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Alarmist global warming claims melt under scientific scrutiny

June 30, 2007

BY JAMES M. TAYLOR
In his new book, The Assault on Reason, Al Gore pleads, "We must stop tolerating the rejection and distortion of science. We must insist on an end to the cynical use of pseudo-studies known to be false for the purpose of intentionally clouding the public's ability to discern the truth." Gore repeatedly asks that science and reason displace cynical political posturing as the central focus of public discourse.
If Gore really means what he writes, he has an opportunity to make a difference by leading by example on the issue of global warming.

A cooperative and productive discussion of global warming must be open and honest regarding the science. Global warming threats ought to be studied and mitigated, and they should not be deliberately exaggerated as a means of building support for a desired political position.

Many of the assertions Gore makes in his movie, ''An Inconvenient Truth,'' have been refuted by science, both before and after he made them. Gore can show sincerity in his plea for scientific honesty by publicly acknowledging where science has rebutted his claims.

For example, Gore claims that Himalayan glaciers are shrinking and global warming is to blame. Yet the September 2006 issue of the American Meteorological Society's Journal of Climate reported, "Glaciers are growing in the Himalayan Mountains, confounding global warming alarmists who recently claimed the glaciers were shrinking and that global warming was to blame."

Gore claims the snowcap atop Africa's Mt. Kilimanjaro is shrinking and that global warming is to blame. Yet according to the November 23, 2003, issue of Nature magazine, "Although it's tempting to blame the ice loss on global warming, researchers think that deforestation of the mountain's foothills is the more likely culprit. Without the forests' humidity, previously moisture-laden winds blew dry. No longer replenished with water, the ice is evaporating in the strong equatorial sunshine."

Gore claims global warming is causing more tornadoes. Yet the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change stated in February that there has been no scientific link established between global warming and tornadoes.

Gore claims global warming is causing more frequent and severe hurricanes. However, hurricane expert Chris Landsea published a study on May 1 documenting that hurricane activity is no higher now than in decades past. Hurricane expert William Gray reported just a few days earlier, on April 27, that the number of major hurricanes making landfall on the U.S. Atlantic coast has declined in the past 40 years. Hurricane scientists reported in the April 18 Geophysical Research Letters that global warming enhances wind shear, which will prevent a significant increase in future hurricane activity.

Gore claims global warming is causing an expansion of African deserts. However, the Sept. 16, 2002, issue of New Scientist reports, "Africa's deserts are in 'spectacular' retreat . . . making farming viable again in what were some of the most arid parts of Africa."

Gore argues Greenland is in rapid meltdown, and that this threatens to raise sea levels by 20 feet. But according to a 2005 study in the Journal of Glaciology, "the Greenland ice sheet is thinning at the margins and growing inland, with a small overall mass gain." In late 2006, researchers at the Danish Meteorological Institute reported that the past two decades were the coldest for Greenland since the 1910s.

Gore claims the Antarctic ice sheet is melting because of global warming. Yet the Jan. 14, 2002, issue of Nature magazine reported Antarctica as a whole has been dramatically cooling for decades. More recently, scientists reported in the September 2006 issue of the British journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society Series A: Mathematical, Physical, and Engineering Sciences, that satellite measurements of the Antarctic ice sheet showed significant growth between 1992 and 2003. And the U.N. Climate Change panel reported in February 2007 that Antarctica is unlikely to lose any ice mass during the remainder of the century.

Each of these cases provides an opportunity for Gore to lead by example in his call for an end to the distortion of science. Will he rise to the occasion? Only time will tell.


James M. Taylor is senior fellow for environment policy at the Heartland Institute.

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DaddyHalbucks

Al Gore should get a job with Ringling Brothers, Barnum & Bailey as a carnival barker.

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tony286

so the worse thing that happens if he is wrong we have a nicer place to live, cleaner air and depend less on those saudi pricks. Please tell me how that is a bad thing and no right wing talk points your own words.

BigCashCrew

Has anyone seen Al Gores house? He has more lights in his yard than the Rockefeller plaza Christmas tree. He uses 20 times more energy at his house in Nashville TN than the average house. He needs to practice what he preaches. Guys like him kill me.

