Earth in the Balance, by Al Gore

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My notes and comments from Al Gore's idiotic book, when I read it some years ago:



Earth In The Balance by Al Gore



“Eight acres worth of prime topsoil floats past Memphis every hour.” - Page 3

[1. “Eight acres worth” is baby talk. 2. Topsoil does NOT “float.” ]


“…the unrestrained burning of cheap fossil fuel has many ferocious defenders…” - Page 6


[Like liberals who have been whining about “the high cost of gasoline” for months now.]


“We were anchored…”  - Page 19


[Ships sitting on sand many miles from the Aral Sea are not “anchored.” One “anchors” only in water.]


“… one China’s worth of people…” - Page 30


[More baby talk from a man who liberals maintain is sophisticated and “intelligent.”]


“Relativity Theory can easily be explained with the help of a picture (of a funnel)…” - Page 48


“… a blind devotion to laissez-faire economics…” - P 75

[Elsewhere Gore waxes enthusiastic for capitalism and its triumph over communism.

Gore never examines his own “blind devotion” to environmental extremism and its impossibility, financial and political.]


New homes “strip the hillsides of vegetation that used to soak up the rain.”  - P 76

[So we shouldn’t build new homes? Is that it?]

Are we “entitled to do so?” (Cut down three yew trees to save a woman’s life) - P 119

[No, Al, let her die.]

“… we are running out of places to put it (our garbage).” - P 151

[Drive from Las Vegas to Phoenix some time, Al.]

“…one African leader recently denounced ‘garbage imperialism’.” - P 155

[Al and other liberals like to quote socialist thugs who have devastated Africa in countless ways.]

“…the worst of all forms of pollution is wasted lives!” - P 162

[But abortion is just fine. No “lives” wasted there.]

“The Constitution … is still universally recognized as the world’s most forward-looking charter for self-government.” - P 171

BUT: “Perhaps the most sluggish of all, after our political system, is our system of economics.” ( P 181)

[We’re great. We’re “sluggish.” Stay focused, people.]

“awesome power and efficiency of our economic system…” - P 185

[We’re great. We’re sluggish. We have “blind devotion”.]

“…the loss of 75 percent of California’s annual moisture…” - P 192

[He meant “decrease in rainfall” not “loss of moisture.”]

“…our society has allowed…crime, drug abuse, poverty, ignorance, and desperation.” - P 210

[Okay, so stop all of them, Al.]

“Today a different form of dysfunction takes the form of ravenous, insatiable consumption…” - P 273

[Thus does a globe-trotting rich man who travels in his private jet lecture to the rest of us far beneath him.]

“…senseless trade barriers…” P 296

[There are various legitimate reasons to limit trade with despots, communists, and countries that hate us.
Al condemns all of those reasons with one word, "senseless," which Al Gore symbolizes.]


NOTE:  This book was found in the rathole cabin of the Unabomber along with Isaac Asimov's Two Volume Guide to the Bible, which is a wholesale attack on the Holy Bible by the bitter atheist.

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Funny, little Al had no problem with fossil fuel when his family was being bankrolled by Occidental petroleum profits courtesy Armand Hammer.

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The graph of global mean temperature on the range of human experienced temperatures, as provided by NASA is a flat line since 1880.  This is NOTHING to panic about.

Read some of the many books refuting the panic and nonsense.  Here is a partial list.

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Global mean temperatures.  This website is not user friendly.

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FAILED CLIMATE PREDICTIONS

October 1958 – New York Times:  Arctic ice sheet will melt

November 1967 – Salt Lake City Tribune:  World famine by 1979

April 1970 – Boston Globe:  New ice age coming due to air pollution blocking sun

July 1971 – Washington Post:  Ice age coming in 50 years

December 1972 – Brown University:  Global deterioration due to climate change

January 1974 – The Guardian:  Ice age coming fast

June 1974 – Time magazine:  Another ice age is coming

January 1978 – New York Times:  No end of cooling trend of last 50 years

February 1979 - New York Times:  All the ice at the North Pole will melt

May 1982 – New York Times:  Devastation as complete as nuclear holocaust by 2000

September 2000 – Trove (nla.au.gov):  Maldives 1,196 islands may be underwater by 2008 to 2028

June 1989:   San Jose Mercury News:  Rising sea level will eliminate nations

March 2000 – The Independent:  “Snowfalls are just a thing of the past for Great Britain”

