There’s been a lot of seasonal blowback for the climate change crusader Al Gore. A United States with 49 states experiencing snow this winter only exacerbated a plunge in popularity (They even tried to kick him off the board of Apple because the ice caps haven’t melted yet.), and he became an even easier target for critics who still call climate change ‘global warming.’

Words.

Both phrases are still spoken by Gore, who used them prolifically in a recent—and generously portioned—New York Times op-ed that came after a spate of perceived and actual failures in the climate change narrative. Most notably, the Copenhagen climate summit was a demonstration in bureaucratic ineptitude, and it didn’t meet its objective to create any kind of worldwide consensus to reduce emissions.

And most of it just has to do with money, like anything else. China, for example, refused to sign on to any targets that weren’t attached to GDP because their growth rate is fantastic, so any overall cap could restrict that. They wouldn’t negotiate on the matter, and it arguably derailed the whole debate. However, the U.S. Congress hasn’t made any movement because its members are mostly bought and sold by…