Al Gore Warms Up - The Daily Beast

I haven’t read all these emails. The most recent one is apparently more than 10 years old, and they’re private expressions between scientists. I haven't seen anything that poses the slightest challenge to the scientific consensus over the prevailing evidence that’s just overwhelming. I haven’t seen anything that really has any substance to it. Now, there is a large noise machine that receives a lot of financing from carbon polluters, a lot of support from ideological opponents of government doing anything at all.
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They have drawn out the timetable in much the same way the tobacco companies delayed the recommendations from the surgeon general back in 1964, when they dressed up actors as doctors, and gave them cigarettes and told them to look into the camera and tell people that there was no real linkage between smoking cigarettes and lung diseases. This is exactly the same thing. The stakes are a little higher, but you know, we were losing more Americans to cigarettes every year than the total number of Americans killed in all of World War II on a yearly basis. So the stakes were pretty high there.
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How do we win this battle? I search for the answer every day. I have organized and now chaired the Alliance for Climate Protection, and we have a very large program of television and Internet commercials. We have hundreds of paid political organizers in the key districts in the states. But the carbon polluters have a very big war chest and they’re willing to do damn near anything.

Al Gore and tobacco

What Gore didn't mention is that he grew up on a tobacco farm, worked on it, and continued to accept checks from that farm for years after his sister died. In 1988, while running for president, he defended tobacco farmers while campaigning in Southern tobacco states (and made the quote up above: 'I've raised tobacco ... I've shredded it, spiked it,... and sold it.') He accepted contributions from tobacco companies as late as 1990.

YouTube - Skinnnneerr!: CLIMATE SCAM MELTDOWN ON FOX NEWS - LIBERAL ATTACK DOG GOES BERSERK

Watch the blond liberal attack dog self-destruct. It's always in the eyes. Watch her eyes.

Copenhagen climate conference: US says China must make cuts - Telegraph

Arriving at the talks in Copenhagen, Todd Stern, the US chief negotiator, made it clear that he expected China to make considerable cuts in its carbon emissions despite being a "developing" country.

"The country whose emissions are going up dramatically – really dramatically – is China," he said

Copenhagen climate summit: UN pleads for investment deals to be done - Telegraph

However, his defence of market-based solutions to funding climate change measures came as the UN admitted its administration of global carbon offsetting, the Clean Development Mechanism, had lost its way.

Bishop Hill blog - Follow the money

[a scientist named Paul Vaughan] Personal anecdote:
Last spring when I was shopping around for a new source of funding, after having my funding slashed to zero 15 days after going public with a finding about natural climate variations, I kept running into funding application instructions of the following variety:

Successful candidates will:
1) Demonstrate AGW.
2) Demonstrate the catastrophic consequences of AGW.
3) Explore policy implications stemming from 1 & 2.

Follow the money — perhaps a conspiracy is unnecessary where a carrot will suffice.