A book by climate alarmist Al Gore was spotted on a bookshelf in the background of a video Usha Vance, wife of Vice President J.D. Vance, posted ot Instagram, the UK Daily Mail reported. The Second Lady was speaking about an upcoming trip to Greenland when eagle-eyed viewers noticed the controversial reading material.
The 1992 book Earth in the Balance, penned by the former vice president, was noticeably placed behind Usha Vance as she spoke about the trip. The Second Lady didn't mention anything about the book she perhaps unknowingly had on the shelf as she eagerly shared news about the trip.
Usha Vance noted she'd be visiting during the nation's famed dogsled races. "I’m also coming to celebrate the long history of mutual respect and cooperation between our two nations and to express hope that our relationship will only grow stronger in the coming years," the second lady said.
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The radical climate agenda is extremely unpopular among conservatives, as is the movement's godfather, Al Gore. He's known for making outlandish predictions that don't come true while jetsetting on carbon-spewing private planes to continue with the rhetoric.
As with his other work, the book spotted behind Usha Vance was filled with hyperbolic language that would be laughable if not for the fact that some took it as a serious call to action. When called out on it years later, Gore doubled down with the craziest metaphor of all, according to a Fox News report from 2007.
"The planet has a fever. If your baby has a fever, you go to the doctor," he told then-Rep. Joe Barton(R-TX). "If the doctor says you need to intervene here, you don't say 'I read a science fiction novel that says it's not a problem.' You take action," Gore added.
Gore peppered his climate alarmist screed with all kinds of silliness, but he went a step further with a strawman attack on Michael Crichton's State of Fear novel. The popular author, who has since passed away, illustrated the climate hysteria by using Gore-like activists as the villains in his 2004 fiction.
People who see that the second lady has Gore's book are inclined to conclude that she believes the drivel he's been spewing for decades, but there's no indication one way or the other. Notably, she was a registered Democrat until 2014, when she married J.D. Vance.
While some may be focusing on old books Usha Vance keeps on her shelf, the vice president had his eye on Greenland's strategic location. President Donald Trump has repeatedly expressed a desire to acquire the island nation, which surely plays into J.D. Vance's visit.
As Reuters reported, the vice president posted about his intentions for the visit. "Looking forward to visiting Greenland on Friday," J.D. Vance captioned a video accompanying the post.
"A lot of other countries have threatened Greenland, have threatened to use its territories and its waterways to threaten the United States, to threaten Canada, and of course, to threaten the people of Greenland. So we are going to check out how things are going there," the vice president said in the video.
"Unfortunately, leaders in both America and in Denmark, I think, ignored Greenland for far too long," J.D. Vance added. Greenland is located between the U.S. and Europe and could serve as a staging ground for counterattacks from places like Russia and China.
Usha Vance has not made her opinions known, but it's irrelevant. The American people elected Trump and J.D. Vance, and they trust that they will carry out the conservative agenda just as promised. So far, they have done just that, independent of their wives' reading preferences.
