Green Affected Gore clears carbon dioxide of most blame
| November 03 2009
This is big. Al Gore is now saying carbon dioxide isn’t actually to blame for most of the warming we saw until 2001:
Gore explored new studies - published only last week - that show methane and black carbon or soot had a far greater impact on global warming than previously thought. Carbon dioxide – while the focus of the politics of climate change – produces around 40% of the actual warming. Gore acknowledged to Newsweek that the findings could complicate efforts to build a political consensus around the need to limit carbon emissions.
Which suggestsnot only that was Gore wrong to claim the science was “settled”, but that the hugely expensive schemes to “stop” warming by slashing carbon dixoide emissions will be less than half as effective as claimed.
Tim Blair isn’t surprised that Gore now says he’s switching from appealing to facts to appealing to faith. Well, actually, Tim is surprised, since facts actually have never been Gore’s thing.
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The guy is an absolute crank, sidelined by Clinton because he was too wacky, "rewarded" by pink European politicians for something because he lost the election to Bush, and Bush was hated in Europe because of the Iraq war.
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