The latest update on science and this topic was posted Friday and can be accessed at:
The first post in the previous series can be accessed at:
We were not able to finish our review and update yesterday so we needed today to prove again that it is more than possible to be a global warming doubter, a believer in science, and likely be right on both counts.
1) In 2008, Al Gore was interviewed by CBS’s Leslie Stahl on "60 Minutes" when he asserted, "I think those people [global warming doubters] are in such a tiny, tiny minority now with their point of view. They're almost like the ones who still believe that the moon landing was staged in a movie lot in Arizona and those who believe the world is flat." However, according to a Newsmax article that was published shortly after that interview:
- Dr. Arthur Robinson of the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine, (OISM) announced the results of a petition drive asking scientists to sign a petition if they were global warming doubters
- The petition read as follows: “We urge the United States government to reject the global warming agreement that was written in Kyoto Japan in December 1997, and any other similar proposals. The proposed limit on greenhouse gasses would harm the environment, hinder the advance of science and technology, and damage the health and welfare of mankind.”
- The petition results again showed that Gore was either being deceptive or ignorant of reality since an amazing 31,072 Americans with university degrees in science, including 9,021 Ph.D.s, signed that petition that flatly denies Al Gore’s claims that human-caused global warming is a settled scientific fact.
- This effort was consistent with a previous effort back in 2001 which involved another petition effort, an effort led by Dr. Frederick Seitz, past president of the National Academy of Sciences and of Rockefeller University.
- That petition gathered an impressive 17,800 signatures of scientists who also indicated they were global warming doubters.
- In both cases, 31,072 and 17,800 scientists’ signatures, could they be considered a “tiny, tiny minority.”
- In most, if not all, of the cases I would bet that these scientists support the fact the we actually did go to the moon and believe that the world is not flat.
2) Friday, we reviewed, and somewhat mocked an Al Gore assertion from five years ago when he boldly predicted that within five years or so the North Pole could be completely melted. That prediction could not have been any further from the truth since the average temperatures around the world have not increased since that prediction and the North Pole ice cap has actually been growing over the past few years, not disappearing.
Let’s look at a few other Al Gore quotes through the years:
- “The planet has a fever. If your baby has a fever, you go to the doctor. If the doctor says you need to intervene here, you don’t say, ‘Well, I read a science fiction novel that told me it’s not a problem.’ If the crib’s on fire, you don’t speculate that the baby is flame retardant. You take action.”
Comment: according to real measurements of temperatures, the fever broke, assuming there was a fever, about sixreen years ago when the earth’s surface temperatures stopped rising, contrary to what EVERY global warming forecast said it would be doing.
- “Here is the truth: The Earth is round; Saddam Hussein did not attack us on 9/11; Elvis is dead; Obama was born in the United States; and the climate crisis is real.”
Comment: About 50,000 scientists that signed the two petitions discussed above would differ from this assertion of the climate crisis being real.
- “The interior of the earth is extremely hot – several million degrees.”
Comment: Mr. Gore needs to do a little bit of simple research in order to not let his credibility take another hit, especially on something that is easily tested. Every source I checked estimate that the center of the earth is about 10,000 degrees Fahrenheit. Thus, how can we trust what he says about global warming if he exaggerates on this simple scientific fact?
- “Many scientists are now warning that we are moving closer to several “tipping points” that could — within as little as 10 years — make it impossible for us to avoid irretrievable damage to the planet’s habitability for human civilization.”
Comment: Note how he said many scientists, not all scientists? Maybe he is starting to doubt himself a little also. Anyway, since he said those remarks at NYU’s law school in 2006 the ice caps have gotten larger and the temperatures have stopped rising so those tipping points may have to be recalculated.
He has said a lot of other stuff but let’s cut it here. His predictions have been wrong so many times that his credibility is in a shambles. A million degrees at the center of the earth, really.
3) Okay, let’s let a few other folks take over this discussion. The following link is to a 12 minute cartoon that lays out many of the logical conclusions, based on scientific data, of global warming doubters. It is done in a fun, informative way with a few mild swear words but it is chock full of scientific rebuttals to people like Al Gore:
4) If you liked the logic and sensibility of that video, check out this one. It basically has an off camera narrator going through a logical progression of reasons and rationality of why there is merit, indeed virtue, being a global warming doubter based on scientific fact and reality:
That should do it for now in our continuing series of showing there is true scientific merit in being a global warming doubter, regardless of what the likes of Al Gore say. The bottom line is that maybe man made global warming is a reality. If so, we should all work together to find a solution that minimizes the impact to the environment AND the economic well being of Americans.
In fact, we have already proposed such a solution, a solution that would accomplish both of these objective regardless of whether or not global warming is a myth or a reality. That plan can be accessed at:
However, two things will stop this rational and sane approach to problem solving to ever take hold:
1) People like Al Gore and others continue to insult the intelligence and humanity of global warming doubters. Gore has likened people like us to racists, homophobes, conspiracy theory nuts, and a host of other insults and unflattering names. President Obama has called global warming doubters believers in the earth being flat. It makes it difficult to have a give and take, adult conversation when one side continues to yell, scream, and hurl insults at the other side. They are the ones that are intolerant and close minded, they are the ones that are preventing an adult conversation on the possibility of global warming.
2) If global warming is a reality, there is nothing the United States can do that would matter in the whole picture unless the rest of the world, notably China, India, Brazil, and other fast growing and carbon spewing economies also follow suit. As an example of what we are talking about, consider:
- A January, 2014 article by Bloomberg reviewed a recent study that found Chinese pollution contributes to pollution in California, Oregon and Washington. China's nitrogen oxide and carbon monoxide gases contribute to at least one extra day of smog per year in Los Angeles, and the Chinese pollution reaching the West Coast exceeds Federal ozone standards. Thus, Chinese manufacturing and minimal pollution controls are already negatively affecting the U.S. and the environment, a situation that would have to be resolved for any domestic global warming steps to be effective.
- The Week magazine reported on August 30, 2013 that Ecuador has given up on trying to protect the Amazon from oil drilling after having failed to do so over the past six years. More oil drilling, larger carbon footprint,moslty for the Chinese economy.
- In that same issue, another article pointed out Brazil will now devote all of its oil royalties to education and health care going forward. Thus, it is difficult to believe they will cut back on their oil drilling if it negatively affects education and health care in that country.
That will do it for now but we will revisit the issue going forward where I am sure there will be more science showing that global warming is quite possibly a myth and Al Gore will keep insulting those of us that are global warming doubters but believers in science.
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