I’m sure I’m speaking for millions of anthropogenic global warming skeptics when I say that virtually nothing brightens my day more than an article written by a climate expert exposing the Global Warmingist-in-Chief, soon-to-be-Dr. Al Gore, as nothing more than a snake oil selling charlatan.
All those who agree say "Aye."
With that in mind, the sun came out brightly this morning when I received the following article in my inbox.
As published at the Muskogee Phoenix Sunday evening, a former military meteorologist named Paul Becker wrote a marvelous letter to the editor (emphasis added throughout):
Al Gore’s global warming is the biggest myth of the century, even transcending Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy. Those who believed the latter three myths would also be snowed by Gore’s myth.
People who would really like to know the truth and who are not mesmerized by their political commitment to Gore should consult the scientific community — try the American Meteorological Society.
Excuse me, Paul, but why should they consult anyone? Didn’t you hear? The debate’s over, and according to the alarmists, they won.
Of course, none of them is actually willing to debate the issue, making the assertion “the debate’s over” thoroughly absurd.
Regardless, after sharing his credentials with the reader, Becker continued:
I’m telling you global warming is a myth. However, please check the Internet (Al Gore’s invention) and ask about greenhouse gases.You will find that there are five. The most plentiful is water vapor making up 35 to 70 percent of all greenhouse gases. Mankind’s total contribution to all greenhouse gases — this includes cars, trucks, manufacturing plants, boats, planes and any pollution producer you can name — the total is less than 1 percent. Mother Nature provides the other 99 percent. It’s on the Net.
Before you buy into the global warming myth, just remember that most of the natural wonders of the world were caused by various ice ages and periods of global warming. We’ve warmed one-half of a degree in the last century, but Gore has Florida under water in a decade or so when the ice cap melts.
Yes, Paul, but the debate’s over!
—Noel Sheppard is the Associate Editor of NewsBusters.
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Another Inconvenient Truth:
October 16, 2007 - 22:33 ET by RosettaNobel Peace Prize: NEW Global Warming Antiperspirant
AP – Al Gore has for a long time been full of hot air. He has a vivid imagination about the world around him. His inherent mistrust of the seasons seems to stem from an episode of the Twilight Zone, in which the Earth gets too close to the Sun. Summers are hot & sticky, and Al is probably the single individual who has done most to create greater worldwide understanding of the measures needed to create a more effective global deodorant.
If college roommate, Tommy Lee Jones, could save the City of Los Angeles from errant magma (Volcano), and the world entire from a giant cockroach (Men In Black), then certainly Al Gore deserves a prize for his global initiative to combat global wetness. The same active ingredient and trusted formula that kept our leaders dry during the Cold War – now in unscented. As the planet heats up, you don’t have to! Clinton tested: guaranteed to leave no trace.
Now that Global Warming has been legitimized, a “private group” out of Monterey California of all places, wants to seed the North Atlantic with iron oxide pellets, to help plankton absorb carbon dioxide (greenhouse gasses). Strategy: “cleanup the planet and make a buck on the side.” Another inconvenient truth: how these Bolshevik’s misguided scam to pirate the “Peace Dividend,” sparked the worst terrorist attacks on United States soil: http://theseedsof9-1...
Aye
June 4, 2007 - 11:55 ET by SportPoliticsAye. lol- The gigantic lie is crumbling.
American Meteorological Society
June 4, 2007 - 13:56 ET by motloI took the advice in the post and went to the website for the American Meteorological Society. Below are the final paragraphs from the AMS Information Statement on Climate Change (from Feb 07)
Make of it what you will:
Final remarks
Despite the uncertainties noted above, there is adequate evidence from observations and interpretations of climate simulations to conclude that the atmosphere, ocean, and land surface are warming; that humans have significantly contributed to this change; and that further climate change will continue to have important impacts on human societies, on economies, on ecosystems, and on wildlife through the 21st century and beyond. Focusing on the next 30 years, convergence among emission scenarios and model results suggest strongly that increasing air temperatures will reduce snowpack, shift snowmelt timing, reduce crop production and rangeland fertility, and cause continued melting of the ice caps and sea level rise. Important goals for future work include the need to understand the relation of climate at the state and regional level to the patterns of global climate and to reverse the decline in observational networks that are so critical to accurate climate monitoring and prediction.
