Andrea Mitchell reads questions on climate change from Palin's Facebook page to Al Gore on MSNBC

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http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2009_12/021380.php

GORE DOESN'T SUFFER FOOLS GLADLY.... John Dickerson chatted with Al Gore this week. The Nobel laureate and former vice president was apparently not in the mood to tolerate stupidity.

"We're putting 90 million tons of it into the air today and we'll put a little more of that up there tomorrow. The physical relationship between CO2 molecules and the atmosphere and the trapping of heat is as well-established as gravity, for God's sakes. It's not some mystery. One hundred and fifty years ago this year, John Tyndall discovered CO2 traps heat, and that was the same year the first oil well was drilled in Pennsylvania. The oil industry has outpaced the building of a public consensus of the implications of climate science.

"But the basic facts are incontrovertible. What do they think happens when we put 90 million tons up there every day? Is there some magic wand they can wave on it and presto! -- physics is overturned and carbon dioxide doesn't trap heat anymore? And when we see all these things happening on the Earth itself, what in the hell do they think is causing it? The scientists have long held that the evidence in their considered word is 'unequivocal,' which has been endorsed by every national academy of science in every major country in the entire world.

"If the people that believed the moon landing was staged on a movie lot had access to unlimited money from large carbon polluters or some other special interest who wanted to confuse people into thinking that the moon landing didn't take place, I'm sure we'd have a robust debate about it right now."

This morning, Gore appeared on MSNBC, where Andrea Mitchell read from Sarah Palin's Facebook page to ask the former vice president questions about climate change.

"Well, you know, the global warming deniers persist in this air of unreality," Gore explained. "After all, the entire north polar icecap, which has been there for most of the last 3 million years, is disappearing before our eyes. Forty percent is already gone. The rest is expected to go completely within the next decade. What do they think is causing this?

[Bitwit1234]

1. This woman wallows in republican slime so much

she can't see the truth before her eyes.

[Fumesucker]

3. What is going to be the downfall of America is that stupidity isn't immediately painful..

In fact, stupidity often pays extremely well if you happen to be part of the M$M.

[Echo In Light]

12. And from there the masses accept it, and 'stupid' becomes 'normal' consensus "reality"

... and when someone disagrees, there's of course something 'wrong' with them.

Brainwashed people don't comprehend their own affliction.

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13. It takes a certain, fairly unusual IMO, personality type...

To see beyond one's own cultural biases and stereotypes.

Of course, having that personality type often makes you an outsider among your own people.

Erasmus thought that in the country of the blind the one eyed man is king, Erasmus was a flaming optimist.

Edited for clarity.

[Echo In Light]

14. The few sane in the asylum are usually though to be quite mad by the rest

[peekaloo]

2. Ms. Greenspan's obsession with Lady Grifter is creepy. nt.

[Myrina]

4. I wish Gore would have just laughed out loud at her:

"Silly Rabbit, tricks are for kids! Call me back when you want to do a serious interview."

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5. Sarah Palin is not intellectually capable of arguing this subject

with anyone let alone Al Gore. Twitter and Facebook? I still can't understand why MSNBC gives Palin stories so much air time. Shame on the Washington Post for giving Palin one sentence worth of space.

She is a nobody who was unfortunately put in the limelight for three months in 2008. Maybe the Post should ask Tiger Woods what he thinks of global warming.

[Raschel]

7. Of course she can't argue it. That's why she does only facebook and twitter.

And someone else writes her crap. Sarah unleashed. What a joke.

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8. As soon as someone on MSNBC utters her name, I change

the channel (and have been doing so all year). I never saw so much adulation for an empty headed fool.

[marshall]

11. Facebook is about as close to a debate with Gore as she's going to get

Facebook is for kids.

[liberal N proud]

6. Great response from Gore

"global warming deniers persist in this air of unreality"

[Fumesucker]

9. Persist? ... They effin' *marinade* in an air of unreality.. n/t

[Matariki]

10. Great quote:

"If the people that believed the moon landing was staged on a movie lot had access to unlimited money from large carbon polluters or some other special interest who wanted to confuse people into thinking that the moon landing didn't take place, I'm sure we'd have a robust debate about it right now."

He was smart to get out of politics.