Posted on 01/24/2008 12:04:50 PM PST by Sub-Driver
Changing light bulbs not enough: Gore
From correspondents in Davos
January 25, 2008 05:23am Article from: Reuters
CLIMATE campaigner Al Gore overnight urged world policymakers to change laws "not just light bulbs" in tackling global warming, and a UN official said world market turmoil must not be allowed to delay action.
An annual meeting of world political and business leaders in Davos, Switzerland, this year has scheduled a record number of sessions and workshops on global warming. But a sharp downturn on markets and fears of recession have dominated discussion.
"If we get distracted by the aberrations that you see in the financial market right now it would clearly be very unfortunate," said Rajendra Pachauri, head of the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Mr Gore, in a swipe at US President George W. Bush's environmental record, said the election of a new president in November could only bring an improvement.
"In addition to changing the light bulbs, it is far more important to change the laws and to change the treaty obligations that nations have," Mr Gore told delegates, in apparent reference to what he sees as the Bush administration's reluctance to initiate legislation on environmental control.
"Whoever is elected is going to have a different position and a better position. But let's be clear: Whoever the leaders are, this issue is going to be dealt with responsibly and effectively only when there is a sufficient degree of urgency on the part of the people themselves."
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Unfortunately for Gore — I’m not even changing any light bulbs.
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I feel like I am living in a science fiction movie.
But I refuse to participate.
I am really glad I don’t have TV. You guys must get inundated with this stuff...
I like my light bulbs just the way they are so neither am I!
His non stop traveling and blabbing is causing more global warming than anything I am doing.
More like in a joke without a punch line.
Those who surrender personal liberty to lower global temperatures will receive neither.
If a Democrat moves in to the White House next January, the MSM won’t give Algore the time of day, and he’ll be totally baffled by it. He redefines the meaning of ‘clueless’.
“Mr Gore, in a swipe at US President George W. Bush’s environmental record, said the election of a new president in November could only bring an improvement.”
Oh Al,whose home is more enviromentally friendly, yours or Bush’s Crawford ranch?(cue the crickets..........)
Buy more light bulbs when ever they go on sale.
How many greenies does it take to change a light bulb?
None. They’d rather sit in and dark and tell us how enlightened they are.
Just think of how much of Al Gore’s hot air has contributed to “global warming”. I have friends of mine who are concerned with the polar ice caps melting. I just pose this question to them. “how long can you keep an ice cube out before it melts?” They give a answer of 4 to 5 minutes. Well I say, the polar ice caps have been around for millions of years, so there is bound to be some some of melting.
Hey Gore, keep your hands off my bulbs!!!
So we have movements for better insulation, energy-star appliances, light bulbs that take a quarter of the electricity, LCD TV’s and monitors instead of CRT’s, higher gas mileage vehicles, natural gas power plants, large investments in solar energy, wind farms, ethanol-spiked gasoline, smokestack scrubbers, electronics without lead, huge recycling programs, biodegradable plastics, corn-starch packing material, and it’s still not enough while China gets a pass?
This isn’t about the environment, this is about making the U.S. uncompetitive on the global market.
Let’s start by no longer having the secret service burn fuel in traveling with former VP’s, and limit the rich to owning one home, say 2000 sq. feet and having to travel in not limos but bicycles...and if they go overseas, how about a balloon?
Gore could walk and ride bikes and balloons and that’ll make the air cooler AND he’ll be more healthy! Win win for eveyone!
No more french fries for him either. The obesity problem is costing tax payers ALOT of money and since HIS healthcare is free, we have that say over him more than anyone else!
What a total fraud!
“”to change the laws and to change the treaty obligations that nations have,””
In plain language,
institute cap and trade for carbon credit markets. Al Gore has a special money interest in that.
Don’t bother, LED lightbulbs coming out will have much better efficiency, color, brightness, and longevity than anything out there including the best incandescents.
I wonder if Gore went with a cfr bulb in his fridge? That one seems to get the most work in the Gore mansion.
“This isn’t about the environment”
It’s about creating a 1/2 trillion dollar global carbon credit scheme.
They never say it outright, because they know candor would be their downfall. Therefore they speak in codes like “Kyoto treaty obligations” or “global cooperation.” Invoke “the world” and the idea that America is “against” “the world” and white liberals and lefties get all glassy eyed and suggestive.
In the eyes of these enviro-socialists, the perceived welfare of "Mother Gaia" takes precedence far beyond the welfare of the human race. Earth-worship is a cult activity.
