Is there anything that cigarette smoke doesn't do? Now it is the cause of the end of the world according to Al Gore. That's right, Al Gore told the UN that cigarette smoking causes global warming. Drudge Former U.S. Vice......

Climate change is scientific, who you blame it on is political.

http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/financialpost/story.html?id=3711460e-bd5a-475d-a6be-4db87559d605

Mammals that breathe cause significant global warming.

Please don't breathe so we may all survive.

Drudge has lied many times in the past. Are we going to believe him about this when there are no credible sources to back it up?

Alex, I love you man, but, were I to characterize your link as . . . “thinly sourced,” would you object unduly?

I agree it's thinly sourced, but having read the book version of "An Inconvenient Truth" I wouldn't be surprised if he'd made the comment. That said, I probably shouldn't have relied solely on Drudge.

Just a couple of bon mots from the letter:

Observational evidence does not support today's computer climate models, so there is little reason to trust model predictions of the future.

While the confident pronouncements of scientifically unqualified environmental groups may provide for sensational headlines, they are no basis for mature policy formulation. The study of global climate change is, as you have said, an "emerging science," one that is perhaps the most complex ever tackled. It may be many years yet before we properly understand the Earth's climate system. Nevertheless, significant advances have been made since the protocol was created, many of which are taking us away from a concern about increasing greenhouse gases. If, back in the mid-1990s, we knew what we know today about climate, Kyoto would almost certainly not exist, because we would have concluded it was not necessary.

"Climate change is real" is a meaningless phrase used repeatedly by activists to convince the public that a climate catastrophe is looming and humanity is the cause. Neither of these fears is justified. Global climate changes all the time due to natural causes and the human impact still remains impossible to distinguish from this natural "noise."

I'm not so convinced that all the data should be unquestioned.

I do agree with Jim Henley that based on what we have so far we can't take it as a given that Gore thinks cigarette smoke is a significant cause of global warming. He may hold that view, he may not. What we have is enough to contact Gore and ask him, but not enough to assign it as part of Gore's world view.