From Christopher Booker in the 7/25 edition of London’s Daily Telegraph:
It was delightfully appropriate that, as large parts of Argentina were swept by severe blizzards last week, on a scale never experienced before, the city of Nashville, Tennessee, should have enjoyed the coolest July 21 in its history, breaking a record established in 1877. Appropriate, because Nashville is the home of Al Gore, the man who for 20 years has been predicting that we should all by now be in the grip of runaway global warming.
His predictions have proved so wildly wrong… that the propaganda machine has had to work overtime to maintain what is threatening to become the most expensive fiction in history.
The two official sources of satellite data on global temperatures, for instance, lately announced that June temperatures had again fallen, to their average level for the month over the 30 years since satellite data began. By contrast, the Goddard Institute for Space Studies, run by Mr Gore’s closest ally and scientific adviser, James Hansen — one of the two official sources of global temperature data from surface weather stations — announced that in that single month the world had warmed by a staggering 0.63 degrees C, more than its net warming for the entire 20th century…
Meanwhile even America’s foremost pro-warmist scientific blog, RealClimate — run by, among others, Dr Michael Mann of “hockey stick” fame — concedes that global temperatures are not only declining but are likely to continue to do so for at least another decade – after which, of course, they will leap up again higher than ever.
None of this is proving of much assistance to the politicians still desperately hoping to reach agreement on a new climate treaty in Copenhagen in December.
Which they’re all walking to, right? Better get started, guys.
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File this under people who make it too damn easy.
that’s why the GW alarmists stopped calling it ‘global warming’ and now call it ‘climate change’ so’s the meme can cover any and all asses.
Let’s remember folks, it’s not called “Global Warming” now. The new name now is “Climate Change”. Watch them move the goalposts when their numbers will stop fitting their Eco-Cult.
LOL..told ya’ll that we in Tennessee know AG is full of it. He’s not one of us, and never has been.
I just want them to take back that undeserved Nobel prize. :-p
Hey Koka, I’m in TN too!
I have been asking for the Nobel prize to be returned for years.
My philosophy is the Europeans said “Poor Al, we are so sorry our efforts at getting you elected didn’t work. So here is the deal. Over here we have a lot of ecco-nut jobs who believe the earth is warming and killing us all. Why don’t you make a movie about it – and hey borrow some segments from Hollywood to make it look even more realistic. And in return we will give you the Nobel prize. In addition, when the next election comes around we will go on about how much happier we are with an ecco loving democrat running your country.”
I don’t know about the rest of the country but were I live (southeast of Dallas) we have had plenty of rain and the heat has been nominal. In fact everything here is still green and it looks like spring. If this is the effects of global warming I say bring it on!
Jannah, I am outside of Chattanooga…….and I agree, he needs to have that Prize taken away from him.
Hey Jannah, Koka- I’m 40 miles west of Nashville. I actually drove by AG’s house in my big gas guzzling truck when I first moved here lol.
I’m sure AG is manipulating the planet’s temperature to keep from having to run his AC this summer. This winter will be warm so he can save energy heating his pool and mansion.
Maybe inverting the seasons will lead to no heating or AC at all-wow!
@Pinandpuller, Koka and Jannah: I am SO JEALOUS OF YOU.
That is all.
We’re in the cool rainforest here outside of Boston…we’ve had a handful of days above 80 degrees and even fewer with no rain at all. Apparently the jet stream is being kooky.
All this boneless wonder stuff from Gore & Co is really too bad, because as Scott F. and others have said on this very blog (much more eloquently than I could), there are lots of good reasons for taking care of the environment. Mine is 6 1/2 and playing outside with her friends.
LOL Beige.
Koka and Pin, I’m in Knoxville now. I’d rather be back in NY. At least Shillary doesn’t work there anymore.
I agree MCMom, I actually used to preach enviro-consciousness and all, but then the greenie-weenies went all leftist and police-state on us about it. I still believe that it’s wrong to live blatantly wasteful lives and that we should be caretakers of the jewel in space that God gave us to live on. But now it’s gotten so turned around and phony and militant that it takes all the fun out of caring for nature, and makes people want to rebel against the conservation-commies, especially when they want to fine us for things that we don’t have a choice about yet, or for making mis-steps once in a while. I still have that corny Kumbaya Spirit, but I don’t want to be associated in any way with PETA, Gore, or any of those phony green nudnicks just looking for trouble to cause people. John Muir and Teddy Roosevelt didn’t need anyone protesting, taxing, and fining them, to make them care about our natural resources and neither do we, right?
And since when is science ever “settled”?! There is no scientific discipline in which the last word has ever been “said”, that wasn’t found wrong or incomplete in following years. Science facts are always evolving as we learn more every day about the things we study. OK, stepping down off of my soap-box now. Heheh. :-O
I’m close enough to a big enough city that I don’t miss living in a large city. Beige, you come on up to Tennessee, we’ll let you in… :^)
Remember the monitor screen in Men In Black where some celebrities were showing up as aliens? If you look really quick AG’s mugly ugh is in there.
Well, not really. But we can dream, can’t we??
Koka, Jannah, Beige,
I’m glad to live anywhere with a lot of trees and water. I told my wife I didn’t want to live anyplace where everytime it snow or rains they say,” We need the moisture.”
