SubscribeGore Demands Fast Action On Global Warming
From his cheerleaders at the Associated Press:
Gore urges fast action on global warming
By JOHN HEILPRIN, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON - Al Gore, a Democratic favorite for the presidency despite pronouncements that he’s not running, spoke out on his signature issue Wednesday, warning of a “true planetary emergency” if Congress fails to act on global warming.
In a return he described as emotional, Gore testified before House panels that it is not too late to deal with climate change “and we have everything we need to get started.” By turns folksy and prescriptive, he urged the Democratic-controlled Congress to adopt an immediate freeze on greenhouse gases blamed for global warming…
Gore advised lawmakers to cut carbon dioxide and other warming gases 90 percent by 2050 to avert a crisis. Doing that, he said, will require a ban on any new coal-burning power plants — a major source of industrial carbon dioxide — that lack state-of-the-art controls to capture the gases.
He said he foresees a revolution in small-scale electricity producers for replacing coal, likening the development to what the Internet has done for the exchange of information. He also advocated tougher fuel-economy standards for cars and trucks.
“There is a sense of hope in this country that this United States Congress will rise to the occasion and present meaningful solutions to this crisis,” he said. “Our world faces a true planetary emergency. I know the phrase sounds shrill, and I know it’s a challenge to the moral imagination.” …
But several Republicans sharply questioned Gore’s recommendations.
“A lot of those recommendations are more regulations and more taxation,” said former House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., though he added that he agrees with Gore that the scientific debate on climate change is over. “I think we can find answers to use the coal energy, to use the natural gas we have.”
Gore said the climate issue should not be a partisan or political issue. He said he saw a limited role for nuclear power, which the Bush administration has promoted, because the plants are expensive to build and “only come in one size: extra large.”
He rejected the contention by opponents of quick action on global warming that the United States should only impose mandatory controls on greenhouse gases if China, India and other rapidly developing nations agree to do the same.
“The best way and the only way to get China and India on board is for the U.S. to demonstrate real leadership,” Gore said. “As the world’s largest economy and the greatest superpower, we are uniquely situated to tackle a problem of this magnitude,” he said.
Congress has nearly a dozen bills before it that call for reductions in carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.
Mr. Gore also compared his thankless task to save the planet despite its stupid inhabitants to the Spartans stand against the Persians in the current movie “300.”
Of course Gore’s is the battle of thermometer.
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March 21st, 2007 at 12:59 pm
Wednesday, March 21, 2007 10:11 a.m. EDT
Al Gore Refuses to Hear GOP Opening Statements
Former Vice President Al Gore apparently will brook no skepticism. Given the opportunity to testify about global warming before the House Energy and Commerce Committee on Wednesday, Gore decided to arrive late, so he wouldn’t have to suffer through the Republicans’ opening statement.
He was seen waiting in a hall outside the committee room, Fox News reported. Republicans also objected to the fact that they received Gore’s written testimony at 7 a.m. Wednesday morning - hours after Democrats received it.
“How are we supposed to prepare questions for our esteemed witness when we’re basically given the testimony two hours before he shows up?” asked one committee Republican.
Republicans complained that Gore was getting special treatment.
The hearing entitled “Perspectives on Climate Change” will also feature Gore critic, Dr. Bjorn Lomborg, adjunct professor at the Copenhagen Consensus Center in Denmark and author of the controversial book “The Skeptical Environmentalist.”
Later in the day, the former vice president will testify again, this time before the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works.
]What a frigging twit.
March 21st, 2007 at 1:06 pm
Knowing Gore’s plan to be tardy, Republican members waived their five minutes each for opening statements and saved their comments for the question-and-answer session with Gore.
Prior to the opening statements, however, Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas, the ranking Republican at the joint hearing held by two subcommittees of the House Committees on Science and Technology and Energy and Commerce, questioned Democratic colleagues over their failure to enforce a rule that requires witnesses to submit their written testimony 48 hours in advance of their appearance.
Republicans received Gore’s testimony at 7 a.m. EDT on Wednesday.
“How are we supposed to prepare questions for our esteemed witness when we are basically given the testimony two hours before he shows up?” Barton asked.
Rep. John Dingell, D-Mich., chairman of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, said he waived the requirement.
Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., who chairs the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee that will be hearing from Gore in the afternoon, called it a “silly thing” to debate Gore’s submission of testimony.
“He only submitted about five minutes of testimony because he doesn’t need to read a statement, as others do on this subject, he knows it so well,” Boxer told FOX News.
God help us all.
