Al Gore has never been one of my favorite people. At times pompous, arrogant and yet often clueless, he is simply a politician, not a scientist, and his college grades proved the point.
Ironically, he received his lowest grade, a D, in Natural Sciences, had very poor showings in higher-level math classes, and avoided courses in logic – all of which made him spectacularly unqualified to render evaluations and judgments on possible causes of warming in the complex biosphere of the earth.
In addition to all of these, one must note a level of hypocrisy that is almost stunning in its magnitude, although predictably common among the “man-made global warming” crowd. These are the folks who parade the gospel of limiting consumption, cutting back world economies, and reducing human activities in the name of saving the planet. Yet they constantly scoot around the world in private jets, limousines and yachts, using a far larger “eco-footprint”, and creating far more “greenhouse gases”, than dozens or hundreds of ordinary folks.
They bring new meaning to the phrase “Do as I say, not as I do!”
A trenchant example off this is shown in the following e-mail that has been circulating for over a year now, which compares the choices in housing made by two very high profile citizens of the USA: