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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Interesting. Central Florida (elevation 30m or so) looks to be above water, but the mountains that ridge Baja California seem to be completely underwater. I imagine the peaks near 5000 feet would form some small islands, but the numerous ridges above 1000 feet ought to at least form some larger ones.
Also mysteriously not inundated is the Mississippi River valley up to Missouri or so.
You’d think Gore’s artist would at least consult the Google sea level rise map application.
Call it what it is …….out and out fraud.
I did a few scenarios on that. What’s required to reduce Baja California to a chain of tiny islands is 2000 feet of sea-level rise. Of course, that also puts underwater nearly the entire Eastern US. 100 feet sinks most of Florida save a largish island, but leaves Cuba intact. Also it puts a fairly large intrusion into Louisiana, but it leaves North and South America connected.
Algore is like Joe Romm. If you don’t find today’s climate supporting your dogma, you can always make a 2099 power point screen that will prove your dogma. If Cuba is under water, why not Manitoba also?
Al Gore will go down in history as the P.T. Barnham of the 21st Century.
Instead of a sucker being born every minute, there is a green stooge re-educated every minute.
Al Gore said:
“Nobody is interested in solutions if they don’t think there’s a problem. Given that starting point, I believe it is appropriate to have an over-representation of factual presentations on how dangerous (global warming) is, as a predicate for opening up the audience to listen to what the solutions are, and how hopeful it is that we are going to solve this crisis.”
See more algorism (Al Gore + alarmism) at http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/images/stories/papers/commentaries/propaganda.pdf
John Whitman (07:25:15) :
“Where was Al Gore booed recently? Any links to that? I would love to see it.
John, see here.
“Al Gore – not quite convincing enough to beat George W Bush in an election, but somehow the shining beacon of knowledge in climate science.”
Oh, now, that’s rich. I snorted coffee through my nose and onto my keyboard. My, how I love the wit on this blog. I’m right there with ya. (well, yeah, the scientific commentary is tops, too, I guess)
lol @ur momisugly Alan J… that was funny, dude. “Unable to engage”…
I’m guessing you are genuinely humor-impaired, or think you just scored a point or something. Because, man, that cover is SERIOUSLY funny for anyone who knows anything about Science. Remember Science? That discipline that has been usurped by political activism?
I’m safe up here at 3500 feet, but the ridiculous inaccuracies on that cover are fairly typical of all alarmist “climate science”. Take a few disconnected possibilities, stir, and serve… it’s all the rubes really need, and those who see through it can be safely mocked and marginalized…
I’d like to get in my wheelchair, sidle up close to his blubberiness, ram one of my walking crutches up his rhetorical orifice until his flanges wilt, give it a good twist to unload and suggest to all and sundry that the only man-made global warming this lying stoat will witness, comes courtesy of the 20 or so Dorset Naga chillies just jettisoned where the sun don’t shine.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article700700.ece
I doubt I would have the opportunity make my excuses and to tiptoe away, unfortunately. Cor blimey mate, can’t you FBI agents see the funny side of anything?
Disclaimer: it’s a joke!
No Panama!!!!
Kjell T Ringen (06:31:16) : said
“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?”
There is a much better review at:
http://www.harmlesssky.org/
(scroll down the left bar through climate subjects)
As well as an extract from ‘Chill” there are also well over 300 comments which demomstrate what a fascinating book it is.
This brilliant review also…ok I admit it. The review was by me…
Take a look. Peter sometimes blogs here and his research and his analysis of the warmists and the NGo’s is very perceptive.
Even better, he has impeccable green credentials so can’t be written off as a right wing tool of Big oil.
Tonyb
The reverse direction / Southern hemisphere hurricane off of what’s left of Florida is HILARIOUS !!!!
The IPCC had better hurry up and add “reversal of hurricane circulation patterns” as yet another potential climate change.
Perhaps this represents the pole-shift as well. Florida is now in the Southern Hemisphere and the Earth is in an odd axis tilt. Too bad we can’t see Antarctica in the photo.
OK, Florida is still there. The highest point is Bretton Hill at 345 ft above sea level. Cuba is completely gone, highest point – Pico Turquino at 6,580 ft.
Panama – gone! Highest point is Volcan Baru at 11,400 feet. That doesn’t make any sense at all.
So lets just assume that Cuba is gone and sea level rises 6,580 feet. Here are the highest points in the following states: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_elevation
Say goodbye to:
Alabama 2,413′
Arkansas 2,753′
Connectiticut 2,380′
Delaware 451′
District of Columbia 410′
Florida 345′
Georgia 4,784′
Illinois 1,235′
Indiana 1,257′
Iowa 1,670′
Kansas 4,039′
Louisiana 535′
Maine 5,268′
Minnesota 2,301′
Mississippi 806′
Missouri 1,772′
Nebraska 5,424′
New Hampshire 6,288′
New Jersey 1,803′
New York 5,344′
North Dakota 3,506′
Ohio 1,550′
Oklahoma 4,973′
Pennsylvannia 3,113′
Rhode Island 812′
South Carolina 3,560′
Vermont 4,395′
Virginia 5,729′
West Virginia 4,863′
Wisconsin 1,951′
By my count that leaves us with 15 states. (AK, AZ, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, NM, OR, SD, TX, UT, WA, WY) But hey, look on the bright side, the heaviest concentration of democrats and environmentalists are on the east and West Coast!
I thought Al Gore and his minions were “all about the science”. I guess not when it comes to scaring or misleading people!
TonyB (08:38:30) :
Thank you very much!
That was what i was looking for. I have recently read the book and was fasinated by it but i have had none to discuss it with.
🙂
Well at least here’s apositive
“Sahara Desert Greening due ot Climate Change”
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/07/090731-green-sahara.html
Images taken between 1982 and 2002 revealed extensive regreening throughout the Sahel, according to a new study in the journal Biogeosciences.
The study suggests huge increases in vegetation in areas including central Chad and western Sudan.
The transition may be occurring because hotter air has more capacity to hold moisture, which in turn creates more rain,
Shiny
Edward
Quite a few folks have pointed out that some of the hurricanes are spinning in directions opposite to what they should. I deplore this criticism of (on?) his spin. When you’re spinning a yarn you have to go all the way, and what do the little ole ladies and the faithful know anyway. No the models are “robust” and Mann and Briffa, who have just published another paper on this very subject, say so.
They seem to have nuked all islands, except in the Arctic. Newfoundland’s gone, and it has 2000 + foot mountains, but Cape Cod’s still there. (Maybe they wanted to spare the Kennedy compound? ) They haven’t spared all peninsulas, though. Baja California, with its high mountains, is submerged. And it looks like they shaved off the south coast of Alaska.
Couldn’t Gore, with all that carbon offset loot coming in, afford an artist who wasn’t a complete imbecile?
How is North America that DRY with all those hurricanes bringing in massive amounts of rain?
That clockwise hurricane is going to be a nightmare for big Al. Mockery is the best counter-argument.
My favorite parody of the classic Hajj Beruit photo hoax was where someone added Godzilla. A chariots of the gods pattern in the southwest might work here.
If there is less land exposed, thus less temperature gradient, how could that create more hurricanes?
If only the photoshop geeks over at Fark could be employed on this one.
Rush Limbaugh just covered this.
How is North America that DRY with all those hurricanes bringing in massive amounts of rain?
That is what is called ‘An Inconvenient Truth’.