SXSW: Gore says climate-change deniers should pay political price

chicagotribune.com ^ | 3/13/2015 | John Carpenter

[rktman]

AUSTIN, Texas — Former Vice President Al Gore on Friday called on SXSW attendees to punish climate-change deniers, saying politicians should pay a price for rejecting “accepted science.”

Gore said smart investors are moving away from companies tied to fossil fuels and toward companies investing in alterternative energy.

"We need to put a price on carbon to accelerate these market trends,” Gore said, 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."

[rktman]

Uh, hate to be contradictory there al baby, but it ain't smart folks moving away from "fossil" fuels. Just pander bears trying to suck up to you and the rest of the fear mongering warmunists. Say, how's that private jet treating you anyway?

[E. Pluribus Unum]

We need to put a price on demagoguery.

[headstamp 2]

“Fossil fuel for me (and my private jet) and not for thee”

[SpaceBar]

I remember back in the good old days when there used to be laws against con-artists.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Aw, he’s bought the indulgences

[onyx]

[PROCON]

Yeah, the carbon tax went over so well in Australia that the guilty politicians did pay a price...they were kicked out!

[bmwcyle]

Lies like Algore should be in jail.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Kangaroos are made out of carbon anyhow

[Moonman62]

I’m old fashioned. I think liars and frauds should pay a price.

[HiTech RedNeck]

The way they do the “science” it isn’t even science. Nobody could falsify their thesis, not if a glacier showed up at Al Gore’s mansion.

[Zathras]

Someone is paying Gore and Jeb tons of $$$ to be this stupid.
Both keep charging windmills knowing they are eventually doomed to failure.
It is easy to point a finger at Soros but clearly something else is going on.

[TomGuy]

Price

That is what it comes down to:

What price will the rest of us have to pay to these grifters and ideologues, if they ever do get their way?

[fhayek]

The models don't work. The data has been fudged. It isn't getting warmer. It is Al Gore who is a 'Global Cooing Denier'.

If Al Gore is so sure that it is getting hotter, and that the oceans are going to rise, why did he spend $9 million for a mansion on the Pacific Ocean? Talk about paying a price.

[Iron Munro]

We fought a Cold War for almost 50 years to cleanse the world of the same kind of oppression that is now demanded by tyrannical leftists like Gore.

[Carl Vehse]

It is Algore who should pay the price, following his indictment, trial, conviction, and sentencing for giving aid and comfort to the enemy. This traitor’s punishment can serve as the example for what other demonicrats should also experience following their own convictions and sentencing.

[for-q-clinton]

Climate Change “Hoaxsters” should be banished to Siberia.

[TomGuy]

I remember back in the good old days when there used to be laws against con-artists.

Laws or no, history shows that we have always had the grifters, con-artists, and snake-oil salesmen around. Many of them even get elected to public office, where they have better access to the treasury.

[Zuben Elgenubi]

Algore For President!

[PROCON]

Kangaroos are made out of carbon anyhow

Yeah, but it's southern hemisphere carbon so it actually swallows itself.