I’m sure many readers have seen the movie that is now a holiday classic called A Christmas Story. There is a scene in that movie where the character Flick, acting on a “triple-dog dare”, gets his tongue stuck to a sub freezing flagpole.
Leave it to Investors Business Daily to render this famous scene with the essence of Gore:
h/t to Harold Ambler
That’s why I produced an extreme weather list for 1935 when atmospheric co2 was below the safe level of 350ppm.
Fritz says: “Yes, it will be hard to find a school with a flag pole.”
The Chinese have flags.
Yes, but the US covers 6% of land on the globe, the flagpole surface area being a tiny fraction of it and Gore’s tongue is his least indispensable body part. Therefore the scenario is still consistent with warming, only someone else will have to say it. Which is exhilarating in itself.
My only problem with the cartoon is that the fork in the tongue does not show clearly.
actually, the school scenes in the movie were filmed in Canada.
The tongue sort of looks like a foot. Could he be eating something?
There’s something about the nose and upper lip that seems to get my attention but I just can’t figure out what it is.
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To shoot the scene they drilled a hole in the pole and ran a plastic tube to a vacuum pump to provide a little suction to give the illusion that his tongue was actually stuck to the pole.
If they did the scene with Al Gore they wouldn’t need artificial suction.
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March 14, 2014 at 7:42 pm
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To shoot the scene they drilled a hole in the pole and ran a plastic tube to a vacuum pump to provide a little suction to give the illusion that his tongue was actually stuck to the pole.
If they did the scene with Al Gore they wouldn’t need artificial suction.
I enjoyed the movie on video, still have it. It does remind me of snowy winters in my youth, rarely did we get snow at Christmas, but lots of hoar frost. But plenty of snow afterwards even up to and including Easter time. The North of England and Scotland had plenty of snow, but down south it varied. Anyway, we get snow in Australia regularly up on the Alps of Victoria and Southern NSW, and here in New England on the elevated areas (above 1000 metres) sometimes lower.
Alas Albert Gore has not gone quiet. He has simply moved to a warmer clime for the winter. Here is an article on his recent talk in South Africa where summer is ending.
http://mg.co.za/article/2014-03-13-climate-change-making-everything-more-extreme#comment_thread
I suspect Albert now follows the sun. After all you don’t get many takers on Climate Change if you are rabbiting on about the earth getting warmer in the middle of a blizzard and record cold.
Expect Albert to resurface when the northern summer gets going and there is a heat wave somewhere in the US.
After the winter from Hell here in Montana, a 78 year old man told me he has never seen as much snow as is visible in our nearby Beartooth Mountains. Our June runoff may be amazing.
PLOT TWIST!