While attending a rally with Al Gore in Florida today, weather became climate.
Here is the video (h/t to WUWT commenter Alan Robertson)
Hillary Clinton later made the statement on Twitter:
We've always had destructive hurricanes, but Hurricane Matthew was likely more destructive because of climate change.
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) October 11, 2016
Followed by Al Gore saying:
“from a tropical storm to a Category 5 hurricane in just 36 hours, that’s extremely unusual”
Maybe, as I don’t have stats on that, but Matthew only spent 6 hours as a category 5 storm, the record was the “Cuba” hurricane in 1932 with 78 hours as a Cat5.
IMHO, @HillaryClinton is the right choice in this election if we care about solving the climate crisis. https://t.co/4Dkw0RKDfi
— Al Gore (@algore) October 11, 2016
What crisis? The worst hurricane ever to hit the USA was The Great Galveston Hurricane in 1900, which killed up to 6000 people, long before CO2 ever became an issue.
Today, we have an 11 year hurricane drought of Cat3 or greater failing to make landfall on the USA.
We have hurricane damage losses which are down:
We have hurricane and tropical storm frequency which is flat to slightly down.
And Tornado deaths are down too
Pardon my french, but WHAT CLIMATE CRISIS as they view it in weather terms? Their pitch of a load of bollocks!
Today’s Weather Is Hardly Unique
By Patrick J. Michaels
A recent study out of Princeton shows that whether people feel global warming is making hurricanes worse is more related to political predilections than reality, while global trends show no change. But what about global temperatures, Louisiana’s disastrous flood and California’s incandescent fire season?
Since satellites began measuring lower-atmosphere temperatures in 1979, the observed warming has been only one-third of what would have been forecast by today’s computer models, and the rate of surface warming has even slowed since the late 1990s, according to the new “homogenized” temperature history from the Commerce Department.
Glib attributions of recent weather (as opposed to ‘climate’) phenomena are more wishful than reality.
Make no mistake, though, carbon dioxide concentrations have increased and surface temperatures are high, compared with the last 150 years, and the three-dimensional patterns of change (latitude, longitude and altitude) are partially consistent with that increase. So, when there is a natural warming event, like the recent El Niño, it superimposes upon already warm temperatures and results in a record, globally and sometimes locally.
That’s hard to dispute. But glib attributions of recent weather (as opposed to “climate”) phenomena are more wishful than reality. Last month, Commerce Department scientists showed rain data vary so much that “no evidence was found for changes in extreme precipitation attributable to climate change in the available observed record.” What’s good for the U.S. is also good for Louisiana.
Another group of researchers, some with the same department, showed that California’s strong recent warming, which raises the likelihood of drought and enhanced wildfires, is best explained by oceanic temperature patterns from which any carbon dioxide signal had been removed.
And, are today’s high temperatures unique in human history? There’s strong evidence that the Arctic Ocean could have experienced long periods of ice-free summers for approximately four millennia after the end of the last ice age (6,000-10,000 years ago) and some evidence it was globally warmer 1,000 years ago, too.
That’s science, and not what we fear may be true based upon our personal philosophy.
And then there’s this: Why it seems that severe weather is “getting worse” when the data shows otherwise – a historical perspective
Here’s a link to the Al/Hillary rally. I couldn’t stand to watch but a minute or so, but if you’re feeling extra froggy, have at it:
Ps Hillary looks fine in her $12,000 jacket, sort of.
My impression of Donald Trump is to say “you’re fired” in his accent with an angry look of my face. My impression of Hillary Clinton is to hold my nose in the air so that I am looking down at you. Look at Hillary in the freeze frame of this YouTube video, it proves my impression.
..Not to mention, Who the Hell buys her clothes for her ?? She looks like Chairman Mao on his worst day !!
