Posted on 05/06/2008 1:16:41 PM PDT by Rufus2007
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.”
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That cretin has no shame.
This guy needs to be in a “home” somewhere............
If it’s God striking back then we are wrong, but if the “living Earth” (envirospeak for God) strikes at you it’s your own fault.
I was watching for this jackal to start exploiting this natural disaster for his loathsome political purposes.
Gore is just another snake-oil salesman, taking advantage of every tragedy to line his pockets.
Who are these losers who go running to this guy every time there is a climatic event? You have to believe that they know the answer they’re going to get before the question is even asked.
| Rank: | Name / Areas of Largest Loss: | Year: | Ocean Area: | Deaths: |
| 1. | Great Bhola Cyclone, Bangladesh | 1970 | Bay of Bengal | 550,000 |
| 2. | Hooghly River Cyclone, India and Bangladesh | 1737 | Bay of Bengal | 350,000 |
| 3. | Haiphong Typhoon, Vietnam | 1881 | West Pacific | 300,000 |
| 3. | Coringa, India | 1839 | Bay of Bengal | 300,000 |
| 5. | Backerganj Cyclone, Bangladesh | 1584 | Bay of Bengal | 200,000 |
| 6. | Great Backerganj Cyclone, Bangladesh | 1876 | Bay of Bengal | 200,000 |
| 7. | Chittagong, Bangladesh | 1897 | Bay of Bengal | 175,000 |
| 8. | Super Typhoon Nina, China | 1975 | West Pacific | 171,000 |
| 9. | Cyclone 02B, Bangladesh | 1991 | Bay of Bengal | 140,000 |
| 10. | Great Bombay Cyclone, India | 1882 | Arabian Sea | 100,000 |
| 11. | Hakata Bay Typhoon, Japan | 1281 | West Pacific | 65,000 |
| 12. | Calcutta, India | 1864 | Bay of Bengal | 60,000 |
| 13. | Swatlow, China | 1922 | West Pacific | 60,000 |
| 14. | Barisal, Bangladesh | 1822 | Bay of Bengal | 50,000 |
| 15. | Sunderbans coast, Bangladesh | 1699 | Bay of Bengal | 50,000 |
| 16. | Bengal Cyclone, Calcutta, India | 1942 | Bay of Bengal | 40,000 |
| 17. | Canton, China | 1862 | West Pacific | 37,000 |
| 18. | Backerganj (Barisal), Bangladesh | 1767 | Bay of Bengal | 30,000 |
| 19. | Barisal, Bangladesh | 1831 | Bay of Bengal | 22,000 |
| 20. | Great Hurricane, Lesser Antilles Islands | 1780 | Atlantic | 22,000 |
| 21. | Devi Taluk, SE India | 1977 | Bay of Bengal | 20,000 |
| 21. | Great Coringa Cyclone, India | 1789 | Bay of Bengal | 20,000 |
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1970_Bhola_cyclone
Algore’s farts is the consequences of global warming.
beat me by 25 seconds :(
It think the cyclone was cause by the excessive flow of hot air from one or more of Agores orfices
Global Warming is a consequence of Algore.
This man is a nut. Like there’s never been a cyclone in Southeast Asia before.
Opportunist, Provocateur, Scoundrel
and still loser in 2000.
Al Gore
He has a reputation to keep up, yaknow.
This is a letter written by the FOUNDER of the Weather Channel, John Coleman.
Being that he founded the source for weather reports now used world wide as the best available, he knows what he is talking about. Al Gore refuses to debate him, as do all the so-called experts. The reason is simple: he will end up publicly exposing them as the frauds they are.
John Coleman’s letter:
Thank you for your dedication to protecting our environment. Clean air and clean water are essential to preserving life on planet Earth. Protecting all species and natural lands and forests are admirable priorities. Recycling and a green lifestyle are wonderful. Making the environment the most important thing in your life is a good thing, not a problem. I support you.
But we do have a problem. You have vigorously embraced the Global Warming predictions of the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and are using the warning of uncontrollable warming and a resulting environmental calamity to campaign for elimination of fossil fuels. Your environmentally conscious friends in politics and in the media have united with you to create a barrage of news reports, documentaries, TV feature reports, movies, books, concerts and protest events to build support for your goals. The war against fossil fuels has become a massive scare campaign that is giving children nightmares.
Here’s what’s wrong with that: the science is not valid. There is no Global Warming underway and the science on which the computer projections of weather chaos are based is wrong. Dead wrong.
I know many scientists are part of your movement and they have tried hard to give your uncontrollable climate change panic a scientific basis. The UN Climate Change Panel has a large staff, a big budget, a headquarters in Geneva and a strong champion in Al Gore to lead the charge. And thousands of well-intentioned politicians and the media of the world have supported your movement. It must seem to you that there can be no doubt: fossil fuels are destroying the environment and will lead to uncontrollable global warming unless we act now. With all that powerful support for your anti-fossil fuel movement, and with the worthy goal of saving the planet from the disastrous consequences of runaway Global Warming, how can you fail?
