...in human well-being, from the taming of fire for cooking to the industrial revolution and the automobile. So even if Al Gore’s numbers weren’t exaggerated, his metaphor was explosive rubbish....
Wrapping up our fact check of Al Gore’s rant in Davos, we now turn to his claim that global warming is “causing these waves of climate refugees predicted to reach...
Continuing our fact check of Al Gore’s rant in Davos we come to his claim that CO2 emissions are causing “the rain bombs”. The what? We hadn’t heard of rain...
...discoveries. So, Pielke Jr. adds, stay tuned, that’s why scientists do research. As opposed to Al Gore who has no need of research since he already knows all the answers....
Next up in our Fact Check of Al Gore’s rant in Davos we get to his claim that carbon dioxide is “melting the ice and raising the sea level”. Well,...
Continuing with our fact check of Al Gore’s rant in Davos we come to his claim that you-know-what is “creating these atmospheric rivers”. And “atmospheric rivers” is, admittedly, a very...
Note: this post has been edited to correct an earlier version. Continuing with our fact check on Al Gore’s epic rant in Davos, this week we turn to his claim...
...shoulders with Davos Man, and coming away with the deep insight that all you need is political will, and the impression that all these people you knew and trusted were...
Apparently “Al Gore is shifting his climate activism abroad.” In response to which many people here will either say good riddance or ask Al who? But to David Gelles of...
...world or “the future” which is just childish hyperventilation. Gore also indulged in the conspiratorial tone as real and persistent in climate alarmism as it is sinister. In these remarks...
...matter in policy arguments, is a pigheaded persistence in error, especially error by association. What James Taranto of the Wall Street Journal years ago dubbed “poor political hygiene” also applies...
...down the conspiratorial rabbit hole, we also urge people who believe in an AGW crisis not to think that companies whose offsets set them off are deliberately lying. Rather, they...
...sew panic, from political scientist Al Gore to high school dropout Greta Thunberg or former drama teacher Justin Trudeau, seem to get a free pass. Now we at CDN are...
...believe unrealistic promises are also part of the problem. But everyone including citizens, politicians and indeed climate change alarmists looking for real long-term solutions would be better off if politicians...
Not long ago we made fun of Al Gore’s claim at Davos that greenhouse gas emissions were “creating these Atmospheric Rivers,” pointing out for his benefit, if not his pleasure,...
...either. Why not? Because they’re not true. It doesn’t help that the BBC also quoted the aforementioned Al Gore that “I think it’s the moral equivalent of a war crime....
...OK, you’re saying, this is a bit lewd. But we want gore. Not Al Gore. Cannibalism gore. That headline promised us blood all over the place and we want it...
...Or can’t he answer it so he tries hard to change the subject? Cook even excerpts the crucial clip from Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth in which Gore twists Naomi...
...cyclical fluctuations one finds in the real-world climate, to the point that Reuters felt compelled to “Fact check“ the wretched stuff and reach the usual conclusion that while true it...
...experts. If a question is purely technical, if it doesn’t have political or social implications, and it really is settled, then I’m all in favour of deferring to them. If...
...travel. According to Goreham, total international merchandise trade in 1900 was only $10 billion in today’s US dollars; by 2000 it was nearly 2000 times as large at $19.7 trillion....
...with “As political paralysis grips Berlin, the energy crisis was the final blow for a growing number of manufacturers… its days as an industrial superpower may be coming to an...
...Comedians tend not to drill into such matters, and neither do media outlets all-in on climate alarmism, especially if as in Canada they are also dependent for their survival on...
...and early 1980s, the Asian currency crisis in 1997, the dot-com bubble, and the global financial crisis.” And “Even when these episodes lasted for many years, they were all, in...
...observes pointedly that “the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland wrapped up today. After the progress made at COP28, some were hopeful that the annual summit...
...the scale of the EU’s industrial decline, as structurally high energy prices continue to lay waste to a crucial pillar of the bloc’s economy.” Oh my. “‘We are facing a...
...was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal”? Does she not know that Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth has been...
...data” says USA Today) but bad (“[t]he implied claim is wrong”). They should try checking Al Gore’s Davos Rant where the facts are not true; we can even give them...
...same difficulty in attributing a sudden local surge to gradual global accumulation of atmospheric CO2 also affects other more local panicky stories about huge temperature spikes. For instance Euronews.green with:...
...how CO2 and global temperatures move together, and everybody knows that means CO2 controls the climate: Attenborough’s chart was much like the graph shown to great rhetorical effect by Al...
Al Gore and his acolytes will be taking his show on the road later this month, with seminars in schools across the Americas on Nov. 20 and 21 giving a...
