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Title: Internet 'Creator' Gore's website crashed by Drudge --
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Climate Depot
URL Source: http://www.climatedepot.com/a/9628/ ... e-man-who-created-the-Internet
Published: Feb 2, 2011
Author: Marc Morano
Post Date: 2011-02-02 17:33:44 by Hondo68
Keywords: global warming, heavy snows, An Inconvenient Truth
Views: 1208
Comments: 2
Former Vice President Al Gore's website was crashed by Matt Drudge's website on Tuesday afternoon. Gore's site was down from approximately 4:30 PM ET until about 6PM ET. The DrudgeReport.com linked to Gore's claim that "heavy snowfalls are completely consistent with what they (scientists) have been predicting as a consequence of man-made global warming" at exactly 4:29pm ET. Gore's website crashed almost immediately following Drudge's link. The irony for Gore is that he has touted his role of “creating the Internet.” “During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet,” Gore said during a March 9, 1999 CNN interview. It now appears the creator of the Internet's website is not able to handle traffic from the DrudgeReport.com. [Note: Drudge has a long history of overwhelming websites with heavy readership traffic. See: Drudge, global warming shut down Senate site – Jan. 23, 2007] Gore has been joined by many proponents of man-made global warming in now claiming that record cold and snow is either “consistent with” or caused by global warming. The problem for Gore and others who make these claims, is they are on record claiming decreasing snow and cold are caused by global warming. See: Flashback: Top Democrats Warn Low Snow Levels Prove Global Warming (Video) - 'Watch Democrats Jay Inslee, Barbara Boxer, Amy Klobuchar, Robert Byrd and Dianne Feinstein express deep concern and alarm during years when winters were mild and snow was light, contending that global warming was the cause.' Even more bad news for Al Gore is the fact that his claim that heavy snows being “completely consistent” with “man-made global warming” is being ridiculed by scientists and the claims are at odds with the UN climate panel that Gore shared a 2007 Nobel Prize with. See: Climate 'Bible', the IPCC in 2007 'told us that winters would be WARMER and LESS extreme' -- UN IPCC 2007: 'More warm and fewer cold nights...fewer frost days...fewer cold outbreaks; fewer, shorter, less intense cold spells/cold extremes in winter' Gore's claim of snow being "consistent" with global warming is also at odds with is Oscar Winning 2006 film “An Inconvenient Truth.” Gore never once warned of record cold and increasing snowfalls as a consequence of man-made global warming in that film. But Gore has hyped the lack of snow as "evidence" for man-made global warming. See: Flashback 2009: 'Gore Reports Snow and Ice Across the World Vanishing Quickly' The evidence Gore provided in his February 1, 2011 article for his claim that "heavy snowfalls" are consistent with global warming, came from a newspaper columnist. For more background on how man-made global warming proponents have descended into what many are calling desperation in attempting to sell their cause, please read on: Watch Now: Flashback: Climate Depot's Morano on Fox News Mocking 'Climate Astrology': 'This is now akin to the predictions of Nostradamus or the Mayan calendar' -- Morano: 'There is no way anyone can falsify the global warming theory now because any weather event that happens 'proves' their case...Man-made global warming has ceased to be a science, it is now the level of your daily horoscope' -- Gore [in 2006 film] did not warn us of extreme blizzards and record cold winters coming' Climatologist Dr. Roy Spencer Mocks Gore: OMG! ANOTHER GLOBAL WARMING SNOWSTORM!! -- 'Gore has caused the spread of more pseudo-scientific incompetence on the subject of global warming than any climate scientist could possibly have ever accomplished...No serious climate researcher — including the ones I disagree with — believes global warming can cause colder weather. Unless they have become delusional as a result of some sort of mental illness' Meteorologist Anthony Watts: 'Apparently, Gore has never noted that climate scientists once thought snowfall would disappear. But wait, there's more. According to Dr David Viner, a senior research scientist at the climatic research unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia,within a few years winter snowfall will become “a very rare and exciting event”. “Children just aren't going to know what snow is,” Viner said. 'Incorrect': Climatologist Pielke Sr. Slaps Down NYT For Global Warming Blizzard Claims! -- 'The oceans have not been warming in recent years' -- 'ALL seasonal and longer time scale model predictions have failed to skillfully predict these extreme cold events'-- Gore now claims 'increased heavy snowfalls are completely consistent with... man-made global warming'
But Gore never warned of looming 'heavy snowfalls' in his 2006 film -- The man who 'created' the Internet finds his website (and his science) not up to the task -- Climate Depot's Rebuttal
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#1. To: hondo68 (#0)
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Does record snowfall disprove global warming? http://www.skepticalscience.com/Record-snowfall-disproves-global-warming.htm The 2009/2010 winter saw a number of dramatic, record breaking snowstorms. Early February saw two "once in a 100 years" snowstorms hit Philadelphia, now being dubbed "Snowmageddon". Does record snowfall prove that global warming isn't happening? What do observations say? 2009 was the second hottest year on record. January 2010 was the hottest January in the UAH satellite record. Satellites data indicates last month was the second hottest February in the satellite record. Observations tell us that rumours of global warming's death have been greatly exaggerated. If global warming is still happening, why are some areas experiencing record snowfall events? As climate warms, evaporation from the ocean increases. This results in more water vapour in the air. Globally, atmospheric water vapour has increased by about 5% over the 20th century. Most of the increase has occurred since 1970 (IPCC AR4 3.4.2.1). This is confirmed by satellites that find the total atmospheric moisture content has been increasing since measurements began in 1988 (Santer 2007). The extra moisture in the air is expected to produce more precipitation, including more extreme precipitation events. Observations bear this out. A study of precipitation trends over the United States found that heavy precipitation events (over 50mm in a day) have increased 20% over the 20th Century (Groisman 2004). Most of this increase occured after 1970. Various analyses of precipitation over the globe have similarly found a widespread increase in heavy precipitation days since 1950 (Alexander 2006, Groisman 2006). Snowstorms can occur if temperatures are in the range of -10°C to 0°C. Global warming decreases the likeliness of snowstorm conditions in warmer, southern regions. However, in northern, colder regions, temperatures are often too cold for very heavy snow so warming can bring more favourable snowstorm conditions (Kunkel 2008). This is borne out in observations. Over the last century, there has been a downward trend in snowstorms across the lower Midwest, South and West Coast. Conversely, there's been an increase in snowstorms in the upper Midwest East, and Northeast with the overall national trend also upwards (Changnon 2006). To claim that record snowfall is inconsistent with a warming world betrays a lack of understanding of the link between global warming and extreme precipitation. Global temperatures in the last few months of record snowfall are some of the hottest on record. Warming causes more moisture in the air which leads to more extreme precipitation events. This includes more heavy snowstorms in regions where snowfall conditions are favourable. Far from contradicting global warming, record snowfall is predicted by climate models and consistent with our expectation of more extreme precipitation events.
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UAH Satellite temperature of near surface layer Figure 1: UAH satellite measurement of near surface temperature. January 2010 is the hottest January in the satellite record. February 2010 is the second hottest February in the satellite record. Click on the image for larger version. 
Change in water vapor % over global ocean Figure 2: Change in water vapor percentage relative to the 1988 to 2004 period over the global ocean plus linear trend, measured by satellite (IPCC AR4 3.4.2.1). 
Figure 3: Global number of days per year when precipitation was greater than 10mm per day, expressed as an anomaly from the 1961 tp 1990 reference period (Alexander 2006).
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