She is now going to go into hiding for a couple of weeks. No scheduled appearances except for the debate. Apparently, they do not want to take the chance on her having her meds stop working in public for a bit. The past 2 debates, she went into hiding around 3 or 4 days prior to it. The conjecture was that this was to give her a drug holiday so that when she was in the debate and medicated it would have a better effect. From the externalities we have seen, I am giving significant credence to the Parkinson’s diagnosis. For her to hide that disease would be criminal, but she is thus.
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“For her to hide that disease would be criminal, but she is thus.”
Like the way FDR hid his disease?
FDR never hid his physical affliction from polio from the public. And he could stand up if he was wearing leg braces. Used to go to Warm Springs, Georgia for physical therapy.
alex – I assume you meant you would give
an impression of “The Donald” firing Al Gore.
Marcus – As to Clinton, she needs to wear these heavy
coats to cover up the corsets and strapping required to
keep her standing upright during these “performances”.
Also concealed beneath, are the radio transponders,
batteries and wiring for her hidden microphones and
earpiece, so that she can communicate with her handlers,
and they can tell her answers in debates, which make her
appear considerably more intelligent and knowledgeable,
than she really is in reality.
Here is what “The Donald” has been saying in Florida
about Clinton and those latest Wikileaks revelations.
Donald Trump Exposes Hillary Clinton & The Establishment
Enjoy !
You shouldn’t talk about your new president like that.
Yesterday’s wikileaks dump included an e-mail in which Podesta, long time Clinton insider, described Hillary as hating ordinary Americans.
Trump is awesome on energy policy for anyone who cares about that.
Today’s Golden Fleece award goes not to Al Gore for his role in “An Inconvenient Truth”, but to Armani Suits for getting $12,000 for a potato sack with arms.
Both the minds AND fashion taste of women are inscrutable to mere men!
“Ps Hillary looks fine in her $12,000 jacket, sort of.”
I think its a custom Kevlar weave.
Whole lot of Hillary head nodding going on- almost the entire Gore speech. Some have called attention to this as a Parkinson’s symptom. Beats me. When she nods in agreement, she doesn’t stop- just keeps nodding and then touches her face and the nodding stops.
Android?
Al Gore and Hillary Clinton – what a double!?!?
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They are the epitome of what the dark side of the human race represents.
It seems the snipping scissors of censure are being applied with gusto today. Just an observation, not a criticism.
When it comes to Hillary and Al, some people’s passions over-ride their common decency…of course those two politicians have no common decency.
I’m sure the AGW crowd was most disappointed when Florida remained in the soft Northwest quadrant of hurricane Matthew. Kinda where Al Gore and Hillary were standing, figuratively taking the wind out of their sales (intentional misspell), so many are still not buying the warming snake oil.
News Headlines still repeatedly claim that Mathew was “maybe” the worst hurricane to “eva” hit the U.S.A. ………..I personally followed the GROUND wind speeds of Mathew as it slid up the coast..Never did it’s Max wind exceed 100 mph on land…Are they saying the real time ground measurements were wrong ?
I will refer that matter the Obama Department of Homogenisation.
Give them a break. They had to wait a whole decade for climate change to kick in since 2005 so that a ‘cane could get strong enough and close enough to give them some ammo. Can you imagine having to wait so long for your messiah, just to find out he’s a dud?
What? Not even close. It was pretty feeble compared to many other stronger past storms. Preposterous statement.
Well called out – the Hurricane Matthew hype is ridiculous. It has been the subject of similar politically motivated guff and hot air in the press this side of the pond too.
It seemed like the news orgs (and a few people at the NWS) were actually almost rooting for the storm to strengthen and landfall on the US just so they could go after Drudge. The smear job they did on him (saying hew was telling people there was no danger) for merely asking where the info was coming from which seemed hyped compared to measurements by people actually on-site was disgusting. They were preparing to murder him professionally but the storm turned out to be a popcorn f*rt for FLA.
Chris: And the subject of 16 articles on this very website. I read this site every day, but it has contributed to the nonsense by giving it so much coverage. I’m afraid even Anthony got caught up in the hype.
Al Gore?
Was the “climate” around him unusually cool like usual?
Facts do not matter to these evil twins. Playing on the fears of the ignorant American population is what works …… always has, always will.
Gore and Clinton together. Gore defies a Congressional subpoena and laughs at Americans. Who does he think he is?
Then all that some can write about is what Clinton wears?
Two mad people together. Matthew rapidly decreased from a brief 5 down to 3 and then 1, I believe. Nothing to do with climate change, but these morons are both in the business of keeping the scam going as long as possible to maximise their financial gains. I note in her verbal battles with Trump, Killary has not mentioned climate change, because she knows it is now bottom of the list of concerns for US citizens. Just more proof of the common sense of the common herd compared with these elitists.
The CBC sent a reporter to sit on the shore and await the approaching disaster, at some point he said was ‘where the storm was predicted to hit land’. Well, he was really disappointed and sent in what ifs and maybes and it “could have a storm surge 3, 4 or 5 metres high!”
Yeah…right.
It stayed offshore and he sounded so-o disappointed. He wanted to cry ‘disaster’ at the top of his hysterical lungs and had to settle for threatening rain and climate disaster in the future.
His breathless ‘almosts’ and ‘could haves’ were taped and repeated day and night, there being nothing much to crow about. He should have listened to WUWT which noted that there has never been an Eastern Florida landfall of a Cat 3 after 1 October.
If it had come ashore, well we would have heard about how unprecedented that is. And for a change that would have been true, as far as we know. We can’t ask the locals because they were exterminated or driven to Oklahoma to be ‘plain Indians’.
So the powerful hurricane drought continues, save between the ears of the converted where the wind blows free.
..Sad but true…From Marcus in London who use to live in Daytona Beach !! LOL
This isn’t new behavior. In 1985 Dan Rather was visibly upset during a live interview with NHC director Neil Frank because Hurricane Gloria–a massively hyped storm–didn’t cause enough death and destruction.
“We can’t ask the locals because they were exterminated or driven to Oklahoma to be ‘plain Indians’.”
And they weren’t able to measure wind speeds, or storm surges, or anything else that might be pertinent.
I think you meant PLAINS Indians and yes, there is a town, Seminole, Oklahoma.
My Grandmother was a planes Indian. She flew down to Florida every fall, and flew back every spring. ^¿^
Remember the Y2K death watch on CNN? I was waiting for the announcer to sob in utter frustration!
Pity it is too early in the season for the traditional Al Gore snowstorm.
wonky at best…..when the eye gets smaller…wind speed goes up
Ye gods! Just what have US citizens done to have such political detritus foisted upon them?
Well, history dictates you are given the government you deserve.
So ding, ding, off your your stool America, time to come out fighting
..Which would explain….Donald Trump’s amazing popularity….the “Silent Majority” has awoken…. !!
“We’ve always had destructive hurricanes, but Hurricane Matthew was likely more destructive because of climate change.”
How so, Hillary, Al? What makes Matthew worse than Camille, Carmen, Betsy, Katrina, etal? What does anthropogenic carbon dioxide have to do with Matthew that hasn’t occurred hundreds of times in the recent past? BTW, if climate change is responsible for Matthew, why hasn’t there been a Category 3 or worse striking the eastern USA in the past 4000 days? Thrill us all with your acumen.
Ask Hillary what “climate change” means. Watch her sputter.
Vote Nov. 8. Its real important. This is just another example of how much is at stake.
How right you are. If I have to crawl over broken glass, in a fierce November gail, half starved, shoeless (ok, I’m getting a little melodramatic) to vote for the blonde haired one, I will.
Best wishes.
OMG!!! It just dawned on me: Hillary’s got blonde hair too. Oops, I was talking about the Donald. Wow, I hope I didn’t jinx anything.
Sorry.
The most important thing is for Trump supporters to go out find the undecided and those that don’t usually vote and drag them to the polling booth so they VOTE. It isn’t enough for his supporters to just vote themselves and think the job is done.
They might both be blond, Tom, but I don’t believe for a minute that either of them are that way naturally any more.
