First there were deniers, then flat-Earthers, and a few other insults. When the entire argument fell apart, Al Gore didn’t give up. He just moved the notch up a level. Now we’re all racists:
Which of course begs the question:
But, a totally unscientific ( imagine THAT when discussing Al Gore! ) related question also arises based on his statement:
A few years ago, Harold Camping predicted the apocalypse would occur on May 21, 2011. When it predicted this date, it was a few years away and no one really cared.
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Now here it is in May 2011, and suddenly EVERYONE is discussing the latest End Of The World As We Know It
Now, the way I understand it, the center of this theory is a massive coronal mass ejection will engulf the planet. Something like this:
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Oddly enough, Knowing
But I digress. His ACTUAL prediction is the Rapture will occur tomorrow, not the end of the world. Those who believe in God will go to Heaven and the heathens will stay here on Earth till it is destroyed in OCTOBER 21, 2011. That just shoots the whole point of my post all to hell because I went to all the trouble of checking:
There are no CME’s. Since it takes a couple of days to get here, there is no way a CME will end the planet as we know it tomorrow.
Soccer is therefore on. Unless of course the other great profit, Al Gore, continues to be wrong and our miserable, incredibly wet spring rains out the sixth game of my boy’s season.
Check back here October 19, 2011 to see for sure of the world is ending or not. Until then, if a whole bunch of your very religious friends suddenly go missing, be afraid.
Be very, very, afraid.
Anyone mention it’s cold lately? I mean, REAL cold?
This Friday is also the last day of the Chicago Climate Exchange. The mechanism for cap and trade will be defunct.
Coincidence?
My bud Jeff pointed me to an article by a fellow named Jeff. I’m assuming he didn’t write it. In this article, the South Dakota State Legislature isn’t too happy with the IPCC and therefore is suggesting their schools teach both sides of the global warming argument. This really bugs Jeff, the blogger, not my friend. A couple of weeks ago another friend of mine who goes by L’Ombre de l’Olivier wrote an article as well. In it he discusses how the IPCC basically should not have assumed people would just blindly accept their data and should have defended themselves better.
That folks, is the crux of this entire debate.
From the get-go, with the release of the hockey stick report, one side said it’s a fact, shut up, and pay up. There is no need for discussion. The debate is over. If you tried to question things, you were taunted. No one ever wanted to simply discuss the science behind what was being crammed down out throats. Nevermind the fact some things were obviously amiss, if you mentioned them, they just didn’t count. Then the debate morphed with the advent of The Day After Tomrorrow into “climate change”. That encapsulated everything. No way the global warming advocates could be wrong this way huh? If it happens, BAM! There’s the evidence. Hollywood ran wild with that concept:
All the while, everyone was still told to shut up and pay up.
In order to fix this climate change problem that no one was allowed to discuss, all you had to do was send a bunch of money to the government who would in turn spend it as they saw fit to fix that problem no was allowed to discuss. That’s when things got real. People suddenly wanted to discuss it a little more. Only problem was, the people who started all this with their doomsday hockey stick report couldn’t. First they said they lost their data ( how do you LOSE weather data? ). Then it changed when a bunch of low-life thieves stole Phil’s email. In one of those, they basically talk about how they just more or less made the whole thing up.
That’s when the damage control began. Plan A seems to be, for a lot of those people, to resort to the original plan. To tell everyone to just forget about the forged data and look at all the OTHER evidence. This caused the OTHER evidence to collapse just as rapidly. So now we’re back to Jeff Masters and the original concept, just shut up and pay up. Don’t question it or you WILL be taunted mercilessly.
But, this time, people just aren’t jumping in so quick.
I’m guessing the Germans, along with L’Ombre, are tired of being told how to think:
The tide is turning rapidly on the global warming debate. Not so much because there is some sudden wave of data that says otherwise, but because people don’t like to be told blindly what they HAVE to do. Telling people the debate is over, shut up and pay, just ain’t gonna work any more.
Thought I’d give everyone a few minutes to read the previous post before digging into this one.
The statement comes from a key 2007 report to the U.N., and asserts that by 2020 yields from rain-fed agriculture could be reduced by up to 50% in some African countries thanks to climate change.
