Whatever you thought of his performance as Bill Clinton's vice president, you have to admit that there's no one on the planet who's done more to draw attention to climate change than Al Gore. And in his stubborn focus on global warming, Gore is blissfully old-fashioned. In many green circles, the topic has become passé. "Why unnecessarily irritate our conservative friends … [Read more...]
Al Gore wants you to stop being so damn polite
I resisted reading Al Gore's big article on the climate crisis in Rolling Stone ("Climate of Denial: Can science and truth withstand the merchants of poison?") as long as I could. But after seeing it Facebook'd, Tweeted and blogged to death, today I finally gave in. And, as they say on TV, boy am I glad I did. If your enthusiasm has lagged for fighting the good fight on … [Read more...]
The iceman cometh. Al Gore goeth?
January was a banner month for snowstorms and wintry weather across the US. It was also a banner month for Fox News commentators to excoriate Al Gore and pound home the message that global warming must be a hoax. In the second month of its new Beck-Hannity-Limbaugh Global Warming Truth Index, Transition Voice has again collected weather data from the three Fox commentators' … [Read more...]
Can the Army make America care about climate?
If Al Gore can't get Americans to care about climate, then who can? Actually, we think Gore did a pretty good job in An Inconvenient Truth. If he hadn't, Sean Hannity and his buddies at Fox wouldn't be attacking Gore about climate science all the time. But for the audience that's more likely to watch Hannity than Gore, the Pew Climate Security Project has launched a smart … [Read more...]