Science is not that simple and I have continued to point out evidence from scholars, scientists and other experts on global warming who are skeptical at the methods and conclusions being touted by the news, actors, musicians, politicians, columnists and of course, Al Gore.

In the 70′s “Global Cooling” was the rage, now years later, we’re in a global warming panic. Politicians are jumping on the bandwagon for motives other than the good of the planet.

Mr. Gore gladly accepted the Oscar for his docu-drama “The Inconvenient Truth” and is traveling the world to promote his “science.” Truth is, Al Gore is no scientist and his movie is not accurate, it skips facts to get his point across so his movie and his ego are relevant on the world stage. Up next for Al Gore, the Nobel Peace Prize but what has Gore done for Peace.

Facts are Mr. Gore and wife Tipper are genuine, bloviating, hypocrites well beyond Gore’s current wide girth. In fact, Al Gore is one of the largest consumers of electrical energy in his home state of Tennessee.

Gore Consumption

The Tennessee Center for Policy Research has found that Gore deserves a gold statue for hypocrisy. Gore’s mansion, a 20-room, eight bathroom energy hog, consumes more electricity every month than the average American household uses in an entire year, according to the Nashville Electric Service.

Gore’s palace burned more than 20 times the national average of kilowatts-hours in energy, while Gore calls on Americans to conserve energy by reducing electricity consumption at home.

Gore Gas

The Gore mansion natural gas bill including his guesthouse has averaged $1,080 per month, nearly as much as his electric bill of $1,359 per month. Seems Mr. Gore is not only full of himself and gas, he consumes much more than the average Joe. Gore’s heated pool house alone consumed more natural gas than his entire main living quarters.

Science Not So Simple 

On the science side, Gore will not discuss or debate with global warming skeptics, he has to much backing from the press and scientists who gather in great sums of money to study one side of the warming equation.

Roy W. Spencer is principle research scientist at the Global Hydrology and Climate Center of the National Space and Science & Technology Center in Huntsville, Alabama. Mr. Spencer believes extreme views and not all the science is driving the global warming hysteria today.

Greenhouse Gas Effect

Spencer writes that CO2 concentrations are now running up about 40 percent in the last century and are one possible explanation for the current 1-degree warming trend. He also states that our climate in non-linear, dynamic and can go through sizable gyrations all on its own.

Spencer believes science is not looking at the “big picture” of understanding the climate system and predicting global warming and only a small portion of the problem is being analyzed.

Unless we know how the greenhouse-limiting properties of precipitation systems change with warming, we don’t know how much of our current warmth is due to mankind, and we can’t estimate how much future warming there will be, either. To solve the global-warming puzzle, we first need to learn much more about the precipitation-system puzzle.

Climate and Precipitation

Spencer believes the one atmospheric process that has the greatest control on the Earth’s climate is the one we understand the least, precipitation.

Over most of the planet, water is continuously evaporating, humidifying the air to form the Earth’s dominant greenhouse gas: water vapor. Climate scientists will tell you that the extra CO2 we are putting in the atmosphere causes a “warming tendency” at the surface, which will evaporate even more water, which will amplify the warming. This positive water vapor feedback, so the theory goes, ends up turning the relative benign direct warming effect of CO2 – only 1 degree of warming late in this century – into a much more serious problem.

But surface evaporation is not what determines how much water vapor, on average, resides in the atmosphere – precipitation systems do. These not only control the water-vapor portion of the greenhouse effect, they directly or indirectly control most of the next most important greenhouse ingredient: clouds.

More Study Needed

So, what does all this have to do with global warming? Unless we know how the greenhouse-limiting properties of precipitation systems change with warming, we don’t know how much of our current warmth is due to mankind, and we can’t estimate how much future warming there will be, either. To solve the global-warming puzzle, we first need to learn much more about the precipitation-system puzzle.

What little evidence we now have suggests that precipitation systems act as a natural thermostat to reduce warming. For instance, warm, tropical systems are more efficient at converting water vapor to precipitation than their cool high-latitude cousins. Hurricanes are believed to be the most efficient of all.

Computer Models Incomplete

Computerized models of our climate have had a habit of “drifting” too warm or too cold. This because they still don’t contain all of the temperature-stabilizing processes that exist in nature. In fact, for the amount of solar energy available to it, our climate seems to have a “preferred” average temperature, damping out swings beyond 1 degree or so.

I believe that when the stabilizing effects of precipitation systems are better understood and included into the models, predictions of global warming will be scaled back. Despite current inadequacies, climate models are still our best tools for forecasting global warming. Those tools just aren’t sharp enough yet.

Many are calling global warming skeptics “deniers” but debate from both sides of science will accurately determine if humans should attempt to alter natural processes. Reducing pollution is certainly our responsibility but haste may produce drastic results beyond CO2 emissions.

Mr. Spencer notes:

Finally, remember that phrase, “the Earth’s greenhouse effect keeps the Earth habitably warm?” I’ll bet you never heard the phrase that is, quantitatively, more accurate: “Weather processes keep the Earth habitably cool.”

Hollywood and the Left Wing base believe Al Gore and his “science” are cool. If Mr. Gore used the “Information Highway” he proudly proclaims he invented, more facts and both sides of the global warming science would be recognized.

The fact is, Al Gore and his followers find debate and all sides of science inconvenient to their one-sided view.

John Fund at OpinionJournal’s Political Diary (subscription) notes:

Mr. Gore’s office responded with a lame statement claiming that his energy consumption was appropriate because he obtained all of it from a local “powerswitch” program that used 100% renewable fuels, whatever that means. His office also claimed that his home was in the midst of a renovation that would include the addition of solar panels to his roof.

No doubt the controversy over Mr. Gore’s power gluttony will fade away, but it illustrates a classic example of how liberals who believe the rest of the world should lower its expectations for the good life often find it hard to follow that advice in their own daily routines.

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