text: Just because a bunch of noisy, self-interested academics and politicians say that we're destroying the world does not mean that we should give up everything that modern technology has given us without abundant proof. For years now, Al Gore has been pointing to his fellow Nobel-prize winners, the IPC, as the last word in scientific proof. Today those selfsame "authorities" stand revealed instead as charlatans of no more scientific standing than Doctor Cure-all and his Magic Elixir.