Al Gore does Oprah - was anybody watching? (Excellent Globull Warming Rebuttal)

Watts Up With That ^ | November 28, 2008 | Russ Steele

[Lee'sGhost]

“Please let Oprah know that you expected more from someone of her intelligence and veracity”

BWAhahahahahahahahahahahaha.... Stop! You’re killing me!

[Scotswife]

“I assume Al drove to Chicago in his hybrid car.
Or perhaps he flew there on a commercial airline.”

I assume Gore will only be using his nice new boat for 9 more years?

[ETL]

THE ACQUITTAL OF CARBON DIOXIDE
by Jeffrey A. Glassman, PhD

ABSTRACT:

"Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere [historically] is the product of oceanic respiration due to the well-known but under-appreciated solubility pump. Carbon dioxide rises out of warm ocean waters where it is added to the atmosphere. There it is mixed with residual and accidental CO2, and circulated, to be absorbed into the sink of the cold ocean waters. Next the thermohaline circulation carries the CO2-rich sea water deep into the ocean. A millennium later it appears at the surface in warm waters, saturated by lower pressure and higher temperature, to be exhausted back into the atmosphere. Throughout the past 420 millennia, comprising four interglacial periods, the Vostok record of atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration is imprinted with, and fully characterized by, the physics of the solubility of CO2 in water, along with the lag in the deep ocean circulation.

Notwithstanding that carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas, atmospheric carbon dioxide has neither caused nor amplified global temperature increases. Increased carbon dioxide has been an effect of global warming, not a cause. Technically, carbon dioxide is a lagging proxy for ocean temperatures. When global temperature, and along with it, ocean temperature rises, the physics of solubility causes atmospheric CO2 to increase.

If increases in carbon dioxide, or any other greenhouse gas, could have in turn raised global temperatures, the positive feedback would have been catastrophic. While the conditions for such a catastrophe were present in the Vostok record from natural causes, the runaway event did not occur. Carbon dioxide does not accumulate in the atmosphere."

http://www.rocketscientistsjournal.com/2006/10/co2_acquittal.html

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The graph above represents temperature and CO2 levels over the past 400,000 years. It is the same exact data Al Gore and the rest of the man-made global warmers refer to. The blue line is temps, the red, CO2 levels. The deep valleys represent 4 separate glaciation/ice-age periods. Look carefully at this historical relationship between temps and CO2 levels (the present is on the right hand side of the graph) and keep in mind that Gore claims this data is the 'proof' that CO2 has warmed the earth in the past. But does the data indeed show this? Nope. In fact, rising CO2 levels all throughout this 400,000-year period actually *followed* temperature increases -lagging behind by an average of 800 years! So it couldn't have been CO2 that got Earth out of these past glaciations. Yet Gore continually and dishonestly claims otherwise. Furthermore, the subsequent CO2 level increases due to dissolved CO2 being released from warming oceans, never did lead to additional warming, the so-called "run-away greenhouse effect" that Al Gore and his friends keep warning us about. In short, there is little if any evidence that CO2 had ever led to increased warming, at least not when the levels were within 10-15 times of what they are today. -ETL

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"The above chart shows the range of global temperature through the last 500 million years. There is no statistical correlation between the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere through the last 500 million years and the temperature record in this interval. In fact, one of the highest levels of carbon dioxide concentration occurred during a major ice age that occurred about 450 million years ago [Myr]. Carbon dioxide concentrations at that time were about 15 times higher than at present." [also see 180 million years ago, same thing happened]:
http://www.tcsdaily.com/article.aspx?id=010405M

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So, greenhouse [effect] is all about carbon dioxide, right?

Wrong. The most important players on the greenhouse stage are water vapor and clouds. Carbon dioxide has been increased to about 0.038% of the atmosphere (possibly from about 0.028% pre-Industrial Revolution) while water in its various forms ranges from 0% to 4% of the atmosphere and its properties vary by what form it is in and even at what altitude it is found in the atmosphere.

In simple terms the bulk of Earth's greenhouse effect is due to water vapor by virtue of its abundance. Water accounts for about 90% of the Earth's greenhouse effect -- perhaps 70% is due to water vapor and about 20% due to clouds (mostly water droplets), some estimates put water as high as 95% of Earth's total tropospheric greenhouse effect (e.g., Freidenreich and Ramaswamy, 'Solar Radiation Absorption by Carbon Dioxide, Overlap with Water, and a Parameterization for General Circulation Models,' Journal of Geophysical Research 98 (1993):7255-7264).

The remaining portion comes from carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, methane, ozone and miscellaneous other 'minor greenhouse gases.' As an example of the relative importance of water it should be noted that changes in the relative humidity on the order of 1.3-4% are equivalent to the effect of doubling CO2.

http://www.junkscience.com/Greenhouse/

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Water Vapor Rules the Greenhouse System

Water vapor constitutes Earth's most significant greenhouse gas, accounting for about 95% of Earth's greenhouse effect (4). Interestingly, many 'facts and figures' regarding global warming completely ignore the powerful effects of water vapor in the greenhouse system, carelessly (perhaps, deliberately) overstating human impacts as much as 20-fold.

Water vapor is 99.999% of natural origin. Other atmospheric greenhouse gases, carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), nitrous oxide (N2O), and miscellaneous other gases (CFC's, etc.), are also mostly of natural origin (except for the latter, which is mostly anthropogenic).

