Posted on 09/05/2006 9:33:15 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
OSLO (Reuters) - Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore predicted on Tuesday that President George W. Bush would shift to do more to fight global warming, under Republican pressure from California to New York.
"I think there is a better than 50-50 chance that President Bush will change his policy in the next two years," Gore told an audience in Oslo after showing his documentary "An Inconvenient Truth" about global warming during a tour of Europe.
"Many of his strongest supporters are changing their positions and are becoming vocal in asking him to change," Gore told about 300 people including Norway's Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg and Environment Minister Helen Bjoernoy.
The United States and Australia are the only two industrial nations outside the U.N.'s Kyoto Protocol, which caps emissions of greenhouse gases from fossil fuels burned in factories, power plants and cars.
Bush, who narrowly beat Democrat Gore in the 2000 election and will stand down in January 2009, has said Kyoto's curbs would harm the U.S. economy and unfairly exclude poor nations from a first set of targets to 2012, by which time 35 nations will have to cut emissions by 5.2 percent below 1990 levels.
Gore praised California for passing the first bill in the United States to cap emissions after a deal between Republicans and Democrats last week. The bill aims to cut carbon dioxide emissions by about 25 percent, back to 1990 levels by 2020.
He also said many right-wing Christian religious leaders, major business leaders and mayors of cities from Seattle to New York were seeking cuts in emissions of carbon dioxide in a break with the Bush administration.
CRITICAL MASS
"We are still a ways away from the critical mass that's necessary (to change U.S. climate policy) but we are getting there," Gore said. "There is a burden of implausibility that the President is now carrying with his position."
Many scientists say a build-up of heat-trapping gas will bring more droughts, heat waves and powerful storms, spread deserts and could raise sea levels by almost a meter by 2100.
Bush said earlier this year the United States should break an "addiction" to oil but has rejected Kyoto-style caps. The administration is investing heavily in clean technologies, such as hydrogen, and says more climate research is needed.
If Bush did not shift, Gore said it was very likely the next U.S. president would do more to cut emissions. Gore has said he has no plans to run again but has not ruled it out.
Earlier in Helsinki, he said drastic reductions in greenhouse gas emissions were vital.
"Unless we stop dumping 70 million tons of global warming pollution into the atmosphere every 24 hours, which we are doing right now ... the continued acceleration of this pollution would destroy the future of human civilization," Gore said.
(Additional reporting by Sakari Suoninen in Helsinki)
Former Vice President Al Gore waves during a photocall after the screening of director Davis Guggenheim's film 'An Inconvenient Truth' at the 32nd American Film Festival in Deauville, September 3, 2006. Gore predicted on Tuesday that President Bush would shift to do more to fight global warming, under Republican pressure from California to New York. (Jean-Paul Pelissier/Reuters)
Gore predicts..
lololol
Dream on, fat boy.
Ya know, I gotta wonder how much hydrocarbon emissions are coming from whatever AlGore is smoking.
Let's see... the ave temp is supposed to raise 3C in the next 100 years. Providing that is true, that is certainly a slow enough pace for humanity to cope.
Then again, a good volcano blast would lower the world's temps by that much for several years.
To manbearpig. LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!
We but sweats on the kids in Houston tonite.
The Evita Peron of Ecology
Tax the John Kerry's of the world and the billionaire heiress's they are married to an "extravagance tax". This tax will be on things like yachts, extra mansions, villa's in foreign countries, Jetting all over the globe for anything except legit business and have this tax based on the energy they consume for t heating and staffing these "weekend getaways" year round for their convenience. Lets say one hundred thousand dollars tax per gallon of fuel burned heating/ cooling and lighting these extra mansions and private jets. This tax will be on people with incomes on holdings in excess of say, 25 million.
Simply tax their wealth away. That will reduce global warming very quickly. How quickly? So fast that George Soros, Terry Kerry, Fat boy Micheal Moore, Al Gore and thieving Kofi Anan and son will be screaming global cooling in less than a year.
Algore drives around in a gas guzzling Cadillac Escalade when he is not in his Gulfstream Jet burning more fuel during one flight than 5 families do in a year.
This cr*p from this loser just drives me crazy! And he looks eviiiiiiiiiil.
A 3 degree "warming" over the next hundred years will mean that the artic instead of being -55f most of the year will be -52f.
Someone should tell goober Gore that ice doesn't melt at that temperature.
Warmer places will mostly benefit the warmer temps, which will mean they will be green for a longer period of the year, which also means those plants and tree's will consume more "deadly" co2, which in tuen will cool the earth off again, triggering an ice age.
Besides, with all the talk of "peak oil", we will run out of oil long before then anyways, so there isn't a need to do anything except find another source of energy. (shhh don't mention that 15 billion barrel oil field discovered in the gulf of mexico dicovered in a very deep 8km oil well, which also suggests abiotic oil production deep in the earth)
Is this pathetic dolt still around?
Al Bore looks fat and healthy...What's he been eating?
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