Al, Gored Again,...

Summer of disaster 'not climate change': Rajendra Pachauri

SPECIFIC natural disasters such as Cyclone Yasi and the Brisbane floods could not be directly linked to man-made climate change, the world's leading climate change authority said yesterday.

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change chairman Rajendra Pachauri said the general observation that climate change was bringing about an increase in extreme weather events was valid but scientists needed to provide much finer detail.

"Frankly, it is difficult to take a season or two and come up with any conclusions on those on a scientific basis," Dr Pachauri said.

"What we can say very clearly is the aggregate impact of climate change on all these events, which are taking place at much higher frequency and intensity all over the world.

"On that there is very little doubt; the scientific evidence is very, very strong. But what happens in Queensland or what happens in Russia or for that matter the floods in the Mississippi River right now, whether there is a link between those and climate change is very difficult to establish. So I don't think anyone can make a categorical statement on that."

Dr Pachauri's comments contradict assertions by Greens leader Bob Brown in the wake of the floods that the coal industry was to blame because the sector's contribution to global warming was responsible for the extreme weather conditions.

Scientists had concluded that the floods were caused by record high temperatures in the oceans around Australia, Senator Brown said at the time.

As experts from around the world meet on the Gold Coast this week to finalise a special report on global warming and extreme weather events, which is due out in November, Dr Pachauri admitted the IPCC had been damaged by recent controversies over leaked emails and its use of poor-quality research.

How's That Whole "Climate Change" BS Working Out for You, Algore?

Snow disrupts travel across northern Europe

Hundreds of passengers slept in airports in France and Germany as they waited for their cancelled flights to be rescheduled

Thousands of flights and train services have been cancelled across Europe because of snow and ice, leaving many travellers stranded.

Few flights were leaving London Heathrow, Europe's busiest airport, and one third of flights were cancelled in major hubs like Paris and Frankfurt.

Departures from Brussels airport were to be cancelled until Wednesday due to a lack of de-icing liquid.

Roads in a number of countries have been described as treacherous.

The UK, France and Germany were among the worst-hit areas, with forecasters warning of freezing weather all week.

There were severe delays on the Eurostar rail service between the UK and France and Belgium, and Thalys trains between France and Belgium were also affected as speed restrictions hit rail travel in England and northern France.

Lines of delayed passengers snaked for several hundred metres outside London's St Pancras station, and Eurostar - which has been turning away even those with bookings - urged travellers to cancel or postpone their trips if possible.

Snow?  In Europe?  In Late December?  Whodathunkit??

Feigning! **

** Its Norwegian for "coward!"


HT to Conservatives for Change:

Al Gore Appears : Note to Warmers; No More Do-Overs!

Al Gore made an appearance on a Norwegian television program last night. A more impressive move would have been to have accepted the invitation to appear before the US Senate, which could conceivably lead to criminal charges.

Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain. The great and powerful wizard Gore says he isn't finished yet. Despite appearances apparently – which one might think would be important to a man who has nothing else in his arsenal. His appearance in a protected studio in Oslo, confronted by a small mild-mannered green-conscious Scandinavian audience, is a far cry from facing the angry mods back home. It seems to be the story of his life. Recalling that his own home state of Tennessee voted against him in the presidential race, it seems that the more people get to know him, the less they like him.

The Silence, Mr. Gore, Is Deafening!

What? No awards for "Misleading Buffoon" to get you to address the press?

You Can Call Him Al ... But Al Won't Call You Back
By Gene J. Koprowski
- FOXNews.com

Al Gore won a Nobel Prize and an Oscar for his film, An Inconvenient Truth. But in the last three months, as global warming has gone from a scientific near-certitude to the subject of satire, Gore -- the public face of global warming -- has been mum on the topic.

The former vice president apparently finds it inconvenient even to answer calls to testify before the U.S. Senate. You can call him Al . . . but he won't call back.

On Tuesday, Oklahoma Sen. James Inhofe -- a prominent skeptic of global warming theory and the Republican leader of the Senate's Environment and Public Works Committee -- issued a request for Gore to come testify on global warming. In an interview with FoxNews.com, Inhofe said he wants Gore to appear because "it will be interesting to ask him on what science he based his movie," a film the senator considers "science fiction."