But this weekend, a key author of the team behind that report told The Sunday Times that he could find no evidence to support his own group’s claim. The revelation follows the retraction by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) of a claim that the Himalayan glaciers might all melt by 2035, dubbed ‘Glaciergate’ by commentators.
That’s right, Africa’s not in peril either. There is no evidence to support the assumption that Al Gore claimed that famine would be catastrophic in 2020.
For a long I’ve complained the United Nations is useless. Now it’s becoming obvious they are a global menace throughout the entire agency.
Remember when all the world was freaking out over the hockey-stick? Well, seems now the hockey-stick was never anything to worry about. It was contrived, to put it nicely.
Now, we have Himalayagate:
That’s right, the IPCC printed a “finding” that was based on no science at all. None. Nada. Remember, these are the Novel Peace Prize guys. It was this “research” that led to groups like Greenpeace to put stuff like this on the internet:
Which of course led Al Gore to give speeches about the melting ice:
Which of course, led to the Nobel Peace Prize people to give him an award as well.
But, it’s all wrong. And, the IPCC never, ever, had any evidence to say it was ever even occurring in the first place.
And not one single academia questioned it.
That was Al Gore at the COP15 meetings that resulted in nothing being accomplished even though Obama insisted SOMETHING, anything, be done. Fortunately nothing was. Danny Glover now thinks them doing nothing in Denmark resulted in the Haiti earthquake. I’m sure he’ll get a Nobel for that too.
Danny Glover did what I think about every sane person on the planet expected someone to do eventually. He blamed the earthquake in Haiti on global warming.
“When we see what we did at the climate summit in Copenhagen, this is the response, this is this is
what happens, you know what I’m sayin’?”
I think he’s “sayin” this was a Happening event. That mother nature, so bummed out that a bunch of rich white guys couldn’t convince their statesmen to shell out trillions of dollars to support Al Gore’s poetry, inflicted immense pain and suffering on a bunch of incredibly poor people with absolutely no ability whatsoever to affect anything, anywhere.
I think it’s kinda stupid since there is absolutely no known correlation between the climate and earthquakes. Both are ever changing. Both are more powerful than man. Both will continue long after man is no longer a factor on Earth. And, trying to connect the two only makes someone look crazier than Al Gore.
( And yeah, others have said some incredibly stupid things about Haiti, but their issues don’t directly correlate a sham that allows the federal government to take my money. )
BTW, text HAITI to 90999. Answer yes when it asks for a verification. If you question why, a thousand scientists will claim you believe in a flat Earth, man never walked on the Moon, and aliens are being embalmed in Nevada.
Now, for a realistic debate on Haiti, I think this is a good time to evacuate the entire island. I know that involves more than just Haiti. They have pretty well ruined it over the last 600 years or so. That is part of what is making things that more difficult to deal with now. Bring them all to the US since the rest of the world talks the talk, but expects the US to walk the walk. Let the island fix itself for 100 years or so. Then let 100,000 go back. In my opinion, that’s the only way Haiti will ever be able to support itself in the long run. That’s not a devil thing. That’s not a global warming thing. That is simply stating the fact the island is pretty much ruined and will be for a long time.
In an effort to convince the planet to spend more money on stocks Al Gore owns, a bunch of people got together in Denmark. They called themselves COP15. The problem is there aren’t fifteen of them. It should be called the COP18000 or so. The problem that creates is in an effort to convince everyone to ignore the bad science and just listen to them, they created 46,200 tons of carbon. That’s a lot. It would take 2,300 typical Americans one year to match that. Hell, it would take 660,000 Ethiopians to match that. They accomplished this by flying in private jets and renting over 200 limousines. Thoroughly convinced by the COP15 that what they went there to promote is truly what they want to promote, they’ll take limousines to the airport to fly their private jets home to tell us how to reduce our carbon footprint by taxing an imaginary concept that does nothing to reduce carbon. However, it did give Al Gore yet another reason to state facts completely wrong in such a profound way as to merit another Nobel.
Not to be outdone, mother nature came back with her own shot:
I can’t get an exact estimate, but the carbon footprint of Mayon is very big. Seeing a goldmine, Al Gore calculated the carbon footprint of Mayon with an abacus and pencil and paper and figured out how much more we need to pay in taxes to earn him his next $100,000,000. Obama plans to work with Nancy Pelosi to sponsor new legislation she will call “Cap and trade some more”. Obama is meeting with his insults czar preparing for any opposition to his new plan.