March 21st, 2007 at 2:25 pm
A number of years ago, most nations agreed to stop the use of chlorofluorocarbons in certain cooling and heating applications even thought the cost to do so was significant. Why did most countries agree to this? Because there was SCIENTIFICALLY VALID evidence that these chemical compounds ate away at the earth’s protective ozone layer. This conversion was not cheap, yet it was done.
Mr. Gore states that the US must be in the forefront on the reduction CO2 emissions: He states: “The best way and the only way to get China and India on board is for the U.S. to demonstrate real leadership.”. No, the best way to get China and India on board is to show them scientifically valid evidence.
Based upon current evidence, no other nation is going to reduce CO2 emissions to their economic detriment. China and India would LOVE for us to take the lead as it would provide yet another economic advantage over the US. Mr. Gore is dreaming if he thinks that other nations will follow along and hamstring THEIR economies. Why do we have to be the lead “sap” on this?
There is good and bad leadership. (Reagan good, Carter bad). Implementing these controls would stifle the growth of our economy and reduce the standard of living throughout the world. I think this would qualify as “bad leadership”.
March 21st, 2007 at 2:33 pm
I will start doing something (other than my family’s current negative carbon footprints) when Al Gore starts doing something other than his fake scam of buying carbon offsets to continue to live the way he wants by doing absolutely nothing - btw they are going to start mining again on his family farm in TN - talk about upping his carbon footprints.
Once again it is a liberal screaming Do as I say - NOT AS I DO.
Blah, blah, blah - if Gore gets any fatter - he won’t get a nanosecond of consideration from the dnc for a POTUS run - since they just chose those who give good face. And he aint doing that any more.
March 21st, 2007 at 2:35 pm
Usually, when someone is so adamantly opposed to hearing an opposing viewpoint, it means they are afraid of hearing said viewpoint. The truth hurts, Mr. Gore - your “global warming crusade” is 99.99% lies - and you know it. Avoiding the GOP statements only proves it.
March 21st, 2007 at 2:41 pm
Oh yeah SG I forgot - Gore walked right into your battle of thermometer (LMAO) comment with that crap about the movie The 300. . .once again blah, blah, blah.
1st - it is because the dems believe that laws, rules and the truth have nothing to do with them, as they are entitled to POWER and to use it any and all ways as they see fit, because they have such ‘good intentions.’ And the rest of us are the evil ones that need to be stifled, silenced, taxed and controlled.
March 21st, 2007 at 2:48 pm
Actually rhahn , it was because because the patent ran out on Freon and other countries could make it cheaper.
So they had to find something to replace it. You will find that , Guess Who, algored himself introduced the legislation to do that.
Small world isn’t it?
March 21st, 2007 at 2:50 pm
Well gee wardmama4, everyone knows that the dems are waaay smarter than the flyover moron. If you have any doubts just ask them.
Of course none of them have ever had a real job, but that does not matter.
March 21st, 2007 at 3:10 pm
1st - Nor have a lot of them lived the way most Americans live, much less anyone in the World.
Locally there is a company that uses the ‘high heating bill getting to you’ to push a stove that burns anything (corn, pellet, etc) as a way to cut your bills and be enviro-friendly.
I do not want to take a big social step backward (I thought they call themselves progressives) - I have lived with wood stove and fireplace heating - to make a fat-assed hypocrite able to laugh all the way to the bank.
March 21st, 2007 at 3:44 pm
I think all of that hot sulphuric gas emitting from Gore’s gut, is eating the enamel off of his teeth.
Seriously.
March 21st, 2007 at 3:56 pm
Cut all CO2 emissions…is that another way of saying that everybody should just drop dead???
One word for Gore: Malthus.
March 21st, 2007 at 3:58 pm
“Of course Gore’s is the battle of thermometer.”….
Yeah. An oven thermometer once he hits the bottom of the ‘well’. That is the only part of ‘300′ that has to do with him.
March 21st, 2007 at 5:28 pm
The ( self-proclaimed one ) has an even bigger battle, and that is with the bathroom scale , butt that’s another story. R-12 and R-22, were , are ,and still is, our best servents when it comes to removing heat.
Both stable and at low working pressures for safety. This is mindless garbage. Where is the sign-up for lower life style and misery algore??? The only ” foot-print ” I’m going to leave is , ( God willing ) on your arse.
March 21st, 2007 at 5:35 pm
Yes, Gore needs VERY fast action because within about 5 years time we are going to be noticing that things aren’t warming up like he is predicting it would. He needs action NOW!
