Another Inconvenient Truth

So Mr. Al Gore invented the internet, won the presidential election, and saved the planet from global warming. Right? I'll let you decide the first two on your own, but the last one is positively, absolutely TRUE (jk)!

Due to the valiant efforts of Al Gore and other "Earth Lovers" everywhere, global warming has been fixed. That's right, you heard me correctly. It's fixed. There's no longer a need for biofuel or hybrids, so everyone can go back to driving their gas guzzling SUV's. Hell, you can even leave your cell phone chargers plugged in, because it doesn't matter anymore, we are home free.

All four major global temperature tracking outlets (Hadley, NASA's GISS, UAH, RSS) have released updated data. All show that over the past year, global temperatures have dropped precipitously.

Would you look at that... We all thought the world was going end, but apparently it was just hype, and/or baseless assumptions and predictions. As usual, it turns out that all we really needed to do was calm-the-hell-down, and not sensationalize what was nothing other than, what we in the know call, a "climate cycle".

I can see your doubts displayed prominently by a smug look of disbelief, but worry not. This is no minor temperature shift downward, blown out of proportion and distributed in order to spout "conservative truth-words" on the world... no, this is a big deal, a very big deal.

The total amount of cooling ranges from 0.65C up to 0.75C -- a value large enough to wipe out nearly all the warming recorded over the past 100 years. All in one year's time. For all four sources, it's the single fastest temperature change ever recorded, either up or down.

Holy Crap! Go back and read that part after the hyphens... So, what that is basically saying is that all the damage done by the evil American industrialists has been corrected in a single calendar year. That's just flat unbelievable. How the hell is that even possible? Well, this is how:

Scientists quoted in a past DailyTech article link the cooling to reduced solar activity which they claim is a much larger driver of climate change than man-made greenhouse gases. The dramatic cooling seen in just 12 months time seems to bear that out. While the data doesn't itself disprove that carbon dioxide is acting to warm the planet, it does demonstrate clearly that more powerful factors are now cooling it.

There are more factors that contribute to global temperature than Carbon Dioxide levels? STFU! You're telling me that Carbon Dioxide, a gas which accounts for less than one half of one percent of the atmosphere doesn't play a major role in managing global temperatures? I cannot understand such revolutionary logic. I need to go home and think about this... I need to re-evaluate my life.


Ok, Ok, I'm finished with the sarcasm, for the most part.

Everyone who knows me, knows that when it comes to most global issues, at the end of the day I couldn't care less... this one is no different. I don't care whether or not the earth is warming up or cooling down. I do care that there have been Nobel Prizes given out to people for supplying highly inaccurate information to the world. The Norwegian Nobel Committee ended their press release for the 2007 Peace Prize by stating:

Action is necessary now, before climate change moves beyond man’s control.

Ummm, has climate change ever been within the control of man? Just a thought.

Another thing... I found this quote, and I thought it was fitting for the occasion:

Some ask how urgent this danger is to America and the world. The danger is already significant, and it only grows worse with time.

No, Al Gore did not say this. This was not taken from an acceptance speech for some prestigious environmentalist award. This is an excerpt from a speech delivered by President George W. Bush outlining the threat of Iraq. So on one side we have a republican urging us to enter an unnecessary war with Iraq, and on the other we have a Democrat taking us to war against the non-existent threat of global warming. Interesting...