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Al Gore Moonbats About Global Warming

Al Gore is back in the news making waves on the global warming debate. He is now claiming that those scientists that put forth research materials that prove that the current climate warming trend is predominantly due to outside forces, such as the sun spot activity, the solar wind and cosmic rays are similar to the people who were poo-pooing claims that tobacco causes cancer. There is a huge difference between these sets of claims, and Al Gore has a responsibility to not use such silly and irrelevant comparisons.

From MyWay News:

“There has been an organized campaign, financed to the tune of about $10 million a year from some of the largest carbon polluters, to create the impression that there is disagreement in the scientific community,” Gore said at a forum in Singapore. “In actuality, there is very little disagreement.”

Certainly there isn’t in Al Gore’s mind. However, for anyone who is actually following the debate and reading the science behind global warming, the general concensus is that it ain’t man’s fault.

In the piece, gore claims that there is a program that pays $10,000 for each article published that counters the false-claims that it is man-made carbon dioxide causing global warming. If so, when do I get a check? I could use the money. Gore continued, “They’re trying to manipulate opinion and they are taking us for fools.” That’s not hard to do, and gore does an admirable job doing so without anybody else’s help. After all, we are talking about the man who invented the Internet.

The World Climate Report has pegged Al gore to a tee. As more and more scientific material is released proving that the current climate warming is a natural phenomenon independent of what mankind is doing, Gore has chosen to take on even more scare tactics, even using Venus as an example of what is happening.

Consider this tale of two planets. Earth and Venus are almost exactly the same size, and have almost exactly the same amount of carbon. The difference is that most of the carbon on Earth is in the ground - having been deposited there by various forms of life over the last 600 million years - and most of the carbon on Venus is in the atmosphere.

As a result, while the average temperature on Earth is a pleasant 59 degrees, the average temperature on Venus is 867 degrees. True, Venus is closer to the Sun than we are, but the fault is not in our star; Venus is three times hotter on average than Mercury, which is right next to the Sun. It’s the carbon dioxide.

Some points he missed: Mercury doesn’t have a permanent atmosphere as its gravity is too weak to retrain one. What atmospheric elements it does have from time to time, are captured from the solar wind and trapped temporarily in its gravity well. Venus has a permanent atmosphere. Venus, being closer to the sun and a slightly weaker gravity than Earth, it is unable to retain large quantities of lighter gases in its atmosphere for long periods of time. Eventually, just as with Mercury, the lighter gases escape the gravity well leaving behind larger quantities of heavier gases such as carbon dioxide. There is also a lot of scientific theory about how Venus ended up the way it is, but very little proof to support such theories.

What we end up with is Al Gore grasping at straws to legitimize his claims that it is carbon dioxide that is causing the warming of the planet.

Now, if Al Gore really and truly believes that this is a case, why has he helped start and run a company that trades in the carbon offset/credit market, allowing himself to profit from the claims that it is carbon dioxide causing global warming. Sounds like he is just as guilty of the same kinds of wrong-doing that he claims Exxon and other companies that are supporting scientific research that indicates that it is not carbon dioxide causing the problem. If Gore wants to accuse others of a conflict of interest, perhaps he should divest himself of his on conflict of interests first.

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