Gore has yet to respond, but that didn't prevent him from causing a stir at Apple's shareholder meeting Thursday. According to CNET, Gore was seated in the first row while several stockholders bashed his high-profile views on climate change. One reportedly said Gore "has become a laughingstock. The glaciers have not melted."

Gore did not reply, and he has not commented on his blog or Twitter feed.

Telling It Like It Is,....

Donald Trump Wants Al Gore's Nobel Peace Prize Stripped

Billionaire real estate tycoon Donald Trump wants Al Gore's Nobel Peace Prize stripped from the Global Warmingist-in-Chief.

"With the coldest winter ever recorded, with snow setting record levels up and down the coast, the Nobel committee should take the Nobel Prize back, " Trump recently told members of his Westchester, New York, country club according to the New York Post.

OMG, It's Osama bin Algore!

And this is coming from a multi-millionaire forced to hide from us in a damp, cold cave,...??

Bin Laden Blames U.S. for Global Warming in New Tape

CAIRO — Usama bin Laden sought to draw a wider public into his fight against the United States in a new message Friday, dropping his usual talk of religion and holy war and focusing instead on an unexpected topic: global warming.

The Al Qaeda leader blamed the United States and other industrialized nations for climate change and said the only way to prevent disaster was to break the American economy, calling on the world to boycott U.S. goods and stop using the dollar.

"The effects of global warming have touched every continent. Drought and deserts are spreading, while from the other floods and hurricanes unseen before the previous decades have now become frequent," bin Laden said in the audiotape, aired on the Arab TV network Al-Jazeera.

The terror leader noted Washington's rejection of the Kyoto Protocol aimed at reducing greenhouse gases and painted the United States as in the thrall of major corporations that he said "are the true criminals against the global climate" and are to blame for the global economic crisis, driving "tens of millions into poverty and unemployment."

Copenhagen Undone by a Simply Inconvenient Truth

Big freeze brings misery and death to Europe

Much of Europe continues to face transport problems because of freezing weather but some services have resumed.

More than 90 people have died across the Continent, 10 of them in a single day in Poland, where the winter death toll now stands at 79.

Air, rail and road transport has been severely disrupted.

But Eurostar resumed a limited service and flights restarted from Frankfurt airport - Europe's third-biggest - after it was closed overnight.

The disruption has come during the busy Christmas holiday season, affecting many people's travel plans.

(snip)

Road traffic in the UK was severely disrupted, including the south-east where roads were gridlocked late on Monday after numerous crashes in heavy snowfall.

Major roads elsewhere in Europe were blocked after some regions had snowfall of up to 50cm (20in).

I'll say it again: Snow and cold? In December?? I'm SHOCKED!! I guess Algore isn't the green messiah Copenhagen thinks he is?

Dear Copenhagen,...

Does this LOOK like the kind of weather where you go out in shorts and suntan lotion? Snow,....in December,...imagine that, Algore!

Convienent Truths Clouding Gore's Credibility?

"It's not the heat from reporters' questions making me sweat, it's global warming, I tell ya,..."

Inconvenient Truth for Gore as Arctic Ice Claims Don't Add Up

London Times

The former vice president said new research showed that the Arctic could be completely ice-free in five years, but the scientist his estimate was based on denies the timeline.

There are many kinds of truth. Al Gore was hit by an inconvenient one yesterday.

The former vice president, who became an unlikely figurehead for the green movement after narrating the Oscar-winning documentary "An Inconvenient Truth," became entangled in a new climate change row.

Gore, speaking at the Copenhagen climate change summit, stated the latest research showed that the Arctic could be completely ice-free in five years.

In his speech, Gore told the conference: "These figures are fresh. Some of the models suggest to Dr. [Wieslav] Maslowski that there is a 75 percent chance that the entire north polar ice cap, during the summer months, could be completely ice-free within five to seven years."

However, the climatologist whose work Gore was relying upon dropped the former vice president in the water with an icy blast.

"It's unclear to me how this figure was arrived at," Dr. Maslowski said. "I would never try to estimate likelihood at anything as exact as this."

Gore's office later admitted that the 75 percent figure was one used by Dr. Maslowski as a "ballpark figure" several years ago in a conversation with Gore.

Its Official: Algore is Full of S**t!