...2004. Decadal-scale climate drivers for glacial dynamics in Glacier National Park, Montana, USA. Geophysical Research Letters 31: 10.1029/2004GL019770. As they describe it, “the maximum glacial advance of the LIA [Little...
...The unfortunate truth is that there is strong political pressure for climate experts not to question claims of impending doom. Those who do so face steep personal and professional costs,...
...actual emergencies, with power out and people in physical danger, on the roads and in their own homes. The Weather Network also peddled “bone-chilling visuals out of Manitoba” (this hype...
...upper reaches this month, confounding prophecies most notably featured in An Inconvenient Truth, the 2006 documentary on climate change written and fronted by Al Gore, the former US vice-president. ‘The...
...trumpeted in the famously unskeptical press. Wikipedia even pushed it to 100% if you only survey committed activist scientists. But all these studies run into the same problems. All...
...Age and before it a Medieval Warm Period and no they were not regional blips. As Homewood adds, “Glaciologists also know that similar advances were taking place on glaciers all...
...models of course know all and see all: “The use of simulations allowed the scientists to investigate the influences of individual factors including greenhouse gas emissions, other forms of air...
...The snows on Mount Kilimanjaro will be gone within 10 years. John Robson Al Gore made that prediction in 2007. The same Al Gore whose global warming movie gets shown...
...the first year that ParlAmericas’ International Secretariat has participated in the annual UN climate change conference as an official observer organization. Through the participation of the Canadian Section of ParlAmericas...
...self-portrait, as big-league alarmists from Al Gore to Michael Mann have all made that claim repeatedly and vehemently. Mann’s hockey stick is the most famous instance. But we are told...
...business. But they do also permit speculation. So go ahead, “David Suzuki, Al Gore, John Kerry, Prince Charles and every Canadian politician at every level” as Cumming puts it. Bet...
...remarks it did not occur to Reuters to ask even a sympathetic fellow alarmist whether this plan seemed practical. They insist that “The Reuters Daily Briefing newsletter provides all the...
...crisis of human rights, of justice and of political will. Colonial, racist, and patriarchal systems of oppression have created and fuelled it. We need to dismantle them all.” Again, what...
...might be responsible for some, or all, of recent climate changes. John Robson: The alarmists didn’t like that result at all. In fact, they reacted like that Far Side cartoon...
...straws likely aren’t biodegradable, but that they are vectors for chemicals considered hazardous to human and environmental health.” Our fearless leaders also failed to take into account that: “Although Canada’s...
...“COP26: The truth behind the new climate change denial”. Oh oh tell us please. What are we up to? OK. “Scientists say climate change denial is now more likely to...
...drop in atmospheric CO2 during the Cenozoic down to levels that, at the Last Glacial Maximum, were around 180 ppm, perilously close to the 150 ppm at which a real,...
...fairy tales of eternal economic growth. How dare you! Greta Thunberg, speech to the UN, September 2019 John Robson Climate emergency declarations, Extinction Rebellion, Fridays for Future. These movements all...
...for national energy systems modelling projects.” So they don’t already have even these fictitious digital maps of this future. They just know at some point you should have some because...
...alone the sinister plots he has to carry out and also carefully hide. Instead, he commits gaffe after gaffe including his hypocritical lifestyle. And on the former, the global elite...
...the alarmists and they’ll know what posh spots to avoid. But good luck scaring them away from their annual enclave in Davos, given the exceptional 2017-2018 snow season at Klosters....
...Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s madcap Green New Deal, or a combination from some sober supposedly conservative individual like Angela Merkel that manages to devastate Germany’s energy industry without doing a bit of...
...already underway. Some countries have already used the COVID-19 crisis as an excuse to weaken environmental protections and enforcement. And frustrations over social ills like rising inequality – US billionaires’...
...rules.” And the potential for a radical transformation of how we shabby peasants live is virtually unlimited, especially with so-called conservatives as much a part of the revolt of the...
No, contrails are not mind control. And no, the world’s governments are not secretly changing the weather in some vast Davos-centred cabal. If they were, do you seriously think it...
...the problem, he underlined, was that “Net zero—the holy grail of ESG—has turned out to be Russia’s most potent ally.” It became clear that “Environmental, Social and Governance”, which is...
...increase in the last 150 years was, at least prima facie, natural as well. And to get rid of the LIA they also had to do in the Medieval Warm...
...“an open-access journal publishing rigorously peer-reviewed research”. Until some other alarmists got alarmed by the fact that if you tell people emission reductions won’t do any good, they might be...