If you don't believe me, read these articles.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...022801823.html

Another interesting article...
http://www.tennesseepolicy.org/main/...article_id=367

"In his documentary, the former Vice President calls on Americans to conserve energy by reducing electricity consumption at home.

The average household in America consumes 10,656 kilowatt-hours (kWh) per year, according to the Department of Energy. In 2006, Gore devoured nearly 221,000 kWh—more than 20 times the national average.

Last August alone, Gore burned through 22,619 kWh—guzzling more than twice the electricity in one month than an average American family uses in an entire year. As a result of his energy consumption, Gore’s average monthly electric bill topped $1,359."

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unbiased source .......

The Heartland Institute created a website in the Spring of 2007, www.globalwarmingheartland.org, which asserts there is no scientific consensus on global warming and features a list of experts and a list of like-minded think tanks, many of whom have received funding from ExxonMobil and other polluters. The Heartland Institute networks heavily with other conservative policy organizations, and is part of the State Policy Network, a member of the Cooler Heads Coalition (as of 4/04), and co-sponsored the 2001 Fly In for Freedom with the Wise Use umbrella group, Alliance for America. Heartland also co-sponsored a New York state Conference on Property Rights, hosted by the Property Rights Foundation of America. The Institute puts out several publications, including "Environment & Climate News" which frequently features anti-environmentalist and climate skeptic writing. They also published "Earth Day '96," a compilation of articles on environmental topics. The publication, distributed on college campuses, featured "Adventures in the Ozone Layer" by S. Fred Singer, and "the Cold Facts on Global Warming" by Sallie Baliunas. The articles denied the serious nature of ozone depletion and global warming. Walter F. Buchholtz, an ExxonMobil executive, serves as Heartland's Government Relations Advisor, according to Heartland's 2005 IRS Form 990, pg. 15. http://www.guidestar.org/FinDocument...0295fbb2-9.pdf The Heartland Institute formerly sponsored and hosted www.climatesearch.org, a web page ostensibly dedicated to objective research on global warming, but at the same time presenting heavily biased research by organizations such as the American Petroleum Institute as an FAQ section.


http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/orgfactsheet.php?id=41

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I know that Asspimple is stoopid ... As he says, it is a FACT !

But I can't figure out how he can breathe or type , at the same time ....

directfiesta

THe guy is successfull and rich .... tough luck for you .


Now, if he preached to live in poverty, you then would have a point ...

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BigCashCrew

Is this all you can come back with? He is successful and rich. So you buy into all this crap? I bet you bought his movie. The guy is preaching to everyone to cut down on their energy usage to save the planet and he is burning more energy than 20 households and god knows what else. He could cut down on his energy usage if he wanted to but he isn't. But that's OK because he's rich. Amazing.

Put this one on your wall.

LadyMischief

Doing it under the premise of global alarmism and scare tactics is pretty stupid.

Why wouldn't people do it for the sake of that alone?

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Pleasurepays

no.. the worse thing that happens is that he is right... but people ignore him completely and he hurts the cause because he's a moron crying wolf day and night using the same logic, tactics and "questionable studies" that he accuses others of doing.

thats whats wrong with the "global warming" debate. the vast majority of people are in the middle watching complete idiots on both sides make asses of themselves and the message itself gets lost.

BigCashCrew

Here is another great article on Al Gores hypocrisy.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion...re-green_x.htm

Gore isn't quite as green as he's led the world to believe

Graciously, Gore tells consumers how to change their lives to curb their carbon-gobbling ways: Switch to compact fluorescent light bulbs, use a clothesline, drive a hybrid, use renewable energy, dramatically cut back on consumption. Better still, responsible global citizens can follow Gore's example, because, as he readily points out in his speeches, he lives a "carbon-neutral lifestyle." But if Al Gore is the world's role model for ecology, the planet is doomed.

For someone who says the sky is falling, he does very little. He says he recycles and drives a hybrid. And he claims he uses renewable energy credits to offset the pollution he produces when using a private jet to promote his film. (In reality, Paramount Classics, the film's distributor, pays this.)

