GORE: CIGARETTE SMOKING 'SIGNIFICANT' CONTRIBUTOR TO GLOBAL WARMING
Fri Sep 29 2006 09:04:05 ET
Posted on 09/30/2006 1:42:18 AM PDT by Brainhose
GORE: CIGARETTE SMOKING 'SIGNIFICANT' CONTRIBUTOR TO GLOBAL WARMING
Fri Sep 29 2006 09:04:05 ET
Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore warned hundreds of U.N. diplomats and staff on Thursday evening about the perils of climate change, claiming: Cigarette smoking is a "significant contributor to global warming!"
Gore, who was introduced by Secretary-General Kofi Annan, said the world faces a "full-scale climate emergency that threatens the future of civilization on earth."
Gore showed computer-generated projections of ocean water rushing in to submerge the San Francisco Bay Area, New York City, parts of China, India and other nations, should ice shelves in Antarctica or Greenland melt and slip into the sea.
"The planet itself will do nicely, thank you very much what is at risk is human civilization," Gore said. After a series of Q& A with the audience, which had little to do with global warming and more about his political future, Annan bid "adios" to Gore.
Then, Gore had his staff opened a stack of cardboard boxes to begin selling his new book, "An Inconvenient Truth, The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It," $19.95, to the U.N. diplomats.
Developing...
Does he feel guilty when he farts?
"Throughout most of my life, I raised tobacco. I want you to know that with my own hands, all of my life, I put it in the plant beds and transferred it. I've hoed it. I've dug in it. I've sprayed it, I've chopped it, I've shredded it, spiked it, put it in the barn and stripped it and sold it." -- The Surreal Al Gore
Consider that the United States spends tens of billions of dollars on frenzied programs to upgrade and improve the technology of bombers and fighter planes to counter an increasingly remote threat to our national security, but we are content to see hundreds of millions of automobiles using an old technological approach not radically different from the one first used decades ago in the Model A Ford. We now know that their cumulative impact on the global environment is posing a mortal threat to the security of every nation that is more deadly than that of any military enemy we are ever again likely to confront. Though it is technically possible to build high-mileage cars and trucks, we are told that mandating a more trepid transition to more efficient vehicles will cause an unacceptable disruption in the current structure of the automobile industry. Industry officials contend that it is unfair to single out their industry while ignoring others that also contribute to the problem; I agree, but their point only illustrates further the need for a truly global, comprehensive, and strategic approach to the energy problem. I support new laws to mandate improvements in automobile fleet mileage, but much more is needed. Within the context of the SEI [Strategic Environmental Initiative], it ought to be possible to establish a coordinated global program to accomplish the strategic goal of completely eliminating the internal combustion engine over, say, a twenty-five year period. -- The Surreal Al Gore
I always thought AlGore grew up in a hotel in D.C. while his daddy was Senator.
bttt
According to Wikipedia:
"Al Gore was born in Washington, D.C., to Albert A. Gore, Sr., a former U.S. Senator from Tennessee, seated 1953-1971, and Pauline LaFon Gore, one of the first women to graduate from Vanderbilt Law School. Since his father was a veteran Democratic senator from Tennessee, Al Gore Jr. divided his childhood between Washington, D.C., and Carthage, Tennessee. During the school year, the younger Gore lived in a hotel in Washington; during summer vacations, he lived in Carthage, where he worked on the Gore family tobacco farm."
It sounds like the Gores are liable for reparations to the world for the damage done by generations of tobacco farming.
Well, I'm about to make some toast for breakfast. Apologies to all if it causes a 30 foot flood on the Eastern seabord!
the fact that such a "big lie" is believed completely by so many, or that sane people feel compelled to respond rationally to overtly insane assertions.
We are in The Matrix. The end is nigh.
Re: Al... {s..piffffff
Is it me or is Al beginning to look like Jaba the Hut?
Looks like he used four "dabs" too much!
No, he immediately sniffs them, thereby cleansing the offensive offal with his lungs...as he does, he breathes a
smugly satisfied "ahhhhhhh."
Come to think of it......maybe that's why he's so damn nuts! I guess breathing too much methane can make you stupid....
There are many ills and “evils” that are blamed on the European White European Males as they “invaded” the New World, however, this is one (the scourge of modern times) that can be laid at the feet of our brethren natives.
TOBACCO TIMELINE
http://www.tobacco.org/History/Tobacco_History.html
Prehistory: Although small amounts of nicotine may be found in some Old World plants, including belladonna and Nicotiana africana, and nicotine metabolites have been found in human remains and pipes in the Near East and Africa, there is no indication of habitual tobacco use in the Ancient world, on any continent save the Americas.
1492-10-12: Columbus Discovers Tobacco; "Certain Dried Leaves" Are Received as Gifts, and Thrown Away.
On this bright morning Columbus and his men set foot on the New World for the first time, landing on the beach of San Salvador Island or Samana Cay in the Bahamas, or Gran Turk Island. The indigenous Arawaks, possibly thinking the strange visitors divine, offer gifts. Columbus wrote in his journal,
the natives brought fruit, wooden spears, and certain dried leaves which gave off a distinct fragrance. As each item seemed much-prized by the natives; Columbus accepted the gifts and ordered them brought back to the ship. The fruit was eaten; the pungent "dried leaves" were thrown away.
