Rev. Al Gore Goes Jeremiah Wright on Climate Change

The High Priest of Climate Change, the Very Rev. Al Gore, gave a diatribe worth of Rev. Jeremiah Wright at the Aspen Institute this week.  I'm going to leave Rev. Al's bad language in the piece because to bleep it out would diminish the pure wild-eyed craziness of it.  You've been warned:

The former vice president dropped in on an Aspen Institute media forum titled “Networks and Citizenship” on Thursday and railed against corporate evildoers who put profit above society.

Gore referenced the book “Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming” by Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway, which tells of how petroleum, steel, autos, utilities and others enlisted lobbyists to cloud the climate debate.

Gore recalled how not long ago tobacco giants “succeeded in delaying the implementation of the surgeon general’s report for 40 years – 40 years! In every one of those 40 years the average number of Americans killed by cigarettes each year exceeded the total number of Americans killed in all of World War II: 450,000 per year. My sister was one of them. … It was evil, evil, evil.”

The model of media manipulation used then, Gore said, “was transported whole cloth into the climate debate. And some of the exact same people — I can go down a list of their names — are involved in this. And so what do they do? They pay pseudo-scientists to pretend to be scientists to put out the message: ‘This climate thing, it’s nonsense. Man-made CO2 doesn’t trap heat. It may be volcanoes.’ Bullshit! ‘It may be sun spots.’ Bullshit! ‘It’s not getting warmer.’ Bullshit!” Gore exclaimed.

“When you go and talk to any audience about climate, you hear them washing back at you the same crap over and over and over again,” he continued. “There’s no longer a shared reality on an issue like climate even though the very existence of our civilization is threatened. People have no idea! … It’s no longer acceptable in mixed company, meaning bipartisan company, to use the goddamn word climate. It is not acceptable. They have polluted it to the point where we cannot possibly come to an agreement on it.”

That last paragraph is particularly instructive because it shows just how sensitive Gore has become to criticism and how fragile he is when challenged on this beliefs. The idea that man-made global warming is "settled science" has been pretty much disproven, at least to the extent that the Earth is in jeopardy and somehow we can fix it all if we only increase taxes and reduce our standard of living.  A recent report from NASA showed that the climate models people like Al Gore have relied on are hopelessly flawed and significantly overstate the problem.

Rev. Al needs to be medicated.  I'm sure at one point he had big plans for the billions he'd make with his carbon credit scam, but those days are over.