From the “say your prayers, we’re gonna roast” department.
On January 25th, 2006, while at the Sundance film festival, screening “An Inconvenient Truth”, Al Gore said this as chronicled in an article by CBS News:
The former vice president came to town for the premiere of “An Inconvenient Truth,” a documentary chronicling what has become his crusade since losing the 2000 presidential election: Educating the masses that global warming is about to toast our ecology and our way of life.
Gore has been saying it for decades, since a college class in the 1960s convinced him that greenhouse gases from oil, coal and other carbon emissions were trapping the sun’s heat in the atmosphere, resulting in a glacial meltdown that could flood much of the planet.
Americans have been hearing it for decades, wavering between belief and skepticism that it all may just be a natural part of Earth’s cyclical warming and cooling phases.
And politicians and corporations have been ignoring the issue for decades, to the point that unless drastic measures to reduce greenhouse gases are taken within the next 10 years, the world will reach a point of no return, Gore said.
He sees the situation as “a true planetary emergency.”
“If you accept the truth of that, then nothing else really matters that much,” Gore said in an interview with The Associated Press. “We have to organize quickly to come up with a coherent and really strong response, and that’s what I’m devoting myself to.”
Well, the 10 years are about up, by now, warming should have reached “planetary emergency levels” Let’s look at the data:
Satellite data since 1979:
As you can see, little has changed since 2006. Note the spike in 1998, in the 18 years since the great El Niño of 97/98, that hasn’t been matched, and the current one we are in isn’t stronger, and looks to be on the way to decaying. So much for the “monster” El Niño.
Dr. John Christy recently wrote of the satellite record since 1979:
While a 0.12 C trend isn’t exactly a sprint to climate catastrophe (the 1.2 C or 2.2 degrees F rise over 100 years would be roughly equal to the warming seen most spring days between 10 a.m. and noon), it nonetheless has been a steady trend for the past several years. Take away the random variations caused by warm and cold weather systems, and any long-term trend, no matter how small, will produce climate records on a regular basis. Add to that long-term warming the additional heat of a large El Niño, and record-setting monthly average temperatures should be both routine and expected.
Despite that, early indications are that 2015 will end as the third warmest year in the satellite temperature record, behind 1998 and 2010. That is the early indication. Typically, the warmest temperatures are seen in the second year of an El Niño warming event, although there have been exceptions. If the typical pattern holds true, the second year of the current El Niño would be expected to bring more record high temperatures in 2016, perhaps including a new record high temperature for the year.
The fastest warming place on Earth over the past 37 years has been in the Arctic Ocean north of the Svalbard archipelago, where temperatures have been rising 0.5 C (about 0.9 degrees F) per decade. The fastest cooling spot was over the eastern Antarctic near Dome C. Temperatures there have been falling at the rate of 0.41 C (about 0.74 degrees F) per decade.
The surface record for the last 10 years:
Source: http://woodfortrees.org/plot/hadcrut4gl/from:2006/plot/hadcrut4gl/from:2006/trend
Of course, proponents of climatic catastrophe will look at that and say “Gore was right!” …except there is this small niggling problem, a fairly large El Niño in 2015, which has nothing to do with CO2 induced warming as Gore claimed ten years ago. Note the spike in 2007, in the nine years since, that hasn’t been matched.
The real point here is to note that, no matter whether you are looking at the satellite record or the surface temperature record, is that the temperature hasn’t risen dramatically in the last 10 years, and the dramatic spikes we see in the surface and satellite temperature records correspond to a natural event that’s been going on for millennia; El Niño.
According to Gore, this map should have been all reds now.
In a recent post about why El Nino drive global temperatures, Dr. Roy Spencer wrote this: What Causes El Nino Warmth?
Dick Lindzen suggested to me recently that this might be a good time to address the general question, “what causes the global-average warmth during El Nino?”
Some of you might say, “the sun, of course”. Yes, the sun’s energy is the ultimate source of energy for the climate system, but it really doesn’t explain why El Nino years are unusually warm…or why La Nina years are unusually cool.
