UPDATE: 8/23/13 1:00PM PDT Its seems there’s blunders to go around. The Washington Post now says they “misquoted” Gore. Given his penchant for saying and doing dumb things in the past related to his views on climate, color me “skeptical”, especially when he makes ugly comparisons about people like he did below. It may be more of a case of some deal was worked out behind the scenes to salvage Gore’s waning credibility. I suppose we’ll never know, but I have asked WaPo to put the relevant audio of the tape recorded session online so we can verify that Gore was misquoted. – Anthony
From the WUWT story yesterday: Al Gore compares climate skeptics to anti abolitionists, racists, homophobes, and alcoholic families
Would there be hurricanes and floods and droughts without man-made global warming? Of course. But they’re stronger now. The extreme events are more extreme. The hurricane scale used to be 1-5 and now they’re adding a 6. The fingerprint of man-made global warming is all over these storms and extreme weather events.
We are used to such feckless bloviations, such as when Gore said on national television the temperature below the Earth’s crust is millions of degrees. or when he adds reverse rotation airbrushed hurricanes to his book to make the weather look scarier.
Today, the Capital Weather Gang at the Washington Post called out Gore for his nonsense.
Jason Samenow writes:
But Gore’s statement about this new breed of hurricanes is patently false. There’s no new hurricane category in the works.
Just to be sure, I contacted Chris Vaccaro, director of the National Weather Service’s office of public affairs, and asked him whether the National Hurricane Center is about to unveil the doomsday Category 6. In less than 10 minutes, he fired back this response:
No, we’re not pursuing any such change. I’m also not sure who VP Gore means by “they.” I’d also point out that the top rating, Category 5, has no ceiling: it includes hurricanes with top sustained winds of 157mph and higher
He adds:
But with his penchant for overstatement, Gore will continue to be a divisive and less than credible voice in climate change discourse.
Read it all here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/wp/2013/08/22/the-category-6-hurricane-al-gores-science-fiction/
Good for him and kudos for calling out this nonsense. Every time I think of Gore and Cat6, I think of him as the Stay-Puft man in Ghostbusters rampaging on NYC. The only valid question remaining is, why does anybody still listen to him?
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That’s one big Category 6 Twinkie.
I used to dream of debating Gore about climate change on national TV. My reality testing score has improved slightly since then, lol.
Why indeed. Because he’s photogenic, I guess. (cough)
Atlantic hurricane activity is looking pretty pathetic right now…of course, there is still September and October to go…
Category 1: Lies
Category 2: Damned lies
Category 3: Statistics
New Category 4: Gorisms
Out: Turn it up to Eleven
In: Category SIX!!1!
So now that the possibility of a Cat 6 hurricane has hit the press – the same way that the “melting” North Pole did, when will this be retracted? Whatever happened to investigative journalism? Whatever happened to actual research BEFORE printing garbage? “Journalists” have become amazingly lazy and are ready to accept and print anything.
“The only valid question remaining is, why does anybody still listen to him?”
He is still deemed a useful tool by the socialists behind the AGW meme. “A lie told often….”
well, Al did invent the internet you know, so he’s got that going for him.
/sarc
A Spinal Tap moment.
A cat6 ManBearPig!
When the public hears this about a category 6 level hurricane having to be made just because of climate change, the public will simply accept it as truth because it was from Al Gore. That is the nature of propaganda; the nature of outright lies. Once it is out there, that is it.
“And the Arctic has melted. How do I know? Because a scientist said so on the news.” (/sarc)
For anybody who doesn’t get the Spinal Tap Theme,
Yes, as soon as I read the “Category 6” comment, I thought, Why not go to eleven?!?!?
Is there anything stupid he’s willing to leave unsaid?
“steven says:
A cat6 ManBearPig!”
I’m super serial!
Stupid runs on a Spinal Tap scale.
Maybe he got the idea from this abc news article written in 2006:
It says: “There is no official Category 6 for hurricanes, but scientists say they’re pondering whether there should be as evidence mounts that hurricanes around the world have sharply worsened over the past 30 years”… and… “most hurricane scientists say now we will probably be getting Category 4 and 5 hurricanes more frequently in the coming decades.”
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Science/story?id=1986862&page=1
We are all laughing now but I wonder if Al Gore will get the last laugh.
Obama is enacting massive CO2 regulations on Al’s behest (no Conress needed). I think the rush is on so that when temperatures starts plunging (like they already are) Al and Obama can take the credit for saving the planet. 2012 will probably be the peak so they have to do it now. The mainstream press will be more then happy to oblige them saying they saved the planet and further demonisethe naysayers. Michael Man and his ilk will start fuding the numbers the other way to show that the EPA regulations are working and we will have major CO2 taxes in perpetuity.
Al’s new Hurricane classification is probably coming from the fact that Hurricane Sandy WASN’T a hurricane when it hit shore, even though though it caused major damage. I think his new classification isn’t a Class 6 hurricane but rather a Class 1/2 so that he and the greens can say there are now more hurricanes then ever. I’m sure NOAA and NASA will be more than happy to helpout old Al, because hey, how can you have all that damage and not have it be a hurricane?
So sure laugh all you want now but I have a feeling Al is going to be laughing all the way to the bank.
YOu ask a valid question. Yet I am reminded of the Gorebots swarming your blog when you had the article from the mole..
YOu have to remember, all those people in Jonestown voluntarily took the cyanide kool aid
Gary Hladik: The IEEE worked on this many years back
Proposed scale of Mendacity:
1: Lies
2: Damned lies
3: Statistics
4: Damned statistics (willful abuse thereof)
5: Benchmarks
6: Delivery promises
7: Campaign promises (Goreisms might fit here)
Slightly on topic:
The best thing about the BBC is that the volume on the BBC I-Player can be adjusted from 0 (silence) up to 11.
WUWT says “The only valid question remaining is, why does anybody still listen to him?”
Is it because the Clintonistas are a major source of funding for anti-fossil fuel/AGW activism, and Hillary Clinton is about to run for President?
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but, even more amusing!
Who could take him seriously? (“millions of degrees”… “cat 6″…. lol)
“Nobody takes me cereal!”
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Swedes seem to, but, then, Swedes tend to be a tough audience.
Hah! Category 6. Very funny. I think if we keep hammering away, we can embarrass him (not an easy assignment) by introducing “Category 6′ as a new term for a spectacularly stupid and easily disproven claim.
BTW, Anthony, LOVED the “Stay Puft Man” clip. Thanks for the laugh.