It wasn't a hot woman who led Gore astray; it was an iceberg

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.

The internet, invented by Al Gore, is now supplying pickup lines

(Newser) – Al Gore is known for a lot of things—losing the presidency, "inventing" the Internet, fighting global warming—but charisma ain't one of them. Thankfully, comedian Andy Borowitz and his Twitter followers want to help the newly-single activist woo the ladies. Here are some of the best pickup lines they came up with:

•@BorowitzReport "Here's an inconvenient truth, baby—I want to get into your lockbox!"

•@heymynameisevan "The average temperature has climbed 1.4 degrees Fahrenheit since you walked in here."

•@umajade "How do I love thee? Let me (re)count the ways. "

•@BorowitzReport "Baby, if you want to see how big my hanging chad is, let's go to my place & do a recount."

•@colsonwhitehead "I promise to finish second."

This is cruel

End of an Era

Roxanna Moser

Consider the marriage of Gore,
the blond and the resounding bore.
Appears they've decided
their passion's subsided,
and he's on his way out the door.

It seemed that their union was strong,
but something went terribly wrong.
But the thought that I find
going 'round in my mind
is what on earth took her so long.

CBS identifies cause of Gores' marital cooling - George Bush

Is there anything a journalist cannot or will not twist to bring the topic back to how life would be so much better if only not for that awful George W. Bush? On Tuesday's CBS Evening News, with the help of the Washington Post's Sally Quinn, Sharyl Attkisson managed to blame news, that Al and Tipper Gore are separating, on how they never got over being denied the presidency despite winning the popular vote in 2000. If only Bush hadn't taken it from them.

Attkisson recalled “it's been ten years since that oddly public passionate kiss at the Democratic convention. That was followed by Gore winning the popular vote for President but losing the electoral vote. Family friend Sally Quinn says that may have done the marriage irreparable harm.”

Viewers then head from Quinn, who's married to former Post Executive Editor Ben Bradlee and is now titular overseer of the paper's “On Faith” blog: “He obviously suffered a lot and still is suffering. He'll never get over that and neither will she.”