Too darn hot - climate change

The "global warming" is a precept of the bash America religion - one of the fundamentalist type. It is unfortunate that the thoughtless bashing process still goes on, as there may be important things to figure out about our climate. You can't learn anything if you are howling.
One problem with the global warming crowd is they must have missed the conspiracy newsletter from Europe where the term now used is "climate change." Even the Canadians got that email.

I suppose if Al Gore is running on global warming, a term losing its grip, it would be impolite to change the term when he was not looking.
Mr. Gore, has a movie out and a slick, thick, picture filled book available for purchase, as phase one of his next campaign for the presidency. I don't go to movies unless there are giant monsters or aliens, but I did get to leaf through the book. Very slick.

For me, my first instinct is to not believe anything Gore says, so that makes my life easier. I am happy with my prejudice [which means to pre-judge, a time-saving skill.] Still, when confronted with alleged 'facts', one should listen and mull them over.

Fortunately, there are others who have the time and knowledge to mull things over much better than I. Here is an interesting piece from Canada, hardly a bastion of tree-haters, where Mr. Gore is said to be an embarrasment to scientists and to be repeating 'junk science.'
The guest column is called: Scientists respond to Gore's warning of global catastrophe

Professor Bob Carter of the Marine Geophysical Laboratory at James Cook University, in Australia gives what, for many Canadians, is a surprising assessment: "Gore's circumstantial arguments are so weak that they are pathetic. It is simply incredible that they, and his film, are commanding public attention.

One wonders how Bob seems to have missed the newsletter about there being uniform support for the global warming theories. There are many other scientists quoted in the article and these folks, unlike most scientists trotted out to comment on global warming, according to Dr. Tim Ball, former University of Winnipeg climatology professor, are trained in a relevant discipline.

Appearing before the Commons Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development last year, Carleton University paleoclimatologist Professor Tim Patterson testified, "There is no meaningful correlation between CO2 levels and Earth's temperature over this [geologic] time frame. In fact, when CO2 levels were over ten times higher than they are now, about 450 million years ago, the planet was in the depths of the absolute coldest period in the last half billion years." Patterson asked the committee, "On the basis of this evidence, how could anyone still believe that the recent relatively small increase in CO2 levels would be the major cause of the past century's modest warming?"

Of interest in Mr. Gore's book was that his CO2/time chart conveniently neglected to go back that far. Then, there is the hand-wringing over antarctica melting away. A scientist with a Vulcan name comments,

Dr. Wibj–rn KarlÈn, emeritus professor, Dept. of Physical Geography and Quaternary Geology, Stockholm University, Sweden, admits, "Some small areas in the Antarctic Peninsula have broken up recently, just like it has done back in time. The temperature in this part of Antarctica has increased recently, probably because of a small change in the position of the low pressure systems." But KarlÈn clarifies that the 'mass balance' of Antarctica is positive - more snow is accumulating than melting off. As a result, Ball explains, there is an increase in the 'calving' of icebergs as the ice dome of Antarctica is growing and flowing to the oceans...

In the article, you can read more about the Canadian experience where the zealots tell us the great white north is melting away,

Dr. Dick Morgan, former advisor to the World Meteorological OrganizationUniversity of Exeter, U.K. gives the details, "There has been some decrease in ice thickness in the Canadian Arctic over the past 30 years but no melt down.

In his analysis, he describes the ebb and flow of ice in northern Canada. It is now 'near normal.'
Well you get the point of the article, let me quote one last comment from Aussie Bob Carter, see above,

"The man [Gore] is an embarrassment to US science and its many fine practitioners, a lot of whom know (but feel unable to state publicly) that his propaganda crusade is mostly based on junk science."

I will beg off here and already know Phil Haggerty will tell me NASA has proof that antarctica is melting away. [I also read recently that there is volcanic activity under the area of recent shelf movement - have to find that for you.] As to Phil's argument, I will wait to see if he submits some proof. If not, I will see what they are up to.

Oh, feel free to provide contrary arguments. Just don't tell me about Mr. Gore. I don't even think he killed the Man-Bear-Pig, as claimed.

Major conclusion: don't use the "all scientists agree" agrument. It is dead wrong and those who are disciplined in relevant arts are pissed at being bunched in with do-gooders.

More to come...