Al Gore says climate battle lost by 'failure' of government

From World Net Daily.com - Ex–Vice President Al Gore, who has invested heavily in schemes that would give him profits from climate-related energy credits and carbon-emissions trading, is lamenting bitterly the "failure" of the government to pass comprehensive legislation taxing energy use and emissions. And he's blaming "right-wing" media, whose reports documented "Climategate," the revelations that global-warming scientists were manipulating results and shutting out critics. In a recording obtained by Steve Milloy, who writes among other places on the Green Hell Blog, Gore states, "There is a sad but undeniable truth that those who wanted to try sowing confusion used an echo chamber from blogs and talk-show hosts and biased right-wing media to promulgate the distortions of the paid skeptics and paid professional deniers who tried to undermine the evidence." Gore continued, "There have been, of course, multiple formal inquiries, all of which have dispelled the falsehoods that go under the title of 'Climategate.' The three separate inquires conducted not only cleared the scientists and organizations involved but strongly reaffirmed the basic assertions that they have been making." Read more

Al Gore says climate battle lost by 'failure' of government