1492-10-15: Columbus Mentions Tobacco. "We found a man in a canoe going from Santa Maria to Fernandia. He had with him some dried leaves which are in high value among them, for a quantity of it was brought to me at San Salvador" -- Christopher Columbus' Journal
1492-11: Jerez and Torres Discover Smoking; Jerez Becomes First European Smoker
Rodrigo de Jerez and Luis de Torres, in Cuba searching for the Khan of Cathay (China), are credited with first observing smoking. They reported that the natives wrapped dried tobacco leaves in palm or maize "in the manner of a musket formed of paper." After lighting one end, they commenced "drinking" the smoke through the other. Jerez became a confirmed smoker, and is thought to be the first outside of the Americas. He brought the habit back to his hometown, but the smoke billowing from his mouth and nose so frightened his neighbors he was imprisoned by the holy inquisitors for 7 years. By the time he was released, smoking was a Spanish craze.
1493: Ramon Pane, a monk who accompanied Columbus on his second voyage, gave lengthy descriptions about the custom of taking snuff. He also described how the Indians inhaled smoke through a Y-shaped tube. Pane is usually credited with being the first man to introduce tobacco to Europe.
1497: Robert Pane, who accompanied Christopher Columbus on his second voyage in 1493, writes the first report of native tobacco use to appear in Europe, "De Insularium Ribitus."
1498: Columbus visits Trinidad and Tobago, naming the latter after the native tobacco pipe.
1499: Amerigo Vespucci noticed that the American Indians had a curious habit of chewing green leaves mixed with a white powder. They carried two gourds around their necks -- one filled with leaves, the other with powder. First, they put leaves in their mouths. Then, after dampening a small stick with saliva, they dipped it in the powder and mixed the adhering powder with the leaves in their mouths, making a kind of chewing tobacco. (Imperial Tobacco Canada,
Now I can get back to my second cup of coffee and THIRD cigarette, this morning.
OOH! OOH! What about the Middle East?!?
We, we, we, we, we, -- I, I, I, I, I.
Get a grip!
Has he given to charity all the money his family made from tobacco? No. Is he botoxed to the eyeballs? Probably. So he's thinking seriously about running for the WH. Also, he's been sending out fundraising letters, which is a sure sign. Meanwhile, Hillary's botoxed/face-lifted, as recent photos reveal. Also John F..king Kerry. They get weirder and weirder looking.
You know, one thing I would like to do some research on is CO2 emissions from a human vs a car.
For instance, measure the amound of CO2 released from a car in a 5 mile stretch. Then compare that against how much CO2 a person exhales with an increased breathing rate while pedaling or running those same 5 miles.
Would be interesting to see how much the difference would be...I'm doing some fairly in-depth studies of the internal combustion engine right now (still in college, last semester, mechanical engineering). I'd like to make that comparison...
LOL! Perhaps he's installed a catalytic converter on his, er, posterior. (Reminds me of a scene from 'The Mask'; "I want a proctologist standing by. The best one you can find.")
Algore guilt.
Since we're apologizing, I apologize for voting for Warren Rudman twice for senator. Maybe not as much of a fool but fully as dangerous. And a lying skanking weasel.
Me too. He attended St. Albans while in D.C. A highly scholastically rated school. Very liberal teachers at the time.
Unlike the Prince (Albert), 'uncle' Albert not only isn't in a can, that does not smell like tobacco smoke...
P.S. Yes! I think he is morphing into Web Hubbel..
I could "almost" wish that the next presidential election would turn out to be between Gore and McCain--just to see which of them is the bigger nutcase.
HEY BIG AL!
Al's sister died from lung cancer!
"Does he feel guilty when he farts?"
By looking at the size of his gut, I bet his "fart footprint" is at least 5 times larger than mine.
Certainly I think you are right in this - the environmental lobby is selective in it's use of data and doesn't try to learn what it does not want to know.
There is Phd in your idea. Good luck!
How's about Hermann Goering? 
Well, I'm about to make some toast for breakfast. Apologies to all if it causes a 30 foot flood on the Eastern seabord!
I just love it! I hope the other Democrats follow suit with like-minded claims. I must read the papers more to enjoy the abolute nut cases claims and pronouncements! It is hilarious!
How can anyone take this oaf seriously? Or, for that matter, just about any Democrat? They are all smooth-talking liars so hungry for power they will say and do just about anything.
We can look forward to fist shaking and lower lip biting (and not much more) every time we are hit by terrorists if the Democrats take over.
"According to KiteShip, nearly 2 billion barrels of heavy fuel oil are burned each year by ship fleets worldwide, creating three times the atmospheric pollution from all the cars on the planet combined. KiteShip's kites are designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, as well as ship fuel costs by 25 percent." Photos Cleaner technology on display CNET News.com
And as big as he is in that picture, I'm sure he does it a lot.
Wondering if being gay does something to the braincells......and I'm including albore in that question.
Seems to have forgotten about God.
I guess, in the event Mr. Gore is elected President, Americans will see a new warning on their cigarette packages, "WARNING: CIGARETTE SMOKING CAUSES LUNG CANCER, HEART DISEASE AND THE DESTRUCTION OF OUR PLANET THROUGH GLOBAL WARMING".
I have no idea what kind of drugs Mr. Gore must be loaded on to come up with this silliness.
Nothing algore has done can begin to compare with the marvel of the internal combustion engine and the many benefits it has given mankind. His book is an Insignificant Rant and he's reduced to a huckster.
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