Human activities contribute slightly to greenhouse gas concentrations through farming, manufacturing, power generation, and transportation. However, these emissions are so dwarfed in comparison to emissions from natural sources we can do nothing about, that even the most costly efforts to limit human emissions would have a very small-- perhaps undetectable-- effect on global climate.

http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/greenhouse_data.html

[rbg81]

I read an article (posted on FR) that says in Britain they are gearing up to sue companies whenever there is weather related damage because it can now be "proved" that the cause is global warming. This insanity has to stop and soon. When companies start being sued for the weather, its only a matter of time before we degenerate into all out anarchy. The late, great Michael Crichton wrote an excellent article (actually, it was a speech) titled "Aliens Cause Global Warming". It showed how the tolerance of "harmless" junk science back in the 60s paved the way for the current global warming hysteria. Actually, here is the link: Crichton The truth is GW is just a boggieman to force a whole host of political agendas down our throats, including massive wealth transfers to the UN & the Third World. It is the most massive and expensive hoax ever perpetrated.

[srmorton]

This show was actually a repeat of Oprah's Earth Day show from
April 22, 2008. I could not bear to watch it the first time because of Algore, so there is no way I would have watched the rerun. This is one thing that you can not entirely blame on Oprah because the MSM has so completely bought in to the Global Warming propaganda that it refuses to report any findings that contradict their “truth”. That keeps the public ignorant of the arguments against it and more willing to accept extreme measures to combat something that does not exist.

BTW, I have a Masters degree in Biology and was in sophormore in college on the very first Earth Day when the fear was global cooling and a new ice age. I have been teaching Biology for almost 30 years and I do my best to present both sides of the argument to my students even though our textbook favors the point of view that global warming not only exists but that human activity is responsible. Just like the controversy about evolution, many scientists are afraid to present both sides of the argument and let the students draw their own conclusions from the evidence. That is what the scientific method is all about, but it has been corrupted by people with a socialist political agenda.

[dforest]

Oprah best be careful, she might get a flatulence tax assessed against her.

[mriguy67]

The book RED HOT LIES debunks the global warming bs

[Doogle]

...ever wonder why there has never been a public DEBATE on this so-called crisis? All we hear is the results of conferences where all in attendence has agreed...????... The nasty little note here is, if you don't agree, your not invited to attend...further more when you produce facts and figures to "prove" the numbers or assumptions are wrong,you are defunded,banished,ridiculed,all by the liberal media,liberal colleges, and libs pushing for tax dollars in DC. The fact that Algores movie was pulled from theaters in Britain because a judge said, "facts and figures" were fabricated, don't seem to stop the "green party" from forcing their agenda on America. Also many people don't realize the "green party" originated in socialist Germany. Before the US GOVERNMENT spends any money on any "cause" there should be an open and honest debate open to the public, hearing BOTH SIDES carried over a month to determine WHETHER OR NOT SUCH FUNDS ARE ALLOCATED. Not stolen and wasted or given away for votes

[steelyourfaith]

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !

[Doogle]

...years ago Algore would have been strung up and tarred and feather...his bottles of feel good pour out on the ground, and his horse and wagon sold to the nearest bidder, and told to leave town quickly.

[Cincinatus]

Gore almost looks lifelike in this image...

[JenB987]

And what fine footwear with his suit...

Is he a blonde now?

[ETL]

This show was actually a repeat of Oprah's Earth Day show from April 22, 2008.

Vladimir Lenin
Владимир Ильич Ленин
Chairman of the Council of People’s Commissars
In office: November 8, 1917 – January 21, 1924

Born April 22, 1870
Died January 21, 1924
Political party Bolshevik Party
Profession Politician, revolutionary

"... on April 22, 1970, [the very first] Earth Day was held, one of the most remarkable happenings in the history of democracy... "
--American Heritage Magazine, October 1993

Founded on Lenin's 100th birthday? --yeah, it's a "coincidence". LOL.

Earth Day, April 22, 1970:
"The nationwide event included opposition to the Vietnam War on the agenda, but this was thought to detract for the environmental message.
Pete Seeger was a keynote speaker and performer at the event held in Washington DC."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Day#Earth_Day_1970

From David Horowitz's FrontPageMag.com/DiscoverTheNetwork.org:
Profile: PETE SEEGER

*Musician, folksinger, songwriter, and political activist

*Joined the Communist Party in 1942

*"I'm still a Communist" -- Pete Seeger, 2004

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1619

[OB1kNOb]

BTTT - just so others will see the title and throw up in their mouth a little..........

[ETL]

Gore almost looks lifelike in this image...

Madame Tussauds is a famous wax museum in London with branches in a number of major cities. It was set up by wax sculptor Marie Tussaud.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madame_Tussauds#World_leaders

[ROLF of the HILL COUNTRY]

“We need to come up with our own 10 year crisis to scare the bejeezus...”

How about this:

“Political, Social, and Historical studies point to a mass rebellion by traditionalists which will exterminate all Leftist life within 10 years if current trends continue!”

[flattorney]

You think that's bad... check this out

[flattorney]

In Gore's presentation on Oprah he said if Greenland and Antarctica continue to melt, due to man-made globull warming, all of South Florida will be under water (affecting 3.6 million people ~ FlA) and the maps of the world will need to be redrawn. In short, Gore is a worthless fear mongering fraud. The guy can go straight to hell.

[steelyourfaith]

He’s a buffoon, a snake-oil salesman, and one of the biggest wastes of protoplasm on the planet. Thanks for the pics. :)

[ETL]

Gore almost looks lifelike in this image...

Other wax figures from Madame Tussaud's: