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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gore is sick, he is a looser.
Notice how there is no perspective foreshortening on the hurricanes? Despite the curvature of the Earth, they are circular seen face on. Completely bogus.
Maybe Mr Gore could explain why his latest book cover was graffitied with non existent hurricanes? – Oh! Because the book is a work of fiction and is only meant to enhance Mr Gore’s Carbon Trading/Offset/Scam potential.
His explanation as to why he allowed this book cover to be published will probably never happen. The artist knows diddly squat about wrapping images on a sphere so he was cheap then……
Charlatan as most politicians: creating problems to impose their ‘solutions’ upon us.
Umm… in fiction you are allowed to propose anything, even multiple hurricanes spinning the wrong way round.
I presume Gore is going for the fiction Literature Nobel prize, to go with his ‘saving the world’ prize….
Al Gore = Elmer Gantry
Charlatan?
In most cases, a solid noun needs no adjective.
This is not one of them.
They removed the arctic ice, but left the snow in place in Alaska and northern Canada which is impossible They added orange streaks on the west coast and the western great plains, I suppose to represent fire, but not nearly enough smoke to match (nor would the fire be visible from space. They added a large arms to the hurricane off the west coast, the northern one looks detached. There is no way that a hurricane of that intensity would have anything other than subsidence around it.
The cover artist appears to know nothing about climate, weather, or any other science that I can tell. Perhaps it was drawn by the author himself? I assume he would have had to approve it.
Is the loss of Florida supposed to indicate a huge amount of sea level rise caused by the melting of the Arctic sea Ice and the Middle of the Greenland glacier. Who knows! I don’t mind reading works of fantasy but not when they are portrayed as fact.
I think what he’s trying to portray with the shrunken Florida is the threat of sea level rise.
Part of central America is gone, along with Baha.
And parts of the US are “browner” than normal.
Sort of a “ghosts of climate future” kinda thing.
I also like how Half of mexico is gone, all of panama is underwater, and greenland is half flooded. I wonder if this little piece comes with the disclaimer *artist’s rendering
Presumably the photo is meant to represent coastlines and weather conditions once the ice has melted?
So Gore finally got his revenge on the voters of Florida. Let the bastards drown!
This bloke’s pseudo-science and brainless rhetoric is incredible. What scares me though, is, why have people taken him so seriously, and especially by those who should know better? What is up with people? The man is a money-grabbing, power-hungry charlatan – why is he getting away with it?
Where is the Borg cube?
Killer bees?
H1N1?
Remember the SARS scare?
Al Gore has no shame, even for a politician.
Ryan Maue is a hurricane expert from Florida State University, not the University of Florida.
He is nothing more but a modern time extortionist, “Give me your money or you die”.
I wonder what the picture will look like for the version published in the other half of the world?
I’m not sure this represents anything criminal, as much as I hate to say it. This is marketing, pure and simple, designed to prod the great green cash cow one more time. If anyone ever attempted to determine the truthfulness of most marketing campaigns…well…I think we all know that would be a waste of time.
As I’ve said before, this guy is a manipulative marketing genius…from his days in politics right up through his saving the planet movement.
Billions. It’s an amazing story, if you can stomach it.
We all point out how ridiculous his claims are, how foolish the story line is, how easy it is to prove the falsehoods.
Meanwhile, Gore counts the money.
JimB
henry (03:18:17), the browns replacing the greens reminds me of a picture that was made to estimate the lack of growth during the last ice age 70,000 years ago. Wait, we are still in that ice age… — John M Reynolds
There’s just one thing missing from Mr Gore’s jigsaw now, a church of Climatology.
For all the earth’s real maps go here:
http://www.universetoday.com/2009/11/18/get-a-36-million-world-map-for-free/
As a matter of interest, do hurricanes in the northern hemisphere always rotate in the same direction, due to the Coriolis force?
I guess the book jacket answers that question, as Gore is known to be a reliable source of scientific truth.
Or perhaps not….
Chris
This is simply and plainly fraud.
The original picture will have come from NASA or some other Government agency. That organisation will have the copyright on the picture. Editing without permission is an infringement of that copyright.
(If that editing was done with permission, then Congress might have something to ask of the agency involved).
Mr Gore and his, gullable, publisher should be prosecuted and be served with a hefty fine, plus an order to recall that publication.
Can a private US citizen take this up? (I’m not one and don’t live in the US either)
This illustration was probably produced by a retired blue state 90 year old living in Florida. Remember how he and his colleagues almost made Gore president with nothing but pockets full of chads?