We have missed him. It has been quite some time since Al Gore has provided us entertainment.
Gore has emerged from hibernation during an unusually cold winter to inspire college graduates at the University of Tennessee. Well, maybe inspire is not the right word. Actually, if you subscribe to his religion of global warming you will be downright depressed after watching this. He even manages to bring subprime mortgages into his rant on global warming. No word on whether the University of Tennessee had grief counselors ready to help students who buy into Al Gore’s vision of the world.
So if you get frightened by the global warming alarmists, you may want to skip this video. On the other hand, if you don’t buy the global warming hysteria especially after ClimateGate, this may be good for a few laughs.
Coverage in the mainstream media of climate change still has its limitations, but at least Climategate and consistent public skepticism has forced mainstream media reports to take into account the critics of man-made global warming hysteria. Here is an example of an ABC report on Earth Day:
Last November, Minnesotans for Global Warming (M4GW) produced a video making fun of Professor Michael Mann who with “Mike’s nature trick” and other distortions became one of the top villains of the Climategate scandal.
After Mann threatened to sue M4GW in March unless they took the video down, M4GW complied. The video can still be seen, now hosted by the No Cap and Trade Coalition:
M4GW has now produced a second video featuring a scientist wearing a wig and poking fun at the demand not to display Mann’s image:
We know about flawed computer models of the earth’s atmosphere from Climategate. Now, it looks like flawed computer models have been used by politicians in Europe to cause the biggest disruption of air travel since World War 2. The Financial Times reports:
Flawed computer models may have exaggerated the effects of an Icelandic volcano eruption that has grounded tens of thousands of flights, stranded hundreds of thousands of passengers and cost businesses hundreds of millions of euros.
The computer models that guided decisions to impose a no-fly zone across most of Europe in recent days are based on incomplete science and limited data, according to European officials. As a result, they may have over-stated the risks to the public, needlessly grounding flights and damaging businesses.
“It is a black box in certain areas,” Matthias Ruete, the EU’s director-general for mobility and transport, said on Monday, noting that many of the assumptions in the computer models were not backed by scientific evidence.
European authorities were not sure about scientific questions, such as what concentration of ash was hazardous for jet engines, or at what rate ash fell from the sky, Mr Ruete said. “It’s one of the elements where, as far as I know, we’re not quite clear about it,” he admitted.
He also noted that early results of the 40-odd test flights conducted over the weekend by European airlines, such as KLM and Air France, suggested that the risk was less than the computer models had indicated.
The acknowledgement that the computer models were flawed is likely to provide ammunition for critics who believe that authorities have shown excessive caution. The closure of much of the airspace over Europe over the past five days is estimated to have cost airlines a total of $200m a day in lost revenue.
After the unraveling of alarmist global warming claims, the UN is creating another panel to oversee the IPCC. Nothing new here, just more people funded to make alarmist claims overseeing their peers. Share and Enjoy:
Here is the follow up television special by John Coleman, founder of the Weather Channel, on the global warming meltdown after Climategate. Share and Enjoy:
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We have missed him. It has been quite some time since Al Gore has provided us entertainment.
