Posted on 06/07/2009 6:18:43 PM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
NEW YORK—Former Vice President Al Gore thinks that financial markets are to blame for environmental problems.
Gore, speaking at a Cornell University-sponsored roundtable in New York City on Wednesday (June 3), told the audience that the "tyranny of short-term horizons” forced companies to maximize returns on a short-term quarterly basis. This, the panelists said, undermined long-term progress in combating environmental ills, such as global warming.
This "tyranny of short-term horizons is not limited to investing but also to politics," said Gore. But the Obama administration has an opportunity to lead the world, he said, especially at the forthcoming United Nations Climate Conference in Copenhagen. And if the cap-and-trade bill to tax carbon passes in Congress this year, it would help create a "global framework" to bring China into a global agreement on regulating carbon, he said.Gore’s comments came in response to--and echoed sentiments expressed by--Ratan Tata, chairman of the Tata Group, a multi-national conglomerate that promotes itself as environmentally conscious.
Despite decrying the financial markets, both Tata and Gore have direct financial interests in advancing global warming alarmism and promoting environmental technologies.
The Tata group recently unveiled its “green” Nano car, a small car funded in large part by government subsidies. And, in 2008, Gore admitted to having a direct financial interest in a number of green investments.
The conference was organized by the Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise at Cornell University's Johnson School of Business Management. Cornell, like other Ivy League Universities, is heavily invested in the financial markets, including Hedged Equities, Real Assets and foreign equities.
Just another demonstration of liberal wackiness.
Hey, Al? Look no further than ‘the messiah’ if you’re looking for a tyrant to blame.
Idiot.
OOOHHHHHH....Maybe the TRUTH is closing in ......he needs to be in JAIL!!!
And how much money has Gore made in the “financial markets” over the decades? Another democRAT fraud.
Gore’s personal financial situation has been greatly blessed by tyranny.
And he hadn’t painted his roof white yet, either.
Probably wants to secure his spot in the Party before they are all taken.
And to think this nutcase came within a thousand or two votes . .
Great.
It’s 47 degrees in MN and it’s June......
The long term average temp is 76 degrees...
KMA...Al.
the only wonderful thing we can rejoice in is that Gore is getting fatter and fatter!
the only wonderful thing we can rejoice in is that Gore is getting fatter and fatter!
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............which means he’s emitting more and more methane and carbon dioxide. ;-)
He can blame his liberal buddies in Washington for running our economy into the ground. ‘Course that’ll never happen.
Gore’s blaming the “free market” for the environment and bragging how Obama will “fix” it. This is just another example of how environmentalists are like a watermelon: green on the outside and pink on the inside.
Love that.
what a nut job.
Gore blames “Tynanny of Freedom” for Global Warming.
Wall Street whores were salivating at the commissions they would make, buying and selling these bogus “carbon credits” back and forth.
Gore is such a hypocrite!
Why, oh why cant this guy just retire and ride off into the sunset..
What a total fool he’s making of himself...rich fool, but a fool just the same
LOL!!!
and he will need a larger jet and a larger amount of water!!!
These environalists are incredibly stupid..that is tragic, cause there are many environmental programs that might be helpful to all of us, if they were scientifically studied and also reviewed for the consequences.
Gonna be a nasty winter. Dickson North Dakota had its first June snow in 60 years. Also June snow in California and Great Britain. Apparently Al Gore thinks that companies whose primary interest is paying their expenses and acquiring capital assets have been the cause of all this Climate Change. Not only is his premise wrong, but his solution will make the problem worse. Typical progressive idiot.
Typical of liberals who believe the government needs to control the economy because the ‘market’ doesn’t value their opinions the way they think it should.
The greedy arse bast_ard needs a good swift kick, me’thinks.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1770760/posts?page=32#32 in re: Enron /Clinton/Gore connection “Global Warming scam”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1770760/posts?page=36#36 in re: Jim Hansen “Global warming” RAT hack
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1770760/posts?page=37#37 in re: Sweden’s Royal Academy of Sciences winner
Crazy as a bed bug.
This nutcase bothers me a little, the fools who listen to him bother me a lot......
Thank God Al Gore is still on the circuit. He mustn’t leave the kids wading on their own in carbon infested waters.
