Gored by His Own Globaloney
Too funny (HT Instapundit):
Gore Effect — The phenomenon that leads to unseasonally cold temperatures, driving rain, hail, or snow whenever Al Gore visits an area to discuss global warming. Hence, the Gore Effect.
- Australia, November 2006: Al Gore is visiting two weeks before summer begins. The Gore Effect strikes: “Ski resort operators gazed at the snow in amazement. Parents took children out of school and headed for the mountains. Cricketers scurried amid bullets of hail as Melburnians traded lunchtime tales of the incredible cold.” (The Age)
- New York, March 2004: “Gore chose January 15, 2004, one of the coldest days in New York City’s history, to rail against the Bush administration and global warming skeptics… Global warming, Gore told a startled audience, is causing record cold temperatures.” (NY Environment News)
As you also see, supposedly man-made “global warming” (now being cleverly recast as “climate change”), according to the Gospel of St. Al, is not only dangerously heating up the planet, it is the cause of the supposedly more frequent weather extremes we are experiencing. It would have been more appropriate if Gore’s 2004 Gotham audience had laughed.
Instapundit says: “….. I think that the real cause of this cold snap in the L.A./Hollywood area is that Al Gore has been shortlisted for an Oscar. Al just can’t catch a break.”
I forget, is this argument non sequitur or argument ad nauseum?
Comment by Eric — January 22, 2007 @ 2:11 pm
#1, this is humor and irony. Your finding a sense of either would be helpful.
Comment by TBlumer — January 22, 2007 @ 2:59 pm
ah, ok. you were “just kidding”. i understand humor. you, i believe, are familiar with it. ;-)
Comment by Eric — January 22, 2007 @ 7:47 pm