Video: Important Questions Being Asked About Global Warming

Via Chicks on the Right.



It's a little over 9 minutes long but it goes by fast.

The video does beg the question: Just how far do environmentalists want to roll back technology?

And don't say 'Green' because the cost and availability is still prohibitive. Not to mention unreliable. But what standards to they want the US to go back to?

Didn't think candles would be used a replacements for light bulbs.

Global Warming Is Preventing Us From Having More Global Warming

Screencap of the week.

Five years ago, Al Gore warned us that humanity was ten years away from putting the earth into an "irreversible slide into destruction".

The polar ice caps were supposed to he melting away, massive hurricanes devastating coastal areas and dogs & cats living together. If not the end times it was the beginning of the end of times. If Al Gore was to be believed.

Obviously, with global warming causing all this cold weather, it's getting in the way of the real global warming that would be causing the ice caps to melt.

It's not quite a yellow smiley face that shows 15 minutes to midnight but it is Al Gore's very own Doomsday Clock slowly ticking away.

Flashback To 2000: Children Will Not Know Snowfall In 2010

With a track record like this, how can they not be trustworthy today?

Britain’s winter ends tomorrow with further indications of a striking environmental change: snow is starting to disappear from our lives. Sledges, snowmen, snowballs and the excitement of waking to find that the stuff has settled outside are all a rapidly diminishing part of Britain’s culture, as warmer winters – which scientists are attributing to global climate change – produce not only fewer white Christmases, but fewer white Januaries and Februaries...According to Dr David Viner, a senior research scientist at the climatic research unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia ,within a few years winter snowfall will become “a very rare and exciting event”. “Children just aren’t going to know what snow is,” he said.

That was then, this is now:

The Groundhog Blizzard continues to unleash its fury across Chicago and other cities across the Great Lakes, but an end to the fierce and historical snowstorm is finally in sight.
The Groundhog Blizzard now ranks fifth among the greatest snowstorms in Chicago's history, exactly what AccuWeather.com Expert Senior Meteorologist Alex Sosnowski predicted on Tuesday.
A total of 17.1 inches of snow has buried Chicago's O'Hare International Airport (the city's official weather observation site) through 6 a.m. EST.

And that was Chicago, this is the Dallas/Fort Worth area.

The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) has ordered utilities to begin rotating outages to compensate for a generation shortage due high usage in extreme weather.

Rotating outages are controlled, temporary interruptions of service designed to ease the load on the electric grid.
[. . .]
The outages last anywhere from 10-45 minutes and the locations and durations are determined by the local utilities.

Yet, the ManBearPig doubles down on his investment:

“In fact, scientists have been warning for at least two decades that global warming could make snowstorms more severe. Snow has two simple ingredients: cold and moisture. Warmer air collects moisture like a sponge until it hits a patch of cold air. When temperatures dip below freezing, a lot of moisture creates a lot of snow.”[bold mine]

Global Warming, is there anything it can't do?

I Hereby Offer A Reward Up To $100,000. . .

. . . For an Al Gore sex tape. Or anything else that would shame the Manbearpig into shunning any news or publicity for the rest of his life.

Oh, I'm not paying the one hundred large out of my own pocket. I will broker the deal.

Whoever wants to donate to the fund will remain completely anonymous (As any person in their right mind would want to be). All the tape needs to do is embarrass Al Gore enough keep him away from the public eye.

And I'm not talking about "An Inconvenient Truth" either.

To Help Clarify:  I'm not putting any of my own money toward this deal.  I have some dryer lint, a tangled spool of fishing line and a wooden nickel partially chewed by a dog that I might part with.

Need to stop doing posts like this late at night.  It seemed so much funnier then.

Another Gore Marriage In Trouble

I guess this means that another sequel to 'Love Story' is off.

[F]riends of the family quietly confirmed to PEOPLE on Wednesday that the eldest of the couple's four children, daughter Karenna Gore Schiff, is separated from her husband of 12 years.

Karenna, 36, and Andrew "Drew" Schiff, 44, "have been separated for a couple of months and in marriage counseling," says a friend of the couple, who live in New York and have three small children: Wyatt, 10; Anna, 8; and Oscar, 3. Another friend of the Gore family said of the split, "It's amicable and they are in counseling. They are not divorced."

Yet.

Is This The Location For Al Gore's New Home?

I found this in less than 5 minutes on Google Maps and using the pictures from here.


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The pattern in the driveway is the same as well as the swimming pool and the hot tub in the backyard. At over 8 million for the house, one would hope the contractor wouldn't use that floor plan to make track home after track home.

Of course this means Al Gores thinks that the War On Global Warming has been won seeing how his new house is only 150 feet above sea level. Assuming Tipper doesn't get the house in the divorce.

New Picture Of Al Gore's Home In California

Covered here earlier, Al Gore has recently purchased a very nice seaside house in California. Trading in air, i.e. 'Carbon Credits', has paid off well for him.

Picture credit here, other pictures at the link.

Like the man said, "I'll believe it's a crisis when the people who tell me it's a crisis start acting like it's a crisis."

Al Gore Increases His Carbon Footprint

Not sure if he sold his mansion in Tennessee yet but the Manbearpig has bought another mansion in California.

Former Vice President Al Gore and his wife, Tipper, have added a Montecito-area property to their real estate holdings, reports the Montecito Journal.

The couple spent $8,875,000 on an ocean-view villa on 1.5 acres with a swimming pool, spa and fountains, a real estate source familiar with the deal confirms. The Italian-style house has six fireplaces, five bedrooms and nine bathrooms.

How many homes does the modern day prophet of Gaia need?

Gore is obviously not worried about the sea levels rising as he would like you to think he is.

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Isn't this a damned if you do, damned if you don't scenario?

As much of the world marked Earth Day this past week, the Environmental Protection Agency reported that air pollution has declined dramatically over the past 20 years. It sounds like good news, but science writer Eli Kintisch argues that there's a surprising downside: Cleaner air might actually intensify global warming.

"If we continue to cut back on smoke pouring forth from industrial smokestacks, the increase in global warming could be profound," Kintisch writes in an opinion piece for the Los Angeles Times.

Kintisch isn't talking about greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide; he's talking about another kind of pollutant we put in the sky — "like aerosols from a spray can," he tells NPR's Guy Raz. "It turns out that those particles have a profound effect on maintaining the planet's temperature."

So do I or don't I burn that tire in my backyard?