Al Gore and friends were sitting around laughing about the gullibility of the masses of Americans. They pondered on just how they could capitalize on this mass ignorance and settled on Global Warming. Primitive people in the throes of a crisis of no rain, extreme heat (summer) would certainly be receptive to a savior. They are all flim flam specialists and they are using a predictable increase in heat to scare the idiots into compliance. What better way to become King?
I think their big play was convincing the global cooling folks into switching to be global warming nuts.
Your comments are right on IMO.