Al Gore smacks down Abbott, praises Palmer

No surprises that Al Gore thinks Abbott is a fossil fool. Although I guess the language is very direct:

Al Gore has labelled Tony Abbott a "straight-out climate denier" and warned he should "change or get out of the way".

"Because Australia wants to have the kind of sensible policies that the rest of the world is moving toward," Mr Gore said in an interview with Vice.

"I think we're not far from a point where people will look back on climate denialists as extremely odd, self destructive." Read more

What I thought was much more interesting though was what Gore said of Palmer. There's been some speculation in political commentary that we may have been wrong about Clive Palmer; that perhaps he really does have a social conscience and wants to make a difference. That perhaps he had all the money he needed and was bored shitless simply making more. This from Gore would certainly add to that assertion:

Mr Gore conceded Mr Palmer "does have an unusual style" but that "deep down there's absolutely no question in my mind that he has a sense of social justice, he has a keen sense of right and wrong ... he wants to make the world a better place." Read more