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-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Al Gore: Climate change 'significantly worse' than feared
2008-01-25
Climate change is occurring far more rapidly than even the worst predictions of the UN's Nobel Prize-winning scientific panel on climate change, Al Gore said on Thursday.
Must be more hot air out there than accounted for in the models. Better go back into your laboratories and don't come out until you find it.
Recent evidence shows "the climate crisis is significantly worse and unfolding more rapidly than those on the pessimistic side of the IPCC projections had warned us," climate campaigner and former US vice-president Gore said.
Maybe he ought to go back to campaigning to be President. At least then he had something "useful" to do that kept him out of trouble.
There are now forecasts that the North Pole ice caps may disappear entirely during summer months within five years, he told a gathering at the World Economic Forum in Davos.
Great! We only have to listen to about five more years of this stuff!
They can't forecast rain or sun three days from now, but they can forecast the end of the polar ice cap?
In 2007, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued a massive report the size of three phone books on the reality and risks of climate change, its 4th assessment in 18 years.
Check it for earmarks.
Global warming is a key theme at this year's meeting of the world's business and political elite in Davos.
It may take all the fun out of it, but it would be better to hold this as a videoconference. Much "greener" that way, don't you think? No, the other kind of green!
Posted by:gorb

#35  When he left the White House, I recollect Gore's net worth was less than one million. Guess he's fixed that.
Posted by: KBK   2008-01-25 21:32  

#34  "That boy Al is about as sharp as a sackful of wet mice"

/Foghorn Leghorn off
Posted by: no mo uro   2008-01-25 21:30  

#33  Warmer = more evaporation = more precipitation = more snow = icecaps grow (averaging the seasonal changes).

Within the last decade, the Greenland's ice cover receded at the eastern coastline but has grown in the central region of the island--and not talking about a small change here.
Posted by: Spike Uniter   2008-01-25 19:04  

#32  See also IRAN-DAILY > ONLY SCIENCE CAN SAVE US + GREEN DREAM.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2008-01-25 19:04  

#31  Summers, bigjim. But more importantly, will more or less snow fall on Antarctica and Greenland?
Posted by: ed   2008-01-25 18:10  

#30  It's like, 100 below zero on the poles. Even if we warmed 5 degrees, is he trying to tell me that the ice caps will melt at minus 95 degrees? All the ice around my house melts at 32 degrees.
Posted by: bigjim-ky   2008-01-25 18:03  

#29  When I was 16 talking about the weather was a sign of a date gone bad. Now its a matter of survival!!! or something.

albagore must be hocking wares cc gerbil swarming
Posted by: swksvolFF   2008-01-25 17:53  

#28  Sacrifice their own interests to save everyone else? This whole Al Gore burns energy thingie? Look man, its a free rider problem. Externality. Enviros arent necessarily any less selfish than anyone else.

They're demanding we live poorer, shorter, less enriching lives, for what comes down to their aesthetic/religious preference. The Amish probably believe everyone should live as they do, but they aren't trying to force it on the rest of us.
Posted by: Rob Crawford   2008-01-25 16:46  

#27  We can debate how far the wall is (IE how bad will a 3 degree c rise really be, maybe the wheat farms in the Yukon and the CO2 help to growing plants will offset all the expected bad things) but if 3 degrees isnt as bad as the pollyanas say, SOMEWHERE out there, maybe 4 degrees, maybe 5, the wall is there.

And, of course, the planet's NEVER been warmer than it is now.

Except, of course, it has. And it has been so within written history. And it wasn't a bad thing; just the opposite.

Why is warmer bad? The sea levels won't rise, not at any rate that can't be dealt with. Growing seasons will be longer.

Why is it assumed that a warmer Earth is the result of man's activities? Mars is warmer than it was a few years ago. There's a new red spot (massive storm) on Jupiter.

Why is the solution to a supposedly warming climate the same solution that was presented for a coming ice age? The same solution that was presented for a supposed world-wide famine? Why is giving other people more control over our lives the proper solution to every supposed climate danger?

Posted by: Rob Crawford   2008-01-25 16:43  

#26  OK, Dopey Flotle8127. What's the GDP per capita going to be in 2020? In current dollars and then current yuan.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble   2008-01-25 16:32  

#25  Since it's an almost scientific connection between Al Gore presentations on global warming and cold snaps why not plan his next meeting in the arctic to freeze up some of those ice sheets.

Yeah some activists might be lost having a meeting in such a cold climate but we're talking about saving the planet here and that's just a risk I'm willing for them to take.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2008-01-25 15:05  

#24  Al Gore: My take from the Climate change scam 'significantly worse' than feared

There - fixed.

Accuracy is important.
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut   2008-01-25 14:46  

#23  International Waters Belong to US. This is due to Rule Britinnia.
Posted by: Thomas Woof   2008-01-25 14:29  

#22  You're both right, the waters are international, but the ice belongs to Canada. The smell belongs to Al Gore.
Posted by: wxjames   2008-01-25 14:25  

#21  #18 - yup and theres already tension over that - the Canadians claim it as territorial waters, we hold it to be international waters.
Posted by: Dopey Flotle8127   2008-01-25 14:06  

#20  and why is it surprising that you can forecast climate better than two weeks ahead weather? I cant forecast tomorrows stock market, but I can tell you in the long run the US stock markets will increase. Day to day random stuff balances out over time.
Posted by: Dopey Flotle8127   2008-01-25 14:05  

#19  "As Glenn Reynolds likes to say, "I'll believe global warming is a crisis when the people who ay it is a crisis start acting as if it is so.""

