Posted on 06/07/2009 8:35:32 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
NEW YORK — If the United States and every wealthy country in the world were to reduce carbon dioxide emissions to zero tomorrow and there were no change in the developing world, “the crisis would still overtake us,” said Al Gore, the former vice president of the United States, at a forum in New York City last week.
Whether or not that is precisely true, the implication almost certainly is.
Little progress can be made in addressing the global climate crisis, after all, unless common cause is found between rich countries, who created the problem in becoming so, and poorer countries, which understandably resent the idea that they ought not pursue a similar, CO2-belching path to vitality.
“The world has got to get past the long-standing division between rich countries and poor countries,” Mr. Gore said.
It can’t come too soon, Mr. Gore suggested. “The clock is ticking,” he said.
“The phrase sounds shrill to many ears,” he added, “but unfortunately, it’s dead-on accurate.”
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If the United States and every wealthy country in the world were to reduce carbon dioxide emissions to zero tomorrow......................we’d all be dead.
Tell a bigger lie. When the first lie fails.
And how is Gore’s redistribution of wealth going to change the climate-controlling activities of the sun?
Party pooper! ; - D
Tell a bigger lie.
...and when THAT fails, blame America.
Both of you forgot whipping boy #1, President Bush. Everyone that went to college during the last eight years knows that.
When will the public wise up that global warming is: (1) a scheme that panders to emotions of fear that redirects private money into the pockets of the risch liberal elite; (2) reallocates taxpayer funds from the US to the third world and acts as an economic leveling agent as NAFTA has.
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