ha ha ... Al Gore proven completely wrong yet again so just moves the goal posts....good 'ol libby trick...."did i say no arctic ice by 2014? well, ahemm, make that 2020....yeah, yeah no arctic ice by 2020...let's go with that"
Saturday, 06 September 2014 20:00
Al Gore's Climate Calculations Prove Wrong — Again
Five years ago at a UN Conference on Climate Change, Al Gore
predicted that, global warming having reached such an unbridled pitch, the North Pole might be completely ice-free during the summer of 2014. This climate change crusader had made the same claim when he accepted the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. Was he right? Let's take a look.
The Danish Meteorological Institute's (DMI)
Centre for Ocean and Ice closely monitors Arctic sea ice extent and publishes a monthly plot on its website. According to DMI, 2014 is the second summer in a row that the ice cap has expanded. Data from the U.S.
National Snow & Ice Data Center (NSIDC) agrees, showing 2014's summer ice well within the average range for the years 1961-2010. In fact, NSIDC's website points out an ice extent decline rate of "slightly less than the average" for the month of August.
This year's sea ice surge is no trifle. The U.K.'s Daily Mail notes that NSIDC's numbers indicate a 43 percent increase of 1.71 million square kilometers of ice over the course of the last two summers. DMI's statistics are even more dramatic because of a different measuring system that agency uses. It reports a 63 percent rise — from 2.7 million to 4.4 million square kilometers — over the same time period.
So it looks like Al Gore was wrong, despite his Nobel Peace Prize. But we can forgive an honest mistake, can't we?
If only it were honest. Gore had based his assertion on what he called "fresh" research by this U.S. Naval Post-Graduate School professor, Dr. Wieslav Maslowski. "I don’t know when [the data] were released, but I just got them yesterday," Gore had told his UN audience, quoting a 75 percent likelihood. Later when
The Times confronted the Nobel laureate, his office backpedaled, admitting the estimate was a "ballpark figure" from a conversation several years earlier between Gore and Maslowski. But the misquoted scientist told
The Times, "It's unclear to me how this figure was arrived at."
That may explain why Gore didn't return calls to
The Daily Mail for comment about the 2014 summer sea ice spread.
Unabashed and undaunted, the former U.S. vice president continues his campaign to save the planet. His Climate Reality Project
website reads: "The majority of Americans believe man-man climate change is real. So why haven't we taken action to face this challenge?" This time he doesn't bother to specify where he got his "majority" statistic, but with his track record, would we trust his source?
To answer his question, however, we'll turn to a recent
Gallup poll which shows that 65 percent of us do, in fact, believe global warming is happening or will in the future. The poll doesn't specify what we think of the "man-made" part of Gore's contention, but it does answer his question about why we haven't taken action. It's because most of us know global warming is not a threat. Only half of the 65 percent of believers think global warming will ever endanger our way of life.
But what about the polar bears' way of life? That's the big concern regarding sea ice extent because the ice is their hunting ground. Naysayers expect that less of it means they'll starve, and Al Gore adds to the worry by saying
vast numbers of them will drown. Surely this summer's ice spread is good news for them. The bad news is that DMI and NSIDC declare Arctic ice continues in a steady overall decline since 1979. Does this mean the end is near for polar bears?
It should come as no surprise that the answer is "no," and Gore and his alarmist cronies are wrong again. Polar bears have "certainly been around through the last interglacial period," biologist and government advisor Mitchell Taylor told Canada's
CBC News. "During that interglacial it was warmer than it is now: we had pine trees on Baffin Island, deciduous forests north of the Arctic Circle. Polar bears had to survive that or we wouldn't be seeing polar bears now."
Gore's disproven predictions add more notches to the ever-growing tally of climate alarmist prophecies that have been proven dead wrong. Alex Newman recently published a must-read comprehensive exposé of these "
Embarrassing Predictions" in
The New American.
From catastrophic global cooling claims made in the 1960s and 1970s, to cataclysmic forecasts of global warming ever since — starvation, mass migration of "climate refugees," threats to national security, etc. — not one conjecture has come even close to reality.
