Al Gore: Sandy caused by man-made global warming

[Pony Boy]

Al Gore: Hurricane Sandy caused by man-made global warming

Former vice president-turned-climate-change-activist Al Gore warned Tuesday that the storm that ravaged the East Coast Monday is “a disturbing sign of things to come.”

“We must heed this warning and act quickly to solve the climate crisis. Dirty energy makes dirty weather,” Gore said in a statement posted on his blog Tuesday afternoon.

Gore, one of the country’s most high-profile advocates of measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, compared this week's massive storm to 2010 floods that devastated Nashville, Tenn.


“For me, the Nashville flood was a milestone,” he said. “For many, Hurricane Sandy may prove to be a similar event: a time when the climate crisis — which is often sequestered to the far reaches of our everyday awareness became a reality.”

Both natural disasters, Gore said, “were strengthened by the climate crisis.”


http://www.politico.com/news/stories...064.html?hp=r1

[DenverBrit]

What's wrong with Gore??

God did it to punish the East coast for something or other.

[pricejj]

Gore has made $100M personally, from Obama's "green jobs" spending thus far...

[Fedaykin]

Originally Posted by Pony Boy

Al Gore: Hurricane Sandy caused by man-made global warming

Former vice president-turned-climate-change-activist Al Gore warned Tuesday that the storm that ravaged the East Coast Monday is “a disturbing sign of things to come.”

“We must heed this warning and act quickly to solve the climate crisis. Dirty energy makes dirty weather,” Gore said in a statement posted on his blog Tuesday afternoon.

Gore, one of the country’s most high-profile advocates of measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, compared this week's massive storm to 2010 floods that devastated Nashville, Tenn.


“For me, the Nashville flood was a milestone,” he said. “For many, Hurricane Sandy may prove to be a similar event: a time when the climate crisis — which is often sequestered to the far reaches of our everyday awareness became a reality.”

Both natural disasters, Gore said, “were strengthened by the climate crisis.”


http://www.politico.com/news/stories...064.html?hp=r1

Ahh, yes I see the OP is either dishonest or incapable of reading for comprehension (possibly both). See the bolded above to understand why.

[DAN_BRONCO_FAN]

global warming is it well you left wing wackos its time for a lil weather history

1938 New England hurricane

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New England Hurricane

Category 5 hurricane (SSHS)
Weather map from September 21, 1938 featuring the storm
Formed	September 10, 1938
Dissipated	September 22, 1938
Highest winds	1-minute sustained: 160 mph (260 km/h)
Lowest pressure	938 mbar (hPa); 27.7 inHg
Fatalities	682 to 800 direct
Damage	$306 million (1938 USD)
Areas affected	Bahamas, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, southwestern Quebec
Part of the 1938 Atlantic hurricane season

The New England Hurricane of 1938 (or Great New England Hurricane, Yankee Clipper, Long Island Express, or simply the Great Hurricane) was the first major hurricane to strike New England since 1869. The storm formed near the coast of Africa in September of the 1938 Atlantic hurricane season, becoming a Category 5 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale before making landfall as a Category 3 hurricane^[1] on Long Island on September 21. The hurricane was estimated to have killed between 682 and 800 people,^[2] damaged or destroyed over 57,000 homes, and caused property losses estimated at US$306 million ($4.7 Billion in 2012).^[3] Even as late as 1951, damaged trees and buildings were still seen in the affected areas.^[4] It remains the most powerful, costliest and deadliest hurricane in recent New England history, eclipsed in landfall intensity perhaps only by the Great Colonial Hurricane of 1635.

[DAN_BRONCO_FAN]

Great September Gale of 1815

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Great September Gale

Category 4 hurricane (SSHS)
Formed	before September 22, 1815
Dissipated	September 24, 1815
Highest winds	1-minute sustained: 135 mph (215 km/h)
Lowest pressure	≤ 947 mbar (hPa); 27.96 inHg (Estimated [1])
Fatalities	38+ direct
Damage	$12.5 million (2005 USD)
Areas affected	New England
Part of the 1815 Atlantic hurricane season

The Great September Gale of 1815 (the word "hurricane" was not yet current in American English at the time) is one of five "major hurricanes" (Category 3 on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale) to strike New England since 1635.^[2] At the time it struck, the Great September Gale was the first hurricane to strike New England in 180 years.^[3]

