While Gore tends to regurgitate the same kind of talking points he’s been articulating for many years, but this time his rhetoric has become a lot more vitriolic.

Fossil fuel interests are trying to co-opt the battle against climate change, Al Gore warned on Thursday, noting that the United Nations had appointed a top oil executive, Sultan Ahmed al-Jaber of the United Arab Emirates, to lead this year’s global climate talks.

“That’s just, like, taking the disguise off,” Mr. Gore said at The New York Times’s Climate Forward event in Manhattan. “They’ve been trying to capture this process for a long time.”

Mr. Al-Jabar runs the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company, which provides about 3 percent of the world’s oil. The Times has reported that the U.A.E. wants to be seen as a climate-friendly renewable energy superpower, even as it helps lock developing nations around the world into fossil fuel use for decades.

Almost a year ago, Gore delivered an unhinged rant at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland (it begins around 4:00).

During a recent interview with The New York Times, Gore said that fossil fuel companies are digging and drilling and pumping up the fossilized remains of dead animals and plants and burning them in ways that use the atmosphere as an open sewer, threatening the future of humanity.

Gore also said fossil fuel companies, have portrayed themselves as the source of trusted advice that we need to solve this crisis, and went on to essentially say they have a vested interest in preserving and protecting their product. He also accused the fossil fuel industry is not sincere in saying that they wanted to be a meaningful part of bringing solutions to this crisis, and the fossil fuel industry speaks with forked tongue.

Gore is resorting to the same doom-and-gloom spin that has been used by climate alarmists for the past 50 or more years, pronouncing that Earth’s climate is degenerating and laying blame on the fossil fuel industry. For example, during 2006, Gore declared we had 10 years before the Earth would be at the point of no return. Not surprisingly, his prediction never came true.

During the W.E.F. conference in January, Gore asserted humans were emitting almost 200 million tons of greenhouse gas being emitted and accumulates daily into the atmosphere that results in heat equivalent to 600,000 Hiroshima-style bombs exploding on the planet every day. He went on to point out:

That’s what’s boiling the oceans, creating these atmospheric rivers, and the rain bombs, and sucking the moisture out of the land and creating the droughts, and melting the ice and raising the sea level, and causing these waves of climate refugees, predicted to reach one billion in this century.

However, during mid-August, one event that got scant news coverage were 1,600 scientists (that include two Nobel-prize winning researchers) released a declaration denying there was a climate emergency, that climate models are not capable of accurately predicting climate change, that carbon dioxide (CO2) is not a pollutant, and that natural disasters have not increased due to climate change.

It is abundantly clear that Gore has ratcheted up his rhetoric in an attempt to somehow demonize the fossil fuel industry. No doubt as part of a cynical ploy to urge climate cultists to come out of the woodwork and somehow get active again.

In light of his enriching himself off of climate alarmism, it is highly unlikely Gore’s proclamations will have much effect. Gore is unpopular among rank-and-file environmentalists because he was able to turn their religious dogma into an enterprise that he mostly benefited from.