re: #5 Expand Your Ground

Al Gore really thought he could could remove himself from politics and elevate himself above it in order to promote an anti-AGW policy.

He did not foresee that his very presenence was like a red flag waved at a raging bull of denialism.

Don’t blame Al Gore for denialism. Big Energy owns tens of trillions of dollars in carbon based energy reserves; they were going to to use the Right Wing propoganda machine to heavily push denialism no matter what.