Or was he lying then?<\/a>\u00a0 The problem with such a confession is obvious.\u00a0 How do we know he\u2019s not saying things for political reasons now?\u00a0 Saying you changed your mind because of this or that belief or because of evidence is one thing.\u00a0 Admitting you were just wrong is fine, though rare.\u00a0 But saying you only said something that was part of your effort to save the world because of politics sort of makes me wonder \u2013 is it no longer about politics?\u00a0 Or more to the point, is any of it not about politics? Al Gore is a one man circus star who is largely to blame for the amount of skepticism average thinking people have about MMGW.\u00a0 Send him packing, and more folks might be willing to sit down and have a listen.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Or was he lying then?\u00a0 The problem with such a confession is obvious.\u00a0 How do we know he\u2019s not saying things for political reasons now?\u00a0 Saying you changed your mind because of this or that belief or because of evidence is one thing.\u00a0 Admitting you were just wrong is fine, though rare.\u00a0 But saying you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2805,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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