The Gore-y Details
Here are just a few of Al Gore`s many fallacious claims, courtesy of SEPP:
THE GORONS (courtesy of Lord Monckton)
Some of the errors in Al Gore's movie An Inconvenient Truth ·
Gore, aiming to undermine the significance of
previous warm periods such as that of the Middle
Ages, promoted the 1,000-year "hockey stick"
temperature chart (debunked by McIntyre & McKitrick, 2005).
·
Gore showed heart-rending
pictures of the New Orleans floods and insisted
on a link between increased hurricane frequency
and global warming that is not supported by the
facts (IPCC, 2001, 2007). ·
Gore asserted that today's Arctic is experiencing unprecedented
warmth while ignoring that Arctic temperatures in
the 1930s and 1940s were as warm or warmer (Briffa et al., 2004).
·
Gore did not explain that Arctic
temperature changes are more closely correlated
with changes in solar activity than with changes
in atmospheric CO2 concentrations (Soon, 2005).
·
Gore did not explain that the Sun
has been hotter, for longer, in the past 50 years
than in any similar period in at least the past
11,400 years (Solanki et al., 2005).
·
Gore said the Antarctic was
warming and losing ice but failed to note, that
this is only true of a small region; the vast
bulk of the continent has been cooling and
gaining ice (Doran et al., 2004).
·
Gore mentioned the breakup of the
Larsen B ice shelf, but did not mention
peer-reviewed research, which suggests the ice
shelf, did not exist 1,000 years ago (Pudsey & Evans, 2001).
·
Gore hyped unfounded fears that
Greenland's ice is in danger of disappearing. In
fact its thickness has been growing by 2 inches
per year for a decade (Johanessen et al., 2005).
·
Gore falsely claimed that global
warming is melting Mt. Kilimanjaro's icecap,
actually caused by atmospheric dessication from
local deforestation, and pre-20th-century climate
shifts (Cullen et al., 2006). ·
Gore said global sea levels would swamp Manhattan,
Bangladesh, Shanghai and other coastal cities,
and would rise 20ft by 2100, but the UN estimate
is just 7in to 1ft 5in. (IPCC, 2007; Morner, 1995, 2004, Singer, 1997).
·
Gore implied that a Peruvian
glacier's retreat is due to global warming,
failing to state that the region has been cooling
since the 1930s and other South American glaciers
are advancing (Polissar et al., 2006).
·
Gore blamed global warming for
water loss in Africa's Lake Chad, though NASA
scientists had concluded that local water-use and
grazing patterns are probably to blame (Foley & Coe, 2001).
·
Gore inaccurately said polar
bears are drowning due to melting ice when in
fact 11 of the 13 main groups in Canada are
thriving, and polar bear populations have more
than doubled since 1940 (Taylor, 2006).
·
Gore said a review of 928
scientific papers had shown none against the
"consensus". In fact only 1% of the papers were
explicitly pro-"consensus"; almost 3 times as
many were explicitly against (Peiser, 2006).
·
Gore showed a link between
changes in temperature and in CO2 concentration
in the past 500,000 years, but did not admit that
changes in temperature preceded changes in CO2
concentration (Fischer et al., 1999).
References
BRIFFA, K.R., Osborn, T.J. and Schweingruber,
F.H. 2004. Large-scale temperature inferences
from tree rings: a review. Global and Planetary Change 40: 11-26.
CULLEN, N.J., Molg, T., Kaser, G., Hussein, K.,
Steffen, K. and Hardy, D.R. 2006. Kilimanjaro
glaciers: Recent areal extent from satellite data
and new interpretation of observed 20th century
retreat rates. Geophysical Research Letters 33: 10.1029/2006GL027084.
DORAN, P.T., Priscu, J.C., Lyons, W.B., Walsh,
J.E., Fountain, A.G., McKnight, D.M., Moorheat,
D.L., Virginia, R.A., Wall, D.H., Clow, G.D.,
Fritsen, C.H., McKay, C.P. and Parsons, A.N.
2002. Antarctic climate cooling and terrestrial
ecosystem response. Nature 415: 517-520.
FOLEY, Jonathan A., and Coe, Michael
T. 2001. Decline of Lake Chad. Journal of
Physical Research (Biogeosciences). Web:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2001/04/0426_lakechadshrinks.html
[reported in National Geographic News].
HOUGHTON, Sir John. 2002. Overview of the
climate change issue. Presentation to "Forum
2002" at St. Anne's College, Oxford.
www.jri.org.uk/resource/climatechangeoverview.htm.
IPCC. 2001. Climate Change, The Scientific
Basis, Cambridge University Press, London, 2001.
IPCC. 2007. Climate Change, Fourth Assessment
Report, Cambridge University Press, London [in press].
JOHANNESSEN, O.M., et al. 2005. Recent Ice-Sheet
Growth in the Interior of Greenland, SciencExpress, 20 October 2005.
