Ezactly. "Al Gore" is just a handy tag to lay the bundle of burden on. Kind of like when people of Alaska say they don't like what's going on in Juneau- they actually are talking about the lawmakers they themselves sent to the capital city.

Al Gore is a spokesperson for this "inconvenient truth" and an excellent one but it isn't his theory. If he were removed from the scene tomorrow our dilemma would not be lessened in any way.