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Al Gore gets rebuked a second time over film rights to ‘firestorm tornado’
Copyright Chris TangeyFor a sequence in Al Gore’s 2006 documentary An Inconvenient Truth, there’s a famous shot of Antarctic ice shelves breaking apart. As the AIT footage played out, Al Gore says via voice-over, “And if you were flying over it in a helicopter, you’d see it’s 700 feet tall. They are so majestic.” Problem was, it wasn’t real. As discovered by ABC News in 2008, it was computer-generated imagery used in the opening credits from 2004′s The Day After Tomorrow.
In early October 2012, Al Gore’s Carthage Group tried again to drum up global-warming hysteria by securing the film rights to a naturally occurring firestorm filmed by Alice Springs Film and Television (ASFTV) in Australia. As one paper reported:
A weather expert has backed the stance of an Alice Springs filmmaker who refused to sell footage of a firestorm to former US vice-president Al Gore — to use in Mr Gore’s climate presentations — because the event was unrelated to climate change. … In an email exchange with Mr Gore’s office, Tangey said using the footage in a climate-change framework would be “deliberately deceptive”.
Cut to one month later, and Al Gore and company are still trying to get the ASFTV’s firestorm footage to ramp up the climate-change alarmism. Email correspondence legally obtained between ASFTV and a producer for the Climate Reality Project, his advocacy and training organization, shows a renewed, second attempt to secure footage rights of the firestorm.
2012-11-11 14:00:23
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