The Case Against Global Warming—and How Believers Respond - WSJ.com

A look at the arguments the skeptics make—and how believers respond

Hypocrisy in Copenhagen?

The high priest of Copenhagen and Hollywood is the Oscar, Grammy and Nobel Prize winning patron saint of global calamity, Al Gore. He claims the planet “has a fever.” He doesn’t talk about the fact that he is on his way to becoming a billionaire via his carbon offset businesses and government connections. Yet he jets around the world never disclosing his blatant conflicts of interest while preaching that we ought to lower our standard of living. Meanwhile Gore and his wife Tipper, whose children all live elsewhere, live in a sprawling 20-room mansion outside of Nashville that uses 20 times the national average in electricity, including an indoor pool costing $500/month to heat.