Without recognizing the hypocrisy, he also told FearLess Cottage consumer advocate Alex Bogusky that scientists espousing a skeptical view of his money-making theory are exclusively doing so for their own financial benefit (video follows with transcript and commentary):
ALEX BOGUSKY, CONSUMER ADVOCATE, FEARLESS COTTAGE: Well, they also funded and created some think tanks that would release reports, and there were scientists that worked there, but they were funded by the tobacco industry.
AL GORE: Yeah, yeah.
BOGUSKY: And some of those are, are now, have gone to work for oil and gas, or oil and coal.
GORE: What a lot of people don't realize, this is so astonishing, some of the same people…
BOGUSKY: Yeah.
GORE: …who took money from the tobacco companies to put out lies about the science of smoking and health are now taking money from the coal and oil companies to put out lies about the science of global warming.
BOGUSKY: Yeah.
GORE: And those lies in this new communications environment gain a much larger audience on a regular basis than what the real scientists are actually saying. Read the full report here.
Source: by Noel Sheppard, News Busters.
