One almost has to feel a little sorry for poor old Al Gore. Almost. Not only did he lose a presidential election by the narrowest of margins in history, but he has all the charisma of a grunion and the personal appeal of a flatworm. His loss of the 2000 election seems to have driven him more than a little off-kilter, not in the raving, wild-eyed way that Hillary Clinton's 2016 loss drove her into a TDS-riddled frenzy; no, Al Gore's disintegration led to his constant, hand-wringing predictions of climate doom.
He even produced a film, 2006's An Inconvenient Truth, which made a lot of dire predictions about the oncoming climate apocalypse. On Wednesday, a legacy media outlet favorable to the climate-scold cause gave Mr. Gore a quick tongue-bath on X over the anniversary of that film.
Not a single prediction in Al Gore's movie has come true. https://t.co/kvV0QDPUlH
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) June 17, 2026
There's just one inconvenient problem with his predictions: They were utter horse squeeze. All of them. The X post got Community-noted into low orbit, and the particulars are a wonder to behold.
First, on weather. Al Gore has repeatedly made dire predictions about increasing frequency and severity of hurricanes, and how climate change would lead to catastrophic sea-level rises, including a submerged Florida. He was wrong.
Gore presented the active 2005 Atlantic hurricane season as part of an ongoing trend. Ironically, for more than a decade after AIT was released not a single major hurricane made landfall on the continental United States, and today the science of tropical cyclones still does not support claims of detection or attribution of trends, with high confidence.
And:
Gore claimed that melting ice sheets could produce twenty feet of sea level rise “in the near future,” accompanied by animated maps drowning present-day Manhattan and south Florida. Gore’s claims departed significantly from the IPCC then and now, without acknowledging that he was advancing fringe views.
None of that happened. Al Gore was wrong.
Second, on wildlife populations: One of Al Gore's more dire claims was about how polar bears were in danger of extinction due to an ecological collapse. He was wrong.
The film famously highlighted polar bears as a symbol of impending ecological collapse, suggesting they were drowning due to melting ice. In reality, polar bear populations have more than doubled from around 12,000 in the 1960s to over 26,000 today. The primary historical threat was hunting, not climate change, and Gore’s claims, now 20 years later, have simply turned out to be wrong.
None of that happened. Al Gore was wrong, wrong.
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Third, Al Gore predicted an ice-free Arctic and the loss of the famous snows of Kilimanjaro. He was wrong.
In 2009, Gore cited researchers who suggested there was a 75% chance that the North Polar ice cap could be completely ice-free in summer within 5-7 years. Similar implications appeared around the 2006 film era.
What happened Instead: Arctic sea ice has actually shown some increases in recent years, particularly in terms of volume.
None of that happened. Al Gore was wrong, wrong, wrong.
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So, let's look at Al Gore's lifestyle; let's see if he's putting his money where his mouth is. The former vice president owns two homes: Belle Meade Mansion, a 10,000 square foot colonial-style mansion in the Nashville area, which he and his wife Tipper Gore purchased in 2002 for $2.3 million. The Gores also own Carthage Farm, the Gores' 400-acre family farm near Carthage, Tennessee. The Gores have also owned homes in California and the District of Columbia/Northern Virginia area in the past, but these two appear to be their only real estate holdings at the moment.
The Belle Meade mansion, in 2006, before the Gores made some "green" modifications, used about 220,000 kWh of electricity per year; that was, at that time, about 20 times the national average for a single-family home. After they added some solar panels and other such stuff, in 2016, the home's electricity use had dropped to... Oh, wait, it didn't drop; it increased, to about 231,000 kWh per year, or between 21 and 34 times the average for a single-family home. The home's estimated carbon footprint? About 230 metric tons per year, or about 30 times a typical American home. Wow. Just wow.
Hypocrisy, thy name is Al Gore.
Here's Al Gore's problem: He failed at Prophecy 101, in that he disregarded two key rules:
- Make your predictions so vague that you can't really be wrong; no matter what an outcome is, you can claim to have predicted it.
- If you can't make a prediction vague enough, make it for far enough in the future that you'll be long dead before it becomes apparent that you're full of Schiff.
Maybe we should feel sorry for Al Gore, who was, after all, tragically born with no personality. But he keeps pushing this drek, despite being wrong, wrong, and wrong again, in every particular. So, no, perhaps not.
He would have been better off sticking with ManBearPig.
