Al Gore has made the pronouncement: Tens of thousands were killed by a cyclone in Myanmar because of "global warming."

During an interview with National Public Radio's Terry Gross about his new paperback, the appropriately titled "The Assault on Reason," Gore said: "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. 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."

In fact, later counts suggest the death toll in Myanmar may reach 100,000.

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But those tragic deaths will not be a result of global warming. They will be the result of several other factors under denial by the climate-change zealots:

• A very bad storm struck the country, hitting hardest, as cyclones are wont to do, along the coastland where most of Myanmar's 55 million people live. This storm was not the first to hit Asia, nor will it be the last. But, to keep things in perspective, one hit Bangladesh in 1970 that killed more than 500,000 people. That, by the way, came at a time when today's global warming Chicken Littles were warning of an impending Ice Age.
  
  
• Myanmar is a totalitarian socialist police state that has no concerns for the safety and welfare of its people. No warnings about the storm were issued by government. Nor could government have warned the people even if it had the inclination to do so because of the extreme poverty of the oppressed population, which is without newspapers, without radio, without telephones, without television and whose Internet access is strictly controlled. The government of Myanmar is so callous in its lack of concern for its people it has been reluctant to permit gifts of disaster relief from the free world. Reports from the area indicate the police state is hording some of the high-quality donations that have been received and has distributed lower-quality food to cyclone victims.
  
  
• People in Myanmar have no freedom, no property rights. Therefore, people live wherever they can eke out survival. That generally means the rice-growing region struck so hard by this cyclone.

There is one thing that had nothing to do with this storm or this death toll – and that is an overabundance of manmade carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. And that is what Al Gore cites as the cause.

Had this cyclone hit a well-developed, prosperous, free country, there would have been some trauma, some damage, maybe even a few deaths. But there would be nothing like the carnage we are hearing about in Myanmar.

In well-developed, prosperous, free countries, people have means of communication. They get warnings about storms. They have means of transportation. They have freedom of movement.

Do you wonder why Al Gore doesn't talk about those factors?

I'll tell you why. Because Al Gore is promoting solutions to this phantom problem of "global warming" that will, ultimately, reduce all of us to the kind of helpless, landless serfs who lost their lives in Myanmar. Gore and his friends want more government control over the population, less industry, controls on private property, regulations on communication and rule by an elite socialist clique.

Am I comparing Gore with the ruling junta of Myanmar?

No. I'm sure the kind of ruling socialist junta imposed by Gore and his friends would be much more enlightened, sophisticated, cosmopolitan. But it would ultimately result in even greater death and destruction on a worldwide scale.

If Gore and his global-warming deceivers ever have their way with us, we, too, will have nowhere to flee.

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