Al Gore has complained on Norwegian television that the theory of man-made global warming is under attack by a conspiracy of special interests. Among those conspirators, in the thinking of Mr. Gore, are oil and coal companies, who expended $500 million last year on television advertisements to question this theory. This "massive, organized campaign" has changed the whole dynamics of the climate-change debate, Gore conceded. He stated that there are lobbyists opposing climate changes for every member of Congress. 

Gore also denies that he has become a "Carbon Billionaire," noting only that he had been fortunate in his business investments since leaving office at the end of 2000. If that is true, the former Vice President has certainly been more successful than large numbers of investors who have specialized in studying economic trends and who have lost money in the market over the last decade. Given the policy positions taken by Gore, it is highly unlikely that he would have risked investing in politically incorrect enterprises or that the "carbon footprint" of his investment portfolio would not be seriously tilted toward what he stood for publicly.

It is also interesting that Al Gore has been silent about the very real academic fraud in East Anglia. The absence of intellectual debate, at least in the hives of academia, on global warming — despite the public questioning of man-made global warming by respected meteorologists and scientists — might suggest a campaign to adopt as holy scientific writ the notion of manmade global warming. Instead, the former Vice President seems to believe that the conspiratorial machinations are all from those who would delight in despoiling our planet. 

How many years ago was it when Hillary Clinton complained on national television about a “vast rightwing conspiracy”? Those Americans who have historically been placed by political scientists as on the “Right” are surely the least homogenous group of Americans around, and those Americans are least likely of conceiving — much less participating in — a conspiracy. It is the rather independent thinking on "the Right," untouched by the tenured and subsidized officials of the climate-change industry, that has provided most of the original debate about this issue.

One might suspect those who hide or, even, destroy data were the ones with something who had an agenda separated from scientific truth. The infamous dicta in the East Anglia e-mails was peppered with certain words like “trick” and “hide,” which are usually associated with people involving in a silent campaign of sort of fraud. One might also suspect that a Nobel Prize for, essentially, doing nothing indicated that a concerted and concealed campaign was behind it. Still, the former Vice President is entitled to his opinion. 

And also, for now, are his critics.

Photo: AP Images
 

TrackBack URI for this entry

Comments (6)

Subscribe to this comment's feed

Bonnie said:

Illegitimate historical revisionism (negationism) "In revising the past, illegitimate historical revisionism ("negationism") appeals to the intellect—via techniques illegitimate to historical discourse—to advance a given interpretive historical view. The techniques include presenting known forged documents as genuine; inventing ingenious, but implausible, reasons for distrusting genuine documents; attributing his or her own conclusions to books and sources reporting the opposite; manipulating statistical series to support the given point of view; and deliberately mis-translating texts (in languages other than the revisionist's)." The whole myth of anthropogenic global warming (AGW) and the claims and methodology of Al Gore and Associates fits the above opening paragraph describing negationism like a glove.

March 11, 2010

Henry said:

AGW is a Criminal Enterprise Anthropogenic global warming is a criminal enterprise on a global scale. How much has it already cost us? Why aren't Algore and his cronies being prosecuted? Hundreds of billions of dollars are being stolen and redirected into the pockets of criminals, whether it is for bogus research by frauds or to the carbon exchangers or to present and former government officials or to businesses being subsidized because they claim to be "green." Hopenhagen was very much about raping America to effect "economic justice" in third world countries. All these people need to be behind bars for stealing and attempting to steal our futures in the name of the scam known as AGW.

March 11, 2010

Flu-Bird said:

Al Gore the arrogant Looks like as usial AL GORE is throwing a tantrum like the rich liberal demacratic spoiled brat he is MY DONT HE GO BACK TO HIS $30:000 A MONTH ELECTRIC BILL HOME AND SOAK HIS PRISSY LITTLE HEAD

March 12, 2010

zman said:

Gore needs to be arrested Al Gore is entitled to his opinion, but he never stops there. He is and has been using his access to the media and powerful interests within government and business to enact legislation and treaties that will adversely affect all of our lives and effectively enslave us to international banking interests in the perpetuation of a proven fraud. How much longer will we allow Al Gore to remain a fugitive from justice? He (and many others) needs to be arrested for his crimes against the people of this country. I'm not kidding.

March 12, 2010

Flu-Bird said:

Gore neds a swift kick If anything this eco-freak AL GORE realy needs is a swift kick in the rear real nice and hard

March 14, 2010

attietewd said:

... This is all a scheme implemented by The Club Of Rome, "The first global revolution" It's all in an online book detailing how climategate would be brought into existence through coordinated manipulative moves...in order to reach a consensus by governments for a one world government...GLOBAL WARMING IS A SCAM! The more that know the truth the better!

March 15, 2010 | url