re: #12 rwdflynavy

He is nowhere near the worst possible spokesperson on AGW. And the scientists aren’t ‘holding’ him, so they can’t really drop him.

he does, in general, an excellent job of representing the science, screwing up very rarely. Real scientists screw up as well.

I do not think Gore should be the figurehead, precisely because so many people have an irrational dislike of him. That doesn’t mean that the dislike is not irrational, or that I have to excuse anyone who is foolish enough to decide their minds about AGW based on a dislike of Al Gore.