Al Gore is saying that the cyclone in Burma was the result of global warming. He seems unaware that the earth's average temperature has been falling lately. He also has seemed to be unaware that historically more severe weather events have been associated with cooling rather than warming. (See the book, The Little Ice Age for discussion of this phenomena.) The article below also talks about NASA "cooking the books" with the temperature record to support the global warming hypothesis. Here is some additional information. There are four major agencies that measure global temperature anomalies: NASA/GISS, NCDC/NOAA, HAD/CRU, and RSS/MSU. The latter three show recent temperature declining, while NASA/GISS (the James Hansen group that supports Gore) does not. (Agua satellites and Argos floating buoys also show declining temperature.) Gore, of course, studied theology, not science. (It does appear that he has managed to found his own religion.) Here is the article from American Thinker:

May 07, 2008
Gore's Myanmar Words as Inopportune as they were Repulsive
Marc Sheppard

Thirty days after Steve McIntyre caught NASA cooking climate history again - this time in a feeble attempt to somehow conceal the alarmist-embarrassing downward trend since 1998 -- Al Gore shamelessly portrayed Saturday's Myanmar cyclone catastrophe as a ‘consequence' of global warming.


A mere 16 days after NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory confirmed that the Pacific Decadal Oscillation's cool phase shift would likely bring colder temperatures for as many as the next 20-30 years, Gore told NPR that the "trend toward stronger and more destructive storms appears to be linked to global warming and specifically to the impact of global warming on higher ocean temperatures." This just 6 days after a German study also predicted cooler ocean temperatures due to the Meridional Overturning Circulation entering a weak cycle, and in spite of there being absolutely no empirical evidence of a global warming / storm strength link.


Gore's monotonous and baseless account of AGW forced violent cyclones and hurricanes came just two days after McIntyre reported that 4 of the past 5 months were "'all-time' records for Southern Hemisphere sea ice" levels.


In fact, it was the very day after Anthony Watts reported another false start to the distinctly overdue Solar Cycle 24, a likely contributory factor to falling global temperatures, that the Nobel Peace Prize winner exploited the deaths of over 22,000 (reported and still rising) human beings to egoistically advance his threatened AGW political agenda while callously protecting his personal financial interest.


And with 41,000 reported missing since Cyclone Nargis devastated the former Burma, the death figures are sure to rise to unthinkable numbers. Meanwhile, the nation's corrupt military rulers are making aid delivery to ease survivor misery nearly impossible.


And while these poor souls will undoubtedly see years of unimaginable suffering and the arduous rebuilding of over a million destroyed homes, this man -- who professes his desire to save the planet - saw another opportunity. That it arrived at the end of a one month period in which another wheel fell off the greenhouse gas disinformation bus almost daily only adds to the morass.

This was an astonishingly nauseating display -- even for the likes of Gore.