Nature Mag: "Inconvenient Truth" for Al Gore: Climate Change is a Natural Occurrence

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[Iam1ru1-2]

Al Gore continues to be the comedic gift that keeps on giving. First, the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) revealed on May 24, 2006, that Gore has used enough hydrocarbons to circle the globe to present over 1,000 Power Point presentations on climate change. CEI also revealed that he recently used five large SUVs to haul his movie entourage a mere 500 yards at the Cannes Film Festival in France, all the while admonishing others to curtail their own energy use. Gore's "Saturday Night Live" appearance can't top that kind of comedy.

On the heels of these embarrassing revelations, Nature magazine now obliterates the core assertion of Gore's new movie and globetrotting global warming crusade -- that climate change is an unnatural and irrevocable phenomenon.

In case you have been too busy lately -- with such things as making a living, putting food on your family's dinner table, paying your mortgage, or focusing on actual everyday burdens -- to realize that global warming is the "single greatest threat to our lives," Gore has produced a new movie entitled An Inconvenient Truth to dispatch your silly everyday concerns and refocus your attention on what should really matter to you and your family. Not terrorism directed against Americans, not increasingly-porous borders, not ineffective schools, not crime, not fuel prices, not health care. Climate change. Unfortunately, the joke is once again on him.

In Gore's movie and on the movie's promotional website, he categorically asserts that climate change is unnatural. According to Gore, "scientists agree that global warming is real, it's already happening, and that it is the result of our activities and not a natural occurrence." (emphasis added) The movie website also asserts that climate changes are "irrevocable."

Unfortunately for "Earth Tone Al," this is flatly incorrect.

In Nature magazine's June 1, 2006, issue, scientists demonstrate in three new studies that the area near the North Pole was a balmy 74 degrees Fahrenheit 55 million years ago. That was obviously long before the invention of the wheel, let alone the advent of hydrocarbon scares or the internal-combustion engine (which Gore has called to completely eliminate). So much for Gore's assertion that climate change is "irrevocable."

Using cutting-edge technology, the scientists removed core samples from beneath the Arctic Ocean to examine the physical evidence and establish their findings. According to Mark Pagani, a Yale University geology professor and co-author of one of the three studies discussed by Nature, the area surrounding the North Pole was once similar to Florida's present-day topography: "[i]magine a world where there are dense sequoia trees and cypress trees like in Florida that ring the Arctic Ocean."

These studies reconfirm the fact that the earth experienced an extended period of natural global warming millions of years ago, caused by an unexplained increase in carbon dioxide levels. According to the Boston Globe report on the studies, "scientists already knew that this 'thermal event' happened but are not sure what caused it." The possible causes cited by the Boston Globe include "massive releases of methane from the ocean, the continent-sized burning of trees, lots of volcanic eruptions." Indeed, Kathryn Moran, another co-author of one of the studies, is quoted as saying "it's the first time we've looked at the Arctic, and man, it was a big surprise to us."

Let's see -- naturally-occurring climate change, with an uncertain explanation. Does this sound familiar?

We're confident that Gore has a ready-made rationalization for these studies, such as some sort of dinosaur-operated internal-combustion engine or prehistoric greedy oil conglomerates, and we look forward to the movie sequel to provide it. In the meantime, however, we can revel in the latest example of Al Gore and his ideological brethren once again running face-first into their own "inconvenient truth."

[Dog Gone]

Environmentalism is a political weapon which attempts to manipulate the ignorant into acting and voting for a completely different agenda.

Al Gore is particularly clumsy at it, and for that we should be thankful.

[Names Ash Housewares]

"Al Gore is particularly clumsy at it, and for that we should be thankful."

True. He is making a joke of the whole thing with his "end of civilization" scare nonsense.

Southpark had him pegged.

[Dog Gone]

Manbearpig will kill us all.

[Westlander]

Who'd of thunk it? Mother earth has global warming. AND it has global cooling.

[StJacques]

Take a look at these two images from NASA, side by side:

There have been periods of warming and cooling going back long before man entered the picture in numbers sufficient to change the climate.

There is an argument to be made that man is accelerating the process, but the argument that he is responsible for it doesn't fly.

[GeorgiaDawg32]

but..but..but...he's a democrat so it must be true...(sarc/off)

[woodb01]

It's time Americans understood that the REAL agenda behind the Enviro "Greens" is to attack, and to control American business and Industry.  To completely DESTROY the American Economy...

