Watts Up With That? has the scoop:
Late last month, some leading climatologists and meteorologists met in New York at the Energy Business Watch Climate and Hurricane Forum. The theme of the forum strongly suggested that a period of global cooling is about emerge, though possible concerns for a political backlash kept it from being spelled out.
What’s interesting about this is last time – (in the 70s) or the time before that (the 50s) or the time before that (the 20s) or the time before that (the turn of the century) – it wasn’t easy to track and remember what had been said several decades before. Now, we’ve got Google and a boatload of other ways to track information, network with other people with an interest in debunking the hype, and quickly disseminate rebuttals to a large audience.
Just imagine if Al Gore hadn’t invented the intarweb* – does this mean he’s officially self-fisking?
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*Yes, I know a) he didn’t actually invent the internet and b) he didn’t especially claim that he did and c) the actually quote was “During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet.” He was trying to take a lot more credit than he was entitled to, as politicians will, but the truth is he was a techie type in Congress who promoted legislation related to networking and supercomputers. And since then he’s a top dog at Google – he’s not just milking the carbon credit scam to pay for that massive electric bill. So he has some legitimate techie credibility. The contortions and mockery on that quote are similar to the heat Dan Quayle took for his very reasonable comments about the TV show Murphy Brown promoting single motherhood. All that said, I feel free to make a little fun at Gore’s expense and to enjoy the irony that the technology he promoted twenty years ago will probably – hopefully – be his undoing now.
