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GORE EFFECT CHILLS CHILE

Reported in May:

After months of build up, the wait is finally over. Environmental superstar Al Gore, a former U.S. senator and vice president, is finally visiting Chile – albeit for just a handful of hours.

And that’s all it took:

The months of May and June have been the coldest the country has seen for the past 20 years ...

Regional Chile was also affected by the cold, experiencing record low temperatures and heavy snowfall. Snow even fell in the port cities of Valparaíso and Puerto Montt.

UPDATE. An impassioned plea from Dave Wane:

Al Gore go away,
Find some other place to stay,

We like it hot and we don’t care,
We not want live like polar bear.

Posted by Tim B. on 06/30/2007 at 03:28 PM

  1. Santiago also experienced an earthquake a couple of days ago. Gore Go Home!

    Posted by paco on 2007 06 30 at 03:32 PM • permalink

  2. Talk about carrying cold to Newcastle…

    Posted by Mystery Meat on 2007 06 30 at 04:30 PM • permalink

  3. Has anyone been keeping track of Algor’s travels and the subsequent weather conditions of said travel destinations, i.e., is there a site where the Gore effect has been documented/mapped?  Inquiring minds want to know ‘cuz it’s just tooooo creepy of a coincidence…

    Posted by deblucar on 2007 06 30 at 05:03 PM • permalink

  4. Reminder ...
    Voting for Miss Hoosegow 2007 is now open.

    Cheers

    Posted by J.M. Heinrichs on 2007 06 30 at 05:19 PM • permalink

  5. Gore gored. 

    h/t: QandO.

    Posted by Achillea on 2007 06 30 at 05:57 PM • permalink

  6. God likes to make fun of Al Gore.

    Posted by RebeccaH on 2007 06 30 at 06:11 PM • permalink

  7. Gore is the personification of the Island of Laputa.

    Posted by paco on 2007 06 30 at 06:11 PM • permalink

  8. The Weather Channel needs a Goretracker/2000.

    Posted by Dave S. on 2007 06 30 at 06:37 PM • permalink

  9. #8 We do have GPS—Gore Positioning System

    Posted by JonathanH on 2007 06 30 at 07:42 PM • permalink

  10. I’ve said on another thread that Al Gore should stay in the northern hemisphere.

    Please.

    Or only come south when we’re having a heatwave.

    Posted by ann j on 2007 06 30 at 08:02 PM • permalink

  11. Chile cold?  Well, fair enough…

    Posted by anthony_r on 2007 06 30 at 08:16 PM • permalink

  12. No doubt Sky TV will headline this in their GW propaganda?

    Posted by watty on 2007 06 30 at 08:24 PM • permalink

  13. I think that Al Gore is an alien - and I am not the first one to notice.

    Posted by surfmaster on 2007 06 30 at 08:31 PM • permalink

  14. Why are people surprised?  After all, Algore is the Latin word for cold.  No, I’m not making this up.

    Posted by Ubique on 2007 06 30 at 09:25 PM • permalink

  15. It just keeps getting funnier.

    Posted by Dave S. on 2007 06 30 at 09:36 PM • permalink

  16. You know what they say, “Chile today, hot tamale”.

    Posted by brett_l on 2007 06 30 at 10:20 PM • permalink

  17. I believe I have a fairly well established record as a strident American Nationalist but… The Algore does represent at least one reason why furriners might indulge in at least a little anti-Americanism and not get any grief from me.

    After all, any nation that can produce an Algore can’t be 100% squared away.

    The Jimmah Cahtah does not count though. It’s too obvious that he was, and still is, a KGB mole. Or maybe a pod person from outer space.

    Posted by Grimmy on 2007 06 30 at 10:21 PM • permalink

  18. #17 Grimmy:
    That bunch of soap-dodgers from Oz who think you’re Amerikkkan Imperialist Storm Trooper are going to suffer head-imploding cognitive dissonance if you keep this up. And yes, Jimmah stood far too close to those early, poorly shielded nuc reactors.

