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Al Gore introduces 7 Point Pledge' to curb global warming
Newsday.com ^ | 6/29/07 | JAKE COYLE

Posted on 06/29/2007 9:40:07 PM PDT by melt

NEW YORK -- Al Gore on Thursday called on people around the world to sign a "7 Point Pledge" promising personal action in curbing global warming.

The former vice president unveiled the pledge at a press conference to promote Live Earth, the July 7 event of concerts stretching across the globe. Gore was joined by Live Earth founder Kevin Wall and Cathy Zoi, the CEO of the Alliance for Climate Protection.

Audiences at the eight Live Earth concerts and its many other events will be asked to sign the pledge, also available at http://liveearth.org/?p=95>. Those who sign it promise to pressure their country to sign treaties to cut global warming pollution, personally reduce carbon dioxide pollution, and plant trees, among other things.

"Quite a few of the seven points are directly designed to put pressure on governments and on businesses, but do so by asking people around the world to help to focus that pressure," said Gore.

Gore, Wall and Zoi signed the pledge and were soon thereafter followed by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., who jointly announced their signing in a press release.

"It's a significant start to what we hope will be a worldwide rollout," Gore told The Associated Press after learning of their signing.

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


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: algore; climatechange; environment; globalwarming; gorebullwarming; hoax; klintonsklown; scam; taxes; weather

What about number 8? It appears to be omitted.

8. No more voracious, carbon-swallowing mansions to be owned by politicians or "Rock Stars" and Hollywoodies...

1 posted on 06/29/2007 9:40:09 PM PDT by melt
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To: melt

Al, just go away, you need help...

2 posted on 06/29/2007 9:41:45 PM PDT by cardinal4
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To: cardinal4

Save a tree, shoot a lawyer.


3 posted on 06/29/2007 9:44:43 PM PDT by bybybill (HUNT RINOS IN THE PRIMARIES, SKIN RATS IN THE FALL)
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To: melt
What a humongous load all this is.

Goracle is as mad as his followers.

4 posted on 06/29/2007 9:46:11 PM PDT by Names Ash Housewares
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To: melt

LOL, he should have cleaned up that act before he started this global cooling, warming thing to begin with.


5 posted on 06/29/2007 9:47:39 PM PDT by television is just wrong (Amnesty is when you allow them to return to their country of origin without prosecution.take the get)
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To: melt

Come on, Al! Why didn’t you do the oath in blood like the kids do?


6 posted on 06/29/2007 9:48:47 PM PDT by Mark (REMEMBER: Mean spirited, angry remarks against my postings won't feed even one hungry child.)
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To: melt

http://liveearth.org/?p=95

I PLEDGE:

1. To demand that my country join an international treaty within the next 2 years that cuts global warming pollution by 90% in developed countries and by more than half worldwide in time for the next generation to inherit a healthy earth;

2. To take personal action to help solve the climate crisis by reducing my own CO2 pollution as much as I can and offsetting the rest to become “carbon neutral;”

3. To fight for a moratorium on the construction of any new generating facility that burns coal without the capacity to safely trap and store the CO2;

4. To work for a dramatic increase in the energy efficiency of my home, workplace, school, place of worship, and means of transportation;

5. To fight for laws and policies that expand the use of renewable energy sources and reduce dependence on oil and coal;

6. To plant new trees and to join with others in preserving and protecting forests; and,

7. To buy from businesses and support leaders who share my commitment to solving the climate crisis and building a sustainable, just, and prosperous world for the 21st century.


7 posted on 06/29/2007 9:52:01 PM PDT by the lone wolf (Good Luck, and watch out for stobor.)
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To: bybybill

“Save a tree, shoot a lawyer.”

That would make a good bumper sticker if it’s not already one.


8 posted on 06/29/2007 9:52:03 PM PDT by BBell
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To: melt

Al Bore is such a hypocrite. I read about the massive about of energy his home uses. Of course he is always jetting around and riding in nice vehicles. Typical socialist. They on top get to enjoy all the benefits, while us plebians have to cut down our use of luxuries.

Sorry, Fat Albert. If you want us to cut down on energy consumption, you take the lead and set an example. Are you too big to fit through the doors of the metro bus?


