GORE PICKS PALS OVER CAPE WIND

Boston Globe
People in the News

    Author(s):    CAROL BEGGY & MARK SHANAHAN Date: April 27, 2006
Page: E9 Section: Living

Given his commitment to the environment, you'd think Al Gore would be
a big booster of Cape Wind. Think again. Seems the former VP values
his friendship with the Kennedys even more than the megawatts of
clean, renewable energy the wind farm would yield. "Based on what I
know, I'm for it, but I also respect the opponents Bobby Kennedy Jr.
is a friend of mine," Gore said after Tuesday's screening of "An
Inconvenient Truth," Davis Guggenheim 's didactic documentary about
global warming. Pressed by the invite-only crowd at Loews Boston
Common to use his influence to push the project, Gore copped out: "I
didn't come to pick a fight." Bill Clinton 's sidekick called himself
a "recovering politician," but he sure sounded like an unrecovered
one bashing the media for ignoring important issues. "Whether Russell
Crowe threw a telephone at a concierge is important, apparently," he
sniffed. The Tennessean also took a shot at MIT prof Richard Lindzen
, who's questioned the science behind global warming. "His views are
wrong," said Gore. "That's the most charitable I can be."