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Gore: Take Personal Responsibility To Stem Crisis [had adopted a "carbon neutral lifestyle."....]
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Posted on 07/24/2006 11:52:05 AM PDT by Sub-Driver

Gore: Take Personal Responsibility To Stem Crisis

POSTED: 2:27 pm EDT July 24, 2006 UPDATED: 2:30 pm EDT July 24, 2006

CHAUTAUQUA, N.Y. -- Former Vice President Al Gore said his conscience is regularly challenged by a consumerism that contributes to the global warming he has made it his mission to reverse.

"It is so hard for those of us who want to live according to our values," Gore said Monday at the Chautauqua Institution, during the latest of countless lectures he has given on the topic.

"We're embedded in a culture that makes it so easy to just go with the flow and support a pattern that's horribly destructive," he said. "And so we need to address this personally."

For Gore, it was a return visit to the western New York think tank used by former President Bill Clinton and his wife, Sen. Hillary Clinton, for debate preparation during campaigns. Gore lectured on global warming here in 1990.

Since then, the consensus that the planet is in crisis has grown stronger, he said, and the ability to make the point is not cluttered by campaign issues like the economy and health care.

"This is by far the most serious challenge that we face or have ever faced," he said during the 90-minute appearance. "None of the other ones will matter if we don't get this right."

Later, Gore planned to sign copies of his book, "An Inconvenient Truth." The related documentary film was being shown on campus.

(Excerpt) Read more at wnbc.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: climatechange; environment; gore; goregonewild; kook; manbearpig
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To: Kieri
Gore exhaling sodium.


61 posted on 07/24/2006 12:25:24 PM PDT by Cobra64 (All we get are lame ideas from Republicans and lame criticism from dems about those lame ideas.)
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To: yoe

LOL! Great bunch of quotes. Thanks.


62 posted on 07/24/2006 12:26:47 PM PDT by Starboard
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To: Restorer

How about kryptonite?


63 posted on 07/24/2006 12:28:05 PM PDT by Cobra64 (All we get are lame ideas from Republicans and lame criticism from dems about those lame ideas.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Former Vice President Al Gore said his conscience is regularly challenged



I was OK to this point in the story.


64 posted on 07/24/2006 12:29:10 PM PDT by freedomlover (This tagline has been pulled - - - - OK?)
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To: Sub-Driver

What's next? Voting for reduced flow toilets so that you can feel OK about having a dam release billions of gallons of water to keep your canoe afloat?


65 posted on 07/24/2006 12:29:52 PM PDT by DancesWithBolsheviks (Fatigued with the party always being in my backyard.)
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To: yoe

Excellent compilation of Gore's quotations. Where'd you get 'em? Any on Clinton and Carter?


66 posted on 07/24/2006 12:32:03 PM PDT by Cobra64 (All we get are lame ideas from Republicans and lame criticism from dems about those lame ideas.)
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To: wideawake

That lard ass Gore should know that it takes 10 carbons to produce 1 calorie using farming methods (including organic). He should go on a diet and lose about 100 lbs. and quit jetting around the globe.


67 posted on 07/24/2006 12:32:07 PM PDT by griswold3 (Ken Blackwell, Ohio Governor in 2006- No!! You cannot have my governor in 2008.)
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To: gafusa

I wish one of these tree hugger types would pay me for my non-used CO2 credits. I think you can get a pack of 12 credits at the Piggly Wiggly pretty cheap.


68 posted on 07/24/2006 12:32:38 PM PDT by Holicheese (Stanley Cup's new home IS North Carolina!)
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To: yoe
The condescension and preaching that Gore and his fellow goofballs direct toward us peasants is amazing.

It doesn't matter to them that I live a frugal existence when it comes to electricity, fossil fuels and consumer products and the packaging they come in, and I reuse as many things as I can before disposing of them. I just got preached at a few months ago by some jerk who WASTES more energy than I USE and when I pointed that out to him he said HE was doing more for "the planet" because he voted for Gore and Kerry instead of Bush.

And these hypocritical fools are so abundant nowadays that you can't help but trip over them wherever you go.
69 posted on 07/24/2006 12:33:06 PM PDT by spinestein (Follow "The Bronze Rule")
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To: Restorer

An element is defined by the number of protons in a nucleus. The atomic weight of an element is the geometric average of the weights of all isotopes of the element (geometric because it is weighted by their relative abundance.) Deuterium is called deuterium because each atom has a neutron in addition to the proton. It is the same element with a different atomic weight (tritium is hydrogen with 2 neutrons). If you look at a periodic table of the elements, the atomic weight of hydrogen is 1.008, 1 for the proton and .008 for the extra neutrons in deuterium and tritium which are naturally occurring.


