Bad Astronomy

Does Al Gore read BA?

Does Al Gore read this website? I wonder. On “Countdown with Keith Olbermann” on MSNBC, former Vice President Gore was discussing global warming with Olbermann:

OLBERMANN: People who don‘t believe in global warming have said everything to you and about you and about the science in this, except to say global—there’s no globe. The earth is flat, we all know that.

GORE: Well, they’re in the—the people who still say that global warming isn’t real are actually in the same boat with the flat earth society. They get together and party on Saturday nights with the folks that believe the moon landing was in a movie lot in Arizona.

Well, he meant Nevada, not Arizona, since that’s where Area 51 is, but other than that he’s dead-on.