Posted On: Tuesday - April 4th 2023 9:50PM MST
In Topics: Global Climate Stupidity Globalists Environmental Stupidity Science
We haven't heard from Climate Calamity™ alarmist Al Gore in years. That's because we make that extra effort not to. This video I came upon, though, was like looking at a slow-motion carbon-neutral train wreck. I couldn't look away. This is from the WEF at Davos, as former Vice President and proto-Greta Al Gore hung out pontificating with the carbon-positive jet-setting Globalists.
I'd like to comment on every stupid thing Mr. Gore said in this rant but there's no time... from what they tell me. The end of the planet is nigh.
Now, I did a a quick look on Wiki for info on Al Gore just to see if he was this drop-out I'd read about. Really, the facts of the bio give not so bad a picture of the man. Of course, he was a silver-spoon politician's son brought up in Washington, FS and placed in the St. Albans School for the rich and pampered. He could have been one of those "Fortunate Sons", but he enlisted in the army and went to Vietnam - as a journalist - in order to avoid the stigma, knowing already he was going to be a politician.
Al Gore did finish his school at Harvard, but had done poorly (C's and/or D's) in his science classes, hated math, and graduated with a degree in... what else?: Government. Per Wiki, "In his senior year, he took a class with oceanographer and global warming theorist Roger Revelle, who sparked Gore's interest in global warming and other environmental issues." How could this one class make the man into the raving, ranting deluded lunatic he is today?
It wasn't like he was in a seminar class with Greta Thunberg. Professor Roger Revelle was a real scientist, a pioneering oceanographer before, through, and after, the WWII years. Dr. Revelle's work in Oceanography had him studying this "Global Warming" THEORY (mind you - they were more honest then) from the standpoint of the oceans, of course. His idea was that the oceans can absorb this CO2 that was being worried about. Eventually, after the increasing saturation of it (remember partial vapor pressure, etc?) the ocean water would absorb CO2 less readily. Yet, Dr. Revelle was called the "Father of the Greenhouse Effect", and seems to have been the Climate Crisis guru that Al Gore needed to back him up for his Earth in the Balance book. Revelle died in '91, just before Al Gore's VP campaign with Bill Clinton.
Gore's alarmism worked for a while, but it wasn't so alarming to me and thinking Americans yet, as the Globalists and Communists had not gotten ahold of it as a weapon to ruin economies with yet. For Al Gore to still show his face in among the ranks of the Climate Calamity™ Crowd really takes a lot of gall at this point, due to his (D in) Science predictions being shown to be, to put it nicely, unsound. HIs most precise one (precision is not accuracy), from his Inconvenient Truth movie of '06 said that within the decade there would be no more snows of Kilimanjaro. No, it still snows there. More broadly, there was a 75% chance (in '06) that within 5 years - by '11, then - that during "some summer months" the polar ice cap would disappear completely. You can't get a good model out of that guy.
Let me discuss the money-rant from the video here though:
The accumulated amount [of CO2] is now trapping as much extra heat [ENERGY, damn you!] as would be released by six hundred thousand Hiroshima class atomic bombs exploding every single day on the Earth!I'm not really sure when this accumulated amount started, but let's go with the statement as is. I looked up the kilo-tonnage* of the "Little Boy" atomic bomb. It was a measly 15 kTon bomb. There are nuclear bombs that release 60 Megatons, 4,000 times as much, via a fusion reaction, as those Hiroshima ones. (Hell, you can't even GET those old fission bombs anymore. ebay might have a few old aftermarket ones, but do you really know if they're gonna work?)
[Cannot find the proper Alt key for spittle - Ed]
Exploding 600,000 old fission bombs of questionable shelf-life every day is a lot of work. Why not explode 150 of those big ones? Exploding 150 of these "Tsar Bombas" each day would be easier, and we could pummel certain blue cities with them daily in the process. Either way, for alarmist Al Gore calculations' sake, the energy released by those 600,000 15 kTon bombs is 3.8 x 1016 kJ.
I was pleased with myself for having calculated the mass of the atmosphere by using the surface pressure (15 lb/in2) times the surface area of the earth (there's a g in there), and its matching within 10% the number I later found on line - ~ 5 x 1018 kg. The simple energy accumulation of "sensible heat" is E = mcΔT, rearranged as ΔT = E/mc**, so I get a temperature increase of 0.0076 C.
I didn't do this just for the fun of it, but to show that this whole comparison is not what Mr. Gore thinks it is. Did he think he was comparing a steady input of energy (the daily bombs) to some rate of energy accumulation in the atmosphere? He says "accumulated amount" referring to CO2 which has supposedly warmed up the Earth a tad to a new equilibrium. I think he means to say those 600,000 Little Boy A-bombs are adding energy to the atmosphere at this daily rate, thinking this means "the Earth", however that control volume is described, will heat up daily. If that's the case, that 0.0075 C/day = 2 3/4 C yearly. Not hardly! Even the most extreme Climate Calamity™ scaremongers don't use that number. We are not adding the accumulated amount of CO2 every day anew, and even if we were (we guys with large-cabin BizJets to take us to places like Davos, that is), there wouldn't be a continuous linear effect.
