Gore, In Oslo Speech, Predicts Shift In Bush Climate Policy - Reuters

[hatrack]

Wish I shared his optimism . . .

OSLO - Former US Vice President Al Gore predicted on Tuesday that President George W. Bush would shift to do more to fight global warming, under Republican pressure from California to New York, "I think there is a better than 50-50 chance that President Bush will change his policy in the next two years," Gore told an audience in Oslo after showing his documentary "An Inconvenient Truth" about global warming during a tour of Europe.

"Many of his strongest supporters are changing their positions and are becoming vocal in asking him to change," Gore told about 300 people including Norway's Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg and Environment Minister Helen Bjoernoy.

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Gore praised California for passing the first bill in the United States to cap emissions after a deal between Republicans and Democrats last week. The bill aims to cut carbon dioxide emissions by about 25 percent, back to 1990 levels by 2020. He also said many right-wing Christian religious leaders, major business leaders and mayors of cities from Seattle to New York were seeking cuts in emissions of carbon dioxide in a break with the Bush administration.

"We are still a ways away from the critical mass that's necessary (to change US climate policy) but we are getting there," Gore said. "There is a burden of implausibility that the President is now carrying with his position."

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http://www.planetark.org/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/37974/story.htm

[phantom power]

1. Makes for good rhetoric. I find it hard to believe...

that Gore is really so naive. If he is, he needs to wake up.

[hatrack]

2. Corner-painting, I suspect - political setup nt

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[ramapo]

3. When pigs fly...

you'll see Bush make a major shift in any of his policies

[RestoreGore]

4. I love you Mr. Gore, but...

Of course, Mr. Gore is absolutely right that we must stop dumping so much global warming pollution into the atmosphere. That is however, exactly what companies will continue to do as long as they are not held accountable for doing so, and they will continue to go unaccountable as long as we have people in power that are aligned with them and who are allowed free reign in waging perpetual wars and making a mockery of our Constitution. The self policing policy of the Bush regime is also a failure and cannot be relied upon to garner results.

To even waste time thinking Bush will come around, is sorry, imo a waste of time. And to be quite honest, to think he will even be allowed to stay in office for the next two years is an abomination to all this country should stand for. I cannot believe that after the crimes this regime has committed, Democrats are prepared to allow him to continue in office.The topic of the climate crisis has been lost on these people completely and with good reason. THEY DON'T CARE, and nothing is going to make them care, especially if it gets in the way of their PNAC plans. Unless of course, they can use it to make a profit.

At this point I don't care if Bush comes around and I really can't believe Mr. Gore does. Mr. Gore, you called Bush a Moral Coward not too long ago. Do you honestly believe that has changed? He isn't even worth being afforded the courtesy of any shadow of a doubt regarding this issue. It is the people who must now go around him and his enablers on this issue for that is the only way any real progress will be made. And unless PEOPLE change, no amount of legislation will do us any good.

But God, if people are really depending on Bush to come around, I'm going out and buying a rowboat right now. And Mr. Gore, this is a moral issue, not a political one as you have stated many times. These people have no morals, and that is the message we should be getting out!

I agree with Robert Redford on this one.

Forget Bush On Global Warming

Washington, D.C. (CNSNews.com) - Actor/activist Robert Redford told liberals attending a political conference on Monday to "forget Bush" when seeking solutions to "global warming" because "you can't reason with a stone."

During one of the opening events of the three-day "Take Back America" conference, Redford also blamed what he called an inadequate response to "serious climate change issues" on "a lack of leadership at the top" of the federal government.

"They're not going to change," Redford said of President George W. Bush and his administration, "and it's pretty clear why. They have a stranglehold on both houses of Congress and the Supreme Court to boot."

If that's the case, then "where can such leadership come from?" Redford asked. "It can only come from one place, and that's from the bottom up," the actor noted, calling a grassroots movement "the best way, the American way" to deal with "global warming."