A global warming believer denies Al Gore;
Dr. Mote is the co-author of an article in the July/August issue of American Scientist magazine that debunks claims by Mr. Gore and others that Kilimanjaro's famous glaciers are melting away because of problems humans have created.The ice cover has shrunk by 90 per cent over the past century, the article states, but not because of global warming.
Drawing on the research of other scientists who have studied Kilimanjaro over the past several decades, the article points out that the mountain's glaciers have been in decline for well over a century.
Most of that predates the era in which humans began pumping harmful amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
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"Kilimanjaro," the authors write, "... has gained and lost ice through processes that bear only indirect connections, if any, to recent trends in global climate."
Dr. Mote believes Mr. Gore should stop using the before-and-after pictures of Kilimanjaro's ice cap that provides a defining moment of his global warming slide show. Dr. Mote had, in fact, intended to tell Mr. Gore this himself when the former U.S. vice-president was in Seattle last year to give his slide-show presentation.
But he lost his nerve.
The Dominos are falling.
Sea Level
Kilimanjaro
CO2 before Temperature
Medieval Warm Period
Little Ice Age
Hockey Stick
What's that sound ?? AIT going through the public school's shreder ??
The Goracle errs again!
Why are we not surprised.
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Frankenstein Battalion
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and in other news that Mr. Gore and his ilk will not like to read . . .
On the same day, NASA chief Michael Griffin commented in a US radio interview that "I am not sure that it is fair to say that (global warming) is a problem that we must wrestle with".
NASA is an agency that knows a thing or two about climate change. As Griffin added: "We study global climate change, that is in our authorisation, we think we do it rather well.
"I'm proud of that, but NASA is not an agency chartered to, quote, battle climate change."
Such a clear statement that science accomplishment should carry primacy over policy advice is both welcome and overdue.
Nonetheless, there is something worrying about one of Griffin's other statements, which said that "I have no doubt . . . that a trend of global warming exists".
Griffin seems to be referring to human-caused global warming, but irrespective of that his opinion is unsupported by the evidence.
The salient facts are these. First, the accepted global average temperature statistics used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change show that no ground-based warming has occurred since 1998. Oddly, this eight-year-long temperature stasis has occurred despite an increase over the same period of 15 parts per million (or 4 per cent) in atmospheric CO2.
Second, lower atmosphere satellite-based temperature measurements, if corrected for non-greenhouse influences such as El Nino events and large volcanic eruptions, show little if any global warming since 1979, a period over which atmospheric CO2 has increased by 55 ppm (17 per cent).
Third, there are strong indications from solar studies that Earth's current temperature stasis will be followed by climatic cooling over the next few decades.
RTR @ 3w.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,21920043-27197,00.html
I have said before....just live through the next 12 to 18 months and the whole thing collapses.....alternative evidence is coming to light and you cannot sustain this kind of full throated campaign without confirming evidence.
Now if Al Gore became president....well look out.
This guy made so much sense I am amazed they let him on CBC radio. Interesting listen, even if you don't agree with everything he says. The Current, Part three, June 18
From their web site.
But while conscientious consumers rid themselves of incandescent light bulbs, Bruce Pardy sees little point to all the little things we can do to fight climate change and no point to the biggest weapon against climate change ... Kyoto. He's taught environmental law in New Zealand and California, and he's now an associate professor of law at Queens University
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http://www.cbc.ca/thecurrent/media/200706/20070618thecurrent_sec3.ram
The notion of getting off carbon fuels, even admitting AGW are one thing, but buying into the poor methodology of Stern and outright dishonesty of Gore has already jumped the shark.
The Angus Reid polling firm surveyed more than 1,000 Canadians about their attitudes toward the opposition parties and found simmering trouble for Liberal Leader Stéphane Dion and his party.
More respondents – 37 per cent – thought NDP Leader Jack Layton would be a good prime minister, compared with just 25 per cent who preferred Dion.
When people were asked to name the top environmental party, 67 per cent chose the Green party, 45 per cent chose the NDP, while just 22 per cent said the Liberals were the best on the environment.
Nice math.
Probably the same rocket scientists that predicted an immediately rapid global warming.
Nobody intelligent puts much merit into any kind of poll, including the Prime Minister…
Still, and perhaps paradoxically, more people are considering voting Liberal than for the Greens or the NDP, according to the poll.
Those who would definitely or probably vote Liberal total 34 per cent, while only 30 per cent said they would definitely or probably vote NDP. For the Greens, that figure was 25 per cent.
What's more useless? Polls or the global warming issue???
http://www.thestar.com/News/article/226496
AL GORE is cuasing the melting of those glacers just by keeping his big fat mouth flapping
I have the book THE POLITICLY INCORRECT GUIDE TO GLOBAL WARMING AND ENVIROMENTALISM it makes meny mentions of AL GORE and mentions KEVIN KOSNERS stupid movie WATERWORLD where he swims around looking like a complete dork