Clark: “Actually, our
energy systems have never been cleaner, and continue to improve. The idea that
we are responsible for extreme weather, let alone that we can change weather
patterns is preposterous. Extreme weather is not new, it is natural. For any
extreme event we have now, there is precedence in the recent past or distant
past. The only difference between past events and now is our greatly expanded
population and development of infrastructure that increases impact of extreme
weather.
Bob Carter: “Dirty weather is part and parcel of living on
planet Earth.”
Tim Ball: “He [Mr. Gore] is
talking about CO2 using public relations not scientific terminology. The target
is CO2, the byproduct of burning fossil fuels, but he avoids saying that or
using the completely erroneous term “carbon”. President Obama incorrectly talks
about "carbon pollution". CO2 is a natural gas essential to plants
and thereby to life on Earth. It is at the lowest atmospheric level in at least
300 million years and only causes "warming", "change" and
"disruptions" in the manipulated IPCC computers.”
Madhav Khandekar: “With
clean air technology initiatives, we are able to use much cleaner energy today
than say 25 years ago. We will need energy always so we must use cheap energy
like oil, natural gas and clean coal!”
2. Al Gore: “Let’s face it: The weather
outside is different than it used to be. Record heat waves make it a chore to
go outside. Floods and rainstorms damage our homes and cities. Crops wilt under
severe droughts. Hot, dry weather sparks widespread fires.”
Dr. Tim Ball: “Yes, the
weather is different because it changes all the time as anyone who studies
weather history knows. It is not more extreme and the changes are well within
natural variability.”
Professor Ian D. Clark:
“Read any chronicles of past weather, from modern to biblical times. Floods,
droughts, heat waves are not new.”
Professor Bob Carter: “The
IPCC, NIPCC and scores of independent scientists have investigated whether
there is anything unusual about today’s weather. None of the scientists involved
has been able to show that the intensity or frequency of modern weather
extremes exceeds that of the natural climate events that have occurred
throughout geological history.”
Dr. Madhav L. Khandekar:
“Weather outside is NO more different than say fifty years ago! It is our
perception that has changed. Fifty years ago, we had as many heat waves,
floods, droughts as we have today, we just did NOT pay much attention then.”
Climate Depot note: The NOAA
National Climatic Data Center Website shows that virtually all state-wide
records for the United States were set decades in the past. Other countries'
data center Websites shows similar trends.
3. Al Gore: “This is the extreme
weather you see almost every day on the news — or out your window. This is
Dirty Weather. And because of man-made climate change, we can expect it to
happen a lot more often.”
Dr. Madhav L. Khandekar:
“My comments above apply. Heat waves were more common in the 1920s and 1930s in
North America. Why was no one talking about it then! There were many well-known
meteorologists then like J. Bjerknes and Eric Palmen who knew that earth's
climate can become warmer or colder, so why worry now?”
Professor Bob Carter: “Of
course unusual, or damaging, weather events get mentioned in the news media,
for reporting such hazards is one of their most important functions.”
Dr. Tim Ball: “[This is]
completely false. It is not "dirty weather' it is weather and perfectly
normal.”
4. Al Gore: “We’re polluting our
atmosphere with Dirty Energy like coal, oil, and gas. The result? The planet
heats up. And we expose ourselves to Dirty Weather: Floods, droughts, heat
waves, wildfires.”
Dr. Tim Ball: “CO2 is not a
pollutant. There are pollutants going into the atmosphere but we have reduced
those significantly without any credit. A real "dirty energy" is
biofuels, because it takes food right off poor people's plates and makes the
cost of all their food more expensive.”
Professor Ian D. Clark:
“The recent events Gore calls “dirty weather” come at a time when the planet
has stopped warming. Only the rhetoric is increasing.”
Dr. Madhav L. Khandekar:
“The earth's climate has NOT warmed in 16 years per UK Met Office! We may not
see warming of the climate by more than 0.5C in next 50 to 100 years.”
5. Al Gore: “We’ll always have to
live with bad weather sometimes. But we don’t have to live with Dirty Weather.
We can make the switch from dirty to clean energy … and together, we can stop
the pollution that’s disrupting our climate.”
Professor Ian D. Clark:
“The new lexicon of “dirty weather” is a clear attempt to link natural weather
phenomena to pollution. Yet it is not pollution but clean CO2 which has been
taken as the cause for changes to weather patterns. The call for “clean”
energy, by contrast, inadvertently promotes some of the more polluting schemes.
Even wind, for example, the only significant renewable with any shade of green
to it, is burdened with the need for thermal (coal) backup power and it too
creates sound and visual pollution such that no one wants them nearby.”
Professor Bob Carter: “The
first statement [from The Dirty Weather Project Web site, comment #5 above] is
true. The remainder is opinionative nonsense.”
Dr. Tim Ball: “Yes, we
always have to live with bad weather but warm is better than cold and the weather
has been more damaging and threatening to people in the past. Again he is
claiming CO2 is a pollutant. Alternate energies are not sustainable and only
exist with government subsidies. Countries, like most European countries have
tried and are abandoning alternate energies.”
Dr. Madhav L. Khandekar:
“With lots of natural gas in U.S. we can use cleaner energy over next 25 to 50
years. Wind energy is too expensive and NOT reliable. Solar energy can be
improved to become cheaper & reliable, but it may take long time.”
6. Al Gore: “We face a global crisis
of unprecedented proportions. We’re dumping 90 million tons of heat trapping
carbon pollution [sic] into the atmosphere every 24 hours and it’s altering our
climate.”
Professor Bob Carter: “We
do indeed [“face a global crisis of unprecedented proportions”], and that crisis
is the misrepresentation of science by political activists like Mr. Al Gore. As
a result, western nations are squandering money on ineffectual anti-carbon
dioxide measures, and neglecting their duty to care for their citizens by not
tackling the genuine hazards that accompany natural climate events and change.”
