[Note: I have the video footage denied to Al Gore available for viewing below, after seeing it, I can understand why Gore wanted it, and why the filmmaker denied him the right to use it. – Anthony]
Old Ranga from Oz writes:
Hi Anthony,
My countrymen have given Big Al the finger. I’m proud of them.
Al Gore denied firestorm footage | The Australian
A WEATHER expert has backed the stance of an Alice Springs filmmaker who refused to sell footage of a firestorm to former US vice-president Al Gore — to use in Mr Gore’s climate presentations — because the event was unrelated to climate change.
In an email exchange with Mr Gore’s office, Tangey said using the footage in a climate-change framework would be ‘deliberately deceptive
“I am aware that you may have missed the reporting on the very localised nature of this firestorm,” Tangey wrote. “However, in any case, I am confused as to why you would offer to buy a licence to use it at all unless you had conducted even elementary research which might indicate that this Mt Conner event had direct linkage to global warming/climate change.”
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I guess too many people have figured out Gore lied, and lied big with visuals in An Inconvenient Truth.
Good for Mr. Tangey. Here’s the video Gore wanted from him:
From the YouTube description:
THERE’S something mean and magical about Australia’s Outback. An Alice Springs filmmaker captured both when a whirlwind of fire erupted before his eyes.
Chris Tangey of Alice Springs Film and Television was scouting locations near Curtin Springs station, about 80km from Ularu, last week when confronted by a fiery phenomenon.
He had just finished his tour of the station when workers encountered difficulties with a grader. So he went to help them.
A small fire was burning in nearby bushland, so Mr Tangey decided to start filming.
He caught the sight of his life.
A twister touched down on the spot fire, fanning it into a furious tower of flame.
“It sounded like a jet fighter going by, yet there wasn’t a breath of wind where we were,” he told the Northern Territory News.
“You would have paid $1000 a head if you knew it was about to happen.”
The column of fire danced about the landscape for about 40 minutes, he said, as he and the station workers stood transfixed.
There was talk of making a quick getaway, Mr Tangey said. But everyone was too hypnotised to feel scared – and he continued furiously filming.
“The bizarre thing was that it rarely moved,” he said.
“These things just stood there because there was no wind to move them … but it was flickering incredibly fast.”
Darwin weather forecaster David Matthews said small twisters were common in isolated areas. But the fiery vortex was highly unusual.
“The flames would have assisted by trying to suck in air and that could have helped generate those circular winds,” Mr Matthews said.
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It pains me both knowing exactly what Gore would have done with this and knowing that some credulous people would have taken it as further “proof” in their belief in “climate chaos”, or whatever its called this week….
err… Gore can use the footage under the Youtube license, without even asking the guy 🙂
Wait a minute. Someone refused actual money because of, how you say, princeepal?? No way. Their must be some deep game being played here….
Propagandists, like Al Gore, know the value of a powerful image and a big lie…
“err… Gore can use the footage under the Youtube license, without even asking the guy :)”
– Shhhh!!!
“Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake”
(attributed to Napoleon)
“Wait a minute. Someone refused actual money because of, how you say, princeepal?? No way. Their must be some deep game being played here….”
– Part of the eeeevil massive oil funded deniar conspirassy for sure. Or something.
(n.b. spelling mistakes fully intentional….)
That`s y i support piracy and SOFFA initiatives.
Something like this…
“…Man Made Global Warming causes the very air to catch on fire…”
“…Fire Tornadoes caused by Human CO2 emissions devastate endangered wildlife…Rare Bilby goes up in smoke”
“…Global Carbon Doom written in fiery letters in the sky…” (Al did go to divinity school for awhile…)
“…Man Made Global Warming strikes fire down under…” (has several possible meanings…especially for Big Al)
“…Man Made Global Warming ignites drowning Polar Bears…” (Requires some photo shopping first…)
“…Pillars of Fire – an Omen of Imminent Doom…”
One could go on all night.
let Gore us the video. it’s just more rope to hang himself by
Proof of Global Warming? I thought it was proof of the biblical Pillar of Fire. The real thing was way better than the lame special effects in “The Ten Commandments”. Did anyone check around for some stone tablets, or an Ark, or something?
