Moonwalker Buzz Aldrin Defies Gore: 'Climate has been changing for billions of years'

Climate Depot ^ | July 3, 2009 | Marc Morano

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Moonwalkers Defy Gore's Claim That Climate Skeptics Are Akin To Those Who Believe Moon Landing was 'Staged'

Friday, July 03, 2009By Marc Morano – Climate Depot Washington, DC – At a House global warming hearing on Capitol Hill on April 24, 2009, former Vice President Al Gore once again compared skeptics of man-made climate fears to “people who still believe that the moon landing was staged on a movie lot in Arizona." Gore appears ignorant that his several years old analogy has been refuted by two of NASA's moonwalkers themselves -- Moonwalker and Award-Winning NASA Astronaut/Geologist Jack Schmitt – who recently declared he was a global warming skeptic and now, Award-Winning NASA Astronaut and Moonwalker Dr. Buzz Aldrin.

Gore was not asked during his April 24, 2009 Congressional hearing how he can link climate skeptics to people who believed the moon landing was "staged" when two prominent moonwalkers themselves are man-made global warming skeptics.

NASA's Dr. Aldrin -- who earned a Doctorate of Science in Astronautics at MIT -- declared he was skeptical of man-made climate fears in a July 3, 2009 UK Telegraph interview.

"I think the climate has been changing for billions of years," Aldrin, the second person to walk on the Moon, said. On July 20, 1969, Aldrin and astronaut Neil Armstrong made their historic Apollo 11 moonwalk, becoming the first two humans to set foot on the Moon. According to his bio, "Aldrin has received three U.S. patents for his schematics of a modular space station, Starbooster reusable rockets, and multi-crew modules for space flight." Aldrin was also decorated with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest American peacetime award and he has received numerous distinguished awards and medals from 23 other countries.

"If it's warming now, it may cool off later. I'm not in favor of just taking short-term isolated situations and depleting our resources to keep our climate just the way it is today," Aldrin explained.

"I'm not necessarily of the school that we are causing it all, I think the world is causing it," Aldrin added.

Aldrin joins fellow moonwalker Schmitt, who flew on the Apollo 17 mission, in declaring their skepticism of man-made global warming fears.

"The 'global warming scare' is being used as a political tool to increase government control over American lives, incomes and decision making. It has no place in the Society's activities," Schmitt, who flew on the Apollo 17 mission, said in 2008. (See: Astronaut Jack Schmitt Joins Skeptics & For Gore, a very inconvenient moonwalker.)

Schmitt is featured in the 2009 report: U. S. Senate Minority Report: More Than 700 International Scientists Dissent Over Man-Made Global Warming Claim.

Below is Schmitt's full entry in the Senate's 700 Plus Scientist Report:

Award-Winning NASA Astronaut/Geologist and Moonwalker Jack Schmitt, formerly of the Norwegian Geological Survey and the U.S. Geological Survey, who flew on the Apollo 17 mission, has received numerous awards in his career including the Space Center Superior Achievement Award and the NASA Distinguished Service Medal. Schmitt, a member of the Geological Society of America, American Geophysical Union, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, rejected man-made climate change concerns in 2008. "The 'global warming scare' is being used as a political tool to increase government control over American lives, incomes and decision making. It has no place in the Society's activities," Schmitt wrote on November 17, 2008. "As a geologist, I love Earth observations. But it is ridiculous to tie this objective to a "consensus" that humans are causing global warming when human experience, geologic data and history, and current cooling can argue otherwise. 'Consensus,' as many have said, merely represents the absence of definitive science," Schmitt explained.

Related Links:

U. S. Senate Minority Report: More Than 700 International Scientists Dissent Over Man-Made Global Warming Claims - March 2009

Report: Democrats Refuse to Allow Skeptic to Testify Alongside Gore At Congressional Hearing

Oops! Inconvenient Astronaut: NASA Moonwalker Schmitt Defies Gore's Claim -- Declares Himself a Skeptic! - April 25, 2009

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The bad news for Gore just keeps coming every day!

[Always Right]

"If it's warming now, it may cool off later. I'm not in favor of just taking short-term isolated situations and depleting our resources to keep our climate just the way it is today," Aldrin explained

But what about the polar bears??? What does some idiot from MIT know. Obviously a kook! Al Gore has a degree in (Big) Government, so he knows.

[353FMG]

But is the world paying attention to Gore’s detractors?

[Yossarian]

God Bless Buzz Aldrin!

I wish that was Al Gore receiving Buzz's "affection" rather than some moon-landing conspiracy nut. Al Gore's even nuttier!

[skeptoid]

That's a great vid.
I did not know about the punch. Here's a version with sound from CSI.

I like the way Aldrin follows his punch in case the guy needs another one.