9 posted on 06/29/2007 9:54:16 PM PDT by Pinkbell (I'm a Christian, a conservative and a Republican, in that order. - Mike Pence)
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To: melt

Point #1 should be for him to shut his pie hole.


10 posted on 06/29/2007 9:56:43 PM PDT by Mad_Tom_Rackham (Elections have consequences.)
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To: melt
A framed version of this was signed and sold on eBay.


11 posted on 06/29/2007 10:00:43 PM PDT by doug from upland (Stopping Hillary should be a FreeRepublic Manhattan Project)
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To: the lone wolf
by 90% in developed countries

Easy to do. Just move all manufacturing to third world countries that are not picky about the environment.
12 posted on 06/29/2007 10:00:48 PM PDT by P-40 (Al Qaeda was working in Iraq. They were just undocumented.)
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To: BBell

Lawyers should by managed by the state, just like they manage deer herds. Liberal bag limits where they are destroying their environment and a long season so that everybody can get at least one. Throwing money on the ground, or baiting as it is called , should be banned except when the herd is just to big.


13 posted on 06/29/2007 10:02:34 PM PDT by bybybill (HUNT RINOS IN THE PRIMARIES, SKIN RATS IN THE FALL)
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To: the lone wolf

8. Buy your carbon credits from me.


14 posted on 06/29/2007 10:21:13 PM PDT by 1066AD
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To: melt

“The Soothsayer” a parable.

In a land not far away, a once powerful and vain “soothsayer”- a predictor of the future, called out to the people in the town square and bade them listen to his tale of dire portent.

“A great wrong has been done me when I was deposed as your leader, and continues to be done to this very land.” he said. “You must atone for these crimes, and bow before me as your lord and protector.”

The crowd fell silent. “As proof of what I say, and as a taste of the punishment that can be visited upon this land, I shall cause the sun to dim and then grow dark before your eyes this day.” The people murmured, then openly scoffed at this.

But just then, the sun did actually grow dim, and then turned quite dark. The land was bathed in an eerie pallor, and the stars appeared at midday. The people gasped, and then fell to their knees supplicant to the soothsayer’s will.

They could not dismiss the soothsayer’s power and the wisdom they perceived, and in an instant they were like sheep in his control. High above, the Moon slowly passed from in front of the Sun, and the light of the star shone again upon the land.

Though anyone with knowledge of the heavens could have told you that the darkness at Noon was none of the soothsayer’s doing, it was far too late to change this belief amongst the rabble in the street. The land had a new lord, much to the people’s sorrow and regret, as they eventually realized.


15 posted on 06/29/2007 10:22:52 PM PDT by Richard Axtell
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To: cardinal4

Isn’t that the stuff they introduced into the air processors on Miranda? The stuff that made most of the population lie down and die while the rest turned into crazed, cannibalistic rapists?


16 posted on 06/29/2007 10:23:02 PM PDT by Redcloak (The 2nd Amendment isn't about sporting goods.)
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To: 1066AD

I thought that #8 was a promise to use only one square of toilet paper.


17 posted on 06/29/2007 10:24:56 PM PDT by Redcloak (The 2nd Amendment isn't about sporting goods.)
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To: doug from upland
"AL Gore Causes Global Warming"

30 years of Al Gore's "Global Warming" activism--- and now we suddenly find ourselves in a "Global Warming Emergency". Al Gore is killing the Earth!

18 posted on 06/29/2007 10:28:36 PM PDT by melt (Someday, they'll wish their Jihad... Jihadn't.)
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To: Redcloak
If only River Tam would kick agore’s rear off the planet.
19 posted on 06/29/2007 10:31:59 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (Zimbabwe, leftist success story, the envy of Venezuela)
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To: melt

I hope one of those points is a pledge from him to stop opening his cupcake hole.


20 posted on 06/29/2007 10:36:29 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man
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To: melt

Here’s my 7-point response to Al Gore:

1. STFU Al.

2. STFU Al.

3. STFU Al.

4. STFU Al.

5. STFU Al.

6. STFU Al.

7. STFU Al.


21 posted on 06/29/2007 10:52:27 PM PDT by mkjessup (Jan 20, 2009 - "We Don't Know. Where Rudy Went. Just Glad He's Not. The President. Burma Shave.")
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To: melt
I pledge not to do a d*** thing the socialist hypocrite Al Gore says we should do.