Contents 1 Impact 2 Meteorology 3 See also 4 References 5 Further reading 6 External links

Impact

The storm struck Long Island on September 23, 1815, probably coming ashore near Center Moriches (Ludlum). On the south shore of Long Island it broke through the barrier beach and created the inlet that still isolates Long Beach, which had previously been an eastward extension of The Rockaways. Then in New England it came ashore at Saybrook, Connecticut. The storm delivered an 11-foot (3.4 m) storm surge that funneled up Narragansett Bay where it destroyed some 500 houses and 35 ships and flooded Providence, Rhode Island, where a line on the Old Market Building marked the storm surge that was unexampled in the city until the New England Hurricane of 1938, which brought a 17.6-foot (5.4 m) storm surge. There is still a worn plaque on the Rhode Island Hospital Trust building (built in 1917), along with a newer plaque showing the higher 1938 hurricane water level. At Matunuck, Rhode Island, sediment studies have identified the overwash fan of sediments in Succotash Marsh, where the 1815 hurricane storm surge overtopped the barrier beach.
In Dorchester, Massachusetts, just south of Boston, local historian William Dana Orcutt wrote in the late 19th century of the hurricane's impact: "In 1815 there was a great gale which destroyed the arch of the bridge over the Neponset River. This arch was erected over the bridge at the dividing line of the towns [Dorchester and Milton] in 1798." Dorchester's First Parish Meeting House was too badly damaged to repair.^[4]
The eye passed into New Hampshire near Jaffrey and Hillsborough.^[5]
Meteorology

In the aftermath of the Great Gale, the concept of a hurricane as a "moving vortex" was presented by John Farrar, Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy at Harvard University. In an 1819 paper he concluded that the storm "appears to have been a moving vortex and not the rushing forward of a great body of the atmosphere".

[Pony Boy]

We will all pay the price for not living a carbon neutral existence by purchasing carbon credits from one of Al Gores companies.

When Al is criticized for his exhorbinant lifestyle, one that includes mansions, private plane flights and a host of other CO2 producing activities, he explains that he is actually living a "carbon neutral" existence. He does this by purchasing carbon credits, which are to ensure that CO2 emissions are being reduced elsewhere.

[Irish Stout]

Originally Posted by Pony Boy

Al Gore: Hurricane Sandy caused by man-made global warming

Former vice president-turned-climate-change-activist Al Gore warned Tuesday that the storm that ravaged the East Coast Monday is “a disturbing sign of things to come.”

“We must heed this warning and act quickly to solve the climate crisis. Dirty energy makes dirty weather,” Gore said in a statement posted on his blog Tuesday afternoon.

Gore, one of the country’s most high-profile advocates of measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, compared this week's massive storm to 2010 floods that devastated Nashville, Tenn.


“For me, the Nashville flood was a milestone,” he said. “For many, Hurricane Sandy may prove to be a similar event: a time when the climate crisis — which is often sequestered to the far reaches of our everyday awareness became a reality.”

Both natural disasters, Gore said, “were strengthened by the climate crisis.”


http://www.politico.com/news/stories...064.html?hp=r1

I'm sorry, but I missed the part in the story where Gore says Sandy was caused by man made global warming?

[DAN_BRONCO_FAN]

List of New York hurricanes encompasses 84 tropical or subtropical cyclones that have affected the state of New York since the 17th century. The state of New York is located along the East coast of the United States, in the Northeastern portion of the country. The strongest of these storms was the 1938 New England Hurricane, which struck Long Island as a Category 3 storm on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale. Killing more than 600 people, it was also the deadliest. Tropical cyclones have affected the state primarily in September but have also hit during every month of the hurricane season, June through November. Tropical cyclones rarely make landfall on the state, although it is common for remnants of tropical cyclones to produce heavy rainfall and flooding.

[Pony Boy]

Originally Posted by Irish Stout

I'm sorry, but I missed the part in the story where Gore says Sandy was caused by man made global warming?

Dirty energy makes dirty weather,” Gore said

[DenverBrit]

Like acid rain?

[Irish Stout]

Originally Posted by Pony Boy

Dirty energy makes dirty weather,” Gore said

Thats a leap.