McINTYRE, Stephen and McKitrick,
Ross. 2005. Hockey sticks, principal
components, and spurious significance.
Geophysical Research Letters, 32: L03710, doi: 10.1029/2004GL021750.
MORNER, N.-A. 1995. Recorded sea level
variability in the Holocene and expected future
changes. In: Eisma, D. (Ed.), "Climate Change:
Impact on Coastal Habitation", CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida, 17-28.
MORNER, N.-A. 2004. Estimating future sea level
changes from past records. Global and Planetary Change 40: 49-54.
PEISER, B. 2006. Draft letter to Science (2005)
re Oreskes (2004). Communication to Lord Monckton.
PETIT, J.R. et al. 1999. Climate and atmospheric
history of the past 420,000 years from the Vostok
Ice Core, Antarctica. Nature 399: 429-436.
POLISSAR, P.J., Abbott, M.B., Wolfe, A.P.,
Bezada, M., Rull, V., and Bradley, R.S. 2006.
Solar modulation of Little Ice Age climate in the
tropical Andes. Proceedings of the National
Academy of Sciences 10.1073/pnas.0603118103.
PUDSEY, C.J. and Evans, J. 2001. First survey
of Antarctic sub-ice shelf sediments reveals
mid-Holocene ice shelf retreat. Geology 29: 787-790.
SINGER, S.F. 1997. Hot Talk Cold Science:
Global Warming’s Unfinished Debate (Independent
Institute, Oakland, CA), pp.18-19.
SOLANKI, S.K., Usoskin, I.G., Kromer, B.,
Schüssler, M. and Beer, J. 2005. Unusual activity
of the Sun during recent decades compared to the
previous 11,000 years. Nature 436: 174 (14 July 2005) | doi: 10.1038/436174b
SOON, W. W.-H. 2005. Variable solar irradiance
as a plausible agent for multidecadal variations
in the Arctic-wide surface air temperature record
of the past 130 years. Geophysical Research Letters 32.
TAYLOR, M. 2006. Eco-hysteria over polar bears
is unjustified. Reported in Edmonton Journal, Canada, 31 December.
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THE GORONS (courtesy of Lord Monckton)
Some of the errors in Al Gore's movie An Inconvenient Truth ·
Gore, aiming to undermine the significance of
previous warm periods such as that of the Middle
Ages, promoted the 1,000-year "hockey stick"
temperature chart (debunked by McIntyre & McKitrick, 2005).
·
Gore showed heart-rending
pictures of the New Orleans floods and insisted
on a link between increased hurricane frequency
and global warming that is not supported by the
facts (IPCC, 2001, 2007). ·
Gore asserted that today's Arctic is experiencing unprecedented
warmth while ignoring that Arctic temperatures in
the 1930s and 1940s were as warm or warmer (Briffa et al., 2004).
·
Gore did not explain that Arctic
temperature changes are more closely correlated
with changes in solar activity than with changes
in atmospheric CO2 concentrations (Soon, 2005).
·
Gore did not explain that the Sun
has been hotter, for longer, in the past 50 years
than in any similar period in at least the past
11,400 years (Solanki et al., 2005).
·
Gore said the Antarctic was
warming and losing ice but failed to note, that
this is only true of a small region; the vast
bulk of the continent has been cooling and
gaining ice (Doran et al., 2004).
·
Gore mentioned the breakup of the
Larsen B ice shelf, but did not mention
peer-reviewed research, which suggests the ice
shelf, did not exist 1,000 years ago (Pudsey & Evans, 2001).
·
Gore hyped unfounded fears that
Greenland's ice is in danger of disappearing. In
fact its thickness has been growing by 2 inches
per year for a decade (Johanessen et al., 2005).
·
Gore falsely claimed that global
warming is melting Mt. Kilimanjaro's icecap,
actually caused by atmospheric dessication from
local deforestation, and pre-20th-century climate
shifts (Cullen et al., 2006). ·
Gore said global sea levels would swamp Manhattan,
Bangladesh, Shanghai and other coastal cities,
and would rise 20ft by 2100, but the UN estimate
is just 7in to 1ft 5in. (IPCC, 2007; Morner, 1995, 2004, Singer, 1997).
·
Gore implied that a Peruvian
glacier's retreat is due to global warming,
failing to state that the region has been cooling
since the 1930s and other South American glaciers
are advancing (Polissar et al., 2006).
·
Gore blamed global warming for
water loss in Africa's Lake Chad, though NASA
scientists had concluded that local water-use and
grazing patterns are probably to blame (Foley & Coe, 2001).
·
Gore inaccurately said polar
bears are drowning due to melting ice when in
fact 11 of the 13 main groups in Canada are
thriving, and polar bear populations have more
than doubled since 1940 (Taylor, 2006).
