Re-fighting Gettysburg

"Of course overweight people are a major contributor to 'global warming.' But my carbon credits offset my fat as they go to support some skinny kid in Somalia hand digging holes for toxic waste."

Al Gore Declares War

Al Gore suggests that climate change is akin to one of the bloodier wars in American history:

To drive home his point during Monday’s speech at the War Memorial Opera House in San Francisco, Gore compared 2009 to the Battle of Gettysburg that helped change the course of the Civil War.

“We are radically changing the relationship between the human species and the rest of the Earth,” he said. “This year, 2009, is the Gettysburg for the environment. It is the time we have the opportunity to change.”

Gore uses Earth Day to solicit political fund

(CNN) - Former Vice President Al Gore used Earth Day to criticize congressional Republicans for opposing President Obama's agenda, and he called on donors to give to House Democrats as a way to help expand their majority in the 2010 elections.

Gore, the most high profile spokesperson on the danger of global warming, specifically mentions this issue in the letter sent Wednesday to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) e-mail list.

"I can tell you that President Obama has signaled in the strongest possible terms that he intends to take bold steps and harness innovative resources to solve the climate crisis," Gore wrote in the letter. "Not only that, but Speaker Pelosi has said she will personally shepherd climate legislation through.

Gore is scheduled to {commit perjury...oops} testify Friday before the House Energy and Commerce Committee on "The American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009."