EdSki, I think you’re on the right track. I always thought Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth should have been called A Convenient Truth because it is aimed at those who can’t handle the real inconvenient truth–that we don’t control the weather.

In fact, AGW is very much like any other conspiracy theory. Conspiracy theorists believe the world is knowable, controllable. The problem is, the wrong people are in control. All we need to do to make heaven on earth is to get those wrong people out and get the right people in.

Conspiracy theories are for people who can’t handle the truth that the world is not knowable, not controllable. And Al Gore is here to make those people feel better, feel smarter, feel superior, just like they’ve always wanted.