I'll take that bet
Al "The Goracle" Gore has made a prediction, and I'm willing to bet everything I own (which, sadly, in this economy isn't much) that Gore is wrong.
Entire north polar ice cap will be gone in 5 years.
Is the man a liar or a fool? Or both?
On a related note, the Associated Press published a bit of scare journalism over the weekend that would be laughable if it weren't for the fact that people who believe it are likely to be in charge of energy policy for the next four years.
When Bill Clinton took office in 1993, global warming was a slow-moving environmental problem that was easy to ignore. Now it is a ticking time bomb that President-elect Barack Obama can't avoid.
Since Clinton's inauguration, summer Arctic sea ice has lost the equivalent of Alaska, California and Texas. The 10 hottest years on record have occurred since Clinton's second inauguration. Global warming is accelerating. Time is close to running out, and Obama knows it.
All of which is false. Here's scientist David Deming, who has more science degrees than Gore, Obama or the Associated Press hack:
How can this guy call himself a "science reporter?"
He is perhaps the worst propagandist in all the media, and that's stating something.
In his latest screed, he screams: "global warming is accelerating"
How then does he explain the fact that the mean global temperature (as measured by satellite) is the same as it was in 1980?
How can global warming be "accelerating" when the last two years have seen dramatic cooling? Is this guy totally removed from all reality?????
He completely ignores any evidence contrary to his personal beliefs, and twists everything to meet his preconceived notions.
How can anyone so ignorant be a reporter for AP? Seriously?
I'm sorry to say that knowledge isn't necessarily a prerequisite for most reporting jobs.
I loved the penultimate paragraph of the AP piece:
Mother Nature, of course, is oblivious to the federal government's machinations. Ironically, 2008 is on pace to be a slightly cooler year in a steadily rising temperature trend line. Experts say it's thanks to a La Nina weather variation. While skeptics are already using it as evidence of some kind of cooling trend, it actually illustrates how fast the world is warming.
Obviously logic classes aren't required for AP reporters either.
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According to the Global Warming alarmists, when temperatures are above normal it is due to anthropogenic global warming and when temperatures are colder than normal it is due to anthropogenic globabl warming. You can't win trying to have a rational conversation with these people. They are part of a religious cult. That is all there is to it.