Least-effective sales pitch ever?: Trying to sell conservatives on the idea of a bad-weather-prevention tax, conservative Art Laffer starts with "Al [Gore] is a dear friend, and I think he’s a damned good public servant. I am ignorant-squared on climate change..."

NationalJournal.com - The Coming GOP Civil War Over Climate Change - Thursday, May 9, 2013

...a constellation of prominent conservative economists is bolstering the cause. These conservatives include such intellectuals as Art Laffer, the former senior adviser to President Reagan...
Laffer spoke to National Journal by phone from his home in Tennessee, where he lives next door to Gore. The Reagan economist and the liberal global-warming crusader disagree on many issues but are united on the wisdom of a carbon-tax swap as good environmental and economic policy. “Al is a dear friend, and I think he’s a damned good public servant,” Laffer says. “I am ignorant-squared on climate change, but what I do believe is that the risks of reducing carbon in the environment are less than the risks of putting more carbon into the environment.”