In two articles published this past week here at Climate Realism, we showed how Al Gore’s predictions about melting glaciers in Glacier National Park and disappearing snows at Mt. Kilimanjaro have proven spectacularly wrong.
Those were the only two concrete predictions Gore made with a definitive timeline prior to today in his book, An Inconvenient Truth.
Gore failed on both accounts. But those weren’t Gore’s only spectacular embarrassments.
Let’s take a look at what Gore claimed about tornadoes.
On page 86 in An Inconvenient Truth, Gore claimed, “in 2004, the all-time record for tornadoes in the United States was broken.”
Worse than his two failed predictions, this one is a flat-out lie. And it was a flat-out lie when Gore asserted it.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has been meticulously keeping tornado records going back 65 years, to 1954.
As shown in the NOAA graph reproduced below, there were 600 tornadoes in 2004. Prior to 2004, however, there were six different years in which NOAA documented more than 600 tornadoes.
Gore’s statement was a lie the second he made it.
Even more embarrassingly for Gore, the NOAA graph likely undercounted tornadoes during the mid-1950s through the late 20th century.
That is because advanced radar in recent years has enabled scientists to identify tornadoes in the middle of nowhere that previously would not have been counted.
As a result, it is likely that there were well more than six years between 1954 and 2004 with more tornadoes than Gore’s ‘all-time-record year’ of 2004.
Occasionally, somebody will assert to me, ‘OK, but what about strong tornadoes – the ones that really cause a lot of damage. Those are the ones that really matter, and perhaps Gore was talking about those.’
As you can see from this additional NOAA chart below, strong tornadoes (F3 and above) have been in long-term decline, with 2004 (like most recent years) experiencing a well-below-average number of tornadoes.
Any way you cut it, 2004 was not the all-time record year for tornadoes. It wasn’t even close. And tornado activity has been declining for decades.
Yet the establishment media fawns over Gore as a global warming prophet while attacking as “deniers” anybody who points out the facts above.
I place my money on the American people being smart enough to see through the media propaganda.
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Al Gore the Bore wrote a book ASSAULT ON REASON look who’s Talking Gore this idiot still cant get it right but as always there are the idiots who still listen to him and read his stupid poem
W/o this site,
how many others would point out
The academy of motion picture arts and sciences,
the Nobel prize committee,
the UN and ipcc, and most especially
Al Gore and his associates
INCONVENIENT LIES ?!!
Who else and how many would ?
“…on the American people being smart enough to see through the media propaganda.”
The ‘old-fashioned’ media, news papers and magazines, and later TV news and ‘talk’ shows were/are biased. Recently the ‘new’ media, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube/Google even Wikipedia have started to edit what they allow the public to see and hear – not in an even-handed fashion. To “edit” is to “censor”. Since Congress is not involved, the First Amendment doesn’t come into play. Private companies and organizations can limit “free speech” as much as they like, and if your message doesn’t match theirs – fur-git-hit.
Getting differing opinions to the public at large – not at all easy.
Instead of flying around the globe selling snake oil he should read the definitive book on storms from Mr.. Tornado.
May 20, 2020 F-Scale | Mr. Tornado | American Experience | PBS
Fujita’s analysis convinced him that not all tornadoes were created equal. He decided to create a six-point scale—and named it after himself.
https://youtu.be/8agKNT2Lm4A
We just had rare Tornado go through a area in our area in Northern California caused some major damage ripped the roof off a Barn knocked down some Sheds and uprooted some Trees we have had one before a few years ago before all this Global Warming/Climate Change poppycock was heard of