If a famous politician gets rich by fiercely advocating things that aren't true, he also would fiercely protect his fortune

Let's imagine that a well-known American politician, with a large family, decides to spice up his career, as well as his bank account, by investing his reputation and staking his future on a single issue

That's what Al Gore did when he went all-in on man-made global warming.

The payoff was phenomenal. His Hollywood film, An Inconvenient Truth, won an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 2007, even though a British judge ruled that the movie contained at least nine major errors and could not be shown to students without counter-balancing information. Moreover, the BBC alleged that Gore knew that his movie presented false facts, but was afraid that any appearance of uncertainty would simply encourage global warming skeptics.

Retired climatologist Timothy Balls described "An Inconvenient Truth as a "wonderful piece of propaganda" that relies on "visual imagery and gimmickry."

If that is true, said JunkScience.com publisher Steve Milloy, "Gore should win the Nobel Prize for propaganda."

Czech President Vaclav Klaus said he was surprised that Gore won a Nobel Peace Prize, noting that "The relationship between his activities and world peace is unclear and indistinct."

Meanwhile, a conservative think tank in New Zealand came out for stripping Gore’s movie of its Oscar.

The West Australian newspaper reported that the New Zealand Center of Political Research has written to the president of the group that produces the Academy Awards, contending that the alleged scientific errors in the movie disqualify it for the Best Documentary award.

Recently, things have become much thornier for Gore and for other major proponents of man-made global warming theory.

Emails written by climate scientists at East Anglia University, in England, suggest that some of the allegdly scientific data behind the climate center's reports were falsified, and that climate scientists were engaging in a conspsiracy to win acceptance of the global warming argument.

When the questionable data was removed from temperature charts, the famous hockey stick chart showing a recent sharp increase in temperatures no longer showed the uptick.

Nevertheless, Gore has his fortune, and he appears determined to protect it.

The Gores announced recently that they had bought an $8.5 million mansion overlooking the Pacific Ocean in Santa Barbara, CA.

Then the Gores revealed that they are separating after 40 years of marriage, and that Tipper Gore will live in the Santa Barbara mansion. It's her house. And she has played no known role in the global warmng furore.

There already have been calls for Gore to return the Nobel Prize and the Academy Award. If  process servers start coming to the door of Al Gore's mansion in Tennessee, looking for financial recovery on matters related to the global warming hoax, look for the strategic separation to be followed by a strategic divorce.

She'll get the house in Santa Barbara.

Meet the journo who exposed errors in Al Gore's movie

Last week at the Society of Environmental Journalists conference in Wisconsin, former Vice President Al Gore took questions from journalists about global warming for the first time in years. I attended to ask him about factual errors in his movie, "An Inconvenient Truth."

You wouldn't know it from the sparse media coverage, but the British High Court found so many errors in Gore's movie in 2007 that British schools no longer can show the film without the equivalent of a health warning.

I asked Gore if he intends to correct the record. He dodged the question, and the so-called reporters defended his right to be evasive by shutting off my mic.

The encounter was disappointing but not surprising. I served years of hard time as a liberal journalist in Europe and learned that covering the environmental beat meant toeing the line of extremism — no inconvenient questions allowed.

But it is now time for journalists, and the consumers and businesses that will pay the ultimate price, to start questioning the conventional wisdom about global warming and exposing its true cost. If alarmists like Al Gore get their way, millions of American families will watch as their dreams of a prosperous and pleasant future disappear.