Some have heard of the malady, Trump Derangement Syndrome.

I confess that for 24 years I have suffered Al Gore Derangement Syndrome.

It started during the Florida Recount in 2000 when I noticed Gore had an extraordinarily high level of political ambition and skill with the media.

I embarked on a study of Gore’s life, reading multiple biographies and keeping a close eye on him. I was convinced the world had not seen the end of Gore.

Gore is one of very few US VPs since 1945 who hasn’t written his memoirs. He is a prolific author with no memoirs. I found that fascinating.

When Gore first ran for President in 1988 he was anti-gay, pro-gun, pro-tobacco, and a born-again Christian. Gore was the last of the Southern Democrats – the remnants of the old Confederacy.

I became the pub bore. Two beers in and I couldn’t stop warning friends, ‘I don’t know what Al Gore is going to do, but believe me, he’s planning a comeback and you’ll notice it.’

In 2006, Gore wrote a book and made a film – An Inconvenient Truth – demanding humanity change the way it lives to stop catastrophic global warming.

By this time, President Bush was deeply unpopular because of Iraq so the press clamoured to agree with anything anti-Bush. Whatever Gore said, the corporate press uncritically lapped up.

The world went into a hysteria. Almost everyone was captivated by apocalyptic global warming predictions. Gore won an Oscar and a Nobel Prize which saw him elevated to the ranks of a worldwide celebrity – in the league of a Gandhi or Mandela.

Along the way, Gore’s influence and wealth grew, but if the environmental apocalypse was true, would anyone really care about mammon?

In the end, the oceans didn’t rise, the polar caps didn’t melt, and the temperate remained stable. The movement was rebadged with ‘global warming’ becoming ‘climate change’ … the ‘fits-all’ explanation for any weather conditions.

Last year, this Parliament foolishly passed the Net Zero Carbon Act. Myself and one or two others spoke out against both the Act and the general deception of apocalyptic climate change that had deceived a generation.

Soon after a filmmaker, Joel Gilbert from California, reached out to say he enjoyed the speech and mentioned he had once worked for Gore. We got chatting and I sent him some articles I’d written about Gore for Australia’s finest journal – The Spectator Australia.

I then suggested to Mr Gilbert that the world needs a film on the life story Gore.

Mr Gilbert has spent most of this year flying around America, researching archives and doing a far deeper dive into the life of Gore than I could manage from Down Under.

I am pleased to report that Director Gilbert’s film is complete and is called, The Climate According to AI Al Gore.

The world premiere will be in Brisbane on October 3 at The Elizabeth Picture Theatre. I want to thank Andrew Cooper and his team at CPAC for hosting the film’s world premiere.

Mr Gilbert will be here for the premiere and will embark on a tour of Australia’s east coast where the film will be shown at select theatres including at the Federal Parliament House and this State Parliament’s theatrette. Director Gilbert and I will conduct a Q&A after each screening on climate politics.

I urge all Australians to come out to watch this film in person. You can see the trailer today at ClimateAlGore.com, and also buy tickets to the screenings in Australia.

It is my view that climate change is enriching a few spivs and impoverishing the rest of us for a political agenda. For a successful economy, industries must have a cheap reliable energy supply, but we are in the process in Australia of ripping it down and replacing it with grand central plans around renewables. Why are our electricity prices going up so sharply and why is our economy was tepid?

I especially want to encourage young Australians to not be fooled and become depressed about global warming. Please watch this important film by Joel Gilbert – The Climate According to AI Al Gore. Again, please check the website for more details – www.climateAlGore.com. I have no financial interest in the film. I do have an interest in saving the world from the cult known as global warming.