Al Gore Silent on Loss of Climate Change Activist Bin Laden

Lost amid all the news of the death of Osama bin Laden was the fact he was a leading peddler of the nutty "climate change" movement.

Osama bin Laden, the leader of Al Qaeda, blamed the United States and developed countries for not halting climate change and said that the global economy should immediately abandon its reliance on the American dollar, according to an audiotape released Friday by the broadcaster Al Jazeera.

“Talk about climate change is not an ideological luxury but a reality,” Mr. bin Laden was quoted as saying in a report on Al Jazeera’s English-language Web site. “All of the industrialized countries, especially the big ones, bear responsibility for the global warming crisis.”

The late bin Laden also heaped words of praised of leftwing icon Noam Chomsky.

He called for a worldwide boycott of American goods and the dollar. He faulted the United States for failing to sign the Kyoto Protocol, which sought to curb global warming by restricting greenhouse gas emissions. And he offered a word of praise for Noam Chomsky, the American linguist and liberal political activist.

“Noam Chomsky was correct when he compared the U.S. policies to those of the Mafia,” Al Jazeera quoted Mr. bin Laden as saying. “They are the true terrorists, and therefore we should refrain from dealing in the U.S. dollar and should try to get rid of this currency as early as possible.”

Just last November Gore said said so-called climate change was the new terror. It appears Gore has moved on. Sunday night, just as word was ready to break that bin Laden was dead, Gore was busy comparing skeptics of junk science with birthers.

“We just had the object lesson with the birthplace of our president,” he said to laughter. “The chuckles here are hard won because it is still an example of a question of fact being turned into a question of power.”

Tailoring his stump environmental speech to the audience, Gore said that climate change is at a fundamental level a moral issue, aligning it with other generally progressive causes.

He also identified a litany of recent natural disasters — including floods in Pakistan and Australia and widespread wildfires in Russia — as biblical curses forewarned in Deuteronomy.

We've joked before about global warming being the left's new religion. Gore just made our case.

Not a peep about the death of bin Laden at Gore's website. Maybe he'll have a word for us once the shock wears off.