Public records reveal that as Gore lectures Americans on excessive consumption, he and his wife Tipper live in two properties: a 10,000-square-foot, 20-room, eight-bathroom home in Nashville, and a 4,000-square-foot home in Arlington, Va. (He also has a third home in Carthage, Tenn.) For someone rallying the planet to pursue a path of extreme personal sacrifice, Gore requires little from himself.

Then there is the troubling matter of his energy use. In the Washington, D.C., area, utility companies offer wind energy as an alternative to traditional energy. In Nashville, similar programs exist. Utility customers must simply pay a few extra pennies per kilowatt hour, and they can continue living their carbon-neutral lifestyles knowing that they are supporting wind energy. Plenty of businesses and institutions have signed up. Even the Bush administration is using green energy for some federal office buildings, as are thousands of area residents.

But according to public records, there is no evidence that Gore has signed up to use green energy in either of his large residences. When contacted Wednesday, Gore's office confirmed as much but said the Gores were looking into making the switch at both homes. Talk about inconvenient truths.

Gore is not alone. Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean has said, "Global warming is happening, and it threatens our very existence." The DNC website applauds the fact that Gore has "tried to move people to act." Yet, astoundingly, Gore's persuasive powers have failed to convince his own party: The DNC has not signed up to pay an additional two pennies a kilowatt hour to go green. For that matter, neither has the Republican National Committee.

Maybe our very existence isn't threatened.

Gore has held these apocalyptic views about the environment for some time. So why, then, didn't Gore dump his family's large stock holdings in Occidental (Oxy) Petroleum? As executor of his family's trust, over the years Gore has controlled hundreds of thousands of dollars in Oxy stock. Oxy has been mired in controversy over oil drilling in ecologically sensitive areas.

Living carbon-neutral apparently doesn't mean living oil-stock free. Nor does it necessarily mean giving up a mining royalty either.

Humanity might be "sitting on a ticking time bomb," but Gore's home in Carthage is sitting on a zinc mine. Gore receives $20,000 a year in royalties from Pasminco Zinc, which operates a zinc concession on his property. Tennessee has cited the company for adding large quantities of barium, iron and zinc to the nearby Caney Fork River.

The issue here is not simply Gore's hypocrisy; it's a question of credibility. If he genuinely believes the apocalyptic vision he has put forth and calls for radical changes in the way other people live, why hasn't he made any radical change in his life? Giving up the zinc mine or one of his homes is not asking much, given that he wants the rest of us to radically change our lives.

Peter Schweizer is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution and author of Do As I Say (Not As I Do): Profiles in Liberal Hypocrisy.

fuzzylogic

spunkmaster stfu!

spunkmaster

The Author cites 7 independent sources showing Gore is full of shit and you sheep just say Baaaaa to your wacko hero Al Gore !

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fuzzylogic

i dont understand why people dont believe in climate change because al gore has a big house.

fuzzylogic

this is a yes or no question:
do you believe that the earths climate is changing?

directfiesta

They are NOT independent sources ....

as for his house:

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The think tank said that Gore used nearly 221,000 kilowatt hours last year and that his average monthly electric bill was $1,359. Johnson said his group got its figures from Nashville Electric Service.

But electric company spokeswoman Laurie Parker said the utility never got a request from the policy center and never provided them with any information.

Parker said Gore has been purchasing the "green power" for $432 a month since November. The Gore home is also under renovation to add solar panels, Kreider said.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/...n2522844.shtml
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Scootermuze

Well they aren't.. and haven't.. so everyone thinks all is well I guess...

Sometimes people need a little scare thrown into them to get something done..

I'd much rather believe him and he end up being wrong, than not believe him and he ends up being right..

spunkmaster

There's been climate change for millions of years and that's the point. It's natural and will occur no matter what man does to fuck with it.

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teg0

global warning aside, whats so wrong with wanting to treat the earth better?

BigCashCrew

George Carlin said it best. He said the earth has been around for billions of years. It doesn't give a fuck what we do to it. It will kill us all eventually and swallow us up whole and start over.

Pleasurepays

obviously the climate is changing. we are coming out of a major ice age and less than 2 centuries from coming out of the "little ice age"

of course the climate is changing.


thats the problem with this whole issue. being phrased in that way (global warming/climate change), sets the issue of what is more accurately described as "accelerated climate change" to be a losing argument right out of the gate.

