The Man With the Snow Job - NYTimes.com
Al Gore, on the phone between plane flights Wednesday, of course, pointed to global warming. “Here’s a basic fact,” he said. “There is about 4 percent more water vapor in the atmosphere today than there was in 1970.” That extra water, he said, is because of warmer oceans and warmer air, and is returning to earth as extra-heavy rain and snow.
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We could always blame George W. Bush — that never gets old. But Gore declined to be helpful when it came to fixing blame. “I’m sorely tempted to throw out three or four names, but it wouldn’t be right,” he said, showing a depressing level of prudence for someone who was spending the day trying to get cross-country by airplane.
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I just read from Roger Pielke Sr. that both the amount of water vapor in the stratosphere has dropped over the last 10 years and that the oceans have been cooling for around 8 or so years.
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