The Patriot Post® · Gore's Big Climate Lies Didn't Stand the Test of Time

Not many vice presidents are particularly memorable. They’re the number two guy on the nation’s top ticket who, despite having an important role in backroom politics, are rarely ever called upon for high-profile service. Or as Thomas Jefferson put it all the way back in 1797, “The second office of this government is honorable & easy, the first is but a splendid misery.”

However, Bill Clinton’s veep, Al Gore, made a name for himself in two ways.

First, by insisting on endless recounts in Florida in the hopes of winning the 2000 presidential election against George W. Bush.

Second, for his documentary “An Inconvenient Truth,” which was ostensibly intended to educate the public about global warming. This film debuted in 2006 and was awarded two Oscars in 2007. Also in 2007, Gore was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his climate alarmism.

The only problem is that 20 years later, all of his “inconvenient truths” have been thoroughly debunked.

Gore definitely helped stimulate a political movement, and ecofascism was the rancid fruit of his fearmongering. He held the belief, like many environmentalists do, that the world is dying because of humans, and we’re running out of time to fix it. Thus, climate virtue signals began to hit the mainstream.

It was “virtuous” to drive clean cars, not eat red meat, and promote alternative energy, all to save the dying planet. Europe is still trying to get to “net zero” by 2030. Denmark is even forcing its farmers to poison their cattle to prevent flatulence because of the methane gas that is produced.

In “An Inconvenient Truth,” Gore rants about how greenhouse gases like CO₂ cause global warming. (Nary a Democrat, of course, will point out that CO₂ isn’t a pollutant.) He claimed that because humans are adding to greenhouse gases, there would no longer be snow on Africa’s Mount Kilimanjaro, that all the glaciers would melt, and that natural disasters and monster storms would occur in perpetuity.

Here we are in 2026, and Mount Kilimanjaro still has snow (even record snowfall as recently as 2018). The glaciers that Gore was so concerned about disappearing are all still there. In fact, one glacier in Argentina — El Perito Moreno — is growing larger. Big storms and natural disasters occur just as they have before, fluctuating year after year. In other words, Gore’s big points have all been debunked. The documentary didn’t age well.

Nevertheless, the political dog whistles and ideological virtue signals remain firmly in place. As OutKick’s Ian Miller observes:

“Are you ready to change the way you live?” the documentary asks over the credits. The answer, as demonstrated by Gore and his celebrity pals, is that absolutely none of them are willing to change anything about their lives in order to “solve” climate change. Because they don’t actually believe in it, they just want a cause to signal their virtue. They want something to provide meaning to their lives. Gore gave them that, much in the same way he discusses a single college professor giving him meaning with global warming.

Global warming led to terrible policy changes under the Obama and Biden administrations. It was not all that long ago that former President Joe Biden forced carmakers to make an excessive number of electric vehicles because they were supposedly better for the environment. His energy secretary, Jennifer Granholm, even did a road trip in an EV, which only ended up highlighting two of its main limitations: there isn’t enough infrastructure for EVs, and they take a relatively long time to recharge. After all, filling up at the gas station takes just a couple of minutes.

Most American consumers don’t really want electric vehicles because they are expensive and there aren’t enough charging stations. Ultimately, given the appalling, counterproductive mineral mining involved in their production, they aren’t greener, cleaner, or morally superior to gas-powered vehicles. Without generous tax credits, it’s no wonder EVs are sitting on car lots unsold.

Perhaps the most galling thing about Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth” is that leftists will still praise him to this day, even though his claims didn’t stand the test of 20 years (some not even 10). His big lies are still fostering anti-human and anti-natalist rhetoric from die-hard believers and leftist politicians because they’re a convenient narrative distracting from bad policy.