Al Gore scoffs at climate-change ‘noise machine’

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Al Gore, the subject of the Oscar-winning ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ and Nobel Peace Prize winner for his advocacy of averting climate change, says he cannot control the ‘noise machine’’ of global-warming ‘deniers,’’ but dismisses the e-mails that have cranked up the noise.

The former vice president discussed the controversy dubbed ‘Climategate,’’ the hacking of e-mails at the climate research unit at a university in England that has spurred doubters of global warming and man’s hand in it, during an appearance today on CNN.

‘These are private e-mails more than 10 years old,’’ he said. ‘And they’ve tried to blow it up into something that it’s really not. ... If you take one little thing from 10 years ago from out of context and describe it inaccurately, it becomes a controversy without any consequence.’’

See what else Gore had to say, in The Swamp.

-- Mark Silva