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You Can Call Him Al ... But Al Won't Call You Back
By Gene J. Koprowski
- FOXNews.com

Al Gore won a Nobel Prize and an Oscar for his film, An Inconvenient
Truth. But in the last three months, as global warming has gone from a scientific near-certitude to the subject of satire, Gore -- the public
face of global warming -- has been silent on the topic.

The former vice president apparently finds it inconvenient even to
answer calls to testify before the U.S. Senate. You can call him Al . .
. but he won't call back.

On Tuesday, Oklahoma Sen. James Inhofe -- a prominent skeptic of global warming theory and the Republican leader of the Senate's Environment and Public Works Committee -- issued a request for Gore to come testify on
global warming. In an interview with FoxNews.com, Inhofe said he wants
Gore to appear because "it will be interesting to ask him on what
science he based his movie," a film the senator considers "science
fiction."

Gore has yet to respond, but that didn't prevent him from causing a stir
at Apple's shareholder meeting Thursday. According to CNET, Gore was
seated in the first row while several stockholders bashed his high-
profile views on climate change. One reportedly said Gore "has become a laughingstock. The glaciers have not melted."

Gore did not reply, and he has not commented on his blog or Twitter
feed.

Inhofe says he hopes Gore will address the recent Climate-gate scandals
that have besmirched the science, scientists and politicians who back
the theory of manmade climate change. Last fall, news outlets in the
United Kingdom exposed a scandal in which leading global warming
scientists conspired in e-mails to hide data that contradicted "proof"
of manmade global warming. Then the world's leaders failed to reach a
deal on climate change policy in Copenhagen. And the U.N.'s climate
change research body admitted flaws in its report that concluded that
the Himalayan glaciers were melting, the Arctic ice cap was fading away,
and the Amazon rainforest was in imminent danger.

Since his appearance at the Copenhagen climate summit in December, Gore
has been reluctant to talk to the media, making only a handful of public appearances.

On Jan. 16, he spoke at the American Library Association conference at
the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center, and he signed copies of his
newest book, Our Choice: How We Can Solve the Climate Crisis.On Feb. 22,
at the IBM Pulse Conference in Las Vegas, Gore commented on how the environment was a fantastic business opportunity.

"We are in the presence of one of the greatest opportunities in the
history of business to become much more efficient and eliminate waste, pollution and losses all at the same time," he said.

The media, meanwhile, have started to ask why the world's most famous
advocate of all things green remains mute on the growing chorus of
opposition.

"The godfather of climate hysteria is in hiding as another of his wild
claims unravels -- this one about global warming causing seas to swallow
us up," the editors of Investors Business Daily wrote on Tuesday. "We've
not seen or heard much of the former vice president, Oscar winner and
Nobel Prize recipient recently as the case for disastrous man-made
climate change collapses."

After days of calls and e-mails by FoxNews.com to the "Al Gore Support
Center" -- located online at algoresupportcenter.com and in the real
world in Carthage, Tenn -- a spokeswoman for Gore declined to comment on
the matter.

"Thank you for your kind request," wrote Kalee Kreider. "Unfortunately,
Mr. Gore's schedule is extremely overbooked and we're unable to offer
any availability. It's very difficult to decline invitations such as
yours, but it's an unfortunate inevitability of the growing influence of
the climate-crisis message and the demand on Mr. Gore's time. We do
apologize, but thanks for your interest."

Inhofe says it's important that Gore testify before the Congress and
tell the full story.

"First Climate-gate happened, before Copenhagen, and everything
unraveled on the global warming front," the senator said. "It appears
that the scientific community has been deliberately falsifying science
for years, whether it's the melting of the Himalayas or the melting of
the polar ice. All of that was in his movie. So we tried to reach him."

"When his movie came out," Inhofe added, "parents of small children told
me their kids had to go to the psychiatrist over bad dreams about global warming. We owe it to the public to find out where the science came
from. This is the greatest scientific scandal of our generation."

Others in the environmental community agree on the need for a hearing,
and for the star witness to appear. "Al Gore absolutely needs to
testify," said Paul Driessen, a senior fellow with the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow, a non-profit that focuses on energy, the
environment and international affairs.

Inhofe said global warming science is still being used by the Obama administration to support regulations to rein in emissions, despite indications that Britain's official weather office may redo all of its
data, and indications that the U.N. will anounce changes in reaction to Climate-gate. He said he believes that global warming legislation could
not generate more than 20 votes in the Senate right now.

He said he has issued calls for the inspectors general of the
Environmental Protection Agency, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to
come to his committee and testify. He said criminal law may have been
broken in the U.K. when scientists there refused to comply with requests
for information in a timely fashion, and he worries that untoward acts
may have been committed in the U.S. as well.

"What other kinds of unethical or criminal things have happened?" he
asked.

But Inhofe's critics said the senator's demands reflect his own agenda. "Senator Inhofe will never stop working to protect Big Oil by denying
that global warming exists, and frankly he's an embarrassment to the
United States Senate and the nation," said Kert Davies, research
director for Greenpeace.

"This is just a continuation of his 15-year-plus smear campaign and
clearly not a serious effort to discuss the increasingly urgent warnings
from climate scientists about what is happening to our planet."

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