Using tragedy to advance an agenda has been a strategy for many global warming activists, and it was just a matter of time before someone found a way to tie the recent Myanmar cyclone to global warming.Former Vice President Al Gore in an interview on NPR’s May 6 “Fresh Air†broadcast did just that. He was interviewed by “Fresh Air†host Terry Gross about the release of his book, “The Assault on Reason,†in paperback.“And as we’re talking today, Terry, the death count in Myanmar from the cyclone that hit there yesterday has been rising from 15,000 to way on up there to much higher numbers now being speculated,†Gore said. “And last year a catastrophic storm from last fall hit Bangladesh. The year before, the strongest cyclone in more than 50 years hit China – and we’re seeing consequences that scientists have long predicted might be associated with continued global warming.â€Â
Gore claimed global warming is forcing ocean temperatures to rise, which is causing storms, including cyclones and hurricanes, to intensify.
I blame the Patriarchy. That and the way the junta coddles homosexuals.
Others scoffing: Don Surber, Vodkapundit, Astute Bloggers (The)
A couple of impertinent links, courtesy of Rick Ballard.
What I especially love is that the charming junta that rules
MyanmarBurma is probably glad that the cyclone hit. Fewer people to protest, and the homeless and hungry don’t have the strength to rebel all that much. The junta is spending more energy pretending to help and suppressing the fact that the Buddhist monks are helping out than they would by actually helping.Which might explain this:
The Myanmar military, which regularly accuses the United States of trying to subvert the regime, is unlikely to allow a U.S. military presence in its territory.*
Which isn’t directly related to The Mendacity Of Albert Gore Jr., but it needs to be said, IMO.
50 years hit China – and we’re seeing consequences that scientists have long predicted might be associated with continued global warming.â€Â
I haven’t clicked the link yet. Did he mention China’s snow storms?
I’m wondering if the regime isn’t overcounting deaths in order to cover up the thousands of people murdered for protesting in favor of democracy. (It no longer has to hide so many deaths; it can simply claim those people perished in the storm.)
I question the timing.
It’s a government that couldn’t be bothered to get its people out of the path of a devastating storm. Giving these murderous marxist dickless fags the excuse of global warming is some sick shit.
Dan,
Here’s a pertinent link. The PDO shift isn’t exactly a secret. Terry Gross is certainly a poster boy for diligence in journalism.
” He was interviewed by “Fresh Air†host Terry Gross about the release of his book, “The Assault on Reason, ”
I just threw up a little in my mouth.
Good old Al Gore! What an ignorant,lying son-of-a-bitch. Almost makes you wish someone would shoot the stupid P.O.S. and put him out of our misery.
“Gore claimed global warming is forcing ocean temperatures to rise, which is causing storms, including cyclones and hurricanes, to intensify.”
Except, ocean temps aren’t rising.
In celebration of the shift in the PDO, the polar bears will be having a picnic
The sound of settled science– BURP
“The Myanmar military, which regularly accuses the United States of trying to subvert the regime, is unlikely to allow a U.S. military presence in its territory.*”
Gee! That sounds like the governor of Louisiana and the mayor of New Orleans when Katrins hit.
And the way the press and the left spun it as Bush’s fault is almost as amazing as a plate of White Castle sliders!
OMG!~ I’m so sorry! I almost forgot Al Gore!
I used to turn down the sound on the TV during Al Gire’s run for the presidency and think: “Hmmm. Without the sound on, he looks like he has Downes syndrome”.. Now, whenever I hear or see anything he has said, I am convinced of it.
His new name in my address book is:
Morton Downey, Jr.
And BTW, Al must not have read the memo that , because the Earth has been cooling, gives new talking points to enviro-morons.
“Note! Brcause the Earth is now cooling, DO NOT use bthe term ‘global warming’, but instead, please substitute the words ‘climate change’ We don’t want our asses hanging out in the wind here after we have accomplished so much with our program of spreading absolutely unsupported bullshit about the climate.
Over and out, comrade”
yeah, you guys still skating on the thin ice of denial. Was Lake Baikal the scene of the cavalry charge against machine guns in the early freezing morning hours in Dr. Zhivago the movie? I guess they wouldn’t have made it across the lake now days.
happyfeet:
I was thinking of you Saturday. One of your NPR-types, Bob Edwards, was speaking at a commencement I attended.
“Abu Ghraib…” blah, blah “it was bad, you know?”
“So…” blah, blah, “don’t do things like that….”
blah, blah.
Oh, and those snobbily dulcet tones? Must be enhanced by super secret snob NPR microphone technology, ’cause in person? All snob, no dulcet.
lost dogs, youze really in AA with Elizabeth Wurtzel? You must of have been an idiot thinking you had a chance. The science is proven. Only the politically idealogues like yourself are denying it.
Gore lose due to his Southern patrician out of touch persona. The only thing that’s admirable about him is his environmentalism… and perhaps his finally opening his eyes as to the threat of Fascism from the American Right….abetted by the conservative Democrat’s, the Clintons.
So you’re against “nature” and like high gas prices? Go for it!
