Al Gore Proposes Using Supercomputer Projections to Scare People on Global Warming

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ManBearPig!

A funny thing happened on the road to global warming. Mother Nature is simply not cooperating. Germany's Der Spiegel noted this "problem" for global warming alarmists yesterday:

Global warming appears to have stalled. Climatologists are puzzled as to why average global temperatures have stopped rising over the last 10 years. Some attribute the trend to a lack of sunspots, while others explain it through ocean currents.

...The Earth's average temperatures have stopped climbing since the beginning of the millennium, and it even looks as though global warming could come to a standstill this year.

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Der Spiegel quotes a noted climatologist about this lack of global warming:

The planet's temperature curve rose sharply for almost 30 years, as global temperatures increased by an average of 0.7 degrees Celsius (1.25 degrees Fahrenheit) from the 1970s to the late 1990s. "At present, however, the warming is taking a break," confirms meteorologist Mojib Latif of the Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences in the northern German city of Kiel. Latif, one of Germany's best-known climatologists, says that the temperature curve has reached a plateau. "There can be no argument about that," he says. "We have to face that fact."

So if you're Al Gore and your entire reputation (and wallet) is invested in the cause of global warming, how do you explain away the fact that there has been no notable increase in world temperatures during the first decade of the 21st century? Simple. You propose using supercomputers to scare people about global warming by presenting them with the convenient projections you desire. And this is exactly what Al Gore proposed yesterday at the SC09 supercomputing conference in Portland, Oregon:

Supercomputing technology, according to Al Gore, will help the human race reverse climate change, both by aiding the expansion of renewable energy use and by creating models that help people understand the severity of global warming. 

...Because of the way humans evolved, we are conditioned to react to immediate threats, such as animal predators or other humans who are warlike, Gore said. As a result, we rarely experience a visceral reaction to challenges like global warming in which cause and effect are separated by many years. Polls show that people are concerned about global warming, but do not rank the problem as highly as most other threats, Gore said.

Climate modeling aided by supercomputing, however, can "make impossibly large phenomena small enough to see, and impossibly small phenomena large enough for us humans to see," and thus induce the type of visceral reactions that spur political change, Gore said. 

So if the actual obervations such as noticing cooler than usual weather keeps people from buying into the global warming ideology, then scare the folks by using supercomputer projections of a future apocalypse.

One problem here. Weather people still can't do accurate predictions for five days in advance but we are supposed to believe that climatologists will be accurate with a 50 year projection? Supercomputers? Well, the Der Spiegel article covered that as well: 

The global temperature-monitoring network consists of 517 weather stations. But each reading is only a tiny dot on the big world map, and it has to be extrapolated to the entire region with the help of supercomputers. Besides, there are still many blind spots, the largest being the Arctic, where there are only about 20 measuring stations to cover a vast area. Climatologists refer to the problem as the "Arctic hole."

GIGO. Garbage In Garbage Out. The supercomputers are only as good as the information being fed into them. And a system as vast as the entire planet would require a lot more information than can be fed into them anytime in the foreseeable future. However, that won't stop Al Gore from issuing dire warnings based on highly incomplete data being fed into the supercomputers. 

ManBearPig!

In the same supercomputing article, it appears that Al Gore just can't let go of his claim about fathering the internet:

"One of the pieces of legislation that I look back on with the most pride and satisfaction was the establishment of the supercomputing centers and the information superhighway, and the national research and education network," Gore said. "In a very real way, supercomputers drove the evolution of the Internet because the task of connecting the large machines in order to make it possible for teams to work together without being physically present in the same building was really what led to the higher bandwidth connections that then modeled the incredible value of having high speed data transfer networks."

Ironically this statement was preceded by Gore's claim of ignorance on the subject:

Much of Gore's speech seemed tailored to a general audience, but he did spend a good amount of time discussing supercomputing despite admitting that "I'm the person in the room who knows the least about it." 

And probably also the person in the room who knows the least about climatology yet has made a career (and a financial killing) off the subject of global warming. 

—P.J. Gladnick is a freelance writer and creator of the DUmmie FUnnies blog.


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...it's easy, global warming has now caused global cooling!

...it's easy, global warming has now caused global cooling!

And it will soon cause hurricanes to 'spin' backwards!

v 

Al would have won in 2000 if he had only won in his own state!  

AL WHORE...

 The more information that comes to light, the worse things get for Al Gore's money transfer scheme. The BS that is "Global Warming" or "Climate Change" is being figured out by the masses, & they are rejecting it. I honestly don't know who the hell is still buying into this tripe.  This whole scam exposes how big of a piece of crap Gore is, & how far he is willing to go to screw you out of your money.

 

"...How blind can you be, don't you see...

...that the gambler lost all he does not have..."  