From the Frazee (MN) Forum:

Deep snow causes cancellation of Frazee's sled dog race

With the large amounts of snow, the trail crew has been unable to keep a designated trail open for the Third Crossing Sled Dog Rendezvous originally set Jan. 23-24 near Frazee.

Because of this, and other snow-related reasons, the ninth annual sprint sled dog race has been canceled. This sprint race is one of the largest in the Lower 48, with top teams coming from Canada, Alaska and Europe in past years. The event draws 2,000-3,000 spectators each year.

The trail crew reported that as soon as they get around the course with snow machines and the Department of Natural Resources' big tracked groomer, the winds just drift it right back smooth and shut again.

"There were huge problems in each of the three attempts to designate the race course with everybody getting stuck in the deep snow, especially in drifted areas," said trail helper Eddy Streeper, a 30-plus year veteran sprint dog racer who has rarely heard of a snow cancellation for a sled dog race.

The possibility of dog injuries made the call easier to make, said Sled Dog Club President Heidi Brune. With a deep, dry powder base that could not be firmed up for the high-powered fast dog teams, stopping teams to untangle or for other emergencies would not have been an option. Mushers carry a snow hook, which is basically a 4- to 5-pound steel, two-pronged hook designed to be stomped into the base of the trail or the frozen ground to keep a team stopped if needed.

Also at speeds of up to 20 miles per hour, with as many dogs as 20 per team, leg injuries could result from the teams running through unpackable snow depths of over four feet on this trail.

Twice in the past 11 years the race has been canceled due to lack of snow, so too much dry snow brings about yet another odd twist on an event that is dependent on the weather.

"We hope for a better year in 2010 and look forward to having all the top sprint dog teams back in Frazee!" Brune said.

The Frazee Sled Dog Club has planned its next race for Friday and Saturday, Jan 22-23, 2010.


The Bitter American belches bile and says:

Imagine that: TOO MUCH SNOW! In MINNESOTA! SNOW IN MINNESOTA!!! What is this world coming to??

Getting Some "Facts" Straight

So this liberal dweeb called "Fact-esque" thinks all the brouhaha over the Obamessiah's "inflated tire scheme" is nothing more than a stunt.

Let's look at a few things here:

• Most people use air compressors to inflate their tires. I don't know about you, but I haven't seen a free air compressor at a gas station in years. Most gouge you 50 or 75 cents to fill your tires. That's plenty more than the 3-4% savings stated in his Obamanure.
• Even if you use a home-based compressor, doesn't it require ENERGY to inflate your tires?? ENERGY!! The stuff we're supposed to CONSERVE??
  
• Don't you need to burn some fossil fuel, like oil, to create energy? And doesn't the creation of such energy contribute to Algore's global warming??

So, Fact-esque, who's being more shady to the public, Obama or McCain??

The phone lines are open,....

Told You Algore Was Full of Hot Air

Campaign to sue Al Gore 'gains support'
Posted by Catherine Elsworth on 01 May 2008 at 08:59

A veteran US meteorologist and global warming skeptic says a bid to sue Al Gore for fraud over his claims about man-made climate change is gathering momentum.



John Coleman, who founded the Weather Channel in 1982, proposed taking the former vice president and other environmental activists to court at a conference in New York in March.

Since then he has "received thousands and thousands of emails with lots of support", he says. "And thousands of these people want to donate to a legal fund to sue Al Gore."

Mr Coleman hopes court could be the venue to settle the debate over what he calls “the biggest scam in history” and expose global warming alarmism as "silly hype".

"I think it’s maybe our only alternative to just hunkering down and waiting it out," said the forecaster, who now works for a local station in San Diego, California.

He claims the mainstream media ignores what those sceptical of man-made global warming have to say while the educational community does not debate the issue.

"Without the media and the educational institutions, what resource do we have to counter these people? We are not going to be heard unless we can find a place to be heard and a court of law might be a place where we would get a fair hearing."
Mr Coleman, who would like to see all proponents of global warming including those who sell carbon credits challenged, added:

"If the judge had a non-political scientific approach in reaching a decision we would win the lawsuit. It’s something that is in the works. I have no announcement to make about it now but numerous people are involved and it remains a valid possibility."

I contacted Mr Coleman in reference to a Houston Chronicle story that claimed another senior meteorologist, pioneering hurricane forecaster Professor William Gray, was being penalised for his anti-global warming views. (The original headline, Storm brewing for William Gray, has since been changed).