The answer lies in the circulation of the Pacific Ocean, more specifically the vertical circulation of that ocean basin.
The short answer is that, during El Nino, there is an average decrease in the vertical overturning and mixing of cold, deep ocean waters with solar-heated warm surface waters. The result is that the surface waters become warmer than average, and deeper waters become colder than average. The opposite situation occurs during La Nina.
Importantly, the change shows up in global average ocean computations, based upon ocean temperature data (see our Fig. 3, here); this means that the changes centered in the Pacific are not offset by changes of the opposite sign occurring in other ocean basins.
So, the big warming events of the last 10 years have been El Niño related, a natural event, and even they haven’t reached catastrophic levels of global temperature.
Al Gore’s posited “within the next 10 years, the world will reach a point of no return” and “a true planetary emergency.” is proving to be nothing more than PR bullshit to push his movie, and won’t happen by the ten year countdown of January 25th 2016.
Gaia seems to be a “Gore denier”. How inconvenient.
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I guess I should appreciate the inconvenient truth that AIT exposed a moronic take on climate I would have never guessed existed otherwise. Thank you Al.
Humanity may be obliterated by some natural phenomenon, it could even be global warming. But not due to anything remotely credited to Al Gore. The man is a farce.
Am far more concerned about a small asteroid hitting the earth than the world temp going up 1 degree over the next 80 years per Gore and the media’s global warming scam.
Operative words: “after he lost the 2000 election.”
Mr. Gore has made about a BILLION dollars from his cap & trade scam. (And many millions from selling his television network to Al Jazeera.)
(Please re-post, but without the 4-letter words. Thanks. ~mod.)
Man is too weak to be the cause of global warming or cooling or whatever the next “science” hype is.
Global Warming purpose is to separate the Middle Class from it’s money, sponsored and promoted by the US Government, BUT derailed by Common Sense! Don’t need to be a math whiz to use common sense.
I suspect we’re FAR more likely to be obliterated by an asteroid or comet strike than by anything Gore claims. The reality is that we’re in an “interglacial” period between ice ages (the last major ice age ended roughly 12,000 years ago.) The next ice age is likely a few thousand years in the future, but is apparently inevitable. We are currently in a normal cycle and actually saw warmer temperatures and worse droughts in the early 1930s. In the article it indicates Gore claimed he “learned” about greenhouse gasses and global warming in the 1960s. The problem with that is that, at that time, the radicals were claiming we were headed for global COOLING. The theories on greenhousing based on gasses are based on data from Venus probes and wasn’t even developed until the late 70s and early 80s.
scary scary…Al Gore is scary.
Scary that dems can so easily latch onto a populist rumor, destroy science and run us into the ground.
I know!!! Lets all go down to the Maya temples and hold crop circle fertility chants to stop the horrible things he made so much money off of. (sarc/off in case nobody noticed?)
Humanity may be obliterated by some natural phenomenon, it could even be global warming. But not due to anything remotely credited to Al Gore. The man is a farce.
Humanity will be obliterated by our own blind trust in authority. That’s the record so far at least.
Al Gore should be brought to trial for his part in the promotion of the global warming farce that was based on false evidence in order to line his own pockets with millions of dollars, and for the resultant un calculable cost to world economies, and for his part in making the world’s poor a lot worse off.
When ENRON collapsed, Al Gore instructed his Goons
to retrieve the Carbon Credit Fraud Business plan from
ENRON Before DOJ gets there.
He makes money from it TODAY ! ! !
And the INTELLIGENTSIA continues to “BELIEVE” it is TRUE.
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you are an idiot
Just wondering which “oracles” are still intact ?
Land temperature accuracy just took a big hit thanks to Anthony
NOAA are being sued for non release of their records which are likely to have been altered
The tree ring circus used only “good” trees or were they actually the “bad” trees ?
Just a guy wondering what to believe ?
The “tree ring circus”, used only three trees from one location.
Not possible to make a statistical representation from such a small sample, but in fact the entire “hockey stick graph”, is based on this heavily flawed data!!
