New York, NY – If the never-ending string of snowstorms has you believing global warming is a hoax, Al Gore says think again.
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The former vice president-turned-planet protector insists all that white stuff is just another sign of creeping climate change.
“Just as it’s important not to miss the forest for the trees, neither should we miss the climate for the snowstorm,” Gore wrote in a wonky Op-Ed for The New York Times.
“The heavy snowfalls this month have been used as fodder for ridicule by those who argue that global warming is a myth,” he acknowledged.
“Yet scientists have long pointed out that warmer global temperatures have been increasing the rate of evaporation from the oceans,” he wrote. And that puts “significantly more moisture into the atmosphere – thus causing heavier downfalls of both rain and snow.”
Even though it feels like we’ve been freezing, too, January was the second-warmest – globally – in the 130 years since records have been kept, records show.
Gore blames shortsighted politicians and profit-obsessed corporations.
Nations spew 90 million tons of global-warming pollution into the air every 24 hours, “as if it were an open sewer.”
The market isn’t going fix this problem, he argues: Politicians have to pass tough new laws, he said. He backed legislation coming up this week in the Senate that would cap carbon emissions.
“It would be an enormous relief if the recent attacks on the science of global warming actually indicated that we do not face an unimaginable calamity requiring large-scale, preventive measures to protect human civilization,” he wrote.
But the evidence says otherwise, he insisted.
what is the there to comment? no snow? blame global warming! Too much snow? blame global warming! Whatever.
Gore speaks emes…All these unusual natural events including the snowstorms and earthquakes can be traced to global warming so it only reinforces the need for manking to do “environmental tshuvah” and reduce the amounts of carbon gases released into the atmoshphere before its too late. Gore is a visionary and all the jokes will not change the underlying scientific reality of his warnings.
I think it’s time to ban volcanoes and cap the amount of methane each cow can emit. That will show we mean business!
What an idiot !
Please be busy with more important thinks browing on the world community
he also invented the internet
1800-JUMP-inda-lake!
Keep on dreaming Al!
This man doesn’t know how to stop. Somebody put a sock in his mouth. please!!!!
And the cold weather is an arctic breeze Lol
How about the few warm years was a tropical wind and the world is not warming you hypocrite that has one of the largest carbon footprint
wat a buffoon, they always say global warming. when we didn’t have snow they blamed it on global warming now that we had a lot of snow they still blame it on global warming…. something is very fishy
But if i get paid 100 grand+ to speak about global warming i’ll defenitely believe it
Put this man in an asylum, already, for goodness sakes.
Good bey to global warming, welcome back ice age.
It’s the old Heads I win, Tails you lose with Gore…What a shoita
don’t tell me about late snow storms, my parents always talk about when they had snow on purim and if i recall correctly they even had snow on pesach. so do not tell me about global warming. in addition i was just down in miami and we had to wear winter coats it was so cold.
So, #s 2,3,4&5, I guess you’re fine with the fact that more of our children have asthma and we’re getting cancer at younger ages because according to you we have no impact on the world’s environment. Good luck living with your heads stuck in the ground.
One word tipesh but to all posters here it happens to be that all scientistes agree on global warming the only disagreement is if it’s man made or not
I want to ask the oilem a favor. Pretend this is a serious subject, and pretend you are serious people capable of logic and analysis. Argue with Gore on the basis of facts, not narishkeit.
He presents a hypothesis, that with more atmospheric heat, there is more percipitation. If you can disprove it , we’re very eager to hear. If you have any source that sheds light on this, we’re very eager to hear too.
If your strongest argument is that Gore is a shoita, or even a hypocrite, because of his own carbon use, I am not impressed with that reasoning.
You must understand that global warming isn’t about the temperature in Boro Park or Miami, but a yearly average temperature world wide. It apparantly is up a degree or 2 in recent years. The amount of snow has nothing to do with temperature – if it percipitates and it’s below 32 you get snow not rain. I remember some very cold winters in the past and this wan’t one of them.
It will take hundreds of years for global warming to have any significant effect, but for long term investment I would suggest that you buy stock in companies that produce air conditions and bathing suits rather than snow shovels and thermal underwear.
Also your parents having snow on Pesach is a very cute story, but somehow can’t be called science. Even “just down in miami and we had to wear winter coats it was so cold” is very fascinating, but falls short.
