It’s not a good time to be in the Global Warmonger business. The world’s temperature has been stagnant for a decade. This is after being told by every alarmist with a microphone that we were at the “tipping point.” Yes, there are still those who are concerned about Climate Change. They still call us deniers and dumb, but their arguments are starting to be ignored. If you cry wolf over and over eventually no one listens anymore.
Bret Stephens has an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal on the Global Warming fizzle. I know, I know… liberals don’t read the Wall Street Journal. If it’s not in the New York Times, Newsweek. Salon, or the Cannibal Huffington Post they can’t read it, but Stephens makes some great points. God forbid people read things outside their comfort zone.
Consider the case of global warming, another system of doomsaying prophecy and faith in things unseen.
As with religion, it is presided over by a caste of spectacularly unattractive people pretending to an obscure form of knowledge that promises to make the seas retreat and the winds abate. As with religion, it comes with an elaborate list of virtues, vices and indulgences. As with religion, its claims are often non-falsifiable, hence the convenience of the term “climate change” when thermometers don’t oblige the expected trend lines. As with religion, it is harsh toward skeptics, heretics and other “deniers.” And as with religion, it is susceptible to the earthly temptations of money, power, politics, arrogance and deceit.
The religion marches on even in the face of Climategate 2.0. After hurricane Katrina, Al Gore blamed the storm on global warming. Now the United States is in the longest period without a category 3 hurricane in over a century. No, that’s not alarming, so no one knows about it.
The computer models that predicted alarming temperature increases have all been wrong. The Earth has warmed gradually over the past century, but nothing about the change has been alarming or unprecedented. After 25 years of dire predictions and non-stop alarmism the issue is dead. The alarmists were wrong. They’re always wrong.
With the world facing a debt crisis that threatens economic prosperity, nations can no longer afford to fund these rabbit hole theories. Alarmists have wasted billions and billions of dollars on research and advocacy. Imagine how many lives could have been saved if the money was used to provide impoverished parts of the world with clean water, or to fights diseases like malaria.
Since losing the 2000 election Al Gore has become one of the saddest demagogues in politics today. Gore has refused to debate and he’s refused to apologize for his incorrect, crazy predictions. The only way Gore can make news now is to make idiotic claims. It’s no longer good enough to equate global warming skeptics to Holocaust deniers. Now global warming skeptics are the new racists.
The former vice president recalled how society succeeded in marginalizing racists and said climate change skeptics must be defeated in the same manner.
“Secondly, back to this phrase ‘win the conversation,’” he continued. “There came a time when friends or people you work with or people you were in clubs with — you’re much younger than me so you didn’t have to go through this personally — but there came a time when racist comments would come up in the course of the conversation and in years past they were just natural. Then there came a time when people would say, ‘Hey, man why do you talk that way, I mean that is wrong. I don’t go for that so don’t talk that way around me. I just don’t believe that.’ That happened in millions of conversations and slowly the conversation was won.”
It was only a matter of time before Al Gore climbed out of his hole. Gore has an op-ed today in the New York Times and he’s still beating the dead horse he’s been riding for decades. The Vice President who cried wolf has been warning us for decades about global warming. Nothing alarming has happened to the climate in that time except the coverage of the climate. Anyway, it appears Gore has changed his talking points on climategate since his last ill-informed statement back in December
Unfortunately, the reality of the danger we are courting has not been changed by the discovery of at least two mistakes in the thousands of pages of careful scientific work over the last 22 years by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
The careful scientific work by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change? The sheer fact that the IPCC exists is an example of “governmental bias.” Is it really shocking that an entire panel created to study climate change found climate change? When “big oil” funds a scientific study the results are ignored by the alarmists. Alarmists have kindly ignored the big bucks being made thanks to climate change. For the past decade the climage change business has been booming. Al Gore has a financial stake in climate change and the mastermind of the 2007 IPCC report Dr Rajendra Pachauri is making money as well.
