From Al Gore’s Journal:
Denialists in Denial April 27, 2010 : 4:52 PM
Last week The Wall Street Journal published a ridiculous op-ed titled “Climate Science in Denial” claiming that “global warming alarmists have been discredited, but you wouldn’t know it from the rhetoric this Earth Day.”
Marc Ambinder of The Atlantic does an exceptional job dismantling this ridiculous claim:
“Actually, the subhead should be revised: “Global warming denialists have been re-discredited, but you wouldn’t know it from the rhetoric in today’s Wall Street Journal.” Far be it from me, a non-scientist, to dispute the scientific expertise of an MIT professor of meteorology, Richard Lindzen, but then again, Lindzen’s selective recitation of the litany of arguments against global warming practically begs a rebuttal.”
“First, he mentions “Climate Gate” — those e-mails from the Climate Research Unit from the University of East Anglia. He suggests that the e-mails show “unambiguous evidence of the unethical suppression of information and opposing viewpoints, and even data manipulation.””
“The e-mails were actually quite ambiguous and contained evidence of churlishness and defensiveness from scientists whose data had long been under attack from climate denialists.”
Much of the media has done a particularly bad job covering the climate crisis. Instead of informing the public about the facts, they have treated the issue as if the same political divisions they exuberantly cover also exist in the scientific community. They don’t.
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Hmmm, well Al Baby, here’s something to deny:
Do you think many people are reading your message on algore.com?
UPDATE: Willis Eschenbach writes in comments:
Well, I took Anthony’s Alexa Rating graph forwards, viz:
WUWT is the top of the heap, twice as good as the one in second place. (Sc) means a sceptical site, (Mid) is middle of the road, and (AGW) is AGW supporters. And Al? Well, at least he beat Tamino …
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Lee Kington says:
April 27, 2010 at 8:21 pm
Hey Al…. do us a favor. Go to the UK and leave America alone. We will do just fine without you.
Oh no you don’t, that’s way to close for comfort.
“What is a ‘climate denier’? I don’t know of anyone who denies that there is a climate.”
Yeah, but they deny that it’s always changing. Oh wait, they don’t do that either. In fact, they are the first to acknowledge it. So it makes you wonder who the real climate “deniers” are. To believe the AGW crowd, the climate was in a steady state before man came along. How absurd is that.
Anybody who could seriously use the term “climate denier” shows just how un-serious they are. We are skeptical of the idea of AGW, that’s what we are. They are trying to make an equivalence between AGW and climate (one is the other) and we need to call them on it, and dispute that equivalence, at every opportunity (as Jeff has).
Lindsey Graham, who must never have even taken a science class, is impressed. These idiots give the South a bad rep.
Sites that do not have comments get less traffic, that is the problem with IceCap and JunkScience.
mailto:webmaster@algore.com
subject=wattsupwiththis?
body:http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/algore.com+wattsupwiththat.com
Congratulations, Anthony, to a nice gold medal, and congratulations to Al Gore that he was allowed to spread his message to 1,000 times bigger an audience than otherwise. 😉
I just went to al’s website to give him some friendly advice to sell all his green stocks but it seems there is nowhere to leave a message. How do we communicate with the great communicator?
Fox News has achieved a new low in science journalism. They describe CO2 as a “pollution-causing greenhouse gas.”
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/04/27/reid-says-senate-climate-immigration/
All those evil CO2 molecules running around causing pollution – and graffiti too, no doubt.
Robert says:
April 27, 2010 at 9:27 pm
LOL….. actually it is a bit like stomping on my own feet. As a first generation American I have strong ties to the UK inclusive of operating two websites (one blog, one forum) related to Rutland. The smallest county in the UK. The sites are really Brit sites even though I host them on a server in the states.
The forum does however afford me a good deal of interface with local residents. The numbers who support Gore, at least of those participating, is dwindling. It seems winters have been somewhat unkind to the area in recent years. But then… the MET would know more about that….. uh…….. or would they?
I also note the IPCC has stepped in it again regarding sea levels and truth. This in regards to Bangladesh,,,,, LINK
Willis Eschenbach, Why not try to put some sort to the x-axis in that graph instead of just numbers? That might avoid the confusion at once.
Lee Kington says:
April 27, 2010 at 8:21 pm
“Hey Al…. do us a favor. Go to the UK and leave America alone. We will do just fine without you.”
‘Oi! What makes you think we want him, overpaid, overfed and over here?
Lee Kington says:
April 27, 2010 at 8:21 pm
Hey Al…. do us a favor. Go to the UK and leave America alone. We will do just fine without you.
