HuffPo: Gore Should Apologize for Spreading Climate Hysteria

[formerlurker]

Mr. Gore: Apology Accepted

You are probably wondering whether President-elect Obama owes the world an apology for his actions regarding global warming. The answer is, not yet. There is one person, however, who does. You have probably guessed his name: Al Gore.

Mr. Gore has stated, regarding climate change, that "the science is in." Well, he is absolutely right about that, except for one tiny thing. It is the biggest whopper ever sold to the public in the history of humankind.

What is wrong with the statement? A brief list:

1. First, the expression "climate change" itself is a redundancy, and contains a lie. Climate has always changed, and always will. There has been no stable period of climate during the Holocene, our own climatic era, which began with the end of the last ice age 12,000 years ago. During the Holocene there have been numerous sub-periods with dramatically varied climate, such as the warm Holocene Optimum (7,000 B.C. to 3,000 B.C., during which humanity began to flourish, and advance technologically), the warm Roman Optimum (200 B.C. to 400 A.D., a time of abundant crops that promoted the empire), the cold Dark Ages (400 A.D. to 900 A.D., during which the Nile River froze, major cities were abandoned, the Roman Empire fell apart, and pestilence and famine were widespread), the Medieval Warm Period (900 A.D. to 1300 A.D., during which agriculture flourished, wealth increased, and dozens of lavish examples of Gothic architecture were created), the Little Ice Age (1300 to 1850, during much of which plague, crop failures, witch burnings, food riots -- and even revolutions, including the French Revolution -- were the rule of thumb), followed by our own time of relative warmth (1850 to present, during which population has increased, technology and medical advances have been astonishing, and agriculture has flourished).

So, no one needs to say the words "climate" and "change" in the same breath -- it is assumed, by anyone with any level of knowledge, that climate changes. That is the redundancy to which I alluded. The lie is the suggestion that climate has ever been stable. Mr. Gore has used a famously inaccurate graph, known as the "Mann Hockey Stick," created by the scientist Michael Mann, showing that the modern rise in temperatures is unprecedented, and that the dramatic changes in climate just described did not take place. They did. One last thought on the expression "climate change": It is a retreat from the earlier expression used by alarmists, "manmade global warming," which was more easily debunked. There are people in Mr. Gore's camp who now use instances of cold temperatures to prove the existence of "climate change," which is absurd, obscene, even.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/harold-ambler/mr-gore-apology-accepted_b_154982.html

[Crazy Horse]

And so it begins

[djones520]

Wait a second...  i'm trying to wrap my brain around this.  A left wing liberal rag just said Al Gore and the whole Global Warming thing I wrong?

This is blowing my mind.

[Jim]

Wait a second...  i'm trying to wrap my brain around this.  A left wing liberal rag just said Al Gore and the whole Global Warming thing I wrong?

This is blowing my mind.

sanity had to win out at some point.

libs started realizing that if electricity doubled or tripled that they might not have air conditioning and heat.  not to mention the effect on wine prices...

[Atomic Lib Smasher]

Wait a second...  i'm trying to wrap my brain around this.  A left wing liberal rag just said Al Gore and the whole Global Warming thing I wrong?

This is blowing my mind.

I saw that too! I was thinking this was Bizzaro World all of a sudden, and I was gonna have to say "Hello" when I left the room. lol

[Rebel]

I posted this at my sports board after seeing it here. Thanks! 

http://ncaabbs.com/showthread.php?tid=338343

...and yes, I do get combative.

[djones520]

I posted this at my sports board after seeing it here. Thanks! 

http://ncaabbs.com/showthread.php?tid=338343

...and yes, I do get combative.

Noooo...  Not you.

[jinxmchue]

Many of the comments are, of course, predictable.  This one amused me:

wicknerd

Whether or not the Earth's increasing temperature is a result of human activity or due to natural phenomena, something needs to be done.

"Something needs to be done?"  Excuse me?  Okay, (A) if it's the result of human activity, what the hell have we been doing the last 30 years?  (B) if it's natural in origin, what the **** can we do about it, moron???  "Uh, excuse me, Mr. Sun...  Could you stop warming the Earth so much, please?"

[Chris_]

Wait a second...  i'm trying to wrap my brain around this.  A left wing liberal rag just said Al Gore and the whole Global Warming thing I wrong?

This is blowing my mind.

They're developing a tolerance to the Kool-aid.

[Baruch Menachem]

It is snowing again tonight.  This has been the coldest year in Portland since Jimmy Carter was president.

[JohnnyReb]

It is snowing again tonight.  This has been the coldest year in Portland since Jimmy Carter was president.

Probably been more Al Gore carbon credits sold in that area than anywhere else...right?.....so they are doing there job.....right? 
















Just ribbing you a little.... ....and 

[Peter3_1]

I've been saying that anthropogenic warning was horse droppings for years. The idea was based on direct observation of sea levels and the fact that liberals the biggest warming backers, were always wrong.

As the liberals are, indeedm always wrong, I'm worried now, and am watching those tides more closely!