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At Wednesday's conference, Gore, ever the alarmist, lamented that the battle against global warming is "losing badly" and claimed that an increase in tropical diseases and an upswing in severe hurricane activity are evidence.

Both claims are false, but there is an effort that is "losing badly," and that is his campaign to frighten the world into thinking the Earth is rolling downhill toward environmental cataclysm. The public, at least in this country, is beginning to understand the fraudulent nature of the climate-change scare and is refocusing its attention on issues that matter.

This is marginalizing Gore, and that's a shock to his ego. Expect his global warming claims and solutions to grow loopier and more extreme as he desperately — and bitterly — tries to cling to his waning, and almost wholly undeserved, relevance.