I’d live almost anywhere that fits that bill except Tennessee is at the top of the list because of taxes and gun laws.
It’s all gonna go to hell sooner or later, I’m hoping later. If it gets cold, not minding so much, and if it gets warmer, not minding so much either. I live in ‘n pretty temperate part of Africa, so either way… we’ll sort it out. God will do what He wants to do, and maybe we should just roll with climate change. Heard somewhere it takes a pretty long time to change, so maybe, you know, we won’t be here when it does. Have a lovely day wherever you are!
Tennessee is a beautiful place. Hills, four seasons, and the aforementioned gun laws and absence of state income taxes. LOVE.
The People’s Republik of Georgia, OTOH…the devil’s own buttcrack.
We have had the second coolest July in Ohio here. 69 degrees average. In July! In Ohio! Usually we have to run our AC 24/7. Thank you Al Gore for being wrong, AGAIN.
We have had the second coolest July in Ohio here. 69 degrees average. In July! In Ohio! Usually we have to run our AC 24/7. Thank you Al Gore for being wrong, AGAIN.
I hear you loud and clear, Pinandpuller. Beige, consider yourself an honorary citizen of TN. It’s been pretty good here too, weatherwise…..humidity has been just right. This weekend has been hot, but its August and its par for us and it ain’t been no 120* like Al and his buds would like to say it has been. I love love love it here.
If Al lived in “his home state” for a long enough stretch of time he’d know just how wrong his whole theory on GW is. But then, he’d have to admit he is wrong. So there you go.
We do NOT claim Al here in Nashville. The poor sods living in Carthage (well east of Nashville) are stuck with that dubious honor. I must accept that he does own a house in Nashville, though.
They have computers in Africa? Oh that’s right, that guy that emailed me and was related to that prince never sent me my check for 89 million dollars. Oh well lesson learned. I’m glad it only cost me $2800. This time.
I kid you not: Al Gore is THE reason my aunt and uncle in Goodlettsville converted to the GOP.
Hey Beige, I thought of you when I got this joke sent to me:
According to MOSES…Over five thousand yrs. ago, he said to the children of Israel , “Pick up your shovel, mount your asses & camels, and I will lead you to the promised land”. Then 75 yrs. ago, Roosevelt said, “Lay down your shovels, sit on your asses, & light up a camel, this is the promised land”. Now Obama has stolen your shovel , taxed your asses, raised the price of camels, & mortgaged the promised land.
Al is so disconnected from Tennessee I really don’t know why he bothers keeping a home here other than to support his “build a green house” shinola. Uses it for photops and that is pretty much it. He is a Washington DC resident, going by the definition of you live in the city/town where you sleep and shop at. None of his kids attended a school here *that I know of*. His family roots are here, sure…but those are roots he has so conveniently forgotten. He is fully aware that this is an agricultural state yet systematically shoots off at the mouth about how damaging agriculture is to the environment. Row crops in the western end, cattle in the eastern end. Its on our state seal for pete’s sake. He actually thinks we all suffer from amnesia and will buy into his pipedream.
Either that or we are all hillbillies and we don’t like revenuers tellin’ us what to do.
Think I’d rather be a barefoot hillbilly than a yellowdog AG follower.
HA!
On second thought, it’s just about too true to be funny…
Beige, not sure if we should laugh or cry….
Exactly. The ACLU and everybody else is all over any religious person or group who proselytizes, but environmentalism, which IS a religion, gets a pass. And those of us who are sick of being preached at by the likes of Al Gore, who is to environmentalism what Jimmy Swaggart is to Christianity, dig in our heels and pull the other way.
You guys are looking at this all wrong! It is BECAUSE of Al Gore, the Earth is cooling. All the Carbon Credits he sold and all the Movie Screenings he did apparently worked!
See? I should be his public relations officer
Personally, I recycle all my soda cans and bottle (lots of diet soda and Gatorade), I keep my car in excellent running condition, and I drive less than 10,000 miles/year.
And I’m still being told I’m not doing enough.
Koka, Al Gore’s kids went to public elementary school across the Potomac from DC in Arlington, VA and then went to private high schools in the District. No Tenn. education as far as I know.
That’s what I thought, MC Mom……I know they didn’t go to school here, but didn’t have time to fact check so I could definitively say so.
California Dave…we drink home filtered tap water, recycle newspaper/mixed paper/cardboard. But since we organic farm we need to drive a pickup that gets 18mph on the highway because we haul and deliver, making as few trips as possible. We raise organic meat goats (means no antibiotics and we raise ourselves everything they eat….no commercial feeds). We do what we do because it is healthier for people to consume what we grow. We’re still on Al’s list of wrongdoers by not doing enough.
But then, I quit worrying about what snooty, overly-self-valued people think way back when I got out of junior high. As Beige keeps saying…..if they will live the way they preach then I will listen to them.
Wow, Koka, I’m so envious of your lifestyle, it sounds like a lot of work but a lot of fun!
It is, Jannah. Its fairly busy work that happens in spurts really, like the handful of days a year we cut and bale hay. That’s hard, dirty work that only lasts a week but then its over and done for the year. We laugh every time we fire the tractor up with its polluting exhaust. We then announce that we dedicate the day’s work to good ol’ Al.