Eric Pooley on planet savior Gore at Bali

Excerpt - The Climate War - By Eric Pooley - NYTimes.com

Gore knew the Prize was a political statement — a spotlight on the climate crisis and a slap at Bush for doing nothing about it — and he approved.
...
In his darker moments Gore felt the Nobel Committee had rewarded him for failure. "I have tried to do everything I know how to do, and so have plenty of others, yet so little has changed," he said during a quiet conversation behind the scenes in Bali. "Global emissions are still going up by two percent each year. By any measure that matters, we haven't done a damned thing."
...
Some climate scientists disagreed with Hansen, and speculated that the climate's sensitivity was not as high as he forecast, but Gore knew better than to doubt him on the science.
...
The carbon [dioxide] hung in the air for a century, and that lag time meant we couldn't wait for some catastrophe to silence the skeptics.

Correct Timing is Everything - Also for CO2 in the Air

In a paper recently published in the international peer-reviewed journal Energy & Fuels, Dr. Robert H. Essenhigh (2009), Professor of Energy Conversion at The Ohio State University, addresses the residence time (RT) of anthropogenic CO2 in the air. He finds that the RT for bulk atmospheric CO2, the molecule 12CO2, is ~5 years, in good agreement with other cited sources (Segalstad, 1998), while the RT for the trace molecule 14CO2 is ~16 years. Both of these residence times are much shorter than what is claimed by the IPCC.