Bats, I think in terms of Gore, your guilty of throwing the baby out with the bathwater. If you read his book, Earth in Balance, you'd see there is cause for concern about some of the problems he discusses.

In one section, he talks about areas where water was diverted from lakes to irrigate crops, which in turn caused dangerously low lake level and subsequent droughts. This is currently happening to farmers in Texas. How can you say thats no cause for alarm?

It has also been proven that CO2s from arisol cans hastened the depletion of the ozone layer. It was good of the government to ban then because of this.