During the past year we learned about hotcold, slowfast and now Nobel Laureate Al Gore introduces the droughtflood.
2007 AL GORE: Australia, they have what some of them are calling a 1,000 year drought now.
http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2007/s1878517.htm
2010 AL GORE: the Nobel laureate cited devastating floods in Australia and Pakistan and last year’s drought in Russia as evidence that unchecked global warming threatened famine, poverty and wide-scale destruction.
http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/home/al-gore-chaos-awaits-if-nothing-happens/416000
h/t to jimbo
The Ministry of Plenty will be well pleased with this new word! We’ll get the lexicograph department right on that!
Yes, clearly when he said “now” in 2007 he was referring to 2011. How clever of you to spot it.
A 1000 year drought would probably cover three years.
Maybe the drought started in 1010. Did you ever think of that!?!?
That’s probably what Peter was trying to say. Right, Peter? That we shouldn’t hold alarmists to the words that they spew, because though while there are no facts to back up what they babble at us, at least some of it could be plausible, such as my SUV causing concurrent and simultaneous droughts and floods.
Sometimes, just to be mean, I go out and rev my SUV and send mini-floods and droughts around the world. ((maniacal laugh))
A “1000 year drought” doesn’t mean a drought that lasts for a thousand years, you complete prune. It means a drought sufficiently severe that you’d only expect to see a comparable event once every thousand years.
Do you think a 1000 year drought can happen in a single year, or would it have to span many years like the Federation Drought of 1895-1902? I believe that occurred less than one thousand years ago.
Peter Ellis,
Why would he say 3 year drought? That isn’t scary enough. That happens all the time. Now a 1000 year drought caused by manmade co2, there’s some scaremongering you can sink your teeth into.
Brother Al needs a lesson in Hydrology before his next presentation because every time he gives a presentation he makes himself look dumber!
I am beginning to think he has the mental capacity of Mortimer Snerd:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oa63fWWwEs
Well, he is, after all, ManBearPig. Lots of things can be one thing, and something else at the same time.
Why, just look at our Pretendident!
He is the Pretendident, and at the same time, he’s a frat house man-child, cutting class.
More gorisms.
What’s Tony Duncan’s reasoning about this?
Video from today of Australian flood caused by Al Gore’s 1000 year drought
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYUpkPTcqPY
AGWers/climate changers, apposed the building of a dam after the same place flooded in the seventies and that would have saved lives.
It’s seems that because of man made global warming they were not expecting it to flood again! so they didn’t see the need to finish building the dam.
If anyone says the floods are caused by cagw or climate change I suggest they give them selves a bloody shake.
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100071290/queensland-floods-but-at-least-the-endangered-mary-river-cod-is-safe-eh/
So the droughts been going on for 1000 years? Or, did he mean it will go on for 1000 years? What was his point? If it has been going on for 1000 years and it is caused by man did the Vikings kick it off with smoke from their chimneys? Did people in the Ming Dynasty start it?
“Wall of water heads for Wivenhoe Dam” in Australia in this awful drought ;O)
http://www.smh.com.au/environment/weather/wall-of-water-heads-for-wivenhoe-dam-20110111-19lnh.html
Like Australia or Pakistan never had a drought or flood until recently.
Al Gore need a comprehensive history of droughts and floods in Australia.