Al Gore hypocrisy watch

Just ran across this interesting tidbit courtesy of Ken Green at NRO’s Planet Gore blog:

Like Hillary Clinton, Al Gore’s paranoid tendencies are rarely far below the surface. Where Hillary likes to invoke the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy as her personal bogeyman, Al Gore likes to invoke the ‘well-funded climate denial industry’ as his arch-enemy.

“There has been an organized campaign,” Gore told a forum in Singapore, “financed to the tune of about $10 million a year from some of the largest carbon polluters, to create the impression that there is disagreement in the scientific community.”

Having worked for three different think tanks over the years, I can personally attest that most are incapable of allying in any kind of ongoing organized campaign, so the predicate of Al Gore’s comments are clearly wrong. But the more interesting question is who, exactly, is the real “well-funded climate industry?” An article today in Ad Age tells the tale:

“But now one of the most hotly contended pitches out there is for the Alliance for Climate Protection, the organization formed last year by Al Gore. Four elite agencies — Crispin Porter & Bogusky, Bartle Bogle Hegarty, the Martin Agency and Y&R — are squaring off for the business and are expected to present to the former vice president himself early next month, according to executives familiar with the review. The budget for the “historic, three-to-five-year, multimedia global campaign,” as the request for proposals puts it, is contingent on how much money the alliance raises. Media spending will likely be more than $100 million a year.”

That’s right, $100 million per year. Al Gore, who seems to think it is sinister for other people to spend money in order to communicate their ideas about sound public policy is going to outspend the entire mass of climate policy critics tenfold in order to spread his message of environmental catastrophism to the public.

Move along here. Nothing to see.

In related gw news, read one global warming ‘denier’s’ column in which he marvels at the hypocrisy of supposed ‘free thought liberals’ when it comes to the issue of climate change (h/t: ST reader Sev).