According to the “global warming” crowd, a warming earth should result in more hurricanes and tropical storms than in times past, and stronger ones at that. But guess what? The 2009 peak hurricane season has turned out to actually be quieter than normal. Chalk up another dire prediction gone south for Al Gore and his minions.
The fact is our planet’s average temperatures have actually cooled over the last decade, not increased, prompting the doomsayers to change the name of their pet project from “global warming” to “climate change”. I guess anything goes when you have millions of dollars at stake should the public at large ever get wise to the folly they’re promoting as science.
A rather humorous sideshow in the climate change debate took place a few days ago when an nvironmental journalist confronted Al Gore with the “inconvenient truth” that the polar bear population isn’t at all endangered as Gore claims. In reality, the number of polar bears currently roaming the planet is the largest it has ever been. But rather than responding to the gentleman’s question in a thoughtful, intelligent manner, Gore had his mike cut off after asking HIM if he thought polar bears weren’t endangered. Below is a video of the exchange:
Now that another hurricane season has largely come and gone with little more than a whimper, it’ll be interesting to hear whatever theory the environmental activists manage to conjure up next. I expect to hear any day now that Mr. Gore has won the 2009 Nobel Prize for Physics. No wait…I think I remember hearing that three guys named Charles K. Kao, Willard S. Boyle and George E. Smith have already won this year’s prize. Surely, the fix must have been in!