The King of the World continues to attract bad news:

Gore gets a cold shoulder

ONE of the world’s foremost meteorologists has called the theory that helped Al Gore share the Nobel Peace Prize “ridiculous” and the product of “people who don’t understand how the atmosphere works”.

Dr William Gray, a pioneer in the science of seasonal hurricane forecasts, told a packed lecture hall at the University of North Carolina that humans were not responsible for the warming of the earth.

His comments came on the same day that the Nobel committee honoured Mr Gore for his work in support of the link between humans and global warming.

“We’re brainwashing our children,” said Dr Gray, 78, a long-time professor at Colorado State University. “They’re going to the Gore movie [An Inconvenient Truth] and being fed all this. It’s ridiculous.”

At his first appearance since the award was announced in Oslo, Mr Gore said: “We have to quickly find a way to change the world’s consciousness about exactly what we’re facing.”

Mr Gore shared the Nobel prize with the United Nations climate panel for their work in helping to galvanise international action against global warming.

But Dr Gray, whose annual forecasts of the number of tropical storms and hurricanes are widely publicised, said a natural cycle of ocean water temperatures - related to the amount of salt in ocean water - was responsible for the global warming that he acknowledges has taken place.

However, he said, that same cycle meant a period of cooling would begin soon and last for several years.

“We’ll look back on all of this in 10 or 15 years and realise how foolish it was,” Dr Gray said.

Some of us already realize that.

In other bad news, there is now a demand that the Oscars revoke the award presented for Gore’s movie:

Inconvenieent Truth: Producers of Gore’s Film Asked to Return Oscars

As media in America fall all over themselves with glee at the thought of the Global Warmingist-in-Chief winning a Nobel Peace Prize, Wednesday’s findings by a British judge that Al Gore’s film “An Inconvenient Truth” contained nine material falsehoods has prompted a request to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to strip the movie’s producers of the Oscars they received in February for “Best Documentary.”

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“With the release of the British High Court judgement overnight that found that ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ was littered with nine inconvenient untruths, it is clear that Al Gore embellished the truth to create dramatic effect (more details).

“Given that the Oscar Award was presented in the documentary category and not the drama category, the only appropriate action now is for the Academy to rescind the Award as it was clearly inappropriately classed as a documentary.

Heh.  It will never happen, but it is a fun notion.

Next:

Researcher: Global Warming Began 250 Years Ago; Study finds Siberian climate change predates industrial era – signs seen in 1750

Siberia’s Lake Baikal is the world’s deepest lake.  By water volume, its also the largest freshwater lake, containing more water than all five of the North America’s Great Lakes combined.  Fed by over 300 rivers, Baikal is a barometer for the entire Siberian region.

Due to the lake’s depth (over a mile deep in many places), it contains the northern hemisphere’s most pristine, uninterrupted sedimentary record, allowing highly accurate reconstructions of past temperatures.  Baikal’s great distance from the moderating effects of any ocean also makes it an ideal site for detecting global warming.

Researcher Anson Mackay, of the Environmental Change Research Centre, University College, London, has done just that — reconstructed the climate history of Lake Baikal over the past 800,000 years.  The result is the most accurate high-resolution temperature record of Siberia ever constructed.  And it contains several surprises.

The record clearly demonstrates the region has often been considerably warmer than it is at present.  More stunning is the most recent data, which shows Siberia first began warming around 250 years ago — long before the industrial revolution, and its resultant greenhouse gas emissions.

This one is just creepy:

Kangaroos should be slaughtered, eaten to help save the world - environmental activists

I’ve often said that I’ll start taking global warming seriously when environmentalists do. Well, maybe I’ll have to start taking them seriously now.

MORE kangaroos should be slaughtered and eaten to help save the world from global warming, environmental activists say.

The controversial call to cut down on beef and serve more of the national symbol on our dinner plates follows a report on curbing greenhouse gas emissions damaging the planet. Greenpeace energy campaigner Mark Wakeham urged Aussies to substitute some red meat for roo to help reduce land clearing and the release of methane gas. 

And another story about the reality of biofuels:

Biofuels Plans May Cause Water Shortages

China’s and India’s plans to produce more biofuels could cause shortages of water, which is needed for crops to feed their growing populations, according to study results released Thursday.

The International Water Management Institute or IWMI study said both countries are counting on maize and sugarcane, which need large amounts of water, for much of their biofuels.

“Crop production for biofuels in China and India would likely jeopardize sustainable water use and thus affect irrigated production of food crops, including cereals and vegetables, which would then need to be imported in larger quantities,” Charlotte de Fraiture, the study’s lead author, said in a statement.

“Are these countries, particularly India which has devoted so much effort to achieving food security, adequately considering the trade-offs involved, especially the prospect of importing food to free up sufficient water and land for production of biofuel crops?”

 And it will only get worse as long as we let knee jerk reactions dictate policy.

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