· US Senate Radicals attempt to continue Global Warming PROPAGANDA (Global Warming is a Scientific FRAUD, Fed Data Quality Act attacked)
· Nobody Told the Birds About Global Warming
· Arctic Sea Ice Not Melting (How fraud is routinely used in green)
· Environmentalism's Dangerous Campaign for "Safety" (Always citing "POTENTIAL" problems to destroy and control business)
· Putin adviser says Kyoto 'smoke screen' (Treaty will create Soviet-style 'monster' threatening freedom)
· Michael Crichton Takes on Global Warming in Latest Work (Author Says Environmentalists Are 'Fomenting False Fears')
· The Kyoto Protocol is Dead
· A Haunting We Will Go (The Silliness of Regulating Greenhouse Gases)
· GLOBAL WARMING FRAUD (Designed To Undermine US Economy)
· Conservative GOP Senator Again Blasts Enviromentalist Fearmongers (Exposes the Corruption and FRAUD of Green)
· The Rainforest Action Network's real target is the Third World's poor (Destroying the Poor to Advance a Political Agenda)
· Mercury in Fish Overblown (Eco Propaganda about Mercury levels in Fish)
· Nation Descends into Mercury Madness (More Eco Propaganda about Mercury's harmful effects)
· Earth Day - Eco-Communist Propaganda (Greens and their subversion of America)
· Global Warming faces State of Fear (Debate over Global Warming propaganda has Eco-Communists FURIOUS)
· Climatologists Are Split on Global Warming (About 50 - 50) (Eco-Communist PROPAGANDA claims 100% agreement)
· The Global Warming Hoax (The Anti-Capitalist CON of Global Warming)
· Terminating the Economy - How Greens try to Destroy Capitalism
· Whacko Environmentalism and the Link to Columbia Shuttle Disaster
· The Theology of Global Warming (How the Global Warming Con is designed to attack capitalism)
· Who is afraid of scientific methods? (Why Eco-Communists do not want to apply science to "Global Warming")
· Katrina Kicks Up Storm of Global Warming Debate (Global Warming being shown as a UNITED NATIONS FRAUD)
· Goodbye to Anthropogenic Global Warming (PROOF that Global Warming is an Anti-Capitalist Con...)
· HILARIOUS Environmental Humor (Actual Correspondence about a Michigan Resident's Dam Building Project in the Creek)
· INHOFE DELIVERS FIRST OF FOUR SPEECHES ON CLIMATE CHANGE (1 of 4 Speeches showing the FRAUD of Global Warming "Science")
· INHOFE DELIVERS SECOND OF FOUR SPEECHES ON CLIMATE CHANGE (2 of 4 on dismantling the four pillars of climate change alarmism)
· INHOFE DELIVERS THIRD OF FOUR SPEECHES ON CLIMATE CHANGE (3 of 4 speeches on dismantling the four pillars of climate change alarmism)
· INHOFE DELIVERS FINAL “FOUR PILLARS” SPEECH (4 of 4 speech on dismantling Climate Change Alarmism)

[PatrickHenry]

This is probably the Nature article they're talking about:
There was once little difference between equatorial and arctic climates.

[Right Wing Assault]

CO2 has been as low as recent times only once in the last 600 million years.

See link

[FlingWingFlyer]

Thanks for the link. That's a good article and it's easy to understand. I would have expected "Nature" magazine to be more sympathetic to "Earth Tone Al" while he is out pimpin' his disaster "movie." I guess I was wrong. (Again!) I expect Earth Boy to challenge the timing of the release of this article. LOL!

[RJL]

Al Gore continues to be the comedic gift that keeps on giving. First, the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) revealed on May 24, 2006, that Gore has used enough hydrocarbons to circle the globe to present over 1,000 Power Point presentations on climate change. CEI also revealed that he recently used five large SUVs to haul his movie entourage a mere 500 yards at the Cannes Film Festival in France, all the while admonishing others to curtail their own energy use.

Also, remember back when they released 500 million gallons of water from a dam so AlGore could float his canoe for a photo op.

If we all "conserved" like AlGore, the Earth really would be in trouble!

[Names Ash Housewares]

Further data to ponder!

[Erasmus]

Aye, there's the rub! And I see the solution, matey!

[Intolerant in NJ]

Caught the end of a talk by some climate expert on C-Span today - he thinks "global warming" is a farce, that even if the climate is heating up, which he doesn't believe, it's only because we're actually coming out of a mini-ice age and returning to a warmer norm which we achieved five hundred years ago - but facts won't stop the likes of AlGore.....

[beethovenfan]

AAARRRRRRGHH!!!

[metesky]

Did you happen to see Stephie Steponallofus pitching Gore softballs this morning?

Gore: "Take for example Global Warming..."

Wow Al, who knew you'd be talking about global warming? What movie? Really?

And the man has a disturbing plaque buildup between the front teeth in his lower jaw. I mean he's invested in that gub'mint health plan, isn't he.

His clumsy attempt at being "down home" type was almost as disturbing as the damn plaque that I couldn't stop staring at.

[Tribune7]

bump

[D-fendr]

Ok. I gotta finally ask.

Where did "Manbearpig" come from?

[SierraWasp]

Hoot!

Hey! At least Algore is trying so hard not to get snippy about it... really!!!

I watched him on one of the Sunday talking head shows for about 10 seconds today trying to convince the host with such a sincere manner that he's pretty sure that the President and Vice President are soon going to be forced to admit they're been totally wrong about "Global Worming!" (titter)(giggle)(snicker)(snort)(bwahahaha)