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Al Gore pokes head out of snowbank…

And declares catastrophe still imminent: We Can’t Wish Away Climate ChangeNYT op-ed by Al Gore.

The rhetoric is extremely nauseating but here’s the kicker:

It is true that the climate panel published a flawed overestimate of the melting rate of debris-covered glaciers in the Himalayas, and used information about the Netherlands provided to it by the government, which was later found to be partly inaccurate. In addition, e-mail messages stolen from the University of East Anglia in Britain showed that scientists besieged by an onslaught of hostile, make-work demands from climate skeptics may not have adequately followed the requirements of the British freedom of information law...

Did you get that? Those nasty deniers caused all the trouble demanding answers from the scientists so they couldn’t do their work properly.  It wasn’t about accountability at all. Oh no, they were deliberately trying to confuse the good folks at East Anglia and slow them down.

Bad deniers! Bad.

Is this crap going to be in the next film that he force-feeds to the world’s youth?

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Update

If you care to submit a letter to the New York Times, here are the rules.

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You Can Call Him Al … But Al Won’t Call You BackFox News

(H/T Orange County Register)

And from the same source – Mark Landsbaum: What to say to a global warming alarmist. (A great summary of all the ‘Gates’.)

38 Comments

  1. maz2 says:

    When GoreWarmists deploy the word, “deniers”, they attempt to link anyone who rejects their AGW Fraud to anti-semitism. They think/hope that this will shut down others.

    This is the tactic of KatMeat, also.

    Gore is a despicable POS who must be brought to account at law for the AGW Fraud.
    …-

    Holocaust Denier, Neo-Nazi Propagandist
    http://www.adl.org/learn/Ext_US/zundel.asp?xpicked=2&item=zundel

  2. janet says:

    I swear I tried to read the entire op-ed but in the words of the great Beck “it made blood shoot from my eyes”. Those words reflect the rantings of a madman; hope little Jimmy P is paying attention. The USA sits on more oil and gas than they can even use not to mention the reserves that their very stable to the north are only to willing to share.
    Mr. Gore was harangued today by a brave share holder at an Apple meeting questioning his judgement as a board member based on his AGW theory.
    However I will not be surprised that all school children will have to read the Op-ed and re-educate their parents. Truly liberalism is a mental disorder.

  3. Sammy says:

    O/T..but another GREAT shot of PMSH just now at the men’s curling final..sitting in the stands talking to the ladies curling team..the gals looked like they were really enjoying his company,giggling and laughing..oh,wait,didn’t Tabloid Taber try to tell us the ‘wimminfolk’ hate Harper?? Not from what I just saw.

  4. Joanne says:

    I swear I tried to read the entire op-ed but in the words of the great Beck “it made blood shoot from my eyes”.

    Janet, you made me laugh there. ;)

  5. maz2 says:

    >>> “and beautiful “bloghood.””
    …-

    “Ask Not For Whom the Bell Tolls, MSM: It Tolls for Thee

    With a whiff of nostalgia, I can imagine the old time journalist with the smell of coffee and cigarettes wafting through the click and clang of the typewriter. Fifty years ago, a “journalist” had the ring of a dispassionate, creative, honest, fair, and trusted detective/storyteller. Fifty years ago, if you graduated from an accredited journalism school, you were presumed “unbiased.” Much as the physician takes an oath that she will “first, do no harm,” the “journalist” title meant that you were first, unbiased and balanced. Neutrality in the story was as necessary as it was assumed.

    Sometime between half a century ago and today, something went very, very wrong.

    We can speculate on what the “something” was, but we may never know for sure. Much like the wind blows, there is no discernible source, but still we know it blows. Journalism became slanted to the left to the degree that the right had almost no voice by the mid-1980s. Almost no voice, until Rush Limbaugh came on the scene. Almost 30 years later, the tables have turned. The problem for these journalists is that they have functioned robotically and cavalierly for so long, that they are not aware of the reality around them. Things have changed. Drastically.

    At CPAC 2010, I watched as the Mainstream Media (MSM) lashed out at Andrew Breitbart again and again. He could hardly walk through the hall of the hotel without being accosted by trolling media elites who were anxious to bully him. I watched as they tried all the old Alinsky tactics over and over, but Breitbart beat them at their own game. When they got in his face, he smacked them down hard and fast. It occurred to me; they weren’t aware that everything has changed.

