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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I love the fact that before and after the “change” the exact same cloud patterns exist over the North Atlantic, Alaska, Western Canada, the Pacific… I mean the EXACT same cloud patterns. Must be another byproduct of global warming… i.e. stationary fronts and permanent cloud cover over some parts of the globe?
It would be a lot more realistic if the picture contained some closeups of the Martian Tripods stalking the land.
I wonder which will sell more? Gore’s book, or Palin’s?
@ur momisugly hunter (05:09:02) :
” 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. ”
I wouldn’t elevate to the status of “Science” fiction. “Fantasy” fiction perhaps would be acceptable.
Beware of any movement that espouses lying as an approved method of furthering its cause. To put it in other terms, the end does not justify the means.
“‘You’re a humbug, Sir.’
“‘A what!’ said Mr. Gore starting.
“‘A humbug, Sir. I will speak plainer, if you wish it. An impostor, Sir.’
“With these words Mr. Pickwick turned slowly on his heel, and rejoined his friends.”
Speaking about books, has anyone read
Chill: A Reassessment of Global Warming Theory by Peter Taylor?+
Here is a review of the book.
http://www.whale.to/b/chill.html
and a presentation
http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docid=6613938246449800148
have anyone read it? what did you think of it? or heard of it?
Unable to engage on substantive issues, have you instead turned to giggling at photoshopped book covers? This really seems like a complete non-issue to me.
He forgot to add the SCAWY carbon monster – this is a book for kids, right?
I’m from Newfoundland.
It was nice knowing you all. I’d normally be racing to the nearest airport to get out of here right now. But the airport at Gander (near my home town) is a mere 496 feet and is submerged.. bye.. glub glub… http://www.ganderairport.com/overview.htm.
What are those red splotches at the Sierra Navadas, northwest Texas, and Alabama supposed to be?
Also, the sealevel rise depicted is really funny. it covers 200 meter mountains, but leaves some coastal floodplains intact. Weird behavior for water. 🙂
I laughed that Panama’s mountain ranges are completely underwater. I just wonder what Al thinks THAT will do to the climate.
Al Gore isn’t stupid but he does show signs of retarded emotional development, his sycophants are stupid.
This is climate porn.Al’s definitely gone over the top on this.He’s Desperate…
Mike McMillan (01:51:36) :
Uh, oh.
Sunspots.
Uh -oh. Sunspecks, and only half of them are visible, the rest are satellite-only phenomena.
And they’re moving towards the equator too fast.
Quick, call Al Gore, he’ll know what to do with the airbrush.
This makes me recall Trenberth’s “Future Hurricane.”
Tom
Ha! looks like they added a truncated hook of Malaysia complete with cyclone in place of Florida.
Allan M (02:05:39) :
“Let’s hope, that after him being booed recently . . . ”
Where was Al Gore booed recently? Any links to that? I would love to see it.
John
Donde Esta Panama?
I know Jimmy Carter gave Panama back to the locals, but I’m pretty sure that it’s still there. I kind of like that new sea passage in the photo, though. It costs us $50,000 to move a ship through the canal.
paulthepirate(yar!),
Carter gave away the Canal — for nothing — and Panama sold controlling rights to China. Nice, huh?
Smokey (07:28:39) :
The US is just one great big pawn shop. Message to the world: The US can be had cheap.
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Al Gore’s book has fallen completely out of the Amazon Top 100.
It was at #90 two days ago. But it is not on the list now.
Amazon Top 100
http://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/books/ref=pd_ts_pg_1?ie=UTF8&pg=1
Hey, treat it like that game in the Sunday comics (USA) where you get a prize for noticing all the differences!
(Nova Scotia gone)
(Alaska much smaller)
(lakes in Greenland)
(Cuba gone)
(Florida truncated)
(Panama is now an underwater national park)
Try it, its fun for all!
Al’s adventures in Wonderland, with apologies to Lewis Carol.
jmbnf (06:42:36) :
Had an overnight in Gander back in Feb ’83
Very nice. 20′ drifts & cold as heck.
Strange how, walking around in shirtsleeves, you don’t notice the cold too much if the air is dry, must be something to do with the low specific heat of air.
DaveE.
My car is covered with ice this morning. Here in the San Francisco Bay Area that usually starts happening in the middle of December and continues on and off until about the middle of March.
But it’s only November. Must be the Gore effect— the cold winds created from his book falling so quickly out of the Amazon Top 100.