Al Gore is no buffoon. This supersize cheeseburger oif tzvei feess has an ‘oisgecheshbent’ agenda. It is you fools who fight to the death for his narishkeit like mind-numb robotic parrots (despite the obvious and the logical) who are the clowns.
You people are so oblivious and mindless! There has always been a concept of climate change. One year it is really cold, the next it is really warm. It keeps changing, it is NATURAL! Any of you ever heard of the dust bowl in the 1930’s!?!? But before that it was freezing durring the time of the Great Depression……Read some history, and if Hell freezes over, Al Gore will still say its because of Global Warming!
The warming is GLOBAL, not local.
Warmer oceans = more water evaporates into the air.
What goes up must come down. Got any snow?
Remember kids;
If it is too hot outside it is due to Global Warming.
If it is too cold outside it is due to Global Warming.
If it is too wet outside it is due to Global Warming.
If it is too dry outside it is due to Global Warming.
If the weather is just right it is only weather and not indicative of a lack of Global Warming.
Meshaneh Itim Imachlif Ess Hazmanim…
B”H he didn’t win the presidency.
I kind of wish there was global warming – this winter has been pretty brutal (remember the cold “snap” in December-January, plus all the snowstorms) – but whether there is or isn’t, there is no way that the Ribono Shel Olam put us in an unsustainable world. We have plenty of chiyuvim in this world to make sure that we get to the next one intact. Ani Ma’amin B’emunah Sheleima – even if Gore was right, and a thousand years from now the world would cease to exist, Moshiach will be here long before then. Let’s try to focus on what’s really important to us.
this guy is sick….and its also to blame GLOBAL WARMING……
עוד כל ימי הארץ זרע וקציר וקור וחום יום ולילה לא ישבותו
It’s amazing how people are willing to heap scorn on the scientific community when their findings don’t concur with your personal outlook. Yeah, yeah, science knows nothing about global warming, they know nothing about evolution, they know nothing about the age of the universe, etc because it doesn’t agree with what you’ve come to believe. Yet you risk your life on their findings daily. You fly in an airplane and it doesn’t fall out of the sky. You take medicine and get better. etc. Now I am not saying that science is always correct, but the scientific process is proven. It’s extremely arrogant for someone who has never even studied the data to even have an opinion on weather or not global warming exists. It would be akin to Louis Farrakhan disagree with you on pshat on a rashba in Bava Kama. You know nothing about the subject, but you have an opinion. How silly.
Thhis FERD thinks the whole world listens to his garbage little does he know about climatgate that they discovered this whole hoax – im freezing my TUCHES off from Global Cooling & THIS NEVEILA still gives out his sewer from his mouth / so stop flying w ur Jets Mr. Hypocrit (AL-Arebia) Gore
Al gore = ALLEGORY
The emails that the hackers released showed the whole global warming is a conspiracy. I agree that people shouldn’t ruin the world, but not because i believe in global warming but because hashem created a beautiful world and we shouldn’t destroy it. Our focus should be to go green. which means we use hashems world to the best of our ability with out ruining it. Let bush sell his airplanes his houses and go live in a forest!
I am wondering if global warming might be causing an increase in earthquakes. I would think you can’t add the weight of even a few inches more sea water in uneven depth all over the globe without changing the stress balances that push on fault lines.
Laugh all you want, he`s 100% right, and there is endless amount of data proving it.
Al Gore did not invent the theory of global warming, as the huxters on the reactionary right would have us believe. It was Svante Arrhenius, noted Swedish scientist, who discovered the phenomenon in 1896. He went on to win the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1903. Arrhenius actually thought that global warming was a desirable outcome inasmuch as it would create more arable land with which people could plant crops. The huxters would have us believe that all scientific analysis should have the same outcome, namely, the Democrats are wrong and the Republicans are right. Unfortunately, the world’s problems cannot be defined by such a simple construct. We should be the caretakers of our planet, as we are proscribed to do in the Chumash, and forget about Democrats and Republicans. Let us not look for excuses to escape our responsibilities. Our greatest responsibility is to keep our eyes and ears open and to allow the scientists to entertain and to test their scientific theories. The politicians will never fail to entertain us on page 1 of all the tabloids with all their sordid exploits and the huxters will spread around enough loshon hora to keep our worst appetites.satiated.
G-d has no control in the running of the world. He has no control of the world’s temperatures. In fact He should just retire already.
All of the strange things that are happening with the weather are caused by Global Warming. I don’t know why frum Jews seem to get such a charge out of being so ignorant about the environment.
