Climategate: Al Gore defends the IPCC

Still have no power, it is supposed to be on tonight but I am not holding my breath. Here is a mobile post.

Since all of the scandals surrounding the IPCC have been brought to light Al Gore has been silently absent. Now that has changed with this editorial that appeared in the New York Times. Al Gore is back and it is unsurprising that he is defending the IPCC and their flawed data.

He makes the claim that as much as he wishes it were true that these “flaws” in the IPCC’s research prove that we are not facing an “unimaginable calamity” that it is simply untrue and the United States “would still need to deal with the national security risks of our growing dependence on a global oil market dominated by dwindling reserves in the most unstable region of the world, and the economic risks of sending hundreds of billions of dollars a year overseas in return for that oil.”

He may have a point when he makes the statement about the United States’ dependency on foreign oil– hell, I want to stop sending money to the Middle East for oil when we have it here– but he is purposely trying to confuse and intertwine these two separate issues. The issue of global warming and the issue of our dependency on foreign oil are two different issues, but Al Gore is trying to tie them together to save his enterprise which will fall apart if Americans realize that the IPCC has been scamming us all these years.

He goes on to defend the IPCC and claims that these mistakes don’t take away from the fact that global warming is real and that it is man-made. If this is true than Al Gore should have no problem with an investigation into the IPCC, their data, and their motives because if what Al Gore says is true he– and the IPCC– will be exonerated. If he has a problem with an investigation it will be due to the fact that he is, and always has been, full of shit.

But Al Gore probably won’t support an investigation that could possibly prove his claims and that is because he stands to lose millions of dollars if the IPCC is shown to have manipulated the data– possibly even more money than the IPCC itself.

With Al Gore’s money train under attack, is it any wonder that he has come to its defense?