Beyond the difficulty imposed by the fact that Rachael Carson is dead, I doubt that a fair jury could convict either of them. One essential principle of justice is that a person cannot justly be convicted of any crime beyond the level of a civil infraction if one could not reasonably have known the action was unlawful. For what particular actions should Al Gore have been convicted? Bear in mind that if a substantial portion of the population would believe an action to be legal, it would be hard to prove that Al Gore could not reasonably have believed it so.