Gore pleads for unity on climate, despite divide
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TheQuestion
The only person in this artical that sticks out as anything other than a self indulgent arguementative pr1ck is State Rep Dingell. He's been at this game for a long time and I tend to take what he says at face value so if he hasn't been sold on the idea than it's not worth it.
On a personal note. I've never thought to care how much smog my old Eldorado throws up or about the ridiculous amount of electricity I use in a day and I don't think I ever will but if the gents in washington need to pat themselves on the back than the least the can do is find a way to be ecofriendly without kicking my wallet while it's down from that d@mnd tobacco tax.
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Sarge
Gore: If the United States leads, China will follow"
I think the Chinese are going to do whatever they want.
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SushiSake3
Getting a binding agreement to cap emissions in the U.S. is far, far more important that fighting terrorism or winning in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Both those places are tiny countries.
Climate change has the potential to threaten the livelihoods of billions. Here's the latest effects -
http://edition.cnn.com/2009/TECH/science/04/24/climate.change.eskimos/index.html
For people who are concerned about their pocketbooks - we hear you, but climate change proponents are generally more concerned about whether our kids and grandkids will have relatively clean air, water and good food to live off - the very crucial components of our life on this planet - the only one we have.
NOT dealing with climate change will sentence even more species to extinction, will lead to ever increasing droughts in Africa, the States and Europe, hooter temperatures will lead to more frequent and more dangerous wildfires, like the one going off in South Carolina.
It's glaringly obvious this planet is sick, and the scary thing about it is that the health of our planet = our health.
If we pollute the environment, the environment will ultimately pollute and poison us.
The U.S. Congress needs to cut the cr*p and get behind this.
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WilliB
Sushisake:
Newsflash for you: The climate has always changed, and will always change.
The idea that one or several governments can control the world´s climate like a thermostate by taxing carbon emissions is truly mind-boggling in its naivite and stupidity.
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skipthesong
Dear Al Gore,
Please keep the fear of the climate up. It helps me soooo much.
Thank you.
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sharky1
I bet Gore is saying he didn't inhale. Gore is so irrelevant that this story shouldn't even be a story.
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sharky1
I know a psychiatrist that prescribes Al Gore speech tapes for insomnia...
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teleprompter
Even some Democrats have decided it is time to call Obama's plans for cap n trade what they are...
http://www.breitbart.tv/html/325633.html
"Nobody in this country realizes that cap-and-trade is a tax -- and it's a great big one," Rep. John Dingell (D-Michigan) said Friday.
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SushiSake3
WilB - "Newsflash for you: The climate has always changed, and will always change."
That's a childish comment, very much like saying "The sun always rises and always sets."
"The idea that one or several governments can control the world´s climate like a thermostate by taxing carbon emissions is truly mind-boggling in its naivite and stupidity."
That's not the point of the post-Kyoto global climate agreement and I have no idea why you brought it up.
The idea is to gain the agreement of as many countries as possible to cap their emmissions.
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SushiSake3
"Nobody in this country realizes that cap-and-trade is a tax -- and it's a great big one," Rep. John Dingell (D-Michigan) said Friday.
This is precisely the kind of small-mindedness that is potentially so dangerous. Climate change, and coping with the fallout of its effects, is way, way more than simply a tax or pocketbook issue.
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SushiSake3
Talking with climate change deniers and those who oppose the introduction of sensible emmissions caps (that will actually benefit all of us in terms of better health and access to still available resources that are essential for continued life on this planet) is like talking to people who are adamant, that against all evidence, the Earth is flat.
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Wolfpack
I will start to believe anything Al Gore says about global warming as-soon-as he begins to practice what he preaches. He owns mansions, fleets of cars, and travels the world on private jets. It's hard to believe that people don't see him for what he is - a huckster that stands to make billions in profits from this made up catastrophe.
