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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Maybe I missed it, but what is the source of the original, unaltered photograph? Where did Ryan see that?
It looks like the Sierra Nevada Mountain range is completely gone, brought to the same level of the Great Basin. Wow, I didn’t realize that Climate Change was going to level off 14,000′ peaks! Why isn’t there a stretch of water going up into Death Valley? If the water level is high enough to erase Baja, then its high enough to reach DV.
This whole thing is just laughable. What’s scary, though, is that some less informed will believe it at face value.
Just following on from what others have posted on the fact that Cuba is gone :
The highest point in the contiguous USA east of the Rocky Mountains is Mount Mitchell, NC, at 6,684 feet. In other words if Cuba is gone, then so is most of the US except for a few isolated islands in what used to be the the Blue Ridge Mountains.
You guys are missing the joke here.
Remember the old Mad Magazine’s rear covers?
Fold this one together and you have a cartoon face of Pope Carbon I saying “What. Me worry?”
Al, you are a fraud. You could’nt even come clean when it was finally uncovered that the IPCC data you and your environmental socialist buddies were using as propaganda was found out to be cherry picked. You could not even defend the BS information in your own movie when asked a question about inaccurate information. The climate conference is nothing but a money grab by the socialists to re-distribute our wealth as you see fit. Cap & Trade is a failed euro socialist disaster. We are going to boot you non american socialists out of office in the next elections
@Antony The real value of the mine is in its germanium. It is one of the few germanium mines around. Armand Hammer sold it to Daddy Gore for a song. Or perhaps a few favors and a song. Lets make that lots of favors and a song. It was part of the “friends of Armand” program way back when.
DaveE (07:42:37).
http://www.ganderbeacon.ca/index.cfm?sid=298626&sc=305
“on Oct. 17. According to Environment Canada, 40 centimetres of snow fell on Gander”
Another sign that Gander is aproaching a tipping point where at 496 feet above sea-level it will soon be underwater. The local deniers blame all the snow on El Nino. When will they stop their lies and admit it’s a result of global warming.
Kjell T Ringen (08:59:40) : said
“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.”
Your are welcome. Peter Taylor has a new book coming out which has a section at Harmless sky headed
“The ‘corporatisation’ of environmental activism ”
Hope to see you over there
Tonyb
Juraj V. (11:30:38) :
“Good news is, Als beach property is flooded as well.”
The REALLY good news is that the publisher of “Our choice” has already printed thousands of copies of the book with the idiotic cover “art” – many of which are now on display for all to see at a bookstore near you!
I must say that Al has altered my view of the globe, all the globe map views in UK show the Greenwich Meridian in the centre, there is no limit to his powers he has changed the world!
Weather in UK still looks cr*p.
lol@155 comments.
Haters.
Anyway, authors have sweet eff all to say about what goes on the dustjacket, it’s the publisher who’s to blame, and he probably votes Republican.
Okay, Hunter, now you have really pissed me off!
Implying that the fraud Gore can be compared in any way to Benford, Asimov, Bear, Vinge, Robinson, or Heinlein – It is an Outrage, Sir, an Outrage I say!!!!
You know very well that if Heinlein were alive he would challenge you to a duel over those words.
“It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.” – Robert A. Heinlein
I love how there are hurricanes everywhere, and yet, with all of that tropical moisture abounding, most of the land mass is depicted as a desert.
UK John – so sorry to inform you but with Ben Nevis, the highest point in the UK at 4,409′, you are a goner on Al Gore’s world.
Don’t despair. You are in great company with all of the Netherlands, Belgium, Ireland, and with the exception of the Alps, all of Italy.
Matt in WY. This is just a giant conspiracy because Utah wasn’t NCAA football champs.
I shouldn’t multitask. I forgot a few states, my cut off was Cuba at 6,580′ So:
Underwater:
Kentucky – 4,145′
Michigan – 1,979′
Maryland – 3,360′
Above water – but barely:
North Carolina – 6,684′
Tennessee – 6,643′
That makes the surviving states:
AK, AZ, CA, CO, HI, ID, MY, NC, NM, NV, OR, SD, TN, TX, WA, WY
With North Carolina and Tennessee being the only states east of the Rockies to survive as tiny islands in Algore’s world.
Check out the countries shorter than Cuba that are gone:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_highest_point
Here are a few:
Cyprus
South Korea
UAE
Jordan
Croatia
Cambodia
Czech Republic
UK
Ireland
Hungary
Paraquay
Uruguay
Barbados
Netherlands
Kuwait
Denmark
Monaco
Vatican City
and of course:
The Maldives
Jake F. (02:04:55) :
“And the problem is? That’s what HE says is going to be, that’s the point of the book, i don’t see any wrong in making it graphic.”
NZ Willy (09:53:47) :
“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.”
I agree. There’s nothing wrong with providing a graphic to illustrate a potential future state. I assume there are words to that effect in the book–something like, “Here’s a picture what will become of the planet if business as usual continues.”
What’s silly isn’t the illustration, but the assumptions behind it.
Ten years from now we’ll all be glad that Gore went out on a limb like this, with a concrete prediction. It’ll be ammo for our side, which we’ll reproduce gleefully. So we should be glad now that he’s gone on the record in such a falsifiable fashion.
I can just imagine what Gore will say after he reads these and similar comments. “The devastation will be much worse than even I could predict!”
ROFL
It’s getting around:
http://www.examiner.com/x-28163-St-Louis-Headlines-Examiner~y2009m11d19-Gore-uses-Photoshop-to-sell-new-book
Sorry, as amusing as this is, there isn’t enough water-ice on the planet to raise the sea level much more than a couple of hundred feet.
But:
says that you’re wrong about that.
Oh, here’s a set of priceless Al Gore pics…
This website has computed what the Earth’s landmasses would look like if every scrap of ice on the Earth melted. Which I think is pretty cool.
“”” rbateman (11:41:41) :
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? “””
Well I’m not sure what they did, but now at least it isn’t double valued any more.
But I must confess, that so far I am unable to deduce from what they say on their site; whehter this graph is from an actual real live thermometer reading, or whether it is the output of some computer model, of what the temperature is predicted; excuse me projected to be, or what.
In any case the red line and the green line aren’t even remotely similar; so it makes me wonder what last years red line looked like. Izzat green line some kind of composite smoothed out low passed 13 month running average by month of some 21 year mean of something else.
I must say that the lingo of climatology sounds a lot like something you would hear on Coast to Coast AM from one of George Noory’s wacky guests.
All this year-on-year plot by month data submission. Do they speak English at any of the schools that teach this stuff; it seems that the verbiage permeates all the peer reviewed literature ? It is virtually impossible to deduce the data presentation AlGorythm that is being used; from some of the pigeon English descriptions of it.
It’s no wonder the alphabet soup media don’t seem to be able to gat a grasp of any of the concepts of climate “science”.
The typical paper title and abstract of the average paper printed in SCIENCE, would be a first class candidate for the annual Bulwer-Lytton prize, for gobble speak !
I agree people can be gullible and believe in this swindling and shameless opportunist.
What pisses me off though is the million dollar Nobel Prize money he got for propagating this bullshit.
Not even a month since publication and the book is already out of the Amazon top 100.