Al Gore used to be merely a shameless shill, enriching himself while demanding that the rest of the world impoverish itself and wrapping himself in a cloak of Messianic imperviousness. Now he’s gone straight to full-on ghoul.

Former Vice President Al Gore in an interview on NPR’s May 6 “Fresh Air” broadcast did just that. He was interviewed by “Fresh Air” host Terry Gross about the release of his book, “The Assault on Reason,” in paperback.

“And as we’re talking today, Terry, the death count in Myanmar from the cyclone that hit there yesterday has been rising from 15,000 to way on up there to much higher numbers now being speculated,” Gore said. “And last year a catastrophic storm from last fall hit Bangladesh. The year before, the strongest cyclone in more than 50 years hit China – and we’re seeing consequences that scientists have long predicted might be associated with continued global warming.”

We have yet to begin picking up the floating corpses of some 100,000 dead Burmese and Al Gore is using their deaths to plug his book. I hope he felt at least a twinge of guilt for sacrificing the last vestiges of his human decency on the altar of his self-aggrandizement.

At any rate, he’s talking out of his nether regions. Thanks to Iain Murray, we see that this cyclone, though deadly, is likely only to clock in as the tenth deadliest of all time. Note that of the current Top 20, only one has happened in my lifetime which is when, according to Gore, global warming has been roaring like a runaway locomotive. If Gore were right, that simply would not be true. The likelihood that in 38 years, there would only be two storms in the Top 20 is not at all plausible. Gore’s increasing storm severity notion combined with rapidly-increasing populations in areas likely to be struck by such storms practically guarantee that we would have seen at least one since 1991.

I saw this article originally a day or so ago. It stunk when I first read it, mostly because Gore’s premise is so full of equivocations (added on because every time he modifies the premise, actual data prove it wrong) that it’s not even believable on its face. I wanted to dig up the information on Cyclones that Murray found, but I didn’t have the time. I’m grateful to him for doing that. It’s good to know that there are still strong and reasonable voices out there speaking out against Gore’s nonsense.