I was optimistically hoping that Al Gore would not use the cyclone in Myanmar as a talking point to push his global warming fantasy, unfortunately I had given him to much credit. Speaking on NPR’s “Fresh Air” Al Gore said:

“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 thatscientists have long predicted might be associated with continued global warming.”

Did you get that? Scientists predicted this would happen as a result of global warming according to the Goracle. He then goes on to note:

“It’s also important to note that the emerging consensus among the climate scientists is although any individual storm can’t be linked singularly to global warming – we’ve always had hurricanes,”

So although Gore admits that individual storms cannot be linked to global warming, he insists on doing so anyway. He goes on to note that storms are stronger when water temperatures are higher. Memo to Al Gore, water temperatures have been decreasing!

“A cool-water anomaly known as La Niña occupied the tropical Pacific Ocean throughout 2007 and early 2008. In April 2008, scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory announced that while the La Niña was weakening, the Pacific Decadal Oscillation-a larger-scale, slower-cycling ocean pattern-had shifted to its cool phase.”

This is a shameless attempt by Al Gore to use the deaths of thousands of people to push his own agenda.

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