The President of the Environment is still reeling from his tough loss in the final round of Deceiver Madness, and he’s determined to go all the way this year. This time he’s saying… well, you wouldn’t believe me if I told you. But according to The Times of London, he really, honestly did say this:

Al Gore today compared the battle against climate change with the struggle against the Nazis…

Speaking in Oxford at the Smith School World Forum on Enterprise and the Environment, sponsored by The Times, Mr Gore said: “Winston Churchill aroused this nation in heroic fashion to save civilisation in World War II.”

He added: “We have everything we need except political will but political will is a renewable resource.”

So is hot gas from Al Gore’s piehole.

Mr Gore admitted that it was difficult to persuade the public that the threat from climate change was as urgent as the threat from Nazi Germany.

“The level of awareness and concern among populations has not crossed the threshold where political leaders feel that they must change.”

Okay, so let’s tally it up, shall we?

Nazi Germany: Started World War II; killed 6,000,000 Jews; ruined perfectly good style of mustache.

Global Warming: Killed zero Jews or anybody else for that matter; caused millions of cubic tons of carbon dioxide to be emitted by talking-points-spewing dunces; made Al Gore very fat and very, very rich.

So you can see the comparison! The question is, do we have the political will to make Al Gore even fatter and even more ridiculously wealthy? Shouldn’t you have to pay more at the gas pump so Al can afford to fly all over the world in private jets telling you how gluttonous you are?

And if you’re a Holocaust survivor, even better! You’ve lived long enough to see the German Nazis defeated and the environmental Nazis rise to power.

Just in case you haven’t had your fill of GW scare tactics for the day:

Gore said future generations would put one of two questions to today’s adults.

“It will either be ‘’what were you thinking, didn’t you see the North Pole melting before your eyes, didn’t you hear what the scientists were saying?” Or they will ask ‘how is it you were able to find the moral courage to solve the crisis which so many said couldn’t be solved?’.”

“Mommy, why did Santa drown?”

“Well, dear, nobody would listen to Al Gore no matter how much of a blatant hypocrite he was. Luckily, he floats. Now finish your plankton, put on your diving suit, and go finish mowing the seaweed.”

Update: The Times of London has now removed all mention of the Nazis from the story and changed the headline to “Al Gore invokes spirit of Churchill in battle against climate change.” (So he must have meant some other enemy Churchill fought.) Although in their defense, this sort of self-censorship is less Hitlerian than Stalinist.

Update: Looks like they didn’t do a good enough job cleaning up! Even though the story now looks like this:

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