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Al Gore at SXSW: We Need to ‘Punish Climate-Change Deniers’ and ‘Put a Price on Carbon’
ecowatch.com ^ | March 16, 2015 10:37 am | Cole Mellino

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


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: agw; algore; c02; carbon; climatechangedeniers; climatechangefraud; glowbullwarming; manbearpig; pissoff; popefrancis
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1 posted on 03/16/2015 9:19:42 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: SunkenCiv

AGW (Al Gore Whacko) Ping!.................


2 posted on 03/16/2015 9:21:20 AM PDT by Red Badger (Man builds a ship in a bottle. God builds a universe in the palm of His hand.............)
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3 posted on 03/16/2015 9:21:34 AM PDT by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: Red Badger

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4 posted on 03/16/2015 9:22:55 AM PDT by Foolsgold (Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber)
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To: Red Badger

The primary underlying goal of the left is to use the State to punish and exterminate (not just eliminate) their political opponents.

Global warming, gay rights, etc, is just a means to that end.


5 posted on 03/16/2015 9:24:11 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: b4its2late; Foolsgold

This guy needs to be in a rubber room somewhere safe.................


6 posted on 03/16/2015 9:24:12 AM PDT by Red Badger (Man builds a ship in a bottle. God builds a universe in the palm of His hand.............)
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To: Red Badger

I saw that episode of South Park. Nobody believes your manbearpig Al.

Flat earther siging off....xo

LOL


7 posted on 03/16/2015 9:24:34 AM PDT by Uversabound (Our Military past and present: Our Highest example of Brotherhood of Man & Doing God's Will)
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To: Red Badger

The reds are gum flapping in Austin again this week. I remember when SXSW was about music.


8 posted on 03/16/2015 9:24:34 AM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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To: Red Badger

A very real chance of a (pseudo) religious dictatorship if Gore becomes president. “What’s the Constitution in the face of global catastrophe” would be the rallying cry.


9 posted on 03/16/2015 9:24:38 AM PDT by denydenydeny ("World History is not full of good governments, or of good voters either "--P.J. O'Rourke)
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To: Red Badger

Gore should be in jail for fraud right now.


10 posted on 03/16/2015 9:24:40 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (f this controversy dies down, Obama has enougMy Batting Average( 1,000) (GOPe is that easy to read))
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To: Red Badger

Gore is a stupid overweight bloviating hypocrite.


11 posted on 03/16/2015 9:24:49 AM PDT by beethovenfan (If Islam is the solution, the "problem" must be freedom.)
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To: All

remember algore tried to create a new money in “carbon credits”.


12 posted on 03/16/2015 9:24:53 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: MrB

The Constitution is an impediment, so it must be ignored, subverted or destroyed................


13 posted on 03/16/2015 9:25:17 AM PDT by Red Badger (Man builds a ship in a bottle. God builds a universe in the palm of His hand.............)
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To: b4its2late

“When yur buy-bee has a fee-vur, you take it to the dock-tore.”


14 posted on 03/16/2015 9:25:19 AM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra (Don't touch that thing Don't let anybody touch that thing!I'm a Doctor and I won't touch that thing!)
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To: beethovenfan

...and those are his fine points...............


15 posted on 03/16/2015 9:26:10 AM PDT by Red Badger (Man builds a ship in a bottle. God builds a universe in the palm of His hand.............)
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To: Red Badger

What’s algore’s cut?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/energy/6491195/Al-Gore-could-become-worlds-first-carbon-billionaire.html


16 posted on 03/16/2015 9:26:30 AM PDT by maggief
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To: longtermmemmory

....with him as the treasurer............


17 posted on 03/16/2015 9:26:55 AM PDT by Red Badger (Man builds a ship in a bottle. God builds a universe in the palm of His hand.............)
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Al Gore at SXSW: We Need to ‘Punish Climate-Change Deniers’ and ‘Put a Price on Carbon’

"We should make them wear yellow stars and put them in camps or something." F***ing Nazi gasbag.

18 posted on 03/16/2015 9:27:12 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp
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To: Red Badger

One wonders how they’re going to punish “Deniers”?

(Lubyanka prison anyone?)

JUst saying.

IMHO


19 posted on 03/16/2015 9:27:32 AM PDT by ripley
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To: beethovenfan

I’m sure the breathless sycophants in Austin are loving it.


20 posted on 03/16/2015 9:28:17 AM PDT by TheZMan (Buy more ammo.)
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