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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listen up commonsense, who are we to discourage a rebellion? lets not try to avoid the lower classes rebelling, encourage it! if they do not rebel and continue to let their countries be run by a few fat cats in their cities, that is their problem until they muster up the backbone to stop it themselves. as for the climate change, it is laughable. when i was in high school, i heard about climate change, and promised myself to be a neutral party until i heard the facts from real experts. i have traveled all the way to Washington DC and talked to five different scientists/professors. two who say humans have induced climate change, one who said it was a combination of human efforts and natural cycles, and two who said we haven’t changed anything. i kept an open mind during all interviews, and seriously analyzed information from all sides. i have come to the conclusion that it is more arrogance than anything else that convinces people that their actions are destroying the planet. to think that what we do as a people is so powerful that it messes up the entire world is pure exaggeration and naivety. The whole climate crisis is a manufactured media scare tactic to make money and is a front for a whole different global agenda by some. I for one will not stand by and let government dictate what i do in a free country (which as a side note is growing less free by the day) because of a fake public outcry against climate change, which makes them pass some bs laws (because they don’t care what is right, they only care about getting re-elected) that restrict my freedoms. As far as gore goes, he is a pitiful and pathetic excuse for a leader of of a global movement. here’s a funny fact, Al gore Lambasted president bush for being “totally ignorant” of green energy and climate issues. however, did you know that president bush’s house in texas is heated by geothermal energy and that solar panels and windmills create his electricity? His ranch is a carbon neutral home.Al gores mansion on the other hand uses TEN Times the amount of electricity that an average american home uses. his book should be considered closer to a george carlin comedy book than the “truth” it’s being portrayed as. slow sarcastic clap to the photoshop artists who didn’t bother to look at how hurricanes form or which dirctions they spin in.
What’s even more sad is that every single one of my reresentatives and senators that I write believes this stuff, and are using it in their excuses to support crazy bills!
“The Pacific Northwest has much to lose from climate change, including increasingly severe storms and rising sea levels. Global warming also negatively impacts forest, coastal, and salmon habitats, and economically-important farmland, as well as human health. ”
-Senator Patty Murray (Washington senator)
“Like you, I believe that a healthy debate among scientists is never a bad thing, and public policy should be based on the best science available. As you may know, the overwhelming majority of peer-reviewed scientific research supports the conclusion that carbon emissions from fossil-based fuels like coal and oil have raised the amount of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere during the last two centuries to the highest level that it has ever contained in the last 600,000 years. This research also shows that carbon dioxide is physically proven to trap the earth’s heat, raising global average temperatures enough to have already melted glaciers, acidified our ocean waters and unleashed a plague of harmful beetles in the North Cascade forests, among many other observed effects.”
Representative Jay Inslee (wahsington representative)
At least Gore did not airbrush giant mutant beetles onto the book cover, he could have gotten away with it on capitol hill ^.^
Cuba is not on the cover meaning it is under water. Google Earth has the highest point on the island at 2005 meters (6578 feet). Denver is about 6000 feet. Shouldn’t most of the gulf states and midwest be underwater? I am embarssed Gore is an American, mabe we can trade him off to reduce our carbon footprint.
The fantasy world of Gore is very much reminiscent of the fantasy world of Soviet Communism. When I saw the two photos in this article, my first thought was “the commissar vanishes”. It’s the name of a fascinating book by David King that traces the history of political photo faking in the Soviet Union. On the cover, there are four versions of one image –Stalin with three comrades, then two, then one, then Stalin stands alone. All three were murdered, then erased from history. Many pictures of crowds were doctored to make it appear as though many more people turned out to see the glorious leader that actually did. There are also images of industry (western industry) that were doctored up and used to show awesome Soviet technology.
Luckily Gore and his fellow travelers are still trying to convince us (the workers) that CO2 is the new Satin –and that he has divined a path to salvation from said evil. He congers imagery of floods, hurricanes, famine, disease, and pestilence. He sells Indulgences. He encourages the use of verbiage such as “denier” to vilify climatheists. But in the end, Commissar Gore is a buffoon, and people will distance themselves from him. I hope.
Er… you know that this image is a projection that is intended to show how climate change could lead to radical changes in weather, right? If the artist who created this image missed out on things like the height of Cuba’s mountains, and what not, it does not mean climate is not happening. Everybody makes mistakes… look at you guys… I bet most of you voted for Bush not one, but twice.
Once again… every major scientific body on the planet agrees that A) the planet is heating up, and that B) human activity is largely responsible.
But hey… I hear Sarah Palin disagrees with this, and she went to some university in Iowa or something, so she must know what she’s talking about, right?
And just as a quick note before I eff off… let’s say our CO2 output doesn’t cause the planet to warm. It is still resulting in acidification of the oceans, which threatens the entire foodchain. You may now proceed to deny this.
Go have a smoke… I hear they’re not bad for you. Smoke all you can if you don’t mind!
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