Policy choices in the near future will determine the extent of the impacts of climate change. Policy decisions are seldom made in a context of absolute certainty. Some continued climate change is inevitable, and the policy debate should also consider the best ways to adapt to climate change. Prudence dictates extreme care in managing our relationship with the only planet known to be capable of sustaining human life.
Ask why big Al is not running
June 4, 2007 - 11:57 ET by Senior ChiefAsk why big Al is not running for the White House? His aim is not to be the leader of the most powerful country in the world, but to create the GW hysteria. Though he get more publicity- even negative ones, than the rest of the candidates. Once 08 election is over, Al will fade away in the night...Loser.
If Al fades away (a concept I
June 4, 2007 - 13:47 ET by BeowulfIf Al fades away (a concept I can't picture - he's HUGE. It would be ike a glacier melting... Oh, never mind). Anyway, if he could fade away, he would do so as one of the richest people in the world. Which is probably one of the two main reasons he won't ever run. He would actually have to justify all the money he made cashing in on Globull Warming. The other reason he won't run is because he knows he wouldn't stand a chance of winning.
The Closed Mind Erects Strong Barriers
Let me be clear ... I'm not s
June 4, 2007 - 11:59 ET by drillanwrLet me be clear ... I'm not so skeptical about what is simply called global warming ... It's just that:
1) it HAS happened many times ... even long, long before Henry Ford and Thomas Edison ever could trace a bloodline
2) WILL happen long after mankind (might) die off
3) has become the biggest media business of the turn of this Century for people who are starving to rule the planet and everyone on it
4) and an asteroid or comet will slam into us long before (the horror! ... the horror!!) the GW shleppers would have you believe will befall us
5) Will happen long after t
June 4, 2007 - 12:05 ET by Jimbo5) Will happen long after the Muslim religion takes over the world and we are all praying to Allah.
Jimbo says - "There is a fine line between freedom of speech and treason"
Jimbo -Thanks for getting my
June 4, 2007 - 14:31 ET by drillanwrJimbo -
Thanks for getting my back on that one ; )
Maybe it's time we start tryi
June 4, 2007 - 12:10 ET by Hero SquadMaybe it's time we start trying to do something about that evil Mother Nature spewing her toxic greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. Any suggestions, Al?
*****
"Was it a millionaire who said 'Imagine no possessions?'" - Elvis Costello
Designate Mother Nature as a
June 4, 2007 - 13:52 ET by BeowulfDesignate Mother Nature as a sub-chapter 15, for-profit business and tax the hell out of her???
The Closed Mind Erects Strong Barriers
Noel,I give you a big AYE MAT
June 4, 2007 - 12:46 ET by Sick-n-TiredNoel,
I give you a big AYE MATE! But I do have to admit, I have to wince at some of Pauls assertations. First of all his numbers are off for water vapor concentrations; 35-70% is way too low and actually a Wiki number (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhouse_gas). Water vapor accounts for greater than 95% of all GHG's (i.e. see: S.M. Freidenreich and V. Ramaswamy, “Solar Radiation Absorption by Carbon Dioxide, Overlap with Water, and a Parameterization for General Circulation Models,” Journal of Geophysical Research 98 (1993):7255-7264).
Furthermore, I really wince when he says "Its on the net." Paul, I have no doubt, may be an expert, but I just wish he would have been a little more hard hitting with his references and facts---the intention is there yes, but I say go high or stay home! Hit 'em with both barrels a blazin' and don't leave anything to arguement or interpretation!
Its either you're so Sick of
June 4, 2007 - 14:11 ET by Senior ChiefIts either you're so Sick of hearing Al ogre's high-fallutin hallucinating global warming bogus operandi, and probably Tired of seeing numbers that doesn't jive to scientific calculations and models. Whatever the case, S-n-T, just keep it coming until Ogre Al and his entourage disappears...in the night. Loser.
Let me add this. Their answ
June 4, 2007 - 14:36 ET by Sick-n-TiredLet me add this. Their answer to global warming is to someday drive hydrogen powered cars. Yeah, that is going to do a lot of good as H2O is the by-product/exhaust of hydrogen powered cars. Now add that (H2O) contribution to the 95+% GHG of water vapor......then we may actually have a problem.
