Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 08/19/2011 2:45:28 PM PDT by george76
The American Renewable Energy Day conference in Aspen didn't cite Gore by name, but one of the opening speakers on Thursday suggested that audience members adopt aggressive tactics when dealing with climate deniers.
Jigar Shah, CEO of an organization called the Carbon War Room, told the audience they must “confront the liars” on climate change issues or they are “part of the problem.”
Shah urged them to “make a scene in public” by confronting politicians or speakers who suggest that alternative energy isn't a viable option for handling power needs and reducing carbon emissions.
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Lester Brown...founder and president of the Earth Policy Institute, said three developments are “central to our future” in the fight to ease global warming: closing coal plants, building wind farms and mass producing electric vehicles...
There is a “de facto moratorium” on the construction of new coal-fired power plants, and some of the 492 existing plants are closing. U.S. coal consumption dropped 8 percent in the latter years of the past decade, he said.
The effort to curtail coal received a boost in July when billionaire New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg donated $50 million to the Sierra Club's efforts to fight against coal. When someone that influential says coal has to go, Brown said, people will listen.
(Excerpt) Read more at aspentimes.com ...
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Hey, why not? David Suzuki already wants to imprison “climate change deniers”. Paul Krugman called us “traitors”. Nice to hear such toleration from the enlightened classes. Maybe what they need is a formal body of government inquiry on the matter - I know, they could call it an Inquisition.
And no one would expect the Climate Inquisition.
But, but, but, what about all the poor birds?
Yes. Close all those coal plants. The wind farms will easily power all those electric cars. And don't forget to confont all those deniers of reality.
This just makes me sick being from Colorado & having all this crap up in Aspen spilling all this nonsense.
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