    I am the conservative political analyst for a local radio station that has been around forever. I love media, and I love my job there. I work for a true legend in St. Louis media, who has managed to be very balanced in his approach to his craft. There is one older, very liberal MSM journalist who’s show is just after mine. My show is only a 15-minute spot, his is hours long. Since he is on after me, he has taken to using clips (some in context, some out) of my show and lashing out with pejoratives against me and other conservatives. Evidently, he had no idea that everything has changed.

    These four points form the “Perfect Storm” that (I will argue) have forever changed journalism:

    1) Andrew Breitbart, established Big Government, Big Hollywood, Big Journalism, and Breitbart TV, and conservative journalists and media personalities are crawling out of the woodwork! They report and they gain supporters in droves, and are growing.

    2) The Tea Party has arrived. The Tea Party is cellular and organic, and yet the individual members are remarkably cohesive. The Tea Party is all about action, and members stand ready and willing to come up against anyone they perceive to be dishonestly reporting the news.

    3) There is such a huge rise in the number of citizen journalists that I can’t even count the CJ’s that are in my local Tea Party. They are becoming more and more tech-savvy and emboldened. The new media is armed and ready with cameras, mics, pen and paper, and beautiful “bloghood.”

    4) Alinsky’s tactics were successfully employed for decades by unions, reporters, and liberals. With the birth of the Tea Party, Alinsky’s tactics were turned upon the secular progressives with a Ninja move by the right. Now boycotts turn to BUYcotts, bitchers turn to bloggers, and conservatives are behind the camera lenses.

    So, listen up, MSM! The old, liberal reporter at my station found out the hard way. Friends of mine who thrive on this stuff confronted him at a recent socialized health care rally. He became red faced and angry, and pushed the cameraman with a black gloved hand. All of it, of course, was caught on tape, because that’s what we do.”

    http://bigjournalism.com/gloudon/2010/02/26/ask-not-for-whom-the-bell-tolls-msm-it-tolls-for-thee/

  6. rose says:

    LOL yea it’s all our fault, how dare we demand evidence when emotions and peer reviews by hikers should satisfy us.

    Jo seen this article yet? It’s not about Climate Change but the sheer passive aggressive contempt this man feels for Conservative women leaps off the page. To bad they closed the comment’s section, alas I intend to write a letter and send it to the editor of that vile liberal rag. I’m gobbed smacked that his kind of gutter journalism has become the norm at the Chronicle Con-Hatred oops I mean Herald.

    Warning don’t read if you have high blood pressure, please give this man as much public exposer as we vile Conservative women can give him. Adjusts her tiara, I’m thinking of competing in a Swifter Wet Jet competition you know us Con gals we love those sashes and such.

    Link: http://thechronicleherald.ca/Columnists/1169637.html

    Snippet: Harper is ultimately responsible for giving Guergis the job when it is obvious to many people in his own party that she is not well equipped to handle even a junior ministry portfolio.

    But he needs women to sit behind him the House of Commons and nod when he speaks, and he needs women to fly around the country and have meetings with women’s groups and hand out cheques, and he doesn’t have that many women in his caucus to choose from.

    There 23 female MPs in the 144-member Conservative caucus, just 16 per cent. The Liberals have 25 per cent, the Bloc has 30 per cent and the NDP has 32 per cent

    End snippet:————-

    Yes it gets even nastier than the above.

  7. Ruth says:

    “Taber try to tell us the ‘wimminfolk’ hate Harper?? Not from what I just saw.”
    Sammy, these women are from the West, Taber just thinks she knows the women in Toronto.

  8. JDot says:

    Ok so after reading this Al Gore op-ed, I have come to the conclusion that sticking a fork in my eye would be more rewarding..

    It just blows my mind that this BS is mainstream. We should all be thankful that we have the internet in this day and age. Thanks Al. :)

  9. Bruce says:

    And the inconvenient truth this hour, winter ain’t letting up, which has Oklahoma Senator James Inhofe fed up at the man who won a Nobel Prize saying that the Earth was warming up. Inhofe has long called warming a hoax. Today, he is doing one better, dramatically better, demanding the Justice Department investigate what he calls the greatest scientific scandal of our generation.

    First witness he wants to see testify? Al Gore.

    With us now, James Inhofe.

    Senator, any reaction as yet from the former vice president?

    SEN. JAMES INHOFE R-OKLA.: Well, we have not heard anything from Al Gore, Neil. And I don’t anticipate that we will, but we would like to have him come, hold a hearing in Environment and Public Works.

