When Gore left office in January 2001, he was said to have a net worth in the neighborhood of $2 million. A mere eight years later, estimates are that he is now worth about $100 million. It seems it's easy being green, at least for some.
It appears that Al Gore has turned his loss in 2000, YES he did lose the election no matter how many ways you count (or not count) the votes, into a profitable "Green Industry"... But as the debate continues, no matter how many times the "Democrats" and Gore claim that the Global Warming debate is over (They have even changed it to "Global Change now), it appears now that the only true global change that took place was in how billions will be spent on Cap & Trade supported with bogus computer models and one-sided facts... Fortunately Republican Representative Marsha Blackburn (Tenn) asked some of the much needed questions regarding Gore's True intentions ...
Blackburn then asked the $100 million question: "Is that something that you are going to personally benefit from?" Gore gave the stock answer that "the transition to a green economy is good for our economy and good for all of us, and I have invested in it but every penny that I have made I have put right into a nonprofit, the Alliance for Climate Protection, to spread awareness of why we have to take on this challenge."
And then Gore had some Stumble-Stutter problems in appearing in front of a congressional hearing on global warming when taking some questions from Representative Steve Scalise from Louisiana...
And then there is the article where George Will advises Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer not to worry to much about some shrinking glaciers and remember back to many of the "Global Change" horror stories of the 1970's...
While worrying about Montana's receding glaciers, Schweitzer, who is 50, should also worry about the fact that when he was 20 he was told to be worried, very worried, about global cooling.
Science magazine (Dec. 10, 1976) warned of "extensive Northern Hemisphere glaciation
Science Digest (February 1973) reported that "the world's climatologists are agreed" that we must "prepare for the next ice age.
The Christian Science Monitor ("Warning: Earth's Climate is Changing Faster Than Even Experts Expect," Aug. 27, 1974) reported that glaciers "have begun to advance," "growing seasons in England and Scandinavia are getting shorter" and "the North Atlantic is cooling down about as fast as an ocean can cool."
Newsweek agreed ("The Cooling World," April 28, 1975) that meteorologists "are almost unanimous" that catastrophic famines might result from the global cooling that the New York Times (Sept. 14, 1975) said "may mark the return to another ice age.
The Times (May 21, 1975) also said "a major cooling of the climate is widely considered inevitable" now that it is "well established" that the Northern Hemisphere's climate "has been getting cooler since about 1950."
It appears Al Gore has learned and used a very important factor in business and politics...
Marketing, Marketing, Marketing...