I just got request for an EMERGENCY CONTRIBUTION from Donald J. Trump Make America Great Again Committee. You won’t believe how many bad things would happen should I not contribute $35 – $36,100. I wonder if he considered it before becoming a Republican; he could have run as a Democrat equally easily.
..If you had a brain…you would note that it is a SCAM, not affiliated with Trump..Many warnings on the net…Simply LOOK at the URL it is coming from….”There is one born every day”…sigh ….!
It came in mail, with a business reply mail envelope included,
FIRST-CLASS MAIL PERMIT NO.9549 MERRIFIELD,VA
POSTAGE WILL BE PAID BY ADDRESSEE
VTP27
TRUMP MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN COMMITTEE
P.O.BOX 1776
MERRIFIELD VA 22116-9400
I read what others have said about this “request”,
and yes such a request may seem like Trump is
asking for huge donations, and from a seemingly
genuine address, yet this is not actually a scam.
So what is going on ?
It seems a lot of genuine people use a P.O. Box 1776
as a symbol of their desire to associate with that date !
This is meat and drink to the scammer, who prey upon
the general ignorance and knee jerk response of public.
“Merrifield Virginia” is actually a suburb of Washington DC,
The Zip code refers this time, to the suburban delivery office,
Merrifield Post Office, Lee Highway, Merrifield, VA 22116.
So in this instance it seems genuine, and indeed the webpage
at official donaldjtrump dot com quotes this same exact address.
However the Trump people have contracted out the mailshot
and e-mail appeals to a separate business. It is they who are
responsible for this haranguing approach and not Trump.
It does appear as though this group was founded by the RNC
and was agreed by Trump because of this funding loophole….
Team Trump has 2 fundraising
committees in partnership with the RNC:
Trump Victory fund, and …
Trump Make America Great Again Committee
310 First St SE Washington, D.C. 20003
or PO BOX 1776 Merrifield, Va 22116-9400
The money raised for the first PAC will go toward the RNC,
the Donald J. Trump for President campaign, and the state
committees in 11 states (Arkansas, Connecticut, Louisiana,
Mississippi, New Jersey, New York, South Carolina, with
Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, and Wyoming).
The proceeds from the second group will go
toward the RNC and the Trump campaign.
Raising money via a committee will allow the RNC and
Trump to get cash far more easily than if Trump were to
rely only on his campaign. Individual donors are limited
to $2,700 per election when they give directly, but via
these two fundraising groups they will be able to
cut checks as large as $449,400.
You don’t want these mailshots and e-mail spam ?
Note this :
To opt-out: the contact page has a webmail form
https://www.donaldjtrump.com/contact/
or phone call at (646)736-1779
Direct mail is by Left Hand Enterprises LLC. It is a front for
Persuasion Partners. Washington Post article that talks
about Left Hand and the other direct mail firms that
Team Trump is using. Including Wizbang Solutions.
From Politico:
“Party fundraisers have informed some Trump-weary
donors that they can earmark their donations to
Trump Victory and another joint committee called
Trump Make America Great Again Committee in such
a way that all the money will go to the RNC, and none
to Trump, according to a finance operative who delivered
such a solicitation and a donor who received such a solicitation.”
It seems clear from that remark, that this is an RNC initiative
and not one from Trump himself, or his immediate team. Why
would Trump want to have a donation system, that had an
option to exclude these donations from going to his own team ?
To opt-out of these 2 groups I would contact
the National Republican Committee, to opt-out:
send an email to eCampaign@GOP.com with
“Unsubscribe” in the subject line.
They are assuming you are opting-out of email,
let them know if it is for physical postal mail, and
call (202) 863-8500. Make sure you mention that
Trump Make America Great Again Committee and/or
the Trump Victory Fund are why you want off
their mailing lists.
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The real scam is how Obama’s EPA / IPCC has been
able to distort data, and with the assistance of Clintons,
and Al Gore et al, to destroy the entire credibilty of
American Science & Research across the World !
Bah !