    Every assertion that he made in his science fiction movie has now been disproven, sea level rising, Himalayas melting and all this stuff. The significant thing right now, though, is the hearing that we had this morning, because we have the minority report that we put together which shows that climate-gate, fixing the science, cooking the science, actually took place.

    * Senator Wants Gore Stripped of Nobel Prize
    * Governors Shut Out of Health Care Summit

    We have it all documented. And people are being investigated right now. The problem for us in America is, you and I have talked before on how destructive, economically, it would be if we were to have cap and trade, any of these bills that were passed in McCain/Lieberman bill or any of these.

    It would be the largest tax increase in the history of America, something over $300 billion a year. Now, since they can’t get that passed, in Congress, the Senate won’t pass that, they’re trying to do it through the Clean Air Act, through the EPA, through an endangerment finding.

    Here is the key, though. The endangerment finding is based on the science that the IPCC has come forth – that’s the United Nations. And it’s all been debunked. So, we’re destroying the economy of the nation based on science that’s bad.

    http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,587353,00.html

  10. maz2 says:

    AGW: “a true Frankenstein’s monster.”

    “With all this mighty army of gullible politicians, dutiful officials, busy carbon traders, eager “renewables” developers and compliant, funding-hungry academics standing to benefit from the greatest perversion of the principles of true science the world has ever seen, who are we to protest that their emperor has no clothes? (How apt that that fairy tale should have been written in Copenhagen.) Let all that fluffy white “global warming” continue to fall from the skies, while people shiver in homes that, increasingly, they will find they can no longer afford to heat. We have called into being a true Frankenstein’s monster. It will take a mighty long time to cut it down to size.”
    …-

    “A perfect storm is brewing for the IPCC

    The emerging errors of the IPCC’s 2007 report are not incidental but fundamental, says Christopher Booker

    The news from sunny Bali that there is to be an international investigation into the conduct of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and its chairman Dr Rajendra Pachauri would have made front-page headlines a few weeks back. But while Scotland and North America are still swept by blizzards, in their worst winter for decades, there has been something of a lull in the global warming storm – after three months when the IPCC and Dr Pachauri were themselves battered by almost daily blizzards of new scandals and revelations. And one reason for this lull is that the real message of all the scandals has been lost.

    The chief defence offered by the warmists to all those revelations centred on the IPCC’s last 2007 report is that they were only a few marginal mistakes scattered through a vast, 3,000-page document. OK, they say, it might have been wrong to predict that the Himalayan glaciers would melt by 2035; that global warming was about to destroy 40 per cent of the Amazon rainforest and cut African crop yields by 50 per cent; that sea levels were rising dangerously; that hurricanes, droughts and other “extreme weather events” were getting worse. These were a handful of isolated errors in a massive report; behind them the mighty edifice of global warming orthodoxy remains unscathed. The “science is settled”, the “consensus” is intact.”

    “In other words, in crucial respects the IPCC’s 2007 report was no more than reckless propaganda, designed to panic the world’s politicians into agreeing at Copenhagen in 2009 that we should all pay by far the largest single bill ever presented to the human race, amounting to tens of trillions of dollars. And as we know, faced with the prospect of this financial and economic abyss, December’s Copenhagen conference ended in shambles, with virtually nothing agreed.

    What is staggering is the speed and the scale of the unravelling – assisted of course, just before Copenhagen, by “Climategate”, the emails and computer codes leaked from East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit. Their significance was the light they shone on the activities of a small group of British and US scientists at the heart of the IPCC, as they discussed ways of manipulating data to show the world warming faster than the evidence justified; fighting off legitimate requests for data from outside experts to hide their manipulations; and conspiring to silence their critics by excluding their work from scientific journals and the IPCC’s 2007 report itself. (Again, a devastating analysis of this story has just been published by Stephen Mosher and Tom Fuller in Climategate: The CRUtape Letters).” (more)

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/7332803/A-perfect-storm-is-brewing-for-the-IPCC.html

  11. JDot says:

    O/T PM Harper to do a interview with Brian Williams of CTV within the hour..

  12. maz2 says:

    “Now MSM, are you listening??

    Conservative MP Maxime Bernier has been listening and has spoken out.

    To Conservative MPs: Come out and speak.
    …-

    “Indiana Bones (16:44:38) :

    Linda (09:13:38) :
    Now MSM, are you listening??

    THAT is a very good question. Because with each publication that ignores such a large, recognized institution’s scathing statement, we find journalistic collusion. To pretend this is not a huge blow to UEA and the entire global warming campaign demonstrates meditated ignorance at an astonishing scale.

