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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Al Gore used images of Hurricane Katrina to make his point but in the news today the courts make a ruling and its not AGW in the dock:
“A US judge has ruled that negligence by the US Army Corps of Engineers led to massive floods in parts of New Orleans as Hurricane Katrina struck in 2005.”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8367702.stm
5 minutes ago, Rush Limbaugh commented on the missing florida, Cuba and the counter rotating hurricane to his audience of 5 million. Nancy Pelosi claimed 500 million people lost their jobs. If 10% listen to Rush or read non filtered news, this is spreading fast.
Rush quoted a Scientist from Alabama that made comments.
God! What the hell does he have against Florida……. Oh, Nevermind!
Alan J (06:33:10) :
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.
Are you kidding? This is the man who is at the very front of the campaign to change our economy, and even way of government. He (repeatedly) completely falsifies things then passes them off as science. Shouldn’t his credibility, and willingness to flaunt any semblance of truth be an issue? If you’re looking to build a house, and the builder gives you plans that can’t be physically done, and has a history of overcharging by 3000%, getting rich off the process, and builds in a hidden back door so he can come back later to rob you of your valuables, shouldn’t that be an issue on using him as a builder? Or would you still use him, knowing all these facts?
It’s just cover art to show Gore’s vision of an AGW’d Earth, with raised sea levels, melted ice caps, and hurricanes. The artist started with a real photo as a template. Nothing wrong with that, apart from the lunacy and ludicrous hurricanes.
KOJIRO – You only account for 44 states.
Others we love, but shouldn’t forget
Alaska – Still partially above water
Kentucky – ?? Don’t know
Maryland – Under
Michigan – Under
North carolina – ??? Don’t know
Tennessee – ??? Don’t know
Thanks for the laughs. Looks like Wyoming might actually win a football championship since they are 1 of maybe 5 schools still above sealevel.
Welll Lookie here; South America done gone and disconnect itself from Central America.
I knew it wasn’t a good idea to saw them apart with that darn canal. Pretty soon Brazil will drift down by Antarctica !
Where’s Cuba? If it’s complete gone under water, then most of the lower 48 would also be under. Who is fooled by these errors? Isn’t it difficult for a hurricane or cyclone to develop near the equator? I’ll check with my science teacher.
What are those red splotches at the Sierra Navadas, northwest Texas, and Alabama supposed to be?
Global warming induced volcanic flood basalts?
Speaking of weird pictures; has anybody looked at today’s DMI Polar temperature graph.
By some miracle of Physics, we now have a two valued function for the mean temperature of the north Polar region, or maybe they have plotted two sets of data; one for AGW fans, and one for Skeptics.
Does anybody understand how they get that graph; those wild up and down jumps of around 5 deg C seem to be hard to explain. How could such a large mass of ice as the region north of 80 deg suddenly change overnight by five deg C, and then just as rapidly switch the other way. There must be some pretty agressive “heat” flows associated with that kind of temperature change.
The JAXA ice graph though seems to have recovered, and the red line is now headed north in a hurry, back to ordinary normalcy for this time of year.
But I am getting ever more suspicious of that DMI temperature; and the explanation of how they get their numbers all sounds like gobbledegook to me.
Doesn’t anybody simply plot what the thermometer says any more ?
The only time I’ve ever seen that shade of orange associated with fires is when the planes fly over dumping the retardants. Wait, maybe that’s what happened with Big Al? (apologies beforehand if the last was snipworthy)
In Mizner’s unhappy phraseology he is a mouse studying to be a rat.
Cuba with it’s 6000 foot mountains is missing under the water, Florida with it’s 300 foot peaks is not. Al Gore, science teacher and climate expert — And liar to boot.
Which is it, are we gonna get more hurricanes and sink into the ocean or are we gonna turn into giant north american desert? That picture shows both happening Mr Gore. Either youre gonna get stronger storms with more rain or not and turn into a desert, you cant have both happening at the same time.
Alan J,
Gore, like Benford, Asimov, Bear, Vinge, Robinson, Heinlein and other SF writers, are of course going to have the most fantastic and fictional cover art to help sell their writing.
I find nothing wrong with a work of fiction showing hurricanes blowing backwards as well as displaying complete ignorance of geography and physics.
It is fitting that the backwards hurricane, an important logo from Gore’s SF movie, should be used on his latest climate fantasy. Many authors use whimsical symbols such as that as sort of an insider’s joke. for Gore, backwards hurricanes are sort of a wink at the audience.
Everyone knows Gore is just schlepping out this stuff to help with his deep seated need to make a lot of money. No one really paying attention actually believes Gore’s fantasies, do they?
I remember back when the ‘Blair Witch Project’ came out, how certain gullible people thought the movie was actually pieced together from an actual event, but could anyone be naive enough to believe Gore?
That would really stretch the limits of credibility.
If Panama is under water, so is Texas and almost everything in between. But that’s only in reality.
Cover art is frequently attributed. When I see the book I’ll overcome my reluctance to touch it, long enough to see if this is the case. I like to think the cover artist is secretly a scientific illustrator did it on purpose.
Could I please be a Florida State Seminole ? — I really am so tired of Tim Tebow and can’t bear being a Gator.
Hey, at least Al found a way to finally get rid of that pesky Fidel Castro!
As Evan Thomas of Newsweek would say, “We got the narrative right. It was just the facts we got wrong.”
They say a picture is worth a thousand words. Word #1….Idiot.
tommoriarty (07:14:34) :
“This makes me recall Trenberth’s “Future Hurricane.””
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Wow, hadn’t seen that one before. ZOMG WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE!!!!!!11!1
Good news is, Al’s beach property is flooded as well.
The highest point of the missing Baja California Penninsula is 10157 ft, eliminating: SD and TX
George E. Smith (10:22:19) :
Yes, I noticed that the DMI graph did a barrel roll yesterday. Now they have ‘corrected’ the data, and the readout is entirely different. There was a missing piece that was filled in.
As for the JAXA graph, that appears to be consecutive days with no data that is just continued as a reapeat of the last day for which data is available.
Monkeybusiness or budget cuts?
It looks like Iceland and it’s glaciers survived intact.
Winter Storm Warnings are up for California, and that means heavy snows.
Not even Thanksgiving yet.
But, Thanks for Giving Gore the Business. He deserves to have his sooty propaganda buried in white stuff.
This Chariots of the Gores story is so last century.