Time to muffle Al Gore's exhaust pipe By PETER WORTHINGTON                        
One could call it the impudence of Al Gore.

"Here's a guy who, for eight years, was vice-president of United States and during those eight years could not persuade the Senate to take action against the dreaded myth of greenhouse gases.

In fact, the Senate voted 95-0 against the Kyoto accords, which Canada backed enthusiastically but (fortunately) did nothing about.

Yet now that he's an Academy Award winner in documentary films (An Inconvenient Truth), and aspires to be a Nobel Peace Prize winner, he misses no occasion to make a nuisance of himself by lecturing others and pontificating to the applause of his think-alikes.

We expect that from Al Gore -- one of the more foolish Americans loose on the planet lusting for the spotlight, and dispensing his version of ecological wisdom to save us all from ourselves.

Gore's criticism of Prime Minister Stephen Harper and the Conservative government's so-called "green plan" is not only unseemly and offensive for a former American vice-president, but wrong.

"A complete and total fraud," is what he calls the plan which he says is "designed to mislead the Canadian people." (Interestingly, Gore's criticism of Canada is similar to what some climatologists and atmospheric scientists say of Gore's movie that predicts catastrophe for the planet unless the world listens to him.)

Gore made his charges at a green trade show in Toronto, as part of his antique road show version of persuading people to his point of view which, sadly, the Harper government is susceptible to....."

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