Posted on 08/23/2013 6:05:54 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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?
(VIDEOS-AT-LINK)
bfl
The lying liars and the Gore that tells them.
It's just the leftover tendency for theatrics he learned while flunking out of divinity school.
To paraphrase Bill Murray: “Maybe he was faced.”
Sure, that's a likely story. Does it cover lebenty-seben zillion mph winds? I didn't think so. We need Cat 6...just in case.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
ALGORE would never just make shit up.....Would HE?
Any moonbat that listens to this moron really needs to get a grip on science and reality.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMrxC-qEHb8
Those cat 6 hurricanes happen when the earth’s core gets up too many millions of degrees.
Algore IS a Category 6 level blunder.
Algore is just sore ‘cause he was turned down by the Worst Family as their backup sex poodle.
He’s lost like a ball in tall grass. And got filthy rich being so.
Gore compares climate skeptics to anti abolitionists, racists, homophobes, and alcoholic families... "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." ...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."Jazeera Al Gore is a demagogue, and there's nothing new about that.
It's, like, one louder.
Beat me to it.
For the Spinal Tap fans-—
Al Gore: The numbers all go to six. Look, right across the board, six, six, six and...
Rational person: Oh, I see. And most storms go up to five?
Gore: Exactly.
Rational person: Does that mean it’s stronger? Is it any stronger?
Gore: Well, it’s one stronger, isn’t it? It’s not five. You see, most storms, you know, will be moving at five. You’re on five here, all the way up, all the way up, all the way up, you’re on five on your hurricane. Where can you go from there? Where?
Rational person: I don’t know.
Gore: Nowhere. Exactly. What we do is, if we need that extra push over the cliff, you know what we do?
Rational person: Put it up to six.
Gore: Six. Exactly. One stronger.
Rational person: Why don’t you just make five stronger and make five be the top number and make that a little stronger?
Gore: [pause] These go to six.
Life imitating art..
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