Gore doesn't like to be challenged

Because many of the details in his movie "An Inconvenient Truth" are wrong or fabricated. Plus he flies all over the world adding to the carbon footprint he leaves everywhere he goes. I say I'll start worrying about carbon when they do.

You wouldn't know it from the sparse media coverage, but the British High Court found so many errors in Gore's movie in 2007 that British schools no longer can show the film without the equivalent of a health warning.

I asked Gore if he intends to correct the record. He dodged the question, and the so-called reporters defended his right to be evasive by shutting off my mic.

The encounter was disappointing but not surprising. I served years of hard time as a liberal journalist in Europe and learned that covering the environmental beat meant toeing the line of extremism — no inconvenient questions allowed.