It was in this newspaper that we first revealed how Pachauri has earned millions of pounds for his Delhi-based research institute Teri, and further details are still emerging of how he has parlayed his position into a worldwide business empire, including 17 lucrative contracts from the EU alone. But we should not expect the truth to break in too suddenly on this mass of vested interests. Too many people have too much at stake to allow the faith in man-made global warming, which has sustained them so long and which is today making so many of them rich, to be abandoned.
The truth is finally starting to come on this sad tale. Al Gore has always been a political opportunist. Gore’s name on the Nobel Peace Prize disgraced the award long before Obama made it official. Gore’s Oscar for An Inconvenient Truth may go down in history as one of Hollywood’s most ignorant moments of all time (that’s saying something). In a way this is the worst thing that ever could happen to Gore. Losing the election was painful, but Gore has always cared deeply about what others think of him. As the fraud and bad science add up on the theory of man-made global so does the ridicule for Al Gore.
Gore is now remembered for two things he invented. Everyone knows Al Gore didn’t event the internet, but for many Gore is the face of the Global Warming swindle. Maybe I’m wrong. I’ve been wrong about Al Gore before, but something tells me the gig is up.
Slate has a recent interview with alarmist Al Gore where he lies again. Gore is a buffoon, but he’s also a national treasure. Here’s the relevant part of the interview:
Q: How damaging to your argument was the disclosure of e-mails from the Climate Research Unit at East Anglia University?
A: To paraphrase Shakespeare, it’s sound and fury signifying nothing. I haven’t read all the e-mails, but the most recent one is more than 10 years old.
Sorry Gore, the most recent email was from November, 2009. Maybe Al Gore is from the future? What is the moral to this story? Al Gore thinks that lying and manipulating data is okay as long as you’re not caught or if it took place ten years ago. I think Gore meant to use this quote from Shakespeare: “For there is nothing either good or bad, thinking makes it so.”
Michael Mann’s infamous hockey stick graph that has been used for over ten years is a fraud. Mann scared the world into believing that world temperatures are warmer than any time during the past 1,000 years. When some skeptics asked to see the data from his model, Mann refused to release the data. The alarmist groupthink is so prevalent on this issue that Mann was under no pressure to prove his findings, even after it was proven to be a fraud.
What good is a “peer-review” process if no one is actually reviewing anything? Fortunately, Climategate has proven once and for all that Mann is a fraud. Jo Nova produces a graph that makes it clear just how brazen the fraud of the Hockey Stick is.
During the middle ages the Earth was significantly warmer than it is now. Also, the graph shows a steady increase in temperatures that suggests a natural and normal cycle. So what is the settled science? The Earth has warmed steadily over the last half century. The last ten years the world has cooled marginally. There is no alarming climate change. The only alarming thing are humans who are so consumed with worry that they want to punish Americans with pointless, excessive taxation.
Al Gore won an Oscar and a Nobel Peace prize for pushing this fraud. This is the scandal of the century. Even the level-headed Economist can’t recognize this modern day Wizard of Oz. This week’s cover boldly declares “Stopping Climate Change.” Does anyone realize how stupid that statement is? The climate always changes. Yesterday it was sunny and 80 degrees here in Florida and today it’s 56 and raining. The Economist isn’t completely moronic. They give themselves some wiggle room on this issue.
This newspaper believes that global warming is a serious threat, and that the world needs to take steps to try to avert it. That is the job of the politicians. But we do not believe that climate change is a certainty. There are no certainties in science.
I’m pretty certain about gravity, that the Earth is round, and that the Sun will come up tomorrow.
If you’re just an average American you probably don’t know that since 1998 worldwide temperatures have been getting cooler. It’s probably because the billion-dollar global warming industry has been spending so much of its time convincing anyone who will listen that we’re on the edge of catastrophe. Al Gore promised that the “entire north polar ice cap will be completely gone in five years” just last December. No one told him that last year’s Arctic ice extent was normal (this year as well).
So what is an alarmist to do? The world isn’t warming, the ice isn’t melting, and Al Gore is going around making a fool of himself. The time has come to move the goalposts. Watts Up With That? has all the details. Watts points out the absurdity of the alarmist blog Real Climate and its take on the Global Climate Change forum.
