Gore Lore

He is Gore. Hear him roar.

“The generation of people alive today will be held accountable," he said. "Our children and grandchildren ... if they exist in a world that has been devastated by these consequences that have been predicted and are beginning to unfold -- they would be well justified in asking of us: 'What in the hell were you thinking? And what in the hell were you doing? And why were you so willfully blind of what was happening on your watch?'"

So intoned Al Gore.

This author agrees with him. But people of the future will be talking about the debt we ran up chasing a Phantom of the Atmosphere in the form of the trace gas essential to life on Earth - CO2. They will not be happy about the waste of resources or the financial burden that we bequeathed to their generation by erecting wind mills that freeze up in the cold winters that don’t reduce CO2 emissions and a massive debt per person run up to pay for schemes to solve a non-problem. Hopefully future generations will catch on to the wealth transfer that has occurred and won’t try to ‘steal the future’ of  their kids.

What consequences is Gore talking about? Flat temperatures, small sea level rise, sea ice extent at a maximum, fewer extreme storms? Sounds scary to me. We should run for cover.

But Gore who some used to adore is becoming an irrelevant bore. The snake oil that Gore pours

from his store is an ineffective elixir for what ails us. He is trying to cure all weather afflictions with a remedy suited for none of them. People can no longer be fooled.

Delusion: a belief held with strong conviction despite superior evidence to the contrary.

People are learning that:

1. There is no hot spot despite the increasing concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere. Here is another paper that reaches the same conclusion. They keep piling up. Is it hiding?
2. World temperatures have been flat for the last 16 years despite the rapid rise in CO2 atmospheric concentration since the turn of the last century. Consensus is lacking.
3. Extreme weather is not getting worse despite the rapid rise in CO2 atmospheric concentration since the turn of the last century. Sandy was not due to AGW.
4. Sea level rise (SLR) is not accelerating despite the rapid rise in CO2 atmospheric concentration since the turn of the last century.
5. Water vapor is not increasing in the atmosphere despite the rapid rise in CO2 atmospheric concentration since the turn of the last century.
6. US has been cooling for the last 15 years despite the rapid rise in CO2 atmospheric concentration since the turn of the last century. Kinda takes the GLOBAL outta GLOBAL warming don’t it?
7. Himalayan glaciers expanding contrary to prediction and despite the rapid rise in CO2 atmospheric concentration since the turn of the last century.
8. The melting Arctic? We have heard it all before. We are still here and still waiting for the disastrous rise in sea levels despite the rapid rise in CO2 atmospheric concentration since the turn of the last century.
9. Antarctica is cooling despite the rapid rise in CO2 atmospheric concentration since the turn of the last century.
10. IPCC Global Climate Models (GCMs) can’t predict squat despite the rapid rise in CO2 atmospheric concentration since the turn of the last century. Some warmists are beginning to recognize this.

Bonus: plants grow better, stronger, faster because of the increasing concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere.

The only voice that counts in science is that of Mother Nature and she is saying loud and clear that CO2 does not have much if anything to do with climate change. After all, if you have extreme weather in times of lower CO2 concentration and bad storms in times of higher CO2 atmospheric concentration then isn't the correct conclusion that CO2 has nought to do with it?

People are learning that CO2 has nothing to do with the temperature or the climate.

The evidence mounts as a new study shows that tropical storms have decreased in frequency since 1872. Weather was more variable and extreme in the past.

Did you realize that deaths due to severe weather trauma are way down because of our early warning systems? Isn’t that great?

If we are a warming world then why was snow cover at a record level in December 2012? As the world warms are we not supposed to see less snow and more rain in the winter? Why were 2012 winter temperatures so cold in a warming world?

It may take time for some to learn that Gore is peddling snake oil but once the truth escapes into the public square the bore will be gored. Too bad the wealth scammed from people in the name of fighting climate change cannot be recovered and returned to its rightful owners. Such is modern day political snake oil.