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20 Years Later, Al Gore Learns an Inconvenient Truth: He Was Wrong About Virtually Everything

Mt. Kilimanjaro. (Credit: Diego Delso)

You remember Al Gore, the original election denier. In the years since the Supreme Court ruled in 2000 that Al’s endless recounts in an effort to overturn the election results needed to come to an end, the Democrat turned his attention to making gobs of money and scaring everybody with catastrophic environmental predictions. They all basically all had the same theme: you're going to die horribly, probably soon. 

Unless, of course, you vote for pouring trillions into bottomless pits like AOC’s fever dream Green New Grift Deal.

Gore’s 2006 documentary An Inconvenient Truth amped progressives and climate alarmists into a frothing frenzy, which has not stopped to this day, and brought us endless lectures from the cadaverous John Kerry, myriad climate conferences where billionaires swoop in on fuel-guzzling private jets, and lots of proposals to make the average Americans’ life just a little less joyful (think of the almost daily proposals out of the Biden White House to turn back time on things like washing machines, stoves, shower heads, vehicles, you name it).

There’s just one little problem with Gore’s Oscar-winning documentary (it should have gone under the category of “fantasy”): many if not most of his dystopian predictions haven’t even come close to coming true.

Here’s a partial rundown of the wannabe Nostradamus’ wild claims (emphasis theirs):

But ignoring the past and focusing on the future, one of his most concrete predictions of doom came regarding Mt. Kilimanjaro.

In his discussion, he shows pictures of snow on the African mountain from decades ago, then images from the early 2000s with much less snow.

He blames this on global warming, then ominously predicts, “Within the decade, there will be no more snows on Kilimanjaro.”

How’d that age?

Not well:


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But wait — there’s more:

His next example of declining snow is Glacier National Park.

Gore tells a story about how he personally climbed it with his daughter in 1998, then shows pictures of less glacier activity in the mountains. Then, the kicker. A concrete prediction of what would happen to the park.

“Within 15 years, this will be the park formerly known as Glacier,” he says, to oohs and aahs from the crowd.

Oops. In 2020, the National Park Service quietly removed a visitor center sign saying that the glaciers would soon disappear. Why? Because it was clear they weren’t disappearing.

Gore made numerous other claims that haven’t come to fruition, including this one:

He highlights the decline of Arctic sea ice, again saying it's rapidly diminishing. Except, current measurements for 2025-2026 show that sea ice extent is roughly in line with 2012-2013, just barely below the 1980-2010 average. Which is, of course, influenced by the period of colder weather that existed in the 1970's. 

He also predicted we’d have many more powerful hurricanes — but guess what? A study shows that the “Accumulated Cyclone Energy” in 2006 was higher than it was in 2025. Oops.

We could go on about each and every one of his claims, but you get the idea. While I’m sure some of his prophecies came to pass, the world is not about to die as so many environmentalists have shrieked for so long. Even Bill Gates is walking back the doomsday rhetoric, seeing that his crowd is looking like Henny Penny, and people have largely tuned them out. 

However, the damage that the sky is falling cabal — who the great Rush Limbaugh liked to call “environmentalist wackos” — is incalculable as Europe has given away much of its power in its green new dream, and the American landscape is cluttered with ineffective, eagle-killing windmills. The unknown billions in grift will probably never be known — remember Solyndra? There’s been so much more since then.

The reason you don’t see Al Bore Gore in the news much these days is that nobody is listening to him anymore, not even the progressive media. The Inconvenient Truth is that fear-mongering and relying on not-ready-for-prime-time energy sources is not the answer for stewarding our planet into the next century and beyond.

Advancing technology, a people-first approach, and clear-eyed thinking. Those are the answers. 

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