Al Gore is at it, again.

The politician turned media baron is building a new "coalition" to whip up more hysteria about global warming and is calling on his fellow press barons to provide "public service" time and space to the cause.

As if the Big Media don't already do more than their part to spread the phony gospel of environmentalist extremism 24 hours a day.

Isn't CNN officially the global warming network? Could it possibly provide any more support for such a campaign? How about the New York Times?

Gore was part of the administration that suggested anyone denying the reality of global warming was "un-American." That's what Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt said. And neither President Clinton nor Vice President Gore took issue with the charge.

Since leaving office, Gore has become even more obsessed with global warming – even more so than when he penned his book alleging the greatest threat to the world was posed not by nuclear weapons, not by genocidal tyrants killing millions of people, not by the evils of totalitarianism, but by the internal combustion engine.

Here's my problem with the global-warming crowd. This is not science. It's politics. The evidence the world is heating up is tenuous at best. A mere 30 years ago, the same Chicken Littles who now claim global warming is the greatest threat facing us were sure that a new Ice Age was on the horizon. Thirty years in the history of the world is a blink of an eye.

As I've said before, it is possible the world is warming slightly. These things happen cyclically and always have. There is almost no chance, in my opinion, that any perceived global warming has anything to do with man's activity on the planet. We're just not significant enough in God's creation to have that kind of impact. One large volcano will have more noticeable effect on the planet than all the internal combustion engines ever built.

My other big problem with the global-warming crowd has to do with their intent – where they want to take us.

It couldn't be clearer that what these fanatics want is more government control over people's lives – in other words, less freedom. More specifically, they demand global governance to solve this hypothetical problem. If ever there was a definition of anti-Americanism, it is the push for global government.

In fact, I believe that these globalists don't even believe in global warming. They are simply using it as an excuse to achieve their true desire – one-world government free of the accountability to ordinary people and inconveniences like constitutions and limits on the power of ruling authorities.

The global-warming doomsayers all believe Big Government is the only answer. That's what they have in common. That's what they believe – that we need more centralized power, more command-and-control bureaucracies, more regulations, all of which translates, like it or not, to less freedom.

It's the ultimate power grab. It's about stealing your liberty – the freedom of your children and grandchildren. It's about destroying the last vestiges of self-government and imposing international tyranny on Americans and the rest of the world. It's part of a broad scheme to make decisions for you with no accountability – no elections, no representation, rule by a pseudo-scientific elite. Marx and Hitler would be so proud.

Do we really need more propaganda pushing this idea down the throats of Americans?

Al Gore thinks so.

It's amazing.

I mean, just open the average high-school physics textbook in America today and you will find whole chapters on the dangers of global warming. The hysterical claims made about this theory in search of evidence are as fantastic as anything you will see in Greenpeace propaganda. America's schoolchildren are already being thoroughly indoctrinated to believe that the industrial world is actually causing the Earth's atmosphere to get warmer – despite the fact that there is not a shred of scientific evidence to support that notion.

Now Gore wants the media to give him time to lecture us. That should make for great ratings – like watching grass grow.

But Gore has ceased to be a figure of amusement to me. He has turned the corner to sheer demagoguery. He's an ignorant fool who has never made a living from a hard day's work in his life who thinks he has all the answers to cure the world's problems.

He and the rest of the global-warming fear-mongers keep telling us that soon it will be too late to act. We are headed off a precipice. Of course, they have been saying this for at least a decade. In fact, if you scratch beneath the surface of their pseudo-scientific studies, they will reveal that there is nothing we can do to reverse the trend.

Did you hear what I said? If we ceased all auto emissions today, if we stopped all industrial activity around the world, if we stopped burning heating oil, we wouldn't stop global warming, according to the doomsayers who promote this theory.

So I say if there is nothing we can do, that's exactly what we should do – nothing.

Time will tell if global warming is a reality. If it is, we will never know the cause – manmade or natural. So, it seems to me there is little point in worrying, in changing our economic systems, in diminishing national sovereignty in favor of global treaties to limit carbon dioxide, in reducing automobile sizes and weights and killing tens of thousands more on the highways, in short, in doing any of the things the global-warming extremists have been suggesting for the past decade.

They admit it will do no good, so what is the point?

The point is to try to work people up into a frenzy, a dither, to make them forget much more pressing issues, to get them to believe there is no hope unless we allow wiser elite minds running governments and supranational agencies around the world to "do the right thing." That's what demagogue Gore is all about.

I'll tell you one thing. My temperature goes up when I see this guy. When I hear him, I could easily run a high-grade fever. How much is he contributing to global warming just by opening up his trap?

Important postscript about Al Gore and WorldNetDaily:

Back in the presidential election year of 2000, WND set out to give the nation a small taste of the widespread, institutionalized political corruption that spawned the career of Al Gore.

The result was a monumental 18-part series that some Tennessee observers credited with costing the vice president his home state and the electoral votes he needed to win the presidency regardless of the controversy in the state of Florida.

But it was also a costly series for this news organization.

For the last five years, WorldNetDaily has been defending itself, at great cost, against a $165 million defamation lawsuit filed by Gore's top fund-raiser in the state, auto dealer Clark Jones.

Jones, who had raised more than $100,000 for Gore's campaign and, sources say, frequently bragged to other Tennessee businessmen about his close links to Gore, was reportedly humiliated by Gore's loss of his home state, which cost Gore the election.

"I don't think it's an accident that the No. 1 independent Internet newssite was targeted by powerful and wealthy friends of the losing presidential candidate – and that the suit pertained to an investigative series that may well have cost that candidate the Electoral College votes he needed for victory," I said at the time. I stand by that comment today.

Understand that this lawsuit would be dropped in a flat second if Al Gore wanted it to be dropped. Understand also that WND did nothing wrong and libeled no one in the publication of this exhaustive series.

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