Posted on 03/16/2015 9:19:42 AM PDT by Red Badger
The South by Southwest (SXSW) Festival is happening now in Austin, Texas. Running from March 9 to 22, it’s a massive film, interactive and music festival that is nearly 20 years old. The festival brings together designers, developers, investors, entrepreneurs and politicians for panels and discussions about technology and innovation.
For the third time in the last few years, Al Gore, founder and chairman of the Climate Reality Project, spoke at the festival on Friday. Naturally, his interactive discussion focused on addressing the climate crisis. The former vice president focused on the need to “punish climate-change deniers, saying politicians should pay a price for rejecting ‘accepted science,'” said the Chicago Tribune.
Gore said forward-thinking investors are moving away from companies that invest in fossil fuels and towards companies investing in renewable energy. “We need to put a price on carbon to accelerate these market trends,” Gore told the Chicago Tribune, referring to a proposed federal cap-and-trade system that would penalize companies that exceeded their carbon-emission limits. “And in order to do that, we need to put a price on denial in politics.”
He called on the tech-minded SXSW crowd, which is dominated by Millenials, to harness technology to launch a grassroots movement to tackle climate change and call out climate deniers. “We have this denial industry cranked up constantly,” Gore said. “In addition to 99 percent of the scientists and all the professional scientific organizations, now Mother Nature is weighing in.”
Years from now, Gore said the next generation will look back at us and ask: “How did you change?,” according to Macworld. “Part of the answer may well be that a group of people came to South by Southwest in Austin, Texas in 2015 and helped to make a revolution,” Gore said.
Gore wanted these young, tech-savvy attendees to start a grassroots movement using social media like they did when “net neutrality was threatened or when the Stop Online Piracy Act threatened to blacklist websites that offered so-called illegal content,” said Macworld. That means signing petitions to fight climate change, utilizing social media to call out climate deniers in Congress and streaming the Live Earth Road to Paris concert on June 18, an event designed to draw attention to the climate talks in Paris this December.
The former Veep even gave a nod to Pope Francis during his talk, showing a slide of the pontiff and saying “How about this Pope?” Pope Francis celebrated his two-year anniversary as Pope on Friday, riding a wave of popularity “that has reinvigorated the Catholic Church in ways not seen since the days of St. John Paul II,” said the Chicago Tribune. Gore said he was looking forward to the Pope’s highly anticipated encyclical on the environment which is due to be released in June or July. “I’m not a Catholic,” Gore said, “but I could be persuaded to become one.”
“We need to put a price on carbon to accelerate these market trends,” said Gore. “And in order to do that, we need to put a price on denial in politics.” stocklight / Shutterstock.com
In Austin? How fitting.....
“He called on the tech-minded SXSW crowd, which is dominated by Millenials”
Yeah cause the rest of us are actually working. (Caveat, even if I wasn’t the last place I would go is the cluster f__k).
We are slowly becoming 1930’s Europe. No means was so dastardly that it couldn’t be justified by so noble end.
Anybody got any “YES, I’M A DENIER!” t-shirts for sale yet?
The man is unhinged.
“One wonders how they’re going to punish “Deniers”?
(Lubyanka prison anyone?)”
Well, that’s where people who denied the settled science of Lysenko went.
More than half the goobers here this week are not from Austin... Just sayin’...
Burn the heretics! Death to the infidels!
Al Gore has one of the largest houses of all the Climate Change criers.
How much will it cost him for the fines he is proposing? Someone needs to get him into a mental ward, IMO.
“....we need to put a price on denial in politics.”
So there will be a monetary fine on those politicians who refuse to acknowledge Islamic terrorism?
He sure does. He’s like the gopher that pops his head out of a hole every February.
Sadly the new 'carbon is pollution' door that was opened by the EPA and Supremes seems to be taking hold.
Our bodies, Our food, Our homes, Our clothes - and yes Our cars are comprised of and powered by - CARBON compounds.
CO2 is plant food!
There is NO evidence that what they propose will grow jobs, it has ripped the guts out of industry in Europe.
There is NO evidence that what they propose will have ANY effect on climate The is a BANKSTER fantasy, a market that they can trade and tax the single most important material used by humanity - and you had better believe that the banking elite, the media they control and the ever gullible teachers associations have been central to this hysteria from day one and much of America's leadership has swallowed it hook, line and sinker. It is becoming the new "racism tool", whereby someone can end almost any debate by pointing the finger and calling you a DENIER.
[[Al Gore at SXSW: We Need to ‘Punish Climate-Change Deniers’ ]]
But people who present LIES and scientific misstatements to the public in order to advance those lies should remain unpunished Eh Al? You LIED to every Al- And you want to punish everyone because they called you out and caught you in your LIE?
Man’s Total CO2 production is responsible for just 0.00136% of the total atmosphere (our atmosphere has just 0.04% CO2 in it- man is responsible for 3.4% of that 0.04%, meaning the amount of CO2 that man produces amounts to only 0.0015% of our atmosphere- 3.4% of 0.04% = 0.00136%)- please explain to everyone al how 0.00136% of our atmosphere can be causing global climate change? That is just 1/1000’th of a percent AL! EVEN IF CO2 caused warming, which it doesn’t, man does NOT produce anywhere near enough CO2 per atmospheric volume to matter- of that piddly 0.00136%, only a VERY TINY FRACTION of the heat it captures and back radiaters even makes it’s way back to earth
You gots some serious learnin to do there fella before you goes a-callin for people to be a-punishinated for ‘disbeleif’ in your asinine claims sir gore baby
We need to put a price on jet fuel.
The MONEY GRUBBING PLICK is BACK!
Keep Austin Weird?
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!
All winter while record setting temps and snowfall were being set this psychotic putz didn’t say squat. Now here he is right at the starting gate of spring back to spewing his bile.
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