But it is just like them not to know the facts or to map out the consequences; rather they want to attack oil companies and moreover, defeat and end capitalism and establish their socialistic utopia. They don't give a s*&% about the environment.
Now, I understand what ogre A
June 4, 2007 - 15:50 ET by Senior ChiefNow, I understand what ogre Al is talking about: Florida, New York and the rest of the Eastern seaburg will be under water once automobiles are running on hydrogen...And for the mean time, let ogre Al, democracks and other earth-loving leftoids pollute the earth with their gas-guzzling private jets and SUVs while the rest of us are mandated to use battery-operated toy cars. Loser!
"Let me add this. Their
June 4, 2007 - 16:27 ET by ckc1227"Let me add this. Their answer to global warming is to someday drive hydrogen powered cars. Yeah, that is going to do a lot of good as H2O is the by-product/exhaust of hydrogen powered cars. Now add that (H2O) contributionto the 95+% GHG of water vapor......then we may actually have a problem. "
Not only that, but doesn't hydrogen production require water? Where are we going to get all this water to replace the oil we currently use? Don't know about the rest of you, but I'd rather run out of oil than water.
Hydrogen production require
June 4, 2007 - 16:33 ET by lnthompHydrogen production requires some compound of hydrogen -- usually it's water, but water in itself isn't really a requirement. On the other hand, electrolysis, which is one well-known way to separate the oxygen from the hydrogen in water, requires that the water is not pure, in order to support electrical current, therefore ocean brine would be a good candidate, and I don't forsee us running out of ocean any time soon, partly because hydrogen combustion produces the same amount of water that got reduced by the production of hydrogen in the first place. It would be a great perpetual motion machine, if the electricity required to separate the water only required as much energy as the hydrogen combustion produced!
Lee T.
U.S. Navy (ret.) / Vancouver, Washington
The history of the race, and each individual's experience, are thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal.-- Mark Twain
Ah, that great If/Only that d
June 4, 2007 - 17:02 ET by nnptcgradAh, that great If/Only that destroys every perpetual motion machine developed!
Mother nature is a bitch - Ninth Corollary of Murphy's Law
Don't let science get in the
June 4, 2007 - 18:25 ET by mulerider24Don't let science get in the way of a good conspiracy. We greedy capitalists will find a way to wage war on every nation with beach front property and hoard all the saltwater for ourselves.
Good point, just as it takes
June 4, 2007 - 18:47 ET by Sick-n-TiredGood point, just as it takes more energy (typically in the form of natural gas) to distill and produce ethanol than it produces. 31 acres of corn equals the energy of 1 barrel of oil! Now factor in the amount of energy and hydrocarbons it takes to grow and harvest the corn (not even considering the amount of petrochemical pesticides that need to be added to the corn)----it is a total losing proposition. Why it is so popular I don't know. Again, the AGW'ers and the so called environmentalist don't give a s&*% about the environment!
APGW has always been a farce.
June 4, 2007 - 13:04 ET by mattmAPGW has always been a farce. We don't need scientists to refute it. All you have to do is realize that the same people pushin it used to push a coming Ice Age...what more evidence do you need?
"You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows." - Robert Zimmerman
On Global Warming & Same Sex Marriage
June 4, 2007 - 13:13 ET by whodatGlobal warming is the democrats answer to Republicans opposition to same sex marriage.
Say what? Last time I che
June 4, 2007 - 13:20 ET by nnptcgradSay what?
Last time I checked the Republicans weren't trying to hamstring the economy in order to prevent gay marriage.
