Gore: Jet stream getting loopier and wavier so we have a global emergency

PJ Media, by Bridget Johnson.

Gore said words following a hurricane because somebody asked him. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change asked him because they know what his response will be. Just as they know what the other government supported authors and editors from 40 countries will be.

In Regis philosophy class 202 covering logic and rhetoric we were taught this is argumentum ad verecundiam, appeal to authority. The authority is established by publishing, then appealed to because they're self-described experts. For the most part the science is payed for through taxation.

If only our popes, bishops and priests would live the religion they preach then they might possibly be believed but they don't so they aren't. Jesus lived his religion, Buddha lived his religion, Mohammed lived his religion, but the boy who made millions by crying wolf a million times doesn't.

More about what Gore said at the link. I'm not giving him his due.

More interesting than Gore and his tribe are the comments over there.

And here.

The comments are mostly what you'd expect.

But here's one that I think about sometimes. Tell me where I am wrong. I'm open to correction.

The idea that humanity can have any more than a nugatory effect on the environment--on weather itself--ascribes godlike powers to humanity, which occupies only a small portion of the earth´s area.

Nugatory is a funny word.

Beavers create dams and change their environment. The changed environment invites other lifeforms. By changing the water flow and water storage, the environment that is changed can possibly affect local climate. In a micro climate way. While millions of beavers have greater effect.

Worms change the earth. The changed earth affects what can and does grow in the dirt. What grows can and does affect moisture retention, evaporation, humidity, and so forth, to an extent they change the weather.

Ants move earth, build underground cities, bring material into their cities, move on creating changes in the earth across continents. Collectively, in their way they affect weather. In the least they have tremendous affect on their environment. And they're everywhere. Together these tiny creatures affect the entire earth and in their way they affect the weather.

When Americans reached Colorado and began to settle and create cities, the area was prairie frontier with its own surface environment. Most all of the trees that you see here were planted by people who came here and these hundreds of thousand of trees affected the foothill environment and affected the local climate. They directed the flow and storage of water. Their streets and highways affect the environment tremendously too while also affecting the local weather, the way thermals build up, the way water circulates in the atmosphere rainfall, snowfall and such.

Humans do affect the weather. And humans sprawling so comprehensively across the entire glove even the poles, even the deserts, to every corner and crack of the earth must have effects on weather in one way or another or in several at once. It's not God-like, it's human-like to want to tame nature and nature's breath is the weather. The postulate is not completely impossible. It's not a ridiculous idea.