Thanks, Ma'am!

I'm admittedly not a supporter of him and his work because he does seem very extreme to me in word, and I'm not on board with what seems to me to be more hysteria than reality. I just don't think the human race is responsible for an Earth that's on the verge of implosion. I'm not convinced of global warming, and think that even if our energy use is causing elevated temperatures that the use of fossil fuels is just a blip in the history of the world and that before any irreversible damage could occur we'll have moved on to some other energy source that burns clean. We won't be burning oil in 150 years, IMHO, and so all the arguments meant to get us to stop aren't ultimately going to result in any long-term difference.

I also think that he's not talking to the right audience. If the issue is global warming brought about by the burning of fossil fuels, while we do use more energy than any other nation, we are actually already one of the cleaner nations in the world. Lesser-developed nations that don't care at all about air quality are much worse offenders, and if the US reverted back to Little House on the Prairie days the *Earth* wouldn't really notice much.

No doubt the US imports things from the nations with the lower restrictions on pollution and so in a round-about way, we do have some culpability there... but what I hear Al Gore preaching on the news and the talk shows has to do with what we drive.

While I think that from a micro-scientific perspective he *knows* chemistry, etc., from a 'big picture' angle, I just don't think fossil fuels are how God is going to take this place down. I'm not fully convinced that Al Gore believes it either.... but if he does, to me, he seems to think that his 'superior message-delivering purpose' outweighs is need to abide by the very message he is carrying around....

Kind of like some preacher-type who preaches against the ills of strong drink but knocks back a few strong ones every night, convincing himself that the rules don't apply to HIM because after all, he is the messenger so whatever he needs to do to keep himself sailing along so he can DELIVER the message is justified.

Gore's obscenely huge, energy-guzzling house, the big vehicles he rides around in.... I just think he sees himself as being 'above' the very message he's carrying. That's where the hypocrisy comes into play.