Well, ya gotta admit...
Al Gore's "Environmental Champion" ploy is getting better traction than some of other cockamaine causes he's come up with in the past.
Does anyone remember the "Redefining Government" crusade he spearheaded during the Clinton years? What happened to that?
Or how about the "Downsizing Government" ploy when they thought people were concerned with out-of-control government? Remember the big media event with Al Gore and the fork lift palette loaded with government regulations they were going to streamline? Just how far did that project get... beyond the television face time of the media event itself?
Now we have the environmental champion. I'll bet that goes a long way too.
Politians always search for parades they can jump to the front of so they can feel needed... and they can support their "annointed-one" lifestyles.
It would be nice if he'd get a real job! (How about "Would you like fries with that Sir?")
Here's a nice quote from an eminent climatologist whom the NYT probably considers an "Exxon Lackey":
"(Al Gore) is an embarrassment to US science and its many fine practitioners, a lot of whom know (but feel unable to state publicly) that his propaganda crusade is mostly based on junk science. Gore's circumstantial arguments are so weak that they are pathetic. It is simply incredible that they, and his film, are commanding public attention."
-- Professor Bob Cook, from the Marine Geophysical Laboratory at James Cook University, in Australia.