There’s a Glacier in My Front Yard

Yes, there’s a glacier forming in my front yard. Every time I look out the window I see it, and I believe it’s growing. In spots it’s already at least four feet of compressed snow and ice. Just a few months ago that very same ground was bare. Is this proof positive of a return of the Ice Age?

Okay, I’m kidding, but the “glacier” is there and it is growing. It grows every time I shovel snow off my driveway. In about a month my “glacier” will be gone.

So, why did I bring this up?

After weeks of silence following the Copenhagen Climate Summit disaster and after the Climategate scandals finally got some media coverage Al Gore has surfaced, sort of.

No, Al’s not ready to take questions or appear in front of Congress, as he’s been asked to do. No, what Al did is write an op-ed that was published on February 28 by the New York Times.

The title of Al’s article is “We Can’t Wish Away Climate Change.”

He begins by saying how nice it would be if Climate Change were simply a myth and not the “unimaginable calamity” he says it is.

Al does acknowledge a few mistakes in his theory have been identified. The claim that the all the Himalayan glaciers would soon be gone proved to be based on nothing more than an off-hand remark and that the reported percentage of the Netherlands now below sea level was inaccurate. The fraud uncovered in the University of East Anglia e-mail messages he explains as caused by scientists being “besieged by an onslaught of hostile, make-work demands from climate skeptics.”

He sums up this acknowledgment by stating “But the scientific enterprise will never be completely free of mistakes. What is important is that the overwhelming consensus on global warming remains unchanged.”

The rest of Al’s nineteen hundred word essay is devoted to rewording claims of gloom and doom, including the new one that this passed January was actually the warmest on record. That one may be a tough sell in parts of Northern Virginia right now.

Other parts of the Al’s Climate gospel might soon be a tough sell as well. That’s is if these claims are looked at objectively instead of being accepted as fact simply because Al and his colleagues put them in print.