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Remember That ‘Firenado’? The Guy Behind the Footage Says Al Gore Wants to Use It — And Wait Until You Hear the Response

Nov. 12, 2012 2:01pm Liz Klimas

Just a couple months ago, TheBlaze brought you the amazing footage of a “firenado” — or a fire tornado — shot in the Australian Outback by filmmaker Chris Tangey. Now, Al Gore wants to use the stunning footage in his next documentary about climate change, but Tangey says not so fast.

Chris Tangey Wont Sell His Footage of a Fire Tornado to Al Gores Climate Reality Project Until They Ensure Context

This image is from Chris Tangey’s footage of a fire tornado. (Image: Good Morning America screenshot)

According to NT News, members of the former U.S. vice president’s Climate Reality Project tried twice to purchase rights to use the video from Tangey. Here’s what Tangey had to say about that:

“I am still happy to sell it to Mr Gore if he can convince me that this event was caused by, or was in any way attributable to, man-made climate change,” he said.

“Unfortunately both times he has asked I have put that challenge back to his organisations, but then didn’t even receive a response.”

To NT News, Tangey described the storm as a “highly localized event” and when it comes to the footage he wants to ensure that “usage of this material should be scientifically valid and in context.”

The first attempt to obtain rights to the footage occurred in September and the latest came last week from Climate Reality Project producer Andrea Smith, according to NT News. The publication learned from emails it obtained from Smith that the footage would be used to “invite conversation and discussion.”

In case you missed it, check out some of Tangey’s film featured in this Good Morning America report:

Although we call it a fire tornado, in our previous post about the footage we reported Life’s Little Mysteries explaining that the event is really more like a dust devil than a tornado proper. Read more about how these events form in that article here.

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jimbo_from_suwanee
Posted on November 12, 2012 at 6:45pm
Comrade President should order him to donate it to Comrade Gore. It is only fair that we protect the environment from the evil conservatives who pollute it!

Long live Comrade President!

Long Live the Social Oligarchy of America! SOA, SOA, SOA, SOA, SOA, SOA, SOA, SOA…!

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Mustanger
Posted on November 12, 2012 at 6:41pm
These are not even new. I’ve read about this in my history book called Exodus.

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- no1jyd
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 8:54pm
  See these things a lot here in the high deserts of Idaho with and without fire.
  
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- Sapience
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 11:43pm
  I’ve seen the dust whirlwinds out here quite a few times. Were these fire whirlwinds similar? Were they during the recent summer fires? It makes sense because the wind is only grabbing what is on the ground and giving it a spin.
  
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BigTBoom
Posted on November 12, 2012 at 6:06pm
Nothing new here, micorscale magnification of normal atmospheric dynamics at play and there are multiple videos of this on YouTube. There’s even video of one which resulted from bourbon which leaked into a nearby lake and caught fire (that one is a true tragedy…when you think of all the wasted bourbon)

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- loriann12
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 7:15pm
  Now that’s just alcohol abuse, letting good bourbon leak into a lake.
  
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- flyoverbob
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 8:23pm
  That has been my lifes work,testing Bourbon for purity.I feel it my duty to protect the environment
  
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Anadara
Posted on November 12, 2012 at 5:32pm
The Earth has been warming since the Ice Age. This doesn’t mean that man caused it. However, it is clear that the Carbon budget that Gore espouses doesn’t add up. Lord Christopher Monckton has demonstrated with math and very understandable physics that (human) Carbon is not the cause of global warming. Naturally, the lefties vilify him because math trumps their belief systems.

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South Philly Boy
Posted on November 12, 2012 at 4:49pm
Global Warming + algore = FRAUD

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- Matt
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 5:31pm
  Global Warming = Fraud
  
  Al Gore = Fraud
  
  Global Warming +Al Gore = Fraud squared
  
  Fixed that for you.
  
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- k2weaver
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 5:43pm
  Matt zero =zero zero can’t be square, but we have the scientists working on it.
  
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- jettson
  Posted on November 13, 2012 at 10:29am
  Al Gore invented Global Warming I think or was it the internet. Thats right he invented nothing thats right hes a total fraud. Give it up Al
  
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- The Great and Powerful Oz
  Posted on November 13, 2012 at 12:33pm
  Actually Matt, fraud + fraud = 2*fraud fraud x fraud = fraud squared. Either way, it’s a lot of fraud
  
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IMCHRISTIAN
Posted on November 12, 2012 at 4:44pm
Probably just picking up red soil and Al would make it into a farce.