70 posted on 07/24/2006 12:34:24 PM PDT by mike70
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE
Reminder. Be very careful if the clerk asks, "Paper or plastic?" when you get to the cash register.

The first time I heard that question, I thought the cashier was referring to cash versus credit card. Series. You can tell I seldom shop (other than car and boat stores).

71 posted on 07/24/2006 12:34:50 PM PDT by Cobra64 (All we get are lame ideas from Republicans and lame criticism from dems about those lame ideas.)
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To: Sub-Driver
Apparently, living a "carbon-neutral lifestyle" includes giving at least one of it's proponents $10 per ton of carbon dioxide saved. Can you say, scam? Behold:

YES! I Want to Join SELF’S Carbon Neutral Club

That’s great! It’s a quick, easy two-step:

Step One: Calculate your emissions by choosing a carbon calculator to work out what your personal emissions were for last year. For a choice of calculators, see www.earthfuture.com/climate/calculators.

Step Two: After using the calculator, click here to make your contribution to SELF, at $10 per ton. Welcome to SELF’s Carbon Neutral Club!

You can also offset the emissions from a flights, or holiday. Go to www.chooseclimate.org/flying to calculate your emissions from flying, then return here to offset them, at $10 per ton.

Typical liberalism. I pledge $10 bucks! And get this: the organization that published this tripe is called SELF (Solar Electric Light Fund). You can donate money so they can use it to offset the emissions of the little people in "Bhutan, the Solomon Islands, Tanzania or one of the other countries where SELF works." Narcissus would be proud.

72 posted on 07/24/2006 12:35:02 PM PDT by Reaganesque
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To: skr
So how does all of his private jet setting and SUV transportation fit into this?

people of "substance" get to do that

everybody else can ride a bicycle

73 posted on 07/24/2006 12:35:07 PM PDT by nascarnation
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To: gafusa
"Carbon neutral" is a scam. A liberal friend of mine said she thought it was a good idea. So I asked her what was going to happen to the money we sent to third world nations so that they wouldn't produce "green house" gasses. She said she didn't know. So then I pointed out that for money to be worth anything you have to buy something with it i.e. goods or services. So where are they going to get the goods from if they aren't producing things themselves? From the West. And what's that going to take to produce things? Energy! No savings in carbon whatsoever.

Another thing to ask Gore would be "Why just "carbon neutral"? Why not "carbon negative"? If you were at a concert where the concert goers left a bunch of trash and someone said it would destroy the earth don't you think they would pick up more than their own soda cup?

74 posted on 07/24/2006 12:35:24 PM PDT by techcor
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To: Sub-Driver
An excellent and spot on analysis of "global warming" at

http://www.americasfuture.net/1997/nov97/97-1123a.html

DeWeese calls global warming "the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the people of the world, bar none. Those who have been fighting against the green agenda have been warning that modern-day environmentalism has nothing whatsoever to do with protecting the environment," he observes. "Rather, it is a political movement led by those who seek to control the world economies, dictate development, and redistribute the world's wealth."

75 posted on 07/24/2006 12:35:44 PM PDT by GaltMeister (“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.”)
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To: Izzy Dunne
Men grow cold as girls grow old and we all lose our charm in the end, but square cut or pear-shaped these rocks don't lose their shape. Diamonds are a girl's best friend.
76 posted on 07/24/2006 12:35:53 PM PDT by SoCalRight
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To: Sub-Driver

In high school, it was either biology or chemistry that we learned that life on Earth is carbon based. If Al is carbon neutral, no wonder he looks like a stone carving.


77 posted on 07/24/2006 12:36:42 PM PDT by Cobra64 (All we get are lame ideas from Republicans and lame criticism from dems about those lame ideas.)
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To: Izzy Dunne
Men grow cold as girls grow old and we all lose our charm in the end, but square cut or pear-shaped these rocks don't lose their shape. Diamonds are a girl's best friend.
78 posted on 07/24/2006 12:38:00 PM PDT by SoCalRight
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To: Izzy Dunne

Actually diamonds are not rare at all - except in the retail market which is controled by a cartel.


79 posted on 07/24/2006 12:38:11 PM PDT by DManA
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To: tdewey10

With its 4 valance electrons, it's kinda hard not to be neutral toward carbon.


80 posted on 07/24/2006 12:38:29 PM PDT by Redcloak (Speak softly and wear a loud shirt.)
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