Posted on 11/03/2009 7:23:08 AM PST by opentalk
Nobel winner adapts fact-based message to reach those who believe they have a moral duty to protect the planet in Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis.
Al's Gore's much-anticipated sequel to An Inconvenent Truth is published today, with an admission that facts alone will not persuade Americans to act on global warming and that appealing to their spiritual side is the way forward.
In his latest book, Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis, the man who won a Nobel prize in 2007 for his touring slideshow on disappearing polar ice and other consequences of climate change, concludes: "Simply laying out the facts won't work."
Instead, Gore tells Newsweek magazine in a pre-publication interview, that he has been adapting his fact-based message - now put out by hundreds of volunteers - to appeal to those who believe there is a moral or religious duty to protect the planet.
"I've done a Christian [-based] training program; I have a Muslim training program and a Jewish training program coming up, also a Hindu program coming up. I trained 200 Christian ministers and lay leaders here in Nashville in a version of the slide show that is filled with scriptural references. It's probably my favourite version, but I don't use it very often because it can come off as proselytising," Gore tells Newsweek.
Gore's book arrives at a time of intense international scrutiny of America's moves on the environment ahead of an international meeting on global warming at Copenhagen, now just more than a month away.
(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...
“Hey, I can argue in any religion.”
I don’t know what the Buddhists and Hindus will think of this but it should uncork a cat fight in the Christian world.
Please please please no more from Guardian Agitprop U.K.
Well, he has no scientific basis for human caused climate change, might as well try the spritiual basis. LOL!
**it can come off as proselytising,”**
No, SIR ... it comes off as BULLS***!!!
Also... to the hard core Gaia worshipers... I could argue back thus: “Why do you think She made a mistake when She produced man?”
The Hindu one is the trickiest because of their belief in reincarnation of the polar ice cap. :-)
Seriously, since the science failed Gore he has had to turn to blind faith. Expect some carbon neutral burning of climate heretics in the future (for ever warming denier burned one hundred trees will be planted).
for ever->for every
“**it can come off as proselytising,”**
No, SIR ... it comes off as BULLS***!!!”
Therrrrrrrrrrrrre ya go!
“to appeal to those who believe there is a moral or religious duty to protect the planet.”
Yeah, like that is going to change the basic facts of
his argument!
He's just trying to "mix it up" a bit with the other one's thinking it might make his a little more legitimate.
Well this is interesting and may well backfire on the shamsters.
Many New Agers tend to think that saving the planet is more likely to occur through harmonious group-based healing efforts rather than taxing everyone in sight to make AlGore rich.
From the guy who flunked out of Vanderbilt Divinity School? The only people dumber than this clown are the people who keep buying his BS (and books).
This will likely keep the sequel out of the schools, though. Can’t have any religious messages there, right Al ? /sarcasm
That would certainly be far less harmful, both to the economy and to the environment. (Many proposed "solutions" for "global warming" actually have the potential to seriously harm the environment.) Also, them spending time "harmonizing" with each other keeps them off the streets.
Gorebull Warming is a pseudo-religion. The facts are not on there side so they turn to mysticism and “spirituality” to make their case. This is so telling about the green movement.
Or how about Senator Algore who wanted prime-time TV coverage on C-SPAN and would talk in favor of Desert Storm if the Republican Leadership could arrange the time, or speak against Desert Storm if the Democrat leadership got him the prime time TV slot? Where was the "spiritual truth" on that issue?
“Vice President Gore has written, in Earth in the Balance, that journalists should downplay scientific findings of ecological improvement because good news may dilute the public sense of anxiety.”
http://www.buchal.com/tgsh/chap7/c4fn-08.htm#P263_59265
Nobel Prize-Winner: Cap-and-Trade Could Ruin U.S. Economy
With climate change legislation under consideration by Congress, an environmental expert with a Nobel Prize-winning organization warns that the cap-and-trade bill supported by Democrats could destroy the American economy.
Dr. Steve Running, Director of the University of Montana’s Climate Change Studies program, is on the board of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with global warming crusader Al Gore.
During a Wednesday interview with a radio talk show host in Montana, Dr. Running said efforts to deal with climate change will fail unless they involve all nations.
“If the U.S. passed cap-and-trade and other countries did not, it wouldn’t work,” he declared.
“It would ruin the U.S. economy and it wouldn’t save the climate either. So this is a global issue, the global climate statistics are global in nature, global carbon emissions are global in nature, and we really have to have an international consensus of what to do. That is going to stretch our international diplomacy to its limit, there’s no doubt about that.”
Running called on the U.S. to show leadership on the climate change issue, saying other countries will follow suit.
But China and India, two nations that produce large amounts of greenhouse gases, are not expected to adopt cap-and-trade measures like those being debated in the U.S. Congress.
Sen. James Inhofe, the ranking Republican on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, has voiced sentiments similar to Dr. Running’s. He told Newsmax in a recent interview that cap-and-trade won’t work because “it doesn’t matter what we do in America — if we drive our manufacturing base off to places like China, India, and Mexico, places where they don’t have any emissions standards or restrictions, then it’s going to have the effect of increasing and not deceasing CO2.”
He also said cap-and-trade would amount to the “largest tax increase in the history of America.”
So, he has become just one more to pull God’s words out of their contexts to match his own pretext. Ho-hum.
That’s just following the master of all such . . . Satan.
Isn’t this the guy that flunked divinity school?
Why doesn’t he use this sequel to correct all the BS he shoved at us in his first POS movie?
“Simply laying out the facts won’t work.”
No, they won’t, because the facts just aren’t matching up very well to the allegations.
Here’s a religious argument for Algore regarding human-caused GW: Thou shalt not lie.
what is so troubling about treaty, and cap and trade, it that giving our earned money to other countries, does nothing but make us poor.. it doesn't reduce pollution.
Those of us who understand liberal dogma and faith have noticed the spiritual aspects of the global warming scam all along. It is the same lying, destructive spirit that has always reveled in the hatred of mankind, and unprincipled, power crazed lizards like Gore are drunk with it.
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