February 2004 -  The Guardian:  “Secret Pentagon Report” , Climate change will lead to nuclear war, major European cities will sink into the ocean, and Britain will descend into “Siberian climate” by 2020
January 2006 – The Independent:  Renowned scientists James Lovelock says the world has passed the point of no return for climate change, and civilization is unlikely to survive

November 2007 – New York Times:  If there is no action by 2012 then it is too late

December 2007 - Associated Press:  Arctic sea ice will be gone by 2012

December 2007 – BBC:  Arctic summers will be ice free by 2013;  Maybe our predictions are too conservative

March 2008 – SeaWatch:  If Norway’s August temperatures this year equal that of 2007, the Arctic ice cap will all melt away  (The August temperatures were higher.  The ice cap did not melt away)

April 2008 – NewScientist:  The Arctic could be ice free in 2008

June 2008 – National Geographic news:  We’re projecting the North Pole could be ice free for the first time in history

January 2018 – Forbes:  the chance that any Arctic ice will be left after 2022 is essentially zero

March 2018 – CNBC.com:  ““With climate change, overdue asteroid strikes, epidemics and population growth, our own planet is increasingly precarious,” We need to colonize another planet or face extinction. – Stephen Hawking
[No other planet comes remotely close to being habitable.]

January 2020 – New York Post:  Glacier National Park removed the signs installed in 2010 predicting that the glaciers would all be gone by 2020

 December 2021 – LA Times:  No snow California could come sooner than you think

[March 15, 2023 – USA Today   “Snowfall in California breaks 40-year record”

   

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"Climate experts believe the next ice age is on its way."
- Leonard Nimoy, 1978

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References:

