Ah-ha, Laata is an internet blogger who must also be depressed that Al Gore doesn’t get the global warming respect that Laata feels Manbearpig deserves. And therefore, you feel his feeling about this issue are important.
Al Gore’s involvement is a part of global warming history. You can chose to ignore his participation if you so chose.
No, Al Gore’s involvement is part of the history of global-warming-related politics, not of the history of the physical phenomenon itself. That’s an important distinction – once again:
The scientist is depressed because there are people who find her work to be unbelievable. Being associated with Al Gore can’t possibly help with her depression.
Pretty much all Ph.D.'s in the field would say that the warming cycle that began before the end of the last Ice Age has fuck all to do with recent climate changes over the past few centuries.
But you just keep regurgitating the same talking points you’ve taken from climate change deniers without the slightest awareness of what they actually mean.
The ice melted. Seriously, this isn’t rocket surgery. There were massive ice sheets, and then they melted. They didn’t melt because the planet was getting colder. Ice plus heat equal water.
But, we’re talking about the current cycle of global warming. That goes back only to the Industrial Revolution and shows a rise of temperature discontinuous with the natural cycles.