Al Gore and the politization of science - from Real Clear Investigations | Eastern NC Now

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The part about Gore and the politization of science begins at the 16:10 point in the video, after covering some other issues.

We should also remember the warnings about "public policy becoming captive to a scientific-technological elite" in President Eisenhower's Farewell Address.  It came immediately after his warning about a military-industrial complex.

It is in about the 20th paragraph of Eisenhower's speech:

https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/president-dwight-d-eisenhowers-farewell-address


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( April 19th, 2026 @ 4:55 pm )
 
Gore was not the first to resurrect and politically weaponize the old CO2 climate theory. That first happened in the UK.

The CO2 global warming theory was put forward by a Swedish physicist in the 1890s but never got much traction in climate science. Mainstream climate science looked at known climate history which followed alternating multi-century cycles of warming and cooling, CO2 and greenhouse gases were not a factor in those cycles.

In the early 1970s, a British science magazine, the "New Scientist" published an article that mentioned this then discredited and mostly forgotten CO2 climate theory. That got the attention of an advisor to British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who was then in major battles with the Marxist coal miners union and with Arab oil sheiks. Her government was pushing nuclear power as an alternative and saw this theory as something they could use for that purpose. They put out a bunch of government grant money for "science" that promoted this CO2 theory and found enough hungry scientists to jump on that grant money and give them the "science" they needed to resurrect the theory and play it in the media.

After Thatcher got what milage she could out of this revived theory to promote her nuclear power program, others picked it up for their own political purposes, not only Al Gore, but also the UN hierarchy..
( April 18th, 2026 @ 12:17 pm )
 
Al Gore is another of those Democrats whose sexual assaults on women are well known but most of the MSM media has covered it up for him.
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( April 18th, 2026 @ 9:24 am )
 
Here are Eisenhower's words on the dangers of a "scientific-technological elite":

"Akin to, and largely responsible for the sweeping changes in our industrial-military posture, has been the technological revolution during recent decades.

In this revolution, research has become central; it also becomes more formalized, complex, and costly. A steadily increasing share is conducted for, by, or at the direction of, the Federal government.

Today, the solitary inventor, tinkering in his shop, has been over shadowed by task forces of scientists in laboratories and testing fields. In the same fashion, the free university, historically the fountainhead of free ideas and scientific discovery, has experienced a revolution in the conduct of research. Partly because of the huge costs involved, a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity. For every old blackboard there are now hundreds of new electronic computers.

The prospect of domination of the nation's scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present and is gravely to be regarded.

Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite."

-President Dwight Eisenhower



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