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Frog I gotta disagree. I think Al Gore is fricking brilliant. I hope to be half as smart to be able to pull off something on the scale of Global Warming.

Like L. Ron Hubbard, Gore's accomplishment is no less than the birth of a new religion. One that has got off to an incredible start. We can see the appeal it has to those with an axe to grind against their fellow man, and especially the infrastructure of modern civilization.

In conventional religion you are looking out for your own soul. If you don't believe, you are damned. Because you are doing God's work, you are right pretty much all the time. Those who dispute your views are disputing God.

In Global Warming you are even better than that, because you are unselfishly protecting Mother Earth. It is an elegant, approachable belief system that gives its believers immediate superiority over the rest of us. Since everything they do is for Mother Earth, they will never be wrong. And you can easily join in without the full commitment that conventional religion requires.

The more radical and successful cults share the Apocalypse; the ultimate punishment for non-believers. GW delivers an awesome apocalyptic vision with skewed and cherry-picked "data". GW is really church for a whole far-left segment of the population that hates church.

Since there is a 100-year history of the media and the scientific community predicting either an ice age or a meltdown, Gore could see that the idea is catchy and really works with some people.

But to be able to get entire governments to buy into it - just incredible. I would like to know how his people were able to work the PR system and media to be able to achieve results like that. It is really a work of art.