Do You Agree with Al Gore's Rant About Anti-Global Warming "Pseudoscience"?
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2011/08/11 14:22:52
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One of the reasons a lot of pundits said former Vice President Al Gore could never seal the deal against George W. Bush was that he came off too soft, too nice, and with not enough of the eye of the tiger to lead the nation.
Well, someone appears to have slipped some tiger's blood into the newly-single Gore's coffee, because he went on an epic rant last Thursday at the Aspen Institute about global warming critics.
He said climate change deniers are "washing back at you the same crap over and over and over again. There's no longer a shared reality ... It's no longer acceptable in mixed company -- meaning bipartisan company -- to use the goddamn word 'climate.'"
He wasn't done, either, adding, "And some of the exact same people — I can go down a list of their names — are involved in this. And so what do they do? They pay pseudo-scientists to pretend to be scientists to put out the message: ‘This climate thing, it’s nonsense. Man-made CO2 doesn’t trap heat. It may be volcanoes.’ Bulls---! ‘It may be sun spots.’ Bulls---! ‘It’s not getting warmer.’ Bulls---!"
That rant inspired another one from a member of the Yahoo! Contributor network, Mark Whittington, who penned an essay entitled, "Al Gore's Rant Shows the Arrogant, Petulant and Defiant Attitude of Global Warming Hysterics."
Whittington writes that Gore's speech showed not only how serious the VP is about global warming, but also his attitude toward those who "disagree with his view that it exists and is a problem."
"People like Gore do not like to engage the arguments of people who suggest there is less than meets the eye to 'global warming' or 'climate change' or whatever that thing that concerns them is called this week," Whittington wrote. "In their minds there are the people who believe in global warming-God's children-and those who do not-the spawn of Beelzebub."
He said Gore's tirade was mostly harmless, though it reminded him that "this man" was about 500 or so votes away from becoming President.
"The arrogant, petulant and defiant attitude of global warming hysterics like Gore can be dangerous when coupled with real power," he added. "It is not just the tendency to label climate change critics as 'deniers' placing them in the same category as Nazi Holocaust deniers. It can lead to corruption and policies that can wreck the lives of tens of millions of people."
(A survey of peer-reviewed abstracts on the subject of global climate change published between 1993-2003 found that not a single one rejected the consensus position that global warming is man-caused.)
Whittington himself goes on to rant against the EPA's new "draconian" regulations that require industries to curb carbon dioxide emissions "at great expense that will be passed along to the consumers," and claim that the Obama administration's restriction of oil and gas production and coal mining is exacerbating the current recession. (The New York Times reported in May that the administration has actually sped up oil and gas drilling in the U.S.)
Well, someone appears to have slipped some tiger's blood into the newly-single Gore's coffee, because he went on an epic rant last Thursday at the Aspen Institute about global warming critics.
He said climate change deniers are "washing back at you the same crap over and over and over again. There's no longer a shared reality ... It's no longer acceptable in mixed company -- meaning bipartisan company -- to use the goddamn word 'climate.'"
He wasn't done, either, adding, "And some of the exact same people — I can go down a list of their names — are involved in this. And so what do they do? They pay pseudo-scientists to pretend to be scientists to put out the message: ‘This climate thing, it’s nonsense. Man-made CO2 doesn’t trap heat. It may be volcanoes.’ Bulls---! ‘It may be sun spots.’ Bulls---! ‘It’s not getting warmer.’ Bulls---!"
That rant inspired another one from a member of the Yahoo! Contributor network, Mark Whittington, who penned an essay entitled, "Al Gore's Rant Shows the Arrogant, Petulant and Defiant Attitude of Global Warming Hysterics."
Whittington writes that Gore's speech showed not only how serious the VP is about global warming, but also his attitude toward those who "disagree with his view that it exists and is a problem."
"People like Gore do not like to engage the arguments of people who suggest there is less than meets the eye to 'global warming' or 'climate change' or whatever that thing that concerns them is called this week," Whittington wrote. "In their minds there are the people who believe in global warming-God's children-and those who do not-the spawn of Beelzebub."
He said Gore's tirade was mostly harmless, though it reminded him that "this man" was about 500 or so votes away from becoming President.
"The arrogant, petulant and defiant attitude of global warming hysterics like Gore can be dangerous when coupled with real power," he added. "It is not just the tendency to label climate change critics as 'deniers' placing them in the same category as Nazi Holocaust deniers. It can lead to corruption and policies that can wreck the lives of tens of millions of people."
(A survey of peer-reviewed abstracts on the subject of global climate change published between 1993-2003 found that not a single one rejected the consensus position that global warming is man-caused.)
Whittington himself goes on to rant against the EPA's new "draconian" regulations that require industries to curb carbon dioxide emissions "at great expense that will be passed along to the consumers," and claim that the Obama administration's restriction of oil and gas production and coal mining is exacerbating the current recession. (The New York Times reported in May that the administration has actually sped up oil and gas drilling in the U.S.)
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American Mercenary 2011/08/11 15:57:24No
+23He's a hypocrite. He doesn't live like he believes in global warming. So why should anyone else?
If we were to calculate the amount of carbon emitted from Al Gore's trip from Nashville to San Francisco, it would be 45,000 pounds of carbon. From Camarillo to San Fransico [sic], it would be 10,000 pounds of carbon, for a total of 55,000 pounds of carbon.
