seasoned Gore defenders, please help

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I am coming to the defense of Gore on another board against someone who called him a hypocrite. (

I'm not an Al Gore pro, and don't have time to become one this afternoon, but I think it's important to shut up Global Warming deniers and their ilk. I'm sure some of you have encountered the following many times, so what's the truth wrt:

Quote: (and btw, the following quote is not from the person I'm debating, he's actually not even a freeper, just someone who thinks he sees hypocrisy. the quote is lifted from some web site full of anti-gore quotes:http://www.martinfrost.ws/htmlfiles/nov2006/heats_up.html)

So why, then, didn't Gore dump his family's large stock holdings in Occidental (Oxy) Petroleum? As executor of his family's trust, over the years Gore has controlled hundreds of thousands of dollars in Oxy stock. Oxy has been mired in controversy over oil drilling in ecologically sensitive areas.

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but Gore's home in Carthage is sitting on a zinc mine. Gore receives $20,000 a year in royalties from Pasminco Zinc, which operates a zinc concession on his property. Tennessee has cited the company for adding large quantities of barium, iron and zinc to the nearby Caney Fork River.


(his words to me):
I'm just saying put your money where your mouth is. How can you not see the hypocrisy in this???