Who is fighting dirty?

This is a difficult but IMHO unfortunately necessary page at this point. Part of the skeptics' battle is to show that, over and over again, the very corruptions the AGW accuse skeptics of, they are themselves guilty of, and in rather greater measure.

This is an ancient ploy - to point away from oneself, accusing someone, basically innocent, of one's own cardinal sins and corruptions. History tells this story many times and it seems to be part of human nature we need to recognize - but not encourage. I want to keep this side of Reclaiming Climate Science as short as we can manage - erasing material when better material comes, and if we reach the happy point where we can release past foibles...

Monckton Debates Global Warming With DeSmog's Littlemore By Noel Sheppard, NewsBusters, 17 August 2008 A debate between one of the world's foremost climate realists and one of the world's foremost climate alarmists took place [in Aug 2008]. In the left corner was Richard Littlemore of DeSmogBlog. In the right corner was Christopher Monckton, chief advisor to the Science and Public Policy Institute. Audio available here. So...who won? Littlemore seems to think it's Monckton. Also, it appears Monckton was right -- and Littlemore wrong! -- about DeSmog's benefactor John Lefebvre having been charged with money laundering.

Another Debate between John Christy (skeptic) and William Schlesinger (alarmist)

Al Gore spoke in Belgium in 2008. Tickets cost 400 euros each.

Gore's only one person at the tip of the iceberg

Profiteering:
Al Gore Pushes 'Pollution Tax' (NewsMax)
Al Gore Gets Rich ($100 Million) After White House (ABC News)
Al Gore is criticised for lining his own pockets after £3,300 ($6,757) per-minute green speech (Daily Mail, UK)
Al Gore, Maurice Strong: Creators of carbon credit scheme cashing in on it (Canada Free Press)
Gore's 'carbon offsets' paid to firm he owns (WorldNetDaily)
Gore Cashing in on $6 Trillion Energy Business (NewsMax)
Gore makes sustainable investment his business (The Age, Australia)
Gore to Rake in IPO Millions (NewsMax)
Gore Warns on 'Subprime Carbon' Industry (NewsMax)
Global Warming, Inc. (The Wall Street Journal)
Green firm Camco gets Blood and Gore investment (Reuters)
The Money and Connections Behind Al Gore’s Carbon Crusade (Human Events)

Hypocrite:
Al Gore and Global Warming - Is He a Hypocrite? (Video) (10min)
Al Gore's Gulfstream (Video) (7min)
Al Gore, Environmentalist and Zinc Miner (The Wall Street Journal)
- Environmentalist Gore allowed zinc mine (USA Today)
- Zero on Zinc: The mining double standard (National Review Online)
Al Gore, polluter? (WorldNetDaily)
Al Gore Refuses to Take Personal Energy Ethics Pledge (US Senate Environment & Public Works Committee)
Al Gore: Occidental Petroleum Connections (The Wall Street Journal)
Al Gore: The Other Oil Candidate (CorpWatch)
Al Gore's Inconvenient Stock Portfolio Exposed (PR Newswire)
Al Gore's Inconvenient Toxic Waste Dump (NewsMax)
Bush's Ranch House 'Far More Eco-Friendly' Than Gore's (CNSNews)
- George W. Bush's eco-friendly ranch compared to Al Gore's energy-expending mansion = True (Snopes)
Eco-warrior Al Gore serves up endangered fish at daughter's party (Daily Mail, UK)
Environmentalists Attack Gore's Dishonesty (NewsMax)
Gore and Enron: Controlling Hypocritical Authority (National Review Online)
Gore's Elk Hills/Occidental Oil Scandal: Bigger Than Teapot Dome (NewsMax)
Gore’s Entourage Lincoln Town Car Outside Global Warming Speech Idles w/ AC Cranking for 20 Minutes! (Canada Free Press)
Gore's Oil Money (The Nation)
Gore Hits the Waves with a Massive New Houseboat (Pajamas Media)
Gore home's energy use: 20 times average (WorldNetDaily)
- Al Gore's Inconvenient Electric Bill (FOX News)
- Al Gore's residence uses considerably more energy than the average American home = True (Snopes)
Gore’s personal electricity consumption up 10%, despite "energy-efficient" home renovations (Tennesse Center for Policy Research)
- Al Gore's Epic Hypocrisy (FOX News)
- Gore's Mansion Uses More Energy After 'Going Green' (CNSNews)
Gore isn't quite as green as he's led the world to believe (USA Today)
Hypocrite Gore Should Practice What He Preaches (The Tech, MIT)
Integrity in the Balance: Al Gore's Record On the Environment (CorpWatch)
Meet the real Al Gore (WorldNetDaily)
Old-Growth Timber used to Rebuild the Veranda of the Vice Presidential Mansion (Newsweek)
Whose Ox Is Gored? The Former Vice President's Environmental Exaggerations and Hypocrisy (The Wall Street Journal)

(h/t Popular Tech) Gore is only one of thousands...

From Global Warming and Nature's Thermostat, by Roy W. Spencer, Ph.D.:

Al Gore likes to say that mankind puts 70 million tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere every day. What he probably doesn't know is that mother nature puts 24,000 times that amount of our main greenhouse gas -- water vapor -- into the atmosphere every day, and removes about the same amount every day. While this does not 'prove' that global warming is not manmade, it shows that weather systems have by far the greatest control over the Earth's greenhouse effect, which is dominated by water vapor and clouds.

Updated 19th February 2009