There was a time when Al Gore pandered to voters with boasts like this:

I’ve raised tobacco … I’ve shredded it, spiked it,… and sold it.

If this is true, he owes his environmentalist friends a fortune in eco-indulgences, because now Gore has revealed that cigarette smoking is a “significant” contributor to his current hobbyhorse, the bane of mankind and all life on Earth, global warming.

The revelation was made to a receptive audience at United Nations headquarters, where Prince Albert spent nearly 3 hours lecturing bureaucrats on the perils of warm weather, on invitation from his old pal Kofi Annan.

Those in the audience lacking the initiative to sneak out of the auditorium learned not only that cigarette smoking is causing the planet to heat up, but that Greenland runs the risk of “splitting in two” — and that if that happens, parts of Manhattan, Shanghai, and Mumbai “will disappear.”

It just gets scarier and scarier, doesn’t it?

Cross-posted @ Moonbattery.

Said Van Helsing @ 4:46 pm | Permalink   

1. Betcha Gore is sorry his family grew tobacco.

   I believe this smoking thing is as reliable as anything else the global warming crowd has put out.

   Comment by Wink — 9/30/2006 @ 1:48 pm

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2. Where’s the transcript?

   Comment by M — 10/3/2006 @ 1:41 pm

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3. According to Drudge, Gore said it to the UN.

   Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore warned hundreds of U.N. diplomats and staff on Thursday evening about the perils of climate change, claiming: Cigarette smoking is a “significant contributor to global warming!”

   Gore, who was introduced by Secretary-General Kofi Annan, said the world faces a “full-scale climate emergency that threatens the future of civilization on earth.”

   Then he opened a case of the book he wrote that he’s trying to pawn off on people.

   Comment by Cao — 10/3/2006 @ 4:59 pm

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