David Middleton complains on Watts Up With That that in addition to trying to erase the Medieval Warm period and Little Ice Age, what he calls “Warmunists” are also trying...
...carbon-spewing fuels like oil, gas and coal have also made higher-priced renewable energies like solar, wind and hydrothermal more competitive in the energy marketplace. The energy crunch has also led...
...Al Gore hadn’t come along to peddle an alarmist angle on it. Even so a mild warming isn’t something people worry about. Curry notes that “The actual experience of 1°C...
...climate issue is hijacked by people like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez or even a huckster like Al Gore it ought not to be funny to those who think it should be taken...
...followed by, yes, Al Gore, then a junior Congressman citing these “scientists who are so alarmed” to start demanding money for the cause. The science back then looked like this:...
...cycles was Michael Mann’s infamous hockey stick that essentially got rid of the Medieval Warm Period based on data from a few trees in the US Midwest. Al Gore sneered...
...didn’t know about. The same is true of Al Gore’s endless claims that the evening news has become “a nature hike through the Book of Revelation” because there’s weather. Or...
And for Bill Gates, Al Gore and all the other wealthy alarmists who own oceanfront mansions. NBC news has announced: “Antarctic ice shelf could crack, raise seas by feet within...
...keep it in its regional cage or demote it to a mere “anomaly”. In fact increasing evidence shows that it was global and major. But if you don’t want to...
If you dissent from climate change orthodoxy you're liable to be confronted with a demand to see your academic papers, something that never happens to alarmists like Al Gore. So...
...intense cyclone damage.” If we may nitpick, the Great Barrier Reef has lost so much coral that in 2020… it recorded its highest amount of coral since 1985. (h/t Joanne...
From the CO2Science Archive: “A key question in the study of near-term climate change is whether there is a causal connection between warming tropical sea surface temperatures (SSTs) and Atlantic...
...also very hospitable to life, not Al Gore’s nature height through the Book of Revelation. And you’ll also find that there is really no correlation between carbon dioxide in the...
...Natural Gas (and yes, in a previous item we misstated LNG as being Liquid Natural Gas) even though, from a practical point of view, if they burn methane instead of...
...that included “All the green, liberal A-listers – Bill McKibben, Al Gore, Van Jones, Robert F Kennedy Jr – are attacked in this film as a pompous and complacent high-priest...
...on warming. But some have also noticed something odd: It hasn’t reduced “carbon pollution” despite the massive reduction in industrial activity, transportation and so on. Thus Joe Bastardi, a professional...
...say to heck with posterity let’s burn some coal, you really should not sink all your time, energy and emotional commitment into unreliable alternatives like wind and solar. You should...
...“guesstimated” because this six-decimal-place pseudo-number is a model kluge in which “The basis for these greenhouse gas (GHG) estimates are Statistics Canada’s physical flow accounts (PFA), which record the annual...
...the only alternative to a swift and fiery death. Rather, they talk about consequences that may emerge in several decades if we do not act. (We also ask pointedly why...
...alarmism doing grave harm to the economy and indeed the environment (by massively diverting resources from real problems). It’s apparently having a very bad effect on young people’s mental health....
...thus especially online you get “polarization”. Right. But surely alarmists are also prone to associate with and chirp along with other alarmists in their own echo chambers, aren’t they? Heck...
...Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, adds, “Our new reconstruction revolutionizes what we thought about the global continental ice mass during the Last Ice Age. The total mass of the...
...among 900 representative articles on global warming disputed the alarmist case, saying that "Sure, the climate will always change, but to communicate why it is bad, I sometimes will put...
...one too. It is a mantra among alarmists that exactly half of man-made CO2 is absorbed in the natural carbon cycle and the rest is not, a suspiciously round as...
...sunlight means “the ocean absorbs more heat and warms faster” as NOAA claimed on May 11. As in fact a crucial aspect of warming alarmism is that rising CO2 has...
...But if it were, the cunning minds behind it would avoid obvious face-plants like these expeditions, or Al Gore and others’ imminent demise of Arctic Ice and the snows of...
Human vanity being what it is, there’s no real inconsistency between someone doing well off a cause and believing in it. If Al Gore saves the planet, who minds if...
...ideological conformity with no place to hide. Their demands include “Mainstreaming ecological and climate action across all disciplines. Universities would ensure that all students, regardless of the discipline and level...
...of those molecules with altitude. So there you also rely on observations. Step 3 is we need to know what’s the temperature versus altitude. So there are these standard temperature...
...makes up about 10% of all the gasoline sold in the U.S. And it does so because the 2005 Renewable Fuel Standard aimed to reduce emissions (although it’s noteworthy that...
