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Do Not Fear Al Gore is Here
I'd love to spare you the Gore-y details about his plans for higher taxes, new global regulations billions of dollars in new spending or the devastation of the American economy, but that's what he's got in store for us all.In this Yahoo news article the White House sends regards.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House on Friday praised former U.S. Vice President Al Gore and the U.N. climate panel for winning the Nobel Peace Prize for their work to raise awareness of the threat of global warming.(Advertisement)
"Of course we're happy for Vice President Gore and the IPCC for receiving this recognition," White House spokesman Tony Fratto said, referring to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which shared the award with Gore.
Gore, a Democrat, has been a vocal critic of the environmental policies of President George W. Bush, a Republican who beat him narrowly in a disputed presidential election result in 2000.
At a White House-convened summit last month, some of the world's biggest greenhouse polluters called Bush "isolated" and questioned his leadership on the problem of global warming.
Bush has rejected the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, a treaty that sets limits on industrial nations' greenhouse gas emissions, and instead favours voluntary targets to curb emissions.
Since leaving office in 2001, Gore has lectured extensively on the threat of global warming. In a statement on Friday, he said the climate crisis was "our greatest opportunity to lift global consciousness to a higher level."
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at 06:02 on October 12th, 2007
Good Stuff, for some reason the flag won't let me flag your story. So I will comment that of course one should never fear the opportunistic such as Gore, for when he and Clinton were in office, they both rejected Kyoto. This from two men controlling the hearts and minds of the left in the USA had the power to do something but didn't, because they knew if they went with Kyoto and actually implemented it, they would risk politicial suicide as the American Industrial economy would grind to a halt. People for some reason think Kyoto all of sudden is something new when in fact it was bandied about for 20 years, and was all talk no action from any political party in industrialized nations including Canada, nice to talk about, but a hazard to implement.
The closest we got to World wide Environmental Action was with Canada's Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and US President Ronald Reagan and then Vice President George Bush Senior and then implemented when he became President in the Montreal Protocols in the late 1980s over CFCs, as a number one Ozone depleting substance. Both men did the "Damn the Torpedos" went ahead with it. This coming from a Conservative and a Republican. There was a lot of flack over this banning of (CFC's) from manufacturers of CFC's the world over, converting industrial equipment to HCFC's , HFC's was a expensive proposition, eventually phasing out all CFC's in North America which was a real Greenhouse gas contributor with China, India and Saudi Arabia rejecting the Montreal Protocols as they continued to manufacture and sell CFC'cs on the black marketworldwide, even with bribes from the IMF and other aid to stop CFC's from these countries it was to no avail. Recent memory of Liberals or Democrats implementing something similar has been all talk and no action.
Don't believe me, check it for yourself, the internet search engines will open your eyes.
Funny political parties "Liberal and Democrats" in opposition always seem to promise the world, yet when in power have an "inconvienient memory" of past promises, except when re election time comes around again, does their memory improve, and then they suddenly say, oh if you vote us in for a second term we really, really promise to do something this time. For some Public, they fall for it, only to be screwed over again. Hence when in opposition, promises abound, but if elected reality of past memory sets and is lost, much like someone suffering from ALS.
at 05:56 on October 12th, 2007
juan114, Good stuff.
There, it works now after rebooting my computer.
at 06:23 on October 12th, 2007
juan114, good stuff. Yes, his administration wasn't exactly a leader in environmental causes, as you point out.
Giving Gore the Peace Prize has demeaned that award.
at 14:09 on October 12th, 2007
Gore may have had his heart in the right place reading from prepared scripts written by others and may actually believe it,
You know, I am not one to "Pee in anyones Cornflakes" as Global
warming is an issue, what I took exception as I apparently have a
degree in Environmental Studies (Go figure) is the movie in which Gore reading from
prepared scripts written by others (Biased) had many untruths in it,
anyone who watches the film, can easily find out these untruths for
themselves on the internet, and now that we are on the subject of
Global Warming, here are another group of scientists who formed a
documentary featured on British televison on BBC and in the US. Nothing
like balanced reporting I always say.
Hit the link and watch with interest, or perhaps read the story online.
http://www.greatglobalwarmingswindle.co.uk/