I wanted to see if Mr Coleman had heard of this happening elsewhere.

As it was, the Colorado State University, which was reported to be planning to suspend support for Professor Gray’s work because of his views on climate change, vigorously denied the story. Sandra Woods, dean of the University’s engineering department which oversees atmospheric sciences, described the information in the article as “false”, adding: "The assertion that Dr. Gray is being silenced or being forced out because of his views on global warming is completely inaccurate."

Mr Coleman said he did feel that expressing doubts about man-made global warming had become the preserve of older meteorologists less worried about a backlash.

He said he has spoken to several weather forecasters at US television networks who say that even though they share his doubts about climate change they are afraid to speak out for fear of losing their jobs.

"We old guys, we are the ones who are able to speak out more clearly on global warming because our retirements are in place and we don’t have to worry so much about the repercussions," said Mr Coleman. "An awful lot of younger guys I know of and have been in touch with, they agree with our position but for career reasons are unable to say anything. And I certainly can’t name them. But television weathermen who work for the networks, I know several of them who just can’t say anything. They feel that their entire position would be in jeopardy."

Mr Coleman predicts it will take "20 more years of weather data to totally wipe out the silliness". In the meantime he continues to argue that evidence of man-made global warming just isn’t there.

"It’s been 30 years since the whole global warming thing (began) and by this time the oceans should be rising and the ice caps should be pretty well melted, and none of that’s happening. Despite all the hype last year about the North polar ice cap melting away, it’s frozen up bigger than it’s been frozen up in 20 years at this moment. So, where in the heck’s the beef? Where’s the warming?"

It should be an interesting showdown if the sceptics get their day in court.
Posted by Catherine Elsworth on 01 May 2008 at 08:59


The Trekmedic appends: Not exactly a hot topic on CeeNoNews, CeeBS, or MSMSNBC, huh? I wonder why,...?

Algore,...Give Back Your Nobel Prize!

Crippling Midwest Ice Storm Leaves Residents Cold and Powerless; At Least 24 Killed

OKLAHOMA CITY — Stan Turner awoke Tuesday to find not only was his home without power but an ice-coated tree limb had crashed into his classic Mustang. The only heat available for the house came from a fireplace, a wood-burning chimenea on the porch and a gas stove.

"I've been scrounging all the wood I can," he said. "I'm going to get out there and get the bigger limbs down, but the wet weather is what's making it so bad."

Turner was among a million utility customers who were struggling without electricity in the nation's midsection after a massive storm dropped sleet and freezing rain across much of Kansas, Missouri, Illinois and Iowa. The system has been blamed for at least 24 deaths since it developed last weekend.

Glistening, ice-covered roads contributed to many of the deaths. Downed power lines caused dozens of fires in Oklahoma. And then there was the problem of staying warm because officials cautioned that electricity may not be restored for days, if not weeks.

Ok,...the TrekMedic knows what you're thinking (he's omnipotent that way,...just ask a few liberals trolls) - Its December and this is supposed to happen. Yes,...and just like last week here in the the Northeast it snowed and dropped into the 20s.

But Algore says that's going by the wayside, because the oceans are heating up.

Bulls**t!

Ever wonder what happened to all those hurricanes for 2007?


Gray has been forecasting hurricanes for more than two decades, and his predictions are watched closely by emergency responders and others in coastal areas.

The predictions are not always on the mark. Gray initially forecast nine hurricanes for the 2007 Atlantic hurricane season, and later lowered that prediction to eight. Only six hurricanes formed.

Cooler water and the presence of wind shears in the central tropical Atlantic explained the difference, said Phil Klotzbach, a member of Gray's team and the lead author of the forecast.

Cooler temperatures inhibit hurricane formation, and wind shears can tear developing hurricanes apart.


Cooler water in the Atlantic?? Huh! And here we were all led to believe that the Atlantic Ocean was going to turn into a roiling, boiling, iceberg-killing swamp in the next few years.

Give it back, Al,....give it back!

Oh, yeah,..and apologize to those liberal losers that threw you a concert for BS-ing the Nobel committee, too! (BTW - Tommy lee Jones backed out as co-host. Tommy went to Harvard with Algore. Well,..a 50% rate isn't too bad)

Hot Air From Algore?

