Al Gore in Helsinki [USA join Kyoto at the latest "15 minutes after a new admin. takes office".]

HELSINGIN SANOMAT ^ | Wednesday 6.9.2006 | staff writer

[yankeedame]

www.helsinginsanomat.fi/english

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Al Gore in Helsinki - expects USA to join Kyoto Climate Treaty soon Former US Vice President Al Gore predicts that his country will join the Kyoto Climate Treaty before President George W. Bush leaves office.       Up to now, Bush has categorically refused to give US approval to the treaty aimed at limiting emissions of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide.       Speaking in Helsinki on Tuesday, Gore said that he had discussed the matter with an unnamed key researcher for the Bush Administration. The researcher had told Gore that the USA would join Kyoto at the latest "fifteen minutes after a new administration takes office".       However, Gore added that Bush might also change his mind, as several key researchers are "pushing him in that direction".       Gore sees the global oil business as a receding one, with growth expected mainly in renewable energy sources, whose use is being advanced by the Kyoto Treaty. Consequently, Kyoto has begun to interest investors, who constitute a key political support group for Bush.       Since his defeat in the US Presidential elections in 2000, Gore has devoted much of his time to speaking about the dangers of global warming. Gore’s documentary film on the issue, An Inconvenient Truth, will have its Finnish premiere next week.       According to Gore, the polluters are trying to obscure the issue, but he sees that attitudes are changing even in the political mainstream.       Gore says that both the political system and the climate operate in a non-linear fashion, with long periods of slow movement, after which change can be very rapid.       He read out a long list of significant climatic events in recent years, including the record-warm summers that Finland has been experiencing. He also welcomed the recent decision by the state of California to implement its own emission limits and to introduce a system of trade in emissions.       Gore came to Helsinki mainly to promote his Generation Investment Management company, which has entered into cooperation with the Finnish company Sampo Fund Management. Gore’s company is to begin managing a Sampo fund which invests in companies promoting sustainable development. So far, the Sampo fund has only EUR 15 million in investment capital, whereas its new American portfolio manager is administering capital worth about 400 million US dollars. Helsingin Sanomat

[yankeedame]

Here's missing pic:

[RasterMaster]

The man suffers from delusions.

[2banana]

Gore needs to read the US Constitution. Treaties need to be ratified by the US Senate. Even Clinton knew better than to bring this up...

[axes_of_weezles]

[napscoordinator]

I just don't understand why we would want the world telling us how to control our environment. I am not completely against assisting a bit with preservation, but to have the World tell us is going to cause way too much unnecessary bs. Look how we are with the forests and woods. The environmentals in America tell us not to have forced fires and look what happens - MASSIVE fires. It would be worse with the World telling us how to control every aspect of our environment. I hope whoever the President is they will tell them no. I know that Republicans are doing very well, but someday (50-100 years from now) we might have a democratic President agains and we don't want them joining that wacko group either. Let it go. We can preserve the environment on our own.

[SouthernBoyupNorth]

one word....

ID 10 T

[Doctor Stochastic]

The Kyoto Protocols will not help slow global warming. They will only restrict the US.

[kevkrom]

If I recall, the U.S. Senate voted 95-0 against the Kyoto treaty.

[Niteranger68]

Speaking in Helsinki on Tuesday, Gore said that he had discussed the matter with an unnamed key researcher for the Bush Administration

Sure he did.....

[oldleft]

Why? So we can start transferring money to Russia like the Europeans do? I fail to see what that has to do with emissions.

[Prysson]

Yes...but I REALLY hope he runs in 08.

[csvset]

There's a " Caption this " thread of that pic Here

[VRWCmember]

In the immortal words of Bryant Gumball: "What a F***ing Idiot!"

[Rb ver. 2.0]

"unnamed key researcher"

How does a man without a name get a job in the first place, let alone one in the Bush Administration?

[Comstock1]

I take it you aren't familiar with his "... no controlling authority..." line? Why let a little thing like the Constitution get in the way?

[Ole Okie]

If I recall, the U.S. Senate voted 95-0 against the Kyoto treaty.

Unfortunately, that was a "Sense of the Senate" vote rather than a ratification vote.

Sick Willie didn't have the gonads to submit it for ratification, because he knew it would sink faster than the eye can blink.

[tcrlaf]

Headline should read:

"Gore Promises NO NEW JOBS!"

If only they wrote headlines for Liberals, the same way they do for Republicans.......

[jeremiah]

You need to read up on current events. NAFTA was ratified with less than 2/3 of Senators voting for it. The Constitution is a living breathing document, it means what our rulers want it to.

[Sooth2222]

It is nothing short of a miracle that this heavily-medicated fruitbat who listens to the voices in his head did not become President of the United States.

[seanmerc]

That ain't all he suffers from.