Gore: ‘We Have a Global Emergency’
OK, the actual title is, “Gore: Jet Stream ‘Getting Loopier and Wavier,’ So ‘We Have a Global Emergency'”
Too easy. The only thing loopier and “wavier” which doesn’t mean what he thinks it means, is Gore himself and his ridiculous declarations about the weather.
Gore was parroting this week’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report in which 91 authors and editors from 40 countries concluded there’s currently a 12-year window to make “far-reaching and unprecedented changes” to avert dramatic effects of global warming. Exactly who these authors and editors are, and what qualifications they posses, was left unsaid.
Gore told PBS in an interview aired today that “the earmarks of this latest storm… are worth paying attention to.”
“Hurricane Michael intensified as it reached the coast. And that’s something relatively new,” he said. “And the reason for it is, the ocean waters are much warmer than normal, so it’s not getting cold waters churned up to weaken the storm. It just keeps on getting stronger.”
Its called the hurricane season for a reason- conditions are ripe for the formation of these super storms from June to November, just like every other year since the beginning of weather watching. The ocean waters have been warming all summer, and won’t start to cool for another month or so.
“Even without hurricanes, we get these so-called rain bombs that just devastate the places where it falls,” he said. “…Hurricane Florence and Hurricane Harvey just stayed in place for days and days and days. That’s something new too.”
Try again. Storms react to local conditions, and one stalling out is neither new nor unusual.
“And it’s because we’re beginning to see the disruption of wind currents, along with ocean currents. And so the Northern Hemisphere jet stream that normally moves these storms out to the east is getting loopier and wavier and sometimes disorganized. So this is really serious stuff. We have a global emergency. And you use a phrase like that, and some people immediately say, OK, calm down, that it can’t be that bad. But it is.”
What could possibly save us from this dire emergency?
The IPCC report said that to keep warming at 1.5°C global net emissions of carbon dioxide would need to fall by 45 percent by 2030 and be “net zero” by 2050. Guterres said “billions of trees” must be planted and coal phased out by 2050.
Carbon credits for sale, cheap! Wonder if anyone has thought through the effects of “net zero” emissions of a naturally occurring compound necessary for the survival of all the plant life on the planet?
Yeah, me neither. This drivel is brought to us by PJ Media
Category: "Teh Stoopid", Blue Skies, Global Warming
When these clowns can actually tell me what the weather will be like tomorrow, maybe I will think they have at least 1 functioning braincell. So 30 years from now we all die. Asshats.
Yeah, but far too many people believe this crap. Outside the US it seems as 100 percent believers.
I have yet to meet a foreigner that doesn’t swallow climate change at face value.
So this propaganda campaign does work.
The only thing “loopier” is Gore!
This is no surprise. Algore has less imagination than a spider at a CTA stop.
He is also endorsing a penguin for Congress – a fictional penguin, no less – for the midterm elections. I kid you not. Careful when you watch the video. Your eyes might start bleeding.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2018/10/10/al-gore-endorses-a-fictional-penguin-for-congress-yes-really/
Gore has slipped a cog, blown a fuse, he is nuttier than a fruitcake imho!!
The issue he’s referring to is that there’s a strong correlation between sea surface temperatures and hurricane intensity. Yes, waters warm over the summer, obviously, but the issue is that the tropical mid-Atlantic waters are, on average, warmer today than they were in the past.
https://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/content/new-data-visualization-shows-2017-sea-surface-temperatures-atlantic-ocean
The issue here is that warmer air temperatures can hold more moisture, so the raining / flooding from storms can be more worse a similar-sized storm of cooler air.
Again, nothing of this needs to make anyone question their staunchly held believe that the IPCC is a crock, and scientists are all in on some big scam, and you can blame anything from the sun to little green men for the changes our satellites are seeing.. but the effects here are well-documented, and in some cases, well-understood physics. And the escalation in destructive capacity of storms because of these effects is important.
” tropical mid-Atlantic waters are, on average, warmer today than they were in the past.”
Because of a thing called the Atlantic Multi-Decadal Oscillation (AMO).
” a climate pattern over the Atlantic Ocean that lasts for decades at a time.”
https://www.noaa.gov/stories/whirlwind-of-atlantic-hurricane-season-what-gives
Global temperature has risen about 1 degree Centigrade since 1880. The belief that such a trivial change has the catastrophic effects
claimed is imbecilic. It is more a demonstration of mass hysteria and the fact that half the population has below average intelligence than it is of climate change.
https://climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/global-temperature/
Next year when / if the climate cools a bit they’ll still cry “Climate Change!” It’s a self licking ice cream cone.
