AlBore - your junk science is unraveling

[DoctorDoom]

From snow in New England to the possibility of morning frost on the greens at Augusta, Easter travelers are facing unusually cold spring weather this holiday weekend.

The lingering cold may increase the motivation to travel, the American Automobile Association figures, despite gasoline prices that remain high but below record levels. "It should be a fairly robust travel weekend this Easter," association spokesman Mike Pina says.

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Also, "the weather being the way it is — pretty bad in the Northeast and colder in the South than it normally would be — I think that's making people want to travel down to Florida and the South," he says.Big chill may boost Easter weekend travel (http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/news/20070406/a_easter06.art.htm)

No doubt our global-warming loonies will now tell us how this is more proof of the truth of their mythology.

[Pennville_Bill]

We got about an inch of "global warming" last night. Guess it's a good thing easter eggs aren't white, huh?

[Naturalized-Texan]

We probably won't get record lows for Easter weekend here in the Houston area, but we will certainly have the lowest high temps on record for today and tomorrow - HIGHS in the upper 40s and lows in the upper 30s.

[DesertFox]

Al Gore's a liar.

[smythe]

Al Gore's a liar.

Al Gore thought that the movie Waterworld was a documentary.

[DesertFox]

:lol:

[DoctorDoom]

10 April 2007, 11:30 AM - a sweltering 38°F. It's a veritable heatwave after the last several weeks.

[Linda Walton]

Be nice if it snowed on Earth Day. Whenever that is. I shutter when I think just how close Al Gore got to possessing the nuclear codes! I can imagine him in the Oval Office staring at a picture of a polar bear, muttering "Purity of Essence" over and over again. Pressing the button. All the while Tipper smiles serenely in that disturbing Stepford Wives smile she has.

[DoctorDoom]

It's April 22 this year. It might very well snow.

[DoctorDoom]

Still waiting for the warming, Al!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v349/DocDoom777/MiscStuff/GW.jpg

[Naturalized-Texan]

http://www.investors.com/editorial/cartoons/IMAGES/CARTOONS/toon041007a.gif

[JBG]

A few nights ago, I went to a synagogue screening of Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth”. I must first-off say that the movie was very well produced, and fully deserving of an Oscar, though perhaps not in the “documentary” category. There were certainly enough unrelated facts and factoids thrown together to make a very impressive presentation.

Gore does not, and cannot say that there have not been previous melts and/or freezes of the Arctic and Antarctic regions previously. The reason he cannot say there have not been is that clearly, both regions were, for extensive periods, quite warm. Uncontroverted fossil evidence shows that warm-weather animals inhabited these regions. Certainly, the large oil deposits at Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, Fort Macmurray, Alberta and near Tuktuyotok, NWT belie any contention that these areas have always been cold. Ditto the North Sea. The Medieval Optimum and Maunder Minimum are given conveniently short shrift.

Gore’s juxtaposition of CO2 graphs with pictures of Katrina draws a convincing, but fraudulent, cause and effect supposition. Gore carefully avoided representing that any of the steps that he recommends would change a single temperature on a single day at a single place, since he knows that to make such a promise would expose him to ridicule.

Finally, he lambasts the United States and Australia for being the only First World countries not to ratify Kyoto. He carefully omits to discuss that the selection of 1990 as the Kyoto "base year" from which to measure GHG reductions was hardly arbitrary. He also does not discuss the fact that he was supposedly negotiating on the US’s behalf at Kyoto in 1997, and either was asleep at the switch or willfully sabotaging his own countries’ well being.

1990 is a baseline year that is grievously unfair to the US, Canada and Australia, since that was a recession year for us. By contrast, Europe was at a peak, and immediately after end of 1990 Germany was re-unified, closing many factories in the former East Germany. Similarly, without subsidies, many factories in Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic closed, placing Europe immediately well under the 1990 baseline. Also, some countries have base years other than 1990. Countries with base-years other than 1990 are Hungary (average 1985-1987), Poland (1988) and Slovenia (1986) (link) (http://dataservice.eea.europa.eu/atlas/viewdata/viewpub.asp?id=2446). I cannot believe that those variations give these countries more ambitious targets. If a year such as 2000 were picked as the US's base, it would be a fairer treaty. There's also not a chance in h*ll that European countries would have ratified such a treaty. Any government actually proposing to lower living standards to try to change the weather would be laughed out of office.

Seeking to add insult to injury, apparently (or to ensure that at least some countries would vote to ratify the treaty), the Kyoto sponsors are so serious about the environment </ sarcasm>that they granted Iceland a free pass to emit more GHG's. Clearly, Kyoto's a tilted deck that has nothing to do with science, climate or environmental betterment, and made an exception for Iceland (link) (http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/04/world/europe/04iceland.html?ex=1171256400&en=3502a665b51c5dbf&ei=5070&emc=eta1), specifically, some aluminum smelters it wanted badly to develop. Excerpts below:

February 4, 2007

Smokestacks in a White Wilderness Divide Iceland

By SARAH LYALL

NORTH OF VATNAJOKULL GLACIER, Iceland —

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This is the $3 billion Karahnjukar Hydropower Project, a sprawling enterprise to harness the rivers for electricity that will be used for a single purpose: to fuel a new aluminum smelter owned by Alcoa, the world’s largest aluminum company. It has been the focus of the angriest and most divisive battle in recent Icelandic history.

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They are also allowed to pollute: another Kyoto exception gave power-intensive industries that use renewable energy in Iceland the right to emit an extra 1.6 million metric tons of carbon dioxide a year until 2012.
These are all “inconvenient truths” omitted by Mr. Gore in his crock-umentary.

[Naturalized-Texan]

And Europe's CO2 emissions from fossil fuels are currently increasing at 3 times the rate of U.S. emissions.