So good catch. 🙂
Could “anthropogenic global warming” have compensated for/prevented “most” of the global cooling for the last 18 years 9 months?
Can we then have hope that we might be able to reverse the projected increasing rate of cooling towards the next glaciation? I am more concerned over the damage of a 1000 ft thick glacier grinding back through Canada into the USA than 1 ft higher sea level.
While a nice thought and I agree on preference that you have I doubt any amount of CO2 will prevent the glaciation from resuming. The only hope to do that (IMHO) would be to geo-engineer an opening between Panama and South America to the Pacific could flow into the Atlantic again as it did 3+ million years ago before we entered (and still haven’t left) the ice age.
no wonder I’m always cold… just wish there were some Mammoths to hunt… 🙂
Look at NOAA own data below. High CO2 causes temperatures to FALL, not rise.
@ferdberple — Are you certain that cold temperatures do not cause the production of greater amounts of CO2?
No. AGW is a failed God. CO2 doe’s nothing to slow an ice age mini are full. CO2 doe’s not warm the planet as witnessed by ice core samples and more going back millions of years.
does
no apostrophes
so right – planet cooling much worse than warming for mankind
Who here can say with 100% certainty, or even 95%, that sea level will not rise many feet in the next 24 days, and Wall Street bankers will soon be taking gondolas to work instead of ordinary taxis?
No one can say, because predicting the future climate is impossible.
I have discovered the main cause of global warming, however:
— The more face time Al Gore has on TV, and the more he speaks publicly about climate change, the warmer it gets.
— His “hot air” is the primary source of global warming, not the sun.
— The “pause” since the early 2000s was caused by Gore spending too much time making money, and eating at all-you-can-eat-buffets …. leaving little time for making tedious public speeches about climate change.
I want to thank Al Gore for getting me interested in climate change in the late 1990s. When he wrote a book pretending to be a “scientist”, I knew immediately the coming climate change catastrophe was a leftist scam.
I can say with certainty that sea level will not rise many feet in the next 24 days, barring some unforeseen catastrophic event.
And hey, the al-Gore effect defines increasing cooling and heavy snow whenever he’s most wound up about warming.
al-Gore has done an immeasurable amount of good for the Right, more than he could have done if he wasn’t a “progressive” imbecile. We now have a certifiable nut case that we can point to whenever required.
It’s all fear-porn from the Left. Al Gore is their prophet, and his apocalyptic prophecies have failed to come to pass. Another prophet from NASA predicted last year that California would run out of water by April. I think we should hold him to that, too.
@ur momisugly Khan David…the current northern California snowpack is around 130% of normal as of now. This winter will take the edge off of the drought, and next year’s winter will most likely end the drought.
“It’s all fear-porn from the Left. Al Gore is their prophet,”
Gore is a Democrat. That makes him more right-wing than the British Conservative Party, though perhaps not as right-wing as the Republican Party.
This whole AGW scam was originally promoted by right-wing politicians (Thatcher and Gore) and big money shufflers. It really saddens me to see that some of the very few real left-wingers still around have been sucked into it.
The Health Care and Pharmaceutical Industries., wants to thank Sen., Al Gore,s father for making them all extremely rich. The great Cholesterol Hoax in the 1960,s. go to minute 26 of video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRe9z32NZHY
Dr Dzugan has over 80% success rate in returning people to the reference range and those that don’t still improve dramatically so in reality close to 100% improve. He doesn’t use statin based drugs. His idea, that seems to be borne out by experiments, is that the body loses the ability to convert cholesterol to hormones so the body detects low hormones and tries to adjust by providing more cholesterol. He adjusts the body’s hormone levels and the body stops overproducing cholesterol.
http://www.lifeextension.com/vitamins-supplements/item33852/The-Magic-of-Cholesterol-Numbers
How dare you! Al is not, like, “pretending”. I mean, like, he, you know, invented the Internet and all…
“Who here can say with 100% certainty, or even 95%, that sea level will not rise many feet in the next 24 days, and Wall Street bankers will soon be taking gondolas to work instead of ordinary taxis?”