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Joyzee
Posted on November 12, 2012 at 4:28pm
Man Made Climate change Balls,… the Sun will see to that!… Fools!

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RightThinking1
Posted on November 12, 2012 at 4:19pm
Mr. Tangey,

Kudos to you sir. You have placed principle above monetary gain. An increasingly rare trait these days. I salute you.

John

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- bckeegan
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 4:43pm
  My too sir. Gore is a profitier that needs to put in his place.
  
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sbenard
Posted on November 12, 2012 at 4:15pm
I’ve seen similar events as a boy, and more than once, long before Al “Sky Is Falling” Gore invented his Green Tyranny movement and his Church of Climate Change. Gore is a false prophet seeking profits rather than prophecies. His inspiration doesn’t come from a divine source. EVIL!

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- thibx
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 4:42pm
  a greed demon
  
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Florida_firefighter
Posted on November 12, 2012 at 3:40pm
It has now got to the point where every rain storm, every tornado, hurricane, thunderstorm, and every sunny day will now be attributed to the false premise of climate change. The climate change kool aid drinkers will use all of these as if they are new phenomena to support their radical beliefs.

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- isobamamadd
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 3:52pm
  Gore will continue ,there’s big bucks in pre positioning yourself for govt legislation ,read link on the big bucks Obama and the Clinton among others are expecting from carbon trading legislation/fraud.
  http://caps.fool.com/Blogs/obamas-renewable-energy-and/436589
  
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- drphil69
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 4:03pm
  LOL. Yeah, ya know what, every day, starting around sunrise, it gets warmer!!
  
  EVIDENCE OF MAN-MADE GLOBAL WARMING IF I EVER SAW ANY…
  
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progressiveslayer
Posted on November 12, 2012 at 3:29pm
Here’s some more BS from the fat ass psycho Al ‘hot gas’ Gore.The idiots who voted for Barry eat this BS up and us normal taxpayers get stuck with the bill. His BS theory was debunked years ago but that money just keeps the greedy pig fighting to make people believe his crackpot theory.

http://www2.canada.com/nanaimodailynews/news/story.html?id=7530483

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bdandsl
Posted on November 12, 2012 at 3:10pm
These are not uncommon. My inlaws are third generation CDF and USDF and they have seen many in their careers dating back 50 -60 years. It is a natural phenomenon.

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- Mustanger
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 6:27pm
  I’m with you, kudo’s to the inlaws. I was a BLM Engine CPT and could film 10 of these FIREWHIRLS every summer until Tasha’s and Malia’s coronation. This is a common occurrence in wildland fires. Global warming, my pooper!
  
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toiletclogga
Posted on November 12, 2012 at 3:08pm
Stick that in your pipe and smoke it Weird Al!

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- Dano.50
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 4:11pm
  Actually Toiletclogga,
  
  I’d rather he stuck it somewhere else but…
  
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Larry E
Posted on November 12, 2012 at 2:45pm
Dust devils are caused by global warming too!!! I know I’ve personally seen them!

Algore and the rest of the global warmists blame anything they’ve never seen before on their pet theory. Firestorms are common if the conditions are right, and those conditions have been right for a LONG time. Even when the earth was cooler.

NOBODY can prove that humans are responsible for any warming. It’s all theory until it can be proven, and it can’t be.

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RANGER1965
Posted on November 12, 2012 at 2:39pm
According to Gore, the reason that he will no longer answer questions of this nature is because, “The debate is over, the consensus among all the “real” scientists is that global warming is rapidly occuring and is caused by fossil fuel emissions in industry and automobiles.”

Isn’t it ironic that science by it’s very nature is a discipline which is NEVER decided by consensus or majority and the debate on any subject is NEVER over and always subject to question, and modification.
Al’s version of science is a nothing more than politics, and promotion.

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- vanman4446
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 3:22pm
  Yea and Gore is a real scientist. Boy are we in trouble
  
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BlackCrow
Posted on November 12, 2012 at 2:35pm
Fire whirls (look them up http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_whirl) are quite common in wildfires. They have been observed in large urban fires like the Great Chicago fire and the 1908 fire in San Francisco following the earthquake. In 1923 a fire whirl following an earthquake in Japan killed 38,000 people.