    Posted by brett_l on 2007 06 30 at 10:27 PM • permalink

  19. Al Gore must have snuck into Darwin recently also. We have just had the coldest June day on record of 22.5 degrees Celsius.

    Al Gore go away,
    Find some other place to stay,

    We like it hot and we don’t care,
    We not want live like polar bear.

    Fly away in your big plane,
    Before you drive us all insane,

    Go back home to your big house,
    Good living for all even a mouse.

    Posted by Dave Wane on 2007 06 30 at 11:57 PM • permalink

  20. Reminds me of the character in one of the “Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” books (I believe he was a truck, or should I say lorry, driver) that is followed around by rain clouds so that wherever he happens to be it is always raining.  And he has no clue that it’s not natural.  I seriously wonder if Al G. ever stops to ask himself why it’s so damn cold everywhere he goes?

    Posted by kcom on 2007 07 01 at 12:10 AM • permalink

  21. I think he knows, #20.  It’s why he put on that layer of blubber.

    Posted by blogagog on 2007 07 01 at 12:15 AM • permalink

  22. #17 Grimmy, you have Al Gore as the one reason why people can mock the US. We, however, have Tim Flannery. Canada has David Suzuki. Every country has at least one.

    No one is safe.

    Posted by Ash_ on 2007 07 01 at 01:17 AM • permalink

  23. There’s a pod person from outer space on line 2 for you, Grimmy.  Something about a slander lawsuit.

    Posted by Achillea on 2007 07 01 at 02:21 AM • permalink

  24. #23, Achillea:

    He’s welcome to everything I currently own. That’s pretty much limited to a few changes of undies, socks and a change of slacks and a couple extra shirts.

    I think I might have an extra pair of shoes around somewhere but aint seen em since the last time the grimlins hid them.

    Posted by Grimmy on 2007 07 01 at 02:30 AM • permalink

  25. Weekends suck for obsessive compulsive blog readers :/

    Posted by Grimmy on 2007 07 01 at 03:54 AM • permalink

  26. #25 Is it too quiet for you Grimmy?

    Posted by Ash_ on 2007 07 01 at 04:16 AM • permalink

  27. brett_I you just can’t blame the nuke industry for all disasters..too easy.
    Suggest the Peanut King was more a natural disaster improperly shielded from the realities of the world when joining the Democrats

    Posted by watty on 2007 07 01 at 04:22 AM • permalink

  28. #26, Ash_:

    Yeah. This place gets kinda creepy when you’re all alone and it’s dark outside.

    Posted by Grimmy on 2007 07 01 at 04:24 AM • permalink

  29. #28 Grimmy, it’s not good when you hear the walls and roof settling either.

    Or when you hear mysterious footsteps even though you’re alone.

    Posted by Ash_ on 2007 07 01 at 04:26 AM • permalink

  30. #29, Ash_:

    What was that noise?
    I think I’ll go check it out!

    Oh, looky here, my flashlight just went out, wonder why that happened?

    hello, anybody th......

    Posted by Grimmy on 2007 07 01 at 04:42 AM • permalink

  31. GRIMMEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!

    Posted by Ash_ on 2007 07 01 at 04:44 AM • permalink

  32. those wily czechs have a plan - a mobile pub you can move somewhere warmer if al gore comes to town.  for melburnians, added bonus news: rex hunt has caught the biggest ever fish hooked from the vltava - in his chunders no less

    Posted by KK on 2007 07 01 at 05:30 AM • permalink

  33. *kits herself out with a baseball bat and a stub of candle and goes to look for Grimmy*

    Posted by Achillea on 2007 07 01 at 03:03 PM • permalink

  34. Jen Marohasy reports that Gore has cancelled all engagements for the next six months. Snowed in as usual, or perhaps something more sinister?

    Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 07 01 at 06:53 PM • permalink

  35. Gore is the personification of the Island of Laputa.

    Paco—I think you meant Al Gore has the circumference of Laputa…

    Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 07 02 at 08:53 PM • permalink

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