(don’t let your head explode as I have to go to work soon and can’t be bothered…)
keep spouting nonsense…politically motivated nonsense. Global Warming Denialists are like the Marxist Soviets who attacked and imprisoned environmentalists in the USSA and now that Oligarchs rule, again the same…don’t speak ill of the Petro Regime. I am glad to lump you in with Putin’s ilk.
alas, just think about who your cohorts are. Maybe Enron is your type of business. from the above article (water temps are not cooling as you don’t know the variables and I’d already discussed the melting glaciers etc in the past…that affect that thin reed of nonsense you all spout.
from the above link:
” Although it is known that warming is more intense at high latitudes, as in the Baikal area, and that water is warming in other major lakes, including Lake Tahoe in Nevada and Lake Tanganyika in central Africa, many scientists had thought that Lake Baikal’s enormous volume and unusual water circulation patterns would buffer the effects of global warming.
Instead, the researchers report, surface waters in Lake Baikal are warming quickly, on average by about 0.4 degrees Fahrenheit every decade. At a depth of about 75 feet, the increase is about 0.2 degrees per decade, they say, enough to jeopardize species “unable to adapt evolutionarily or behaviorally.â€Â
Over the last 137 years, the researchers say, the ice-free season has lengthened by more than two weeks, primarily because ice forms later in the year. The database, including data on chlorophyll that the family started collecting in 1979, suggest that the “growing season†for plankton and algae has lengthened in the lake. Chlorophyll levels have tripled since measurement began, the researchers said.”
no time to edit …so that’s typos like “USSA” hmmm prophetic perhaps? Let’s make a mess of Alaska like they’re doing in Wind River’s of Wyoming.
‘course I am not a loser livin’ in some suburb of Southern idiocy. I have beauty around me and not huge commutes unless I want to such as my bimonthly tour of the Adirondacks. Now, if the Govt. wouldn’t have stopped investment into alternative fuels due to political contributions from Big Oil etc. (the Reagans, the Bushes, Cheney et al) we’d be further along on the road to energy independence and conservation.
political ideologues….like that bad writer making millions on imagined Disney Dinosaur parks. …can’t spell his last name as I don’t go there anymore: Michael Creton?
Al Gore’s assault on reason. I like the sound of that.
Dan, you’re just a denying denialist if you don’t think that you driving to the grocery store instead of walking isn’t eventually going to turn the Earth into a seething inferno, with puddles of molten aluminum lying about where your beer-can pyramid used to be.
dave: once again, you’re an idiot.
So, these days, there’s not more than three months or so out of the year that you can ride a horse across Lake Baikal. Clear evidence of warming. Puddles of molten aluminum are indeed just around the corner.
cool, I asked if that scene in Dr Zhivago was Lk Baikal not that it was. I think in reality the Red Army and White Armies were doing their things far to the West.
of course, I know Lk Baikal freezes over. Just not as much as it used to.
thx for the link though, Bolshevik.
your Menshevik friend. (I guess your fellow fascist friends will put a gun in front of your denial, next.)
Cite?
Slart – because he says so.
maybe read the link. maybe increasing water temps increases ice. That’ll be the Day.
Lake Baikal is on my wish list of places to see before I die. Siberia has a romantic image even though it must be awful in most places there. But an old encyclopedia had a small image of a village there which I saw when I was 10 or so…and I can’t forget that l’il picture. Just the right colors! Vermont comes close.
alas, the politics here intrude upon romance mostly. Let’s put an oil derrick in every backyard next. What about preserving some of this oil for future generations?
Reading the link, I see earliest breakup was in 1923. Latest freezing was in 1959.
Just a couple of pieces of data, dave. Data’s useful. You should consider paying attention to some.
Even more data. Enjoy.
The data in question says that Lake Baikal is in a cooling cycle of late. Which is not to say that it’s contradictory of global warming, just that it’s absolutely not evidence thereof, because it’s for certain getting colder.
Why do you hate data, dave?
So.. has anyone ever seen Algore and datadave in the same room? Seems they’re the only ones who didn’t get the memo on the meme shift from “global warming” to the much more flexible “climate change”. Too bad they haven’t been paying more attention to that internet thingy they invented.
Slart – You know that actual facts are not relevant to Teh Narrative.
BJ – I denounce you.
…and I repudiate you, BJ.
So there.
Huh, and not a condemnation to be had?
I’m insulted!
BJ – Carin’s breastesses will issue a strong condmenation shortly.
I’ve yet to be properly denounced, here. Mao would have popped a cap in all a y’alls heads by now.
Gawk Gore is the Reverend Wright of the Enviro-Nazis, Gawk Gore is the Stalin of the Ny Times believers. Gawk Gore is definitely a profiteer of disaster!
I am not a loser livin’ in some suburb of Southern idiocy
Now, if the Govt. wouldn’t have stopped investment into alternative fuels
Lake Baikal is on my wish list of places to see before I die. Siberia has a romantic image
Let’s put an oil derrick in every backyard next. What about preserving some of this oil for future generations?
There folks: The 3 pillars of the narrative. The last one is added because of the delicious contradiction to “the energy glutton-causing-global-warning chickens coming home to roost” gospel being preached by the church of the perpetually outraged.
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The science is proven.
No. It isn’t.
You are betrayed, Dave, by you’re woeful lack of insight and the people that take advantage of that ignorance. I’m not sure you would understand the science even if it were true.
how youze doing Rustoleum? anyway, I think Slark’s picking and choosing isn’t insiteful in the least. His data doesn’t dosprove ‘global warming’ and only shows short term trends. I’d suggest he read the data more thoroughly.
I rest my case.