Al Gore has conveniently forgotten that his family used to be in the tobacco industry.
As reported by NPR about an interview yesterday with Gore as part of his 24-hour assault on climate science:
He went on to accuse those who express the loudest doubts about whether humans are contributing to climate change of “doing exactly the same thing that the tobacco industry did after the Surgeon General’s report came out” linking smoking to cancer. “They hired actors and dressed them up as doctors and gave them scripts” saying that smoking isn’t harmful. Today, said Gore, “carbon polluters” are paying for climate change doubters to say similar things.
But as reported by the New York Times in 1998,
Six years after Vice President Al Gore’s older sister died of lung cancer in 1984, he was still accepting campaign contributions from tobacco interests. Four years after she died, while campaigning for President in North Carolina, he boasted of his experiences in the tobacco fields and curing barns of his native Tennessee. And it took several years after Nancy Gore Hunger’s death for Mr. Gore and his parents to stop growing tobacco on their own farms in Carthage, Tenn.
So it seems that the Al Gore and his family were quite content to profit from tobacco users for more than 20 years after the January 1964 publication of the first Surgeon General report on smoking and health.
This matters not. Scientific truth is truth whether bought and paid for or not. This is just a smoke screen to shade the inconvenient train wreck of real world evidences that have relegated AGW alarmism almost to the rubbish heap. The truth is that it is the alarmists who are enormously paid by the feds to continue their AGW research and pay off the alarmist professors. The counter consensus is now greater than the supposed consensus. But even that matters not. Science is not by consensus.
BTW – I am greatly enjoying the Gore-effect very cool weather here in Tennessee today as the All Gore – All the Time Marathon is winding down. What an embarrassment to this great state. We tried to warn you all in 2000.
Tobacco hypocrisy aside…….
“….’carbon polluters’ are paying for climate change doubters to say similar things….”
Two word response: Prove it!
We may have the opposite situation, that enviro-activists long ago came up with a plan to plant the idea in the public’s mind that skeptics are are on the payroll of big coal & oil, when no such actual evidence exists. See: http://junksciencesidebar.com/2011/05/24/ozone-als-propaganda-has-a-long-history/