Gore has them grumbling in Berlin

The Financial Times reports:

Excitement in Berlin yesterday as Al Gore swept into town to speak at a conference on global warming. It was good timing for conference organiser EnBW, one of Germany’s largest electricity companies, which got to piggy-back on the buzz generated by Gore’s triumph in Stockholm.

But despite the high demand for tickets for last night’s slide show, not everyone in Berlin was happy.


Some climate campaigners said Gore’s speaker fee – rumoured to be $180,000 – was not sending the right message. Journalists moaned after finding that his meeting with Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, was just a photo-op. No questions allowed.

Global warming is profitable for some people.