Al Gore has a long history of seizing on any weather event and calling it the result of man-made climate change. He did it in the Dakotas as vice president during spring floods (the melt from a cold, snowy winter), straight through to the Myanmar cyclone. All of his claims have been exposed individually as nonsense, and revealed Gore himself to be a jerk, cynically capitalizing on others’ misery and misfortune. How someone like that failed to make it through law school is beyond me.

So here he is at it again in Iowa, trying to get his name in print by blaming this summer’s Midwest flood, as well as tornadoes, on global warming. This time, Anthony Watts takes him to task. “Gore clearly doesn’t understand basic meteorology, much less climate.”

Specifically, Watts exposes not just basic problems with Gore’s misunderstanding of the hydrologic cycle but the embarrassing nature of Gore’s Luddism: the increased tornadoes detected are the smallest variety (F1), directly attributable to improvements in radar technology.

Hilarious.

Too bad Gore looks set to be a roving ambassador of climate hysteria under either a McCain or Obama administration, because this fella is really honing his Navin Johnson impersonation. Next up when the IPCC report is issued, video of “the new phone books are here!” dance.