Yes, Greg: our former vice president would certainly like to see 94 degrees, as predicted. Gore has tied his credibility to the weather, so a hot day will certainly serve his purposes, August or not. Of course, he has had the unique fortune of giving a couple of these stemwinders on record-cold days — which, of course, he blamed on global warming.

A few tidbits of note: Denver just last week set record low temperatures on consecutive days – yeah, yeah, I know: global warming. Still, don’t expect to hear about that next week. Denver’s record-high temperature is 105F — though, unlike the previous 1878 record that that figure broke, it was measured at an airport. I think we’ve all figured out that stunt by now. But, just in case, I’d still expect some feverish monitoring at Denver International on Thursday (I’m sure Antohony Watts’ team will be on the case, keeping an eye out for NCDC’s stagecraft team with magnifying glasses).

Also as Gore’s luck would have it:

On August 28th, the day Barrack Obama will accept the nomination, the normal high temperature is 83 degrees. Extremes? Our record high temperature for that day, set multiple times — most recently in 1969 — was 94 degrees.

That comes from ThorntonWeather.com, which only takes its forecasts out five days – but also writes something you shouldn’t expect to read if the day is indeed a warm one (italics added):

The last time one of the major political parties held a major part of their political convention outdoors was 48 years ago. On July 15, 1960 John F. Kennedy accepted his party’s nomination in the Los Angeles Coliseum before 50,000 people. Denver isn’t Los Angeles though and our weather is a lot more volatile than sunny southern California. As locals all know, the one thing consistent about Colorado weather is the inconsistency and that is true in the month of August.

If it’s cooler than projected, I’m sure the Goracle will appeal to that famous volatility and focus on other days when he was not speaking. But if it’s a hot day? Proof of a warming trend.

But what else will Gore say? That the U.S. needs a president to sign a new treaty like the one that he and President Clinton declined to push the Senate to ratify, because it runs out in 2012? (Maybe the Senate candidates who suddenly find themselves in a tight race because of gas prices could address whether they would vote to ratify it — nyuk, nyuk). Will Gore say that Sen. McCain is mean for only wanting a 60-percent reduction in domestic GHG emissions in a few decades, as opposed to an 80-percent reduction?

In fact, the only real difference between Sens. Obama’s and McCain’s global-warming agendas is that Obama would at least make industry (well, except his buddies in the nuclear industry, that is) pay for their ration coupons.

So Gore may simply stick to alarmism. After all, President Bush – a “moral coward” for continuing the Clinton-Gore policy toward Kyoto, and presiding over a reduction in the growth rate of domestic GHG emissions that occurred under Clinton-Gore – isn’t on the ticket. Then again, some Bush-bashing would likely elicit a standing-ovation from this crowd, so Gore may not be able to help himself from going that tiresome, if irrelevant and slightly incoherent, route.

Whatever he says, the Goracle wants 90-degree temps for two reasons. First, as backdrop. And second, because forecasters have predicted 94 degrees for that day, some nine days away. If the weather is cooler than predicted, it might reflect poorly on the computer modelers who expect us to spend trillions on policies based on weather predictions some decades hence. If even such a politically promising short-term prediction comes out wrong on the warming side, that wouldn’t be too cool for Big Al and his business associates.