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Gore’s comments were taken out of context and spun by a lying right wing media to make it look like he was using a tragedy to promote an agenda. What Gore actually said was:

“any individual storm can’t be linked singularly to global warming – we’ve always had hurricanes.”

TP: Earlier this week, the Business & Media Institute (BMI) – a right-wing front group founded by Brent Bozell – spliced and doctored an NPR interview of Al Gore in order to allege that Gore said something which he did not. The organization published a false headline which blared that Gore called the Myanmar cyclone a “consequence” of global warming. Drudge promoted it on his site.

Al Gore - right again

But in the NPR interview, Gore asserted that melting polar ice caps — not cyclones — were a “consequence” of global warming (which is unequivocally due to global warming). BMI inverted Gore’s comments to make it seem like his remarks about the cyclones followed from his remarks about “the consequences of global warming.” Fox News promoted the doctored clip to make the same false allegations about what Gore actually said.

Gore properly described the relationship between storms & Global Warming. He said that “the emerging consensus” among climate scientists is that the “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 of hundred feet of the ocean, which drives convection energy and moisture into these storms and makes them more powerful.”

Dr. Jeff Masters, NOAA meterologist noted sea surface temperatures were over a full degree Celsius above average in the region where the Myanmar cylone intensified before landfall, as can be seen from this May 1 NOAA satellite map - proving Al Gore’s statement correct

H/T: TP