A blustery “bull******” Al Gore clip is wending its way through the Internet.
On August 4, Gore was speaking at the Aspen Institute FOCAS seminar in Colorado. The minute plus clip is the most interesting part of an hour-and-half long snooze fest—though he does perk it up when he talks about how climate change has fallen from the front burner of the public psyche. He uses several different fecal terms to describe the various valid theories regarding climate change.
Could the rant be the result of science questioning his profitable propaganda?
Al Gore has had his hand in the eco-till for decades. In 1994, as vice president, he cast the tie- breaking vote that made ethanol the mandatory gasoline additive—replacing petroleum based MTBE. He cofounded the now- defunct Chicago Climate Exchange with President Obama. At its peak in June of 2008, back when it was expected cap and trade would pass any day, carbon was trading at $7.40 a ton.
Just a few months earlier between his election and inauguration, President Obama met with Al Gore in Chicago to discuss global warming and energy policy. As a result of that meeting, the President-elect said, “We all believe what the scientists have been telling us for years now, that this is a matter of urgency and national security, and it has to be dealt with in a serious way. That is what I intend my administration to do.”