I don’t doubt there has been some warming, mostly due to solar cycles, but here’s this:
Live Science Link
I’d say this is a remarkably stable climate for the planet.
“Next year when / if the climate cools a bit they’ll still cry ‘Climate Change!'”
That’s the issue right there. These people are no better than snake oil salesmen, tarot card readers, or religious zealots. Everything is a sign that the apocalypse they’ve been warning about is right around the corner “if we don’t do something now.”
It’s actually worse than that because they dress it up as science, which they purport to be infallible and neutral. They then prey on people’s limited, basic understanding of scientific principles.
Love the “Settled Science” claims. There is no such thing, of course. Science is always evolving, seeking a better understanding of the universe (multiverse?) around us.
Next is the scoff, “That’s just a hypothesis!” with no understanding of exactly what a hypothesis is.
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/hypothesis
A hypothesis is the “best guess” with available, testable, facts.
If it doesn’t happen by the predicted date, they move that ahead another 10 years.
That was the reason I posted that article on IPCC’s demand for a carbon tax that no one on earth (except Gore and his ilk) can pay.
Geez, LC, you are truly dumber than socks on an elephant. 1 – James Hansen (and his successor) have altered NOAA and NASA data for years. The “documentation” you refer to is fraedulent. Period. Hansen admitted to tampering with data when he retired earlier this year. 2 – You have obviously not heard of the effect on cloud seeding by deep space radiation. Cloud seeding causes more HOH molecules to clump together to form droplets, which in turn raises humidity levels and increases rain volume. THAT has more to do with ‘holding moisture’ than air temperature. For example, the readings this morning at 6AM were 36F temp, 92% humidity. The dew point was 34F. So much for warm air holding more moisture. Since we are in a solar minimum NOW, lack of solar activity reduces the effective blocking of deep space radiation, aka cosmic rays – deep space stuff – which increases HOH molecular clumping to produce droplets, which become heavy rain, storms, maybe snow like the Plains and Rockies states have been getting. In addition, the tornado count is down this year and the number of Atlantic storms INCLUDING HURRICANES, is lower than was forecast. In case you were asleep, Leslie stalled out in the mid-Atlantic and finally decided to inflict herself on Portugal and Spain. Since you don’t know the difference between climate and weather, let me explain it in simple terms. Climate is long term, over hundreds to thousands of years. The Earth/solar system has been in existence for 4.5 billion years, plenty of time for climate change on a massive scale from the pre-Cambrian to the Carboniferous to the Holocene. Real climate change is something you won’t see in YOUR lifetime, but – well, all the data available point to a DROP in GMT, and NOT a rise. Global warming is a fraud inflicted on the public to gouge money out of people like you. Weather, on the other hand, takes place in the short-term. That means that the loss of monsoonal flow from the Gulf of Mexico in the 1930s, which reduced rainfall to near… Read more »
hate to disagree but warm air is, in fact, able to carry more moisture in a given volume than cooler air. The exact same amount of water in the air at a lower temperature will be measured as a higher percentage than the same amount on a hot day… the main reason why hot air with high humidity is far more of a pain than cool air at the same percentage. More water. As in the example cited below, extremely warm air, when cooled, will precipitate out moisture.
Ten years ago I had to get up at 2:00 am and drive my Wrangler to my handicapped brother-in-law’s apartment to rescue him from his flooded apartment. The water was rising so fast my Jeep barely made it back to our house. This happened in a southern New Mexico mountain town at an elevation of 7000 feet because the remnants of a Gulf hurricane ran into cold mountain air and stalled out, dumping more than six inches of rain during the night.
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/25875635/ns/weather/t/evacuated-new-mexico-flooding/
A freak, one-time event that happened so quickly there was no warning from meteorologists.
The expression “Shit happens” is probably more applicable to weather than it is to drunks, LC. Neither you nor the UN’s wealth redistributionist scam artists can verify any continuing climatic patterns that paleo-climatologists cannot show to have occurred previously in Earth’s history, including global warming.
It would help your side somewhat if you didn’t have such a phony-ass spokesman, himself relying on such a phony-ass organization as the UN’s IPCC, itself backed by the lunatic Left, to advance your cause. And despite your scorn, our Sun is, in fact, a much more likely source of any sort of earthly climate change than we mere mortals.
I’ve got a brother-in-law there, too. I remember him talking about that flood. Other than the occasional flood and annual fires it’s a great place.
The question that ‘climate scientists’ refuse to answer is whether the climate change is man made, and if so to what extent, or if it’s part of the normal cycle of change that’s been happening since the dawn of time.
The whole ‘climate change’ thing has become so politicized that it can’t be trusted. And what’s with ‘climate change’? I remember in the 70s it was ‘global cooling.’ But it didn’t happen, despite all the ‘science’ saying that humans were responsible for a cooling earth. Then it became ‘global warming,’ with humans again being the culprits. But that didn’t quite pan out as expected. So now they’re hedging their bets with the catchall phrase ‘climate change.’
Interesting historical perspective on the impact of significantly warmer climate on human civilization: The battle of Thermopylae During the “classical era”, the ea of the Greek city-states, human civilization enjoyed a golden age of growth and survivability. Dipuring that era Xerxes of Persia set out to conquer the area now called Greece. His massive and very-capable force, estimated at something like 250,000 soldiers, was stopped cold for three days by 300 Spartans and about 1200 other Greek forces at Thermopylae. The Spartans fought to the last man, delaying Xerxes just long enough for the rest of the Greeks to quit their squabbling, get their stuff together, and kick Xerxes out of Greece. How did the Spartans hold back 250,000 Persians? Use of key terrain. Thermopylae, “the hot gates”, was a narrow pass between cliffs and the sea. The Persians could not bring up enough mass to overwhelm the Spartan phalanx, until they found a bypass and enveloped the Spartans. It still took most of a day to finish them off. Go to Thermopylae. Look upon the battleground. It is over one hundred meters wide. It is -impossible- for such a small Spartan force to have held off Xerxes. Except the sea was much higher then. The pass was only about 20-30 meters wide. The only way that could be so, is if there was one heck of a lot less polar ice, thus more sea. Yet, it was a golden age, that earned the Mideast the title “Fertile Crescent”. Ice ages, and therinfringes, on th other hand, are -lethal-. During the last major glaciation, humans were down to as little as 48 breeding- age females, according to a “bottleneck” hypothesis of human DNA. Yes, the transition moves around th fertile areas. And the end of warm periods tend to go catastrophically cold. A -small- example is the sudden cold/wet shift in climate that occurred right before the Black Death wiped out 1/3 of European folks. Another such shift, smaller, triggered the French Revolution, when European grain crops all failed. We do just -fine- in warm climate. Yes, folks wind up… Read more »
Heh, I thought it was Rodney Dangerfield doing a show.
But Rodney earns more respect.
“Drastic changes.”
Al Gore can trade his private jet for a horse, stop using any electrical appliances, and not use anything made of plastic. Then he can lecture me on “drastic changes.”
What do you have against horses that you would inflict that asshole’s ass on one of them?
I would even do that to a jackass!
Save a horse, ride a Tipper?
That was supposed to be ‘would NOT even’. My bad.
Ride a Tipper? Hah! I’m sure she has her own quarters and locks the doors to keep him out.
The last horse I rode on was at Steeple Chase in Coney Island, Brooklyn where to go fast, you leaned forward and leaned back to go slower. I was very young at the time and scared shitless.
There is an old saying; :A little knowledge is a dangerous thing”. Al Gore is very, very, very, dangerous.
Al Gore should direct his pilot to fly their jet into the eyewall of a hurricane.
As long as pilot bails out before it gets there, fine by me.
He must be bored. Not getting enough attention. His last movie was a complete flop and now he’s supporting a fictional penguin for Congress.
I keep hoping to read some place that Tipper had him neutered. I would sleep better at night.
Just like recent Democrat presidents, apparently Democrat former VPs also can’t just shut up and retire with dignity.
Better yet, make him the first astronaut to land on the Sun…
I’ll vote for that!!!
It’d be safe for him to go at night. Heck, he’d probably buy that.
I still don’t see how they can make claims or predictions based on limited data. With modern thermometers we get a 2-3 degree temperature swing over short distances. And you’re telling me that the thermometers we’re using today are as accurate as the ones used 100 years ago?
