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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Pico Duarte in Hispaniola is over 3,000 meters elevation. If it’s gone, all that should be left of North America is the spine of the Rockies.
Stop promoting the Global Warming Myth!: I can’t agree more!
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I’d bet the loss of the Isthmus of Panama would somewhat alter the paths of hurricanes, let alone the Gulf D=Stream.
Well, his book is fiction after all.
I also notice that the continental USA has become mostly desert or scrub land (its very very brown). This has always galled me since globally, deserts expanded greatest during period of extreme cold (i.e. Younger Dryas event). During periods of warmth, deserts overall retreat with even the Sahara supporting lakes and grasslands.
This is a religion without a reformation… blind faith… logic need not apply.
Newfoundland appears to be gone. I looked up it’s highest point… 814 meters.
GP (03:22:29) : said
“Presumably the photo is meant to represent coastlines and weather conditions once the ice has melted?”
You have asked precisely the question I was going to. Is this SUPPOSED to be representational and described as such somewhere reasonably prominent?
tonyb
Do you think his bay side condo in San Fran is under the water somewhere there ?
Now that’s what I call model building.
The global warming faithful in Al Gore’s Church of Climatology will simply say that global warming skeptics airbrushed the hurricanes out.
Wile Florida, Cuba and central America have some great land lose in Al’s future the coastline of hudson bay didn’t change a bit.
That uneven see level rise must be a signature that the problem is man made right?
“A midget Southern Hemisphere cyclone is off the coast of Florida…”
Many jokes spring to mind here, but I’ll just let this be…
All science fiction books have fantastic covers, of things that do not exist.
Why should Gore’s book be any different?
I would only ask the book sellers to be honest, and to sell it as science fiction.
All the continents are brown and half submerged. Must be that scorching hot Mantle cooking us from the inside out. Hey, I think I see some floating polar bear carcasses!
Ed Zuiderwijk (04:17:09) :
Yes, you do need copyright clearance for space shots unless you were up there taking them. (I have some prior experience with manipulation, being a member of the Plagiarism Committee of the Australian Photographic Society).
Different groups publish useful guidelines. This following one from the University of Wisconsin at Madison expresses it rather well.
http://www.uc.wisc.edu/policies/photo-guidelines.html
The simple message is – “Don’t cheat, please”.
charlatan is right on the mark…..there seems to be an abundance of this breed right now.
Actually, the Greenland “open sea” thing is only half wrong (to the best of my knowledge. There is a significant depression in much of the center of Greenland, so *if* there was that much melt there would likely be a large lake in the middle of Greenland. Perhaps they are positing that the increased sea level will even connect the Artic Ocean? I honestly don’t know enough about the geography to know if that’s remotely possible. It could theoretically be with tens of meters of sea level elevation (as they are obviously assuming based on the Florida coastline), but I suspect even in that highly unlikely scenario that Greenland rebound might still keep the connection to the Artic Sea closed.
I sometimes like science fiction too. Isn’t this in the same class as “The Day After Tomorrow”?
I particularly like the US desert he depicts. Are the Rockies on fire in that picture?
Hey, look at that! In the future a giant hurricane packed full of water will be hitting the desert (west coast)!!! That happens all the time!
Me thinks that there is little understanding of meteorology or climate (or any system in general) there.
Why does it look like ALL of Baja California is gone – clipped off neatly at the US border?? Geo-engineering at work, no doubt…
I guess global warming is one way to finally get rid of those pesky red cubans.
I think Gore had his buddy J.H. run his AGW computer model and this is the actual results. It would explain a lot of things. “The science is settled the computer models are correct”
I wish we had an opposition party like there is in Australia! They’d get my vote in a flash…
I have always voted Conservative, but find myself increasingly alienated by their belief in Global Warming. I have written to my local MP and their Leader to express my unhappiness.
If it continues, I will have to vote for UKIP, the only party which, at the moment, has a sensible policy on the Environment.
Wow, the middle of the Greenland Ice sheet is gone too. Funny that it didn’t raise sea levels, wonder why that would be?
If they wanted to be accurate the entire East Coast should be backed up to the Appalachians given that if the Greenland Ice sheet is mostly gone, shouldn’t Antarctica be melted significantly and all the glaciers be gone as well?
Notify the publisher of the fraudulent representation of information. Then issue a press release. And when you see the volume in the bookstore, point this out to the manager and ask him/her to relocate it to the Science Fiction/Fantasy section.