Argument's over -- No global warming!

The latest meme among some elements of the political right is that since Al Gore has a big house that uses a lot of energy, he's a hypocrite and wrong about global warming. That's what passes for logic with your average GW denier.

Of course, the story about Gore and his energy usage isn't as simple as the simple-minded are quick to believe. But even if you allow as how he probably could do better, that has nothing whatever to do with the veracity of what Gore says about the environment, observations with which the vast majority of the world's scientists agree.

A crackhead who stays straight enough for an hour to warn a classroom full of kids about the dangers of drugs isn't wrong in what he says.