"Honest Al" tries to scam us out of yet another $80,000

Al Gore's Take on the Climate Crisis

So the Alliance for Climate Protection has put together an ad that tells this simple story. And we're going to put it on national cable TV.

If we can raise an additional $80,000 online, we'll also put it on 60 Minutes and 20/20 this coming week. Wouldn't that be great?

Can you help? Just go here:

http://www.wecansolveit.org/oilandcoal

Here's the script:

The solution to our climate crisis seems simple.
Repower America with wind and solar.
End our dependence on foreign oil. A stronger economy.
So why are we still stuck with dirty and expensive energy?
Because big oil spends hundreds of millions of dollars to block clean energy.
Lobbyists, ads, even scandals.
All to increase their profits, while America suffers.
Breaking big oil's lock on our government ...
Now that's change.
We're the American people and we approve this message.

And you can view the ad on our donation page, here:

http://www.wecansolveit.org/oilandcoal

We're taking on the oil and coal lobbies, because there's simply no other choice. We need your help.

Thanks,

Al Gore

So what happened to the Alliance's mysterious hundreds of millions?

During the next three years, his Alliance for Climate Protection plans to spend $300m (about £150m) on television advertising and online organising to make global warming among the most urgent issues for elected American leaders.

The wecansolveit.org initiative aims to build up pressure on the next US president to support stringent mandatory emissions controls when they come before Congress, and take a leadership role at the renegotiation of the Kyoto treaty.

Environmental activists yesterday described the plan as the most ambitious public campaign launched in the US.

"The resources are completely unprecedented in American politics," said Philip Clapp, of the Pew Environment Group.

And why doesn't Gore just spend his own $80,000?

Oct '07: Al Gore Getting Rich Spreading Global Warming Hysteria With Media’s Help | NewsBusters.org

Americans willing to look at the manmade global warming debate with any degree of impartiality and honesty are well aware that those spreading the hysteria have made a lot of money doing so, and stand to gain much more if governments mandate carbon dioxide emissions reductions.

In fact, just two months ago, ABC News.com estimated soon-to-be-Nobel Laureate Al Gore's net worth at $100 million, which isn't bad considering that he was supposedly worth about $1 million when he watched George W. Bush get sworn in as president in January 2001.

Talk about your get-rich-quick schemes, how'd you like to increase your net worth 10,000 percent in less than seven years?