    A scheme set up to tax the air we breathe has een declared a scientific fraud by an august body of eminent scientists. Networks, the NYTimes, NPR, AP, UPI, Reuters, etc. are going to attempt to ignore this? At the peril of their very existence! There will be no more network news or newspapers or wire services if they attempt to suppress this corruption.

    Good people in media… What side are you on? Truth, or corrupt idealism??

    The epitaph is for AGW, portions of government, and the MainStream Media. “Ignore the truth and perish.””

    …-

    “Institute of Physics on Climategate
    27 02 2010

    Here’s something rather astonishing.

    The Institute of Physics, has made a statement about climate science.” (more)

    http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/02/27/16772/#comments

  13. Sammy says:

    JDot,you beat me to it! PMSH making his way to the studio now..was at the Mens GOLD MEDAL game in curling..way to go Kevin and team..I love it.

  14. Sammy says:

    Hey Ruth,from anything I’ve seen of those TO ‘wimmin’..give me a western gal everytime.
    re the Guergis thing,I really wish PMSH would give Diane Ablonzy a really high-profile position,she has worked so hard,is competent and deserves it..but,oh yeah,she’s another ‘western gal!’

  15. JDot says:

    Sammy says:
    February 27, 2010 at 8:47 pm

    Lol, Big internet high five to you Sammy. whoot, one gold medal away from the record.

  16. Sammy says:

    Must read..a big thank-you from the US for our Olympics,our glorious Canada..
    http://dailynightly.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2010/02/26/2213393.aspx
    ARE YOU READING THIS TABER? TRAVERS? CBC?

  17. JDot says:

    Sammy says:
    February 27, 2010 at 9:01 pm

    Awesome link sammy. But let’s face it, the PPG reporters(ie Travers Taber) are only interested in what can make our PM look bad. Yes it is sad, but that is our reality with the media in this country…

  18. Sammy says:

    Most interesting,and wonderfully warm comments at that link too JDot.I think this chance to show off Canada on the world stage will do wonders for tourism..but our own msm continue to try and put down what is without a doubt the BEST country in the world.

  19. JDot says:

    Sammy says..

    “I think this chance to show off Canada on the world stage will do wonders for tourism”

    Bang on Sammy, money cannot buy this type of advertising. NBC has done a awesome job of promoting Canada.

    PM Harper up next CTV says, but as we know the PM is always a little tardy….

  20. Sammy says:

    Gee this is a huge surprise! From G&M..Quebec among most highly indebted industrial economies in the world….with total public debt of $285.6 Billion..94% of GDP.Hmmmmmm,wonder who’s paying for that Charest?? Now shut the hell up about the Alberta golden goose.

  21. JDot says:

    PM Harper on now..

  22. Sammy says:

    He looks GREAT! Happy,proud of Canada..just beaming…you can just tell he is loving this.Right now,he’s another ‘Tim Horton hockey-lovin’ regular Joe’..God love him,he makes my heart proud.

  23. JDot says:

    Great interview by Brian Williams with the PM. To funny on the Norway Pant’s question. I know PM Harper has alot to do, like running a country and what not, but give me more…

    Damn PM Harper is awesome in interviews…

  24. dillon says:

    My wish is that PMSH present theGold Medal in hockey tomorrow.

  25. Fay says:

    Go Canada Go!! What a great day for Canada. Watched the interview on CTV with Stephen Harper.
    I agree Sammy.. God love him, he makes my heart proud. He is doing a great job of running this country in his trade mark unassuming style.
    I am so Happy Kevin Martin won the curling GOLD. I am a big curling fan and have been curling for 42 years. My husband and I watch every competition. Tonight my adult children sat down to watch the game with us to cheer on Canada. Tomorrow we will cheer on the Hockey mens team. Go canada Go!

  26. Joanne says:

    JDot yeah! What a fantastic interview with the PM. He was just so genuine. Brian Williams seemed to be enjoying it as well.

  27. Sammy says:

    Gee Fay,you must have started curling when you were in Kindergarten!!! I too love curling,and my hubby actually curled in High School Prov.many yrs ago.He is still a great curler,but Martin is on another scale altogether..he is tremendous.Just too bad that our gals didn’t get the Gold too,but maybe just not enough experience on that big a ‘stage’ Next time for sure!

