UPDATE: 8/23/13 1:00PM PDT Its seems there’s blunders to go around. The Washington Post now says they “misquoted” Gore. Given his penchant for saying and doing dumb things in the past related to his views on climate, color me “skeptical”, especially when he makes ugly comparisons about people like he did below. It may be more of a case of some deal was worked out behind the scenes to salvage Gore’s waning credibility. I suppose we’ll never know, but I have asked WaPo to put the relevant audio of the tape recorded session online so we can verify that Gore was misquoted. – Anthony
From the WUWT story yesterday: Al Gore compares climate skeptics to anti abolitionists, racists, homophobes, and alcoholic families
Would there be hurricanes and floods and droughts without man-made global warming? Of course. But they’re stronger now. The extreme events are more extreme. The hurricane scale used to be 1-5 and now they’re adding a 6. The fingerprint of man-made global warming is all over these storms and extreme weather events.
We are used to such feckless bloviations, such as when Gore said on national television the temperature below the Earth’s crust is millions of degrees. or when he adds reverse rotation airbrushed hurricanes to his book to make the weather look scarier.
Today, the Capital Weather Gang at the Washington Post called out Gore for his nonsense.
Jason Samenow writes:
But Gore’s statement about this new breed of hurricanes is patently false. There’s no new hurricane category in the works.
Just to be sure, I contacted Chris Vaccaro, director of the National Weather Service’s office of public affairs, and asked him whether the National Hurricane Center is about to unveil the doomsday Category 6. In less than 10 minutes, he fired back this response:
No, we’re not pursuing any such change. I’m also not sure who VP Gore means by “they.” I’d also point out that the top rating, Category 5, has no ceiling: it includes hurricanes with top sustained winds of 157mph and higher
He adds:
But with his penchant for overstatement, Gore will continue to be a divisive and less than credible voice in climate change discourse.
Read it all here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/wp/2013/08/22/the-category-6-hurricane-al-gores-science-fiction/
Good for him and kudos for calling out this nonsense. Every time I think of Gore and Cat6, I think of him as the Stay-Puft man in Ghostbusters rampaging on NYC. The only valid question remaining is, why does anybody still listen to him?
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Awww, I messed up the part about the Swedes. Gore wasn’t TRYING to be funny. Well, the Swedes did not find him amusing and likely will not — they probably just think he is someone to be pitied or scorned.
Mike H,
It is a wee bit sad that so few get the Spinal Tap reference these days…..
I tried it on the first Goreon thread, but few seemed to get it there, either.
I back your use of this 110%, lol
Maybe it is time more of us went out in public like Anthony and gave speeches, wrote letters to the editor, held regional WUWT conferences to counter the likes of Gore. Although this blog is great it is not looked at by a vast part of the public.
Regional WUWT conferences I like the sound of that. Presentations, speeches (short), and discussion panels held at a local college or university. RGB has a nice university where he is.
I know algore is a figure of fun.
I know he’s grown his mouth, to be able to fit both feet in it at the same time.
[Ouroboros-images spring to mind, but, I fear, no such luck.]
And I think calling really serious industrial, mega-porky-pies ‘cat 6s’ is a seriously good idea.
You can probably use it at least 25% of the time you see a politician with their mouth open.
I think Gore needs a trip to Egypt to represent the Muslim Brotherhood, yes, he would be ideal for that. Can someone call President Barrack Obama and have him act on this? Maybe Hansen could go along for support. Next they can fly to China and demand to them to stop using coal. Well, they may never make it out of Egypt, but in case they do, China.
Algor-ithms? He is the one with all the excess wind!
They have no evidence. The last time I looked at the Ace Hurricane Index it showed a negative trend for the last 30 years. The evidence that does exist points to devastating storms during the Little Ice Age. By coincidence I was reading something at the BBC:
By the way since 2005 major hurricanes have been heading down while frequency has been heading down for 30 years. The graph shows the very opposite of what Al Gozeera claims. He is a shister.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/10/01/dr-ryan-maue-releases-new-hurricane-frequency-data-showing-a-negative-trend-in-the-last-30-years/
elmer
Let’s see if Al Gore is still laughing if we still have no hurricanes by the end of this season.
l can see a real chance of that happening with the way things are looking over the mid Atlantic at the moment.
Why does anybody listen to him? Simple: he’s got money and connections. And he works for the Agenda and so is not subject to MSM attack.
The sad – and ominous – part of BloodyMess is that he has real power. He has der Fuehrer’s ear, and with that the ability to do enormous harm. His buffoonery doesn’t hinder him at all – it makes no difference.
