Posted 2 October 2013
Poor old Albert Gore Jnr! Seems he just can't win! He's got more than mere mortal skeptics frustrating his efforts to bluff the world into accepting his myths about human-caused global warming.
First in his political days as VIce-President of the US, there was the Gore Box, about which Professor Timothy Ball wrote here
**GOD'S SENSE OF HUMOUR (or the Al Gore effect)**
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Sonya Jay Porter**
<sub>In Rio de Janeiro in the summer of 2012, the city's 130 ft statue of 'Christ the Redeemer' was bathed in green light for the UN Rio+20
Conference on Sustainable Development, the latest international get-together to discuss Global Warming and Saving the Planet. But this
UN publicity stunt, perhaps a childish message to show that the environmental religion was now replacing Christianity, backfired
badly. Not only were many delegates, Christians and others, horrified but also God showed his displeasure or perhaps his sense of humour.
For the three days of the Conference, the statue, on its mountain top, was concealed under thick fog, heavy clouds and pouring rain.</sub>
<sub>And this has happened many times during solemn discussions on climate change, on how man is destroying the planet and only man can save it.
Since the New Age 1960s, ecological problems of various kinds have concerned many people, but in the late 1980s the latest and greatest
scare became what was called Global Warming. It was feared that 'greenhouse gases' including Carbon Dioxide (CO2), which keep the
planet from freezing, were increasing rapidly due to man's use of fossil fuels since the Industrial Revolution and especially since the
Second World War. It was foreseen that if these emissions from coal, oil, gas, etc. were not soon reduced, the earth would heat rapidly and
might become uninhabitable.</sub>
<sub>Many international conferences were convened, leading to the first United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, which was
held in Rio de Janeiro in 1992 and nicknamed the 'Earth Summit'. This was attended by Al Gore, the US Vice President under President Clinton
from 1993 to 2001 who has become one of the world's foremost environmental activists.</sub>
<sub>In 2006 he produced a documentary film 'An Inconvenient Truth' designed to raise the world's awareness of global warming which, he
warned, if unchecked would create every-higher temperatures leading to melting polar ice and glaciers, droughts, famines and possible
extinction of all life. He had no doubt that this problem could be solved by people coming together and using renewable fuel sources such
as wind power instead of fossil fuels. The film was a world-wide success and the world's environmentalists panicked. Warnings appeared
across the media with ever-increasing intensity.</sub>
<sub>However, for several years now, global warming sceptics, those not entirely convinced by the latest scare, have noted with amusement a
phenomenon known as 'The Gore Effect'. It seemed that whenever Al Gore made a global warming speech, or even if a global warming event took
place in his absence, it was accompanied by unseasonably low temperatures.</sub>
<sub>The Gore Effect began even before the first showing of his film. In January 2004, Al Gore spoke in New York and Boston when both cities
were hit by the coldest temperatures in almost fifty years. However, he shrugged off this phenomenon, ascribing it to the result of global
warming or climate change, as it was also becoming known.Gore visited Australasia with his film in October 2006, late spring in
that region. New Zealand newspapers reported an unusually cold October that left Southland dairy farmers struggling. When he moved on to
Australia a month later the Gore Effect struck again. It snowed in Queensland in November for the first time in at least 65 years.
And on October 22, 2008 Al Gore's global warming speech at Harvard University coincided with near 125-year record-breaking low
temperatures.</sub>
<sub>In December 2008 he visited Milan in Italy to give his usual speech on global warming. Outside the building it was snowing hard, a very rare
event there in early winter. It was also snowing in Rome and Naples and Palermo ˜ and Sicily, at more or less Florida's latitude ˜ was
under slight snow/freezing rain. On the Alps snow had already reached record heights, unparalleled in the last decades.</sub>
<sub>And when Gore testified about global warming before the US Senate committee in January 2009 the local schools were closed due to heavy
snowfalls.</sub>
<sub>But Al Gore proved that he could produce record cold temperatures anywhere on the globe, just by speaking about global warming. In
December 2007 he attended a Global Warming Conference in Bali, where of course it never snows. But back in the US, there were record ice
storms in the Midwest, up to 18 inches of snow in the Northeast and Maine tied a 117-year record for snow.</sub>
<sub>Later, it appeared that just the idea of anything to do with global warming was enough to cause a lowering of temperatures.</sub>
<sub>Al Gore was nowhere near London when, on 29th October 2008, the House of Commons was receiving its third reading of the Climate Change Bill
which committed Britain to reduce its carbon dioxide emissions by 80 per cent by 2050. Yet, outside in London for the first time since
1922, snow was falling.</sub>
<sub>Nor did he attend the Copenhagen Conference on Climate Change in December 2009 but that didn't matter ˜ the snow still fell, which was
most embarrassing. In the October, Prime Minister Gordon Brown had said gravely that we had 'only 50 days to save the world', although at
least Prince Charles who spoke at the Conference gave us 'seven years before we lose the levers of control'. Nevertheless world leaders,
including President Obama, flew into Copenhagen to face freezing weather as a blizzard dumped 4 inches of snow on the Danish capital.
Back across the Atlantic, a major storm hit the US forcing President Obama to leave the conference early. He returned home to land in thick
snow.</sub>
<sub>Perhaps Al Gore had been banned from attending the Climate Change Conference in Cancun, Mexico, in November 2010, but God still put the
Gore Effect into action. While inside the building the delegates solemnly discussed how to prevent the planet's temperatures from
rising, the temperature outside plunged to a 100 year record low of 54F.</sub>
<sub>And as mentioned, the weather for the Rio+20 Conference in June was no better: three days of pouring rain.</sub>
<sub>The next Climate Change Conference to be held was the importantly-named '18th session of the Conference of the Parties to
the UNFCCC and the 8th session of the Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol' and took
place from 26 November to 7 December 2012 at the Qatar National Convention Centre in Doha, Qatar. And yes, God laughed again!</sub>
<sub>In late November the Netherlands, Northern France, Belgium and Germany, Switzerland and Sweden were hit by heavy snow falls and bang
on the 7th December, just as the delegates were returning home from their sunny, warm conference, wintry conditions disrupted air
travellers across the whole of northern Europe and many flights were cancelled.</sub>
<sub>And so to New Zealand while Al Gore was twittering that the country was experiencing 'its hottest winter on record', on 4th September 2013
a total of 316 skiers were trapped on Mount Hutt by new snow and gusting winds.</sub>
<sub>Will someone please confine the world's premier global warmist to his home and take away his computer. And will God please stop giggling!</sub><sub>
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