The only upside for Earth lately of course was Elin Nordegren eliminating one really big SUV with a golf club.
Al Gore dug deep in his soul to come up with his response to climategate:
“Well, they took a few phrases out of context. These are private e-mails, more than 10 years old, and they’ve tried to blow it up into something that it’s really not,” Gore, a former US vice president told CNN…….
“If you take one little thing from 10 years ago out of context and describe it inaccurately, then it becomes a controversy without any real substance,” Gore said…….
And to hammer home the “evidence” people are supposed to believe since the original evidence is now questionable:
“The north polar ice-cap is melting before our very eyes. It’s been the size of the continental United States for most of the last three million years and now suddenly 40 percent of it is gone and the rest of it is expected to disappear within five, 10, 15 years.”
Some scientists aren’t too terribly worried about this. Al Gore doesn’t want to hear why. But, it’s fairly plausible, it’s called a Milankovitch Cycle. Now, several things happen during a Milankovitch cycle. One of them is something a lot of scientists will acknowledge is true. The Earth wobbles.
Crazy huh? It’s true. Seth Carlo Chandler figured this out right before the global warming debate heated up. That was in 1891. Now, on top of that, you’ve got a more pronounced wobble that’s a little slower. This one will move the Earth’s axis a total of 23 degrees over 26,000 years. That’s a heck of a wobble. But, it’s amazingly slow. According to some, we’re in a precession now. The effect of that is compared to 100 years ago, the Earth’s North Pole is now pointing more directly at the sun and conversely, Antarctica would see less sun. Now, some people would argue that more sunlight means more warmth. Conversely, of course, less sunlight usually makes it colder. OK, following that logic, you’d expect the North Pole would be melting and Antarctica would be expanding. Crazy huh? According to the IPCC and everyone concerned, all the ice is melting and the oceans will rise 4 feet because of that. Well, guess what. Gore is quick to point out the North Pole is doing exactly what a Milnkovitch cycle would predict. But what about Antarctica?
That’s right, Al Gore is quick to use only the evidence he wants you to hear, ignore the evidence he doesn’t want you to hear, and demean any contradictory source.
That is exactly what Phil Jones does in his emails.
”We’re not going to take a lot of time debating this anymore.”
Barbara Boxer announced that decision in February 2007. The reason I bitched about it then was she opposed Kyoto before deciding the debate was over. A lot happened between 1997 and 2007 tho, to be fair.
Primarily the hockey stick sent everyone fleeing for a carbon free spot on the planet so they wouldn’t die instantly of global warming that was supposed to end life as we know it about three years ago.
Some people weren’t quite so convinced the hockey stick meant anything. By the time Boxer decided the debate was over, the hockey stick was already proven flawed, if not fraudulent, and dismissed. Now it’s become evident that the data used to garner those scientists Nobel prizes and convince Al Gore to make a for-profit movie that got him a Nobel as well, which in turn prompted Barbara Boxer to invest in green companies and do her best to shut off all dissension, was the latter of the two assumptions. It’s fraud. It wasn’t enough that the Earth was cooling while they were telling us it was warming, but the emails stating they were fudging numbers for grant money seems to have gotten some people’s attention. But, to date, not Barbara Boxer.
Simultaneously, President Obama is set to fly to Denmark. While there accepting his Nobel prize for what he might do someday, he will ask other industrialized nations to match what the United States might do someday. Additionally, today he announced he could give everyone jobs if we just taxed carbon. Simple concept huh? Think about it. People used to laugh about taxing the air you breathe. The reason the IMF feels this way is the free market trading of carbon credits has pretty much collapsed as they are becoming worthless. Obama is now plugging a plan that is failing right now to solve the problem that probably doesn’t exist.
In the meantime, the heavy snow forecasts for San Antonio and Houston have been downgraded to a light dusting.
And, as my beautiful and well read wife pointed out, although the global warming prediction seems to be going down in flames, another prediction seems to be playing out perfectly. Read this:
A couple of players are a little off, but the premise, bam!
I really don’t think he Crichton would have ever pondered just how crazy this whole thing has gotten.