Yet the "Great Global Warming Swindle" continues to form the basis of national and international climate policies, wasting billions of tax dollars and stifling economies. John McManus, president of
The John Birch Society, sums up these policies as "costly and unnecessary solutions" to a problem that doesn't exist, which leads to the conclusion that climate alarmists such as Gore aren't the only ones who are wrong. The majority of Americans who detect no threat from global warming are obviously mistaken, too
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anyway, back to the climate fraud discussion for Mr Consquences, the proud holder of extra points:
Former FBI Agent in Charge of Environmental Crimes says UN-funded ‘science’ a fraud on the American people
As a federal agent, I spent a career putting thieves, cheats, and con men in jail. Retired, now I can't keep quiet any more with what I see going on. I have to try and get my countrymen to open their eyes and ears to the cons around them.
In the following weeks I will be writing about what I think are the biggest frauds being perpetrated on the American people.
This week I will focus on the fraud of deceiving the public that increasing carbon dioxide by human sources is causing the planet immeasurable harm.
First, there is currently .045% CO2 in the atmosphere over the earth right now.
That this is the lowest carbon dioxide level since the beginning of time is the best guess of our scientists.
There are 200 active volcanoes in the world. Studies show that a “burp” from one of these volcanoes puts as much CO2 into the atmosphere as the entire population of the United States does in three years of “CO2 polluting.” Science doesn’t know if CO2 causes holes in the atmosphere or if holes in the atmosphere cause CO2 increases.
According to Dr. Art Robinson, who was instrumental in forming the EPA in 1971, and the first EPA director, and who is one of the world’s foremost recognized experts on environmental issues, there is no evidence that CO2 releases by human sources causes global warming.
Further, in 1998, 31,000 scientists signed Dr. Robinson’s petition to Congress urging Congress not to sign any world or international agreements to reduce CO2 or other greenhouse gas emissions because the fact is that there is not one single piece of scientific evidence supporting that release of CO2 or greenhouse gases by human sources causes global warming period!
But, of much more importance, what science does know is: 1.) CO2 is essential for the existence of human life and to decrease CO2 emissions would be detrimental to human health! (Bet you never heard that on NBC, ABC, or CBS and that’s probably because it is a scientific fact.), and 2.) IPCC studies on global warming are not science driven.
Dr. Robinson also believes that “there is no global warming” and he and Dr. Roy Spencer and Dr. Bernd Palmer, other well-known and respected scientists, say that the earth has cooled by .7 degrees Celsius in the past three years. The cooling may be the reason the global warming fanatics have been so quiet lately.
Dr. Robinson, who is responsible for the Big 8 Environmental laws like clean air and clean water, also now believes that the EPA, that he created and directed, should be eliminated! It is causing more damage to the economy of the United States than it is good for the environment! This is a belief shared by scientists, economists, and average citizens. EPA duties should be turned over to the states. It is an agency that is legislating by regulating, at the whim of the President, and is out of control.
By the way, over 9,000 of the 31,000 signers to Dr. Robinson’s petition were PhD experts on environmental issues! Of course, Al Gore knows more than they do! He should, because he invented the internet, according to him.
The UN funded the United National Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), financed all the global warming “studies” that Al Gore and others rely upon for their scientific data. The IPCC however only funds a “study” if the premise of the study group, waiting for the grant, is that “there is global warming.”
Let me say that again, the IPCC only finances a “study” if the study group agrees to assume there is global warming, as their confidential premise, before they begin their “study”! There has not been one study funded by the IPCC that has studied “if there is” global warming! Nor has the IPCC studied what effect human CO2 emissions may have on earth’s temperatures or what effect sun spots have on earth’s temperature!
These are the scientific studies Al Gore and the Gorites rely on, solely!
What they are is as phony as Gore and the environmentalists that support him!
But the worst part is what these “environmentalists” have done to the manufacturing base of this nation in the name of “carbon reduction.” Any idiot will tell you it has moved our manufacturing base to China along with, now get this, our food processing operations. China, of all places, has the worst environment concerns of all the manufacturing nations on earth, and they are now making your Krakus ham! [Editor’s Note: Research if you disagree]
The top scientists in the world believe that without CO2 we could not survive and there should not be any efforts to reduce CO2 emissions by manmade sources or anything else until we can find out what is the real scientific truth.
The IPCC studies on global warming used by Al Gore and many others are unscientific, funded by the UN IPCC and are a fraud.