...Innovating for Sustainability” woke us up. Wangari Maathai put us back to sleep even if “Her advocacy for social and environmental justice has left a lasting impact on global conservation...
...they live off and love. Wilson also makes a characteristic alarmist error, if error is not too kind a word, also made by Al Gore in An Inconvenient Truth and...
...know though it’s not, um, “settled,” the first real “urban” location was Jericho, with a protective wall dating back some 11,000 years. So she’s basically in the Al Gore camp...
...private jets for the journey home. The piece also said “The planet has already warmed about 1.2 degrees since the industrial revolution, driven by the burning of coal, oil and...
...quickly escalated in the hands of Al Gore et al., to 20% explicitly endorsing the “consensus”, which just doesn’t have the same hair-raising quality. Or maybe she’s addicted to the...
...figure out what happens if, by natural or unnatural means, we somehow did push things back up into typical Oligocene conditions (because on Googling you’d find that the Eocene was...
...Stalin twice. And surely it is a sign of the times that Thunberg is as important as she is. At least Al Gore was a grownup, however annoying and ignorant....
...back to “safe” pre-industrial levels. Another question the alarmists prefer to talk around is precisely how large the costs of reaching net zero would be. But first things first: If...
...Shore, Illinois. Wherever that is, it’s a far cry from Al Gore’s deserts, wildfires and “nature hike through the Book of Revelation”. In fact it’s part of Chicago. And while...
...sky for it to escape through.” You get the idea? The natural stuff is all absorbed because, as he waxes lyrical elsewhere in the book, nature has a circular holistic...
...time of year until Al Gore’s documentary came along, or Michael Mann’s hockey stick. So is there any data here? Or just the usual arm-waving about how “Human-caused climate change...
...unlike alarmists like Al Gore who claim climate was stable from 12,000 BC until 1972 and seem distinctly incurious about the more distant past.) In the second, modern temperature trends...
...might seem to the uninitiated, like Al Gore, to give annual readings of atmospheric CO2. But in fact the bubbles they contain take many years to form completely, sometimes many...
...century in Southern and Central California certainly sounds like Al Gore’s “nature hike through the Book of Revelation”. Yet, second, far from wailing about the so-called climate crisis, the article...
...of much alarmism, Schmidt brushes aside those who accuse the Al Gores and Justin Trudeaus and, well, Gavin Schmidts of this world for their hypocritically huge carbon footprints, saying “People...
...as holistic, also explains the notion of “climate breakdown”, which is not just a piece of rhetorical escalation but also of intellectual seize-up. In the Guardian, a good place for...
...years”. Climate changes? From natural causes? Say it ain’t so. There is a branch of climate alarmism that can deal with such statements. But in a weird way. Basically it...
...like say Michael Mann or Al Gore. But it’s a problem when such calculator-free ideas float cheerily about convincing the youth of today that all you need is will. Someday...
...let’s not hear the one about “you’re not a climate scientist” flung at us any more. (You could try Al Gore, though.) And if we were going to give in...
...among the 49 drying cities, and the UK capital London, ranked 44th. Findings also indicate that almost one in five of the cities studied are experiencing ‘climate whiplash’, defined as...
...calculation in the National Post, Trudeau has already burned through a staggering 300,000 litres of the stuff since June 1 alone while taking 58 airplane trips, yes, one every two...
...wheedle subsidies from the provincial and federal governments Canada’s national capital, whose massive load of bureaucrats with six-figure salaries and defined-benefit pensions surely gives it a tax base that should...
...people have including, famously, Al Gore. Then there’s Sir David Attenborough, who has done very well for himself financially and socially by praising nature, and to this day finds himself...
...the paper indeed speaks of “unstable environments”. And here Al Gore told us that stuff only started recently. In that vein we also got, via MSN, a patronizing video from...
...Hollywood A-listers in asking the Toronto International Film Festival to end sponsorship ties with the Royal Bank of Canada because of the financial institution’s funding of the oil and gas...
...truth.” He then quotes James Hansen (“Al Gore’s climate advisor and the scientist who literally started the global warming worry in 1988”) that “Suggesting that renewables will let us phase...
...that dramatic in most cases. We could also object that the real problem with despairing over minor temperature changes is that it’s bad science, and worse mental health. And that...
...some of the climate sector’s most vital newsmakers” like, oh dear, Al Gore, the general feeling was that “Resolving the climate crisis is the hardest joint project humanity has ever...
...because we can’t cope with their complexities is not science. One of the messages in Taken By Storm was that it takes a great deal of mental effort just to...
