You might have heard about ClimateGate -- a series of hacked emails from climate scientists that has given climate change deniers fuel to continue undermining a clear scientific consensus in the court of public opinion. Here they are in their entirety. Good luck trying to disprove global warming based on these emails!

Despite adding nothing substantive to the questions surrounding climate change, this illegal act of naked distortion has put the environmental movement on the defensive, which in turn has handed the debate over to the public relations efforts of dirty energy profiteers. One website focused on clearing up the PR games around climate change is the DeSmogBlog. And two of the blog's authors have a new book out called Climate Cover-up which exposes the public relations fraud behind the fake debate around climate change.

What's incredible is how ClimateGate has dominated the climate discourse leading up to Copenhagen. Indeed, our friends at the DeSmogBlog point out that "this PR campaign could not be accomplished without the compliance of media as well as the assent and participation of leaders in government and business."

This article was written as a response to Senator John Kerry's Aug31 Op-ed on the Huffington Post, which I submitted to the same outlet but was not published.  Here it is a few months later, when we have seen how far the Senator bill (co-sponsored by Kerry, Boxer and Kirk) comes to answer the urgency that Kerry himself seemed to stress in his Op-ed.

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In his Aug31 article in the Huffington Post, Senator John Kerry pressed the case of climate change presenting a grave threat to America’s national security.  He was right on point.

However, ultimately he missed the point on several accounts:

by Lim Li Lin, Third World Network, Briefing paper 1 on UN Climate Change Talks, Nov2, 2009. originally posted on http://www.twnside.org.sg/

The plot

Some developed countries are plotting the death of the Kyoto Protocol. The stage has been set. Misinformation has been circulated to the media and public that the Kyoto Protocol expires in 2012. The December 2009 UN climate change conference in Copenhagen, so the story goes, is to agree or lay the foundations of a new treaty to replace the Kyoto Protocol – the so-called “post-Kyoto” agreement.

The truth

Dear Friends,

On Sat Nov 7th, Al Gore will be in Cambridge, MA to promote his new book: Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Global Climate Crisis.  Details here: http://www.harvard.com/events/press_release.php?id=2398

Unfortunately, tickets are already sold out.  If any of you have gotten a ticket, please consider asking the following questions of him.  Since each person could ask only one question, it will help if you could let me know so we could coordinate.

We need to be outside holding signs and banners too!  We'll meet there at 12:15 pm, Saturday Nov 7th.

Suggested signs/banners are at the bottom of this page.

Al Gore has played a crucial role in pushing climate change onto people's consciousness.  Yet, he has embraced cap and trade and the current polluter-protecting, climate damaging US federal climate legislation.  Let's use this opportunity to ask some tough questions and hopefully shed light on some critical issues, and to show some visible opposition to false and dangerous "solutions" that only make matters worse.  Below are questions similar to some of the ones we prepared last week to ask Obama at his MIT speech (but from which he escaped with his swiftly escorted motorcade).  Mr. Gore will have a harder time running away, since he will be signing his books too! :-)