Assuming this 600,000 daily A-Bombs worth of energy - that 3.8 x 1016kJ/daily - was calculated by someone who knows his ass from a smoking A-bomb crater in the ground, the accumulated CO2 has raised the T of the Earth by 0.0076C. That's not worrisome enough for the Globalists and Communists. Should we be using the Tsar Bombas instead. Right now we have a Climate Gap? I don't really know what to do about that... really... other than... OH. We need money!
I believe ranting Crazy AlGore erroneously means the former, a rise of 2 3/4 C yearly, so that's why he's worried about the oceans coming to a boil. We'll do the boiling oceans calculation tomorrow. This is kinda fun!
* It's a weird measurement unit alright, but it means the amount of TNT exploded that would release the equivalent energy. A kTon "yield" = 4.18 x 109 kJ.
** c is the specific heat. I'm simplifying, as there are 2 variants and I'm just taking it for Nitrogen gas. It doesn't vary much, and it is a nice round 1 kJ/kg-K. (K could be C too, as we're talking temperature differences.)
Comments:
Moderator
Wednesday - April 5th 2023 4:51PM MST
PS: Right, Alarmist, that's what is a problem with this climate modeling (we use one "l" here across the pond, but I only just learned that). One can experiment on simple parts of the whole picture, like the absorption of various wavelengths of radiation, in a lab. One can't experiment on the whole climate but only observe. Well, these observations are of the results of a myriad of mechanical/chemical processes that may each be understood individually, but when it all comes together.. no way, do they have a handle on it all.
Adam, that's the next post here. I would like to know what the best time would be to go to the beach this season. I want to go before the boiling but after it's still freezing-assed cold. Hopefully that week will fit in with our schedules.
Adam, that's the next post here. I would like to know what the best time would be to go to the beach this season. I want to go before the boiling but after it's still freezing-assed cold. Hopefully that week will fit in with our schedules.
Moderator
Wednesday - April 5th 2023 4:47PM MST
PS: "BTW, didn’t he flunk out of Divinity School?"
If that's the case, I think Mr. Gore has been redeeming himself after his poor performance in the past. The nuns must have wrapped him hard on the knuckles, as he seems to have learned how to preach... some kind of religion anyway.
Commenter M would agree. As for the dilution factor, but regarding energy rather than mass, that'll be that short next post in an hour or so.
If that's the case, I think Mr. Gore has been redeeming himself after his poor performance in the past. The nuns must have wrapped him hard on the knuckles, as he seems to have learned how to preach... some kind of religion anyway.
Commenter M would agree. As for the dilution factor, but regarding energy rather than mass, that'll be that short next post in an hour or so.
Adam Smith
Wednesday - April 5th 2023 1:07PM MST
PS: Al Gore is such a clown...
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/01/climate-news-were-boiling-the-ocean-faster-than-we-thought.html
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https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/01/climate-news-were-boiling-the-ocean-faster-than-we-thought.html
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The Alarmist
Wednesday - April 5th 2023 11:52AM MST
PS
BTW, like so many pseudoscientific assertions by Clownworld denizens like Mr. Gore, his assertion about heat added to the atmosphere due to added CO2 is at best a hypothesis that cannot be empirically tested, much less falsified (or not). It can only be modelled, and that requires assumptions, and you know what they say about assuming things....
BTW, like so many pseudoscientific assertions by Clownworld denizens like Mr. Gore, his assertion about heat added to the atmosphere due to added CO2 is at best a hypothesis that cannot be empirically tested, much less falsified (or not). It can only be modelled, and that requires assumptions, and you know what they say about assuming things....
M
Wednesday - April 5th 2023 6:16AM MST
PS
Gore has learned his trade from preachers, so the spittle is a feature.
It's an old trick - repeatedly mention some large figure to represent the harm you're venting against. Get people too hyped to figure out what the figure really means.
The usual culprit these days is to mention any spill in liters (thousands!) - never mind that the spill is into the Pacific Ocean.
See the images for the Fukushima water, showing that they can see, see! the horrible deliberate spill. (Don't mention that you could drink the stuff after it mixes and your biggest danger would be from, you know, drinking untreated salt water).
Gore has learned his trade from preachers, so the spittle is a feature.
It's an old trick - repeatedly mention some large figure to represent the harm you're venting against. Get people too hyped to figure out what the figure really means.
The usual culprit these days is to mention any spill in liters (thousands!) - never mind that the spill is into the Pacific Ocean.
See the images for the Fukushima water, showing that they can see, see! the horrible deliberate spill. (Don't mention that you could drink the stuff after it mixes and your biggest danger would be from, you know, drinking untreated salt water).
The Alarmist
Wednesday - April 5th 2023 4:43AM MST
PS
It might be far easier to comment on what Mr. Gore got right.
BTW, didn’t he flunk out of Divinity School?
It might be far easier to comment on what Mr. Gore got right.
BTW, didn’t he flunk out of Divinity School?
"(Al Gore) enlisted in the army and went to Vietnam - as a journalist"
How does this work? An army p.r. man? Does that qualify as a journalist?