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Al Gore Suffers Memory Loss after Cycling from USA to Oz
Well, surely the Goron wouldn’t have travelled by plane (the Carbon Devil’s wings) to Oz. Anyway, apparently, according to Gore, the UK AIT court case went in his favour. Here’s an excerpt from the transcript of ABC’s interview with Gore:
HEATHER EWART: There was also, though, a British judge who ruled that there were in fact, I think, nine errors when it was challenged in court?
AL GORE: Well, the ruling was in my favour. There have been a number of deniers trying to say that this isn’t real. Of course there are always going to be that, but the overwhelming majority of the scientists who’ve looked at this have said, “We’ve got to confront this.”
The 9 errors in AIT, that had no supporting evidence, can be found on pages 10 to 12 on the judgement here.
The judge also ruled that teachers must follow updated guidance when showing the film in schools.
Never mind Al, have a nice cycle home!
July 15th, 2009 at 3:43 pm
Paul, I see you alerted Roger Pielke Senior to Tsonis’s alternative take on his and Kyle Swanson’s research feature recently on “Realclimate”-I was wondering if you would post your thoughts on that post at some point-I have some of my own, to wit, as I posted on another blog:
“So much for the attribution argument-namely “Given that our models realistically simulate natural variability [HA!] they need anthropogenic forcing to explain warming” Hence the IPCC statement “Most of the observed increase in global average temperatures since the mid-20th century is very likely due to the observed increase in anthropogenic greenhouse gas concentrations.”
Oops, major problem. Model internal variability is NOT well simulated by models, as this research itself shows!”
July 15th, 2009 at 4:49 pm
I will post up two conflicting media articles – the one by Tsonis,and another by Swanson, plus the RC Swanson guest post. Climate models suck, period! We can explain climate change on the basis of the internal variability, including natural climate cycles as identified by Tsonis et al, volcanoes, poorly understood solar factors, a solar amplifier (Shaviv, 2008), and the cosmic ray-cloud link, which is being investigated/quantified by CERN.
It’s clear from the work of Tsonis et al that the climate-temperature shifts in the 20th and 21st centuries are natural, on top of whatever drives the underlying temperature of the earth, which is more likely to be solar factors than poorly correlated CO2.