October, 2018, Part 3, I Am A Global Warming Doubter and A Believer In Science: The Big Ethanol Fail,Kindergarten Antics and Al Gore Hokum

Every month we have enough material to return to a continuing theme in this blog, namely that “I am a global warming doubter AND a believer in science.” This became of interest because of people like Al Gore who fanatically and verbosely claimed that you had to be an idiot to not believe in manmade global warming. It has been my life belief that anyone that is that loud and that obnoxious is hiding something, that rather than argue facts and reality it is better to beat down and insult anyone who disagrees.

As we have dove into the whole issue of man made global warming, or its new rebranded title of climate change, we found that Al Gore and people like him were guilty of a number of things:

• Ignoring science and realities that did not support their opinions and positions.
• Rather than have an adult conversation about climate, these types of advocates like Gore sank to the level of insulting those who dared look at ALL science by calling them a variety of names including racists, homophobes, terrorists, flat earth believers, and other slanderous names.
• Continuing to insist that politicians step up their intrusions into our lives with higher taxes, more regulations, and more control on our freedoms and standards of living based on a shaky theory at best.

To see the past posts and the multitude of evidence that we have compiled that showed it is perfectly okay to be a global warming doubter and a believer in science, enter the phrase "global warming doubter” in the search box above or go through the monthly historical post listed on the right side of this page.

Thus, let’s see the latest facts and science that prove you can be a global warming doubter and a believer in science, regardless of what Al Gore proclaims.

1) Okay, we mentioned Al Gore’s name above so let’s kick off today’s discussion focused on him. The following highlights come from a Washington Times article written by Valerie Richardson on September 16, 2018:

• Gore was recently speaking at a climate conference when he made the assertion that two major hurricanes had never had never hit landfall at the same time, presumably in the history of the world since he said “never.”
• He was referring to Hurricane Florence which struck the U.S. east coast and typhoon Manghut which the Philippines halfway around the world.
• According to Gore: “This is the first time in history that two major storms are making landfall from the Atlantic and the Pacific simultaneously.”
• His point obviously was to continue to try and scare us that man made global warming and climate change were teaming up to give us more devastating and frequent hurricane like storms, something he has been doing for decades and something that has never happened over those same decades.
• Fortunately, a real scientist/meteorologist, Ryan Maue, was quick to squash this assertion: "Al Gore just (fraudulently) claimed without any evidence that we’ve never had hurricanes in both the Atlantic and Pacific making landfall at the same time.”
• Another scientist/meteorologist, Roger A. Pielke, Sr. from the University of Colorado, joined into to debunk Gore’s assertion: “Such statements show that he is not familiar with the history of tropical cyclone landfalls.” 
• Apparently, rather than basis his observation on real science, he was referring to an NBC news report that mentioned the two storms happening at the same time and Gore ran with it as scientific fact without checking the truth, since according to Dr. Maue, NBC “completely missed the mark on ongoing hurricanes and their rarity.”
• The conference featured other “famous scientists” including California governor Jerry Brown (not a scientist), Michael Bloomberg (not a scientist), Harrison For (not a scientist), Alec Baldwin Baldwin (not a scientist), and businessman Tom Steyers (not a scientist). 

Again, global warming advocates trying to convince that their celebrity is reason enough to believe their myths about climate, real scientists be damned. Now, Al Gore is trying to pass off a coincidence as science.

2) When arguments arose back on the playgrounds of our youth, out of frustration someone would often just take their ball and go home, ending the game. That is about the level of immaturity we have gotten to with some man made global warming advocates in England:

• According to an article on the Fix This Nation website, written by Shawn on September 18, 2018, about 60 “writers, academics, and politicians” signed an open letter that was published by England’s Guardian newspaper.
• In the letter they promised “ they would no longer participate in any media stories that gave so much as a single line of coverage to those who deny the “truth” about climate change. In a remarkable retreat from the debate, these people – non-scientists, for the most part – declared the debate over and insisted that giving deniers any coverage only gives undeserved credence to their claims.”
• Specifically: “We are no longer willing to lend our credibility to debates over whether or not climate change is real. It is real. We need to act now or the consequences will be catastrophic. In the interests of ‘balance,’ the media often feels the need to include those who outright deny the reality of human-triggered climate change.Balance implies equal weight. But this then creates a false equivalence between an overwhelming scientific consensus and a lobby, heavily funded by vested interests, that exists simply to sow doubt to serve those interests. Yes, of course scientific consensus should be open to challenge – but with better science, not with spin and nonsense. We urgently need to move the debate on to how we address the causes and effects of dangerous climate change – because that’s where common sense demands our attention and efforts should be.”

So if you are a man made global warming and and climate change doubter, basing your opinions on real data, real history, and scientific research, you are just full of “spin and nonsense.” If we do not agree with these 60 people, the vast majority of which were not scientists, we have no common sense. If we observe and point out that every single major global warming forecast over the past thirty years as been an utter failure, we have no credibility.

Look, climate changes, it has been changing for millions and millions of years. We disagree with the abuse or lack of science that proves climate change is being substantially changed by mankind. But we never seem to be able to get to that critical difference, given the knee jerk reaction of the advocates who immediately brand any discussion that questions their unproven myth that shuts down a real discussion of ALL of the facts and research.

3) Last discussion point on this topic for today and this month. In our previous post we discussed the National Wildlife Foundation’s contention, actually based on real research and science, that the lame brained idea of putting ethanol in our gasoline to combat global warming actually does more harm than good to the environment. The League Of Power website recently did an in-depth review of this topic based on credible research efforts:

• A 2011 Congressional study found that adding ethanol to gas “actually had a net negative impact on the environment.”
• Soybeans and corn, the two main sources of ethanol, have seen their production levels go way up to feed the ethanol demand but the increased production had resulted in soil degradation and increased water usage
• And worse of all, the study concluded that the whole ethanol effort had actually increased the amount of greenhouse gases given off, the exact opposite of what was supposed to happen.
• This last point is quite simple: adding ethanol to gas reduces gas mileage in cars and trucks which requires cars and trucks to burn more of the gas laced with ethanol in addition to the additional greenhouse gases caused by the production and transportation of ethanol.
• An updated study in 2018 found the same results: ethanol was a net negative on the environment.

As is so often the case, when Washington politicians go about addressing a problem, their solutions often make the original problem worse. Using ethanol to combat the myth of global warming is just the latest example of this history of incompetence.

Ethanol failure, kindergarten antics, and more Al Gore hokum. More reasons to be a global warming doubter and believer in science.

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