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Tuesday, June 28. 2011

Tuning out Gore

 


 From Mead's brilliant analysis of the failure of Algore, Part Deux:


 



Once the political power of the climate movement, aided by an indulgent and largely unquestioning press, had pushed the climate agenda into the realm of serious politics, failure was inevitable.  The only question was whether the comprehensive green meltdown would occur before or after the movement achieved its core political goal of a comprehensive and binding global agreement on greenhouse gasses.



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It is a waste of time to talk science with Al Gore.  It is a waste of time to listen to him at all.  That, apparently, is what the world at long last is beginning to understand.  The policy makers and the heads of state who only two years ago were ready to follow Gore up the mountain have softly and quietly tuned him out.

These days, he can’t even get his picture on the cover of Rolling Stone.

 


As Mead points out, the entire enterprise was close to insane from the beginning, despite all of the money to be made from it.


Off topic: Mead, Steyn, and VDH are so hot these days that it is difficult not to simply link all of their stuff.

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Yup, that trio of intellect are the logical force.

But, the Pied Piper of CO2 still has many a follower, still labouring under the intellectual fallacy.

Sure, we could/do 'harm' the planet, but not to the extreme the merry band eludes to. I think their logic, intellectual process, and laborious drum-beat is eroding/fading more than the shorelines.
#1 Fred Zeppelin on 2011-06-28 15:23 (Reply)
Long before Al Bore, self-important, conceited man that he is, was born, for hundreds of thousands of years, this old planet was taking care of its own problems without the intervention of mankind. The rather complicated system of temperature controls by water vapor, sunlight and variations in sea temperatures did just fine without human intervention.

And believe me, CO2 played only a minute part in changing temperatures. CO2 is not a pollutant. It's an essential gas, like oxygen, and is an essential fertilizer for all living plants, from redwoods to grasses to orchids and other flowers. You want to live in a sandbox, take away all CO2. Having been a greenhouse grower of orchids for many years, I know about professional growers' tricks to increase growth and blooming, and among them are portable CO2 generators. Since Al started boring on about evil CO2. everyone seems to have forgotten that forty years ago, when folks got sick and had to be hospitalized, you brought them green plants for their hospital rooms, to increase the amount of oxygen available to them and to absorb the extra CO2. Why? Because plants need and want CO2. And extra oxygen is helpful for the sick and fragile.

This whole 'con game' of Al's is based on bad science and worse computer technology, and believed in by folks who would rather worship Mother Nature than the Holy Trinity. Personally, I don't care who they worship, as long as they don't take my hard-earned tax money to do it. Fifty years from now, our more scientifically sophisticated descendants will be pointing at us and laughing uproriously.

Marianne
#2 Marianne Matthews on 2011-06-28 17:11 (Reply)
"CO2 is not a pollutant. It's an essential gas, like oxygen, and is an essential fertilizer for all living plants . . . "

This is all true, but does it get us anywhere in the AGW argument?

I mean, water isn't a pollutant, we all need it and love it and our plants need it and it makes scotch taste mellower and makes our clothes cleaner and it floats our boats and all . . .

. . . but we can still drown in it, and if it gets in our car's oilpan, it becomes a pollutant, an adulterant, an unwanted ingredient, and it wrecks things . . .
#3 bobby b on 2011-06-30 00:59 (Reply)

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