  28. Sammy says:

    Just one more thot on the interview with PMSH tonite..you know,maybe if the majority of the msm would take off their partisan blinders,and afford our PM with the respect the office deserves,and quit being so ignorant and hateful toward him,they would come to see what a great guy he is! Instead,they treat him as if he were some pariah,and are so concerned with finding some stupid little thing to slag him.I always find he gives great interviews..and his sense of humor needs to shine more.

  29. Richco says:

    What I’m really happy about is not only that the PM was at that gold medal curling game but that he was there when a the whole place erupted in a spontaneous chorus of O’Canada and sang it to its completion. That had to have melted him on the spot.

    What came out loud and clear in the Brian Williams interview was that he was just like any of us would be if we were there cheering on our teams – excited, animated, confident and proud.

    There has never been a better time to be a Canadian than right now. This will be part of Harper’s legacy. I hope that those who were ready and willing to pounce the PM for the failure of the Vancouver 2010 Olympics remember that besides those athletes, their coaches and their families Harper’s wearing the games as part of his and Canada’s success story.

    I believe is answer to the Own The Podium question was exactly right too. He said something to the effect that he always knew we had this in us that it had to be coaxed out a bit and these games did it on a huge scale.

    He’s everyone of us and the only fellow deserving enough to be our PM.

  30. bocanut says:

    Harper high-fiving every one around him was not the action of a cynical controlling politician,it was the action of a Canadian sharing a common pride in the accomplishments of other Canadians.

  31. maz2 says:

    Al Gore’s Weather (AGW): Moi am Mr. Fix-It.

    Giving Al a SHOUTOUT.

    “I won’t go over my journey from terrified teen to skeptical adult, but suffice it to say a shift in politics (from conservative, toward liberal, back to conservative) over my twenties (hereafter referred to as the lost decade) was part of the process. Indeed, in the United States, political persuasion is a trusted diagnostic tool for determining one’s level of acceptance of the theory of man-made global warming. The more to the right you are, the less likely you believe. The more to the left … FIX IT FIX IT FIX IT!!!!!!!!!!!!”
    …-

    “Unsettled Science

    When I was 13 years old, science scared me. Not science itself, mind you, but the terrors of the future it foretold. News of the coming dark ages were delivered to our young ears through that most trusted of conduits, a high school science teacher. We’re killing the planet? I was shocked. What a bunch of jerks we all are! I remember so very clearly coming home from school, brow furrowed, and earnestly rebuking my parents for contributing to the destruction of the earth. RECYCLE! LIKE RIGHT NOW!! OR WE’RE ALL GONNA DIIIIEEEE!!!!!

    My father, a professor himself, looked up calmly and said “why?” Well I didn’t really know why. Something about landfills and styrofoam and earth day. Newspapers were killing dolphins. Six packs of soda were strangling penguins. The hole in the ozone layer was letting all our air out into space. Or something. Whatever it was, it was URGENT that we recycle to fix it!!! FIX IT FIX IT FIX IT!!!

    Still, though. Why?

    So now I’m thirty-five years old, and although I eventually broke free, environmental hysteria has surrounded me ever since that day. And there is no hysteria more rabid than that over man-made global warming (anthropogenic global warming, properly, or AGW).”

    http://www.redstate.com/absentee/2010/02/27/unsettled-science/

    http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/mt/mt-comments.cgi

  32. maz2 says:

    Mr. Fix-It? Gore? Not.

    “Skepticism had become heresy,”.

    Continued:

    “Let me tell you a little anecdote. In late 2008 I was in Turkey. I was with a group of journalists, think-tankers and bloggers. So in other words, liberals. And little old me. On our sixth and final night in Turkey, we were at a stunning rooftop bar in Istanbul, overlooking the city lights, with a breathtaking view of the Bosporus. Istanbul sprawls. Actively, like it is growing before your very eyes. And in every direction, the motion is punctuated by spires, modern and ancient. It’s a heady atmosphere. So there we sat, young and abroad, drinking wine, talking politics, and generally bonding. The conversation was lively, if meandering, and, as conversations between left and right inevitably do, it wandered to global warming.

    I sat quietly listening to the others discuss it. How terrible it was that the United States wouldn’t do our part. How urgent the crisis was. How the media gives too much play to the deniers … and then it was quiet.

    Liberal eyes traced slow paths over an art-deco table, eventually to fall lightly upon me.

    “Is he one of them?” The question was obvious without speaking it. I think I may have smirked a little. I looked out over the city. Finally someone said “be honest.” That was all. I let the moment hang there between us briefly, and then said “I think global warming is probably real, and probably mankind has something to do with that.” They actually applauded. I’m not joking. I got a standing ovation from our little group. They patted my back. I felt like I’d converted. I had joined something. Something important. I didn’t know why, but FIX IT FIX IT FIX IT!!!

