For some reason, the left is going nuts about headlines like these:

Drudge: "Gore calls cyclone consequence of Global Warming."

and

Canada Free Press: "Boy Scout Tornado Deaths blamed on Global Warming by Center for American Progress!"

They claim that the Global Warming Prophets are being mis-characterized and misquoted.  No, no, NO, they say.  We aren't saying that Global Warming is killing people today, that would be alarmist and too easy to disprove; we are just saying ... um ... we are all going to die ... um ... really, really soon.

Well, judge for yourself.  Here is the transcript of Al Gore's comments this May about the Cyclone Nargis (emphasis mine).



"It’s also important to note that the emerging consensus among the climate scientists is even though any individual storm can’t be linked singularly to global warming — we’ve always had hurricanes — nevertheless, the trend toward more Category 5 storms, the larger ones, the trend toward stronger and more destructive storms appears to be linked to global warming. And specifically to the impact of global warming on higher ocean temperatures in the top couple hundred feet of the ocean, which drives convection, energy and moisture into these storms and makes them more powerful.

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.

And last year a catastrophic storm, 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. The entire north polar ice cap, normally the size the lower 48 states, give or take an Arizona, is melting before our eyes. 40 percent melted in the last twenty years. And in the summer months, it could be completely gone, in one scientific estimate, in as little as five years."

Whew!  I'm glad he isn't trying to panic anyone.  I'm sorry, how much did you make last year from your investments in 'green' companies?




This is from the article in question from the Center for American Progress (emphasis mine).

"The evidence for the consequences of global warming is appearing with alarming frequency. This morning’s headlines are filled with tales of deadly weather: “At least four people were killed and about 40 injured when a tornado tore through a Boy Scout camp in western Iowa on Wednesday night”; “two people are dead in northern Kansas after tornadoes cut a diagonal path across the state”; “[t]wo Maryland men with heart conditions died this week” from the East Coast heat wave."

The Center for American Progress.  Doesn't that just sound so nice and ... progressive?  Almost daily, their website portrays Bush as an idiot at best and a demon at worst.  They criticize HIM for generating paranoia.  It also happens to be run by the former chief of staff for Bill Clinton. Surprise! 


Notice that in each quote, there is care not to directly blame the weather patterns on Global Warming/Climate Change, but there is a strong association and certainly the relationship is implied.

Yet, both Al Gore and the Center for America Progress emphatically deny trying to blame Global Warming for current weather trends.  What?  Am I missing something?  If I say Global Warming is causing extreme weather, and in the next sentence say the extreme weather is responsible for deaths, is that not the same thing as saying Global Warming is killing people?


Now as expected, they are doing the same thing with the recent floods in the Midwest.  The Janesville Gazette of Janesville Wisconsin:

"Climate experts are saying more intense weather is part of global climate change, although it would be difficult to pin any one event on global warming. However, it’s prudent to plan for more intense weather such as this, Potter said."

Difficult to pin any one event on global warming?  You just happened to say that in an article about the Midwest floods.  I'm just saying.



How about in the Detroit Free Press:

"If we look over the past 100 years, it is not normal to get so many large amounts of rain like those we've seen in such a short period of time. At a flood policy forum last fall in Washington, officials warned that climate change, dramatic population increases and the destruction of natural ecological protections, such as wetlands, would add to the existing strain on aging infrastructure."

Hmmm.  We just happened to be talking about the levy failures in the flooded states.  What a coincidence.


They don't want to be labeled alarmists, but they can deny it all they want;  there is definitely an effort by the Global Warming Prophets and the press to spread the hysteria.  And we know we can count on the press to warn us of imminent, impending disaster, like they did with the Killer Bees and Y2K.  Yes sir, the end is coming.  Any second now.