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.
Typical reaction; when losing the argument, name call!
Who even listens to Al, the snake oil salesman, gore anyway except those who donate money to him for this cause and do not heard him laughing all the way to the bank.
I guess Gore’s starting to feel that skepticism in his wallet now.
A lot of people have already figured out that Obama is very unlikely to be re-elected. Democrats know this just as well as anybody else. I have always believed it would be Hillary who challenges him for the nomination, but Gore may be positioning himself for that role.
In any case, the 2012 electon should be a clean sweep for the Republicans. The Republican Party, aka the stupid party, has a long history of shooting itself in the foot. The way things are setting up in the economy, Democrats should finally start being called to account for all their anti-freedom and their anti-American activities.
Using “science” as a word means a government mandate. Using the word racist, as Nazis portrayed themselves as victims of Jews, is another word for pogroms and attacks in our schools.
Using “science” as a word means a government mandate. Using the word racist, as Nazis portrayed themselves as victims of Jews, is another word for pogroms and attacks in our schools.
None of these greedy desperate idiotic megalomaniac irrelevant people have their minds right.
If Gore et al. think they are going to play any role, they are wrong.
Hey old ozoneAL.....If you’d close that big pie-hole of yours, the earth would be 3 degrees cooler and we wouldn’t have these hurricanes. You, Al, yes you, are the cause!!!!
Those that bring up race are the racist ones!!!!!
“Gore: Global warming skeptics are this generation’s racists:
Hale: ...and Democrats are this generations New American Communist Insurgency.
There...we’re even now.
The political left in America are this generation’s Nazis.
They demonize the innocent and euthanize the unwanted.
Wonder what other lows this Snake Oil salesman can stoop too.
His plan has been foiled and he's now a bloated red faced blowhard sex poodle. His wife left him. Investors have fled. He's not been asked to lecture as much as he wants. He's actually questioned on his beliefs instead of being fawned upon and adorned.
Quite entertaining really except he's bankrupting folks like you and me.
Like I said, we're on to him.
I just wish that during an interview with ManBearPig that when he spouts drivel about racism the interviewer would ask “do you mean like your FATHER and YOUR DEMOCRAT PARTY”
“The political left in America are this generation’s Nazis.
They demonize the innocent and euthanize the unwanted...”
...and glorify the perverted.
Spot-on, Mike.
They are wretched, to say the least.
“...a bloated red faced blowhard sex poodle...”
Poobear, I could try for a lifetime and NEVER EVER come with a better description for Al Gore...
Thank you for making me have to clean my monitor after the Pepsi spewed out of my nose....:^) LOL
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Things like this make me glad he never became our president.
Yup. Global warming skeptics had better stop questioning my assertions. Man-bear-pig and I are gonna win this conversation. All we gotta do is compare them to racists, and all their nasty questions will go ‘bye-’bye.
I thought the bloated gas bag grew up in a luxury hotel in Washington, DC.
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