Actually, it can be said with near certainty that this will not happen, and if it does, it totally disproves the whole global warming theory anyway. Even Michael Mann’s hockey stick did not have a 24 day jump in it. No one can predict with 100% certainty the climate in the next 24 days, but we can say with near certainty that the quoted prediction will not be true. Using a highly improbable outcome to try and demonstrate that no one can predict climate with high certainty is not helping the skeptic cause. It just makes you look uninformed and reactionary.
Blah, blah, blah said the scared little sheep
Not having a sense of humor makes you a dull “scientist”.
The future is not predictable.
Whether 24 days, 24 months, 24 years, or 24 centuries in the future.
I suppose the BEST way to help the “skeptic cause”, as you call it, it to ignore OBVIOUS humor in a post, and character attack a fellow skeptic — that will REALLY help the “skeptic cause”.
What happens to water when it freezes? It expands, right? So if the glaciers melt all the volume of the ice is reduced and the oceans will sink not rise. Fill a glass with ice and see what happens when it melts.
AJ Lamm-“What happens to water when it freezes? It expands, right? So if the glaciers melt all the volume of the ice is reduced and the oceans will sink not rise. Fill a glass with ice and see what happens when it melts.”
Please, oh please, for the love of all things, tell me you just left off the “sarc” tag!
Icebergs displace their volume floating in water unlike glaciers which move over land masses so that ice cubes floating in a glass of water example makes no sense
Yes indeed, we owe Mr Gore so much – above all for the humor that his life and career have injected into American life.
But he has given crazed poodles a bad name.
After all All Gore is to Global Warming as Bagdad Bob was to Iraq. ipso facto
Maybe so, but Gore is not so funny every quarter when I have to pay income taxes.
Actually it is easy… first for the sea to rise requires an increase in volume (or a 1000 magnitude increase in the Moon’s gravity (which would cause other problems). This increase on volume would have to come from melting ice and would average out over the entire nautical surface. So either it melts in 24 days (impossible unless you unleash 1000 nuc’s on the ice) or it doesn’t. BTW… ice has a greater volume than water… oh least I forget… there may not be enough ice on Earth to cause such a rise.
You forgot an ice asteroid hitting the Earth. That would do it too…
Absolutely BRILLIANT! TY for the chuckles! 🙂
I also want to see Al, baby, downsize into a smaller home like we did. I am sure he lives in some mega-thousand square foot home that slurps up way too much non-renewable energy as well as the earth robbing materials that went into building the home. Also, what kind of transportation does he take- private jets, big non-efficient cars? He may be conserving, but I think his footprint could be re-examined and downsized. We are doing our part for the planet as best we can. I have not read anything about his personal efforts, but these are some of the thoughts I have concerning the former Veep.
Maybe he could just live on his houseboat. The one that runs on biodiesel and solar panels but still needs to be plugged in.
Al Gore lives in multiple multi-thousand square foot homes.
play it again! so right !!
Just proves it is a good thing, that this fruitcake Al Bore wasn’t elected president. No telling what he would have done to our country, that Obozo didn’t do.
“…that Obozo didn’t do.”
And that would be what, exactly?
jorgekaflazar where have you been these past 7 years, take your head out of your arse.
John
Interesting question. Would Al Gore have been a worse president than O’Bummer? Historians will be debating that question for hundreds of years. Whose core beliefs are further removed from historical experiece — Al Gore or O’Bummer? Which one more efficient at trashing the system and destroying American values? To sum it all up — which one is the bigger space cadet?
Eugene WR Gallun
Watch a movie about CO2 in the ’60s?
1: I thought we were just entering the global COOLING scare around that time.
2: Did divinity schools teach climatology back then?
3: I remember being at VA Tech in 65-66; it was as cold as a witch’s teat with snowdrifts up to 20 feet in places. I dropped out.
Forrest Gore has more intelligence.
As is often the case with the left, their consciences are rarely bothered by making up ‘facts’ to embellish a story that supports their ideology.
