When asked Sunday about his 2006 prediction that we would reach the point of no return in 10 years if we didn’t cut human greenhouse gas emissions, climate alarmist in chief Al Gore implied that his forecast was exactly right.
“Some changes unfortunately have already been locked in place,” he told ABC’s Jonathan Karl.
“Sea level increases are going to continue no matter what we do now. But, we can prevent much larger sea level increases. Much more rapid increases in temperature. The heat wave was in Europe. Now it’s in Arctic. We’re seeing huge melting of the ice there. So, the warnings of the scientists 10 years ago, 20 years ago, 30 years ago, unfortunately were accurate.”
Despite all this gloom, he’s found “good news” in the Democratic presidential field, in which “virtually all of the candidates are agreed that this is either the top issue or one of the top two issues.”
So what has Gore been predicting for the planet? In his horror movie “An Inconvenient Truth,” he claimed:
Sea levels could rise as much as 20 feet. He didn’t provide a timeline, which was shrewd on his part. But even if he had said 20 inches, over 20 years, he’d still have been wrong. Sea level has been growing for about 10,000 years, and, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, continues to rise about one-eighth of an inch per year.
Storms are going to grow stronger. There’s no evidence they are stronger nor more frequent.
Mt. Kilimanjaro was losing its snow cap due to global warming. By April 2018, the mountain glaciers were taking their greatest snowfall in years. Two months later, Kilimanjaro was “covered by snow” for “an unusually long stint. But it’s possible that all the snow and ice will be gone soon. Kilimanjaro is a stratovolcano, with a dormant cone that could erupt.
Point of no return. If we have truly gotten this far, why even care that “virtually all” of the Democratic candidates have agreed that global warming is a top issue? If we had passed the point of no return, there’d be no reason to maintain hope. The fact Gore’s looking for a “savior” from among the candidates means that even he doesn’t believe things have gone too far.
A year after the movie, Gore was found claiming that polar bears’ “habitat is melting” and “they are literally being forced off the planet.” It’s possible, however, that there are four times as many polar bears as there were in the 1960s. Even if not, they’ve not been forced off the planet.
Also in 2007, Gore started making “statements about the possibility of a complete lack of summer sea ice in the Arctic by as early as 2013,” fact-checker Snopes, which leans so hard left that it often falls over and has to pick itself up, said, before concluding that “Gore definitely erred in his use of preliminary projections and misrepresentations of research.”
HT/Mike B
If he’s right and nothing we do will stop it, then why should we do any of the things they demand?
He was right the same way as Paul Ehrlich was right!
Seems he has a great talent for lying and making money! Why do people throw money at him?
Rodger,maybe they are hoping he will go away..like the really awful dinner band.
If Gore is so worried about increasing CO2 concentrations warming the planet, why doesn’t he travel to Beijing (in his private jet, naturally!) and demand that the Chinese stop building coal-fired power plants?
Al Gore is a comedian, right? I know I’ve seen his name on playbills.
Gore in angling for a second Nobel Prize. He is working the halls and the bars and providing young girls as needed to the committee.
Why did the scientist install a knocker on his door? To win the no-bell prize.
The reason that these busted forecasts don’t burn Gore and others is based on people’s lack of directly accessing data to monitor them as well as not having much expertise in this field.
This is also why it was so easy to hijack climate science for the political agenda.
When the weatherman on tv forecasts sunny skies the next day and it rains……….it’s a busted forecast. We have direct access to the observation outside of our windows.
When exaggerated climate forecasts calling for X amount of warming along with A-Z in negative consequences over the next 100 years, who is tracking all of this?
Not your average person. We rely on the gatekeepers of information to report to us their interpretation and spinning of what is happening.
This often results in taking extreme conditions(based on expected variability of events similar to the past) and turning them into “worse then expected” headlines.
Joe tv watcher doesn’t access weather records to compare weather history with recent events(being described in unprecedented language). He assumes that the media must have already done that for him and would not be reporting their (sensationalized) interpretation unless it was true.
Another element to avoiding accountability for busted climate forecasts is the extraordinarily long times scales vs weather forecasts.
When it’s time to judge the prediction for sea levels rising 20 feet by the year 2100 or whatever is here, for instance, everybody that received it will be dead and that same forecast will be twisted and changed a dozen times along the way so that it serves the intended purpose.
He’s absolutely right….in the land of HuffPo, NYT, LAT, BBC, NPR, Nat Geo, NBC, CNBC, and anywhere else with agenda science ad buys.
When a con man is making million$ from a confidence scam, and nearly half of the proles believe his scam, don’t expect any changes in his mantra to be forthcoming.
The article features a very strange looking picture of the climate pope in his earlier years. What’s up with the supersaturated red face? I could see tweaking the photo this way, if we put a funny looking hat on him and called him the climate elf.
Gore – The climate clown… all he needs is a big red nose and floppy shoes.
Al-the-charlatan Gore uses sleight-of-hand, red herrings, and non sequiteurs to “prove” that his climate claims have come true. Sorry Gore, no sale. Go peddle your climate snake oil somewhere else.
The primary message was the world was ending.
It hasn’t. The End.
It does not matter how wrong they are. You’d think by now that people would have come to their senses about socialism and communism, but no, people still believe and just want another opportunity to prove all the previous failure don’t mean a thing.