Then you’re making claims of understanding trends over geologic periods based on our observations that extend at best 200 years? If the Earth is 4.5 billion years old, then our data set is 0.000004%. That’s like predicting the average person’s life (72 years) by observing them for 1.5 minutes.
It just don’t pass the sniff test. Also certainly doesn’t help that all their dire predictions have been dead wrong.
Once upon a time, the. Earth’s climate was above the melting point of most rock. Today, water cycles around it’s freezing point. Someday temperatures will be below the freezing point of nitrogen. In between, the sun will scorch the earth to barren rock.
Meanwhile, it is fairly habitable. If we prevent the Socialists from screwing it all up. Put them in charge of a desert, there will be a shortage of dust in five years.
We must do it now! It can’t wait! This is an emergency! Yeah, sure. I’m buying that. Never heard it before, except every damn time the Left wants to push through some bullshit legislation.
Bear unavailable for comment.
I see the bear is grinning and “Bearing” it.
What’s really, really sad is that after that bear’s last bit of ice melted, he was immediately swarmed by discarded plastic drinking straws and died.
Those straws are vicious, I tells ya, vicious!
A number of years ago, core samples were taken in the ice up in the arctic region. They dated the ice samples from a few million to a billion years ago but I cannot remember if was in the millions or a billion years and the result was that there was more carbon dioxide inside the cores that there was at the time the samples were taken, so how come snow mobiles were not allowed to be used by the Eskimos because of the fuel CO2 emmisions a million-billion years ago. Hmmmm. True story on the ice core samples but give it an LOL on the snow mobiles.
Antarctic, I think you mean Jeff LPH. Still damn cold, brrrrr….
More here at Live Science Link
Sorry about that AW1, as I tried to go by memory instead of trying to research what little of the drilling I remembered away back when.
No harm no foul, JLPH. I just blame my CRS* syndrome and press on.
*Can’t Remember Shit
Off topic, but I just want to point out something unusual. One of the men recently identified by DPAA and listed in the “Another Two Return” thread was a Navy Cross recipient.
Which one? Post particulars and I’ll add the update to Hondo’s post, unless of course he’s onboard and beats me to it.
And thanks!
Austin. I confirmed it. DPAA does not mention it, nor would they be expected to.
https://valor.militarytimes.com/hero/20184
Updated, thanks.
Thought the only think getting “loopier and wavier” was Gore.
“What we expect is climate, what we get is weather”… Heinlein strikes again.
Gore could do much to lower emissions by flying commercial instead of using his fuel guzzling private jets and by tearing down his California mansion. That single mansion has a ‘carbon footprint’ greater than most small mid-western cities. Hypocrisy, thy name is Gore.
Gore could reduce global air temps by at least 1 degree c by just shutting his cake hole and not spewing hot air at every opportunity.
Dude, you lost the election. That was 18 years ago. Get over it already.
Gore owns at least one oceanfront mansion in south Florida.
Almost as if he didn’t expect the sea to rise much in his lifetime……
Another attempt by this dipshit on behalf of fellow travelers to put their hands in our pockets and tax us for something else. The proceeds of such tax going to anything and everyone having nothing to do with the issue they are trumpeting. Limozine and jet set liberals retreading a tire, again, that was worn out 30 years ago or more. By the way, unless my research is way off, the old Farmer’s Almanac has a better track record of calling the year’s forecast than any climatologist or weather service. Al Gore needs to get a full-time job doing something productive. Maybe at Office Depot, stocking boxes of paper.
Meant Limousine, not the crap I typed.
This is nothing more than the formerly state sponsored hysteria, willingly abetted by the formerly free press.
Remember when a full moon was just a full moon, and if you missed seeing it, you’d see it again in 28 days? Now it’s a “super moon” or a blood moon or a blue moon or a hunters moon… And you will never see another one like it in your lifetime OMG!
This same type of conditioning requires every hurricane, cold front, winter storm, etc. to be somehow bigger or more intense, or more lingering, or… whatever, they’ll think of something.
The actual global emergency is this ass hat clown and his ilk running their suck holes. Please Al, just put a dick in yours and bother someone one else’s planet.
This Bloke isn’t the Idiot every one is trying to make him out to be. He is making Millions out of this scam and it is all just about Tax Free. Who else is getting money thrown at them to come and spruik shit to a bunch of rubber necks? The idiots are parting with their money to listen to a failed Pollie tell them all lies and crap about how he is the only one who has worked out that the world is hot in summer and cold in winter. Also that storms come the same time every year. Any way I have a Bridge or two for sale if any one wants or needs one, or two. One is Sydney and one in San Francisco.