[W*GS]

Sigh. The predictable nonsense from the Right.

[DAN_BRONCO_FAN]

Originally Posted by W*GS

Sigh. The predictable nonsense from the Right.

but there always been bad storms look for yourself .
but you believe what you want btw love the ST TOS avatar
sigh if only modern sci fi shows were as deep and thoughtful as star trek they did more with less of a budget

[Rohirrim]

It snowed last year. That means there's no such thing as global warming, don't ya know.

[DAN_BRONCO_FAN]

we used to call global warming summer and ice age winter .
get back to me when Minnesota hits the mid 80s during the dead of winter and tell me its global warming

[W*GS]

Originally Posted by DAN_BRONCO_FAN

but there always been bad storms look for yourself.

People die from natural causes. Doesn't mean don't die in car accidents.

That a few past storms were bad doesn't mean that the energy available to drive Sandy wasn't increased via anthropogenic climate change.

[W*GS]

Originally Posted by DAN_BRONCO_FAN

get back to me when Minnesota hits the mid 80s during the dead of winter and tell me its global warming

Typical idiotic comment. "Global warming" doesn't mean "everywhere gets hot year-round".

[Kid A]

Guess who agrees with Gore...:

http://firstread.nbcnews.com/_news/2...te-change?lite

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg endorsed President Barack Obama on Thursday, invoking Hurricane Sandy and the president's work to address climate change.
As New York reels from the fallout of this week's hurricane, which caused 37 deaths in the city, Bloomberg said Obama was better-suited than Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney to curb carbon emissions.

[Kid A]

http://www.businessweek.com/articles...upid#r=hpt-lst

Yes, yes, it’s unsophisticated to blame any given storm on climate change. Men and women in white lab coats tell us—and they’re right—that many factors contribute to each severe weather episode. Climate deniers exploit scientific complexity to avoid any discussion at all.

Clarity, however, is not beyond reach. Hurricane Sandy demands it: At least 40 U.S. deaths. Economic losses expected to climb as high as $50 billion. Eight million homes without power. Hundreds of thousands of people evacuated. More than 15,000 flights grounded. Factories, stores, and hospitals shut. Lower Manhattan dark, silent, and underwater.

[L.A. BRONCOS FAN]

Originally Posted by Kid A

Guess who agrees with Gore...:

http://firstread.nbcnews.com/_news/2...te-change?lite

Oooops!

Somehow I don't think this is how the Exxon-Mobil propaganda mouthpiece who started this thread expected it to end.

[maher_tyler]

Originally Posted by DAN_BRONCO_FAN

we used to call global warming summer and ice age winter .
get back to me when Minnesota hits the mid 80s during the dead of winter and tell me its global warming

Just because you have a foot of snow in your back yard in the Winter and 85-90 degrees in the summer doesn't mean the entire globes average temperature isn't raising. Pumping more and more CO2 into the air every year can't be a good thing for the planet whether you believe in climate change/global warming or not.

[maher_tyler]

Originally Posted by DAN_BRONCO_FAN

we used to call global warming summer and ice age winter .
get back to me when Minnesota hits the mid 80s during the dead of winter and tell me its global warming

Just because you have a foot of snow in your back yard in the Winter and 85-90 degrees in the summer doesn't mean the entire globes average temperature isn't raising. Pumping more and more CO2 into the air every year can't be a good thing for the planet whether you believe in climate change/global warming or not.

[DAN_BRONCO_FAN]

Originally Posted by maher_tyler

Just because you have a foot of snow in your back yard in the Winter and 85-90 degrees in the summer doesn't mean the entire globes average temperature isn't raising. Pumping more and more CO2 into the air every year can't be a good thing for the planet whether you believe in climate change/global warming or not.

well stop driving then are you shure the world has been warming is man made and not natural causes what about the ice age why is it colder in the winter in temperate zones why can they predict global warming but not next years weather what will the temp be next Halloween how about next memorial day will it rain that day how warm will it get .

[cutthemdown]

Originally Posted by Irish Stout

Thats a leap.

A leap? cmon. Gore is saying dirty carbon based fuels are giving us dirty weather. How is it a leap to see he means this storm and more like them are coming, and its because of man made co2.