The total of his global warming followers, every damn one of them.
In 1907 Vladimir Lenin dispatched Julius Hammer, a doctor, to the U.S. to establish a beachhead for funneling money back to the Russia. He founded the American Workers Party which was later changed to Communist Party USA. However, Julius was soon in prison for murdering a woman through a botched abortion and his son, Armand Hammer, took over.
Armand entertained lavishly and circulated among the Northeastern and Washington elite. He soon became very tight with the Sulzberger family, primary owners of the New York Times Publishing Company. In Washington one of his first conquest was Senator Al Gore Sr. of Tennessee.
Along the way Hammer established Occidental Petroleum. While VP, Al Gore Jr. was instrumental in allowing Hammer to buy the Elk Hills Naval Petroleum Reserve in California at a very cheap price. It was being held in reserve for our navy in the event of war. It is a very rich oil reserve. He also helped Occidental drill in South American “rain forest” and claim another very rich petroleum producing area and stiffed the local native indians who really owned the area. All of this while he and the Democrats were trying to stop all drilling everywhere and were especially loud about keeping “Big Oil” out of the Amazon Rain Forest.
Basically Al and his father have always been Communist agents operating in this country. For years Occidental has paid the Gores thousands of dollars a year for the right to mine zinc on their Tennessee farm. I don’t know if any zinc has ever been mined there. I am sure they paid them in other ways also since they always lived in the Ritz Carleton Hotel in Washington rather than on the farm. Now that Hammer is dead maybe Soros has taken over supporting the Gores.
When Al euphemistically buys “carbon offsets” for his energy guzzling properties he buys them from the company he founded for that purpose. In other words he buys them from himself. A simple bookkeeping function.