    The next morning, as I was walking through the Hagia Sophia with a fellow tourist I’d shared the cab fare with, reflecting on the history of the building around me, I felt … wrong. The Hagia Sophia is magnificent, but it is pointed. The conversion from Christian Basilica to Muslim Mosque was one of violence. A jewel torn from one crown and embedded in another.

    Seated at that table the evening before, no one presented me with any compelling evidence. There were no new papers to share or arguments to be made. It was not a discussion of science or reason.

    It was a discussion of faith.

    Would I, like the ancient structure I was to tour the next day, adorn myself with the trappings of a new faith?

    I didn’t profess to understanding anything, I professed to BELIEVE something. And in that moment of belief I became acceptable.

    But standing there under that impossible dome the next morning, head clear of the intoxication of Istanbul and acceptance, I knew how wrong that was.

    It wasn’t science. It was a club.

    No, a church. And if you weren’t a member, you were the enemy.

    Skepticism had become heresy, and to speak it aloud was the fastest way alienate yourself from polite society.

    “Consensus” was the new “evidence,” and to stand outside that consensus was to self-identify as a hater of the planet and all who walk upon it. A sad state of affairs even then. But now?”

    http://www.redstate.com/absentee/2010/02/27/unsettled-science/

  33. maz2 says:

    Chile-Haiti: Earthquake Agreement.

    “On Port-au-Prince’s streets Saturday, many people had not heard of Chile’s quake. More than half a million are homeless, most still lack electricity and are preoccupied about trying to get enough to eat.

    Fanfan Bozot, a 32-year-old reggae singer having lunch with a friend, could only shake his head at his government’s reliance on international relief to distribute food and water.

    >>> “Chile has a responsible government,” he said, waving his hand in disgust. “Our government is incompetent.”
    …-

    “Chile built for resistance, Haiti to crumble”

    http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2010/02/27/13054566-ap.html

  34. maz2 says:

    “UN’s climate link to hurricanes in doubt

    Research by hurricane scientists may force the UN’s climate panel to reconsider its claims that greenhouse gas emissions have caused an increase in the number of tropical storms.”

    “… the latest research, just published in Nature Geoscience, paints a very different picture.

    It suggests that the rise in hurricane frequency since 1995 was just part of a natural cycle, and that several similar previous increases have been recorded, each followed by a decline.

    Looking to the future, it also draws on computer modelling to predict that the most likely impact of global warming will be to decrease the frequency of tropical storms, by up to 34% by 2100.”

    http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article7044158.ece

    http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/mt/mt-comments.cgi

  35. maz2 says:

    Al Gore pork.

    Al Gore’s Weather (AGW): Ah told ya. Ahm not a ham actor even though Ahm manbearpig.

    Ah plays to “the wider audience”. (Applause).

    “Overplaying natural variations in the weather diverts attention from the real issues”

    “Scientists and journalists need to find ways to help to make this clear without the wider audience switching off.”

    …-

    “Scientists must rein in misleading climate change claims”

    “A melting iceberg. The melting of ice around south-east Greenland accelerated in the early part of this decade, leading to reports that scientists had underestimated the speed of warming in this region. Photograph: AP”

    “Overplaying natural variations in the weather diverts attention from the real issues

    News headlines vie for attention and it is easy for scientists to grab this attention by linking climate change to the latest extreme weather event or apocalyptic prediction. But in doing so, the public perception of climate change can be distorted. The reality is that extreme events arise when natural variations in the weather and climate combine with long-term climate change. This message is more difficult to get heard. Scientists and journalists need to find ways to help to make this clear without the wider audience switching off.

    Recent headlines have proclaimed that Arctic summer sea ice has decreased so much in the past few years that it has reached a tipping point and will disappear very quickly. The truth is that there is little evidence to support this. Indeed, the record-breaking losses in the past couple of years could easily be due to natural fluctuations in the weather, with summer sea ice increasing again over the next few years. This diverts attention from the real, longer-term issues. For example, recent results from the Met Office do show that there is a detectable human impact in the long-term decline in sea ice over the past 30 years, and all the evidence points to a complete loss of summer sea ice much later this century.

    This is just one example where scientific evidence has been selectively chosen to support a cause.”

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/feb/11/climate-change-science-pope

    http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/mt/mt-comments.cgi

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