Posted on 08/28/2011 8:37:52 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
One day climate change skeptics will be seen in the same negative light as racists, at least so says former Vice President Al Gore.
In an interview with former advertising executive and Climate Reality Project collaborator Alex Bogusky broadcasted on UStream on Friday, Gore explained that in order for climate change alarmists to succeed, they must “win the conversation” against those who deny there is a crisis.
“I remember, again going back to my early years in the South, when the Civil Rights revolution was unfolding, there were two things that really made an impression on me,” Gore said. “My generation watched Bull Connor turning the hose on civil rights demonstrators and we went, ‘Whoa! How gross and evil is that?’ My generation asked old people, ‘Explain to me again why it is okay to discriminate against people because their skin color is different?’ And when they couldn’t really answer that question with integrity, the change really started.”
The former vice president recalled how society succeeded in marginalizing racists and said climate change skeptics must be defeated in the same manner.
“Secondly, back to this phrase ‘win the conversation,’” he continued. “There came a time when friends or people you work with or people you were in clubs with — you’re much younger than me so you didn’t have to go through this personally — but there came a time when racist comments would come up in the course of the conversation and in years past they were just natural. Then there came a time when people would say, ‘Hey, man why do you talk that way, I mean that is wrong. I don’t go for that so don’t talk that way around me. I just don’t believe that.’ That happened in millions of conversations and slowly the conversation was won.”
“We have to win the conversation on climate,” Gore added.
When Bogusky questioned the analogy, asking if the scientific reasoning behind climate change skeptics might throw a wrench into the good and evil comparison with racism, Gore did not back down.
“I think it’s the same where the moral component is concerned and where the facts are concerned I think it is important to get that out there, absolutely,” Gore said.
Gore also took shots at Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who has lambasted climate change alarmists on the presidential campaign trail, and other politicians who dare to question the veracity of global warming science.
“This is an organized effort to attack the reputation of the scientific community as a whole, to attack their integrity, and to slander them with the lie that they are making up the science in order to make money,” Gore said.
Ah shut up you old fart. Go to Brazil and find an appropriate she-male to release your chakra.
Thank God for the Florida Supreme Court????
Do you mean Thank God for the U.S. Supreme Court???
In the 2000 election court cases, the Florida Supreme Court ordered that the recounts continue. It was the U.S. Supreme Court which finally put a stop to the endless recounts and allowed that election to be settled.
I have been thankful that he never became president, which was your main point, I’m sure. I can’t believe how he’s gone off the deep end.
Wow! This takes the race card to a new, unexplored level. One that takes great mind jujitsu.
Let’s see. A big fat, white, money-grubbing, communist bloviator tells me I’m a racist because I don’t believe in global warming?
Sorry, Algore. I refuse to feel the shame. The shame is on you, you big fraud.
I thought the new racists were the pro-lifers, the pro-MDAers, pro-DADTers, Drill-Baby-Drillers, Tea Party supporters, fiscal conservatives, 2nd Amendment supporters, union busters and flag-waving patriots in general.
Oh what the heck.
I can fit one more feather in my cap.
Gore, when you give up your gigantic carbon footprint, private jets, 20 room mansions, and the like, you can say something to me. Until then, shut the hell up.
There was an amusing letter to the editor in my local newspaper, the woman was exhorting people to join a particular church as a support group for those people who are mourning the loss of bio-diversity.
Throughout history, demonizing one’s adversaries and accusing them of one’s own wrongdoing in the naked pursuit of power and unearned wealth never really ends well.
the race card has been used over and over and over again and...it is wearing thin and everyone knows it. As for this idiot known as al gore...he is one pitiful, broken, bitter individual.
I do not believe in the blah, blah, blah that this idiot spews everytime it rains or snows etc...so if that makes me a racist al.. so be it. However, what does it make YOU calling people racists because they don’t believe in something huh? I belive it makes you one sorry, hateful and totally lost individual who is so desperate to be someone that he will stoop to any level to be noticed.
You call us racist... I call you a serious malcontent.
Gores´s ¨science¨, eh?
Gore said. “My racist Democrat generation cheered and laughed with glee as we watched our hero, Democrat racist Bull Connor turning the hose on civil rights demonstrators and we went: Wow! Way to go Bull. We know how to treat uppity Negros in the South.
And I can picture Robert Byrd smiling while he had long and meaningful conversations with his dog.
A very aptly named venue for gore dribblings.
He forgot to mention his Black nanny who used to wait in the car while they ate at Whites only restaurants? Wonder why?
Pray for America
I enjoy reading your posts. Thanks.
It's Creation Care -- James Hanson (climate guru of NASA) is on their advisory board. (the one who said G.W.Bush was trying to shut him up -- the guy who never shut up and who never didn't get his bs printed in the msm).
Bluntly put, "green" is the religion of communists.
Bump!
Gore is beginning to sound desperate. He must be losing money on all his global warming scams.
What Gore is saying is that if you tell a lie often enough it will be considered a fact, and he should know.
Gore's $9M Montecito, CA villa near Oprah.
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