Needle in the paw. Disgusting mongrel is a disgrace to his family, to Tennessee, to America and to masculinity.
Hell, I’d bet that Al-gore could smoke Willy Nelson, under the table.
That poorly placed comma really adds a certain…. perv … to your snark.
Al is certainly worthy of a “certain… perv”.
I was actually reminded of a song by Toby Keith wherein he laments having ever tried to smoked with Willie.
Who knows, maybe Toby could drink him under the table as an old bromide suggested.
But was it really “poorly” placed?
Don’t know. Someone once said that, I write; the way I talk. Very southern, more so with another southerner and/or beer.
Maybe Commissar can sort it out.
But…..how we gonna get our trillions in extor..uh, “carbon tax” money??
So let me see if I’ve got this right:
If it’s warmer than it has been in the past, that’s because of global warming.
If it’s cooler than it has been in the past, that’s also because of global warming (because global warming causes drastic shifts in temperatures or something…)
If there are MORE hurricanes than usual, it’s because of global warming.
If there are FEWER hurricanes than usual, it’s because of global warming.
If there are THE EXACT SAME number of hurricanes, it’s also because of global warming.
If there is a drought, it was caused by global warming.
If there is flooding, it was caused by global warming.
I think I’m starting to see a pattern here….
The cooling was climate change caused by global warming and the global warming was a result of climate change.
Circulus in probando or circular logic.
One of the (many) issues I have with the current climate hysteria is that it seems to be driven by observed data, i.e. it’s so hot this Summer, it’s so cold this Winter, this hurricane season has been the worst in X years, etc so it must be global warming/global climate change/whatever they’re calling it this week. But the earth is more than 4 BILLION years old. Modern humans have existed for roughly 100,000 years. Human civilization (depending on how you define it) has existed for less than 10,000 years. We have been observing and recording weather with scientific instruments for, what, 150 years? In terms of the lifetime of the planet that’s the blink of an eye. That’s 15 minutes on a sunny Summer afternoon as compared to a whole year. Imagine you were a space alien with similar physiology to human beings, who knew nothing about the earth’s climate cycles and you landed in, say, New York state in mid Summer. You’d think “hmmm…the climate on earth is warm during the day, slightly cooler at night with occasional rain showers.” But if you stayed in that spot until mid January, you’d think the world was ending: Sub freezing temperatures, huge snowstorms, biting winds, etc. My point is that just as our regular “weather” has annual cycles and multi-year cycles, the earth also has climate cycles that span centuries (like the well known “medieval warming period” that helped to end the dark ages and speed up the European renaissance.) Understand, I certainly think we humans are capable of screwing up OUR OWN environment. We can dump toxic wastes and poisons into the rivers and lakes, poison our water supply, cut down trees and plow the earth so that a drought and a strong wind blows away all the top soil, cut down native vegetation and let the ground turn to desert – we can absolutely screw things up for ourselves. But to the planet that’s just a mild rash on a Thursday morning. When you consider what we humans have done to the earth – dumping tons of poison… Read more »
If we invent cheap Fusion power, the Reds will say that Helium ash from reactors will wreck our climate. (Or cause some other dubious doom)
They seize power promising to distribute misery “equally”. Any existence of “plenty” ruins the con, and shall -not- be tolerated.
Decrease reliance on fossil fuels, huh? Well, I got a little something in the mail that offered me a “bargain rate” of $52/month for my electrical bill – guaranteed for THREE months!!! – if I let the scammer (because it IS a scam) switch me over to electricity generated by local wind and solar sources.
Nothing was indicated AS TO how much my bill would rise once that 3-month trial period ended. But knowing a scam when I see one, I checked my electric bills for the past year and based on monthly usage, my electric bill runs around a steady $35/summer to $48/winter per month, depending on the time of year.
What that means is that the SCAM offered me has no such guarantee.
Since I know that both wind and solar resources are notoriously unreliable, I’d have to pay for the repairs and the replacement of said equipment, with no opportunity to change out to my old power resource.
And I’d be stuck with an electric bill I couldn’t possibly afford to pay, period, in addition to losing power to run the furnace and household lighting and light the stove for cooking.