Why was Al Gore front-page news? Here's why I'm not a fan of the former vice president

Jon Bechtel

Re: “Ex-VP talks regrets, his hopes for the future,” March 15.

It is interesting you give a front page story in the print edition of The Tennessean to a climate alarmist like Al Gore.

He has done nothing but become filthy rich while espousing catastrophic climate change.

Nobel Peace Prize winners Al Gore, left, and Rajendra Pachauri, the chief scientist for the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, hold their medals and diplomas at the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony at City Hall in Oslo, Norway, on Dec. 10, 2007.
Nobel Peace Prize winners Al Gore, left, and Rajendra Pachauri, the chief scientist for the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, hold their medals and diplomas at the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony at City Hall in Oslo, Norway, on Dec. 10, 2007.

He has made disastrous predictions for decades – everything from polar ice disappearing to disastrous ocean rising. He is a shrill voice of doom and gloom, all to line his pockets.

No matter that he is a Tennessean and a former vice president, he is not someone we should be listening to.

The climate of the earth has been changing since the beginning of time and will continue to do so until the end of time. Carbon is the life force for all plants and trees which then produce oxygen for people and animals to breathe. It is called part of the cycle of life.

Jon Bechtel, Brentwood 37027

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This article originally appeared on Nashville Tennessean: Al Gore profile riles Tennessean reader for climate change activism

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