Hoe nuttig is Live Earth?

In een artikel naar aanleiding van Live Earth, weerlegt James Taylor van Heartland Institute nog eens enkele cruciale beweringen van Al Gore. Via Hub Jongen (Vrijspreker.nl):

1. De claim van Gore dat de gletschers van de Himalaya krimpen door de global warming, is onjuist.

"... the September 2006 issue of the American Meteorological Society's Journal of Climate reported, "Glaciers are growing in the Himalayan Mountains, confounding global warming alarmists who recently claimed the glaciers were shrinking and that global warming was to blame."

2. De bewering van Gore dat de sneeuwkap van de Kilamajaro kleiner wordt door global warming klopt niet.

" . . according to the November 23, 2003, issue of Nature magazine, "Although it's tempting to blame the ice loss on global warming, researchers think that deforestation of the mountain's foothills is the more likely culprit. Without the forests' humidity, previously moisture-laden winds blew dry. No longer replenished with water, the ice is evaporating in the strong equatorial sunshine."

3. De claim van Gore dat door de global warming meer tornado's veroorzaakt worden, is onjuist.

"Yet the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change stated in February that there has been no scientific link established between global warming and tornadoes."

4.De claim van Gore dat er door global warming meer en zwaardere orkanen ontstaan is niet waar.

"Hurricane expert Chris Landsea published a study on May 1 documenting that hurricane activity is no higher now than in decades past. Hurricane expert William Gray reported just a few days earlier, on April 27, that the number of major hurricanes making landfall on the U.S. Atlantic coast has declined in the past 40 years. Hurricane scientists reported in the April 18 Geophysical Research Letters that global warming enhances wind shear, which will prevent a significant increase in future hurricane activity."

5.De claim van Gore dat door global warming Afrikaanse woestijnen groter worden, is niet waar.

"... the Sept. 16, 2002, issue of New Scientist reports, "Africa's deserts are in 'spectacular' retreat . . . making farming viable again in what were some of the most arid parts of Africa." "

6.De claim van Gore dat Groenland in snel tempo wegsmelt, en dat het zeeniveau 6 (zes!) meter (20 voet) gaat stijgen is niet juist.

"According to a 2005 study in the Journal of Glaciology, "the Greenland ice sheet is thinning at the margins and growing inland, with a small overall mass gain." In late 2006, researchers at the Danish Meteorological Institute reported that the past two decades were the coldest for Greenland since the 1910s.

7.De claim van Gore dat het Antarctische ijs door global warming aan het smelten is, blijkt niet waar te zijn. Het tegendeel is het geval!

".... the Jan. 14, 2002, issue of Nature magazine reported Antarctica as a whole has been dramatically cooling for decades. More recently, scientists reported in the September 2006 issue of the British journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society Series A: Mathematical, Physical, and Engineering Sciences, that satellite measurements of the Antarctic ice sheet showed significant growth between 1992 and 2003. And the U.N. Climate Change panel reported in February 2007 that Antarctica is unlikely to lose any ice mass during the remainder of the century."