Doesn’t this moron know the live earth events and parties will release so much CO2 into the atmosphere we’ll finally tip the balance and mankind will die out in 20 years due to blazing planetary heat brought on by his farcical concerts.

22 posted on 06/29/2007 11:06:40 PM PDT by A message
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To: Redcloak

AARRRGGGHH, I forgot that one.

Penance in the cold in the morning :(


23 posted on 06/29/2007 11:08:26 PM PDT by 1066AD
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To: bybybill

Down here in Louisiana the nutria are eating up the wetlands and causing them to erode away. From year to year a bounty has been placed on them depending on the budget. You are required to present their tails for payment. Now if the lawyers are eating up society and causing it to slowly erode away what kind of bounty should we place on them. And what part of them should we be required to show for each one retired? Their head or their hands?


24 posted on 06/29/2007 11:22:00 PM PDT by BBell
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To: melt
Lawrence Solomon's "The Deniers" (a series of articles on the view of scientists who have been labelled "Global Warming Deniers"):

Other References:


25 posted on 06/29/2007 11:39:45 PM PDT by sourcery (Anthropogenic Global Warming: A convenient lie designed to establish socialism by fear and deception)
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To: melt; All
Hypocrite.

Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket

26 posted on 06/30/2007 12:00:11 AM PDT by Cobra64 (www.BulletBras.net)
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To: BBell

Oh, I was thinking of another body part but not many of them have them.


27 posted on 06/30/2007 12:22:26 AM PDT by bybybill (HUNT RINOS IN THE PRIMARIES, SKIN RATS IN THE FALL)
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To: melt

1. To demand that my country join an international treaty within the next 2 years that cuts global warming pollution by 90% in developed countries and by more than half worldwide in time for the next generation to inherit a healthy earth;

2. To take personal action to help solve the climate crisis by reducing my own CO2 pollution as much as I can and offsetting the rest to become “carbon neutral;”

3. To fight for a moratorium on the construction of any new generating facility that burns coal without the capacity to safely trap and store the CO2;

4. To work for a dramatic increase in the energy efficiency of my home, workplace, school, place of worship, and means of transportation;

5. To fight for laws and policies that expand the use of renewable energy sources and reduce dependence on oil and coal;

6. To plant new trees and to join with others in preserving and protecting forests; and,

7. To buy from businesses and support leaders who share my commitment to solving the climate crisis and building a sustainable, just, and prosperous world for the 21st century.

It would seem to me that #3, and #5 are really just part of the first point - treaty reducing CO2 nationally. #4 and #6 are really just a part of point 2 - reducing CO2 personally. So allow me to provide the condensed version:

1. Sign Kyoto (ensuring the destruction the the EVIL western economies - esp. the US.)

2. Be ‘carbon neutral’ (BUY carbon credits - esp from Algore).

3. BUY stuff from my buddies.

Seems to be a lot of emphasis on the $$$$. But I could be wrong.


28 posted on 06/30/2007 12:39:02 AM PDT by Sapper26 (Quondo Omni Flunkus Moritati)
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To: melt

"Our whole world will be a burnin' ball-o-fire...burn, burn, burn...ball-o-fire...ball-o-fire..."

JUST KIDDING....

29 posted on 06/30/2007 3:47:39 AM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: melt

I pledge to have a carbon footprint smaller than Al Gore’s.


30 posted on 06/30/2007 5:19:34 AM PDT by norwaypinesavage (Planting trees to offset carbon emissions is like drinking water to offset rising ocean levels)
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To: melt
...but...but...but...

Al Gore invented the Internet! It's true! He said so himself! Just listen...

Click here to see the video

Al Bore invented the Internet.

Putfile Version (Higher quality)


Here's Another video showing what an imbecile Al Bore is.

31 posted on 06/30/2007 3:24:01 PM PDT by Bon mots
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To: Bon mots
LOL!

Oh, those are great videos. I'm saving them for a rainy day--- especially if Al Gore runs.

32 posted on 06/30/2007 4:13:51 PM PDT by melt (Someday, they'll wish their Jihad... Jihadn't.)
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To: the lone wolf

Does this moron understand that you can’t put seven gallons of shit in a five gallon bucket?


33 posted on 06/30/2007 4:19:38 PM PDT by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
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