Mr. Gore, despite his ‘qualifying statements’ is clearly using the opportunity of a disaster to continue to push his agenda. He is clearly linking his mythified global warming to tropical cyclones, and he continues to use the ‘consensus’ line when his ‘conclusions’ and ‘theories’ are not backed by empirical evidence.
The predictable results of the global warming theorems have failed. As such it should be treated as the junk science that it is.
Does this excuse FNC if they doctored sound bites? Of course not. However, what should not be lost in this discussion if the agenda of Mr. Gore, which is to draw a mental link among the populous that global warming is a contributing factor in tropical cyclone intensity - thus laying the blame at the feet of the evil Americans for the deaths in Myanmar.
Transcript of Al Gore's speech at the Sierra Summit, September 9, 2005
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There are scientific warnings now of another onrushing catastrophe. We were warned of an imminent attack by Al Qaeda; we didn't respond. We were warned the levees would break in New Orleans; we didn't respond. Now, the scientific community is warning us that the average hurricane will continue to get stronger because of global warming. A scientist at MIT has published a study well before this tragedy showing that since the 1970s, hurricanes in both the Atlantic and the Pacific have increased in duration, and in intensity, by about 50 %. The newscasters told us after Hurricane Katrina went over the southern tip of Florida that there was a particular danger for the Gulf Coast of the hurricanes becoming much stronger because it was passing over unusually warm waters in the gulf. The waters in the gulf have been unusually warm. The oceans generally have been getting warmer. And the pattern is exactly consistent with what scientists have predicted for twenty years. Two thousand scientists, in a hundred countries, engaged in the most elaborate, well organized scientific collaboration in the history of humankind, have produced long-since a consensus that we will face a string of terrible catastrophes unless we act to prepare ourselves and deal with the underlying causes of global warming. [applause] It is important to learn the lessons of what happens when scientific evidence and clear authoritative warnings are ignored in order to induce our leaders not to do it again and not to ignore the scientists again and not to leave us unprotected in the face of those threats that are facing us right now. [applause]
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Here's what I think we here understand about Hurricane Katrina and global warming. Yes, it is true that no single hurricane can be blamed on global warming. Hurricanes have come for a long time, and will continue to come in the future. Yes, it is true that the science does not definitively tell us that global warming increases the frequency of hurricanes - because yes, it is true there is a multi-decadal cycle, twenty to forty years that profoundly affects the number of hurricanes that come in any single hurricane season. But it is also true that the science is extremely clear now, that warmer oceans make the average hurricane stronger, not only makes the winds stronger, but dramatically increases the moisture from the oceans evaporating into the storm - thus magnifying its destructive power - makes the duration, as well as the intensity of the hurricane, stronger.
http://www.sierraclub.org/pressroom/speeches/2005-09-09algore.asp
Al Gore may not blame a single hurricane for "Global Warming," But he buts his own statements saying that they are more deadlier than before because the ocean waters are warmer.
So did warmer waters cause the Myanmar cyclone to be more intense? If Gore believes so, therefore he believes "Global Warming" did cause more death than usual than a cyclone before the time of "Global Warming," and as of consequence, "Global Warming" did cause the Myanmar disaster.