This guy got some neat video but it is not something unusual. It is also not unusual for droughts to last for years in parts of Australia. All in all big deal, nothing either new or out of the ordinary. But spoon feed to idiots it becomes another tool of propaganda.

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- 2MINUTESTOMIDNIGHT
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 2:45pm
  Your last sentence hit the nail on the head.
  
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- starman70
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 3:05pm
  These “Firenadoes” are common in almost every wildfire, even in small grass fires we deal with regularly in my fire district.
  
  Al Gore is an idiot who needs to retire to either of his million dollar mansions and do his part to warm the earth by using more electricity in a day than the average family uses in a year. Here you have the typical elitest. Don’t do what I do, do as I say do.
  
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garylee123
Posted on November 12, 2012 at 2:33pm
Any bets that it will be ruled to be “public property” by a judge. After all, it happened on public property.

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- Brooke Lorren
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 7:08pm
  Maybe, maybe not. If it happened in Australia, then they’d have to go to the Australian government to get it.
  
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chips1
Posted on November 12, 2012 at 2:32pm
Obamanado is a real threat to the world, yet, Gore ignores it. Not a money making endever, I suppose.

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AvengerK
Posted on November 12, 2012 at 2:29pm
So Algore wants to take a rarely filmed, naturally ocurring phenomenon and then twist it into using it as an “example of climate change”.
Well done Mr Tangey for not drinking the “Man-made global warming” Kool Aid.

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progressiveslayer
Posted on November 12, 2012 at 2:28pm
“Unfortunately both times he has asked I have put that challenge back to his organisations, but then didn’t even receive a response.” And you never will receive a response because so called man made global warming is the greatest fraud perpetrated on mankind. Gore is a greedy fat cat looking to make billions and potentially trillions off of his agenda driven junk science theory.

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azitdad
Posted on November 12, 2012 at 2:28pm
What are they calling it this week? Climate Change? Global Warming? Global Climate Disruption?

Want to know what I call it? .

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- Angel_light
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 2:37pm
  BullSh*t?
  
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- HappyHarriet
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 4:25pm
  Just call it “Climate Hoax” – that covers it all weeks of the year!
  
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- Pantloadian
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 7:47pm
  Get used to it, cuz it’s the truth and it’s coming your way, along with gay marriage legalized weed and Democratic majorities. You guys are your own worst enemies. You’d do a lot better with us real Americans if you’d just shut up and not say anything at all. Sound a lot less stupid that way. heh heh
  
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- Tractorboy
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 10:50pm
  PANTS, Were are own worst enemies, how can we be enemies of our self? A choom pole, puffer? so we should shut up so we can apeeze you real Americans, I think we were here first, yep I checked we were, granted you and yours have done a fine job of turning the country into the dirty diaper bag it now is, fear not friend, when your done vomiting in the gutter from your own self destruction it will be people like me that pick you up. God Bless
  
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nzkiwi
Posted on November 12, 2012 at 2:21pm
Well done Mr Tangey for not selling your principles for Mr Gore’s money.

To Mr Gore; check your integrity meter.

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- biohazard23
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 2:57pm
  Hey, Kiwi! How’s the All Blacks doing? And how are you? :)
  
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- tj1961
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 3:01pm
  What Integrity Meter??
  
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thegreatcarnac
Posted on November 12, 2012 at 2:18pm
Run…Run…the sky is falling…by…gorelittle

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capitalismrocks
Posted on November 12, 2012 at 2:12pm
Of course he’s not going to get a legit response back, we are talking about the king of junk science – Al Gore… if his loop-side, use anything to fit a opening in his propaganda can further his ponzi-scheme lifestyle of stealing millions from people to push his made up crisis.

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- progressiveslayer
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 2:24pm
  About the only thing I can disagree with is the amount because it’s definitely billions and potentially trillions of dollars the carnival barker is trying to extort. Wealth redistribution from the US to developing countries a ponzi scheme indeed and would make Madoff look like a piker in comparison.
  
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- 2MINUTESTOMIDNIGHT
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 2:32pm
  It was 17 degrees here this morning. Al “happy ending” Gore can kiss my ass.
  
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warhorse_03826
Posted on November 12, 2012 at 2:06pm
it was manbearpig passing gas.

I’m SUPER cereal about that.

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- PorkPIG
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 2:27pm
  Oh Crap!!!! Manbearpig is back!!!!!!
  
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