I had a chat with a colleague at work this morning about the recent snowfall in Malibu, California. He chuckled, “It’s the Gore effect,” and told me about an article he saw on Instapundit, “Wherever Al Gore goes, unusually low temperatures seem to follow.”
I read Instapundit’s article and found that the term “Gore effect” has actually made it into the Urban Dictionary.
My colleague and I had a good chuckle over that.
Having heat or cold spells is hardly unusual — it’s just the way things go. Long term temperature and climate effects are in the domain of the Sun’s behavior and there is little we can do about that. Short term phenomena will average out to the global mean annual temperature — which seems to be cooling off a bit according to this report about the Nordic sea ice expansion from World Climate Report:
Arctic Forecast: Nordic Sea Ice Expansion
What’s the first image that comes to mind when you hear the term “global warming� The most common is that of melting ice. That image is then easily cultivated by climate change alarmists who would like you to translate it into a downward spiraling Arctic ecosystem and a sputtering global oceanic circulation. (The image that comes to our mind is that of Al Gore recently pretending to be a research professor on The Oprah Winfrey Show.) What we hear little about from the global warming crusade is research findings that suggest that a measure of the recent atmospheric warming is part of a natural cycle or that the impacts are far less than what is portrayed. Well, that’s what we at the World Climate Report are here for.
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