People love to criticize Al Gore, the self-appointed poster boy of Global Warming. It's as if they feel the scandal cannot be settled until Gore acknowledges it was all a big lie.
Only recently, he fell silent since Climategate and the failed Copenhaven climate summit. And now he's coming back with an op-ed piece in the New York Times, here, "We Can't Wish Away Climate Change."
"I, for one, genuinely wish that the climate crisis were an illusion."
And then he goes on to argue that it isn't. It's painful reading and if you can get to the bottom of page one, you find a little about the author,
Al Gore, the vice president from 1993 to 2001, is the founder of the Alliance for Climate Protection and the author of “Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis.” As a businessman, he is an investor in alternative energy companies.
In other words, he's a salesman. Now we all expect a salesman to promote their product, to push for their sale. No balance here. He's not going to weigh the competing solutions (or lack of need for solutions), it's your job to get that from a salesman on the other side of the argument.
Get Gore to admit this was a big mistake? Or a hoax? I've said to friends this is not going to happen. But even I was astonished that he comes back as if nothing has changed. His life is now a symbol of the global warning cause. There's nothing for him to change into. Remember the elusive green job he was talking about? That was his job. But even as the evidence against global warming mounts, he may never recant, nor does he need to. If you shoot down Warming, you marginalize Gore as an irrelevent voice. You know the issue is "settled", to use his favorite term, when people stop talking about him.
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