The Warm War

Wind farms fill up the open space on the Tribune's front page (probably a good idea, how about Grant Park?) the day after The Goracle accepted his peace prize in Oslo. (The winners of the science Nobels are feted in Stockholm.)

Ah, we must "make peace with the planet", we're facing a "planetary emergency" and "mutually assured destruction" (Doesn't it sound like he's recycling one of his old speeches from early in his political career on the Cold War? Now it's the Warm War.) I think he thinks he's president of the world.

Yes, we need Al to save us all...he just doesn't like people that much, even beautiful people paying to see him. Before jetting off to Oslo, Al jetted in to London. Daily Mail:

Al Gore has come under fire for making personal gain from his mission to save the planet – after charging £3,300 a minute to deliver a poorly received speech.

The former American Vice-President was also accused of being "precious" at the London event, demanding his own VIP room and ejecting journalists, despite hopes the star-studded gathering would generate publicity for the fight against global warming.

Many of the audience at last month's Fortune Forum summit were restless as Mr Gore, who has won both a Nobel Peace Prize and an Oscar for his campaigning work this year, delivered the half-hour speech that netted him £100,000.

Tomorrow he's jetting to Bali, along with just about everybody else to that idyllic island in the Pacific, burning fuel like there's no tomorrow. Hmm--is Al hastening OUR END? They are working on a new Kyoto. The Bali treaty. And before that there was Sao Paolo, or was it Rio. (Wasn't that where God's gift John Kerry met the well-heeled Teresa?) All those lovely vacation, uh, working, spas, uh spots.

Isn't this an expensive upgrade from those endless UN lunches at French restaurants?

Speaking of Brazil, scientists there offer us this, translated by FoxNews:

On the same day Al Gore received his share of the Nobel Prize for his work on climate change — one of his main arguments is being challenged by a scientific fact.

Gore has said that the northern polar ice cap could be completely gone in as little as seven years. But Brazil's MetSul Weather Center reports the ice and snow cover in the Arctic have recovered to within one percent of normal — even though the official start of winter is still more than a week away.

And it says the southern polar ice cap actually has an additional 772,000 square miles of ice now — compared to a year ago.

Slogging away at science, what a concept.

Are your ears burning in Bali, Al? Getting a little warm?

UPDATE: There is one simple solution--get rid of all the people--imagine a Chicago without us. (But if that seems too draconian--we need fewer journalists, more engineers. Read to the end.)

UPDATE: Skeptical scientists, including our own Heartland Institute, make waves in Bali:

"UN organizers refused my credentials and appeared desperate that I should not come to this conference. They have also made several attempts to interfere with our public meetings," Monckton explained.

"It is a circus here," agreed Australian scientist Dr. David Evans. Evans is making scientific presentations to delegates and journalists at the conference revealing the latest peer-reviewed studies that refute the UN's climate claims.

"This is the most lavish conference I have ever been to, but I am only a scientist and I actually only go to the science conferences," Evans said, noting the luxury of the tropical resort. (Note: An analysis by Bloomberg News on December 6 found: "Government officials and activists flying to Bali, Indonesia, for the United Nations meeting on climate change will cause as much pollution as 20,000 cars in a year." - LINK)

Evans, a mathematician who did carbon accounting for the Australian government, recently converted to a skeptical scientist about man-made global warming after reviewing the new scientific studies. (LINK)

"We now have quite a lot of evidence that carbon emissions definitely don't cause global warming. We have the missing [human] signature [in the atmosphere], we have the IPCC models being wrong and we have the lack of a temperature going up the last 5 years," Evans said in an interview with the Inhofe EPW Press Blog. Evans authored a November 28 2007 paper "Carbon Emissions Don't Cause Global Warming." (LINK)

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