The real question is: What indy pet causes is Al Gore going to turn his attention to now that his blockbuster one snagged an Oscar?  A sudden psoriasis epidemic among America's seniors?  ATM fees? Maybe he'll do a little theater in London about the victims of bad spinach.

A few scientists who cop to climate change but not to the Day After Tomorrow prognosis, are taking the ex veep to task for being a bogus Cassandra:

In October, Dr. Easterbrook made similar points at the geological society meeting in Philadelphia. He hotly disputed Mr. Gore’s claim that “our civilization has never experienced any environmental shift remotely similar to this” threatened change.

Nonsense, Dr. Easterbrook told the crowded session. He flashed a slide that showed temperature trends for the past 15,000 years. It highlighted 10 large swings, including the medieval warm period. These shifts, he said, were up to “20 times greater than the warming in the past century.”

Getting personal, he mocked Mr. Gore’s assertion that scientists agreed on global warming except those industry had corrupted. “I’ve never been paid a nickel by an oil company,” Dr. Easterbrook told the group. “And I’m not a Republican.”