Matt Vadum at Capital Research Center makes an interesting point about Al Gore’s incredible luck, that he is chairman of a green-friendly investment firm that stands to profit from his own advocacy. But Gore’s people aren’t amused.
Richard Campbell, a spokesman for Generation Investment Management, called the suggestions a “nonsense story.”
In an e-mail message to The Chronicle, he writes that neither Mr. Gore nor any other members of the investment company’s board will make money from the expansion of carbon trading.
“To suggest then that they are somehow benefiting from the growth of this industry betrays a complete lack of knowledge of the carbon offset industry,” he writes.
This is blasphemy! This is madness! A chairman making outrageous claims for public awareness that helps fuel his business? Somebody get Tim Carney on the phone!
