A new post containing a cartoon from Josh will appear every hour. At the end of the 24 hours, everything will be collated on a single page.
Readers are encouraged to post skeptical arguments below. We are starting out slow, and will build as we go.
In the beginning there was Gore, and a skeptical polar bear.
Here’s a primer on what is to come:
Earth’s Climate System Is Ridiculously Complex – With Draft Link Tutorial
And, since Mr. Gore has made linking severe weather with climate a focus, may I present this from Joe D’Aleo’s ICECAP via GWPF:
James Marusek: A Chronological Listing of Early Weather Events
By James Marusek
Over the centuries, mankind has experienced tremendous rainfalls and massive floods, monster hurricanes and typhoons, destructive tornadoes, parched-earth droughts, strong gales, flash floods, great snowfalls and killer blizzards, lightning storms sent down from the heavens, blind dense fogs, freezing rain, sleet, great hail, and bone-chilling cold and even an occasional mudstorm or two and in-between, periods of warm sunshine and tranquility.
And we are still here. We are perhaps a little battered and bruised from the wear. But there is nothing new in the weather to fear because we have been there before. We have learned to cope. We have developed knowledge, skills and tools to reduce the effects of weather extremes.
Today, every time a heat wave or a great flood occurs (such as those in Russia and Pakistan this year), voices arise claiming this is more proof of man-made global warming. I wonder to myself if these voices are intentionally ignorant of historical weather extremes or just dishonest.
Early meteorologist and historians have documented weather for many centuries. Recently, I have compiled several of these accounts into “A Chronological Listing of Early Weather Events” and published this document on the Impact website. (PDF)
[Note: backup copy here early weather events (PDF) to prevent overloading his website, Anthony]
This chronology covers the years 0 to 1900 A.D. (When downloading the file, please be a little patient. This is a master resource and the 6.5 MB file may take a few minutes to access.)
Why is a chronological listing of weather events of value? If one wishes to peer into the future, then a firm grasp of the past events is a key to that gateway. This is intrinsically true for the scientific underpinnings of weather and climate.
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A fascinating chronology that believes the Gorian, enviro and media claims that recent extremes are unprecedented. Even the Little Ice Age had brutal summer heat waves like we saw last year in Russia or this year in Texas. See many examples of brutal winters like the last 4 followed by significant floods, drought and heat waves in summer causing major crop and livestock issues and famine.
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Blather about “resilient cities” and “resistance to change” and “Mexico is going to dry up in a couple decades” according to the “projections” (aka “models,” which he refused to say). That was in only 2 minutes of viewing, which is quite enough for me.
“Let’s have a pleasant discussion about our apocalyptic vision. It’s all so sad and dismal.”
Yeesh, these AGW fanatics are kooks.
WHAT!!??
Their (climate) predictions have come true!!???
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Ahhh … so that is the ’emote’ known as Heidy …
Oh boy tobacco evils via old commercials applied to climate change.
If you look at the RSS Lower Troposphere Satellite Temps, you’ll see a .142 degree Celsius per decade increase over the last 30 years:
ftp://ftp.ssmi.com/msu/graphics/tlt/plots/rss_ts_channel_tlt_global_land_and_sea_v03_3.png
Included in this increase, are 3 large El Nino events, which are called out on this MSU/AMSU Lower Troposphere Brightness Temperature Anomaly chart
ftp://ftp.ssmi.com/msu/graphics/tlt/plots/tlt_time_lat_doctored.png
and this UAH Lower Atmosphere Temp chart;
http://www.drroyspencer.com/wp-content/uploads/UAH_LT_current.gif
El Nino’s are natural oceanic oscillations, and thus should also be removed from any estimate of anthropogenic CO2 related warming.
A portion of the warming that occurred during the last 30 years is likely due to El Nino events, versus increases in CO2 emissions. If I am a denier, what is that I deny?…
Let’s see, how can I phrase this: “Can I get this in the original German?”
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Yawn… wake me when it’s over.
This is gore’s game so he has the first move. He is likely throwing all he’s got out in the start. As he plays his best hand up front and the reviews start to come in to WUWT, you better put ice on your servers.
BUT John it is not getting hotter … and hotter … and hotter … geesh.
Jeremy says:
September 14, 2011 at 5:20 pm
It is interesting how the presumption that you should not question is introduced into human minds.
The left you to say… “think for yourself question authority”
Now they ‘don’t’ want you to think for yourself and they ‘want’ you to trust authority (or government).
weird times!
Hmmm … confusing events (floods) and weather (rains) with climate … the mistake of ‘amateurs’ I’d say, rank amateurs …
See next hour at top of WUWT now
I visualize the majority of these people being 17-28 years old with a deep need to matter somehow….what better way than saving the world? It really doesn’t matter what the object is, as long as they can protest big corporations who “control the world.” They don’t realize that most everything they have is either made from or in someway associated with oil. One person said their goal was to completely eliminate “fossil fuels” from his life. If he succeeds, then look for a naked man standing outside, with no protection from the elements.
