Hey Al, why do you talk that way?

You would think after beclowning himself with a profanity-laced tirade a few weeks ago, Al Gore would want to keep a low profile for the time being. Unfortunately, that is not the case. In another tirade equally obnoxious, if not quite so profane, the former vice president turned climate change profiteer is now comparing "climate change skeptics" with racists who opposed the civil rights movement in the 1960's.

“I remember, again going back to my early years in the South, when the Civil Rights revolution was unfolding, there were two things that really made an impression on me,” Gore said. “My generation watched Bull Connor turning the hose on civil rights demonstrators and we went, ‘Whoa! How gross and evil is that?’ My generation asked old people, ‘Explain to me again why it is okay to discriminate against people because their skin color is different?’ And when they couldn’t really answer that question with integrity, the change really started.”

The former vice president recalled how society succeeded in marginalizing racists and said climate change skeptics must be defeated in the same manner.

“Secondly, back to this phrase ‘win the conversation,’” he continued. “There came a time when friends or people you work with or people you were in clubs with — you’re much younger than me so you didn’t have to go through this personally — but there came a time when racist comments would come up in the course of the conversation and in years past they were just natural. Then there came a time when people would say, ‘Hey, man why do you talk that way, I mean that is wrong. I don’t go for that so don’t talk that way around me. I just don’t believe that.’ That happened in millions of conversations and slowly the conversation was won.”

“We have to win the conversation on climate,” Gore added.

When Bogusky [sic] questioned the analogy, asking if the scientific reasoning behind climate change skeptics might throw a wrench into the good and evil comparison with racism, Gore did not back down.

“I think it’s the same where the moral component is concerned and where the facts are concerned I think it is important to get that out there, absolutely,” Gore said.

It should be noted that Gore's father, Sen. Albert Gore Sr., not only voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964 but also "attempted to send the Act to the Senate Judiciary Committee with an amendment to say 'in defiance of a court desegregation order, federal funds could not be held from any school districts.'" The younger Gore's memory of his late father's voting record, however, has always been a little fuzzy.

What is most amusing about Little Al's latest rant is that everything he says should happen to the "skeptics" is, in fact, happening to the people on his side of the argument. The alarmists are the ones who are finding themselves unable to answer the skeptics' questions with integrity. When Gore so nonchalantly equates the skeptics with racists or angrily calls their arguments bovine excrement, a normal, decent person can only say, "Hey, man why do you talk that way, I mean that is wrong. I don’t go for that so don’t talk that way around me. I just don’t believe that."

It is Gore who is being marginalized, and rightly so. His rhetoric of late only serves to prove it.