Filmmaker Extinguishes Gore's Fire

[Ben]

An Australian filmmaker who captured images of a fire tornado has denied Al Gore the use of his footage for Gore's global warming presentations because the fire tornado was not global warming related. I can't remember if we discussed this before, but I haven't seen the emails between the filmmaker and Gore's staff before. It was interesting to read the filmmaker's well thought out replies, and to see Gore's camp attempting to represent themselves as someone else to get the footage after they were turned down the first time. I also liked how he called out Gore's staff on the "climate denier" line.

http://michellemalkin.com/2012/11/12/document-drop-al-gore-still-pestering-filmmaker-for-firestorm-footage/

[Regolith]

Smart man.

You can see miniature fire tornadoes anytime you get a decent sized bonfire going, never mind a big wildfire. They aren't anything special. I found it somewhat amusing when the press lost their minds over the one in Australia.

[Perd Hapley]

Huh. I've seen plenty of bonfires. Never heard of it. Is it like a dust-devil that happens to start in the middle of a fire, or what?

[Regolith]

Huh. I've seen plenty of bonfires. Never heard of it. Is it like a dust-devil that happens to start in the middle of a fire, or what?

Basically. All of the rising hot air causes vortixes, and sometimes the fire comes along for the ride.

Almost every single medium to big bonfire I've been to has had at least one happen. They usually aren't very big; maybe a four or five inches in diameter and maybe four to eight feet tall. You've got to be fairly close to notice it.