BigCashCrew

George Carlin's view of the earth... lmao
"Besides, there is nothing wrong with the planet. Nothing wrong with the planet. The planet is fine. The PEOPLE are fucked. Difference. Difference. The planet is fine. Compared to the people, the planet is doing great. Been here four and a half billion years." ...

BigCashCrew

It has nothing to do with him having a big house. It is the fact that he doesn't practice what he preaches. Just read the thread.

fuzzylogic

ok..
so whats the point of this thread then. ..

KimJI

yes - but it have been doing so the last 6 million years.


In the early 1800's people already knew about the changes in the gulfstream
http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/histor...ulfstream.html

Al Gore is riding the fametrain, and hopes it stop in the white house

I recommend reading "Climatic and human history in Europe and Latin America: An opportunity for comparative study" It gives you a 400 year study for both Latin America and Europe. And makes some interesting observations about how little Social and Economical progress influence the weather


If you Google "Earth and Environmental Science" you will find many interesting studies

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spunkmaster

That's Gore's a big fucking liar !

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There might be bits of his movie that are refuted by members of the scientific community... I dunno - honestly, I never bothered watching the flick.

But the overall message, that the Earth is warming, is pretty much fact. (anyone that's bothered going to their local library to research the issue would agree, I'm sure)

Whether man is to blame or not is up for debate, however, I, for one, feel that all this crap we keep dumping into the atmosphere has to have some negative impacts.

"opposite and equal reaction" and all.

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tony286

Being a thinking man ,the way Al Gore is being attacked he must have something right.If someone is just a kook,they dont get so much attention.

TTiger

interesting no buisiness read :-)

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Gore's an idiot

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directfiesta

says who ????

What is really amazing about americans is that firm SPLIT between left & right .... Your country is really fucked up when you need to stick to sides to feel ok ....

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spunkmaster

That's the problem.

They believe whatever fucked up thing the person on their side says no matter how goofy it sounds.

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shermo

It goes both ways.

I don't give a shit about Gore, but if you think we're treating the planet right, you're an idiot. Extreme Liberals and Extreme Conservatives can both suck a bag of dicks.

I'm sick of these good ol' boys posting news links because they hate democrats. If you don't believe global warming is an issue, fine. Drive your SUV's with horrible gas mileage, don't switch to energy star appliances and pay higher bills than you have to. It's no skin off my back.

The same goes to your environmentalist freaks. Just because a person's house isn't insulated with recycled jeans and their shoes aren't made of recycled tires doesn't make them a bad person. If people would just meet in the middle, the world would be a much better place and probably free of smoggy air.

What's wrong with cleaner air, fresher water with less pollutants and recycling materials to cut down on waste? Is there anything wrong with powering your house on solar power if you live in a desert? If anybody can see a negative in any of those practices than they are complete tools.

SmokeyTheBear

4 words for you if you think global warming is a hoax.

great glacier national park

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Triple 6

the 'average' home in the usa im sure is comparably smaller and less stacked inside and outside than, AL GORE's crib.

Al Gore is the man. He invented the information superhighway a la 'the INTERNET'.

Watch out son.

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Triple 6

also, just cuz us humans are destroying the plant and so forth, doesnt mean this wave of global warming is all our fault. It happens every now and then, u know, like them ice ages, lol.

So bring the HEAT on!!!!!!!!!!!!

Better than some crazy noahs ark flood or global cooling i.e. yet another ice age.

;)

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who

I'm positively sure there's man-caused global warming going on. BUt I think that the earth has gone through many such cycles caused by natural events and that it's not alot to get worried about..

Kenko

It's going to be up to science to make a difference here.
There are too many ignorant fucks who couldn't give a shit if there wasn't a single tree left. So it's up to the geeks to bring on the electric cars and save us from ourselves..
A giant laser fence around the rainforests might also help.

Axarsys

Well said. Who among us would walk or take the bus and leave their car in the garage to gather dust? Most enjoy their creature comforts too much and choose not to believe they harm the environment. Al Gore may be a fake but this is really an issue...already in many places across the globe there are unprecedented droughts or weather phenomenons that left many without food or/and housing and next year will be worst.

But I suppose we'll have to wait and see, no?

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