Unwilling
Not only is he unwilling to debate global warming, he is also unwilling to practice what he preaches.
Tennessee Center for Policy Research
In the year since Al Gore took steps to make his home more energy-efficient, the former Vice President's home energy use surged more than 10%, according to the Tennessee Center for Policy Research.
I recently read an editorial by Charles Krauthammer that really nails the issue on the head.
Environmentalists Pick Up Where Communists Left Off
For a century, an ambitious, arrogant, unscrupulous knowledge class -- social planners, scientists, intellectuals, experts and their left-wing political allies -- arrogated to themselves the right to rule either in the name of the oppressed working class (communism) or, in its more benign form, by virtue of their superior expertise in achieving the highest social progress by means of state planning (socialism).Two decades ago, however, socialism and communism died rudely, then were buried forever by the empirical demonstration of the superiority of market capitalism everywhere from Thatcher's England to Deng's China, where just the partial abolition of socialism lifted more people out of poverty more rapidly than ever in human history.
Just as the ash heap of history beckoned, the intellectual left was handed the ultimate salvation: environmentalism. Now the experts will regulate your life not in the name of the proletariat or Fabian socialism but -- even better -- in the name of Earth itself.
Not only is it about power, but money too. Gore has watched his personal wealth increase by an estimated $100 million thanks largely to speaking fees and investments related to global warming hysteria.