...who’s Goliath here. Alarmists go about whining that oil companies and sinister shadowy foundations and financiers have spent vast sums sowing doubt. In An Inconvenient Truth Al Gore said “The...
In honour of a scientific journal retracting an article not because it was wrong but because the alarmist gatekeepers don’t want you to read it, we are re-running our series...
...named Last Glacial Maximum and ventured north again when it warmed up. Apparently. It’s all based on very little physical evidence, like the entire reconstruction of human ancestry. So the...
...unlikely that annual numbers of tropical storms, hurricanes and major hurricanes counts have increased over the past 100 years in the North Atlantic basin." But will the hurricanes that do...
...even Justin Trudeau, Steven Guilbeault or Al Gore. Well, at least you can’t be anxious when you’re asleep. And they did: the suggestion to name heatwaves was no sooner made...
...the theories and observations. To put it mildly. Despite the weighty assurances of António Guterres, Al Gore and Greta Thunberg, the destructive potential of tropical cyclones is declining, not increasing....
...also kills more people than heat.) And while not everybody loves a chart, ordinary people sense that Al Gore’s “nature hike through the Book of Revelation” simply isn’t going past,...
...CO2 and it was warmer (which are not causally related) and despite Al Gore’s blather about a “nature hike through the Book of Revelation” life was doing pretty well… except...
...Kerry (ditto) came to China to kowtow, the government/Communist Party Global Times warned the UK that it must not “allow Washington to hijack the summit for its ill geopolitical intentions”...
...gases went way up in the atmosphere. And we all know (h/t Al Gore) that they “trap heat” and roast the planet. But how exactly do they “trap heat”? Well,...
...Al Gore that somehow cost $4 million to build and $600k a year to operate despite filling only a single room which, given almost complete lack of interest, was sufficient...
Remember Al Gore’s famous CGI doomed polar bear unable to clamber onto that last shard of ice? Well, it seems the real ones have a neat trick. They are able...
...hour produces emissions equal to driving from Denver to Los Angeles.” And when advocates say... Finally, for all those climate alarmists who hate spring (as in “There’s No Stopping the...
...is not something people tend to raise about Al Gore, Elizabeth May or Leonardo DiCaprio or, very often, the people raising the objection. Science is driven by curiosity and skepticism....
...to get rid of the well-known “Medieval Warm Period” entirely and Al Gore sneered at it. Less drastic attacks depicted it as a local European phenomenon. But a new study...
...carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, triggering for the first time humanly caused global warming. Wood also fueled the early stages of the Industrial Revolution in the United States, adding to...
...about low-carbon energy growth with stress about geopolitical headwinds” and tries to pretend it matters that Al Gore “said the solar surge is among his reasons for optimism. But he...
...to if they’re to replace fossil fuels. And the scale of the problem, to hear Al Gore or Greta Thunberg tell it, is so vast that small measures are worse...
...you would be wrong on both counts. Al Gore has a famous catch phrase about climate change being like a “nature hike through the Book of Revelations” but even passing...
...like vast quantities of “fearsome rostral teeth” clacking away as they approach you. Newsweek also reported this story, about the original paper in the journal ZooKeys. And who could resist...
...at a local maximum, and end with it at a local minimum, the exact opposite to what climate alarmist orthodoxy would predict. Taking all these phenomena into account, a far...
...The same is of course true of a great many climate alarmists, from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (international relations and economics) to Al Gore (government) to Elizabeth May (restaurant management and law)...
...all the resources of advanced cyber-industrial civilization at our disposal, we can’t deal with, at worst, half a metre of sea level rise better than, say, the Dutch did with...
...the study suggests, with all the region’s land and almost all its seas receiving more rain than snow before the end of the century if the world warms by 3C....
...Medieval Warm Period was, and the net effect on albatross survival or domestic bliss was zip. Just as the polar bears got through the Eemian interglacial, again known to have...
...previous periods of shrinking ice, whether you have in mind the Medieval Warm Period, the Holocene Climatic Optimum, the Eemian or simply “summer”. Beyond all that, regular readers will also...
...not doing is melting away because the Earth is getting hotter (or because Al Gore said it would). It just isn’t. And anyone who says it is either hasn’t checked...
...we don’t know how bad things really are”. So all those model predictions that allegedly came true, or the ones Al Gore and other activists made up on the fly,...
...It is the Sun that is responsible for very nearly all feedback response in today’s climate.” Now if so, as he also says, “that ends the climate emergency.” But it...
...newspaper. And when he calls Catherine McKenna, Al Gore and António Guterres “centrists and technocrats” we have our answer: nothing. Good thing Canada’s giving us billions, Volkswagen must be thinking,...