“Gore has been saying it for decades, since a college class in the 1960s convinced him that greenhouse gases from oil, coal and other carbon emissions were trapping the sun’s heat in the atmosphere, resulting in a glacial meltdown that could flood much of the planet.”
Where did you get “a movie” out of that?
“Who here can say with 100% certainty, or even 95%, that sea level will not rise many feet in the next 24 days, and Wall Street bankers will soon be taking gondolas to work instead of ordinary taxis?”
I can say with at least 95% confidence that it will not be Gondolas.
If I remember correctly, there are only a handful of Squerarioli in Venice still building the gondolas today. With each boat requiring about a dozen species of wood (some of which require a year’s preparation time), individual boat build times measured in months, and price tags north of $60 USD, it will take considerably longer than 24 days to construct the necessary fleet. Current Venetian production is barely meeting the replacement needs of the dwindling fleet (+400 boats). The gondolas have asymmetric hulls to resist the turning moment of the single starboard mounted sculling oar and are built from eye, memory and rules of thumb (no plans, no half models), so it is doubtful that other wooden boat builders could ramp up production to fill the need. The boats are kept in the families that own them and handed down from father to son as a way of life, so it is doubtful that a significant percentage of the existing fleet could be purchased and relocated to the other side of the pond in the required 24 days. Besides, I doubt that Wall Street bankers have the temperament to spend the time required for the gondolier to scull the boat along at a stately 3 knot velocity for any distance.
Mother Nature has bitch slapped the blubbery fool masher mercilessly.
*uncontrollable roar of laughter in spite of myself*
Back in the old days when video stores existed it was great fun to scoop up the poop called an Inconvenient truth and move them all to the fiction section. Sure looks like time has proven me right after all these years.
Or the New Age religion section. Fat Albert was a divinity school drop out, after all.
How on Earth do you achieve that? 🙂
Hey, hey, hey; I love Fat Albert…. Oh, I guess you aren’t talking about the cartoon series
I think big Al achieved dropout status after turning on to MJ, but some historical biographer will have to fill in the details.
Unless I’m in error AL BORE, took a total of 1 science class while in college. His grade….a “D”
And for this he is an expert….God Help us !!
I love it!
Did you have to dust them first?
“Warmth the polar bears now love” – priceless
My favorite line of the entire article!
It caught my eye also. Priceless!
This guy certainly looks happy.
Beautiful animals! I’m glad he is thriving!
I at least have the pride I did not vote for that puppy. It was for other reasons, but anyone who could fail as a a theology major would seem to be a bad fit as a secular prophet.
if gore had carried tennessee, his nominal home state, he would’ve been elected. thankfully, the people of the volunteer state had seen enough of him to know he is an elitest fraud. history will judge him poorly.
Although Tennessee has several metropolitan areas the state is primarily rural and thus focused on agriculture. One thing folks from the country readily recognize is the waste product from male cattle. He didn’t stand a chance. I do wish Monckton would include this observation with his frequent mentions of Al’s home state.
Jack Maples, yeah, because Bush was such a great President. Two unfunded wars and the worse recession since the Great Depression.
I see that Chris doesn’t accept the Business Cycle…
Arguably, the last year of Carter and the first two years of Reagan were worse–it is the recovery from this recession that was worse.
On Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 2:23 PM, Watts Up With That? wrote:
> dbstealey commented: “I see that Chris doesn’t accept the Business > Cycle…”
Theology is not a soft option, at least not here. You are expected to do at least Greek or Hebrew. You are likely to have to take at least one paper on another religion. You have to do a fair bit of history. You have to study interpretation, which amongst other things is supposed to teach you not to imagine that *your* interpretation is the full and final one. (This could be said of most of the papers, actually.) Even the papers that wouldn’t challenge me look like a lot of work. As far as I can see, there aren’t *any* papers that would prepare you to be a secular prophet, except possibly http://www.otago.ac.nz/theology/study/papers/index.html?papercode=PAST311#2016 which is not being offered this year. I remember believing that “An Inconvenient Truth” was sincere, if wrong; I wish I could still believe that.
mod – “According to Gore, this map should have been a reds now.”
