Can We Please Stop Talking About Al Gore

People keep asking me about Al Gore. I wrote a book, Windfall, about who will profit from climate change. On book tour and in advance of the latest bleak report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, I've been traveling around the country talking about our warmer future. I can't shake him. Isn't Al Gore responsible for the issue's divisiveness? Isn't Al Gore the one profiting the most off global warming? Isn’t it funny that Al Gore lives in a big house, not a cave? Isn't climate change a religion, and Al Gore its wannabe Pope? Am I for Al Gore or against Al Gore? Continue reading at 'Slate'

[ Slate | 2014-04-08 00:00:00 UTC ]

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