Monday's Wall Street Journal editorial page (subs. req'd) made the unwise decision to ridicule Al Gore for having been cited as a key influence on global warming policy in Belgium --
Al Gore may have failed to carry his home state of Tennessee as a Presidential candidate, but the former Vice President is all the rage in . . . Belgium. The country has even named a tax after him ... Evidently the government figures that dressing the new tax package in Al Gore green will make it go down easier. If the former veep decides he can't beat Hillary Clinton for the 2008 Democratic nomination, he can always try Europe.
Europe indeed, because they clearly wrote up this standard issue mockery not knowing that Gore would also be unveiled as special adviser on the environment to the UK Treasury, an announcement that will come the same day as Nick Stern's damning report on the huge costs of global warming. But apart from the general problem that ridiculing Britain would have posed for the Anglophile Journal, it's hard for them to question Gordon Brown's choice of advisers, since Alan Greenspan is another.
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