Oh, and it was 36 degrees in Bemidji, MN on Saturday morning.
We went fishing, anyway.......
;-)
“OOOHHHHHH....Maybe the TRUTH is closing in ......he needs to be in JAIL!!!”
Tar & feathers. Applied with staples.
FOX Nation Exclusive-GE CEO Confronted at Shareholder Meeting in Orlando!
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GE is Algore’s new Enron.
A couple of weeks ago I heard Bill O’Reilly say that in spite of America’s policy, GE was still doing business with Iran. He said he was going to keep hammering them until they cease and desist. He read letters on the air from people who wrote in to say that they were selling their GE stock and boycotting GE products.
Here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2051612/posts?page=16#16
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General Electric and Al Gore Scheme to Undermine Domestic Oil Drilling
Townhall.com ^ | July 26, 2008 | Tom Borelli
http://townhall.com/columnists/TomBorelli/2008/07/26/general_electric_and_al_gore_scheme_to_undermine_domestic_oil_drilling
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Enron chairman Kenneth Lay met with President Clinton and Vice President Gore in the Oval Office in 1997, prior to the Kyoto energy conference, according to the Washington Times of Jan. 16. The apparent purpose was for Clinton and Gore to get an agreement from Enron that it would support the draconian regulations and higher costs on the industry that would emerge from the conference, in exchange for government guarantees and taxpayer subsidies. This would expand the government’s power within the industry and guarantee handsome political contributions for the Democrats.
Enron would not disappoint. It became the poster corporation for the junk science of global warming, and supported the industry-killing Kyoto Protocol. Enron probably believed that promised taxpayer payouts would make up for its losses in support of unproductive, but politically correct, energy initiatives. The U.S. Senate, however, recognizing Kyoto’s negative impact on the economy at large, foiled Clinton-Gore plans by voting 95-0 to trash the unfair and inequitable Protocol. The Senate action wouldn’t stop Enron, however, from attempting to become the corporation of choice for the Clinton-Gore globalization agenda. [.....................] More at link here:
Enron Gave Big Bucks to Democrats, Backed ‘Global Warming’ Scam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2150762/posts?page=12#12
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2150762/posts?page=14#14
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2150762/posts?page=15#15
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2150762/posts?page=4#4
Madoff the Crook donated stolen money to Democrats the willing
The Collins Report ^ | December 18th, 2008 | Kevin “Coach” Collins
http://www.collinsreport.net/
They will just get up and say anything. You can believe them because they lie all of the time. I would be so embarrased to say I back them.
Algore is sounding more and more like PETA.
Maybe he should start a fad called “cloud kittens” and say pollution gives them lung cancer. It will fit right in with all the hysterical nonsense he spouts.
PT Barnum was right
Paraphrasing Shakespeare: “Won’t someone rid us of this meddlesome crank?”
And, AL has made how many millions in the carbon credits trading marketplace, via his investment company?
Hypocritical charlatan, IMO.
“Global warming, uh.........CLIMATE CHANGE, uh.............wait a minute.....uh....TYRANNY OF THE FINANCIAL MARKETS....yeah, that’s it! That’s the ticket! OK now, that’ll be $100,000 per speech, please.”
What a dope...
Now we can be having any proof that disproves the Gaia cult of gorebull warming. The envirowacks are now demanding the death penalty for gorebull warming skeptics, and will even demand it when it is 45 degrees F in July in Minneapolis.
Gore is nothing but a lying thief who cares nothing about the suffering he is helping to bring onto the planet.
He smells defeat
It was 51 in Nashville saturday morning. Not observed this late since the 1940’s.
Wow...Gore really gets himself out there beyond the echo chamber (snickering sarcasm). What guts...LOL
shut the frack up.
Isn’t the TaTa group the same company that bought Range Rover?
98 million since 2000.
Bingo! Capitalism is the Enemy (except for Al Gore's carbon trade companies).
That is the whole point of the Global Warming Fraud: Total Government Control
Bet Gore ain’t the only one that “thinks that financial markets are to blame for environmental problems”
100 million bucks is alot of money. HELLO STRUGGLING LIBTARDS, ARE YOU WATCHING?
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