WRITTEN BY HOLMAN W. JENKINS, JR. ON FEB 7, 2023. POSTED IN LATEST NEWS
Al Gore And The End Of Climate Policy
Al Gore was right about one thing in his rant at the World Economic Forum in Davos: CO2 emissions have continued to climb and show no sign of being affected by “climate policy.”
He didn’t mention his contributions to this outcome, intervening in the early Obama years to turn climate policy into an excuse for protectionist pork barrel, with no real effect on climate. [emphasis, links added]
Nor that he was the seminal author of a brand of green hyperventilation that almost guaranteed real climate action would become a polarizing dead letter.
He also didn’t mention his singular stroke of luck in the history books, which will let him off more kindly than he deserves because science now paints a less dire picture of our climate future.
https://climatechangedispatch.com/al-gore-and-the-end-of-climate-policy/