We hypothesize that the established pre-1998 trend is the true forced warming signal, and that the climate system effectively overshot this signal in response to the 1997/98 El Niño. This overshoot is in the process of radiatively dissipating, and the climate will return to its earlier defined, greenhouse gas-forced warming signal. If this hypothesis is correct, the era of consistent record-breaking global mean temperatures will not resume until roughly 2020.
There you have it! No need to worry about warming until around 2020. Shouldn’t we be more concerned that there’s no possible way Barack Obama can be president in 2020? Perhaps we should be making arrangements to change the Constitution so that Obama can rule us forever and save the planet!
But I digress… global warming isn’t happening. There’s no evidence to suggest anything abnormal has occurred in our climate over the last 100 years. Al Gore and the rest of the alarmists should be embarrassed, but since most people don’t know or don’t care Gore and co. will continue to make ignorant speeches and get paid for it.
Help Save the Polar Bears
My doodle for Google expresses how I want the world to pay attention to how Polar bears are on the verge of extinction and the great priorities we must take in order to stop this, such as stopping the increase in Global Warming.
Name: Alex Jordan
Age: 15
School: TAYLORVIEW JR HIGH
City, State: Idaho Falls, ID
Dear Alex Jordan,
I appreciate your passion for art but I’m less inclined to tolerate your uninformed and misguided beliefs about vicious Polar Bears and the theory of Global Warming. I see that you’re 15 years old, so I guess that you haven’t had a chance to learn that Polar Bears are, in fact, not on the “verge of extinction.” This isn’t your fault, really. If your only information about Polar Bears comes from the public school system and WWF commercials, then I can understand why you’re so concerned.
You will be very happy to know that the number of Polar Bears has been increasing for some time now (25% the past decade in Canada). Also, the amount of ice in the Arctic is within the average standard deviation. I’m sorry, given your public school background, that you probably don’t know what standard deviation is, though I’m quite sure you know all about condoms and that some people have two daddies. What I mean by “standard deviation” is that things are normal at the North Pole.
Also, you’ll be excited to learn that global temperatures have been trending cooler for the past decade. There hasn’t been any alarming shift in worldwide temperatures. I know that two years ago Nobel Prize winner and former Vice President Al Gore said the Arctic would be “ice free” in five years. Please don’t pay any attention to Gore; he was pro-life before he was pro-choice, pro-tobacco before he was anti-tobacco, and president before he wasn’t president. If history is any precedent, he’ll be a climate change skeptic before it’s all said and done.
If you’re looking for a new subject for your art I suggest a Google potato man. It would represent your state a lot better.
Sincerely,
Nemov
Last week I suggested that the Democrat Party change their mascot from its traditional Donkey to the Kool-Aid Pitcher Person. While I think it’s a great idea, there are always alternatives. I am determined to find the Democrat Party a new mascot. During the 2000 Presidential election fiasco the Democrats became the voice of recounts. They were all about counting every single Democrat vote. It didn’t even matter who had the most votes. More people wanted to vote for Al Gore and they were disenfranchised.
In 2004, Senator John Kerry faced a similar travesty in Ohio. Kerry lost by a narrow 150,000 votes and contemplated recounting the entire state. He still thinks the election was stolen. Keep in mind there has been proven widespread voter fraud in Wisconsin during both elections, each time Bush lost by a very narrow margin. One of the unsaid rules of politics is that voter fraud only applies to Republicans. In the state of Washington, it is perfectly fine for felons and dead people to vote illegally, as long as they vote for Democrats. This is why Sesame Street’s the Count von Count would be a great mascot. Not only does he love to count and recount, but he’s also technically a Vampire. Finally, the undead would find the representation they have been voting for all along. Besides Al Gore is there anyone on the planet that would be more excited about recounting all the votes in Florida. The Count is always ready for vote counting. The fangs and stuff could be considered extreme but the Democrat Party is all about inclusion and on a subconscious level, Liberals see the US Government as a way to suck us dry.
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