What Planet is Al Gore Talking About?

Does Gore know which planet he is talking about?

Unfortunately, even though public opinion now firmly supports the scientific consensus that dirty energy causes dirty weather, too many of our politicians continue to treat this topic as merely a political issue.

Perhaps because it is, Al. He says things as if they are truisms but without presenting any evidence to back them up. This can create delusions not only in his mind but in the consciousness of true believers who hear him. Has Al been off planet and missed the latest climate poll?

“Most Geoscientists and Engineers are Global Warming skeptics”

His scientific consensus about dirty energy causing dirty weather evaporates under scrutiny. Is he unaware of the latest IPPC SREX report on extreme events?

A few quotable quotes from the report (from Chapter 4):

    "There is medium evidence and high agreement that long-term trends in normalized losses have not been attributed to natural or anthropogenic climate change"...

    "The absence of an attributable climate change signal in losses also holds for flood losses"

Is he not aware of history? Does he not know that the bad weather events that we experience today were also part of the past? Floods, droughts, blizzards, hurricanes and tornadoes were not invented in the last 30 years. They also occur in atmospheric concentrations of CO2 that were lower than today’s 395ppm. Does this not suggest that CO2 has nothing to do with bad weather?

Extreme Climate Change Events: Early 1950's

Al lives in the US does he not? How can he have missed this report? Does he only read and hear about that which confirms his preferred delusion?

Extreme Violent Storms On Decline In U.S. - Rapid CO2 Growth Has Minimal Climate Impact

A summary of extreme weather trends can be found here. It is full of charts and graphs for an easy pictorial summary of the decreasing trends in bad weather.

Does Al realize that when he ignores the truth about extreme weather that he becomes the purveyor of misinformation? Alarmists like to accuse skeptics of being purveyors of mis/disinformation while it is they who are experts in the practice. In psychology this is called projection.

Among alarmists it is pervasive. Even the POTUS in his SOTU speech couldn’t resist repeating the platitudinous delusion.

The POTUS has been taken to task for his climate ignorance here.

On my planet extreme weather occurs less frequently than in the past although the damage can often be greater because there are more of us and we have more stuff. The lower frequency has occurred under the regime of a higher concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Should we not conclude that CO2 has nothing to do with climate change?

The science seems to indicate that that is the case.

Poor Al and Obama.The warming world they like to trumpet has abandoned them. CAGW can hardly be blamed on something that isn’t happening even as CO2 continues to accumulate in the atmosphere. Their fear mongering and guilt induction is growing weary. The call for sacrifice to save the planet is empty.

The climate has moved on and Mother Nature is singing a different song. AL and Obama need to listen to the new tune and find a new issue to champion because this one is dead.