:
http://www.drroyspencer.com/
Not that this justifies Al Gore’s piffle.
“Climate change is telling the story of an idea and how that idea is changing the way in which our societies think, feel, interpret and act. And therefore climate change is extending itself well beyond simply the description of change in physical properties in our world…” [Hulme]
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.
Is that a statement followed by 2 contradictions? “Decade” is not decades and “this year’s weather” is, well, weather not to be confused with climate.
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Lord, but what is there to say?
In what subterranean bunker is this loon holed up, anyway?
—
“Es bleiben im Raum: Keitel, Jodl, Krebs und
Burgdorf.”
Just a few years ago, AGW alarmists were blaming the decline in annual snowfall levels on Global Warming. They have now conveniently replaced the term “Global Warming” with “Climate Change”.
This latest is just more propaganda from the Reverend Al Gore hoax machine!
FACT: The Climate has always been in a state of flux, and always will be. Severe weather events have always occurred and always will occur, and there is nothing that we humans can do about it. Any attempt to do so is the equivalent of attempting to kill an elephant by pelting it with soft marshmallows.
Try as I might I can’t find a single prediction from a warmist that indicated the snow and cold temperatures we’ve all experienced in the NH. I’ve seen plenty forecasting mild and warm winters though. Al Gore – wiseass after the fact…
old construction worker (17:22:24) : “Fact. Al got an A in science.”
Yeah, right, if you go to a school that spells D with an A.
“January was warmer than average for continental United States” so we have record snow falls! I wonder if anyone has ever pointed out to Mr. Gore that snow and ice usually melt in warm conditions, or is it our fault for getting the science wrong again? The problem for the world now is if it gets too warm at the Poles we’ll be getting far too much snow for us to cope with and Mr. Gore will be proved righ after all! Come on Al. you’ve obviously got some new scientific paper which proves that the long accepted belief that ice melts in water is wrong. Will you share your findings with us? But I would advise you to get your paper peer reveiwed before you release it.
manfredkintop (22:51:30) :
“a proper haiku
is supposed to have
but seventeen syllables”
yes, but arranged 5 / 7/ 5, not 5 / 5/ 7.
Pointy hat awaits
Those who say that lies are facts.
Al Gore is a dunce.
See?
This is very frustrating. I’ve followed AGW nonsense since graduate school in 1989. I guarantee they weren’t predicitng cold snowy winters in the following decades (which is now) but the opposite. And now, ad hoc, snow is perfectly consistent with AGW???? What about snow in Texas? The claim now is high humidity and the winters are still
on the cold side so ergo snow: but Texas is not normally cold enough for snow and AGW is supposed to make it even warmer so wouldn’t snow in TX under AGW “rules” be practically impossible? One other thing: now it’s about high humidity, but he’s prediciting more wildfires. I thought wildfires are more prevelant with low humidity. I really hope people are smart enough to see through this nonsense.
Al Gore is super cereal about freedom of speech:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/hardtalk/8340238.stm