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No. Al Gore is wrong.

He is championing a non-problem for his own financial gain and kudos.

Al Gore is certainly a charismatic leader. He just lost out to George Bush from becoming US president in the 2000 election. I sometimes wonder what the USA and the world would be like today if he had become President. Would there have been a terrorist attack on New York followed by the Iraq war? We will never know.

The USA today has more than its fair share of serious problems but global warming isn't one of them. But, paradoxically, Al Gore's solution to the non-problem of global warming is a serious problem in itself and will cause the USA considerable economic distortion and hardship if acted upon. All this is unnecessary.

How is this possible?

Global warming is just not happening. The supposed increase in global temperature over the last 100 years is only ca 0.7 degrees C and this has largely been negated by a fall of 0.4 degrees over the last couple of years. Can you believe these figures and do they mean anything? Such small fractions of a degree are well within experimental error of measurement. Can you in fact accurately calculate an average yearly temperature for a place, aggregate it with hundreds of others, to get a single figure difference in global temperature from one year to the next? I doubt if it is possible from surface of the earth measurements, but perhaps it is now possible from satellites (1).

Considering the global temperature data for the last million years, which includes four Ice Ages, there is every reason to conclude that recent insignificant temperature changes lie well within the natural range and have nothing to do with manmade greenhouse gas emissions. This is the belief promoted by Al Gore and the Greens (1).

Just assuming there is global warming, is this so dreadful and frightening? I don't think so. My experience of living in the USA (Pennsylvania and New York States) is that a bit more warmth there would be very beneficial. Winter heating bills would decrease. Oh for less snow! I was amazed each winter to find three feet or more of snow dumped at my doorstep, unwanted and unasked for. I remember the nightmare of struggling to fit chains to one's car tyres to get to work.

Since then I have lived happily in New Zealand and Australia. We antipodeans have a different philosophy about snow and ice compared to North Americans (Californians excepted). We believe that the proper place for snow and ice is on tops of mountains and any human contact

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