You Can't Make This Stuff Up
Misthiocracy, over on the Member Feed, presents Al Gore's explanation for record winter cold, ice and snow afflicting the United States.
Last week on his show Bill O’Reilly asked, “Why has southern New York turned into the tundra?” and then said he had a call into me. I appreciate the question.
As it turns out, the scientific community has been addressing this particular question for some time now and they say that increased heavy snowfalls are completely consistent with what they have been predicting as a consequence of man-made global warming:
“In fact, scientists have been warning for at least two decades that global warming could make snowstorms more severe. Snow has two simple ingredients: cold and moisture. Warmer air collects moisture like a sponge until it hits a patch of cold air. When temperatures dip below freezing, a lot of moisture creates a lot of snow.”
“A rise in global temperature can create all sorts of havoc, ranging from hotter dry spells to colder winters, along with increasingly violent storms, flooding, forest fires and loss of endangered species.”
What a surprise! Everything seems to be "completely consistent" with Anthropogenic Global Warming.
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Jun '10
Re: You Can't Make This Stuff Up
It's impossible to be incorrect. What's the saying? If you are a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
May '10
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Al Gore continuing to talk about man-made global warming is completely consistent with Al Gore being a hypocritical hack.
Jun '10
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At this rate Anthropogenic Global Warming will cause the next ice age...you know those periods where much of the northern hemisphere is frozen...and that have been occurring for the last 2 billion years.
Perhaps someday His Nobel Laureate Highness should get off his rump and actually debate this "universally-accepted science fact" with just a handful of the tens of thousands of real scientists who refute it rather than ducking cameras wherever he speaks and retreating back to his groundhog hole.
Dec '10
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I had a post in the member feed and the title was quite serious.
I think Punxsawtuny Phil is more of a scientist than James Hansen, let alone Al Gore.
May '10
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War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. Cold is hot.
When will this baloney peddler be laughed off the stage?
May '10
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No matter who wins the Superbowl, it is well within the predictions of climate science.
Jan '11
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But if you think about it, there couldn't have possibly been any big storms before global warming, could there? I don't think so either. It's unfathomable...
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AmishDude: I had a post in the member feed and the title was quite serious.
I think Punxsawtuny Phil is more of a scientist than James Hansen, let alone Al Gore. · Feb 3 at 5:35pm
Amish Dude, I saw your post. I tried to come up with a pithy comment, but you say it all. Hey, I know: maybe we should start calling Dr. Hansen "Punxsutawney Jim."
Dec '10
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As I observed in one of Claire's threads, the anthropogenic global warming True Believers have a lot in common with the global Jewish cabal True Believers. Each thinks that every bad thing and untoward event in the world has its root cause in the target of their obsession. I suppose that we should rename Gore's movie The Inconvenient Protocols of the Elders of Global Warming, or Mein Warmth, or something along those lines.
Nov '10
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The best question to ask any AGW disciple: "What would you accept as proof that man-made global warming is not occurring?"
Oct '10
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Well, Al Gore is almost correct: eventually, the average global humidity will probably rise. But to my knowledge this hasn't happened yet so I dunno what he's talking about.
Dec '10
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Proof that anthropogenic global warming is not occurring would be a drop in global average temperatures for a sustained period of 10-20 years despite increasing greenhouse gas emissions.
Jul '10
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James Hansen is America's answer to the IPCC "data adjusters", we "know" that temperatures were lower then and higher now, so we will hypothesize instrument biases and correct for them to give us the answers we are looking for from data points that are totally flawed in placement, consistency of environment, and other factors to begin with.
When 90% of bias adjustments match the adjusters' bias, the result is punning, not science.
Jan '11
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Since water vapor is a greenhouse gas, let's hope that global warming doesn't actually warm the waters, putting more water vapor in the atmosphere, making the problem worse, ad inf.
Nov '10
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Okay Al. That means that...our whole solar system...could be, like...one tiny atom in the fingernail of some other giant being. This is too much! That means...one tiny atom in my fingernail could be...Could be one little...tiny universe. Could l buy some carbon credits from you?
Jul '10
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Michael L
Proof that anthropogenic global warming is not occurring would be a drop in global average temperatures for a sustained period of 10-20 years despite increasing greenhouse gas emissions. · Feb 3 at 8:02pm
Flat temps with substantially increasing emissions don't suffice? Why?
Nov '10
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I'll take global warming over global cooling any day. I mean if the average temp has to move...
Unfortunately, Joe Bastardi predicts a cooler climate for the next 20-30 years...bummer. Unfortunately again, I give him more credence than Omniscient Al.
I hope Bastardi is wrong and Al is mute.
May '10
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I invented, and wish to popularize the term global moroning.
On a more serious note, this graph from Watts Up With That, says alot:
http://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/easterbrook_fig5.png
Dec '10
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George Savage
AmishDude: I had a post in the member feed and the title was quite serious.
I think Punxsawtuny Phil is more of a scientist than James Hansen, let alone Al Gore. · Feb 3 at 5:35pm
Amish Dude, I saw your post. I tried to come up with a pithy comment, but you say it all. Hey, I know: maybe we should start calling Dr. Hansen "Punxsutawney Jim." · Feb 3 at 7:21pm
Well, that's good. I think it's against the Ricochet termth and conditionth to pith on a thread.
Dec '10
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Palaeologus
Michael L
Proof that anthropogenic global warming is not occurring would be a drop in global average temperatures for a sustained period of 10-20 years despite increasing greenhouse gas emissions. · Feb 3 at 8:02pm
Flat temps with substantially increasing emissions don't suffice? Why? · Feb 3 at 8:25pm
If temperatures hold steady as you say, then one could still make the argument that increasing carbon dioxide levels are holding global temperatures at an artificial high, and that anthropogenic emissions affect global climate. Natural climate variation throughout the Earth's history has been cyclical, so only a period of cooling in spite of increased greenhouse gas (GHG) concentrations would demonstrate that the high GHG levels are not affecting the planet's natural climate cycle.