It doesn’t matter that many if not most of Al Gore’s predictions have failed to come true—Florida is still above the sea, and the snow on Mt. Kilimanjaro is still 100 feet thick–but that hasn’t stopped the former VP from making a fortune off scaring people and convincing kids like Greta Thunberg that their parents destroyed the world.

Unfortunately, for most of us who don’t have $2 million a month coming to us from a green investment fund, his work has mostly just resulted in exploding utility bills.