Gore: ""We face a global emergency, a deepening climate crisis that ...

[understandinglife]

.... requires us to act."

Of course, major credit should also be given to Al Gore, who seems more impassioned -- and less stiff -- as each meter of polar icecap melts. Gore was red-faced and nearly yelling when he told a huge lunch crowd yesterday, "We face a global emergency, a deepening climate crisis that requires us to act." Though the hundreds of diners could have clapped politely, nearly everyone -- from celebs such as Leo DiCaprio to Arab sheiks -- gave him a standing ovation.

More at the link:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joel-makower/notes-from-the-clinton-fe_b_7594.html

You better believe they should get off their butts and cheer President Gore -- and, then they better get their money engaged with action or they are all going to watch the catastrophic end of the only place in the known physical universe that supports LIFE.


Peace.

[bliss_eternal]

1. I'm glad that Gore has found passion...

:applause:

[understandinglife]

2. Joel Makower: "The sum of it all? Climate is on the global agenda."

The sum of it all? Climate is on the global agenda. Investors and businesses are finding ways to profit from reducing carbon impact. And governments will either be forced to act or will be rendered as old school as the U.N. delegates across town from the Clinton party, many of whom -- including Kofi Annan -- slipped in for a taste of more enlightened thinking and real commitments to action.

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From Notes from the Clinton Fest by Joel Makower on September 19, 2005

More at the link:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joel-makower/notes-from-the-clinton-fe_b_7594.html

Remove all our troops and equipment from Iraq.

Tax the petroleum industry a dollar for every dollar they make.

Penalize substantially every auto manufacturer attempting to sell a vehicle in the USA that does not ensure that in the most typical of urban traffic scenarios their vehicles do not provide at least 50 mpg.

Take that money and invest it in everything from efficient conversion of wind to electricity - to - carbon nanostructures capable of self-assembly - to - "Gaviotas" inspired devices for keeping your house warm when it's cold.

We have not even begun to exploit our imaginations or our engineering expertise to build a sustainable interface between humanity and our lovely planet and unforgiving universe.


Peace.

[The_Casual_Observer]

3. Interesting slant, since the argument has ALWAYS been

that passing global warming laws would distroy the economy. I guess the only economy that matters is the one that belongs to the bastards that are causing global warming.

If it were in the plain interest of the "haves" the argument would have been made years ago that forcing the issue on green house gases would promote a whole new technological frontier. However, the "haves" aren't interested in anything but the status quo.

[understandinglife]

4. When everyone is dead, except the rich dudes, and they are choking or ...

... freezing to death, or drowning, it'll be obvious they've got no 'economy.'

Maybe enough of the rich dudes will do the math before they just die.


Peace.

[shance]

5. Clarke says the global climate should be handled by the Pentagon??

instead of the EPA?

Im not sure I agree. Whatever the case, there needs to be more transparency to the technology that now can manipulate global climates and weather conditions.

A quote to add:

"Others are engaging even in an eco-type of terrorism whereby they can alter the climate, set off earthquakes, volcanoes remotely through the use of electromagnetic waves... So there are plenty of ingenious minds out there that are at work finding ways in which they can wreak terror upon other nations...It's real, and that's the reason why we have to intensify our efforts.“

Secretary of Defense William Cohen at an April 1997 counterterrorism conference sponsored by former Senator Sam Nunn.

Quoted from DoD News Briefing, Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen, Q&A at the Conference on Terrorism, Weapons of Mass Destruction, and U.S. Strategy, University of Georgia, Athens, Apr. 28, 1997.

[savannahana]

6. standing ovation here!

hi UL, please forgive my long absence from DU

collecting & bookmarking all I can find of your recent work here (that may take ~some time~ due to your prolific & reliable profundity of research & consistently effective presentation)

thank you for all you bring to our clear attention here

grateful as always, but then some, these days in spades

ana

[understandinglife]

7. Good to see you posting and thank you!

Peace.

[journalist3072]

8. The very things that President Gore tried to warn us about

Especially regarding the dangers of a Bush administration, are coming true.

We really need President Gore's leadership now, more than ever. He's one of the few in the Democratic Party with any real moral authority right now, because he's actually gettin things done.

[cry baby]

9. If (I believe we are) in a climate crisis...

who better than Gore to run in 2008? He knows much more than most about the issue. Maybe people are ready to listen!?!?!? Am I being polyannish?

[understandinglife]

10. Gore: "Katrina is the first sip, the first taste, of a bitter cup ...

... that will be proffered to us over and over again. It is up to us , and it does involve accepting that there is a legitimate role for government."

Mr Gore spoke out against the proposed suspension of certain environmental regulations, which some have argued are necessary to deal with Katrina's aftermath: "The response to Katrina should not be to suspend environmental laws and to cut taxes once again."

Kofi Annan, the secretary general of the United Nations, also spoke out in favour of swifter action on climate change. The UN will face stiff negotiations in November at the next round of meetings on the Kyoto treaty on climate change, which binds developed nations to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. Its provisions expire in 2012, and at present there is nothing to replace it.

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http://news.moneycentral.msn.com/provider/providerarticle.asp?feed=FT&Date=20050917&ID=5120636

Indeed.


Peace.

[Amonester]

11. And Rita & Followers are about to come to diner, uninvited.

The "Disaster pResident" has to be Indicted, Impeached, and Imprisoned, and replaced by THE TRUE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES....



before the "have mores" the "haves" and the "have-nots" get all wiped away by an ANGRY PLANET that's about to get her revenge pretty soon...

it's...

URGENT

[drummo]

12. Holy shit!

This man was one of the very first people (yeah not just first pols) who started to pay attention to increased CO2 concentration in the atmoshpere back in the 1960s!
For decades he got nothing but ridicule for his warnings. From pols, pundits, scribes and voters alike. (Remember what Dick Clarke said about "alarmists" in his testimony before the 9/11 commission? People are stupid. They are damn fucking stupid.)
And now that Gore would have every right to say I told you so everyone seems to pretend he doesn't exist.
One liberal commentator noted in his recent on-line article that Bill Clinton is the best suited to mobilize the world for combating global warming. What? Clinton???
Clinton didn't even hear about global warming when Gore was already holding hearings about the issue in 1980!
If there is anyone on this planet today who would be the best suited to mobilize the world against further manmade greenhouse gas emission that is Al Gore and not Bill Clinton.

What a shame!

[AnnieBW]

13. Remember How The Press Ripped Him

For saying that the internal combustion engine should be made obsolete? Well, five years later, what's the most sought-after car in the US? A gas-electric hybrid.