Global warming scaremongers stand to do a great deal of damage to the lives of billions of people. Instead of using resources to tackle problems that we can solve - such as HIV in Africa - Socialists are using this ginned up disaster to deny people their individual freedoms and micromanage their lives. It is just plain fact that the Earth's climate is always changing; animal species are always going extinct and new species are always evolving. People just need to accept that the earths climate changes and adapt to it. The Earth is not sick - there have been times in the planets history where the atmosphere was severely toxic. That isn't a sickness - it's just nature. By the way, human beings are also part of nature and we shouldn't act as if we are not. People need to use some common sense and not do more harm than good by literally buying into the notion that we can control the Earth's temperature.
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Badsey
If you want to help save energy: ride a bike, walk, take public transportation, buy solar panels, buy a hybrid.
If you want to fund global terrorism, IMF, Al Gore, Bilderbergs. --> pay more taxes and support the rich thugs that are trying to destroy the world. The Yakuza is nothing compared to these thugs.
If America would only support public transportation: Cities would be better and much oil would be saved. Rural America: go solar or wind = free energy
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bushlover
Stay tuned: Will Gore save the big bad Americans?
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JoeBigs
Will the far right realize that the world needs their help? Or do they just want to believe they can sell everything.....
BTW when you far right wingers get thirsty, I will sell you a pint of water for 5 ounces of gold....LOL
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Badsey
When is the last time you saw Al Gore in a hybrid, ride a bike (he could use the exercise), putting up solar panels?
-Instead he wants the power and control of the last remaining resources while the rich in control fuel his jet.
=These people should be talking about solar and wind energy and saving energy, but they do not. You need to vote with your money and support these things.
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Alphaape
I believe in better methods of pollution control to put less "gunk" in the oceans and the air. But this whole Global Warming is just a scam. Studies have indicated that the sun has not been as active as it has in the past in sunspot activity and this has a greater affect on the earth. Tell me, 10,000 years ago when the polar ice caps receded from over much of North America and Europe, was that a condition of man-made Global Warming or natural conditions? The earth's climate will all ways change. We can't stop it, but we can at least try to develop better methods of pollution control so that we will not be eating the stuff we throw away.
Also, I think it is funny that during this lecture by Gore, the Senate Democrats blocked an opposition speaker to rebut his claims. He was the science advisor to Margaret Thatcher, and I guess he knew a little too much to debunk some of the things that Gore was putting out.
How about less pollution, better management of resources, and let's try to combat things like AIDS, swine flu, and other ills of this world instead of trying to stop the sky from falling.
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teleprompter
Gore is poised to make millions off of the gullible watermelons populating the Left and all the kleptocrats across the pond in the New FrankenReich.
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SuperLib
Has anyone been able to prove that lowering emissions will have any impact on global warming?
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SushiSake3
Teleprompter - "Gore is poised to make millions"
Usually. people who make this outlandish claim simply can't back it up when you ask them.
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LostinNagoya
Good to see someone as respected as Al Gore taking the lead in this matter. America can and will lead the world to make the necessary changes.
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Sarge
Sushi/Lost - Do you really think thst by reducing carbon emissions, we humans can control the Earth's climate?
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teleprompter
Link to PDF from Gore's eco-company, Generation Investment Management
http://www.generationim.com/media/pdf-generation-final-launch-release-08-11-04.pdf
From the official announcement:
"Generation is based in London, with its U.S. offices in Washington, DC. The firm will manage the assets of institutional investors such as pension funds, foundations and endowments, as well as those of select high net worth individuals. Generation expects to make extensive use of long-term performance based fees. Generation will begin its investment management business in early 2005."
Select high net worth, for the incurious or naive, means Gore and his wealthy 'liberal' pals, exclusively.
They are positioned to cash in big time off of the Obama administration's plans for cap and trade and the other shell games they'll play using "global warming" to threaten and dupe the public.
It's what his fellow Democrat and pious fraud John Edwards means, cynically of course, when he jawbones about "two Americas."
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teleprompter
A little research on Gore makes me think he must be the luckiest failed presidential candidate ever.
Al Gore was worth between 1 and 2 million dollars in 2000.
His net worth is now over 100 million dollars.
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