[Signalman]

Hold on a second...What does Aldrin know? After all, Aldrin, who earned a Doctorate of Science in Astronautics at MIT couldn’t possibly be more credible than Al Gore, who flunked out of divinity scholl and who “invented the Internet”.

[Star Traveler]

Yes, warming and cooling happen all the time, without any input from mankind...

It’s one thing to gripe and complain about these things and disagree with it, but it’s quite *another* to convince your friends and neighbors and relatives and coworkers...

THEREFORE..., it’s also absolutely necessary for people to know the information in the following documentary. If there were simply *one* video that you could see and/or show people you know... this would be the *one*...

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The following is an *excellent* video documentary on the so-called “Global Warming” I would recommend it to all FReepers. It’s a very well-made documentary.

“The Great Global Warming Swindle”

If you want to download it, via a BitTorrent site (using a BitTorrent client), you can get it at the following link.
http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/3635222/The_Great_Global_Warming_Swindle
[this is a high-quality copy, of about a gigabyte in size...]

It’s worth seeing and having for relatives, friends, neighbors and coworkers to see.

Also, see it online here...
http://www.moviesfoundonline.com/great_global_warming_swindle.php
[this one is considerably lower quality, is a flash video and viewable online, of course...]

Buy it here...
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000WLUXZE
[this one would be the very highest quality version, on a DVD disk, of several gigabytes in size...]

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Also, in split parts on YouTube...

The Great Global Warming Swindle (Part 1 of 8)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMA6sszChwQ

The Great Global Warming Swindle (Part 2 of 8)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERisgJ3QWjk

The Great Global Warming Swindle (Part 3 of 8)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HLVYwmZoxc

The Great Global Warming Swindle (Part 4 of 8)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jr-AG3BA1Go

The Great Global Warming Swindle (Part 5 of 8)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbllTsBHuxk

The Great Global Warming Swindle (Part 6 of 8)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyK7C1OrAAo

The Great Global Warming Swindle (Part 7 of 8)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrIX8LcAuMQ

The Great Global Warming Swindle (Part 8 of 8)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-ZmCDOZbtM

[Astronaut]

Buzz Aldrin has more intelligence in his fingernail that Algore has in his entire bloated body.

[John Will]

Penn and Teller ripped Al Gore apart on B.S. on the global warming episode.

[SERKIT]

Four inconvenient document sources:

1) A 300+ page "manager's amendment" that was added to the bill at 3:09am the day of the House vote. Not only was this a voluminous add-on, it is a scary document. How will local governments be able to afford the extra staff to enforce the new and very confusing building code laws. The bill also radically modifies international trade rules.

http://energycommerce.house.gov/Press_111/20090521/hr2454_multi_waxman.pdf

2) A suppressed and censored report from our own EPA exposes many problems with the theories and "consensus" of the populist (and now debunked) theory of global warming, and the true (and minimal) affect of human activity on the climate. The suppressed EPA report is linked here:

http://cei.org/news-release/2009/06/25/cei-releases-global-warming-study-censored-epa

3) A report from the Chicago-based Heartland Institute summarized the Non-Governmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC) that attempts to use scientific and rational arguments to identify exactly what is going on in the climate and the true impact of human activity. The recently released NIPCC report is found here:

http://www.sepp.org/publications/NIPCC_final.pdf

4) A deep-in-the-weeds technical website devoted to expose the false data collection and manipulation of research data was used to support al the carbon dioxide and temperature nonsense:

http://www.climateaudit.org/

[Star Traveler]

Thanks for the information. I’ll bookmark them...

One of the problems that I’ve noticed, though, with these kinds of things is that while they are good to have and know for the facts and what is going on, the larger group of people out in the voting public will not be going through this kind of material.

That’s where this kind of documentary comes in handy, because it gets across what a lot of these materials would get across too, but in a fashion that most people are receptive to taking in.

I would advise that where people are interested in these information sources to definitely take them down and read them, but where the larger majority are not going to do that, then make sure that they *at least* see this documentary. It’s the *one thing* (if you only had one item to show someone) that will convince them...

[charmedone]

What Gore is doing to this country is criminal. His totally baseless accusations are costing the human race billions and he (and his minions) still refuse to provide scientific proof. They just make claims but if you ask for the scientific study(s) to back the claims, you get bupkis.

Yet he drags in $Millions on his lies.

I hope I am around when he is charged.

Tar and feathers!

[charmedone]

Hold on a second...What does Aldrin know? After all, Aldrin, who earned a Doctorate of Science in Astronautics at MIT couldn’t possibly be more credible than Al Gore, who flunked out of divinity scholl and who “invented the Internet”.

And was the basis for “Love Story”!!!!!!

[I got the rope]

Excellent Links!

[steelyourfaith]

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !