Opinion
If it's Al Gore, it's cold
By: Jeff Dufour
Editor at Large/Columnist, "Yeas & Nays"
01/27/09 1:56 PM EST
StormbringerFormer Vice President Al Gore is set to testify before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee this morning on global climate change. Which means, of course, that it's been cold and snowing here. More of the same (freezing rain, actually) is expected while he speaks. Today's high temperature is forecast at 36 degrees, and a Winter Weather Advisory is in effect until noon.
This always seems to happen to the global warming crusader. Last October, freezing temperatures followed Gore to Boston, as he gave a speech at Harvard.
In November 2006, Gore flew to Australia. Cold and snow came with him, despite that the country was nearing its summer months.
In January 2004, a Gore speech in New York was marked by a low temperature that day of 7 degrees.
In fact, climate-change skeptics and other thorns in Gore's side have dubbed the coincidental phenomenon "The Gore Effect."
Sam Kazman, general counsel with the Competitive Enterprise Institute, says it "proves that God has a really good sense of humor."
Ditto Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., ranking member of the Environment and Public Works Committee, who often does battle with Gore: "The ‘Gore Effect’ proves Mother Nature has a sense of humor; she seems to enjoy mocking global warming fear promoters.”
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