Al Gore uses the language of science to promote a religion. He is currently spending $300,000,000 on his “WE” propaganda campaign. Now, if this were a scientific problem to be solved, it would make more sense to invest the $300M in R&D. Just the other day, MIT announced (very preliminary) progress on a form of ‘artificial photosynthesis’ to store the energy of photovoltaic systems so they can keep the lights on at night. In addition to National Science Foundation Funding, this project benefitted from a $10M grant from the Chesonis family for the Solar Revolution Project at MIT. If Al Gore believed this was a critical scientific problem to be solved, he could duplicate that success 30X over.

When I mentioned this to one of my most fanatic enviro-buddies, he replied that Al Gore probably decided no technology worth investing in could be achieved for Gore’s $300M. Instead, his prosletyzing would be more effective in persuading people to elect the proper type of government who would institute the changes demanded by the enviros. Two thoughts jump out:
1. If $300M of Gore’s money is going to buy us nothing, why would we want to spend billions of taxpayer monies on such projects?
2. The real goal is social control, using coercive government programs to drive this new religion.

It’s intellectually and morally repulsive. The only defense of Al Gore’s phony science is rigid political enforcement. The idea that he is spending $300M to mislead the least educated and most naive voters goes beyond P.T. Barnum and the Pied Piper, we’re moving into the nihilism of Pol Pot with this purposeful infliction of ignorance.