If it weren’t for people like Anthony Watts, and this
excellent website, most people would not even know
what was really happening, and simply believe whatever
the smiling politician, or TV newscaster was telling them.
I haven’t read a “dead tree” press publication for a decade !!!
Is it true that all your women are going to vote for Hillary, though? According to CNN Trump has the men voting for him but not the women. Can’t you bribe them or something? Also according to pundits educated people have abandoned the Repubs because of DJ T. I thought I was communing with a fairly well educated bunch here. Of course, possibly CNN and the pundits got this wrong? Nah, that couldn’t be true.
Personally, I don’t know ANY women who are planing on voting for Hillary. I do know a few who say they aren’t voting at all though.
Sorry Rudd,
But the Dems with their voter fraud machine running overtime and unchecked by a pliant DOJ, your 1 FL presidential vote has already been nullified by 3 dead people.
…and I will need all the carbon taxes you’re going to get stuck with (permanently) to solve the problem. If it turns out not to be a problem, that’s an issue for later and we need all the boatloads of money now for other needs and patronage anyway. The little people are too dumb to know that this is a major crusade for more large scale revenue to make up for slowing trend growth and maxed out debt capacity. We tried spending without the growth to pay for it and now we need the new revenue source…..suckers.
when i was a child the old folks talking about taxes laughingly said they would tax the air if they could………indeed hillary intends to tax BREATHING……..that IS what a “carbon tax” is taxing the act of breathing……
Yes. These people do not like human beings. So it’s a tax just for being alive.
Bill Taylor. A carbon tax is not a tax on breathing. Breathing recirculates carbon already in the system. The carbon tax would be on fossil carbon – that has been out of the system for millions of years.
Every atom of carbon you breathe out you recently took in, in the form of food, and was recently removed from the atmosphere by plants.
bizarre response there……….it IS a tax on carbon EMISSIONS, the breathe is to emit carbon.
Anthony, thanks for another ”reality sandwich.” I particularly like your transformation of Al Gore into “algore,” which sounds like persistent malady. Steve
For a minute there Steve I thought that you were talking about “Algol” the star Alpha Persei. Algol represents the decapitated head of the Gorgon Medusa from the Greek mythological tale that includes the constellations Perseus, Andromeda, Cepheus, Cassiopeia, Cetus & Pegasus. One look at Medusa would turn a mortal to stone! You can see my mistake in linking ‘Algore’ with ‘Algol!’
Dear students at Miami Dade College. I’m here today with an important message. Hillary Clinton will make solving the climate crisis a top national priority. She will do so by making sure that after you graduate from this institution you will immediately move into your parent’s basement. She will then insure that you remain in your parent’s basement until your parents take out a minus 12% interest loan to construct a separate entrance and exit way so that you and they no longer have to cross paths in the morning, or afternoon when you get up. That way you and they can forget that you are still living in your parent’s basement, unemployed regardless of how many environmental or womyn’s studies PhD’s you’ve acquired by the age of 60. Hillary, propped up by every kind of blood thinning, antibiotic acting, amphetamine style medication known to man..er, woman will continue making climate change a priority even after the minute chance that you reproduce in your parent’s basement and the population doesn’t grow solely by the influx of refugees from every part of the globe where her policies create refugees. Hillary will do so by enacting legislation promoting even lower negative interest rate loans so that you can construct sub-basements to your parent’s basements so that your children, after graduating college, can then move into your basement. Hillary will continue combating climate change in this manner until those sub, sub, sub-basements begin to suspiciously resemble caves.
And, she will do this the whole time while dressed in pants suits. Um, maybe I shouldn’t use the term ‘dressed’.
Mr Judd – that one brightened the day. Sadly parts of it may be very true. Despite all of the high cost extended and education, the average IQ seems to be taking the same trend as Arctic sea ice – downwards.
i hope to live to see the day she wears a orange onesie,
along with the rest of her “mob” who participated in all the scams evasions n “the foundation”
pay to play etc
@Tom Judd
Hillary “Dressed” ?
pant suits?all can see that she is a midget but is she hiding her legs because ?