March 22nd, 2007 at 10:55 am
Gore sounded like a complete moron yesterday. They were playing clips on Mark Levin’s show. The one that sounded the most ridiculous was when (talking in his usual Mr. Robotic-Cigar-Store-Indian speak) he says “The Earth has a fever.” which he repeated several times. He went on to say action needs to be taken now and then was making up the stupidest analogies of all time to make the comparison. The worst of them all was when he said if your baby was in a crib and the crib was on fire, you wouldn’t stop to take time to debate if the baby was flame-retardent or not. Levin said it best right afterward when he said Gore’s brain was “retardent”. LOL
Him not listening to the Republican comments is again typical lib. They think they are right and everybody else is wrong, thus there is no need to listen to debate. Just like Jimmy “I Love Hamas” Carter who said his book was to promote debate about the Palestine-Isreal situation and would welcome the opportunity to debate. Then as soon as the first challenge came from Alan Dershowitz to debate him about the book, Carter refused. Challenge them with facts and they show their true nature time and time again.
March 22nd, 2007 at 1:05 pm
http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/S.....154-7403r/
Great article from an actual scientist, who is Danish btw, as to how “tempature” is calculated, mean, median and mode and how it is nothing more than political grandstanding from a “temp” point of view.
Add Richard Lindzen, MIT professor’s, who has written peer reviewed papers basically stating that it is impossible to know less than 1% of a formula (how climate can really be calculated globally) and come to any conclusion concerning man’s influence on global tempature. I say tempature and not “warming” - because that infers a “problem”, when warming is assumed and has been hijacked by the left to mean “man made warming - bad”.
Here is just 1 example of the BS from the lunatics -
Greenland is supposedly going to melt away due to man within the next hundred years - and cause mass flooding on shorelines. However, just 6 months ago - geologists have discovered Greenland is terra firma 5 miles deep, as a mountanous range covered by ice sheet - and not 100% ice.
Have the gloom and doom scientists recalculated their “mass flooding” “calculations” based on this scientific fact? Absolutely not. That is just 1 small sample, of the hundreds - of how ridiculous this whole issue is.
Oh - and 1 other nugget. Gore claims man made global warming is “1 step below gravity as fact”. Thats a gem. Gravity is a scientific LAW, man made global warming is a theory , and not even a universal theory at that, which is what scientists are trying to “conclude”
March 22nd, 2007 at 1:09 pm
So I listened to bits of Al Gore’s speech yesterday and have some questions. First off, he wants to completely cut CO2 emissions for a year. Stop them completely. Wouldn’t that result in local and worldwide ecomic catastrophy causing billions of people to starve? OK, maybe he mispoke. But my second question is, does he realize that he’s a complete moron and is just feeding off his own hype and the easily frigthtened vegetarian types (who, let’s face it, are fragile and skitterish anyway) or is he so caught up in his own hype that he doesn’t realize what a blowhard he really is?
But I want to be fair, so I calculated my “carbon footprint” It’s significantly less than average. Hemp wearing, tie-dyed patchouli smelling people should be genuflecting to how small my footprint actually is. So, my real concern is, should I start burning tires to bring it up to average or higher, since as a good republican that’s what I should do. OR can I turn into the smug that is Al Gore? I don’t have to buy any Carbon offsets since I’m so much better than everybody. Or can I buy offsets and make my footprint actually negative thereby being the best person in the whole entire world?
Just wondering.
March 22nd, 2007 at 1:22 pm
Great post groovy girl.
I too have calculated my “footprint” and am awaiting the check from the DNC.
Carbon credits is akin to Enrons energy “trading desk”. And we know how well run, honest and results orientated that was…
March 22nd, 2007 at 2:32 pm
I don’t think your check will come from the DNC but maybe we’ll get to go stay in Al’s mansion and swim in his heated swimming pool. Provided we don’t fly across country to get there, of course.
March 22nd, 2007 at 2:56 pm
Have you seen the “300″ picture at Rush’s site? It’s kinda funny…
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/today.guest.html
March 22nd, 2007 at 3:23 pm
groovygrl,
Gore knows exactly what he is doing. Population control ‘is’ the goal of the environmentalists. Check this out from the article ‘Creators of carbon credit scheme cashing in on it’, -
http://www.canadafreepress.com.....031307.htm
…”Strong, currently president of the Earth Council, has been boasting of replacing the Ten Commandments with the Earth Charter, a golden rule guide for how the masses should treat the environment.
Gore, who has given sermons at the United Nations sponsored Cathedral of St. John the Divine Church in New York City, is a promoter of the religion known as Gaia.
