Slate has a recent interview with alarmist Al Gore where he lies again. Gore is a buffoon, but he’s also a national treasure. Here’s the relevant part of the interview:
Q: How damaging to your argument was the disclosure of e-mails from the Climate Research Unit at East Anglia University?
A: To paraphrase Shakespeare, it’s sound and fury signifying nothing. I haven’t read all the e-mails, but the most recent one is more than 10 years old.
Sorry Gore, the most recent email was from November, 2009. Maybe Al Gore is from the future? What is the moral to this story? Al Gore thinks that lying and manipulating data is okay as long as you’re not caught or if it took place ten years ago. I think Gore meant to use this quote from Shakespeare: “For there is nothing either good or bad, thinking makes it so.”
[...] the climate. Anyway, it appears Gore has changed his talking points on climategate since his last ill-informed statement. Unfortunately, the reality of the danger we are courting has not been changed by the [...]