Will This Guy Never Go Away?

The guy who invented the Internet is still trying to save the earth, and it seems time is growing short.

Al Gore brings down the Sundance house

PARK CITY, Utah, Jan. 26 (UPI) -- One of the biggest stars and hottest tickets at the Sundance Film Festival this week was former Vice President Al Gore and "An Inconvenient Truth."

The bigger surprise at the annual Park City, Utah, celebrity gathering is "Truth" isn't a comedy, drama or even a dramedy -- it's a documentary about global warming, the Washington Post reported Thursday.

"Al is a funny guy," Larry David of HBO's "Curb Your Enthusiasm," told the Post as the buddies attended celebrity parties and mingled with fans.

But Gore's film carries a very unfunny message -- humans may have only 10 years left to save the planet from the mass destruction of global warming.

David's wife, Laurie, convinced Gore to make the film after watching one of his global warming presentations in 2004.

The slide show "was his baby, and he felt proprietary about it and it was hard for him to let go," she said. Now they are hopeful a distributor will pick up

David says the filmmakers are in discussion with three or four distributors, hoping for a sale.

"This isn't about box office," David said. "None of us are going to make a dime." What is at stake, she told the Post, "is, you know, the planet."

Let's, you know, forget for a moment -- no, let's not -- that not a single prediction of these self-appointed environmentalists has ever come true. We have not run out of oil, we have not starved to death, we have not triggered a new ice age, we have not destroyed the world through overpopulation and, in all likelihood, global warming has nothing to do with human activities. When a single volcanic eruption can throw more debris into the atmosphere than all human activity since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, you gotta be just a little bit skeptical.

That's not to say that Al Gore has not been influential in the environmental community. When federal authorities searched the tiny cabin of Unibomber Theodore Kaczynski, they found a well-worn copy of Gore's book, "Earth in the Balance." Passages of the book were highlighted, underlined in red, and as well-worn as an evangelist's King James Bible. Besides being charged with the bombing deaths of three people and the wounding of 29, he should also have been prosecuted for plagiarism, since parts of the book were lifted almost word for word for use in the killer's "Unibomber Manifesto." Who knows what kind of person Gore will inspire in his next book.

My prediction: Look for the Chicken Little crowd to tweak their movement a bit. The term "global warming" will be abandoned for "global climate change." That will cover not only the mild winters in North America, but the devastating cold snaps in Europe and Asia. In fact climate change will cover any eventuality from blizzards to heat waves to raining frogs.