What happened to global warming?
So ran the headline atop an article from, wait for it, the BBC of all people. Good grief, when even the Beeb is skeptical, may be the gig is really up. Or so a sane person would surmise. Al Gore, not so much. From the BBC article, which I suggest you read,
For the last 11 years we have not observed any increase in global temperatures. And our climate models did not forecast it, even though man-made carbon dioxide, the gas thought to be responsible for warming our planet, has continued to rise. So what on Earth is going on?
How “inconvenient” (Geddit?) It is heartening to see some push back against the “conventional wisdom” that the science is settled. That is, and always was, a bogus contention inspired by global warming/climate change harpies like Fat Al and fuelled by ever increasing grants to those who were able to connect the dots and come up with the correct answer. Man made climate change. In the meantime, the idiots in Congress are trying to rush through the Cap and Tax bill that will destroy our competetiveness in the world and cause all our energy prices to sky rocket. Which makes the next paragraph even more interesting,
…he makes it clear that he has not become a sceptic; he believes that this cooling will be temporary, before the overwhelming force of man-made global warming reasserts itself. So what can we expect in the next few years? Both sides have very different forecasts. The Met Office says that warming is set to resume quickly and strongly. It predicts that from 2010 to 2015 at least half the years will be hotter than the current hottest year on record (1998). Sceptics disagree. They insist it is unlikely that temperatures will reach the dizzy heights of 1998 until 2030 at the earliest. It is possible, they say, that because of ocean and solar cycles a period of global cooling is more likely.
In either case, why the mad rush? If you believe, like the Met Office that we will seeing temps rise in the next five years, let’s just wait to see if it happens and deal with it then. After all, we are only talking of a half degree increase, at most. The problem is, that Fat Al Gore needs to make a fat load of money from his shakedown business selling carbon credits to morons, a group of whom he addressed this weekend, from The Wisconsin State Journal,
“We’re very close to that political tipping point,” Gore said at the Society of Environmental Journalists annual conference at the Madison Concourse Hotel. “Never before in human history has a single generation been asked to make such difficult and consequential decisions.”
How about the aptly named “greatest” generation who went to war to save the entire world from the madman Hitler? (Update: Don Surber devastates Gore’s ridiculous contention.) The Goracle, when he’s not busy inventing the intertubes, also likes a robust debate, so sure is he of his facts. Oh wait, he hates any dissent, as we see here,
Gore has been criticized for not publicly debating his position since the release of his 2006 Oscar-winning documentary, “An Inconvenient Truth.” In what organizers said was a rarity, Gore took half a dozen questions from journalists, including one from Phelim McAleer, an Irish filmmaker who asked Gore to address nine errors in his film identified by a British court in 2007. Gore responded that the court ruling supportedthe showing of his film in British schools. When McAleer tried to debate further, his microphone was cut off by the moderators.
Naughty journalist! How dare you question this hypocritical sack of lard? Oh, and about the court ruling “supporting” his propaganda being shown in English schools. Old Al always likes to say he “won” that case, but he is being disingenuous at best. Which is how posh people, like me, politely describe liars. From Fox News,
Justice Burton identified nine significant errorswithin the former presidential candidate’s documentary as he assessed whether it should be shown to school children. He agreed that Gore’s film was “broadly accurate” in its presentation of the causes and likely effects of climate change but said that some of the claims were wrong and had arisen in “the context of alarmism and exaggeration.” and,
In what is a rare judicial ruling on what children can see in the class-room, Justice Barton was at pains to point out that the “apocalyptic vision” presented in the film was politically partisan and not an impartial analysis of the science of climate change(…)He agreed it could be shown but on the condition that it was accompanied by new guidance notes for teachers to balance Gore’s “one-sided” views.
Hardly a resounding legal victory, huh Al? Then again, he is not a man who has allowed himself to be restrained in any way by mere facts. Why start now?
Generally, it is good to see that some folks are getting wise to the boondoggle that is known as climate change. I was feeling pleasantly relieved when this popped up on my radar. Juan McCain’s little lap dog, and assistant RINO started yapping, via Free Republic,
Sen. Lindsey Graham working with Sen. John Kerry on climate bill. Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina publicly announced his support for climate legislation on Sunday in an op-ed column with Democratic Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts. “Our partnership represents a fresh attempt to find consensus that adheres to our core principles and leads to both a climate change solution and energy independence,” the two senators wrote in The New York Times. “It begins now, not months from now — with a road to 60 votes in the Senate.”
Just like Poppa McCain reaching across the aisle in an attempt to be bi-partisan, which always ends up with a Republican concession of some sort. This really comes as no surprise to anyone, however it remains important to let your Senator know, that a vote for Cap and Trade is a sure fire way to join the already swollen ranks of the unemployed in 2010. The numpties in Taxachussets have proven time and time again that they are beyond hope, I mean seriously, Kennedy, Kerry and Frank. The state is hopeless. But the good folks of South Carolina can easily rid themselves of this RINO poltroon. Nice try Al, and you had a pretty good run for your money, but you’ve been busted!
More on this subject, plus video, over at Big Hollywood.
Ed Morrissey has more over at Hot Air.
The skinny according to Big Government.
October 11, 2009
Tags: Al Gore, Climate change Posted in: Corruption, Politics
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