RSS for December is out and this is indeed the case for RSS.
RSS for December has just come in at 0.543. This is the warmest December in the relatively short satellite record, however 0.543 was beaten in the first 8 months of 1998 and for 4 months in 2010. The 2015 average is 0.358, putting 2015 in third place as Bob mentioned behind 0.550 from 1998 and 0.468 from 2010.
The pause has decreased by one month to 18 years and 8 months. Now, the pause goes from May 1997 to December 2015.
This month, the start date for the pause jumped by two months to May. The huge question now is whether or not the anomalies will drop to 0.24 before the start month reaches December 1997.
Bullshi*. It’s an out and out FRAUD and shear arrogance of anyone living to try and predict weather. Perfect example is Al Bore. Sad thing is the younger generations are purposely dumbed down so much, they believe all this crap. Someday, the truth will unfold and all the fraudsters and hacksters hopefully will get the same punishment the Saudis have recently dished out to the terrorists………………
sheer
No wool-trimming involved.
All of the old liars will have to die off before truth will make a come back. Hope they haven’t the offspring to keep perpetuating it.
Warmer Huh? All they have to dois continue to use the FAKE warming reports they already have. This whole thing is take down the USA, make al gore richer and impoverish (enslave) the rest of us.I haven’t seen this much balderdash since I cleaned out the daily barns.
You are very good at copying/pasting propaganda that you neither understand nor research. A perfect useful idiot minion used by the puppetmasters of the left.
Did you? Put up.
Hadcrut4 actually has not appeared on WFT since May when a new version came out. I really wish they would update things! As well, only UAH5.6 appears and not UAH6.0beta4.
If you want the latest, you must go to:
http://moyhu.blogspot.com.au/p/temperature-trend-viewer.html
So, Al, you gonna sell the private jets, trade the armored limos for a Prius, auction off the mansions and estates and live in an energy-efficient single-family home?
Yes, I see, and no, you can’t do THAT to me or the horse I rode in on. I don’t even own a horse.
sure he will-
when you stop voting for your masters and you stop paying your tithes to your particular religion of peace.
they won’t stop swilling till you stop filling.
who’s the fountainhead of self destruction, really?
so al likes to peddle climate fear pr0n.
you didn’t have to buy any.
you once had a choice.
there is no al gore without such as thou who art precisely, exactly, flipsides of one coin.
so sure- poke at al for hypocrisy – it’s the only way you can out do him on it.
“””””””0bama the beast”””””””””””””””””Bush false prophet”””””””””””””””
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Rev 19:20
And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshiped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.
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1` month left and 7yrs tribulation will be up give or take a day or two.
The worst has yet to come. Sorry but I don’t know the day or hour.
Jim Crows, “Sorry but I don’t know the day or hour.”
You need to consult “The Rapture Index” All your uncertainties will be removed.
Please,
No medieval fairy stories, I implore you.
It makes sceptics look like religious nut-jobs rather than the real scientists that so many of us are.
And how much of this data on the 0.33 degrees of warming was due to the faulty and out right BS temperature readings as well??? None of this global climate change crap has anything to do with the planet…it’s ALL about controlling the population, to make us slaves of the “ruling class”…
In the billions of years the earth has existed, and the monumental changes it has endured, it’s very possible that the earth will experience global warming. However, not because of anything Al Gore is suggesting. The earth has experienced warming in the past and ice ages in the past, it will probably experience these phenomenons in the future. When and to what extent, who knows? Our history represents, perhaps a second out of a million years, even perhaps a hundred million years. In that span of future time, any prediction could be true. One prediction is for certain, man will one day disappear, as a species, from the face of the earth. And it will not matter to you or to me. The significance of the human race is only significant to us, but meaningless to the eternal vastness of the galaxy, space and time.
Impossible. The earth has been in a constant state of cooling from the day it began forming.