Thanks for giving this such a great run, Anthony.
Given that it’s Al Gore, he might just steal the footage. He did it with his movie. Compare Inconvenient Truth and Day After Tomorrow. Let me get the video.
And Matt, he can’t really, because I doubt the youtube license allows him to make profit off it. But then again, as proven by above’s example, Al Gore doesn’t care about such trivial things. He only cares about making profit off his lies.
Gore likes to be dramatic.. Sometimes he uses anything. Truth is however mundane. Anyway, I overcooked my sausages this morning. Thats a sign of global warming to go in Gore’s presentation. Actually its a sign of my own negligence
When Gore shows the youtube footage, the extra spin he’ll put on it will keep it going forever.
Quick re-write history, all those great fires were climate related…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fires
Why not give the fool his rope and let him hang himself, because if he tries to claim this is what global warming looks like, he will be an even bigger laughing stock than he already is.
“Truth” is to climate ‘science’ much like the defination of ‘modern art’….
“whatever you can get away with”
good for Tangey, but we have our own Gores working overtime as usual:
3 Oct: SMH: Peter Hannam: Dry zone expansion hits Australia’s autumn rains
The world’s subtropical dry zones are shifting towards the poles, resulting in sharp rainfall declines during April and May in regions such as southern Australia, according to a study by CSIRO scientists.
While previous research had established a southward shift in southern hemisphere weather systems during the late 20th century, the new analysis by Wenju Cai, Tim Cowan and Marcus Thatcher, clarifies the extent of the resulting rainfall reduction. The study was published by Nature’s Scientific Reports…
The effects of the shift were greater for Australia than southern Africa and South America, the two other major landforms studied…
If anything, the models are underestimating the shift going on, particularly in mid to late autumn, Dr Cai said.
“We are now seeing in the majority of models in the future showing a dry zone expansion poleward,” he said. “Unfortunately, for reasons we don’t understand, in April and May climate models produce a polar expansion about a factor of 10 too small [compared with observations].”
The polar shift in weather systems appears to be caused by a combination of increased carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, and ozone depletion, Dr Cai said…
http://www.smh.com.au/environment/dry-zone-expansion-hits-australias-autumn-rains-20121003-26zkt.html
2 Oct: ABC Lateline: Warning bell for Barrier Reef
Environment minister Tony Burke says the Australian Institute of Marine Science report on the Barrier Reef, which predicts that as little as 6 per cent of the coral could remain by 2020, would send ***shockwaves through the community and sound a loud and clear warning bell about the future of the reef.
TRANSCRIPT…
http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/content/2012/s3602458.htm
***”SHOCKWAVES”? YAWNS MORE LIKELY.
I’m sure the original video footage has much better resolution than the YouTube version.
We can surely trust Al Gore not to be deceptive, right? After all, remember this classic from WUWT?
Not finding any, Gore airbrushes in hurricanes for his new book.
BTW where ARE our warmist friends and CAGW climate scientists to defend their patriarch, sponsor, and mentor Al Gore? Where are they??
Very well done, Mr. Tangey. More people should be giving Algore the cold shoulder and the finger as well.
Climate change tax schemes…Just another Assault on the worlds poor by rich white autocrats.
I saw that film before, and it is AWESOME. The mysteries and magic of the planet is revealed with random events such as this. I am glad they did not allow it to be bastardized by the liars.
Fire twisters may be rare in the Outback, but they are very common every year at the Burning Man Celebration in the Nevada Desert. This is my favorite video from this year’s burn. The tornadoes start about 10 minutes in. Pretty amazing!
Don’t tell Al!
The push to convince the public that the world is about to catch fire does not come from science, but comes from politics. That is why we see scientists and activists acting like politicians, and politicians acting like, well, really bad politicians. There is no science there to warrant handing over control of the means of production to a super elite of our intellectual and moral superiors. So they doctor the’evidence’. All the time and without shame. This site is an archive of their malfeasance.