Mother nature is a bitch - Ninth Corollary of Murphy's Law
Democrats are trying to use g
June 4, 2007 - 13:40 ET by whodatDemocrats are trying to use global warming to create an issue with a large enough support group that they can use it to divide republicans much like Rove did with same sex marriage....
whodat
June 4, 2007 - 14:13 ET by Noel SheppardW,
Not really. On the one hand, you are correct about the political similarities. However, Democrats are trying to use global warming as a way to increase taxes and redistribute the wealth. There's nothing in the right's position on same-sex marriages that could be considered a fiscal policy initiative. ns
Noel, I've got to agree w
June 4, 2007 - 14:23 ET by The Wicked ConservativeNoel, I've got to agree with whodat on this one. Think about it, why else would they try the "global warming is a moral issue" baloney. They think that they can become the moral majority by making up their own morals. What they don't get is that you actually have to stand up for something in order to unite people. Conservatives don't stand against homosexual culture to win elections (well some politicians might) Conservatives stand against the gay culture because we know what one culture accepts the next considers normal and then what's next? Poligamy, beastiality, and eventually pedophilia. You see the difference is that the base and the people that vote had issue and politicians fell in place to represent people. The dimmy politicians want to make the issue first and then make people fall in line with them.
The man with an experience is not at the mercy of a man with an argument.WC
June 4, 2007 - 15:12 ET by Noel SheppardWC,
I think you might have missed my point. I wasn't suggesting the left aren't trying to use this as a moral issue. However, the big difference is that they want to use this to change fiscal policy as well as social policy. That's a huge difference in my view between these two matters, and what is being advanced. Make sense? ns
OK, I absolutely agree, fisca
June 4, 2007 - 15:20 ET by The Wicked ConservativeOK, I absolutely agree, fiscal socialism is the eventual end of ALL liberal thought and policy. AGW is just another means to the communist utopia.
The man with an experience is not at the mercy of a man with an argument.
Aye!( ... doing the happy dan
June 4, 2007 - 13:37 ET by dahliatraversAye!
( ... doing the happy dance over here ...)
The elephant
June 4, 2007 - 17:56 ET by JWF"We've warmed one-half of a degree in the last century"
I am glad the debate is finally over because I want someone to address the elephant sitting in the living room!
Last night, it got down to 53 degrees. Today the high was 72. That is 19 degrees in less than 24 hours people! Then it got all cloudy and rained and I swear to you, the temperature dropped like 3 degrees in 10 minutes! Are you listening to me Al? 3 degrees in 10 minutes! Don't even get me started on how cold it was 4 months ago in February and how hot it always seems to get in August. (Like a 95 degree difference in only 6 months) Some kind of weird phenomenon that no one seems to be discussing let alone trying to fix!! My god Al, why are you letting us suffer so? Save our souls AL!
I laugh at your 1/2 degree Mr. Meteorologist! Like that is even a real word.
One half to one degree fahren
June 4, 2007 - 23:08 ET by dahliatraversOne half to one degree fahrenheit temperature increase in the last 100 years. That's what we're all worked up about?? I thought there was a mistake but there isn't.
That fact as well as the percentage of greenhouse gases man contributes (maximum of < 6%) never seems to make it into msm stories about global warming. But these numbers speak for themselves. AGW gets more improbable the more you look at the cold facts.
http://www.cet.edu/ete/modules/climate/GCremote3.html
They're telling us there has
June 5, 2007 - 08:45 ET by danboThey're telling us there has been a huge increase in tempertures of fractions of a degree. And telling us about pass tempertures. They're telling us this is the warmest period in the last thousand years. They're basing it on proxy records. As tree rings.
Being familiar with the use of tree rings. I, for one, want to know the callibration of the thermometer in trees. 1/10th of a degree? 1/100th? Ball park figure within 10-20 degrees? How do they isolate the temperture variable from all the other variables that influence tree growth.
Yet they want us to take them seriously. The house of AGW is built on quick sand.
"The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.” H.L. Mencken
Two Cents
June 4, 2007 - 22:10 ET by desertphreakIt occurs to me that only an overly-inflated self egotist could believe mankind can alter the enviornment on a planet-wide scale. Call it what you will- God or Mother Nature- this planet can, has, and will grind us to dust...
Global Warming? Phooey! (updated)
June 4, 2007 - 23:19 ET by Free StinkerGlobal Warming? Phooey!
Updated June 4, 2007
Hat-tip to Noel Sheppard(x4), botg, NL207, dscott(x2), and Kristen Byrnes
Films & TV
Covering-up and Intimidation? (just from the left)
Plenty of Contrary Data opposing Global Warming
NEW! Now THIS is dissent! Financial Post series by Lawrence Solomon
Is it just me, or are we getting colder? I'm moving to Mars! (or maybe Neptune)
Fabulous! Great job, Free.