Anyone that says otherwise is a fool. It won’t experience any warming or cooling that we can affect in any way. Well unless we decide it’s time to start dropping nukes all over the place.. Otherwise it’s safe to say that we are not the cause of jack… or shit..
Surface temps have nothing to do with anything man does. Our minimal contribution does not affect the overall planet temps in any way at all. To say that we do can’t be substantiated at all. There is no proof.
I don’t care what spiritual bullshit you try to lace in the midst of this statement. Any conclusion that this planet has in any way experienced any warming when it’s a fact that it’s a molten ball with a crust barely clinging to the skin and an atmosphere that will likely be stripped away little by little with each pole change by the planet due to lack of a radiation belt for a couple of hundred years… I mean seriously.. Are people so stupid that they can’t see how absurd the entire idea of man having anything to do with cooling or heating of the planet?
And your spiritual mumbojumbo is just that.. nonsensical… 😛
Gore is saying that the 10 year window to act and make changes closes at the end of 2015. There have been many environmentally conscious changes in the past 10 years made by governments across the world in an effort to lower CO2 output and make cleaner burning emissions. The lack of absolute catastrophe may be the result of the fact that changes have been made.
Keep believing that if it makes you feel better. Global warming is nothing more than a hoax to get money from the masses.
Sandy Vag, CO2 levels have increased EVERY year despite ‘changes made’, so you can discount the impact of such changes. The CO2 increase has decreased, however – thanks to fracking!!
What a complete load of Gorelican BS. CO2 has continued to rise. It’s temperature that hasn’t. AGW is a false god.
I just have to pile on.
Nothing has been done to alter the rise of CO2. It is still rising at the same rate as before the alarm was sounded. There has been no climate catastrophe.
The hypothesis is falsified.
They are lying to you.
All the talk of polar bears and such. Hogwash. Just lie after lie after lie.
If you continue to believe their lies, shame on you. If your self image requires you to believe these lies, I feel sorry for you. If you need to say these lies so your friends will not shun you, get new friends.
This is a gigantic fraud. Even your Dr. James Hansen, formerly Mr. Consensus himself, calls the “efforts” to control CO2 a fraud. But, somebody is making money, just not you or me.
Sandyunderpants your alleged governmentally changes have been utterly ineffectual. The rate of increase in atmospheric CO2 is utterly unchanged in the last 15 years.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c5/Mauna_Loa_CO2_monthly_mean_concentration.svg
Sandy ( or is it Alice?)– What rabbit hole have you got your head pushed down?
If you did not have sand in your underpamts, you could think rationally. There is much wrong with your post, but I will not do you the favor of explaining; the world needs good examples of bad examples
I have a couple of bridges to sell you.
Real cheap!
Are you saying that the “window” is still open? No wonder its so freaking cold in here!
Sandy Underpants
The rate of CO2 emissions in the past ten years has only increased not abated. There has been no slowdown of CO2 emissions. Try to think. I know it hurts but so does any muscle that has not been used in a long time when you start to exercise it.
Eugene WR Gallun
You’re presuming there was a muscle there to begin with. That’s perhaps an unwarranted assumption.
Changes? Maybe. Effort? Maybe. Lower CO2 output? Not on this planet.
El Nino seems to be an event that is actually removing heat from the Earth system.
Partly true. When the Pacific Warm Pool sloshes back to the east, it’s shedding heat, first to the atmosphere, then ultimately to space. But atmospheric temperatures don’t go back to where they started; there’s leftover heat. See Bob Tisdale’s explanation. https://bobtisdale.wordpress.com/2015/06/19/climateprogresss-joe-romm-is-promoting-a-skeptical-view-of-global-warming-el-nino-caused-steps/
Al Gore was an idiot as VP and he’s still an idiot!!
You know Black Lies Matter has got to be mighty upset about all of this. They will announce a protest march in just a few days.
story here –
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/01/02/black-lives-matter-saw-coming-now-heres-whats-coming-next/
libertyman62
Black Lies Matter — I must be out of touch. I never saw that before. If you thought it up yourself, con grats.
