AFP
Posted on 11/15/2006 5:50:00 PM PST by NormsRevenge
Former United States vice-president Al Gore described the US and Australia as the "Bonnie and Clyde" of the global climate crisis for failing to ratify the Kyoto Protocol. Gore, now an environmental activist, likened the two countries to the notorious American bank robbers during a visit to Australia to promote his film on global warming -- "An inconvenient truth".
The Kyoto Protocol aims to restrict the emission of greenhouse gases blamed for global warming, and the US and Australia are the only two developed countries that haven't ratified the pact.
"I sincerely believe if Australia joined the rest of the world community in the Kyoto process, then the pressure on (US President George W.) Bush would be enormous, just enormous," Gore told reporters in Sydney.
He said he was grateful Australian Prime Minister John Howard had been to see his film, even though Howard said it smacked of a "peeved politician" sniping at the Bush administration.
Gore, who narrowly lost the race for the presidency to Bush in 2000, said he would not expect Howard to "immediately praise it to the skies, given the history of his opposition to what I have been saying".
"But I appreciate him seeing it. I like him, I really do, even if he doesn't like my movie. If some of the information in it got through, I'm very happy about that."
He said it was significant that Howard had in recent days acknowledged a "damaging increase" in carbon dioxide emissions and thrown his weight behind a global carbon trading scheme to reduce greenhouse gases.
AP
al-Gore is starting to take on the appearance of a Chinese guy. What's up with that? Botox?
How do we know this? No one could remain awake for more than a few moments of an algore presentation, for all we know, his book is really called "To Serve Mankind."
I see Manbearpig is back
It's times like this I wish I was a billionaire.
Can someone put out a movie that debunks the myth of global warming?
Also that FreeRepublic TV station, we are losing the propaganda war so badly.
Here's another documentary, racism in the Democrat Party, you can call it "The New Slavemasters".
There needs to be a 24 hour Right Wing TV Network, there's already 3 Left Wing Networks, where's the billiionaire with the ba!!s to fill this huge market void.
Donald Trump, are you listening, I'll be the president of programming.
That High Loon! He's so *fun-ny*!
What a card! The way he acts!
You could almost *believe* he's
that stupid!...What a nut!
:oD
Where does this oil-money-rich private-jet-flying jerk get off thinking he's the voice of reason in this debate?
He sweats self-righteousness the way Bill Maher sweats smug.
sorry Fat Al. The US Senate voted 95-0 against it. India, China, Brazil excluded- why?? and maybe Mexico too- not sure
you dork Gore
ROTFL!
Thanks. That's one of the funniest characterization of Algore I've seen.
Of course I'm sure we're all assuming that Gore travelled to Australia by outrigger canoe in order to avoid burning any more of that nasty jet fuel.
Re: Post 2
Oops, I've just emitted a greenhouse gas myself, duh huh huh.
I think I got dumber reading that article.
Hm. Looks like Howard has been bought off by the most corrupt elements of the Kyoto backers.
These threads need a "Gorbal Warning Alert!" tag in the headline similar to those "Barf Alert!"s.
Maybe algore is going for the chinese campaign contribution/bribes...
Or the fat Steven Seagall look.
I thought Segal got it from pulling that ponytail too tight. LOL! I think al-Gore is ready for his saffron robes.
Ok so the US and Australia are Bonnie and Clyde. Does that make Al Gore, Chicken Little?
As for Kyoto , Canada signed onto it. so far they have spent billions and havent even come close to meeting the standards and now admit they cant meet them, while the US has done a better job of cleaning up than Canada has.
Al Gore not only sounds like Chicken Little he is about as smart as Chicken Little.
You lost Al , stop trying to build a legacy on your loss and your great crusade for the planet . A crusade that is mainly Horse crap.
Albert Gore JUNIOR and his wife are thugs. They played up the role of "concerned parents" in the 1980s to lead Senate sub-committee hearings into the evils of rock music (and savaged the careers of numerous musicians as well as leading to a sticker campaign that resulted in the arrest and harassment of a number of record store clerks who sold "labelled" albums to minors in sting operations).
They never have played to the "middle" again. Their son is busted for driving a car with his headlights off and a doob in the ashtray and there is no comment.
I suspect that Albert Gore Junior was advised to start that campaign in the 1980s by his father, Albert Gore Sr. The senior Gore had been Senator in the 1950s when he saw his fellow senator from Tennessee, Estes Kefauver(D) run a similar set of hearings into juvenile delinquency in the 1950s (ultimately resulting the censorship and labelling of comic books). Kefauver shut out Gore for what he saw as his shot at the presidential ticket (EK got the VP nod for his efforts).
I suspect he'll throw anyone under the bus to get power. He's been led to believe it is his destiny to be president, his daddy wanted it so much.
Isn't Gore the guy with the 10,000 sq. ft. house who goes flying around in a private jet all the time.
["I sincerely believe if Australia joined the rest of the world community in the Kyoto process, then the pressure on (US President George W.) Bush would be enormous, just enormous,"]
This is absurd. The Senate rejected Kyoto 99-0. What good is pressure on Bush going to do, especially with a Democrat majority?
"Denny....Denny Crane"
Australia and US 'Bonnie and Clyde' of global warming: Gore
When a liberal loses an argument, he always resorts to name-calling. In this case, any English-speaking nation that didn't sign the Kyoto Protocol is a criminal.
Hollywood smog an inconvenient truth LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- Special effects explosions, idling vehicles, teams of workers building monumental sets -- all of it contributes to Hollywood's newly discovered role as an air polluter, a university study has found.
The film and television industry and associated activities make a larger contribution to air pollution in the five-county Los Angeles region than almost all five other sectors researched, according to a two-year study released Tuesday by the University of California at Los Angeles.
Although Hollywood seems environmentally conscious thanks to celebrities who lend their names to various causes, the industry created more pollution than individually produced by aerospace manufacturing, apparel, hotels and semiconductor manufacturing, the study found.
Only petroleum manufacturing belched more emissions.
"People talk of 'the industry,' but we don't think of them as an industry," said Mary Nichols, who heads the school's Institute of the Environment, which released what researchers called a "snapshot" of industry pollution. "We think of the creative side, the movie, the people, the actors -- we don't think of what it takes to produce the product."
Researchers considered the emissions created directly and indirectly by the film and television industry
article found http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/science/11/14/hollywood.pollution.ap/index.html
You know, I'm having trouble remembering the last Republican politician who resorted to public name-calling. I can rail off a list of Dims a mile long.
Very good point!
do they have a plane-pool lane rule in the skyways of california?
The article fails to mention Mr. Gore's enthusiastic support for nuclear power. That is just an oversight, right?
I mean, he has come out in support of a massive effort to build new nuclear power plants, hasn't he? (Or am I expecting too much?)
Read Michael Crichton's bood "State of Fear." This book has proven scientific evidence that Global Warming is a myth...Also good read.
Since the last election, coupled with current actions and statements of both Democrats and "Republicans" - I'm now totally convinced of that reality..
Semper Fi
Attention Tipper Gore: Please deploy another donut into your (jagoff) husband's enviro-whacko claptrap.
Sincerly, An inconvenient polluter.
Just think folks, but for the grace of a few thousand votes in Florida, this nut would've been President. Yikes!
AlGore once ran a marathon and was a regular jogger while VP. Kind of hard to believe, huh?
Every day he looks more and more hefty like his corrupt daddy "US Senator Albert Gore"
And you saw it on his internet thingie.
I am still waiting to here Prince Albert's explanation for why the Kyoto treaty was rejected by 95-0 in the US Senate when he was VP and in a leadership position.
oops! here = hear
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