Im not sure exactly what that means, sell short coastal land?

Sacrifice their own interests to save everyone else? This whole Al Gore burns energy thingie? Look man, its a free rider problem. Externality. Enviros arent necessarily any less selfish than anyone else.

Look, this is NOT a crisis, if by crisis you mean something bad thats gonna happen in the next 5 years. What it is, is like a freight train that takes a VERY long time to stop. And SOMEWHERE up ahead is a wall you DONT want to crash into. We can debate how far the wall is (IE how bad will a 3 degree c rise really be, maybe the wheat farms in the Yukon and the CO2 help to growing plants will offset all the expected bad things) but if 3 degrees isnt as bad as the pollyanas say, SOMEWHERE out there, maybe 4 degrees, maybe 5, the wall is there. And we still have our foot on the gas, so to speak.
Posted by: Dopey Flotle8127   2008-01-25 14:03  

#18  If the Artic icecap melts then the Northwest Passage will be open to ships that are too large for the Panama Canal. This will save billions in transport costs getting things from the North Atlantic to the North Pacific. What a deal!
Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC   2008-01-25 14:00  

#17  ahemm.....

Here on the Left Coast, Northern Ca, it has been the Coldest Winter in my long memory.
Wet as hell too..
The Snow pack is very DEEP... and up in the foothills and the Sierras Mountains the Damns are all releasing beau-coup water.

De-plane Al and take a hike....
Posted by: RD   2008-01-25 13:56  

#16  In 1972 the call was Nuclear Winter! It didn't fly! Lately it's been Global Warming, but that is being revised to the new scare phrase "Climate Change".

I was a Meteorologist for over ten years and I agree with the Sun's activity is having more effect then man. However, here are 10 items that prove Global Warming:

1. The glacier in Yosemite Valley is gone.

2. The glaciers that formed the fjords of Scandinavia are gone.

3. The glaciers that formed the Great Lakes are gone.

4. The island of Maui was once greater in size than today's island of Hawaii but the seas rose and split it into 5 islands.

5. Hurricane activity was greater than normal in 2004 and 2005.

6. Hurricane activity was less than normal in 2006 and 2007.

7. Hurricane activity keeps fluctuating.

8. The Colorado River basin is returning to its normal dry climate versus the wet climate of the past decades.

9. My cat had more fur balls this year than last.

10. Al Gore is getting fatter.
Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC   2008-01-25 13:50  

#15  There's a typo in the headline:

"Al Gore is 'significantly worse' than feared"

Fixed.
Posted by: Iblis   2008-01-25 13:27  

#14  I saw an article very recently that a huge lake of fresh water was discovered under the Antarctic Ice Cap.
So it floats too, so much for that bogus theory.
Posted by: Redneck Jim   2008-01-25 13:13  

#13  This is pretty good.
Posted by: Deacon Blues   2008-01-25 13:02  

#12  Al Gore's weight is significantly worse. Geeze the guy is eating well. Go exercise Gore! Wait, that makes more CO2.

Well just render yourself carbon neutral then.
Posted by: DarthVader   2008-01-25 12:25  

#11   He's been sniffing too much climate model glue.

I saw what you did thar, and Ima telling!

Posted by: Thomas Woof   2008-01-25 11:57  

#10  His "Crisis" is that more and more folks are recognizing the IPP study (and Mr. Gore's rantings) as rubbish.

Falsification Of The Atmospheric CO2 Greenhouse Effects

Loehle Temperature Reconstruction Corrected

Senate Report Debunks "Consensus"

The list goes on...........
Posted by: Mullah Richard   2008-01-25 11:44  

#9  I've said it before, and I'll say it again: if the ENTIRE Arctic ice cap melted, it would not raise sea levels one millimeter. Ice shrinks as it melts.
The Antarctic ice cap is another matter, since much of it is based on land. However, at the present, the Antarctic ice cap is actually growing. (An inconvenient truth that the Goreacle ignores.)
Posted by: Rambler   2008-01-25 11:36  

#8  Must be the wheels falling off the AGW scam.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles in Blairistan   2008-01-25 11:16  

#7  Al Gore: Climate change 'significantly worse' than feared

Al Gore is about as dumb as feared.
Posted by: Bob Elmomoque6792   2008-01-25 11:10  

#6  As Glenn Reynolds likes to say, "I'll believe global warming is a crisis when the people who say it is a crisis start acting as if it is so."
Posted by: Steve White   2008-01-25 10:51  

#5  If there is a buck to be squeezed out of global warming, Gore will find it.
Posted by: JohnQC   2008-01-25 10:50  

#4  He's been sniffing too much climate model glue.
Posted by: eLarson   2008-01-25 10:44  

#3  Perhaps it was all the jets flying to Indonesia for that climate conference.

I think he knows MAN MADE Global Warming is a fraud. I used to give him the benefit of the doubt but his carbon footprint is huge and he just doesn't care. He could do more good as President and he just didn't care. Scientists say its bunk and he responds that its worse than feared. Fearmonger trying to shore up his minions before they start using logic.

Al Gore, have you no shame.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2008-01-25 10:44  

#2  If the Arctic Ocean ice caps disappear it will be easier to tanker North Slope oil to the East Coast markets.
Posted by: Glenmore   2008-01-25 10:43  

#1  Every time Gore is hort on cash the climate becomes warmer.
Posted by: JFM   2008-01-25 10:07  

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