Al Gore’s claim, drawn from climate “science,” that the Arctic would be ice-free by 2013 stands as a glowing symbol of the absurdity of climate change. Is there any other scientific discipline that makes false predictions 99% of the time?..
Just asking....
I watched Lester Holt interview him last night on NBC, and the questions were all geared towards "everything Gore claimed in his documentary was prescient." It infuriated me so much I ended up yelling at the TV. Everything in that piece of garbage has been refuted as pseudo-science and/or fraud.
The Danish Meteorological Society measures snowfall, temperatures, and the depth of ice in the Arctic. Each year is relatively predictable, and, this year of note, ice is being added ahead of the average rate. A similar situation is apparent in Antarctica. Extremely high temperatures have been measured in the Arctic, approaching 100F, several times over the past 100+ years.
There is absolutely no causal relationship between CO2 and temperature. Temperatures were MUCH warmer in the 1930s when CO2 was roughly half the amount today. And record fire seasons today? Bah! We lose annually between 7-12 million acres to fire, but back in the 1930s it was 50-60 million.
And finally, there is no such thing as out-of-control sea level rise. It has been rising annually at a linear rate of 2-3mm per year for centuries. Those locations where it appears as if the sea is rising at an amount greater than that is due to a phenomenon called land subsidence. Yes, the land is actually sinking. The most common reason for this occurring is overpumping of ground water, allowing the bedrock to collapse. Notable locations are South Beach in Miami, the Chesapeake Bay, and Venice, Italy.
Some other tidbits. "Climatologists" claim that there are more hurricanes today, and they are stronger. This is not supported by the facts. Since the recent advent of satellites, we are now aware of "fish storms" in the Atlantic that we never knew about before. Also, the flooding in New Jersey and New York due to Hurricane Ida? That has happened before as well, in the 1950s.
The "Global Warming Cabal" manipulate charts and data constantly. A favorite trick is to cherry-pick a y-axis on a chart to demonstrate their conclusion, yet if you expanded the chart to the left, it would show the opposite effect. Another trick is to cherry-pick temperature stations and limit them to rural locations, which ARE becoming warmer due to the "heat island" effect of more asphalt and concrete around them.
I could go on and on...
You somehow failed to thank Gore for creating the internet so we can participate in discussion like this one.
LOL!