The great global warming myth: August 2008

some inconvieniant facts

Yes, there has been some warming in the past century or so, about 1 degree Fahrenheit. Before that, from about 1250 to 1850, we were in a cool period known as the Little Ice Age. Much of the recent warming actually occurred from about 1895 to 1940, with the biggest warming trend from about 1910 to 1935, well before the significant increase in fossil fuel use.
The year 1934 was actually the warmest year, with 1998 coming in second, and temperatures have declined slightly since then. Greenland reached its highest temperature in 1941 and has been cooling ever since. Temperatures have actually cooled slightly since 1998, very likely signaling another ice age similar to the Little Ice Age.

Saturday, August 2, 2008

Al Gore Places Infant Son In Rocket To Escape Dying Planet

The Great global warming update:

clipped from www.theonion.com

Young Gore sets out for his new home, where the sky is clear, the water is clean, and there are no Republicans.

EARTH—Former vice president Al Gore—who for the past three decades has unsuccessfully attempted to warn humanity of the coming destruction of our planet, only to be mocked and derided by the very people he has tried to save—launched his infant son into space Monday in the faint hope that his only child would reach the safety of another world.

"I tried to warn them, but the Elders of this planet would not listen," said Gore, who in 2000 was nearly banished to a featureless realm of nonexistence for promoting his unpopular message. "They called me foolish and laughed at my predictions. Yet even now, the Midwest is flooded, the ice caps are melting, and the cities are rocked with tremors, just as I foretold. Fools! Why didn't they heed me before it was too late?"

the case

After the ice age scare of the late 1800s, the press has hawked four major trends in global climate change: cooling, then warming, then cooling again, and, now, warming again. During that period, the temperature increased an unspectacular 1 degree Fahrenheit. Yet we continuously are bombarded with claims of an impending global roasting, such as in Al Gore's frightening movie, "An Inconvenient Truth," and in the much-ballyhooed U.N. report released Feb. 1. Anyone daring to oppose this fashionable dogma masquerading as settled science is labeled a Luddite.

But columnist Debra J. Saunders reminds us the verdict is far from unanimous. "Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology Richard S. Lindzen complained to the Boston Globe about the 'shrill alarmism' of Gore's flick," Ms. Saunders writes. "Neil Frank, who was considered authoritative when he was the director of the National Hurricane Center, told the Washington Post that global warming is 'a hoax.' Hurricane expert William Gray of Colorado State University believes the Earth will start to cool within 10 years. University of Virginia professor emeritus Fred Singer ... argues that global warming is not human-induced but based on a solar cycle." Sixty Canadian scientists publicly announced last year that there is no consensus among climate scientists. Don't bet on global warming.

The great global warming myth

global hype

some inconvieniant facts

Saturday, August 2, 2008

Al Gore Places Infant Son In Rocket To Escape Dying Planet

where's the heat?

Knowledge is power

Calm down Al

the case

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