Eugene WR Gallun
An inconvenient truth . . . Gore has made over $100mm from “global warming” AND has among the biggest “carbon footprints” of any individual on the planet. He’s also a crazed sex-poodle! All in all, what a POS.
Just ask Tipper. She tipped him out.
AlGore is no different from any of the other “end of the world” nutcases.
Another deadline announcement from another “doomsday, religious prophet”.
Thank you hanging Chad. ThankYouThankYouThankYou
… and Katherine Harris.
EternalOptimist
Hahaha — to bad the young won’t get it
Eugene WR Gallun
Rising oceans are only a problem for the rich and famous who own ocean front properties. How wonderful for the trailer court owner 2 mi inland when he discovers he now has ocean front property? A 2 degree increase in average temp would be great for those of us in fly over country. It would extend the growing season and save on heating expenses. Global warming is only a problem for the rich coastal elites which are the only ones the government represents anyway. Bring on the warming!
Hold on. This is not only a problem for the rich. I for instance, enjoy visiting historical sites, such as the Castillo de San Marcos in St. Augustine, FL. Construction of this fort began in 1672 and it sits at the edge of the Atlantic. There is no visible change in sea level at the fort yet but that could change.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castillo_de_San_Marcos
No problem with sea level though I understand the inlet has shifted quite a bit.
Do you snorkel? Problem solved!
R Shearer
Sure, it could drop lower.
Eugene WR Gallun
R Shearer January 2, 2016 at 10:29 am
“There is no visible change in sea level at the fort yet but that could change.”
Its okay, it is after all a “fort” it can get wet.
I wonder if all the rain has re-flooded Fort Henry again on the Tennessee River. Seem they had a problem with “Climate Change” during the ACW . The river flooded the Fort, dang it. Blasted newfangled locomotives and steam ships, wreak’n the environment.
Do I need a tag?
michael
http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/fortdonelson/fort-donelson-history-articles/donelsonjobe.html?referrer=https://www.google.com/
Another deadline announcement from another doomsday, religious prophet..
There is only one person in charge of the weather and it’s not Al Gore
Well, O’Bummer did once claim that we will end the rise of the seas. And other things. Big talk from a little disappearing man.
Eugene WR Gallun
algore laughing all the way to the bank
I was glad to see your post. Al Gore may be a Liar, a nut, a con man and an idiot. But look the liberals have made him rich by believing in his lies. And so many of them still believe them. A man once said that Liberalism is a mental disease and he really knew what he was saying. You have to be mentally deficient to believe in something that has time and time again been proven to be a lie. Polar bears did not die off, the ice at the pole did not melt ( even though the spinning WASHINGTON POST tried to convince people with a heavily spun lie stating the north pole was 50 degrees UNDER its norm). Of course, as everyone that is intelligent enough to tie their own shoes now knows, that was North Pole, Alaska which is not even in northern part of Alaska, but the left wing media will tell any lie and spin to support their liberal friends. The down side of this is there are no real Conservatives or people with common sense in the congress or White House. The Liberals are going to be able to force the middle class people to still pay for this huge scam to get more of middle American’s money and split it up among their political buddies.
Wes, did you mean 50 degrees warmer? I did see a big increase in temperature on the WUWT ice page but not 50 degrees (F or C?). I have not seen yet an analysis of the Washington Post claim
“But look the liberals have made him rich by believing in his lies.”
No, Al Gore made his millions off Apple stock given to him as a company director, and the sale of Current TV. He has made very little if any off his green investments, if you include his losses as well as the gains.
Has anyone told al gore there was an ice age. Must have been some kinda massive global warming to get rid of all that ice! O’ and there was the miny ice age of the 1600s you know, the one where Europeans were starving because the crops were not growing.
Must have beem some global warming to take care of that bad boy. And how abot during the 1400s, much warmer
Then these days. Crops grew fine, a time of wealth, crativity, and invention.
Not one SUV in sight! O’ and by the way, has anybody asked old Al Gore
What the prevailing temperature should
Be?