Al caught in embarressing "error"

[Sassy]

The Fiction Of Climate Science
Gary Sutton, 12.04.09, 10:00 AM EST
Why the climatologists get it wrong.

Many of you are too young to remember, but in 1975 our government pushed "the coming ice age."

Random House dutifully printed "THE WEATHER CONSPIRACY ... coming of the New Ice Age." This may be the only book ever written by 18 authors. All 18 lived just a short sled ride from Washington, D.C. Newsweek fell in line and did a cover issue warning us of global cooling on April 28, 1975. And The New York Times, Aug. 14, 1976, reported "many signs that Earth may be headed for another ice age."

OK, you say, that's media. But what did our rational scientists say?

In 1974, the National Science Board announced: "During the last 20 to 30 years, world temperature has fallen, irregularly at first but more sharply over the last decade. Judging from the record of the past interglacial ages, the present time of high temperatures should be drawing to an end...leading into the next ice age."

You can't blame these scientists for sucking up to the fed's mantra du jour. Scientists live off grants. Remember how Galileo recanted his preaching about the earth revolving around the sun? He, of course, was about to be barbecued by his leaders. Today's scientists merely lose their cash flow. Threats work.

In 2002 I stood in a room of the Smithsonian. One entire wall charted the cooling of our globe over the last 60 million years. This was no straight line. The curve had two steep dips followed by leveling. There were no significant warming periods. Smithsonian scientists inscribed it across some 20 feet of plaster, with timelines.  con't at link
http://www.forbes.com/2009/12/03/climate-science-gore-intelligent-technology-sutton.html

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/copenhagen/article6956783.ece

[Don_P]

Hmmm, Galileo didn't recant from my memory. He was warned not to defend Copernican theories as fact but was given express permission to write about them as hypothesis. Twenty years later he finally did publically present heliocentrism as undeniable in his work, "on the tides", titled BTW by the pope. The pope then sat on his hands while the inquisition placed Galileo under house arrest for the rest of his life. Galileo had put the words of the pope on the lips of one of the characters in the book, the simpleton. Galileo flew in the face of 2000 years of common sense, his work was deemed foolish and blasphemous, he had an acid tongue, he was also right.

[Windpower]

AGW





Al Gore's a Wanker

[ScottA]

Al seriously needs to shut up. If this country had any brains at all in it's leadership this guy would be in a straight jacket.

[RainDog]

 Oh, I don't think Gore's crazy. He's a charlatan and an opportunist, but a pretty shrewd one.

First he sold the climate change hysteria, now he reaps the profits.

Al Gore could become world's first carbon billionaire  

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/energy/6491195/Al-Gore-could-become-worlds-first-carbon-billionaire.html

I'd just love to kick his hypocritical butt. Sorry sack of...

He's managing to get his profits guaranteed by government edict. To use his past position as VP to spread fear and then profit by it is the act of someone devoid of character, yet he's celebrated as some kind of prophetic saint.

Update: Another of his errors, if you want to call his extreme worst-case-scenario doomsaying an "error"

http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=NDcxYThlNzBkOTcyM2EzZmM2MDEyNjFjOGQ3ZmE5M2M=