Al Gore Equates Climate Change Denial with Racism

Former Vice President Al Gore, who has taken a lot of heat from climate change naysayers in recent years, is making headlines at the moment for some incendiary comments that were made last Friday in an interview broadcast on UStream with Alex Bogusky, a former advertising executive turned climate change activist. In attempt to illustrate how dire impending changes in climate really are he expressed the idea that in the very near future climate change skeptics will be seen in the same light as racists. He also firmly maintained that in order to progress the necessary societal changes in light of ongoing climate realities, proponents and alarmists currently sounding the bell must quote “win the conversation” against those who deny there is a crisis. Recalling his earlier years in the South, during the unfolding of the Civil Rights revolution, Gore explained how bearing witness to an age of blatant discrimination along with the subsequent backlash from the younger generation made him realize just how much and how long it took to fight back against tradition and to even begin the process of change. Equating the battle against climate change with the battle against racism, the former VP affirmed that climate change skeptics must be marginalized by society just as racists have been and that ultimately behind the issue of climate change lies a moral component that demands that the facts are out there. When questioned about the analogy, Gore refused to back down and even fired back at Texas Governor Rick Perry, who recently publicized his anti-climate change beliefs on the presidential campaign trail, and said that Perry’s comments were just part of an organized effort to attack the reputation of the scientific community as whole through slander and lies.