Guardian: Al Gore, the ghost of climate change past, showed up to haunt the New York Times’s opinion pages this past Sunday. Eloquent and impassioned as ever, the former vice-president reminded us that the current controversy over scientific malfeasance won’t change the fact that the polar ice caps are melting and the earth continues to heat up. “I, for one, genuinely wish that the climate crisis were an illusion,” he wrote. “But unfortunately, the reality of the danger we are courting has not …