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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Note: within a few minutes of publication this post was updated to fix a formatting error, a source for the countdown graphic, and a repeated phrase on temperature, and fix of the date of the 10 year anniversary from 2015 to 2016
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I guess we should just assume it’s a coincidence, that a couple of Gore’s many predictions are coming true now, around the same time as the COP 21 Show–after the Pope, the UN, etc ad nauseum have chimed in on the climate ’emergency’–and at a time when weather wars and maipulation are intensifying, and the results of 20 years of aerosol ‘geoengineering’ and HAARP interference have taken effect.
These insane oligarchic climate ghouls have gone a little too far and tipped their hand, and now their whole agenda is quite well known. They won’t go away even if we ignore them. In fact now they’re passing laws, assessing for carbon credits and the like, making secret globalist treaties.
I say good luck to them! They’ve clearly bitten off more than they can chew.
If we’re lucky they’ll all choke and die.
Al Gore along with all Climate Changing “Chicken Littles” have about as much credibility as the Bafoon in the White House does regarding Foreign Policy!!!
The utter vacuity of the Progressive movement is summarized in its elevation of Al Gore-zeera to cult leader status.
Al Gore along with all Climate Changing “Chicken Littles” have about as much credibility as the Bafoon in the White House does regarding Foreign Policy!!!!!!!!
And he laughed all the way to the bank.
Global warming (aka climate change) is the religion of the stupid.
Sheep, lemmings, and Leftists are easily manipulated.
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There’s only one thing you need to remember about “Climate Change”: no matter WHAT the weather does — it’s your fault.
Yup.
Pay up!
[snip – chemtrails, off topic and banned topic -mod]
So Al Gore will leave the planet now, yes? He’ll be blasting off into the cosmos in his carbon neutral spaceship. T-Minus 9 days and counting.
The real danger to humans are one-world globalists, Muslim fascists and assorted leftists who are pushing a borderless world and communist agendas.
Global warming is a con job and Al Gore is the captain of this ship: The SS BS.
Anyone care to wager if 25 days from now, Al Gore will recant his end-of-the-world prophecy?
It’s real. It doesn’t matter how many of you ignorant rightwing twits want to believe otherwise, it IS real, it IS manmade and you WILL see the consequences.
Chuck,
That’s what we call a ‘baseless assertion’ here. You’re entitled to your opinion. But this is the internet’s “Best Science” site, and readers expect more than just an opinion. We expect evidence, observations, measurements, data, and the papers written by true experts in the field, or in related fields in the hard sciences.
Most readers of this site operate on the basis of scientific skepticism, and extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, observations, data, etc.
But all you’re doing is parroting the media narrative. They try to get as many heads nodding as possible, because they have an agenda. And it isn’t based on the truth. In science, you are supposed to question everything. Assertions and name-calling are strong indications of a know-nothing; folks who have scientific evidence are always happy to produce it. In fact, sometimes it’s hard to stop them.
So here’s some well-meant advice: if you’re going to assert that “It’s real”, first explain what “it” is. Then make your case. The more evidence of all kinds you can round up, the better you will be at convincing the thousands of people reading this that you’re knowledgeable. But a baseless assertion means exactly nothing. You won’t convince anyone of anything, and calling others “ignorant” and other disparaging terms for no reason will just amuse people. Who’s really ignorant? Isn’t it the person with zero facts, or evidence, or data? That means you are the true “believer” here.
Finally, what “consequences” do you believe we “WILL” see? What is “manmade”? Because you didn’t say, and we’re readers, not mind readers. And FYI, scientific skepticism of the man-made global warming narrative cuts across all political lines here. Read this site for a while and you will see that’s true.
Before the “climate change” discussion can really become meaningful, there are a few questions that should be addressed. First and most importantly, what is Earth’s proper temperature? Who determines it, and where and how is it to be measured? Until the climate change prophets can agree on the answers to these simple questions, nothing else they say matters.
You could be right … I’m running out of snappy comebacks to such lame “responses”.
…. and not threading my own properly. [sigh]
Perfesser wrote:
“First and most importantly, what is Earth’s proper temperature?”
I’d like the year-round high to be 78F +/- 3F with overnight lows about 64-66F.
“Who determines it, […]”
Me, and BTW the only people who should be allowed to vote should think exactly like me
[…] and where and how is it to be measured?”
A 10-12 county with my neighborhood in the center; standard thermometers are OK by me.
Well… you asked. I claim first dibs on setting the global thermostat.
Too cold, you will still have to wear clothes.