Nightwish

Heir Stupidicus strikes again

Der master moron iz gonna get'em......sneak up on 'em and tell 'em ahead of time what yer gonna do....LOL.....this guy is a full fledged moron!!!   All this after hundreds of scientists have said he is full of crap!!  we are in a cooling stage, not warming!!!  And the earth goes through cycles anyway...but it doesn't do much for his carbon selling business....whatever the hell that is!!

You guys have to read AN INCONVENIENT ZING

staring none other than "Captain Universe" aka Albert Arnold Gore Jr. aka the BIGGEST hypocrite in the world!!  You all have to see this.  It compares Bush's house to Gore's house.  Check out the results here: http://thedailyzing.com/356/an-inconvenient-zing/   PS- make sure to click on the pic too!  LOL =)

 

Zing

I've seen numerous posters ask you to cease and desist flogging your blog here, and I'd suggest you comply, post haste.

It's a violation of the Rules of Use.  Keep it up and you'll be gone.

I hope he fails, too.

 

 

I've contacted the

I've contacted the administrators...I'm sure others have to.

We are all sick of it...hopefully he'll be gone soon.

"Because of the way humans evolved"

You're not there yet Al.

"What a revoltin' development this is!"

Chester Riley

Al Gore should be prosocuted

Al Gore should be prosocuted for FRAUD. He is personally benifitting by spouting his nonsense and lying through his teeth. There might be one small grain of truth in his spiel but most of it is either outright lies or distortions to the point that it is a lie. Any other person who spouted this type of nonsense would have been under investigation and put on trial yaers ago. He knows that as long as the nonsense you sell conforms to the environmentalists agenda you will get all the cover you need to sell whatever Snake Oil you want.

This is beyond silly it is CRIMINAL.

The Emperor is Naked and COLD!

He is a dangerous idiot in that he is put a huge lie out and now even he knows it's not true and he spends every waking minute to try and figure out how he can protect his reputation. What happened to Tipper? She was a woman that fought for the rights of the unborn and rating music to protect kids minds.

Algore

People are still listening to this idjit? 

I hope these supercomputers

I hope these supercomputers have numerous turbo cooling fans because I hear they can reach internal temperatures of several million degrees.

And today

Someone did a very bad thing for the fraudsters ... http://www.examiner.com/x-28973-Essex-County-Conservative-Examiner~y2009...

A hack(?) exposes the AGW fraud in all it's glory.

Supercomputer Projection

My supercomputer projection predicts that you will soon be reading a lot about this here on NewsBusters. Perhaps this morning.

Somebody has to take over

For the lamstream media. Go get them, this is huge.

Thanks for the link. I'm on

Thanks for the link. I'm on line for the first time in 2 weeks. and am having trouble accessing a lot of climate web sites. This explains it.

What I've seen so far looks like fun. All the fraud and game playing

 

Thanks

"You lie!"  Rep. Joe Wilson R-(SC)

Welcome back, dan

Looks like Christmas came a bit early for you this year. :)

I hope he fails, too.

 

 

Christmas, Birthday, and

Christmas, Birthday, and 4th of July all in one.

I just got back from Italy where my English speaking news were restricted to CNN International and the BBC. You could hardly go 5 mins without hearing the term Climate change. (Tom & Jerry cartoons in Italian were better.)

I'm sure I wouldn't have heard a word about things as...

I’ve just completed Mike’s Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (ie from 1981 onwards) amd from 1961 for Keith’s to hide the decline.

If these alledged emails are true, there should be criminal investigation.

"You lie!"  Rep. Joe Wilson R-(SC)

Hack?

Hack no it wasn't a hack.  Me thinks it more likely an inside job ... whistleblower or real scientist not willing to sacrifice their principles on the alter of "climate change" 

Save the rainforest ... emit more CO2

Al Gore's Supercomputer

In fact, he created the world's most powerful supercomputer just last night working in his basement!  If Al Gore told me the sun had risen, I'd double check before grabbing my sunglasses.

Angry White Dude

www.angrywhitedude.com

News Flash for Big Al

  

"The director of Britain’s leading Climate Research Unit, Phil Jones, has told Investigate magazine’s TGIF Edition tonight ..."It was a hacker. We were aware of this about three or four days ago that someone had hacked into our system and taken and copied loads of data files and emails."…

"So the 1079 emails and 72 documents seem indeed evidence of a scandal involving most of the most prominent scientists pushing the man-made warming theory - a scandal that is one of the greatest in modern science. I’ve been adding some of the most astonishing in updates below - emails suggesting conspiracy, collusion in exaggerating warming data, possibly illegal destruction of embarrassing information, organised resistance to disclosure, manipulation of data, private admissions of flaws in their public claims and much more. If it is as it now seems, never again will “peer review” be used to shout down sceptics."

