Warning the world that it is on the brink of disaster has been lucrative for Al Gore.
His wild prediction at Davos that Earth faces ‘rain bombs’ and ‘boiling oceans’ is just his latest in decades of climate alarmism.
At the same time, the former VP has been at the forefront of green technology investment that has seen his wealth balloon to an estimated $330 million.
Four years after losing to George W Bush in 2000, Gore set up Generation Investment Management with former Goldman Sachs Managing Director and close friend David W. Blood.
The mission statement of the investment firm, where Gore collects $2 million in a monthly salary, is to back companies that are making strides towards going green. The firm is worth around $36 billion.
To be fair, Gore has had one bit of luck — his “green” investments have been largely under the radar for the last decade; in 2013, he cashed out his chips for the first time to oil-rich Qatar and coldly tossed the enviro-mentalism movement under the bus: Al Gore Declares Mission Accomplished.