Gore’s Book And Movie Rife With Inaccuracies

You’re pullin’ my leg, right?

Smart people from Spero are hot under the collar.

While former Vice President Al Gore did his best to limit his exposure to serious critiques in today’s Congressional hearings, a scholar with the National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA) says “he cannot hide from the various mistakes, misstatements and outright falsehoods in his movie and books on global warming.”

“The inconvenient truth for Gore is that there is significant evidence that human activity is not the driving force behind climate change,” said NCPA Senior Fellow H. Sterling Burnett.  “Conversely, the policy prescriptions Gore promotes are likely to do considerable harm to the economy while having little impact on the climate.”

The whole commentary is worth a read.

Sun May Have Effect On Climate

NASA sees a relationship between the Sun and the weather.

Gee, ya’ think?

Scientists have traditionally relied upon indirect data gathering methods to study climate in the Earth’s past, such as drilling ice cores in Greenland and Antarctica. Such samples of accumulated snow and ice drilled from deep within ice sheets or glaciers contain trapped air bubbles whose composition can provide a picture of past climate conditions. Now, however, a group of NASA and university scientists has found a convincing link between long-term solar and climate variability in a unique and unexpected source: directly measured ancient water level records of the Nile, Earth’s longest river.

So what causes these cyclical links between solar variability and the Nile? The authors suggest that variations in the sun’s ultraviolet energy cause adjustments in a climate pattern called the Northern Annular Mode, which affects climate in the atmosphere of the Northern Hemisphere during the winter. At sea level, this mode becomes the North Atlantic Oscillation, a large-scale seesaw in atmospheric mass that affects how air circulates over the Atlantic Ocean. During periods of high solar activity, the North Atlantic Oscillation’s influence extends to the Indian Ocean. These adjustments may affect the distribution of air temperatures, which subsequently influence air circulation and rainfall at the Nile River’s sources in eastern equatorial Africa. When solar activity is high, conditions are drier, and when it is low, conditions are wetter.

Previous Inconvenience:

The Sun Is Getting Hotter

Better Get Your Travel On

Gore’s carbon “offsets” should do well in the tourism market. How convenient for Robin Gore and his band of merry thieves.

“Tourism is unfortunately one of the vectors of (climate) change at the moment and contributes, through its excesses, to the process of global warming,” World Tourism Organisation (WTO) director general Francesco Frangialli told an international conference on meteorology in Madrid this week.

In 2006, 842 million people took a holiday in a foreign country and 40% of them flew to their destinations. That’s 336 million people, or more than the population of the United States, taking trips which spew greenhouse gases that fuel global warming.

“Yes, sir. One round trip ticket flying coach to Ft. Lauderdale from Chicago, nonstop. That’ll come to $1334.00… $804 for the ticket plus $530 in carbon tax.”

The handwriting is on the wall. In fluorescent marker.

Consensus? Scientists Ask Oldest Rocks For Answers

Things that make you go, “Hmm.”

Carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas that has become a bane of modern society, may have saved Earth from freezing over early in the planet’s history, according to the first detailed laboratory analysis of the world’s oldest sedimentary rocks.

Later in the article:

The ancient rocks from Quebec contain iron carbonates believed to have precipitated from ancient oceans, according to the study. Since the iron carbonates could only have formed in an atmosphere containing far higher CO₂ levels than those found in Earth’s atmosphere today, the researchers concluded the early Earth environment was extremely rich in CO₂.

Sgt. Albert’s Warming Farts Club Band is literally trying to steal your blanket.