IS AL GORE A "MODERATE MUSLIM"?

I know it sounds like a preposterous question, but roll with me here...

Watcher, at the Eye On The World blog, points out that one of the prominent scientists who oppose the man-made Global Warming model is now receiving death threats:

(CFP) Warning: Debating global warming from science rather than politics could be a challenge to your health.

In fact death threats come in fives to scientists who write that global warming is not man-made.


Canadian climatologist Dr. Tim Ball, who has been questioning man-made global warming for 30 years, has received five death threats by email.

Resentment toward Ball escalated when his Canada Free Press (CFP) February 5th column, "Global Warming: The Cold Hard Facts?" was posted by the Drudge Report.

"We're worried about him," Ball's wife told CFP on Thursday.Her husband continues with his speaking engagements and will be in Washington next week to address a group of American senators prior to Al Gore's appearance before Senator Barbara Boxer's Environment and Public Works Committee.

"Man-made Global Warming crusaders don't tolerate dissent. There's billions of dollars at stake," says Ball, a former climatology professor at the University of Winnipeg.

Ball and some of his colleagues remember when global cooling was all the rage.[...]"Global Warming, as we think we know it, doesn't exist," Ball wrote in his Drudge pick up CFP column. "And I am not the only one trying to make people open their eyes and see the truth. But few listen, despite the fact that I was one of the first Canadian PhDs in Climatology and I have an extensive background in climatology, especially the reconstruction of past climates and the impact of climate change on human history and the human condition," Dr. Ball wrote. "Few listen, even though I have a PhD, (Doctor of Science) from the university of London, England and was a climatology professor at the University of Winnipeg. For some reason (actually for many), the World is not listening. Here is why."

"Believe it or not, Global Warming is not due to human contribution of Carbon Dioxide (CO2). This in fact is the greatest deception in the history of science." Things are so hot on the global warming front, scientists who question mankind's impact on climate change have been thrown into the category of Holocaust deniers.

"Western governments have pumped billions of dollars into careers and institutes and they feel threatened," says Ball.

"I can tolerate being called a sceptic because all scientists should be skeptics, but then they started calling us deniers, with all the connotations of the Holocaust. That is an obscenity. It has really got nasty and personal."

Ball also appeared in the British documentary, The Great Global Warming Swindle, which I'm sure has not helped his standing with those who would threaten him.

So, here's Watcher's question:

What I'd like to know is: To what degree is Al Gore involved with these death threats? THERE IS NO WAY IN HELL he is unaware of them. And IF he has nothing to do with them, why isn't he speaking up against them?

Yes, and if Al Gore will not speak out on the death threats against those he would criticize, then is he exactly like the "moderate Muslims" who angrily reject any implication that they are associated with extremists, but who will never speak out against the extremists themselves!

Is Al Gore the equivalent of a "moderate Muslim"?

Yes, he is.