That the Earth is growing warmer is a fact. It gets warmer and colder in cycles, which is why we have mini ice ages every X number of years, and great cooling every X number of years.
The melt-offs are as cyclical as the cold. However, the current hysteria is NOT deserved. Yes, the polar caps will melt. There may be some small rise in the levels of the oceans, we may experience less wetland and less fresh water run off. These things have happened before and will happen again. The rise is water levels will come from thermal expansion (when water gets warmer, it takes up more space) however, there won’t be a deluge. Ice is not as dense as water, melt water will take less room than the ice does.
If you want to know a piece of evidence that discounts our CO2 emissions as the cause (what the global warming experts say is true) then you can say that the true correlation between a hotter planet and CO2 lies with solar winds. You see, it takes ions to form clouds. In periods of greater solar activity, the ions are blown away from the planet and don’t help to generate cloud cover in the atmosphere. Less clouds = more direct light from the sun = more heat.
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That heat warms the oceans and forests, and on our best day we can’t compete with the exhalations of CO2 from these sources. I won’t even mention geothermal activity.
Want to see proof for yourself? Go take a close look at the numbers that form the chart Al Gore uses in his documentary “An Inconvenient Truth”. While I admire his passion, the numbers are far more interesting than that first glance allows. You see, the C02 levels follow the warming trends – yes, FOLLOW. The CO2 levels rise AFTER the heat. Then you can take a look at the relationship between solar activity and warming trends on the Earth. The correlation is staggering.
Should we pay attention to our planet and try to reduce our pollutants? Absolutely. But this hysteria means that Global Warming is the ’cause de jour’ and we’re spending a lot of research money in fewer areas. We can’t get better budgets for finding near-earth objects, for instance.
Human beings are adaptable. We have lived on a warmer earth, we adapted to ice ages, and we will learn to live in warm ones — and this will happen. It is inevitable; we can’t control the Earth’s orbit nor solar activity.
Global Warming ; You ain’t seen nothing yet. Wait till Erev Pesach , when we burn the Chometz in BP..
why does Gore avoid debate or taking questions?
Hashem created the world and He makes it run al pi teva.but, He can also make it seem like nature is running amok If there’s global warming or snow in July it is all due to Hashem. I am not worried, Moshiach is in the air.
if he would only stop spewing so much hot air into the atmosphere global warming would disappear!
I came across an interesting viewpoint in an article, today, which pointed out how we are still in the middle of a warming-period within an Ice-Age and that scientists, during a period of minor cooling in the 50s/60s were worried that we were reentering the Ice-Age.I realise that you are likely a global-warming-advocate but, if one were to reduce manmade contribution to climate to zero, how long would you estimate that we would have left, on average, given previous Ice-Ages/Interglacial periods etc., before we encountered Ice-Age conditions again?
Secondly, it has also been stated that, without carbon dioxide, the Earth would just be an ice-ridden hell, including the oceans. It was always my understanding that the Earth was situated within a “habitable temperature-zone” where it could neither be completely covered in ice nor filled with Venus-like conditions. If CO2 is indeed a factor helping to heat up the Earth, then how much closer would an airless/CO2-less Earth have to be to the Sun in order to have standard Earth-type temperatures(c.21 degrees Centigrade?)?
I just did a huge research paper and basically what I am coming up with is global warming is not real and not happening. The cooling during the 50’s and 60’s was associated with a cool phase of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation which switches every 30 years or so. Right now were reaching the end of our warm phase and entering the cool phase again. As you said, CO2 is not what is the problem, it is actually good for us and helps ozone concentration. Methane is the problem not CO2.
Gore is correct. Anyone who passed junior high school physical science knows that warm air can hold more moisture. That means heavier rains and snowfalls. But the snow can melt more rapidly and that is exactly what happened in northern New England this year. In mid February there was no snow on the ground in much of Vermont.
You can claim that global warming is a hoax, but it is as much a hoax as was the holocaust. The questions are how much is due to human involvement and what should be done about it.
I don’t know about that. The Jews who are most intensely espousing absurd theories are the ones who are least assimilated. On the other hand, politics makes strange bedfellows, and they’ve aligned themselves with the extreme Right Christians, historically not the sharpest knives in the drawer. It’s brought out some real ugliness — somebody on one of these sites told me I’m going to burn in Hell recently. Since when do Jews say that to one another?