HUGE Scandal

Hadley Hacked, I spent hours going over the details and this is a blockbuster scandal some are calling this Climategate.

This involves all the Top Players conspiring to con the world, Head of the MET Phil Jones James Hansen of GISS/ NASA, Schimdt, GISS/ Founder of Real Climate, Many lead Authors of IPCC Reports ect...

Starting with huge file sent to The Air Vent blog, now confirmed by Phil Jones that the Files are REAL.  Hacked 3 days ago and admits he never called the Police, Hmmm 

WOW

Dozens of scientist, politicians, and world leaders involved in a "scam".? Michelle Malkin will have to write several more volumns of her "Culture of Corruption" series and have best sellers for decades. At least, she will earn her money honestly.

Scam

I wonder how many AP Fact Checkers are on this story? I wonder if the AP will mention this story?

Probably no more fact

Probably no more fact checking than was on BO during the campaigning or his book.

"The bottom line is that the idea that government bureaucrats have enough knowledge to manage an economy well is the height of conceit." - Friedrich Hayek

Viral---Only In Blogosphere

I just checked out this Hadley story in both Google News and in Google Blogs. Viral in the blogosphere but in the MSM...nothing.

licking my chops

I spent 4 hours last night following this story. This is huge. There are almost certainly many crimes committed here as well as so many uber-alarmists having no credibility left. The MSM will eventually have no choice.

So...since the data is not backing Al Gore up

He wants to enlist the aide of ILM and PIXAR to "simulate" his ideas. 

Throw 'da bums out!!!

Before it's too late. 

www.loyaltoliberty.com

Climate Change is real

I can prove it. Recently it got colder and all of my leaves fell off the tree. We have got to do something!

the sky is falling...the sky is falling...

...same here in Texas.  After months of 90 degree days and humidity, it's suddenly cooler and even raining!

...we gotta do something, so who ya gunna call...........gorebusters!!!

v

...an error was made in 2008 but not in 2000...

Good idea, Al...

In fact, I think we should follow Mr. Gore's lead and apply this idea to other things...specifically, I'm thinking we should use supercomputers to create a model showing exactly how much freedom and liberty the people of this nation have lost since the 1930s, when we elected our first socialist president, FDR.  Let's show folks in a few, terrifying seconds how we've gone from a federal system of shared powers between states and feds to one of micro-managing power centered almost completely in Washington DC.  Let them see how we already have socialism, and that it didn't happen overnight but instead through a long, gradual decline into darkness.  Perhaps that will provoke a visceral reaction that can reboot America into a constitutional republic built on the concept of limited governmental authority.

What say ye, Mr. Gore?

"The words of a President have an enormous weight and ought not to be used indiscriminately." - Calvin Coolidge

Give me some credit

Puh-leeze. I deserve credit for the end of global warming. I reduced my driving and ride my bike more. I eat less meat. I take shorter and less frequent showers and only read when then sun is shining through my window. I'm making good progress toward using less toilet paper, although honestly,  I'm finding that to be a challenge.

I'm not trying to sound like a hero, but if everybody was like me, the ice caps, the polar bears, and the world would be so much better off.

Hey, if Al can get rich with bullsh**, why can't I? Please send your checks to my account in Barbados. E-mail me for  information as to how you can make a difference in my financial security.

 

 

great stuff

great stuff Franksam... 

"The bottom line is that the idea that government bureaucrats have enough knowledge to manage an economy well is the height of conceit." - Friedrich Hayek

Except he's lying.  I'm

Except he's lying.  I'm actually the one who saved the world from global warming, just by laying in a lifetime supply of Beano.

Thank me very much. 

"Beauty is only skin deep, but liberal's to the bone." - me

100 Crays grinding away on false data still doesn't make it true

"I'm the person in the room who knows the least about it."

That statement would be true for any room Gore might find himself in. 

And what about the amount

And what about the amount of energy those computers are going to use to once again prove his data was fudged?!?!? He is going to start global warming by lighting the bomb himself.

Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.

Ronald Reagan

lawyers unite

If I understand this correctly, a group of people planning to obtain funds thru false and misleading information thru existing organizations, isn't that conspiracy to commit fraud? Wow, lets see Gore in prison. Oh, wait. Charges would be up to Eric Holder. Damn, so close.

supercomputer brain for ALGORE

maybe ALGORE should stick that supercomputer in his cranium, because the brain he was born with, is outputting multiple errors--

errors hell...

Virtual memory was gone long ago if there ever was any!

"The bottom line is that the idea that government bureaucrats have enough knowledge to manage an economy well is the height of conceit." - Friedrich Hayek

Inhofe!

More good news:

Senator Inhofe Declares Victory Over Myth of Global Warming: http://www.weaselzippers.net/blog

"“I proudly declare 2009 as the ‘Year of the Skeptic,’ the year in which scientists who question the so-called global warming consensus are being heard,’’ the Oklahoma Republican said.

