From The Hayride…
It’s a dog-bites-man story, granted, but today in Copenhagen Al Gore was caught in yet another lie.
From the Times of London:
There are many kinds of truth. Al Gore was poleaxed by an inconvenient one yesterday.
The former US Vice-President, who became an unlikely figurehead for the green movement after narrating the Oscar-winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth, became entangled in a new climate change “spin” row.
Mr Gore, speaking at the Copenhagen climate change summit, stated the latest research showed that the Arctic could be completely ice-free in five years.
In his speech, Mr Gore told the conference: “These figures are fresh. Some of the models suggest to Dr [Wieslav] Maslowski that there is a 75 per cent chance that the entire north polar ice cap, during the summer months, could be completely ice-free within five to seven years.”
However, the climatologist whose work Mr Gore was relying upon dropped the former Vice-President in the water with an icy blast.
“It’s unclear to me how this figure was arrived at,” Dr Maslowski said. “I would never try to estimate likelihood at anything as exact as this.”
Mr Gore’s office later admitted that the 75 per cent figure was one used by Dr Maslowski as a “ballpark figure” several years ago in a conversation with Mr Gore.
It’s not remarkable that Gore was caught lying. This happens virtually every time the man speaks publicly. It happened just a few days ago when he told Slate Magazine that all the Climategate e-mails are at least 10 years old and last month when he went on Conan O’Brian and told this whopper:
Apparently Gore isn’t even familiar with facts sixth-graders can easily understand (Earth’s core temperature is roughly 8,000 degrees Fahrenheit, which is why we’re a planet and not a star) – or he just doesn’t care. After all, no one is allowed to confront this birdbrained, bloated, boorish bloviating buffoon to his face without being dragged away by his handlers; for example…
Or…
Or…
Of course, it’s not just self-promoting filmmakers and creepy anti-globalists who have taken a whack at Gore…
Or, finally…
There are lots more examples of Gore’s ridiculous bleatings – going all the way back to his claim to have invented the internet or that the internal combustion engine is the most dangerous invention in the history of mankind. He’s a gasbag and a clown and he has lost whatever credibility he once had.
But the question is, how much longer will this charlatan be given a forum to spew his lies? How much more must the public endure out of his piehole before the media elites finally concede his mendacity and grudgingly drag him off the stage? Isn’t it long past time that this man be ignored?
Steve Maley
Moe Lane
Dan McLaughlin
Neil Stevens
Daniel Horowitz
Now now, MacAoidh........
Kenny Solomon (Diary) Monday, December 14th at 10:21PM EST (link)We really can’t be calling a lying, fraudulent, scheming, disingenuous, Totalitarian, internet-inventing, Frankenstein-monster-clone an asshat.
Wouldn’t be proper decorum.
Can I call him a mindless troglodyte?
MacAoidh (Diary) Monday, December 14th at 10:36PM EST (link)Or perhaps a stinking fraud?
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Stinking fraud..... Mindless troglodyte.
Kenny Solomon (Diary) Monday, December 14th at 10:52PM EST (link)Ya know what ?
Asshat fits more gooder.
Go for it.
Call him Lysenko
Stan(ley) Pruss (Diary) Monday, December 14th at 11:33PM EST (link)Actually, he would rather be Lysenko’s protector Stalin.
He can't be Lysenko...
MacAoidh (Diary) Monday, December 14th at 11:43PM EST (link)…Lysenko was a scientist (sort of).
Gore is more like a fat, goofy Rasputin who can’t get laid.
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All of you are wrong...
rcov092 (Diary) Tuesday, December 15th at 12:05AM EST (link)to call AlGore a mindless troglodyte or asshat is an insult to mindless troglodytes and asshats everywhere.
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Look, you cannot fault him, in his mind the Earth's core temp is several million degrees..
rcov092 (Diary) Monday, December 14th at 11:54PM EST (link)it would stand to reason that at some point, it would melt a little ice. Nt he other hand, since AlGore said the core temp was several million degrees,
I now know that any “warming” that exists and clearly is the result of that several million degree core temp …and NOT the fault of man.
So, in other words… MMGW is a myth (and a fraud), there is nothing to see here in Copenhagen. They can all go home now and we can forgot the Global Governance crap (since we cannot cool down a core of several million degrees, unless AlGore volunteers to take the ice down himself.
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Doesn't floating ice displace water?
MacAoidh (Diary) Tuesday, December 15th at 12:17AM EST (link)In other words, if the Arctic ice, which floats, melts – isn’t that a wash with respect to sea level?
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You are right. Archimedes principle,
gekster (Diary) Tuesday, December 15th at 12:53AM EST (link)Archimedes principle, as I was tought in HS, if something is sitting in a liquid, then it will displace that mass in accordence with weight.
(pound of feathers, pound of lead)
the amount of water displaced will be in perpotion to that mass, regardless of state.
Don’t quote me. thats the simple version.
Otherwise, since the icecap is already sitting in water, then if it changes, it will still take up no more space than it already has. = no sea rise.
It’s Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluid_statics
Buoyancy
Any body of arbitrary shape which is immersed, partly or fully, in a fluid will experience the action of a net force in the opposite direction of the local pressure gradient. If this pressure gradient arises from gravity, the net force is in the vertical direction opposite that of the gravitational force. This vertical force is termed buoyancy or buoyant force and is equal in magnitude, but opposite in direction, to the weight of the displaced fluid.
In the case of a ship, for instance, its weight is balanced by a buoyant force from the displaced water, allowing it to float. If more cargo is loaded onto the ship, it would sink more into the water – displacing more water and thus receive a higher buoyant force to balance the increased weight.
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We are there in the various Tea Party groups, leaderless, but not rudderless.
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Awww, c'mon, Mac!
TNJim (Diary) Tuesday, December 15th at 2:50AM EST (link)You’ll disturb Algore’s fantasy!
You used to be able to see date to date comparisons of sea ice
rcov092 (Diary) Tuesday, December 15th at 12:40AM EST (link)at: http://igloo.atmos.uiuc.edu/cgi-bin/test/print.sh?fm=12&fd=13&fy=2007&sm=12&sd=13&sy=2009
Unfortunately, you cannot do a comparison to for some dates in 2009 becuuuuuse, to quote the university:
February 25, 2009 – The SSMI images for many days in 2009 were bad enough that we removed them from this comparison display (see note below and the NSIDC website). There is enough interest in these side-by-side comparison images that we will try to replace them with corresponding images from the AMSR-E sensor in the coming weeks.
February 17, 2009 – The SSMI sensor seems to be acting up and dropping data swaths from time to time in recent days. Missing swaths will appear on these images as missing data in the southern latitudes. If this persists for more than a few weeks, we will start to fill in these missing data swaths with the ice concentration from the previous day or switch over to the higher resolution AMSR-E sensor. Note – these missing swaths do not affect the timeseries or any other plots on the Cryosphere Today as they are comprised of moving composites of at least three days.
Historic snow cover data not displayed on these images. Sea ice concentrations less than 30% are not displayed in these images. Snow cover data is displayed only for most recent dates.
Yes, the “sensors” are acting up again. Back in 2007 when everyone was screaming “the ice is melting, the ice is melting” the y later admitted that the sensors on the satellite had “malfunctioned” and what they were reading as a massive melting of ice was not nearly so. It seems no one really goes op there to “look”, except some guy (green colored communist in all probablitry who is surveying the ice pack admits there is ice there, but says it is ” rotten” ice. Hummm?
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Hey, man...
TrogloPundit Tuesday, December 15th at 10:20AM EST (link)…watch how you say troglodyte.