No TV station seems to be covering this live, but you can watch here.
Kerry in his introduction says “if there was a cost-free way of tackling climate change, we’d take it, but there isn’t.” There is (at least comparatively) - adaptation - and Kerry, Gore and their ilk have stood in the way of research and implementation of adaptation. Lugar makes this point in a slightly confused fashion (and gives too much credence to the finagled Stern Report), but eventually gets good on the subject of biotech.
Gore links global warming, financial crisis and terrorism as all caused by our use of coal and oil. How convenient for him. Oh, and China as well. Urges Congress to pass “the entirety” of the shtimulus bill. Presumably including the resodding of the National Mall as a vital step in combating the climate crisis.
Says Kyoto II must be negotiated this year, not next. I presume he will strongly criticize the Administration when this doesn’t happen.
Says developing companies are leading the way. Praises Brazil for its bold leadership - when they are investing over $100 billion in oil exploration over the next 5 years. There’s an inconvenient truth for you, Al. And what about the gorilla in the room - China?
Praises Reagan for leading the Montreal Protocol, which he says is a model. This was debunked by CEI ten years ago.
Here comes the slideshow! All of a sudden it’s “some scientists,” not all scientists. Interesting. Arctic graphics all very impressive, but fact remains that there are strong arguments that the changes there are natural. Gore remains worried about Greenland. He’s out of date.
No real change in Gore’s arguments about glaciers, beetles and wildfires from An Inconvenient Truth. All are dealt with in Marlo Lewis’ magnum opus Al Gore’s Science Fiction. Still wants to link Hurricanes to Global Warming, despite retreats on that from scientists.
Shows he’s read ‘How to Lie with Statistics’ in his contemptible attempt to say disasters now are worse than they were. Roger Pielke Jr and Indur Goklany have both debunked that notion comprehensively.
On oceanic acidification, there is a splendid new study from SPPI that really puts that question to rest.
In questions, Gore endorses 350ppm as the “target level” for CO2, and notes that some people don’t think we can do “what the science mandates.” Very revealing phrasing. To those in the coal industry, he says that new energy jobs will give them “even better jobs.” I’d like to see the evidence for that specific claim.
Says wind power is now fully mature and competitive. So no subsidies needed, then? No, he says it can expand its role with subsidies. Aha. Meanwhile, perhaps someone should tell the backers of the London Array.
Also says that solar is mature too. The plain fact is that all forms of solar energy are remarkably inefficient, and the best summary of why is in William Tucker’s new book, Terrestrial Energy (and Tucker supports strong action on global warming).
Unfortunately, technical problems made me miss the rest of Kerry’s questions, so I’ll end there.
Bottom line: nothing new from Gore, despite his assertions to the contrary. His concerns are overblown and his “solutions” remain grossly expensive pipe dreams. I personally believe global warming is a risk, but Gore’s program represents a potentially disastrous misallocation of global resources.
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Thank you for this. I personally believe anthropogenic global warming is a scam, and global warming is inherently due to sun cycles. Though humans have some VERY small impact, ruining our industrial sector is not the solution. And… until China and India take the steps we took decades ago, we’re wasting our time debating AGW.
THanks Iain,
But it appears there’s nothing new to see here! The irony of the snow storm is rich, however
Our locale is shut down from a record snow as I type.
Cheers!
Thanks for the links
Did they turn off the heating and open the windows? And if not, why not?
Goose, Gander.
The beauty is that most of the midwest is under 6-12 inches of new snow after last night. I know MMGW causes snow storms too!
Is it possible that the Gore Affect is getting more pronounced, more lethal; where did he fly in from?
Al Gore resembles a pig in more ways than one:
Al Gore is chairman and founder of a private equity firm called Generation Investment Management (GIM). According to Gore, the London-based firm invests money from institutions and wealthy investors in companies that are going green. “Generation Investment Management, purchases — but isn’t a provider of — carbon dioxide offsets,” said spokesman Richard Campbell in a March 7 report by CNSNews.
For the rest see: http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=22663
1 AlGore + 1 Kerry = 2 Losers
Funny how some people will go out of their way to disprove something. reading a lot of your “debunking” sources, a lot of these sources lead back to organizations like CEI and anti-change advocates like Ben Lieberman (who wrote the report to discredit the Montreal Protocol and numerous other “oil is good” papers).
But when you dig a little deeper, you realize that people like Lieberman and CEI are in fact funded by big oil companies who seek to fight change: http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/orgfactsheet.php
Al Gore is not profiting from his studies, he in fact invests a lot of his time, money and resources to continue research for climate change, and he donated back his half of the Nobel prize money he got.
People like Ben Lieberman spend their entire day writing “convenient” research papers in the name of science, but pocketing money from big oil companies.
You claim that Al Gore has read ‘How to Lie with Statistics’, well Ben Lieberman apparently read it first because he is doing exactly that to prove that oil is good and chnage is bad.
Oh, and now you will prove me right by *not* approving my post since this is after all a CEI blog… how hypocritical.
Poor Al. Time & actual facts are beginning to debunk his mantra.
I suppose if the “cap & trade” legislation that he, his buddies, the green industry, & environmental activist special interest groups, spent all that time writing, Al’s financial ventures into the cap & trade business will produce no enormous wealth for him.
Now Al & his might have to actually work on the lecture circuit rather than sit back & reap obscene rewards based on using the force of law to make people buy into his schemes.
As time goes by, real evidence makes Al Gore look like the loon he really is!