Dr. Madhav L. Khandekar:
“We DO NOT face a global crisis! This is an exaggeration! Look at India and
China, two countries have total population of over 2.5 billion, yet they are
doing well, grain yields have increased and people [the] world-over are living
longer and healthier today than they were, say, fifty years ago!“
Dr. Tim Ball: “90 million
tons is a very crude estimate produced by the IPCC and within the error of the
estimate of CO2 from at least two natural sources. The only place it is
altering our climate is in the compute remodels of the IPCC. They are
programmed so that an increase in CO2 causes a temperature increase. In every
record for any time period, temperature increases before CO2 - the fundamental
assumption to his claim is absolutely wrong.”
Professor Ian D. Clark: “In
fact, much of the rise in CO2 is attributed to increased respiration of the
biosphere. Our carbon emissions are minor compared to this natural cycling of
carbon. There is absolutely no empirical scientific evidence for the increase
in CO2 having affected climate.”
7. Al Gore: “Now, we find ourselves
living in what the scientists call a new normal of more extreme weather that’s
happening all over the world with increasing frequency. And the results—fire,
flood, drought, crop and livestock devastation, refugees, just to mention a
few—impact everyone, everywhere.”
Dr. Tim Ball: “PROVE IT.
Every record shows no increase and the pattern is well within natural
variability.”
Dr. Madhav L. Khandekar:
“Extreme weather [events] are NOT increasing at present! They are perceived to
be 'increasing' due to media attention! Check the reality of climate by looking
at extreme weather fifty years ago!”
8. Al Gore: “but like all crisis,
this one includes opportunity as well as danger.”
Professor Bob Carter: “Yes.
And the opportunity is to discontinue futile wastage of money on policies like
the Kyoto anti-carbon dioxide protocol, and to introduce a cost-effective
policy of preparation for, and adaptation to, all dangerous climate-related
events. The money saved will run into hundreds of billions of dollars, and can
be used to provide sanitation, clean drinking water and food to underprivileged
persons and nations.”
Dr. Tim Ball: “What
opportunity? To falsify the record to make false climbs and then use the
material for political and financial gain. It appears nobody has made more
money from exploiting carbon credits than Al Gore. He fits Mencken's comment that. "The
whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence
clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of
hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."”
Dr. Madhav L. Khandekar:
“Yes, we have opportunities to develop clean technology, like clean coal,
provide good housing for all people, provide good education so they will face
future extreme weather more effectively. [There is] NO need to reduce
atmospheric CO2! It will do NOTHING!”
9. Al Gore: “the weather we’re
experiencing now is just that, dirty. It’s fueled by dirty fossil fuel energy
and misinformation.”
Dr. Madhav L. Khandekar:
“NO! NO! NO! Weather today in south Asia, where 3/4 of humanity lives today has
NOT changed much in last fifty years! Monsoon droughts/foods always occurred
before and will occur in future!”
Dr. Tim Ball: “[Mr. Gore's
is) A comment that only serves to underscore his ignorance of climate and
climate history. How does he explain all the previous climate variability and
severe weather?”
10. Al Gore: “this crisis has to be
understood in order to be stopped. The misinformation includes messaging that
it’s not happening, that we can’t solve it, that we can’t afford to act.
However, together, with your help and the full force of our 21st century
technology and media, we can stop the misinformation and the dirty weather and
we can solve the climate crisis.”
Professor Bob Carter: “The
misinformation is coming from persons such as David Suzuki, Al Gore and other
IPCC supporters. The solution lies with the mainstream media, who should cease
to report the ceaseless propaganda that emanates from these people about global
warming.”
Dr. Tim Ball: “Yes, but the
crisis that has to be understood and stopped is the false crisis Gore
perpetuates for his own profit, both political and economic.”
Dr. Madhav L. Khandekar:
“Once again, I see NO CLIMATE CRISIS! This is an exaggerated view of climate
alarmists! Humans can live happily by becoming more technologically prepared,
making good use of available fossil and other energy sources and be prepared to
cope with future climate impacts, which will be NO different than what we
witnessed 50 or 100 years ago!”
11. Al Gore: “help us fight against the messages from the
climate deniers.”
Professor Ian D. Clark:
“This term, which alludes to the Holocaust deniers, is a great insult to many
alive today. It is contrary to science to defame researchers with opposing
evidence. Science is advanced by the discourse between differing views.
Consensus science is an oxymoron.”
Professor Bob Carter: “The
best way to fight the climate deniers would be to close down the IPCC, for it
is IPCC scientists who remain in denial as to the natural cause of modern
climate events.”
Dr. Tim Ball: “Use of the
term "denier" is deliberate and part of the public relations campaign
Gore uses all the time. It brings with it the Holocaust connotation. It's
ironic and wrong because, although it omits the word "Change", it is
the opposite of what is happening. Those called climate change deniers have
careers spent trying to educate people of the extent the climate changes
naturally - they are anything but deniers. The real deniers are people like
Gore as the commentary and arguments made by him above prove.”
Dr. Madhav L. Khandekar:
“There are many scientists today who are questioning the IPCC science! Climate
has changed due to natural climate variability NOT due to human-added CO2! “
Climate Depot note: The 2011
report of the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC)
concluded “the data reveal there have not been any significant warming-induced
increases in extreme weather events." The NIPCC report shows that this was
the case whether the phenomenon being studied was precipitation, floods,
drought, storms, hurricanes, fire, or other weather-related events. NIPCC
author, Dr. Madhav Khandekar shows that extreme weather events are now
occurring with about the same frequency as they did during 1945 - 1977 cooling
period.
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