Well, you have a go at it, Tom. But remember, you gotta outlive me before you get your hands on the control knob. You’re 2nd in line ;o)
🙂 Yet another predicted Thermageddon date is about to arrive. If you believe in global warming, this is a chance to put your money where your mouth is. Spend everything and max out the credit cards. Don’t want to take the risk? You must be just another denier.
Why are you liberals so gullible as to believe these elitist imbeciles? Gore and Guggenheim are absolute morons!
Most of the people making comments here miss the point by a wide margin. While most are mocking gore and proclaiming what a bafoon he is and how wrong he was and he is an idiot…blah, blah, blah, Gore is counting the hundreds of millions or billions of dollars he has made from his company selling carbon credits and investing in alternative energy companies over the past 10 years. The con is over and most folks still don’t realize it was a con game. He set it up perfectly using his status as an ex-vice president of the US to bolster his credibility around the world then gave us the date ‘the world will end’ or at least the date by which we would have to have the problem solved or it would be too late. He went out daily using his high profile to pump the con while selling carbon credits to all the PC companies around the world that were shamed into jumping on the bandwagon. Now that ‘the date the world will end’ has arrived and nothing has changed we sheepeople are crowing about what a fool gore is and he is on his private jet with his accountant trying figure out how much money the con brought in while flying to some far away exotic warm place to spend the winter.
“The best con is a con when the ‘mark’ never even realizes he was conned!
Can you hear gore laughing?
After billions spent on research, not a single scientific proof of AGW. Moreover, no explanation of why CO2, only four tenths of one percent of all greenhouse gases, is the driver of global warming, which anyway isn’t happening. It’s a con, a scientific fraud.
Four one hundredths of one percent
Perhaps AL Gore is suffering from affluenzia.
The planet has a fever, and Mr. Gore is soaking up the world’s nutrients and fossil fuels. To insulate his body and fuel his fancy jet. Inconvenient indeed.
How many millions of dollars has AG collected from his false claim?
How many million dollars has AG made in the past 10 years with this scam?
Global cooling/global warming/climate change is a scam. The only thing sinister about climate change scam is how sound science has been subverted by the massive subsidies available for so-called “green projects”. The climate change nightmare is here and now – a beautiful landscape ravaged by thousands of wind turbines in the sky and solar panels on the ground, both notorious bird-killers, sucking money from the pockets of the poor and transferring it to already rich landowners, utility shareholders, and big time scammers, like Al Gore. Wake up! We have always had climate change – we call it seasons: summer, fall, winter spring. Only a fool would buy into Gore’s scam.
And to think he nearly scammed his way into the White House. Dodged that bullet.
You are celebrating a shallow victory. Al Gore has become a very wealthy man on the proceeds of his propaganda.
The warmists have not only enlisted successfully the political elite of the western world they have neutered governments industries and institutions.
That the warmists have nothing to do with climate but political change is even more of an indictment of the impotence of the skeptics.
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***pity Fox can’t spell wattsupwiththat?
2 Jan: Fox News: AP: Jaclyn Schiff: 24 Days To Al Gore’s ’10 Years To Save The Planet’ And ‘Point Of No Return’ Planetary Emergency Deadline
read more at ***whatsupwiththat.com LINK
http://nation.foxnews.com/2016/01/02/24-days-al-gore-s-10-years-save-planet-and-point-no-return-planetary-emergency-deadline
Ah.
“The Madness of Albert Arnold Gore”, Jr. Born March 31, 1948 (age 67), Washington, D.C., U.S.
Albert in the “Inconvenient” liked to talk, roll on and on and on, about his days in Tennessee. Yet, what about those formative days in D.C.? That part of Albert’s life was, Inconvenient, to Director Phillip Davis Guggenheim.
Ah!
Benjamin Guggenheim, a wealthy industrialist and heir to the Guggenheim mining fortune, is remembered for saying as the Titanic sank into the icy Atlantic, “We’re dressed in our best and are prepared to go down like gentlemen.” Legend has it that Guggenheim and his valet smoked cigars and sipped brandy while awaiting their deaths.
[http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/famous-titanic-passengers.html]
And Al Gore’s band, played on, while H. Jay Zwally watched from afar with a bitter expression on this face, throwing down to the deck his “ticket”. H. Jay Zwally would have to think fast to survive this night and he did, discussing himself as a woman to get into the last boat. Another H. Jay Zwally would live to see his predictions of catastrophe of the Arctic sea ice, rendered ignorant and dismissed by all. A sorry end.
Happy New Year beneath the seas of the North Atlantic.
Ha ha