re: #47 Charles

I read Gore’s op-ed last night. I’m going to post an entry about it in a few minutes.

I agree with almost everything he writes. But people who hate Gore are going to reject it out of hand. He’s a very polarizing figure, partly because of his rather extreme attacks on George W. Bush during the Bush presidency. That makes him not a very good spokesman for climate change, which is unfortunate because he really does know the issues quite well and can argue effectively.

I had to check the comments on Twitter’s conservative feed ‘#tcot’ just to see how bad the Gore Derangement Syndrome is, and it’s bad all right.

Al Gore can be 100% correct about the problem, but still be wrong about how to fix it. The political left considers hypocrisy a major crime when a conservative shows it. But Mr Gore appears to be something of an energy pig in his own life while lecturing others on their transgressions. So HIS credibility can also be made an issue.