Daily Caller Piece: Why Does Anyone Still Listen To Al Gore?

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Since leaving elective office, former Vice President Al Gore has made his living as the world’s most prominent prophet of climate alarmism. He has managed to accumulate fabulous wealth (net worth: $300 million) and an enormous carbon footprint jet-setting all over the world to deliver speeches filled with fiery rhetoric about an issue whose narrative has morphed from global warming to climate change to climate crisis to climate emergency to climate catastrophe since he began preaching about it more than 30 years ago.

In what even some of its proponents admit has become a true religious exercise, only UN chief Antonio Guterres, purveyor of a climate “highway to hell,” “global boiling,” and “climate collapse,” seems able to go toe to toe with Gore in terms of pure fright scenarios. But it seems fair to question now exactly what value such bombast adds to the ongoing search for climate and energy solutions? (RELATED: DAVID BLACKMON: Offshore Wind Is Solving All Its Problems With Taxpayer Subsidies)