Al Gore evident dropped into the Aspen Institute's confab last week to rail against corporate evildoers doing to the climate change debate exactly what they did to the tobacco debate 40 years ago.

The tobacco lobbyists, he says,



succeeded in delaying the implementation of the surgeon general’s report for 40 years – 40 years! In every one of those 40 years the average number of Americans killed by cigarettes each year exceeded the total number of Americans killed in all of World War II: 450,000 per year. My sister was one of them. … It was evil, evil, evil.

And he was just warming up.