Al Gore’s new book had a problem – no big hurricanes since Katrina to put in the book to look “threatening” to the USA. Any imagined link between hurricanes and global warming has evaporated.
Solution: the artists airbrush.
Ryan Maue, hurricane expert from Florida State University writes:
Anthony,
The cover opens and closes half and half — so you only see one hurricane…as in the press release photo or the one on Amazon.
But this is the real picture sequence from the book which I looked at Borders today and took cell-phone pictures, original (before the retouching by some “artist”) Note all of the Arctic ice and the size of the Florida Peninsula…
and the final product:
WUWT?
A midget Southern Hemisphere cyclone is off the coast of Florida, another hurricane is sitting on the equator off the coast of Peru — and the Arctic Ice is gone (perhaps it is summer) and the Florida Peninsula is half gone
There are other differences I am sure you can find — but the hurricanes are just nonsense…
Ryan
Here’s the book cover:
Nonsense? No more like scaremongering, especially when it has been shown time and again that there is no hurricane to global warming linkage, and we are at a 30 year low.
Mr. Gore, you are a charlatan.
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Yep!
The hurricane spinning the wrong way next to Florida is really neat. It is probably caused by the center of the Earth warming up to millions of degrees.
Notice the Greenland, which 3 km thick ice cover has melted down to open sea instead of ground. And Cuba with its 2000m high mountains has disappeared completely 😮
The Florida hurricane is running clockwise…very unusual north of equator.
After a quiet hurricane season, and a recovery to the Arctic sea-ice, this image is priceless. The man is a money grabbing buffoon – he must be a total embarrassment to the leaders of the church of true AGW believers.
I’m sure that this sort of distorted pseudo-science will drive even more people out of the AGW camp. If you can’t find a smoking gun, just make up your own.
It’s worse than that, Cuba’s gone Jim.
What the doctored picture is supposed to show is risen sea levels. Look at Florida and Central America. I’m sure though that the media will pull him up on the hurricane issue. Not.
Is there no limit to the mans lies? “Our Choice” – gimmie your money … or else!
I wonder what is more alarming – his lies or the common mans gullibility to swallow all of them.
What happened to Panama?
What a great catch! I hope this information gets wide notice!
Interesting.
The hurricane off Florida is rotating one way, and the one off Baja is rotating the other.
And there is a hurricane off Ecuador. Which way does Coriolis force make a hurricane rotate on the equator?
Uh, oh.
Sunspots.
Why am I not surprised?
Well, they can always use the term “prediction” for their fabricated picture.
Let me admit that I don’t find even the fabricated picture, with a couple of hurricanes and a missing Arctic ice, terribly lethal. After all, you can see that the color of the North American forests indicates that they’re doing just fine in that world, and other sectors of the life on Earth probably do the same.
It’s worse than a Steve King horror story, anyone stop to think where the world would be today if this demented idiot had made President ? Says a lot for the ‘democratic process’ and the ”Noble” committee.
And the problem is? That’s what HE says is going to be, that’s the point of the book, i don’t see any wrong in making it graphic.
Mr Gore is a poltroon and a mountebank (just to show his methods have been around a long time). But his similar forebears (not Polar) would have been envious of the quantity of money he has acquired through these methods. Let’s hope, that after him being booed recently, this book also gets what it deserves.
Yea and the lake in the middle of central and northern greenland looks so realistic
Who expected any more …
From prince of charlatans Al Gore?
Anthony,
In our NOTW, the east coast of Australia has not had a hurricane [cyclone] cross the coast south of the Tropic of Capricorn since 1976.
Before this, it was common for 5 per year to cross the coast.
I like the way they’ve made continental look so much more arid despite all those cyclones buzzing around ready to cause massive storm damage and floods. You wouldn’t buy a science fiction novel that got their “alternate universe” so muddled up, but apparently it’s OK in climate hysterics.
Al Gore – not quite convincing enough to beat George W Bush in an election, but somehow the shining beacon of knowledge in climate science.
Hey, what are you folks doing pinching one of our cyclones?
Surely you don’t think gonna get away with it – it so obviously belongs to us!
The debate’s at boiling point downunder with the prime minister declaration that our heatwave (and ‘catastrophic’ bushfires) are caused by climate change. The best quote is the leader of the opposition in the senate, while canning climate change science: ”It really is a disgrace to describe CO2 as a pollutant.”
http://www.abc.net.au/news/video/2009/11/19/2747998.htm
The hurricanes are just resting,like a dead parrot.
Where is Al Gore’s Zinc mine? He left it off the map.
Something else is also missing. The reason the this book. There is no “Climate Crisis” so any plan to “solve” it is irrelevant.
LOL!!!
I know that is overused, but I literally laughed out loud. This is hilarious, both in principle and execution. I love the reverse rotation on the one and all of them look flat, like you literally cut them out of another picture and pasted them onto this picture. This was an awful photo-chop job.