June 4, 2007 - 23:32 ET by dahliatraversFabulous! Great job, Free.
(blush)
June 4, 2007 - 23:38 ET by Free StinkerThank you.
No No Thank YOUSupreme Co
June 4, 2007 - 23:43 ET by botgNo No Thank YOU
Supreme Court, National Security, Borders, Fiscal Restraint, my litmus test for President.
My God, Free, that look
June 4, 2007 - 23:44 ET by shawn228My God, Free, that looks like a lot of work, how long did that take you?
I usually start a list when
June 4, 2007 - 23:51 ET by Free StinkerI usually start a list when I have a half-dozen or so citations, then every time I get 2-3 more I'll update it. They kind of grow over the course of time.
And Noel has been hammering this topic as well with numerous cites, many of which I've added to the list. Every hat-tip I listed has posted or created something that I've linked to.
Free...A great list to keep t
June 5, 2007 - 00:00 ET by bigtimerFree...
A great list to keep too for those skeptic relatives of some of mine.
As an aside we have had near record breaking temps in this area since 1937 for a couple of days to a week for warmth....so I have been soaking up the sun while I can and getting a lot of out-door work done./....because now the temperature is going to go down at least 25 degrees....first evening I have had to close the windows this early....imagine I will have to start the fire in the morning...dang it all!
Waaaaah!
Just wanted to thank you too.
Goodnight BT, Free et al;Supr
June 5, 2007 - 00:13 ET by botgGoodnight BT, Free et al;
Supreme Court, National Security, Borders, Fiscal Restraint, my litmus test for President.
Have a good evening botg....C
June 5, 2007 - 00:18 ET by bigtimerHave a good evening botg....
Catch ya on the other side.
Stinker, This is a great list
June 5, 2007 - 10:37 ET by NL207Stinker, This is a great list for debating with laymen. You could add these:
http://www.co2science.org/scripts/CO2ScienceB2C/articles/V9/N29/EDIT.jsp
http://www.rppi.org/rr103.html
http://www.worldclimatereport.com/index.php/2005/05/10/global-warming-something-new-under-the-sun/#more-110
For debating with folks like belag or throatwobbler you need more hard science that any of these links provide, and even those won't sway true believers like them. These are a bit of a taste of such.
http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/1995/95GL03093.shtml
And another:
The pablum version. The hard science version.
Unfortunately, a huge number of peer reviewed publications are not freely available in any form other than abstract. I can get them, but few others here can.
There is an even simpler way
June 5, 2007 - 11:45 ET by NL207There is an even simpler way to look at this debate for the layman just by examining the basic physics.
1. By applying the blackbody radiator model to the Earth adjusted for albedo, which no true blackbody radiator has, we can show that the Sun is responsible for about 255 degrees K of the mean surface temperature of Earth, which is 288 K.
2. The troposphere [the first 10-12,000 feet] of the Earth's atmosphere is responsible for the lion's share of the greenhouse effect. Anyone who has flown in the startosphere on a large commercial airliner has no doubt seen on the courtesy video provided by their airline what the air temperature outside the aircraft is ... FRIGID COLD! Within the troposphere, water vapor is responsible for 95% of the greenhouse effect and CO2 accounts for most of the rest.
This translates to the following scenario: You are trapped in a large room. In that room with you are several apes. One of them is King Kong, weighing in at a cool 9,000 pounds. The second largest is named Water Vapor and he weighs in a 950 pounds. The next largest ape in the room is CO2 and he weighs about 50 pounds. The global warming alarmists are telling you that you should be terrified of the 50 pound monkey because he grew by 15 pounds in the last century. Personally, I'd be a whole lot more concerned about what Kong was doing, even though I have zero control over him and the same goes for the 950 pounder over whom I have virtually no control either. I can kick the other one's ass if I need to.
Love the last paragraph. It
June 5, 2007 - 12:58 ET by dahliatraversLove the last paragraph. It puts the 50 pound ape in exactly the right perspective.