UK? Phht.
I’m sure Al’s been saving up his carbon credits for the Virgin Intergalactic Taxi or a seat on the Rapture Express.
Under wayne says: April 27, 2010 at 7:40 pm The link failed and ruined the punch.
Here’s another attempt using the new format:
OR
Noah’s Ark Found!
One or both of these should work.
(This is science from Al links to on his site)
Lee Kington says:
April 27, 2010 at 8:21 pm
I find these statistics interesting….
http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg136/BigLee57/GoreCom1.jpg
What is even funnier is that you need to read that chart kinda upside down, Al ranks the highest in Norway where only 17742 blogs beat his traffic. Al Gore rates TERRIBLE in UK, there, 416,067 blogs beat his traffic in the UK. These are rankings, not the amount of visits to the blog. Now I imagine in Norway there are only 17743 blogs, so Al came in dead last there too!
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Lee Kington says:
April 27, 2010 at 8:21 pm
Hey Al…. do us a favor. Go to the UK and leave America alone. We will do just fine without you.
No way, you keep him – we already have enough sleazy politicians, peddling bad science, which they don’t or won’t understand, in the interests of personal gain or raising taxes.
Stick a fork in Al Gore. He’s done.
RWS says:
April 27, 2010 at 8:29 pm
Al, Al, Al…
You poor fool.
And then I read the Der Spiegel article and the German politicians were saying the world would be unlivable if the temperature rose 2 degrees.
What earnest fools these politicians be.”
I don’t know where you live, but here in Phila. PA it’s freezing. Two degree rise is going to ruin the planet???? Heck, I can’t wait for a 30 degree rise around here so I can stop burning oil to be warm.
Bulldust says:
April 27, 2010 at 5:48 pm
Denialists in denial… isn’t that, like, a double negative dude?
Looks more like a redundancy dude.
” what? Does a MIT PhD top a Penn St.(did I get that right?) PhD? Where does a satellite temp tracker PhD fit? And does a resigned…”
sadly, dear Mr. Mann got his PhD at Yale. He just works at Penn State
Lee Kington says:
April 27, 2010 at 8:21 pm
Only 14% of Gore’s web traffic comes from the US.
Almost 50% comes from the UK.
Liar liar pants on fire. Your graphic was of rank in the country. Here’s the shocking truth.
http://i599.photobucket.com/albums/tt74/MartinGAtkins/algore4.jpg
@ur momisugly Innocentious April 27, 2010 at 5:35 pm
Not really. Work is extracted through differential temperature. Both the hot and cold sides rise in temperature by an equal amount so it’s a wash.
That said, air conditioners are generally more efficient than heaters as the former typically employ heat pumps and the latter electric or combustable fuel powered heating elements so you might get some cost savings there. Hot water heaters will have less work to do but refrigerators will have more. There may be a net benefit in fuel consumption but I don’t think it will be any great amount. The big benefit of CO2 and any warming it can provide is to agriculture and it’s a truly huge benefit there. If CO2 suddenly reverted back to pre-industrial level and global average temperature dropped near typical decadal lows from recent centuries a billion people would probably starve and the rest of us would be eating less and/or paying more.
@willis
Teh beauty of your charts with those colorful and relevant background photos you choose is unsurpassed. The sun shining on the blog rank data in this article was a hoot.
I just had to say it once. I think it every time I see one.
Well I deny that I’m a denialist in denial. Rather I’m a sceptic who is sceptical that the IPCC cargo cult science has any real understanding about long-term weather (climate) oscillations in the past and the predictive power of their GCMs about the future is risible.
Please keep up work, Anthony, and congratulations on your high Alexa ranking!
Why do those of us who do not accept the AGW theory as fact accept the label of “Sceptic”? Applying simple physics theories to climate and considering simple facts about the makeup of the atmosphere along with a bit of chemistry is surely enough to blow the AGW theory out of the water. I much prefer to be known as a climate realist.
Rowland Pantling (UK) says:
“Why do those of us who do not accept the AGW theory as fact accept the label of ‘Sceptic’?”
Because it is an honorable term. The scientific method requires scientists to be skeptical of all new hypotheses.
If that were not so, we would still be going to witch doctors to treat illnesses.
Climate alarmists hate and fear scientific skeptics because skeptics question the repeatedly falsified
theoryhypothesis that a tiny trace gas drives climate change.Karl Popper and Richard Feynman make elegant arguments in favor of scientific skepticism, without which science cannot progress.
Be proud of being a scientific skeptic. It makes us infinitely more rational than those who believe in climate witch doctors.