Damn, I had a good rant going while listening to Al Gore, but I accidentally deleted it before posting. I will try to do it again on MS word and save it. (Point by point).
“Carbon Pollution damages …ecological systems”:
I guess CO2 (he forgot to say carbon dioxide pollution) is bad for ecology, etc???
Hurricane Matthew was created by climate change – the first FL encounter (although it never crossed the FL coast) in 11 years – still hasn’t as a cat 3…
Mud slides in Florida? Not too many mud slid hills in Florida.
Precipitation is not normal. Warming has increased deluges.
Check the DATA from the past 100+ years…precipitation is pretty flat globally.
Hurricane Andrew: every 1 inch of sea level rise = 4 to 8 feet of storm surge during storms??
1 inch = 4 to 8 feet of SLR (storm surge?) sea level rise???
Mosquitoes are a problem with old and new diseases:
Maybe bring back using DDT which is not dangerous to humans (or birds).
Fires out west are increasing because of “Climate Change”:
I don’t think so if you look at the DATA over the past years.
China is the climate change revolution – they are still building 2 coal powered plants every week from the last I heard. They will start reducing their pollution in 2030…
It’s a great example of pollution control. Try to breathe in certain parts of China…
There is more but the Gore video stopped…
Mosquitoes…
The Asian tiger mosquito, which is a vector for Zika virus and a variety of additional diseases, was clearly introduced to the southeastern US by commerce, it did not spread there because of a slight change in global temperature. I have lived in the region since the early 1950s and never saw one there until about 1990. They are quite distinct from the native varieties because of their striped legs and a totally different biting habit.
See here for a bit more on the Asian tiger mosquito:
https://www.invasivespeciesinfo.gov/animals/asiantigmos.shtml
http://cisr.ucr.edu/asian_tiger_mosquito.html
4 to 8 feet more coastline covered. I.e. a slope of about 1/72. Probably a reasonable figure for Florida. I’d rather move to the rocky coastline of Maine.
Galveston is a great example of human adaptation. After “the storm” a giant seawall was built and the island was built up by dredging. It has fared better in all storms since thanks to 1900-era technology. The Houston Ship Channel was built shortly thereafter and the population moved inland with the port traffic thanks to 1900-era technology. Still not as impressive as the Raising of Chicago in the 1850’s. I doubt those things could be accomplished with today’s EPA.
You go Al! This could well be the kiss of death for Hillary’s campaign.
Sorry, but climate change is not going to get enough votes to keep Hillary from winning in Nov.
Need a bigger October surprise than the 11 year tape of Trump – doubt if there is one. She is too aware of any “hot mikes”.
Climate change might not win it for her, but don’t forget the dead voters.
..American politics needs a complete “RESET”…….(That would be Trump)….Remember the old saying, “You can’t start climbing back up, until you have hit rock bottom..”.
Nice to see Al Gore in almost a real time. He seems exceedingly well-fed.
He’s looking “very prosperous” as my old boss used to say about fired workers who had gained weight…
Thanks for adding to my vocabulary.
Another one for you:
The Abdominal Showman
AlGore, the consumate silver-tongued Climate Liar stumping for Hilldebeast with a crowd of brainwashed and brain dead spoiled brats hanging on their every word. What’s not to like?
Take it easy on ’em. Wouldn’t want to trigger an whiney angst episode.
Al Gore made me a sceptic. Until “An Inconvenient Truth” was released, I had largely ignored the global warming/climate change debate and was a mild AGW believer (never CAGW) through disinterest.
But the movie release (I’ve never seen) it made me start examining the facts because I could not bring myself to trust that Al Gore could be correct on such an important issue (or anything, really) and the scam was quickly obvious. So thanks, Al.
ManBearPig is real!
“Inconvenient truth” is free online. I watched it about a year ago. The dramatic part is when he rises on the cherry picker to show the great increase in CO2 since about 1950 (or before). That is the effective part to me. That’s the part that everyone remembers…at least for me.