Notably the average car emits .916 lbs. of CO2/ gallon vs. Al Gore's 21 lbs. of CO2/gallon in his jet. So for the amount of carbon and gasoline that Al Gore emitted, the average family could travel back and forth from Nashville to San Francisco in a Station Wagon 15 times
How right he is! Now if he would just get down off his right-wing, hysterical anti-global-warming soapbox, take a deep breath, and begin to question why he froths at the mouth any time someone asserts that science trumps ideology, even if it is a cherished right-wing ideology, and that scientific facts and well-reasoned theories about climate change don't constitute a "global socialist plot" to--well, to do whatever a global socialist plot is supposed to do.
Remember Climategate, anyone? Proof of deliberate manipulation of data to produce desired results!
Anyone with any scientific background can look at the model parameters and tell they are Bad Science.
no model that supports man-made CO2 as the hinge of GW is regressive; none of them can be used to accurately model previous climate/meteorological conditions.
... and today's models successfully reproduce over 100 years of climate observations -
So you're mistaken in thinking that the models are 'bad science'. They can certainly be improved, but they do a pretty good job already.
Then you do projections of future climate, based on various different scenarios of future anthropogenic influences (e.g. whether we have continuing rapid increase of fossil fuel combustion, or manage to aggressively replace them with carbon-neutral alternatives). That's what you see in the first graph above. As it turns out, Dr. Hansen's projections from 30 years ago have proven to be remarkably accurate, which suggests that his modelling has some skill in reproducing reality, and that the underlying physical understanding of the climate system is accurate.
Do you know any climate science deniers who have been correctly predicting global climate for 30 years? I sure don't. That's because their professed understanding of the climate system is wrong, whereas the climate scientists are right (or at least, a lot better than the deniers).
Ask him why the polar ice caps on Mars are melting? No green house gases up there.
Been happing for 50 so years.
Think about the Sun going theough solar changes.
Did you see that Solar Flare this week on the news from our Sun? (big news). It was said by Garrard Labs if it had been aimed at the earth (flair went east into space looking at the Sun) we would have been slammed with all kinds of atomically charged particles maybe causing polar and electrical problems here on Earth.
Gore, go invent another internet.
That does NOT make it "an indisputable fact!", it only makes them WRONG.
The reason "Outta Balance Al" lost against Bush, was because Gore is an uneducated idiot. (Attending a prestigious University, being accepted only because your daddy was a powerful politician, doesn't make you educated.)
Was what Gore did get for an education, in climetology? No.
If Bush had really been serious about winning the election, he would have bought air-time and simply read Gore's book to the American people.
Look at the list of Al's "Exspurts": How many were strong supporters of the first "Earth Day"? How many of those same experts told us that the threat was "indisputeable" then?
And what was that theme?
"Global Cooling"!
Al's simply a hipocrytical idiot, and I'm being kind.
We have comments in here about the size of Al Gore's ass. We have comments in here about sun activity being the cause of warming inferring that the people researching this topic for the last 40 years forgot to include that in their analysis. This was all fabricated nonsense slipped into the unsuspecting media by the stakeholders of the status quo. The media gave credence to the notion that there was debate in the scientific community long after it was over and continues to do so.
Then, of course, came Fox News. An outlet that will simply attack as 'hysteria' anyone that dares to suggest the problem is real. There is an entire segment of our nation today that literally receives their opinion marching orders from this source alone and considers it their patriotic duty to accept them.
Want the extreme right to abandon their skepticism (and simultaneously prove my point)? Get the IPCC to issue a statement that the solution to global...
We have comments in here about the size of Al Gore's ass. We have comments in here about sun activity being the cause of warming inferring that the people researching this topic for the last 40 years forgot to include that in their analysis. This was all fabricated nonsense slipped into the unsuspecting media by the stakeholders of the status quo. The media gave credence to the notion that there was debate in the scientific community long after it was over and continues to do so.
Then, of course, came Fox News. An outlet that will simply attack as 'hysteria' anyone that dares to suggest the problem is real. There is an entire segment of our nation today that literally receives their opinion marching orders from this source alone and considers it their patriotic duty to accept them.
Want the extreme right to abandon their skepticism (and simultaneously prove my point)? Get the IPCC to issue a statement that the solution to global warming is to cut taxes and eliminate all government regulations and programs and start drilling in ANWR. Within seconds, new opinions will form at Exxon and Koch Industries. These new opinions will then flow into the living room of every family that pipes in Fox News 24/7. Within DAYS, you'll have a tsunami of support for the 'science.' Every Tea Bagger you ever met will be demanding action on this existential issue in the name of their grandchildren's environmental birthright.
We could let this go on for a month or so. Then we hit them with it. It was a hoax.
Ask him why the polar ice caps on Mars are melting? No green house gases up there.
Been happing slowly for 50 so years. This from A PHD astronomer Dr Fishwick
Think about the Sun going theough solar changes.
Did you see that Solar Flare this week on the news coming from our Sun? (big news).
It was said by Garrard Labs if it had been aimed at the earth (flair went east into space looking at the Sun) we would have been slammed with all kinds of atomically charged particles, maybe causing polar and electrical problems here on Earth.