That scenario would have been far more credible if Gore hadn't given so many indications in recent years that he's a certifiable mental patient. Also -- from the standpoint of U.S. national politics, he picked the absolute worst issue ("global warming") to be his pet issue after his unsuccessful 2000 presidential bid. "Climate change" is the kind of issue that voters will give plenty of lip service to, but once they have any sense that their standard of living will be threatened, any concern they might have disappears in an instant.
Core picked climate change for very shrewd reasons. The issue is difficult to quantify. It is highly emotional. You can easily lead a great many people in the direction you want them to go by playing on their fears. But, most of all - there are huge $$$ being made in carbon credits. Carbon credits will one day be exposed as one of the greatest rip offs of all time. And Al Gore is in the thick of this “movement.”