I do not know how much time Gore has dedicated to pursuing relevant research following his 2009 assertion:
“Storms are going to grow stronger.” but to help him in his studies perhaps I could respectfully draw his attention to the latest 2 items from Notrickszone by Ken Richards and P Gosselin:
https://notrickszone.com/2019/08/15/natural-variability-domination-defying-models-scientists-find-less-extreme-precipitation-in-recent-decades/
and:
https://notrickszone.com/2019/08/14/slow-hurricane-season-no-surprise-as-tropical-storm-trends-defy-climate-alarmist-warnings/
and the numerous recent studies contained in the 2 compilations.
Thank you for doing so, this is a very respectable blog from within the insides of Germany, a country ruined by green political corruption organized robbery.
The AGW conjecture seems quite plausible at first but looking at in more detail one realizes that the AGW conjecture is based on only partial science and cannot be defended. For example in Al Gore’s first movie he shows a chart of how CO2 has correlated with temperature over the past 600K years. His claim was that the chart shows that more CO2 causes warming. But looking at the data in more detail that temperature leads CO2 so that a warmer climate causes more CO2 to enter the atmosphere. The CO2 comes from the oceans. When the oceans warm up they cannot hold as much CO2 so they release it to the atmosphere. When the temperature of the oceans decreases they take up CO2. According to Al Gore’s chart, if CO2 were the climate temperature control knob it should really be much warmer than it actually is. The truth is that there is no evidence in the paleoclimate record that CO2 has any effect on climate.
Didn’t Professor Goracle (He did go to Divination school.) once predict that the Earth’s core would be millions of degrees? Or maybe he just claimed it was a present fact?
If he thinks it’s a present fact, then it would seems to a likely MAJOR contributor to “Global Warming”?
If it was a prediction, then maybe we should stop sequestering the magic molecule, CO2, by injecting it into the Earth?
Or maybe, as usual, he’s wrong on all counts.
That’s what happens when people swallow “The Greens Pill”. (It comes in two flavors, “Green’s” and Green’$.)
IIRC, he said the interior of the Earth was “several million degrees” hot.
He said it on Conan O’Brien.
Here is a video of him saying it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14kNtnJgXXM
The man is an idiot, although we have to account for the fact he may simply be lying.
From the way he said it, I think he believes it to be so.
Mark Urban is a BBC journalist who I respect – he is serious minded and well informed, debates rationally and not combatively. I suspect he’s a closet climate rationalist (I won’t say “skeptic”). Tonight he’s hosting BBC2’s Newsnight and was talking to an economist called Stieglitz (same name as the big Austrian Na3i-killer in the movie “Inglorious Basterds”) was talking about the threat of a global economic recession. Then he suddenly adds a comment about climate change (maybe in response to AB off-camera minder) and adds that “huge funds still need to be found to combat this “emergency”.
At this point Mark Urban has serious trouble stopping himself from laughing 😂 out loud – so much so that the camera pans away from his face. Spendttrilluons on an illusory non-problem and then worrying about recession is indeed the stuff of the blackest comedy imaginable. Mark has the intelligence and humour to get this.
If someone told me I could become very rich by pretending that dragons were real and that attacking anti dragon believers would make me richer
and I couldn’t lose ……
I would do it
Exactly what did OwlBore do to qualify him for the Nobel Prize?
Nasa has a chart you can look at, with an ominous pulsing red dot, that measures sea level rise. It’s still rising by 3.3 mm per year. You can clearly see there is no increase going on.
So in ten years it has risen 3.3 centimeters, and in 100 years should rise about 33 cm. If we give them a little leeway let’s say 40 cm. I think we can handle less than half a meter of sea level rise in a century, since we have already and barely noticed.
That raises the question of how much money it takes to “arrange” an upward “fix” of the numbers.
Just another privileged Harvard Scumbag… a Master Criminal in my mind… there’s a few around…
Simple formula really .
1. Get some white coats to make exaggerated claims . ie biased climate models .
2. Sell government that they can fleece tax payers by have them believe the earth has a fever .
3. Create businesses that would otherwise not exist or be viable without tax payer subsidy .
4. Plant people in government to craft policies that funnel money to your businesses .
5 . Make sure the well to do get their piece of the cake in “renewable contracts .
6. Bully and buy the the media into blindly pumping your scam .
7. Sit back and watch the cash role .
Any questions ?
Simple formula really .
1. Get some white coats to make exaggerated claims . ie biased climate models .
2. Sell government that they can fleece tax payers by have them believe the earth has a fever .
3. Create businesses that would otherwise not exist or be viable without tax payer subsidy .
4. Plant people in government to craft policies that funnel money to your businesses .
5 . Make sure the well to do get their piece of the cake in “renewable contracts .
6. Bully and buy the the media into blindly pumping your scam .
7. Sit back and watch the cash roll in .
Any questions ?
Climate changes . Why would anyone expect anything otherwise ?
So the 99% of reasons climate change is A OK…because they are caused by natural variables .
No point in getting bent out of shape because sun spot activity is down is there ?
But that small variable which itself is mostly from natural sources is allegedly got to be stamped out because its from fossil fuels that humans use to create the highest standard of living in billions of years .
So who are the real deniers and clowns ?