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Al Gore Makes Fakes News About Hurricane Florence, Scientists Call Him Out

<p>The former Vice President Al Gore is getting called out by scientists after he made a false climate-change claim about Hurricane Florence&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&ldquo&semi;This is the first time in history that two major storms are making landfall from the Atlantic and the Pacific simultaneously&comma;&rdquo&semi; said Gore at the Global Climate Action Summit in San Francisco last week&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He declared that both Hurricane Florence&comma; a hurricane that struck the Carolinas on Friday and the Typhoon Mangkhut&comma; which hit the Philippines on Saturday were attributed to the climate change problem&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>However&comma; scientists are pointing out that it is clear that Gore did not fact-check before making his statement&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&ldquo&semi;Al Gore just &lpar;fraudulently&rpar; claimed without any evidence that we&rsquo&semi;ve never had hurricanes in both the Atlantic and Pacific making landfall at the same time&comma;&rdquo&semi; tweeted Ryan Maue&comma; an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Roger A&period; Pielke Sr&comma; a meteorologist at the University of Colorado Boulder&comma; expressed similar sentiments&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&ldquo&semi;Such statements show that he is not familiar with the history of tropical cyclone landfalls&comma;&rdquo&semi; said Pielke&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Gore also claimed that climate change is causing storms like the recent Harvey and Florence to linger in place longer&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&ldquo&semi;Florence is similar to Harvey &lbrack;the 2017 hurricane that hit Houston&comma; Texas&rsqb; in the sense that the disruption of the Northern Hemisphere jet stream is what is keeping these storms in the same place&comma; so they drop so much water&comma;&rdquo&semi; said Gore while at the summit hosted by California Gov&period; Jerry Brown&period; &ldquo&semi;Even without the cyclonic storms&comma; we are putting so much heat into the oceans&period; We&rsquo&semi;re using the sky as an open sewer &&num;8230&semi; trapping heat energy&period;&rdquo&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The liberal media has also been quick to report on the unusual activity of the hurricanes&comma; implying that they are climate change related&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>NBC News<&sol;em> reported on the hurricanes with the headline &&num;8220&semi;In rare event&comma; Atlantic&comma; Pacific churn with storms at same time&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Maue said that the <em>NBC<&sol;em> article also &ldquo&semi;completely missed the mark on ongoing hurricanes and their rarity&period;&rdquo&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Author&&num;8217&semi;s note&colon;<&sol;strong> As multiple meteorologists said&comma; this isn&&num;8217&semi;t the first time two hurricanes hit in both the Atlantic and Pacific&period; Al Gore has just made false claims yet again and for some reason&comma; he isn&&num;8217&semi;t being discredited by the liberal news&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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