Gore's Unending Blizzard Of Lies
Investors Business Daily
02/03/2011 06:27 PM ET


Hoaxes: As the nation digs itself out, the grand wizard of global warming comes out of hiding and blames it all on that SUV stuck in your driveway. A blizzard is a terrible thing to waste.

What has been dubbed the Groundhog Day Blizzard has caused Al Gore to poke his head out of his massive carbon-generating mansion in Nashville, Tenn., to blame the 2,000-mile storm on our alleged obsession with fossil fuels.

Sorry, Al, but in Chicago the solar panels were buried under upward of two feet of snow as citizens cranked up those polluting snow blowers, a scene repeated in much of the country. In the middle of blowing snow, blowing smoke does not help. Get our drift?

Fox News icon Bill O'Reilly recently asked rhetorically, "Why has southern New York turned into the tundra?" He said he'd left a message for Gore. Gore replied on his blog Tuesday that "scientists have been warning for at least two decades that global warming could make snowstorms more severe" and that what we are shoveling is a result of "increased evaporation meeting the cold air of winter."

Gore has been relatively quiet in recent months as the hot air of his theories met the cold logic of observable fact. Earth has demonstrably cooled in the past decade as the sun and its solar cycle grew quiet.

The ClimateGate scandal was a direct result of scientists — and we use the term loosely — at Britain's Climate Research Unit and others, such as Michael Mann, conspiring to manipulate data to "hide the decline" in global temperatures.

Mann was the architect behind the famous hockey-stick graph produced in 1999. It really should have been dubbed the hokey stick, since it was developed by Mann using manipulated tree ring data. It supposedly proved that air temperatures had been stable for 900 years, then soared off the charts in the 20th century.

The assessment reports of the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change have been exposed as fraudulent accumulations of anecdotal evidence and speculation.

Case in point was the claim in its 2007 report that the Himalayan glaciers would disappear by 2035. It was not based on any scientific study or research. It was instead based on one scientist's speculation in a telephone interview with a reporter.

Some Himalayan glaciers are in fact advancing, and a report by scientists from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the University of Potsdam said there was "no uniform response of Himalayan glaciers to climate change" and highlighted "the importance of debris cover for understanding glacier retreat."

People such as Gore, who used to moan about "global warming" but are now faced with a demonstrably cooling earth, have begun talking instead about "climate change," which covers just about everything under our quiet sun.

As Gore writes in his blog post, climate change "can create all sorts of havoc, ranging from hotter dry spells to colder winters." So if it's too hot or too cold or too wet or too dry, it's all due to climate change.

In 2007, Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., warned that we wouldn't have enough snow and that "the most optimistic climate models for the second half of this century suggest that 30% to 70% of the snow pack will disappear."

In 2009, Boxer warned: "Looking at the United States of America, the IPCC clearly warned that unchecked global warming will lead to reduced snow pack in the Western mountains, critically reducing access to water, which is our lifeblood."

Reduced snow? On the Senate floor on March 31, 2002, Sen. Robert Byrd said the lack of snow that winter in the nation's capital showed the need to do something about global warming. California Sen. Dianne Feinstein in 2005 said of Sierra Nevada white stuff: "By the end of the century, the shrinking of the snow pack will eliminate the water source for 16 million people."

Too much snow, too little snow, floods and droughts, all caused by global warming, er, climate change. Al Gore and friends have been doing a lot of shoveling, but it hasn't been the white stuff.





 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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