Gore's Staff Says He Was Misquoted On Hexametric Hurricanes

jamie writes "In a story on Thursday, Slashdot and its readers had a little fun at the expense of Al Gore, who was quoted as saying that the hurricane severity scale was going to go to 6. A correction was made the next day. The author of the piece that Slashdot linked now writes 'I retract the balance of my criticism.' Turns out Gore was misquoted. Luckily for Gore, this is the first time he's been ridiculed for something he didn't actually say. Well, except for Love Story, Love Canal, farm chores, and everyone's favorite, inventing the internet. (The original Slashdot story is here and its central link now includes the Washington Post's correction.)" From Ezra Klein's update on his earlier piece: "I'm out-of-town and so away from my tape recorder. So I asked Gore's staff about the line and they have Gore saying: 'The scientists are now adding category six to the hurricane ... some are proposing we add category 6 to the hurricane scale that used to be 1-5.' That doesn't offend my memory of the discussion and it's entirely possible I missed Gore's qualifying sentence while trying to keep up. If so, that's my fault, and I apologize."

Comments

Misquoted?

[Anonymous Coward]

Gore's lying Staff Says He Was Misquoted On Hexametric Hurricanes.

So Al Gore is a slimy politician?

[CajunArson]

All I heard was Al Gore use the typical cop-out line of "some people say X" so he can put forth a position and blame it on those mythical "some people" later if it turns out that his tentative position turns out to be a bunch of B.S. (which it did).

Trust me, Al has no problems taking credit for something later if the magical "some people" turn out to be right about whatever point he is putting forward.

Re:So Al Gore is a slimy politician?

[Mr. Firewall]

Yeah, Al Gore is basically the Town Joke around Nashville, TN. During the three years I lived there, I never once heard his name mentioned in a respectful manner, and that includes on the local radio stations.

Most of the time you could get a laugh just by dropping his name into a conversation.

AL GORE CREATED THE INTERNET!

[Anonymous Coward]

Oh, WOW! The story has been SOOOO debunked. Al Gore never said that he invented the Internet! He said that he *created* the Internet which is the total opposite! Wow, you guys are so great with your debunkery. I think that we need to erect a statue to the guy who offered this correction!

Re:Two peas in a pod

[alen]

fact: NYC area used to get hit by cat 3 hurricanes every 70 years or so. the last time was 1938, the storm had 135mph winds when it made landfall over long island close to montauk.

a storm four times more powerful means 540mph winds. do you seriously think that we will have storms in the 700mph wind speed category?

some of you end of the world idiots need to read some history and get laid instead of sitting around your computers reading stupid predictions all day long

Re:Two peas in a pod

[Mr. Firewall]

And if global warming doesn't stop, then yes we will have 700 MPH hurricanes.

You mean, as it did over sixteen years ago?

Funny that Gore hasn't taken credit for THAT. Oh, wait a minute, that wouldn't serve the Greens' real agenda now, would it?

Gore not a tool, in on the scam

[SuperKendall]

Gore is a tool, but Goldman is truly evil.

In case you had not noticed Gore has gotten quite rich off the AGW scam he and others run. It's absurd to think he believes what he says when nothing he does indicates he thinks there is really a problem.

Otherwise he would appear to speak only over video links...