Junk Science: Hey Al Gore, We Want a Refund!

Friday, October 19, 2007
By Steven Milloy

A British judge ruled on the eve of Al Gore co-winning the Nobel Peace Prize that students forced to watch "An Inconvenient Truth" must be warned of the film’s factual errors. But would there be any science at all left in Gore’s "truth" if these errors and their progeny were excised?

Minutes of non-science filler dominate the opening sequence — images of the Gore farm, Earth from space, Gore giving his slideshow and the 2000 election controversy. Gore then links Hurricane Katrina with global warming. But the judge ruled that was erroneous, so the Katrina scenes would wind up on the cutting-room floor.

Another 12 minutes of filler go by — images of Gore in his limo, more Earth photos, a Mark Twain quote, and Gore memories — until about the 16:30 minute mark, when, according to the judge, Al Gore erroneously links receding glaciers — specifically Mt. Kilimanjaro — with global warming.

The Mt. Kilimanjaro error commences an almost 10-minute stretch of problematic footage, the bulk of which contains Gore’s presentation of the crucial issue in the global warming controversy — whether increasing levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide drive global temperatures higher. As the judge ruled that the Antarctic ice core data presented in the film "do not establish what Mr. Gore asserts," this inconvenient untruth also needs to go. [Note to readers: A video debate between Al Gore and climatologists on this point produced by me can be viewed by clicking here.]

After still more filler footage about Winston Churchill, the 2000 election, and rising insurance claims from natural disasters, Gore spends about 35 seconds on how the drying of Lake Chad is due to global warming. The judge ruled that this claim wasn’t supported by the scientific evidence.

More filler leads to a 30-second clip about how global warming is causing polar bears to drown because they have to swim greater distances to find sea ice on which to rest. The judge ruled however, that the polar bears in question had actually drowned because of a particularly violent storm.

On the heels of that error, Gore launches into a 3-minute "explanation" of how global warming will shut down the Gulf Stream and send Europe into an ice age. The judge ruled that this was an impossibility.

Two minutes of ominous footage — casting Presidents Reagan and George H.W. Bush, and Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK) in a creepy light and expressing Gore’s frustration with getting his alarmist message out — precede a more-than-9-minute stretch that would need to be cut.

In this lengthy footage, Gore again tries to link global warming with discrete events including coral reef bleaching, the melting of Greenland, catastrophic sea level rise, Antarctic melting and more. But like Hurricane Katrina, these events also shouldn’t be linked with global warming.

Based on the judge’s ruling, the footage that ought to be excised adds up to about 25 minutes or so out of the 98-minute film. What’s left is largely Gore personal drama and cinematic fluff that has nothing to do with the science of climate change.

It should also be pointed out that Gore makes other notable factual misstatements in the film that don’t help his or his film’s credibility.

He says in the film that polio has been "cured," implying that we can cure "global warming." While a preventative polio vaccine does exist, there is no "cure" for polio.

Gore attempts to smear his critics by likening them to the tobacco industry. In spotlighting a magazine advertisement proclaiming that "more doctors smoke Camel than any other brand," he states that the ad was published after the Surgeon General’s 1964 report on smoking and lung cancer. But the ad is actually from 1947 — 17 years before the report.

Gore also says in the film that 2005 is the hottest year on record. But NASA data actually show that 1934 was the hottest year on record in the U.S. — 2005 is not even in the top 10.

Perhaps worse than the film’s errors is their origin. The BBC reported that Gore knew the film presented incorrect information but took no corrective steps because he didn’t want to spotlight any uncertainties in the scientific data that may fuel opponents of global warming alarmism.

"An Inconvenient Truth" grossed about $50 million at the box office and millions more in DVD and book sales. Gore charges as much as $175,000 for an in-person presentation of his slide show that forms the basis for the film.

Considering that a key 25 percent of "An Inconvenient Truth" is not true — and perhaps intentionally so — it seems only fair that Gore offer a refund to moviegoers, DVD/book purchasers and speaking sponsors. Where are the class action lawyers when you need them?

Steven Milloy publishes JunkScience.com and DemandDebate.com. He is a junk science expert and advocate of free enterprise and an adjunct scholar at the Competitive Enterprise Institute.