With Hurricanes At Thirty Year Low, Gore Turns To Photoshop

The King of cap and trade simply airbrushes them in to his new book to create a more scary earth

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Thursday, November 19, 2009

With the increasingly discredited notion of man-made
global warming crashing and burning on a daily basis, climate alarmists
are being forced to accelerate their fearmongering to unprecedented
levels. With the evidence failing to match up to the doomsday
proclamations, Al Gore has turned to photoshop in order to make a
CO2-choked earth look scary enough to sell his cap and trade scam.

The latest example of climate cult fakery comes in the form of the front cover of Al Gore’s new book, Our Choice; A Plan To Solve The Climate Crisis.

Shortly after the devastation of Katrina, Al Gore was
busy making a correlation between hurricanes and global warming in an
effort to drive home his claim that higher global CO2 emissions cause
an increase in extreme weather events. The cover art for Gore’s
movie, An Inconvenient Truth, features an image of a hurricane rising
out of a smoke stack.

Seemingly underwhelmed that there have been no major hurricanes since Katrina, along with the fact that global hurricane activity is now at a thirty year low,
Gore came up with an ingenious method of solving the problem of the
lack of scary depictions of frightening hurricanes to display on his
book – simply airbrush them in!

Ryan Maue, hurricane expert from the University of Florida writes:

The cover opens and closes half and half — so you only see one hurricane…as in the press release photo or the one on Amazon.

But this is the real picture sequence from the book
which I looked at Borders today and took cell-phone pictures, original
(before the retouching by some “artist”) Note all of the
Arctic ice and the size of the Florida Peninsula…

And the final product:

A midget Southern Hemisphere cyclone is off the
coast of Florida, another hurricane is sitting on the equator off the
coast of Peru — and the Arctic Ice is gone (perhaps it is summer)
and the Florida Peninsula is half gone

There are other differences I am sure you can find — but the hurricanes are just nonsense…

Despite the fact that CO2 levels are at their highest for 15 million years, just like global temperatures, hurricane activity has dropped off dramatically, as the graph below illustrates.

Gore has now dropped the presentation from his slideshow claiming a link between CO2 emissions and hurricanes.

There is a clear correlation between the natural ebb
and flow of global temperatures and hurricanes, but none whatsoever
with human CO2 emissions. As many skeptics have attempted to highlight,
in the face of official intimidation and quasi-religious decrees that
“the debate is over,” temperature levels prompted by
natural factors leads the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere, not the other way around.

With his invention of scary hurricanes for the purposes
of his book, Gore is merely following his new ethos that “Simply
laying out the facts won’t work,” in the attempt to corral
a highly skeptical public into believing claims about man-made global
warming.

This represents another grasping at straws as Gore
adapts his propaganda into the form of a religious sermon in a
desperate effort to claw back rapidly evaporating poll numbers that show 20% of Americans have changed their minds over the last three years and become man-made global warming skeptics.

As we have exhaustively documented, Gore’s
motivation for grossly overstating the impact of CO2 emissions goes a
lot deeper than his professed love for the planet.

Since he left office, Gore’s personal net worth
has skyrocketed on the back of his advocacy for global warming issues
and the financial dividends this has reaped. Gore’s assets
totaled less than $2 million in 2001 and although he refuses to give a
figure for his current net worth, a recent single investment of $35
million in Capricorn Investment Group, a private equity fund,
illustrates just how fast Gore has enriched himself from his climate
change bandwagon.

As we reported back in March,
before he became President, Barack Obama also helped fund the
profiteers of the carbon taxation program that he is now seeking to
implement as law.

The Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX) has direct ties to
both Al Gore and Maurice Strong, two figures intimately involved with a
long standing movement to use the theory of man made global warming as
a mechanism for profit and social engineering. Gore’s investment
company, Generation Investment Management, which sells carbon offset
opportunities, is the largest shareholder of CCX.

Maurice Strong, who is regularly credited as founding
father of the modern environmental movement, serves on the board of
directors of CCX. Strong was a leading initiate of the Earth Summit in
the early 90s, where the theory of global warming caused by CO2
generated by human activity was most notably advanced.

Both Strong and Gore come from the Club of Rome clique,
who in their 1991 Report, “The First Global Revolution”
openly admitted how they were planning to exploit the contrived hoax of
global warming in order to further their agenda.

“In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we
came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming,
water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill. All these
dangers are caused by human intervention, and it is only through
changed attitudes and behavior that they can be overcome. The real
enemy then, is humanity itself.,” they wrote.

Gore’s defense against claims that he is peddling
fearmongering about global warming to get filthy rich, and one
dutifully supported by the NY Times’ whitewash report, is that he is simply putting his money where his mouth is.

However, Gore’s insistence that he is walking the
walk, not just talking the talk, doesn’t seem to extend to his
own private life in the context of energy conservation and CO2
emissions. While lecturing the world about reducing CO2 emissions and
saving energy, Gore’s own mansion uses 20 times the energy of the
average American home.

In February 2007, the Tennessee Center for Policy Research revealed
that the gas and electric bills for the former vice president’s
20-room home and pool house devoured nearly 221,000 kilowatt-hours in
2006, more than 20 times the national average of 10,656 kilowatt-hours.
These figures were not disputed by Gore.

“If this were any other person with
$30,000-a-year in utility bills, I wouldn’t care,” said the
Center’s 27-year-old president, Drew Johnson. “But he tells
other people how to live and he’s not following his own
rules.”