Al Gore update

I read that:

"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 suggests not 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. "

Should anyone be surprised that Al Gore got the "science" of Climate Change so wrong, after all I read that :

"For all of Gore's later fascination with science and technology, he often struggled academically in those subjects. The political champion of the natural world received that sophomore D in Natural Sciences 6 (Man's Place in Nature) and then got a C-plus in Natural Sciences 118 his senior year."

I suppose that still makes him better qualified in science than the BBC's environment analyst Roger Harrabin who studied English at St Catharine's College, Cambridge.

Here's the science expert Al Gore in an interview with Conan O'Brien recently:

"Al: It definitely is, and it's a relatively new one. People think about geothermal energy -- when they think about it at all -- in terms of the hot water bubbling up in some places, but two kilometers or so down in most places there are these incredibly hot rocks, 'cause the interior of the earth is extremely hot, several million degrees, and the crust of the earth is hot"

Several million degrees, wow that's hot, like really hot; especially when you realise that the temperature at the surface of the sun is around 6,000 degrees celsius and the sun's core around 12,000 degrees celsius. According to what I have read the temperature of the Earth around two kilometres down is around 60 degrees celsius. The temperature at the earth's core is quoted as variously 5,000 degrees celsius or less or 9,000 degrees.

Al Gore - scientist, humanitarian, rich man - and getting richer all the time as his eco-companies rake in your taxes...


More on climate change lies later today, there's a lot around!