GORE LIED

Al Gore is going greed!  And The New York Times couldn’t care less.  I get the impression that the Times seemed to think that if they wanted to salvage any shred of journalistic credibility that they just must report on the elephant in the global warming living room – that Al Gore’s prophecies of planetary doom, are nothing more than a sales schtick to line his wallet.

The Times provides much detail about Gore’s efforts to go greed:

WASHINGTON — Former Vice President Al Gore thought he had spotted a winner last year when a small California firm sought financing for an energy-saving technology from the venture capital firm where Mr. Gore is a partner.

The company, Silver Spring Networks, produces hardware and software to make the electricity grid more efficient. It came to Mr. Gore’s firm, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, one of Silicon Valley’s top venture capital providers, looking for $75 million to expand its partnerships with utilities seeking to install millions of so-called smart meters in homes and businesses.

Mr. Gore and his partners decided to back the company, and in gratitude Silver Spring retained him and John Doerr, another Kleiner Perkins partner, as unpaid corporate advisers.

The deal appeared to pay off in a big way last week, when the Energy Department announced $3.4 billion in smart grid grants. Of the total, more than $560 million went to utilities with which Silver Spring has contracts. Kleiner Perkins and its partners, including Mr. Gore, could recoup their investment many times over in coming years.

Silver Spring Networks is a foot soldier in the global green energy revolution Mr. Gore hopes to lead. Few people have been as vocal about the urgency of global warming and the need to reinvent the way the world produces and consumes energy. And few have put as much money behind their advocacy as Mr. Gore and are as well positioned to profit from this green transformation, if and when it comes.

Yet, just when you think they are going to take Gore to the wood shed, they blame it on the vast right-wing conspiracy:

Critics, mostly on the political right and among global warming skeptics, say Mr. Gore is poised to become the world’s first “carbon billionaire,” profiteering from government policies he supports that would direct billions of dollars to the business ventures he has invested in.

Nothing to see here folks, move along.

For the record, this blog doesn’t necessarily have a problem with Al Gore trying to profit off of his imagined problem, if it were indeed a real problem. Combine Gore’s fear-mongering to enact his solutions with his admission that it’s “appropriate to have an over-representation of factual presentations”, and the nine significant errors a British judge ruled were in An Inconvenient Truth, and I’d conclude that Gore is perpetrating a financial fraud on the public on a scale that would make Bernie Madoff blush. And I believe that Gore should be held legally and financially responsible for this fraud that he is perpetrating.

Perhaps Gore really does believe in his heart of hearts that global warming is real, caused by man, and will kill the polar bears, massively raise sea levels, cause extreme hurricanes, and end life, as we know it, on this planet.  But if the messenger of doom is set to profit massively to save you from his own prophecy, shouldn’t that give a prudent person reason to pause, and ask Al Gore  whether or not he is really nothing more than a snake-oil salesman?   It most definitely should.  But Al Gore won’t answer those types of questions.

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