I would also bet that a large part of them don’t know what CO2 really is and couldn’t explain the global warming theory. Reading the comments, it screams CULT.
Kevin Kilty September 14, 2011 at 5:26 pm
“Many people, relying on their memories alone, insist that our climates are now very different from what they used to be. Their fathers made similar statements about the climates of earlier times, as did also their father’s fathers, as their several writings show, and so on through the ages; and the bulk of this testimony is to the effect that our climates are getting worse–evidence perhaps that flesh has always been heir to ills.” W. J. Humphreys, 1920
I think there is a reason for this. There seems to be a 60 year cycle (roughly and variably) to weather patterns. if this is so, then the 30 sentient years of earlier lives wold not be aware of previous, similar, periods of weather patterns. Now a mass of people are beginning to live over 80, to 100, perhaps memory and wisdom will kick in.
Famouly, the 15th C French poet, François Villon, said “Mais où sont les neiges d’antan?”
How many adults in Canada, who were children in the 1970s, ask themselves that same question. Don’t worry, they will be returning in your old age.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Villon
This actually much better Gore.
Excuse me, wasn’t this billed as a “unprecedented global” event? And the view count is at 170k or so? Out of nearly 7 billion souls on the planet. Pretty pathetic turn out I’d say.
The script so far reads like a bunch of Joe Romm Climate progress posts, lots of scary inflated claims.
Presenter said: “Wildfires threatened to burn nuclear material “(Los Alamos this summer) – blatant fear mongering You think they leave Plutonium just laying around in the open to be burned? Sheesh!!
Guess they missed reading this Guardian article:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jun/28/fire-los-alamos-nuclear-facility-new-mexico
“Thousands of residents have fled the town of Los Alamos, but officials say all radioactive materials at the lab are safe”
Looks like the chat feed broke at Gore’s site, seems stopped now
BE CAREFUL
The “check in and chat” on Gore’s site opens a dialog that asks for permission to take over your Facebook/Twitter account, as I pointed out earlier.
Did anyone think it would be this boring and unimaginative?
There may have been a peak in solar activity during the second half of the 20th century;
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/3869753.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/56456.stm
http://solar-center.stanford.edu/sun-on-earth/GL264W01.pdf
and there is research that indicates that changes in solar activity may influence earth’s temperature, by modulating cosmic rays, which can influence cloud formation:
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/08/24/breaking-news-cern-experiment-confirms-cosmic-rays-influence-climate-change/
http://public.web.cern.ch/public/en/research/CLOUD-en.html
A portion of the warming that occurred during the last 30 years may be associated with solar activity versus increases in CO2 emissions. Maybe this makes me a denier?…
Back to explaining “normal” to 13 and 14 year olds, I know another generation of Reagan supporters is being born.
“Koch brothers…..”
The consensus is all the world’s “academy of science” agree….wait a minute, so every scientist in those academies agree??? I seriously doubt every eldery person agrees with the position of AARP, that was proven when ObamaCare arose…..thousands canceled their membership. They don’t talk “SCIENTISTS”, they talk “scientific organizations”…….world of difference.
I disappointed, but not surprised, that they are using “deniers” instead of “skeptics”…..just shows they have no class and very unprofessional. It should be called “24 Hours of Ad Hom”.
22,129 Live Views
104 In Crowd
8:30 CST
Wonder how many of those are the “deniers”?
@gofer where are you getting those stats?
I’m not sure of gore’s format, but if it is going to be continuous then the comments on WUWT will spike after it’s over as many will not want to miss a single bit of his drivel. This may be his last testimony before the hangin’.
Taking over twitter and Facebook accounts is Als new way to create positive feedback, exactly as the IPCC listed even outspoken critics as members of the consensus.
I remember reading in newsmags in the late 1990’s about a suggested new term for that new thing, the web. Algore said it was an “information superhighway.” I hated the term, partly because it is a bit corny, but mostly because it WAS Algore who coined that term. He was proud of himself for inventing the phrase
Ever since, there has been nonsense that Algore said he invented the internet. Everyone who passes that falsehood on looks like an idiot to me, and surely to the Goracle as well.
The real idiot remains Algore, and it would help in bringing him down if we got our facts right on this little point as we have on so many others.
Latitude says:
September 14, 2011 at 5:05 pm
The Gore Effect is proof that global warming does not exist…..
….ever since Gore lost to Bush, temperatures have been going down
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Funny, 2005, 2010 are tied for world temperature records.
Anthony Watts says:
September 14, 2011 at 5:30 pm
Naming skeptical people now with video clips of them, then rebutting them
Commenter feed:
chas_r For all th hype this is a HUGE failure to this point!
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If its wrong, its wrong. You can do that with the correct science.