Right. Anything that occurs in the realm of weather is proof to them that man made global warming is a fact. When you point out that the US upper midwest has been colder than normal this winter, Siberia is having one of the coldest winters since WWII, and the Sierras and the Olympic ranges have had near record snowfall, they just say that any abnormal weather is more proof of man made global warming.
I recently read that a majority of professional climatologists don't believe that global warming is caused by man made CO2. They either say that periodic disturbances on the surface of the sun has a far greater affect on the warming and cooling trends of earth's oceans and atmosphere than the minuscule percentage of all the earth's CO2 that is man made could possibly have, or that man made CO2 is only responsible for a very, very small percentage of a very small rise in earth's CO2 level since the 20th century began, and that the sun's variations in surface activity have far more influence on global climate.
OTOH, most of the 5000 scientists who signed the UN paper blaming man for global warming are not climatologists and have very little or no expertise in weather science. But that doesn't stop them from making wild predictions of mass annihilation of life on planet Earth if all 6.5 billion of us don't move into caves, eat granola and soy milk gruel three times a day, and ride bikes to work.
Their bogus predictions wouldn't bother me if not for the fact that governments around the globe are making important policy and fiscal decisions that will seriously impact our lives based on whacko environmentalists' unfounded assumptions that are heavily influenced by political correctness run amok.
Gore’s personal financial involvement is blatant, especially through Goldman Sachs—a large shareholder of ( Chicago Climate Exchange ) CCX, and in 2004, the creator of Gore’s very own London-based hedge fund, Generation Investment Management.
CCX has multiple interconnections with the London-run Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. (ICE), whose subsidiary is the International Petroleum Exchange, the world’s largest petroleum futures and options market.
The dirty details of ICE and the Great Oil Price Swindle came out extensively at a May 8, 2006 Senate Democratic Policy Committee hearing...