National: Al Gore

Bad news for Nobel laureate Al Gore and his not-too-merry band of tree huggers. Rasmussen Reports has released the results of its latest opinion poll, and for the first time, a majority (51%) of Americans are not buying into the Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) myth:   

Forty-four percent (44%) of U.S. voters now say long-term planetary trends are the cause of global warming, compared to 41% who blame it on human activity.

Seven percent (7%) attribute global warming to some other reason, and nine percent (9%) are unsure in a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.

The percentage who believe that global warming is the result of long term cyclical warming and cooling of the earth has jumped ten points since Rasmussen last polled on the issue:

In April of last year, 47% of Americans blamed human activity versus 34% who viewed long-term planetary trends as the culprit.

Today President-Elect Barack Obama and Vice President-Elect Joe Biden will be paying a pre-inaugural visit to the Supreme Court of the United States at the invitation of Chief Justice John Roberts. According to a transition team press release, today's meeting will mark the third time in recent history that a president-elect and vice president-elect have visited the court, with Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush having done so in 1980, and Bill Clinton and Al Gore doing so in 1992.

While the visit is ostensibly to give Obama and Biden an opportunity to meet the Justices' and to tour the court, it will also serve to make heads on the right and the left simultaneously explode as they read the words, "Following in the footsteps of Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton.