I agree with a frequent Liberal letter writer to our local weekly paper (The Independent Coast Observer, Gualala, CA) that rants by “deniers” on both sides
have no place in the Climate Change Debate. It has obviously been warming for
over the past 200 years, although not as much as in previous periods of natural
climate change. A comparison of warming 1895-1945 and 1946-2013 appear almost
identical, which means that current warming isn’t unprecedented even in the
past century, let alone when compared to four warmer periods during the past
10,000 years. (link)
Natural climate change deniers such as Al Gore have made a mockery
of the word “unprecedented” by applying it to our current period of modest warming.
“Unprecedented” loses significance when modified, i.e, “since Gore’s birth (1948).”
Gore recently said
that “the hurricane scale used to be 1-5 and now they’re adding a 6.” But they’re
not; a Quaternary Science Reviews paper finds 21st century central Pacific cyclone
activity is at the lowest levels of the past 5,000 years, that Japan typhoons
are at the lowest levels of the past 3,500 years, and that North Atlantic
hurricanes were more frequent/severe than modern times during various intervals
over the past 3,000 years. (link)
It’s been eight
years since a major hurricane hit the US, the longest such period since 1866.
Obama has had the fewest hurricanes of any president. (link)
Getting
back to ranting, in an interview
with the Washington Post’s Ezra Klein, Gore equated his fight against global
warming to the struggles against slavery, segregation and apartheid. (link)
Gore said the issue is now one of right and wrong, which eliminates any basis
for a Climate Change Debate. That’s not surprising since Gore will not debate about
natural climate change or defend his more-than 35 science falsehoods in An Inconvenient Truth.
Gore’s just like the natural climate change
deniers in our area.
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