1970 - Colder Winters Held Dawn of New Ice Age - Scientists See Ice Age In the Future (The Washington Post, January 11, 1970)
1970 - Is Mankind Manufacturing a New Ice Age for Itself? (L.A. Times, January 15, 1970)
1970 - New Ice Age May Descend On Man (Sumter Daily Item, January 26, 1970)
1970 - Pollution Prospect A Chilling One (The Argus-Press, January 26, 1970)
1970 - Pollution's 2-way 'Freeze' On Society (Middlesboro Daily News, January 28, 1970)
1970 - Cold Facts About Pollution (The Southeast Missourian, January 29, 1970)
1970 - Pollution Could Cause Ice Age, Agency Reports (St. Petersburg Times, March 4, 1970)
1970 - Scientist predicts a new ice age by 21st century (The Boston Globe, April 16, 1970)
1970 - Pollution Called Ice Age Threat (St. Petersburg Times, June 26, 1970)
1970 - U.S. and Soviet Press Studies of a Colder Arctic (The New York Times, July 18, 1970)
1970 - Dirt Will Bring New Ice Age (The Sydney Morning Herald, October 19, 1970)
1971 - Ice Age Refugee Dies Underground (Montreal Gazette, Febuary 17, 1971)
1971 - Pollution Might Lead To Another Ice Age (The Schenectady Gazette, March 22, 1971)
1971 - Pollution May Bring Ice Age - Scientist Rites Risk (The Windsor Star, March 23, 1971)
1971 - U.S. Scientist Sees New Ice Age Coming (The Washington Post, July 9, 1971)
1971 - Ice Age Around the Corner (Chicago Tribune, July 10, 1971)
1971 - Danger: Ice age may lurk in dusty skies (The Christian Science Monitor, July 12, 1971)
1971 - New Ice Age Coming - It's Already Getting Colder (L.A. Times, October 24, 1971)
1971 - Another Ice Age? Pollution Blocking Sunlight (The Day, November 1, 1971)
1971 - Air Pollution Could Bring An Ice Age (Harlan Daily Enterprise, November 4, 1971)
1972 - Air pollution may cause ice age (Free-Lance Star, February 3, 1972)
1972 - Scientist Says New ice Age Coming (The Ledger, February 13, 1972)
1972 - Ice Age Cometh For Dicey Times (The Sun, May 29, 1972)
1972 - Ice Age Coming (Deseret News, September 8, 1972)
1972 - There's a new Ice Age coming! (The Windsor Star, September 9, 1972)
1972 - Scientist predicts new ice age (Free-Lance Star, September 11, 1972)
1972 - British Expert on Climate Change Says New Ice Age Creeping Over Northern Hemisphere (Lewiston Evening Journal, September 11, 1972)
1972 - Climate Seen Cooling For Return Of Ice Age (The Portsmouth Times, ‎September 11, 1972‎)
1972 - New Ice Age Slipping Over North (The Press-Courier, September 11, 1972)
1972 - Beginning of new ice age (The Canberra Times, September 12, 1972)
1972 - Ice Age Begins A New Assault In North (The Age, September 12, 1972)
1972 - Weather To Get Colder (Montreal Gazette, ‎September 12, 1972‎)
1972 - British climate expert predicts new Ice Age (The Christian Science Monitor, September 23, 1972)
1972 - Scientist Sees Chilling Signs of New Ice Age (L.A. Times, September 24, 1972)
1972 - Science: Another Ice Age? (Time Magazine, November 13, 1972)
1972 - Geologist at Case Traces Long Winters - Sees Ice Age in 20 Years (Youngstown Vindicator, December 13, 1972)
1972 - Ice Age On Its Way, Scientist Says (Toledo Blade, December 13, 1972)
1972 - Ice Age Predicted In About 200 Years (The Portsmouth Times, December 14, 1972)
1973 - New Ice Age coming? (Popular Science, January 1973)
1973 - The Ice Age Cometh (The Saturday Review, March 24, 1973)
1973 - Believe new ice age is coming (The Bryan Times, March 31, 1973)
1973 - 'Man-made Ice Age' Worries Scientists (The Free Lance-Star, June 22, 1973)
1973 - Fear Of Man-made Ice Age (The Spartanburg Herald, June 28, 1973)
1973 - Possibility Of Ice Age Worries The Scientists (The Argus-Press, November 12, 1973)
1973 - Weather-watchers think another ice age may be on the way (The Christian Science Monitor, December 11, 1973)
1974 - Ominous Changes in the World's Weather (PDF) (Fortune Magazine, February 1974)
1974 - Atmospheric Dirt: Ice Age Coming?‎ (Pittsburgh Press, February 28, 1974)
1974 - Support for theory of a cooling world (The Canberra Times, May 16, 1974)
1974 - New evidence indicates ice age here (Eugene Register-Guard, May 29, 1974)
1974 - Another Ice Age? (Time Magazine, June 24, 1974)
1974 - 2 Scientists Think 'Little' Ice Age Near (Hartford Courant, August 11, 1974)
1974 - Climate: A Key to the World's Food Supply (NOAA, October, 1974)
1974 - Ice Age, worse food crisis seen (Chicago Tribune, October 30, 1974)
1974 - Imminent Arrival of the Ice (Radio Times, November 14, 1974)
1974 - Making a BBC Science Special [The Weather Machine] (New Scientist, November 14, 1974)
1974 - The Weather Machine (BBC, November 20, 1974)
1974 - New ice age 'could be in our lifetime' (The Canberra Times, November 22, 1974)
1974 - Believes Pollution Could Bring On Ice Age (Ludington Daily News, December 4, 1974)
1974 - Pollution Could Spur Ice Age, Nasa Says (Beaver Country Times, ‎December 4, 1974‎)
