I was confronted yet again yesterday with a green alleging that by rejecting the lifestyle changes mandated by climate alarmism and its related proposals one is akin to someone paid by the tobacco companies to deny the link between smoking and cancer. This particular straw argument is I suppose a step down from the trendy “Holocaust denier!” or its shortened variant, “denier”, yet odd nonetheless–if only due to the seemingly disproportionate proclivity of greens to light up (based on my unscientific example of attending many Kyoto confabs).

But now we must also wonder about their Surgeon General, Al Gore, a chain-smoker under this analogy if ever there was one.