Today your author came across a news item that only proves his theory on former Vice President and failed 2000 Democrat Party Presidential nominee Albert Gore’s attempt to influence public opinion. As we all know Gore produced his version of the environmental theory known as global warming in the documentary An Inconvenient Truth. The movie’s theme was as much to do about instilling fear as it was about documenting facts.

During the past 100 years the Earth’s temperature has increased but only by 1 degree Celsius. Science also agrees that an ice age existed some 2.7-2.3 billion years ago but much of the surface melted. Now compounding 1 degree Celsius over several billion years the reader can deduct that yes the Earth is warming but very little we can do will alter such a climatic trend. In fact this collective responsibility enforced by Gore and his ilk reeks of typical self professed liberal theory. This meaning that somehow you and your neighbor are responsible or can change the course of nature by your actions and if you disagree then you are without care, void of conscience and callous.

It isn’t that your author doesn’t support environmental laws. No quite the opposite. However the American Left has been gravitating towards environmental causes in hopes of ramming their moral code down the reader’s throat for over 20 years. Al Gore just so happens to be their current poster boy. It hasn’t been for his own altruism. Mr. Gore’s film garnered plenty of awards, including an Academy Award for best documentary and grossed over $46 million worldwide. Additionally Gore chairs Generation Investment Management, a London based hedge fund that seeks out and invests in companies that believe in many of Gore’s environmental theories such as global warming and stand to profit if favorable legislation is enacted. In other words Gore intends to profit from combating global warming.

Gore has face numerous critics, particularly those in the science field who are far more qualified than a former US Vice President on such issues and more recently UK television producer Martin Durkin’s The Great Warming Swindle. While Gore’s movie was heralded as a landmark, his supporters have dubbed Durkin’s work as ‘controversial’, which is an often misused word used by the American Left when faced with a rebuttal. The only thing controversial about Gore and global warming is his investment portfolio as it shows his true intentions.

Gore’s frenzy portrayal of doomsday if global warming is not addressed is just a long list of tactics used by the American Left who have embraced radical environmentalism. The first Earth Day in 1970 was led by US Senator Gaylord Nelson. One of the concerns expressed that day was prediction that America would run out of food. Also starting the 1970s US retail stores began to feel pressure to change from brown paper bags to ones made from plastic. The idea behind this change was due to the trees being used to produce paper. Just last month the city of San Francisco, a bastion of liberalism, banned plastic shopping bags because of a litany of environmental reasons all based around the ‘do this or we all perish’ mentality. In the 1980s American cities and towns embraced mandatory recycling with their blue trash boxes denoting glass, plastic and newspapers. Also in the 1980s CO2 and greenhouse gases were the environmental talk. We were told of the deadly air conditioners and hair spray canisters that emitted such deadly gases into the atmosphere. As a result these were cut back significantly. And now we are being told that all of this, a rolling ball of changing attitudes towards environmentalism, has not been enough. We are told, forced to hear, that we are collectively responsible for the earth’s temperature increasing by one degree Celsius!

And now former US Vice President and failed 2000 Democrat Party Presidential Nominee Al Gore is taking his medicine show on the road. According to the USA Today Gore is filtering ‘thousands’ of applications from individuals who either will profit from global warming legislation or have bought the words of doom and gloom. These Americans will be paid to go on the road and spread the good word of Al Gore. Following training at Gore’s Tennessee farm, the flock of faithful will go forth and speak at public schools, Rotary International and nursing homes across America. Your author had to chuckle when he saw public schools, Rotary meetings and nursing homes as planned stops for Gore’s legion of eco-warriors. Teachers and pupils will gladly welcome a break in class, the Rotary is always opened to any speaker and nursing home patients your author imagines regularly experience days of monotony so a visit from anyone would be appreciated.

Reader your author implores you to download the link provided in this entry and see the other side presenting their case on global warming. They stand not to profit by changing public opinion. Al Gore cannot say this about himself.