[tripod]

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.”

[Alberta's Child]

I agree, but anyone who selects "climate change" as his pet project/issue is basically conceding that they don't have a career in national politics anymore. It's an issue that is tailor-made for academia, globalist non-governmental organizations, think tanks, etc. But it really has no place in U.S. politics -- mainly because most voters wouldn't be willing to pay the costs of measures aimed at reducing global warming even if they were 100% certain that man-made global warming was a legitimate phenomenon and could be curtailed.

Almost ANY environmental issue, in fact, is a non-starter in U.S. politics. "The environment" is one of those issues that people claim to care about in surveys and polls, but it actually shows up very far down the typical voter's list of priorities when they actually cast their votes.

This, by the way, is precisely why the U.S. Senate voted by something like a 95-0 margin against ratifying the Kyoto treaty back in the 1990s.