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Gore Says NO to 'Climate Czar' Role
The Washngton Times ^ | 11/13/2008 | Tom LoBianco

Posted on 11/13/2008 10:16:33 AM PST by Chairman of the Bard

President-elect Barack Obama's transition team is flirting with creating a White House "Climate Czar," but climate change crusader Al Gore says he doesn't want the job.

The Obama team declined to comment on such a post, even as environmentalists and power industry executives say it's being widely discussed inside the transition offices as a way to spur a clean energy industry, which Mr. Obama has promised will ween the U.S. from foreign oil and create millions of "green jobs."

Obama transition chief John Podesta promoted a similar idea earlier in his role as president of the Center for American Progress, a liberal Washington think tank.

Mr. Podesta authored a white paper calling for an Energy Security Council within the White House to oversee climate change and clean energy initiatives. The czar and the council would coordinate agencies, including the Energy and Interior departments and the Environmental Protection Agency.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 111th; algore; bho2008; change; clmate; globalwarming; gore; greens; nothanks
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To: MEGoody
Perhaps Premier Hussein could station Algore at the North Pole so he could closely monitor icecap levels.
81 posted on 11/13/2008 5:52:59 PM PST by Chairman of the Bard
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To: RexBeach

Because it would be an insult to pinheads.


82 posted on 11/13/2008 5:55:18 PM PST by Chairman of the Bard
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To: MAD-AS-HELL
Hey, if we could get the internal combustion engine to run on all the snake oil Algore’s sold, combined with filling our tires with the hot air he expels, we wouldn’t need to drill at all!
83 posted on 11/13/2008 5:59:24 PM PST by Chairman of the Bard
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To: Chairman of the Bard
Whenever Algore blows in someplace, cold and crappy weather followed him. God is having fun with Algore. Don't deny God his due.

I want God to be in a good mood with me:)

84 posted on 11/13/2008 6:35:23 PM PST by BobS
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To: airborne
"Is there a problem with FR, or is it me?"

Just ping the FR IP addy. Then Ping yourself. Then ping your local things.

85 posted on 11/13/2008 6:42:25 PM PST by BobS
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To: BobS

It was me!

Thanks!


86 posted on 11/13/2008 7:32:49 PM PST by airborne (Adversity doesn't build character. It reveals it!)
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87 posted on 11/13/2008 9:17:24 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvxiG56M-eU)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

The earth’s got a fever, and the only prescription is more cowbell!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyV2cPLuFuA


88 posted on 11/13/2008 9:22:46 PM PST by Chairman of the Bard
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To: Chairman of the Bard

bump


89 posted on 11/14/2008 7:05:59 AM PST by cogitator
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To: Chairman of the Bard

Al’s out makin’ big bucks on this con-job. He’s counting on his political connections to make him one of the richest and most powerful men in the world. Going government at this point would give him a conflict of interest and blow his cover re: his pretend altruistic motives and organizations. It would put a very large damper on his business plan.


90 posted on 11/14/2008 11:35:40 AM PST by RogerFGay
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To: arderkrag; livius; Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Gore isn't as stupid as people make him out. Now that he's milked that cow for a while, he sees the flaws and rejections of the theory.

That's pretty doubtful, judging by his editorial last weekend in the NY Times.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/09/opinion/09gore.html

A quote to show what Al's still thinking:

"The world authority on the climate crisis, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, after 20 years of detailed study and four unanimous reports, now says that the evidence is “unequivocal.” To those who are still tempted to dismiss the increasingly urgent alarms from scientists around the world, ignore the melting of the north polar ice cap and all of the other apocalyptic warnings from the planet itself, and who roll their eyes at the very mention of this existential threat to the future of the human species, please wake up. Our children and grandchildren need you to hear and recognize the truth of our situation, before it is too late."

He describes a five-point plan. Points 1-4 aren't that outlandish. Point 5 is the most controversial.

91 posted on 11/14/2008 11:40:17 AM PST by cogitator
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To: Amendment10
But since the global warming mafia is evidently at a loss to explain why the Argo System oceanic temperature probes have actually shown a slight decrease in ocean temperatures over the last several years

It has been explained. To get your information on this updated, read: Correcting Ocean Cooling

Sadly, the attempts by Josh Willis to make these necessary corrections have already been misinterpreted in some sectors.

92 posted on 11/14/2008 11:53:43 AM PST by cogitator
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To: cogitator
It has been explained. To get your information on this updated, read: Correcting Ocean Cooling

Thank you for your reference to that article.

Would you trust any "scientific" conclusions about global warming based on that article?

The problem is that the article is not proof of the pudding that global warming is real, in my opinion, if that is what you are suggesting. In fact, the article is arguably an apology that the computer models that are being used to study global temperatures are still crude, but slowly improving (ha ha).

It remains that the politically correct global warming alarmism that the MSM was shoving down everybody's throats awhile back is not justified, in my opinion, by politically correct interpretations of crude computer models. After all, computerized earth / weather models still can't be trusted to warn about things like the relatively recent Indonesian tsunami or the blizzard that closed Denver International Airport a few years back.

Sadly, the attempts by Josh Willis to make these necessary corrections have already been misinterpreted in some sectors.

And speaking of misinterpreting things, you're sidestepping the reality that Mr. Willis and other scientists probably continue to do their share of head-scratching with respect to interpreting crude, computerized global temperature models.

93 posted on 11/14/2008 1:56:27 PM PST by Amendment10
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