It depends on the question.

Time has a rather silly article with a rather silly headline: Is Al Gore the Answer? Well, it depends on the question. The answer is "yes" if the question is any one of the following:

1. Which 2000 Presidential candidate lost the Florida vote no matter how many times it was recounted?
2. Which 2000 Presidential candidate made a movie so full of inaccuracies that a judge in England set viewing guidelines before students could watch it?
3. Which 2000 Presidential candidate would have won the election if he could have carried his home state?
4. Which former Presidential candidate preaches from the church of global warming while sucking enough energy for his own home to light a small town?

The answer is "no" if the question is any one of the following:

1. Which former Presidential candidate wanted to streamline regulation and reduce taxes so that the economy would grow?
2. Which former Presidential candidate is not an environmental chicken-hawk opportunist?
3. Which former Presidential candidate is willing to make personal sacrifices to help the environment?

Enough about Al Gore. The author is about par for the course in showing his liberal bias. Here are a few examples:

"Which is not to say that Clinton's candidacy is entirely without purpose now that she is pursuing a Republican-style race gambit, questioning Obama's 20-year relationship" with his pastor. Why, exactly, is this a "Republican-style" race gambit?

"and a year that should have been an easy Democratic victory, given the state of the economy and the unpopularity of the incumbent, might slip away. " Really?

I can't figure out if this guy is really concerned about the "easy Democratic victory" slipping away or if he is one of the many media morons who still can't get over the fact that Al Gore lost the election.

Eco-Warriors are the Biggest Polluters

Why doesn't this surprise me? Al Gore is a typical example of this environmental hypocrisy.

Al Gore just keeps getting hammered.

That happens a lot when you are a hypocrite. People love nothing more when the preacher gets caught in a sin. Remember Jimmy Swaggart? Remember the "evangelical" who was on drugs and was soliciting a gay prostitute? Al Gore is the preacher of the church of global warming. Make no mistake, it is a religion. Of course, the mainstream media will give Al Gore a free pass on this.

Two Global Warming Posts that Everyone Should Read

Everyone who has any interest in the global warming hysteria should read these two posts.

http://billhobbs.com/2007/02/more_on_gore.html

In short, Al Gore is a complete hypocrite.

http://www.classicalvalues.com/archives/004744.html (Hat tip: Instapundit)

The second post is about how human meat consumption is the largest source of greenhouse emissions. Money quote:

Meat eating is either the number one cause of GW or it is not. If it is the number one cause, then why are the GW people not talking about it? Even the skeptics are not focusing on meat as they should be. I think meat may be the Achilles Heel of GW, as it puts the lie to them. The skeptics should be pressing it. [snip]

Another reason is that even the believers have a natural resistence [sic] to giving up meat, and they fear it will damage their movement. They want to keep it quiet, and for some strange reason, their opponents go along with keeping it quiet, probably because they think the less said about it the better. Big mistake IMO, especially if meat is in fact the Achilles Heel of the environmentalists.

The American people are used to being scolded about oil, but if they're asked to give up meat, they'll begin to wise up, and start asking basic questions. It's this "leave well enough alone" mindset which prevents people from getting to the truth.

Finally, there's a natural inclination to think of oil as the culprit, not just because Big Oil is so widely demonized, but because we've all been conditioned from childhood to think of smokestacks and tailpipes as pouring out evil, filthy pollution. Never mind that we emit carbons and that they're organic. Oil companies are "bad." Farmers are "good."

Every thinking person should read these posts. Folks, it's all about the money.