Aeronaut wrote: Was millions a typo, Brian? Seems like chump change on a global scale.

I was referring to them individually; it would eventually amount to a billion plus for Gore, taking into account his interests in various firms, notably the sole provider of an instrument “approved” to monitor CO2 at or near sources.

The entire global carbon credits cap&trading;system, of course, is in the hundreds of billions potentially, or more.

“…Lawrence Livermore Laboratories … concluded that a doubling of carbon dioxide would have little or no effect on the temperature at the surface and, if anything, might cause the surface to cool.” p.36, http://arxiv.org/pdf/0707.1161v4

AGW is not just wrong, it is an evil hoax.