“Until this year, any scientist, reporter or politician who dared raise even the slightest suspicion about the science behind global warming was dismissed and repeatedly mocked.’’"

It may be a little early to declare victory, but the tide is turning. In last year's election, no candidate could disagree with the Warmists. In the next Presidential election, it may become a major debatable issue, meaning hoax or not, not simply what to do about it.

false data = negative zero?

Something times Zero is still Zero, but this charlatan would have us believe that we still have something.

It's funny how people have invested SO much into this global warming/climate change/save our planet crap that when the truth comes out and doesn't fit the theories, suddenly the investments become a waste of time and money. 

Take recycling for example.  It's a real waste of time and money and energy, but that doesn't mean it can't be done.  It's just not a practical process.  Never has been, never will be.

Another is making ethanol versus normal gasoline without the 10,000 different additives those enviro-wackos want to put in.  Ethanol is made from corn or some other plant but it takes a lot of water to grow corn, corn is rough on the soil so you have to treat the soil before growing more.  Then you have some other processes that are also costly in time and money before ending up with a product that's supposed to burn like gasoline except you get lower gas mileage and unless your engine is constructed to USE ethanol, it corrides the fuel lines and other parts of your vehicle.  Again, it's not practical, never has been, never will be.  It even causes more pollution than regular gasoline, but the wackos would have us believe otherwise.

False data/information all around.  The masses have swallowed the bait, hook, line and sinker.

-Jon

Re Hadley

Definitely an inside job, in which case it should be called a 'whistleblower' and not a hack. I looked at some of the first material last night, and it looks promising. I'm downloading right now, the Megaupload link is good, the Pirate Bay seems to have disappeared. Didn't try the Filedropper link.

Let's hope this leads to a British government inquest with some search warrants issued along with under-oath questioning. I'm not holding my breath on that. The UK is still hopelessly PC.

Perhaps if some involved in the leak are US residents it might mean a US investigation. Under 'The Forehead' Holder I don't expect much, but maybe Inhofe can push through Congressional hearings.

Alwhore, you can use the

Alwhore, you can use the biggest supercomputer on Earth and your "model" won't be any more impressive than what it is:  a fantasy drawn on a cocktail napkin.

May you lose your entire fortune to a Nigerian carbon trading scam. 

"Beauty is only skin deep, but liberal's to the bone." - me

Sorry Super Idiot Boy. Super Computers are Super Expensive.

   They have not and will not be used for such mundane tasks like googling nude lola's in pudding or storing your huge collection of LOLcats and funniest crotch kick videos.

   There are plenty of plain old servers for those tasks. 

Supercomputers are used for highly calculation-intensive tasks such as problems involving quantum mechanical physics, weather forecasting, climate research, molecular modeling (computing the structures and properties of chemical compounds, biological macromolecules, polymers, and crystals), physical simulations (such as simulation of airplanes in wind tunnels, simulation of the detonation of nuclear weapons, and research into nuclear fusion). A particular class of problems, known as Grand Challenge problems, are problems whose full solution requires semi-infinite computing resources. - wikipedia

Supercomputer  - noun   A

Supercomputer  - noun   A cutting edge computational tool which can convert extraordinary amounts of garbage input into garbage output with astinishing speed and accuracy.

Look deep into the montor, algore, it's been done before.


Polite too.

Yea we got 517 hot weatherstations, for ya! here is my fav

P. J. Gladnick

P. J. Gladnick wrote:

One problem here. Weather people still can't do accurate predictions
for five days in advance but we are supposed to believe that
climatologists will be accurate with a 50 year projection?

I've heard this type of comment before and it points to a basic misunderstanding about what types of predictions can be made about complex systems.

Day to day weather forecasts are an attempt to predict local (read as detailed) climate behavior. By contrast, global climate models try to predict large scale behavior. Because the Earth's atmosphere is a chaotic system (in the scientific sense), it's basically impossible to make accurate local long term predictions. But large scale predictions are possible. The distinction between the two isn't a matter of degree, it's a matter of type. They represent two different types of problems.

As an analogy - if I put a pot of water on a stove and turn the stove one, I can predict (accurately) how the temperature of the system will change with time. By contrast, it would be basically impossible for me to track the behavior of a single water molecule over that same time period.

(For those who understand this stuff, I realize that my analogy doesn't really represent a chaotic system - I'm just trying to get the basic idea across)

Its the idea that the data

Its the idea that the data is complete and accurate predictions can be made, while in reality they are WAGs.  The models are pure crap.  Its like trying to predict what someone will be when they grow up by taking a minute of their life in the early years.

Global Warming Fraud

Isn't it obvious that the

Isn't it obvious that the 'one' was able to stop the global warming?!?!?

Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.

Ronald Reagan

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