·
Gore said a review of 928
scientific papers had shown none against the
"consensus". In fact only 1% of the papers were
explicitly pro-"consensus"; almost 3 times as
many were explicitly against (Peiser, 2006).
·
Gore showed a link between
changes in temperature and in CO2 concentration
in the past 500,000 years, but did not admit that
changes in temperature preceded changes in CO2
concentration (Fischer et al., 1999).
References
BRIFFA, K.R., Osborn, T.J. and Schweingruber,
F.H. 2004. Large-scale temperature inferences
from tree rings: a review. Global and Planetary Change 40: 11-26.
CULLEN, N.J., Molg, T., Kaser, G., Hussein, K.,
Steffen, K. and Hardy, D.R. 2006. Kilimanjaro
glaciers: Recent areal extent from satellite data
and new interpretation of observed 20th century
retreat rates. Geophysical Research Letters 33: 10.1029/2006GL027084.
DORAN, P.T., Priscu, J.C., Lyons, W.B., Walsh,
J.E., Fountain, A.G., McKnight, D.M., Moorheat,
D.L., Virginia, R.A., Wall, D.H., Clow, G.D.,
Fritsen, C.H., McKay, C.P. and Parsons, A.N.
2002. Antarctic climate cooling and terrestrial
ecosystem response. Nature 415: 517-520.
FOLEY, Jonathan A., and Coe, Michael
T. 2001. Decline of Lake Chad. Journal of
Physical Research (Biogeosciences). Web:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2001/04/0426_lakechadshrinks.html
[reported in National Geographic News].
HOUGHTON, Sir John. 2002. Overview of the
climate change issue. Presentation to "Forum
2002" at St. Anne's College, Oxford.
www.jri.org.uk/resource/climatechangeoverview.htm.
IPCC. 2001. Climate Change, The Scientific
Basis, Cambridge University Press, London, 2001.
IPCC. 2007. Climate Change, Fourth Assessment
Report, Cambridge University Press, London [in press].
JOHANNESSEN, O.M., et al. 2005. Recent Ice-Sheet
Growth in the Interior of Greenland, SciencExpress, 20 October 2005.
McINTYRE, Stephen and McKitrick,
Ross. 2005. Hockey sticks, principal
components, and spurious significance.
Geophysical Research Letters, 32: L03710, doi: 10.1029/2004GL021750.
MORNER, N.-A. 1995. Recorded sea level
variability in the Holocene and expected future
changes. In: Eisma, D. (Ed.), "Climate Change:
Impact on Coastal Habitation", CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida, 17-28.
MORNER, N.-A. 2004. Estimating future sea level
changes from past records. Global and Planetary Change 40: 49-54.
PEISER, B. 2006. Draft letter to Science (2005)
re Oreskes (2004). Communication to Lord Monckton.
PETIT, J.R. et al. 1999. Climate and atmospheric
history of the past 420,000 years from the Vostok
Ice Core, Antarctica. Nature 399: 429-436.
POLISSAR, P.J., Abbott, M.B., Wolfe, A.P.,
Bezada, M., Rull, V., and Bradley, R.S. 2006.
Solar modulation of Little Ice Age climate in the
tropical Andes. Proceedings of the National
Academy of Sciences 10.1073/pnas.0603118103.
PUDSEY, C.J. and Evans, J. 2001. First survey
of Antarctic sub-ice shelf sediments reveals
mid-Holocene ice shelf retreat. Geology 29: 787-790.
SINGER, S.F. 1997. Hot Talk Cold Science:
Global Warming’s Unfinished Debate (Independent
Institute, Oakland, CA), pp.18-19.
SOLANKI, S.K., Usoskin, I.G., Kromer, B.,
Schüssler, M. and Beer, J. 2005. Unusual activity
of the Sun during recent decades compared to the
previous 11,000 years. Nature 436: 174 (14 July 2005) | doi: 10.1038/436174b
SOON, W. W.-H. 2005. Variable solar irradiance
as a plausible agent for multidecadal variations
in the Arctic-wide surface air temperature record
of the past 130 years. Geophysical Research Letters 32.
TAYLOR, M. 2006. Eco-hysteria over polar bears
is unjustified. Reported in Edmonton Journal, Canada, 31 December.
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posted by Timothy Birdnow | 4:21 PM
1 Comments:
Blasphemy!! Sorry, Tim but I have to do it. How can I distrust the mind of our Allah "Al Gore". You must be stopped!!Get on board the band wagon. And oh by the way I know this place I can sell you cheap.Its a cave,lots of room to store all necessities and be comfie while man outside bakes into dust. High enough to escape from the floods. Great name too, Cheyenne Mountain.Not to far from Pikes Peak just in case the flood to come is bigger then the one our prophet "Al Gore" has promised.I also have a friend that owns this ship the Queen Elizabeth in case you want to ride it out.Think about it let me know.We have less then 10 minutes to act oh wait thats ten years no maybe a 100 years but thats my last offer.
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