Gore’s Astronomy is as Dumb as His Meteorology
I was going to write this earlier in the day, but I was too busy digging out from another snowstorm it has been a cold and snowy winter across the country. For most of the United States and much of the world, this has been one of the colder winters in well over a decade, with reports of unseasonable snowfalls and plummeting temperatures from the American Great Plains to the Alps of Europe and into the inner reaches of Asia. Even China’s official news agency reported that Tibet had suffered its “worst snowstorm ever” in October.
In the U.S., the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration registered 63 local snowfall records and 115 lowest-ever temperatures for the month, and ranked it as only the 70th-warmest October in 114 years. In fact, it’s likely that 2008 will go down as the coldest year since in the United States since 1997.
Last week, when former Vice President Al Gore braved a major Ice storm to discuss global warming with congress, he began his presentation talking about the planet Venus. We now know that Gore’s Astronomy is as stupid as His Meteorology: