Gore likes B.C.'s green moves

Al Gore says he's impressed with the environmental initiatives being promised by B.C.’s government.

The former U.S. vice-president told a Vancouver audience Saturday night Premier Gordon Campbell is to be praised for his promise last week of legislation to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and his pledge to adopt California's tough tailpipe emission standards for vehicles.

Gore made the comments during a slide presentation based on his Academy Award-winning movie An Inconvenient Truth.

Campbell...promised legislation will be passed to make B.C. the first province in Canada to legally cap greenhouse gas emissions, using an undisclosed carbon trading system.

Among other initiatives, Campbell said his government would introduce legislation this fall requiring all public sector organizations, including schools and Crown corporations, to be carbon neutral by 2010.

Gore Continues to Rebuff Debate Challenges

Former Vice President Al Gore, the most prominent proponent of the theory of human-caused, global warming, continues to rebuff repeated challenges to debate the issue. The latest challenge came from Czech President Vaclav Klaus. Others have come from climatologist Dennis Avery, director of the Center for Global Food Issues, Lord Monckton, former adviser to British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, and Professor Scott Armstrong of the University of Pennsylvania.

Gore insists that there is nothing to debate, citing his Oscar Award as the conclusive demonstration of the validity of his contention that the planet is doomed unless his prescription for total government control of the environment is adopted. “My film on global warming won an Oscar,” Gore reminded. “Can any of these so-called challengers say the same for their ideas? It should be obvious that they’re not in the same league as me. This will be further verified when I win the Nobel Prize.”