Here’s how: The science behind your global warming scare is bad and no anthropogenic global warming is happening. Dissenting scientists have now produced convincing evidence that the cornerstone of your scientific argument, increased atmospheric carbon dioxide forcing a rapid, irreversible rise in temperature, is invalid. All of the various “signs of global warming” you have so widely publicized have been proven wrong. They are normal variations in climate that result mostly from the cycles of the Sun. As the Sun cycle has changed in the last three or four years, they have reversed themselves. Arctic ice melting and polar bears dying, shrinkage of glaciers and the rise of ocean levels, increased intensity and number of hurricanes and intensified droughts have all been touted as signs of global warming. They are not. They are part of this natural variation in climate. The intensified hurricane claim never happened. Katrina was an isolated, random event. The droughts are part of the natural cycle and are reversing at this time. Glaciers are stabilizing. The Arctic ice cap is already back to normal.
Here is what I am suggesting you do. Campaign for your environmental goals on the basis of their own merit. Let go of the global warming frenzy before it leaves you discredited and embarrassed. Stop screaming, “The sky is falling.” It is not.
Do your good work. Devote your lives to our environment. In many ways you will succeed. We are all grateful for your love of the planet. But, don’t use scare tactics.
Most of all I urge you not to become extremists. And, may I encourage you to live your lives in a loving way, love your fellow human beings and our wonderful advanced standard of living and way of life as much as you love the Earth.
My very best regards,
John Coleman
PS - If you will read my briefs on the science that debunks the global warming frenzy and follow the links there, you will begin to realize the folly of Global Warming.
Go to ICECAP.us for a starter.
JC
SOURCE: http://www.kusi.com/weather/colemanscorner/12661711.html
The high death counts in these situations is due more to the lack of wealth and capital that these people have.
This poverty is directly due to the types of ideology and policies that Algore and his ilk would impose on us in America.
Of course he doesn't mention that 2007 was the worst winter in China for 100 years.
I guess that's why tsunamis are such a brand new phenomena.
I think I may have to cancel my vacation to the Bangladesh Hilton resort. That country is a cyclone magnet.
Way to dance on the dead Al.
looks like the 1860-80s were in desperate need of an Al Gore...well, he’s better late than never!
So there were no cyclones before Gore’s supposed global warnming?????
Assault on reason?
Hypocrats truly know no shame!
Same ole playbook too, just project and demonize those that point out your exploitation of the idiot masses!
Rush was far closer to the truth, liberalism/socialism/communism, all the various -isms are FAR more culpable. Those people aren’t free to travel, live hand to mouth and were sitting ducks. The people of New Orleans at least got warnings and had the means to leave.
Of course the assault on reason is to ignore that cooling, warming, man or no man, the world has had, does and will always have hurricanes, cyclones, typhoons, earthquakes, volcanos, tornadoes, twisters, floods, mudslides, fires, and as long as there’s man: war!
Liberalism is a disease, and as virulent as cancer, only worse because of the collateral damage!
I know your point. These weather events are not unusual, not stronger than usual, nor more frequent than usual, and not due to “global warming”, much less anthropogenic global warming.
The high death tolls are due to poverty.
My point is that leftists exploit the high death tolls to try to implement more of their policies that would result in even greater widespread poverty, especially in America.
Mr. Gore, and I ask this respectfully, how did cyclones occur BEFORE global warming? Like say, 500 years ago, or even 100 years ago. Unless I’m mistaken, there have been cyclones in this part for quite a while.
Liberalism is a consequence of unprotected sex(syphilis)
Gore's rant contradicts the fact that ocean temperature probes have not been showing a rise in temperature.
The Mystery of Global Warming's Missing HeatHere's a little more info about the Argos program.
The Argos program
Once again, I give Algore an “F” for effort.
People like Al Gore make me think sometimes that abortion can be beneficial in certain instances for the greater good of humanity.
I noticed the other day that he attracted only 3,000 people at $40 per for his last speech. I think the bloom is off the rose.
ALGOR is an Affront to Reason!
ALGOR is an Affront to Reason!
cant stress that enough!
this cyclone is more likely due to Winter cooling in the Southern hemisphere, than to so called 'global warming'. Excess cooling, as typified by this last winter and late onset of spring, exaggerates the temperature gradient across the Southern temerate zone Northward to the tropics, and everybody knows the power of extreme temperature gradients.
GORED INTREP
This nitwit is headed for a padded, warm, dark room eating Jello with his hands.
You took the words right out of my fingertips! :)
bttt
Algore knows better, but he makes dishonest statements like this so he can continue to line his pockets on the backs of the stupid.
OMG, Global Warming goes back to the Typoon of 1789!
“I wonder if St. Al has seen this”
But the warmists will claim those don`t count because they were before 1971!!!
To show how utterly ridiculous this is getting, there was an episode about the Little Ice Age on the Discovey Channels “Mega-Disaster” series today. They said climate change (The Little Ice Age) caused the Revolutionary War.
To be that big of an ahole, you have to practice at least 8 hours a day, every day.
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