...but I haven't had an Al Gore post up in a while, and couldn't resist this via AAEA:
National Black Chamber of Commerce (NBCC) Energy Committee Chair Maurice R. Stone, [right], who just finished the first ever Climate Change Summit course administrated by Vice President Al Gore, is now a certified Climate Change Ambassador. [snip]
Maurice Stone is a senior management executive with over 27 years of extensive entrepreneurial and business management experience. From December 2007 to the present Mr. Stone has been involved as an equity principal and/or agent in various business structure financings in the energy, healthcare, baked goods, and real estate markets. Mr. Stone earned his B.S. degree in electrical engineering, with a minor in Finance from Memphis State University in 1981.
I'm sure Mr. Stone's a good guy, and it's great to see a businessman in this position. But it strikes me that someone with little background in physical oceanography or climatology can be christened a "certified" Climate Change Ambassador after a three day business meeting with Al Gore.
First it was indulgences. Now, it seems, come the knights templar.
Certified indeed.
Guess the SEC was not too impressed with Maurice's credentials - I guess press releases stating you are the "Lord Sith of the Environment" doesn't humor the boys at the commission....
http://www.sec.gov/litigation/suspensions/2009/34-60050.pdf