Anyone ever wonder what they are going to do about all of the light fixtures that take odd shaped Incandescent bulbs(tubular for instance)? Also very small bulbs? They don’t make cfl bulbs that small. How about candle bulbs, and Christmas bulbs. Appliance bulbs(needing to withstand drastic temps). Ect...
Knowing the dimwits in congress then they probably did not even consider that.
“In the eyes of these enviro-socialists”
They are the dupes.
The powers behind the scenes are the financial trading firms who have hijacked the agw co2 cult for the purpose of “market based” “solutions” — a giant money hiding, money skimming global scam.
Gore is no Dupe. He is the duper.
So some 90% of a normal light bulb’s energy is converted to heat and only 10% to light.
Is that a problem during cold days, when your home is needing to be heated anyway? Seems like a great use of energy: You get light, and — bonus — you get heat as well!
Mr Green, Algore, with his 20 times the average energy usage in his home...
And the latest thing he’s done - he didn’t lower his energy usage, he just switched to “off grid” sources so that no one can know how much he’s using.
When we found out about upcoming restrictions on bulbs, we went out and bought two cases. lol
If Algore would shut his mouth, the air quality in this country would certainly improve.
Talk about cows farting...
Gore is from the planet Hoth. Temperatures above freezing are agonizingly hot to him.
yuppers.
Hey Al, get bent. Oh that’s right, you’re already twisted.
Good info on that chart. Too bad environuts will make sure there’s no additional nuke power.
One thing is for sure. These CFL bulbs take more energy to manufacture. They have electronics in them. And lots more materials. semiconductors,Capacitors, resistors,PC boards,coper,wires,magnet wire,ferrite core,lead solder,Mercury,Florescence coating. Did anyone ever consider all of that in relation to energy. They would never withstand EMP either. The old bulbs would be unfazed by EMP.
The largest contributor to Global Warming is Di hydrogen monoxide
(H2O) = water.
Gore, get back to after you start with Hollywood. No limos, no cameras, no lights, no needless energy consumption for film, no private jets, no mansions, etc.
Oops that sounds like you Gore. Fix yourself first, then get back to us.
“Is that a problem during cold days, when your home is needing to be heated anyway? Seems like a great use of energy: You get light, and — bonus — you get heat as well!”
Thought about that one before too.
I hate this global warming. Paradise CA received more snow in the past storm than they’ve had in quite a long while, and I’ve had to scrape ice off my windshield many mornings of late. I also read an article where the glaciers on Mt. Shasta, CA are growing. Global warming sucks.
The Goracle should find an electric outlet and plug himself in..
You ain't kidding!
Not only is the global warming crap a joke, but these nonscientific political knuckleheads have destroyed the scientific method.
Al’s bulb dimmed right around 2000...and never recovered..
Some folks go insane due to rejection....
Al Gore is a (former?) slumlord. You don’t need heat.
Don’t forget motion lights and dimmer switches will be useless with these new bulbs.
when Gore sells his house and lives in something smaller than mine ... I'll start buying the "I'm fighting global warming" biz ...
Yes you are right. Can’t use dimmers with CFL’s. And can’t use CFL’s in extreme cold. And I have never seen a CFL that can put out much of “Beam” of light.
If Al Gore really cared, he would run for President himself, and probably win. The fact that he does not reveals that he is fundamentally not serious.
Thanks to al gore my toilet wont flush. You have to flush and flush and flush and sometimes add a bowl full of water as it’s flushing to get it to actually flush. And we’re going to all be setting around in the dark in a few year’s if this man gets his way.
I just wish he would go away.
Ice also takes up more volume than water so if it did melt, the ocean levels would probably go down. Plus if it gets hot enough to melt the polar caps, the heat will also evaporate the oceans and release it somewhere else in the form of rain, ice, hail, snow.
I for one am tired of all this “green” stuff on the news, fictional shows, etc.
“I for one am tired of all this “green” stuff on the news, fictional shows, etc.”
I second that!
Good science fiction at least has a grounding in scientific reality. I agree with your reaction but it seems more like a horror movie to me, or at the least, a silly pseudo-scientific fantasy.
We fought and won a nearly 50-year Cold War to avoid this kind of socialist nonsense. Now our "leaders" can't wait to be the first to impose it. Gore may play the most visible role in this horror film but current Presidential candidates from both sides -- with the exception of Giulliani and Romney-- are Gore-bull warming lemmings. This issue may do more damage to America and our sovereignty than any other in the short term. For that reason, since I disagree with Romney on other grounds, that leaves Rudy as my only choice.
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