The two environmental gurus also share a belief in radical Malthusian population reduction. According to them, too many people, particularly in the U.S. are polluting the planet, emitting excessive Freon through their refrigerators and jacking up the air conditioning.”….
Maurice Strong is another billionaire freak like Soros. He spoke at the ‘92 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro and this was his message and the bottom line for libs, enviro-wackos, Gore…
“Isn’t the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilization collapse? Isn’t it our responsibility to bring that about?”
They have unlimited funds and with those funds, influence. They are crazy and dangerous.
March 22nd, 2007 at 4:04 pm
Population control, huh? That must be why he’s bulking up. Since his insane policies will cause the weak to starve, maybe he hopes his heft will keep him until they can fire up again, after everyone else has been eliminated.
March 22nd, 2007 at 4:12 pm
What’s now become the most quoted line from Gore’s testimony is a testament to how pig-ignorant he is about the world.
“The planet has a fever. If your baby has a fever, you go to the doctor.”
Er, the Earth doesn’t have a “normal” temperature of 98.6 F like children do.
It has fluctuated continuously since its inception. Though, generally, it has cooled since its original molten state.
March 22nd, 2007 at 4:30 pm
SG -
Not only was his analogy inane, as you point out so well - that very topic of tempature has been debunked by a real scientist, who specializes in thermodynamics - of which I posted earlier.
So he uses a bogus analogy AND doesn’t even understand the differnce between mean, median and mode - form a “global temp” point of view.
Haven’t people taken Logic 101 and studied basic “if then” syllogisms? Or could it be the global warming folks depend on the ignorance of these basic tenants of logic?
I am sending Merril Lynch a note that they owe me $1.5 million. Primarily because if my protfolio grew at 500% over 10 years, then they owe me $1.5 million…
March 22nd, 2007 at 7:29 pm
Some esteemed physicists have stated global warming temperature statements violate the physical laws of thermodynamics. Al Gore’s violating election laws, claimed violations of physical laws, speeding here in Portland Or, etc, not surprising with Al Gore’s naked passion for power.
I pledge to increase my energy consumption to Al Gore’s and to pay my self created non-profit to plant carbon replacements (trees) on my property for tax breaks just like Al Gore.
March 23rd, 2007 at 1:15 am
Great link to a great movie about the left’s global warming lie http://www.artsoftcontrols.com.....55.new#new
March 23rd, 2007 at 9:49 am
Now that a credible opposition to this global-warming scam is finally starting to take shape and more people are getting used to the idea that what happens on the large orange ball of fire we notice hanging in the sky most days probably has more to do with rising temperatures than our own activities do (Mars is warming up. How many SUVs are there on Mars?), we can look forward to all the backpedalling and self-excusing we’ll be hearing from Algore and all the other mokes who’ve invested so heavily in this nonsense when its finally and absolutely discredited.
There’s no reason, btw, why conservatives should just hand over the whole topic of the environment to libs and let them own it. It makes good sense, especially these days, to conserve the resources we have and to develop new and alternative ones. Why this administration seems so content to let us stay dependent on Middle Eastern oil is a mystery. You’d expect it to be a national priority.
March 23rd, 2007 at 11:38 am
yes, artboyusa - but I’ve tracked around a lot of conservative sites and many people seem to be like my family - carbon neutral (or even negative). So in the Al Gore enviro wacko world we are not part of the problem. . .
And thus is the essence of his ‘issue’ - It has nothing to do with cutting CO2, or living down or even the glowball warning scam - it has to do with bigger government, raising taxes to pay for liberal scams that won’t work and will cause even more problems, to remove the desire and/or possibility of the American Dream from anyone not there already, to reduce the population of the World (so that the ‘enlightened’ elites can control them even more) and finally to destroy indepentant businesses, small businesses and corporations to make this a one big glowball World of shiny happy GOREBOTS.
While he laughs his fat ass off in his mega mansions and has someone drive his ‘foundation’ checks to the mail to his offshore and out of country banks so he does not have to pay taxes on his scammed income. . .did I forget something? Oh yeah, it won’t be long before these enviro-wackos will try to outlaw eating meat (as a way to cut down on evil cow flatulance) to protect the environment which is warming due to evil man ‘progressing’ in horrid ways while being tightfisted, racist and mean and not ‘progressing’ in those wonderful social ways - with ‘good intentions’ for all. Which is all that Al Gore has is ‘good intentions’ . . .and didn’t someone (much wiser than Al Gore) say that the road to Hell is paved with good intentions?