Today, heavyweights from the global warming movement are meeting in Vegas for the “National Clean Energy Summit 2.0.”  That they chose to have the convention in the most wasteful, energy inefficient city on the planet speaks volumes about the participants.  However, attendees like Clinton, Gore, and Schwarzenegger have bigger problems than simply being hypocrites. 

According to new Gallup numbers, they’re losing you.

In the last year alone, the number of people who think the media is exaggerating global warming have jumped 6 points from 35% to 41%.  In that same time, Gallup reports that the number of Americans who are seeing signs that the effects of global warming are occuring has dropped from 61% to 53%.  Dems have one bright spot in the poll, which indicates that DNC party members have remained faithful to the cause, but they’re losing independents rapidly.  The number of indies who doubt global warming jumped 10 points in the last year, from 33% up to 44%.

Most observers say the economy is behind the drop in support, but the coolest summer in decades can’t be doing them any favors.

We’d like to point out that they’re not helped by folks like Al Gore, who own several mansions, travel in private jets and limos, set environmental conferences in eco-unfriendly places like Vegas, and hold stakes in the very carbon credit companies that they’re pushing as the solution to all our woes.

A quick look at history will show: the first casualty of hypocrisy is credibility.

- Robert Laurie