1974 - Air Pollution May Trigger Ice Age, Scientists Feel (The Telegraph, ‎December 5, 1974‎)
1974 - More Air Pollution Could Trigger Ice Age Disaster (Daily Sentinel, ‎December 5, 1974‎)
1974 - Scientists Fear Smog Could Cause Ice Age (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, December 5, 1974)
1975 - Climate Changes Called Ominous (The New York Times, January 19, 1975)
1975 - Climate Change: Chilling Possibilities (Science News, March 1, 1975)
1975 - B-r-r-r-r: New Ice Age on way soon? (Chicago Tribune, March 2, 1975)
1975 - Cooling Trends Arouse Fear That New Ice Age Coming (Eugene Register-Guard, ‎March 2, 1975‎)
1975 - Is Another Ice Age Due? Arctic Ice Expands In Last Decade (Youngstown Vindicator, ‎March 2, 1975‎)
1975 - Is Earth Headed For Another Ice Age? (Reading Eagle, March 2, 1975)
1975 - New Ice Age Dawning? Significant Shift In Climate Seen (Times Daily, ‎March 2, 1975‎)
1975 - There's Troublesome Weather Ahead (Tri City Herald, ‎March 2, 1975‎)
1975 - Is Earth Doomed To Live Through Another Ice Age? (The Robesonian, ‎March 3, 1975‎)
1975 - The Ice Age cometh: the system that controls our climate (Chicago Tribune, April 13, 1975)
1975 - The Cooling World (Newsweek, April 28, 1975)
1975 - Cooling trend may signal coming of another Ice Age (The Sun, May 16, 1975)
1975 - Scientists Ask Why World Climate Is Changing; Major Cooling May Be Ahead (PDF) (The New York Times, May 21, 1975)
1975 - The Armadillos Are Heading South; Ice Age Coming? Chilling Thought for Humanity. (Chicago Tribune, June 2, 1975)
1975 - Summer of A New Ice Age (The Age, June 5, 1975)
1975 - In the Grip of a New Ice Age? (International Wildlife, July-August, 1975)
1975 - Experts ponder another ice age (The Spokesman-Review, September 8, 1975)
1975 - Oil Spill Could Cause New Ice Age (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, December 11, 1975)
1976 - Deadly Harvest [Film] (Starring: Kim Cattrall, Clint Walker, 1976)
1976 - The Cooling: Has the Next Ice Age Already Begun? [Book] (Lowell Ponte, 1976)
1976 - Ice Age Predicted (Reading Eagle, January 22, 1976)
1976 - Ice Age Predicted In Century (Bangor Daily News, January 22, 1976)
1976 - It's Going To Get Chilly About 125 Years From Now (Sarasota Herald-Tribune, January 23, 1976)
1976 - Worrisome CIA Report; Even U.S. Farms May be Hit by Cooling Trend (U.S. News & World Report, May 31, 1976)
1977 - Blizzard - What Happens if it Doesn't Stop? [Book] (George Stone, 1977)
1977 - The Weather Conspiracy: The Coming of the New Ice Age [Book] (The Impact Team, 1977)
1977 - The Ice Age Cometh... (New York Magazine, January 31, 1977)
1977 - The Big Freeze (Time Magazine, January 31, 1977)
1977 - Has The Ice Age Cometh Again? (Calgary Herald, February 1, 1977)
1977 - Space Mirrors Proposed To Prevent Crop Freezes (Bangor Daily News, February 7, 1977)
1977 - Sunspot lull may bring on new ice age (The Christian Science Monitor, March 30, 1977)
1977 - We Will Freeze in the Dark (Capital Cities Communications Documentary, Host: Nancy Dickerson, April 12, 1977)
1978 - Ice! [Book] (Arnold Federbush, 1978)
1978 - The New Ice Age [Book] (Henry Gilfond, 1978)
1978 - Winter May Be Colder Than In Last Ice Age (Deseret News, January 2, 1978)
1978 - Current Winters Seen Colder Than In Ice Age‎ (The Telegraph, January 3, 1978)
1978 - Winter Temperatures Colder Than Last Ice Age (Eugene Register-Guard, Eugene Register-Guard, January 3, 1978)
1978 - International Team of Specialists Finds No End in Sight to 30-Year Cooling Trend in Northern Hemisphere (The New York Times, January 5, 1978)
1978 - Little Ice Age: Severe winters and cool summers ahead (Calgary Herald, January 10, 1978)
1978 - Winters Will Get Colder, 'we're Entering Little Ice Age' (Daily Record, January 10, 1978)
1978 - Geologist Says Winters Getting Colder (Middlesboro Daily News, January 16, 1978)
1978 - It's Going To Get Colder (Boca Raton News, ‎January 17, 1978‎)
1978 - Another Ice Age? (Kentucky New Era, February 12, 1978)
1978 - Another Ice Age? (Reading Eagle, ‎February 13, 1978‎)
1978 - The Coming Ice Age (In Search Of TV Show, Season 2, Episode 23, Host: Leonard Nimoy, May 1978)
1978 - An Ice Age Is Coming Weather Expert Fears (Milwaukee Sentinel, November 17, 1978)
1979 - A Choice of Catastrophes - The Disasters That Threaten Our World [Book] (Isaac Asimov, 1979)
1979 - The Sixth Winter [Book] (John R. Gribbin, 1979)
1979 - The New Ice Age Cometh (The Age, January 16, 1979)
1979 - Ice Age Building Up (Daily Record, June 5, 1979)
1979 - Large Glacial Buildup Could Mean Ice Age (Daily Chronicle, June 5, 1979)
1979 - Ice Age On Its Way (Lewiston Morning Tribune, June 7, 1979)
1979 - Get Ready to Freeze (Daily Chronicle, October 12, 1979)
1979 - New ice age almost upon us? (The Christian Science Monitor, November 14, 1979)