Not only is Al Gore a hypocrite....

willie soon - "chief science advisor" at the frontiers of freedom's center for science and public policy which was created with $100,000 seed money from exxon. for the heartland institute, published a short article in capitalism magazine (not a peer journal) arguing against global climate change. also for the heartland institute, soon published another article titled "eat more fish!" that argued against the science that the mercury found in fish from the fallout of burning coal is harmful. see the patterns? together with sallie balliunas, co-wrote a paper published by climate research that challenged the accepted science of recent warming. republicans in washington d.c. loved their message. the paper was partly funded by the american petroleum institute. when prevented from printing a repudiation to the paper, several editors at climate research resigned. soon and baliunas were co-authors of the oregon petition that was printed in the style and format of the scientific journal, proceedings of the national academy of sciences which denounced the petition as deliberately deceiving. much of the half-truths in the petition have been disproved, and the petition has updated to remove those "problems." the petition was originally bulk-mailed to tens of thousands of scientists around the country as an attempt to deceive the public into lobbying against the kyoto protocol. this petition is the most often referred "list" of climate deniers, though a very small portion of the signatories are actual scientists in the field of climatology. ties to the fringe group, oregon institute of science and medicine.

these ties from prominent deniers to exxon have been questioned by other scientists at the union of concerned scientists:

"A new report from the Union of Concerned Scientists offers the most comprehensive documentation to date of how ExxonMobil has adopted the tobacco industry's disinformation tactics, as well as some of the same organizations and personnel, to cloud the scientific understanding of climate change and delay action on the issue. According to the report, ExxonMobil has funneled nearly $16 million between 1998 and 2005 to a network of 43 advocacy organizations that seek to confuse the public on global warming science."

"From their own website, yes THE OWL is scamming you. But yes, you LEFTY LIBS are so desperate to believe in Ghosts and Goblins that you will look the other way when the obvious smacks you upside the head."

"Deliver superior investment performance by taking a long-term investment view and integrating sustainability research within a rigorous fundamental equity analysis framework"

from their own website... not hiding anything of what they do. they invest in companies with sustainable energy research and interests, building a foundation for sustainable, carbon neutral energy. the company is no scam. he has never asked any of us to invest in his company. if you think otherwise, i urge you to have the fbi and justice department look into it. good luck, guy.

and again, if i made produced cars i would buy a car from my own company. so what? this does nothing to disprove the science, nor to pin the label of hypocrite on gore. you deniers are so illiterate in science that you cling to anything in a desperate attempt to discredit it. you've yet to prove anything other than gore is chairman of an investment company that invests in green technologies. good job! try again, guy.

in the absence of regulations and mandatory carbon emission caps and reduction, entrepreneurs are filling the gap and doing something on their own. it's not perfect, as most emerging markets aren't. so be it. that's capitalism for you.

there are 2 camps, co2 puritans and co2 pragmatists. being a co2 puritan is difficult and is what michele wants everyone to be before she'll even listen to the experts on the issue. being a co2 pragmatist is easier, but we are the ones who catch flack from the ill-informed deniers like michele and guy. we are pragmatic. we know there's a problem and make improvements to reduce our carbon emissions, but we can't live in the dark, without cars, or without computers as a practical matter. so we do what we can to help make up for that (which deniers label as "hypocrisy"). we do this by investing time or money in clean energy technologies, reforestation projects, carbon-reduction automobiles, et cetera.