Posted on 12/13/2007 9:31:02 PM PST by Roberts
Al Gore savaged the US government’s “obstructing” attitude and urged delegates at the UN conference on climate change to ignore Washington if necessary to pursue the “moral imperative” of a new global regime.
“My country is principally responsible for obstructing progress here in Bali,” the former US vice-president told 2,000 of the 12,000 people attending the conference on Thursday. “[But] over the next two years the United States is going to be somewhere it is not now.”
European Union nations said they might boycott a U.S.-led climate meeting next month unless Washington compromises to achieve a deal on Bali.
‘‘No result in Bali means no Major Economies Meeting,’’ said Sigmar Gabriel, top EU environment official from Germany, referring to a series of separate climate talks initiated by President Bush in September. ‘‘This is the clear position of the EU. I do not know what we should talk about if there is no target.’’
The US invited 16 other major economies, including European countries, Japan, China and India, to discuss a program of what are expected to be nationally determined, voluntary cutbacks in greenhouse gas emissions.
Mr Gore, fresh from receiving the Nobel peace prize jointly with the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, said delegates must “find the grace to navigate around this enormous obstacle, the elephant in the room that I have been undiplomatic enough to name.”
The US delegation in Bali has repeatedly said it is committed to finding a consensus and reaching a deal but numerous countries have accused it, as well as Japan, Canada and Saudi Arabia, of blocking progress.
A substantial part of Mr’s Gore’s hour-long address was a recap of material he has used on numerous occasions since making An Inconvenient Truth, his Oscar-winning film, in 2006. He described how scientists are warning of a rapidly escalating crisis unless greenhouse gas emissions are significantly reduced.
He sought to inspire the audience by telling them they had the privilege of being some of the few people in the world who can make a difference in saving “the world’s civilisation”.
“The way ahead from Bali is difficult,” he said. “The truth is that is the maximum now considered possible even here in this conference is still far short of the minimum that will really solve this process. So we have to expand the limits of what’s possible. We must have the moral imagination of humankind to see ourselves as the symbol of global civilisation.”
Gore … BS personified.
A large man causing a lot of trouble with very little knowledge.
Promise?
Al Gore really is a POS......unbelievable. He should have to pony up a couple million bucks every time he speaks for carbon credits to save the environmnent from the hot air he ejects speaking out his ass.
Al Gore: A traitor on so many levels!
There he goes again, playing on our fears.
None of the Kyoto signers have reduced emissions in ten years.
The only one to reduce emissions is the country that didn’t sign it—the USA.
Another proof that the whole global warming craze is a bunch of hot air.
Oh, and did I say that Al Gore is a lousy, traitorous, zinc mining, electric-hogging, Lear jet emission making SOB?
I meant to.
Gore doesn’t exhale enuf carbon dioxide when he breathes. The subsequent C02 poisoning is really affecting his brain.
Anyone else volunteer to donate some more CO2 to Al?
“Symptoms of high or prolonged exposure to carbon dioxide include headache, increased heart rate, dizziness, fatigue, rapid breathing, visual and hearing dysfunctions. Exposure to higher levels may cause unconsciousness or death within minutes of exposure.”
http://www.inspect-ny.com/hazmat/CO2gashaz.htm
The audacity of his hypocrisy is amazing.
Did he fly to Bali commercial? I seriously doubt it. Instead he took used a private jet (which undoubtedly he didn’t pay for) to transport his bloated carcass halfway around the world where he could preach and pontificate to others on what they need to do.
Has he turned out the lights at his huge energy-wasting mansion? I seriously doubt it. Oh, that’s right, he’s selling carbon credits to himself, so that’s OK.
Chutzpah doesn’t even begin to describe him.
-—We must have the moral imagination of humankind to see ourselves as the symbol of global civilisation.-—
What a pompous windbag! That doesn’t even make any sense!
Won’t someone please sedate this lunatic???
The only politician more boring than Al Gore is Bill Clinton. They have raised the art of saying nothing of consequence while convincing their fans they are deeeeeep to heights undreamed of by Jimmy Carter.
I remember right about the time he ran for President, he came out with the statement on Larry King that, “Handguns have no place in American society.” For a serious candidate for the Presidency to say such a thing, he must be a man of almost unlimited hubris. Al Gore is such a man!
Gore is condemning the only country that could have afforded him the opportunity to be more than he should have ever become. If it were not for the freedoms of America and the generosity of his daddy’s keeper Armand Hammer, poor Albert would be just another irrelevant babbling old man. Oh, wait a minute, he is just another irrelevant babbling old man.
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Seriously. These Marxists are now flying their true colors by openly calling for a forced "redistribution of wealth and resources," primarily from the United States, "into a global Multilateral Adaptation Fund to help nations cope with global warming." And, according to Dr. Richard Lindzen of the Mass. Institute of Technology, "Controlling carbon is a bureaucrat's dream. If you control carbon, you control life."
The United States is the one thing standing in the way of a world government in which a small cabal of bureaucrats and powerful people control whether we live or die. And these Marxists have made clear that they intend to destroy the United States, by any means necessary.
I would rather that Mr. Gore switch to abusing CO. He and any other leaders of the United States who acquiesce to this Marxist climate change garbage are traitors to these United States...and to every lover of freedom and liberty throughout the ages.
He is tHE Goracle and his minions of demented Gorons are legion..
I meant to.
Well then why didn't you?
The audacity of this ass never ceases to amaze me.
We've got to be in the end times because I can't even imagine how children studying American history in school 50 years from now won't be able to see what a bunch of evil bastards are 'running' the world even with the biased re-writing of history that occurs.
Gore hates America because of the close 2000 election that he lost.
He only spends his time smashing, trashing and bashing the US rather than do anything positive like help keep his son off drugs and stop speeding on the public roads like a crazed manic that is going to get innocent people killed.
The only thing I got for Gore is the middle digit (two in fact). Go ahead and get angry about that, Sore Loser Man!
Chilling words them,considering how much airplay this crap gets.
"...saving “the world’s civilisation”."
"...we must have the moral imagination of humankind to see ourselves as the symbol of global civilisation."
Who does he think he is,'Flash Goron'?
For years we here in Oz had to put up with the left calling Prime Minister Howard 'Bush's lapdog',now we can sit back and watch Rudd kiss Gore's fat ass and everyone will nod sagely in agreement...forgive me while I gag!
"What a pompous windbag!"
Boy oh boy did you ever get that right!
I heard Al and George Soros were an item at Oslo. Tongues are wagging. Think he’ll leave Tipper for George?
Yes!!!
Lets be like Europe, where you have to go to a government approved “station” to wash your car. It’s illegal in Germany to wash your car at your residence.
Hooray Europe!!!
This man is illiterate.
Global warming politics.
New age imperative for imperialism.
I always thought it curious that the USA would be opposed whereas the less developed nations had an indifferent attitude. Why? Because based on my experience, the developing world does a lot more nasty polluting than the developed western societies. I’ve seen the smog that hangs over Big Bend all the way to the lower valley El Paso because of Mexican trash burning and diesel engines. I’ve flown over the entire length of Belize and seen hundreds of fires belching fumes in the air. I’ve seen what Mexican field burning in the Yucatan could do to the quality of life in Houston as the sun disappeared for about 6 weeks one spring. I knew the places out of control were not developed.
So this seemed to me like an excuse for the developed to interfere in the politics and destiny of the developing regions. And now you are hearing these people make noises exactly like I presumed. Al Gore is the world’s salesman for western imperialism.
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