The life of Al
Has any man wanted to be The Messiah more than Al Gore?
It would be an enormous relief if the recent attacks on the science of global warming actually indicated that we do not face an unimaginable calamity requiring large-scale, preventive measures to protect human civilization as we know it.
. . . [W]hat a burden would be lifted! We would no longer have to worry that our grandchildren would one day look back on us as a criminal generation that had selfishly and blithely ignored clear warnings that their fate was in our hands. We could instead celebrate the naysayers who had doggedly persisted in proving that every major National Academy of Sciences report on climate change had simply made a huge mistake.
I, for one, genuinely wish that the climate crisis were an illusion. . . .
From the standpoint of governance, what is at stake is our ability to use the rule of law as an instrument of human redemption. After all has been said and so little done, the truth about the climate crisis—inconvenient as ever—must still be faced.
Oh, Al, Al, Al . . . how my heart doth bleed for you! Oh how I wish that anthropogenic global warming were real so that you could fulfill your most desirous wish of saving humanity from itself . . . nay! of SAVING THE WORLD! It just doesn’t seem fair that someone as doggone sincere as you not get the chance to be the world’s Superman and Christ.
You’re right on one point, though, Al: we have overcome existential threats before. And we will overcome you and your self-righteous goodists in due time . . . just as our grandparents overcame the Nazis who believed that they, too, were saving the world. (Sorry for the comparison, Al, but you started it by quoting Winnie.)
Fear not, however, Al: Hitler was evil; you are simply a fool.