Carbon taxes are not likely to go anywhere so long as the Republicans hold the House. Der Fuehrer can spout off regulations all he wants, but he can’t enact a tax on his own. While Congress is sufficiently torpid and cowardly to let him legislate, it’s unlikely they would just meekly surrender the taxing authority.
Of course, if the various “phony” scandals do lead to appropriate results, der Fuehrer and his satraps might conceivably be stopped from the worst of their economic and political vandalism.
“YOu have to remember, all those people in Jonestown voluntarily took the cyanide kool aid”
No, not all of them did. The ones who resisted were shot.
It *was* yet another attempt to build a socialist dream society, remember.
Al Gore has obviously seen Spinal Tap, where the amplifier must be the loudest in the world because the volume dial goes up to 11, not 10 – way to go, Al !!!
From the Stay Puft clip..
“I’m sorry Ray, I’m terrified beyond the capacity for rational thought”
Applies well to Al Gore.
dp said “Is there anything stupid he’s willing to leave unsaid?”
Don’t underestimate him, I’m sure he can find something.
You may remember in a thread here at WUWT that Dr. John Abraham, an associate professor at the University of St. Thomas here in Minneosta was quoted speaking of a level 6 hurricane to which Dr. Ryan Maue replied “that is batshit stupid!’
As Dr. Abraham views himself as being a member of the Climate Science rapid response team, I had best be careful that I do not get a bucket of water on me. However, probably not, My little fire is too small, yet.
Trenberth is looking for hotspots. Al Gore for 6spots. And Mann his reputationspot. If Al knows there is a category 6 but can’t find one, there must be dark hurricanes we just can’t see. Actually, I have an idea. Let’s print up some fake money and put these people on the spothunt payroll. It will keep them busy and away from other people looking for all these mysteriously absent spots. Maybe they could caste some footprints? And provide some grainy footage? Plus they could work part time in the local quick stop grocery store built on the edge of known spot territories. Which would be on the left coast I imagine.
“Al Gore isn’t even honest about his own movie.” http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324619504579028920138950330.html
Today’s Best of the Web from James Taranto
Jimbo says:
August 22, 2013 at 12:59 pm
August 22, 2013 at 1:06 pm
The article from 2006 is ludicrous, the only ‘scientist’ they quote is Greg Holland of NCAR fame; the article also has this gem:
“Greg Holland’s research base — the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo. — receives overwhelming evidence for the human contribution to global warming constantly now, challenging NCAR’s ranks of world class climatologists (and their sleek black humming supercomputers in the basement) to produce ever more refined predictions of the planet’s rising fever over the next few decades.”
… 7 years since this article was written makes it look even sillier now! Face palm.
Cheers!
The newspaper called him out, and made a fool of him.
Sometimes it’s better to let a lie run for a little while, at least he can’t take all the limelight, and then claim that he mispoke
Gore in his sub-normal fashion has glommed onto a so-called “panchreston,” a “concept that explains everything” (akin to panacea).
Dialectical materialism’s “thesis-antithesis-synthesis” is Marxism’s classic case-in-point– a simplistic form of “anosognosia” [1914], Dunning-Kruger’s famed “incompetence of ignorance” whereby fools are incapable of realizing their profound deficiencies (“mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself”).
As Big Al spews forth calumnies, yapping pejoratives like a poodle in a massage parlor, wizened frontal lobes approach a Darwinian limit below which sentience reverts to instinct: Breathe, feed, vegetate pretty-well define Big Al.
An aside, since the standing world wind speed record for 70+ years was set in 1934 on a mountain, perhaps Albore needs to go back to 1934 to tell meteorologists what to say about a measured wind speed of 231 mph:
http://www.mountwashington.org/about/visitor/recordwind.php
Al’s behind the times. We all know that the Category 7 (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0468988/?ref_=sr_1) is the most powerful storm that can be. I mean, Randy Quaid and Gina Gershon can’t be wrong, right?
The Liberals win whenever you engage them! The standard technique is to pull out an extreme event, and then laugh at you when you attempt to discredit them. The only way to remove this nonsense is to ignore it, and, more important, cut the funding!
Sadly no matter how much BS he talks , there is always someone willing to give him money and air-time. Which given that is all he wants , means he is going to carry right on .
The good news is has he gets worse the AGW faithful have to tie themselves into even bigger knots to support St Gore , This combination of BS and knot twisting is see for the rubbish it is so as with Mann and his huge ego , it actual does good for AGW sceptics