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SXSW: Gore says climate-change deniers should pay political price
chicagotribune.com ^ | 3/13/2015 | John Carpenter

Posted on 03/14/2015 9:26:09 AM PDT by 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."

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: algore; ecowackos; gangreen; gorisms; gruberwarming; texas; warmunists
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To: rktman
I believe the price for climate denial will become real in the next year along with the price for dissent generally. I rather expect the first arrests of prominent conservatives spring or summer next year. Politicians won't be taken at first but 1 or 2 prominent commentators on tax or domestic violence charges, maybe. Some politicians will get attention a little later when some like Sasse or Cotton don't take the hint and shut up or change their tunes.
Perhaps at the same time will come arrests of a smattering of low level folks, like maybe FR people around the country. It will only be a few, not enough to stir the citizenry to actual resistance. But there will be waves of arrests in gradually increasing numbers along with SWATs here and there aimed at people with "arsenals." Perhaps there will be a much publicized Federal gun "buyback" with implied threats of confiscation and jail for illegal firearms - those on a long list of "military capable" weapons. Whatever, it is going to get real before November 2016.
41 posted on 03/14/2015 10:21:27 AM PDT by arthurus (it's true!)
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To: rktman
global warming photo: Global warming Denier Denier.jpg

Of course he goes to Austin where he can find the only sizable audience in Texas that would agree with him.

42 posted on 03/14/2015 10:22:56 AM PDT by Snickering Hound
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To: rktman

Interesting all the scandals that are popping up regarding political connections to “alternative energy,” particularly solar: Reed, Pelosi, Oregon Gov. Kitzhaber and now Jerry Brown’s administration. Before that, I believe there were Clinton and Kerry connections with the Chicago Carbon exchange. These folks are lining their pockets with this carbon scam.


43 posted on 03/14/2015 10:29:44 AM PDT by marsh2
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To: SpaceBar

Yeah, me too. But now the con-artists are the ones writing the laws.


44 posted on 03/14/2015 10:30:11 AM PDT by Roger Kaputnik (Just because I'm paranoid doesn't prove that they aren't out to get me.)
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To: rktman

Oh.....oooohhh.


45 posted on 03/14/2015 10:30:48 AM PDT by fhayek
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
We have, and we know where the money has been going, and we are NOT going to forget, a-hole.

46 posted on 03/14/2015 10:31:51 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW!)
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To: rktman

Anti-Climate Skeptic Film ‘Merchants of Doubt’ Bombs at Box Office, made like 24k


47 posted on 03/14/2015 10:45:34 AM PDT by molson209 (Blank)
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To: rktman

IMHO the climate change Elmer Gantry’s should pay a price.


48 posted on 03/14/2015 10:56:16 AM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: rktman
Gore says climate-change deniers should pay political price

Anyone who thinks the climate doesn't change.....naturally.....is too dumb to be in politics.

Anyone who thinks we can stop the climate from changing, by making energy more expensive and less reliable, is even dumber.

Neither group should be given political power.

49 posted on 03/14/2015 10:56:24 AM PDT by Toddsterpatriot (Science is hard. Harder if you're stupid.)
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To: onyx



50 posted on 03/14/2015 10:56:45 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: rktman

I don’t and never have denied “climate change”, we’ve had it since Earth was formed, at least you now call it what it is and that’s because you can’t decide if it’s warming or cooling, all you know is you want to use it as an excuse for drastic measures to destroy freedom and self determination and replace it with whatever draconian socialist government you prefer. the climate was changing before man got here and will be changing after we’re gone or at least to the end and there’s nothing we can do about. You have blown any credibility you have and should shut up and go home, you can occupy yourself by cleaning up the mess from your zinc mines.


51 posted on 03/14/2015 10:58:06 AM PDT by duffee (Dump the Chairman of the Mississippi Republican Party, joe nosef.)
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To: rktman

Spring time must be around the corner......He’s BACK!


52 posted on 03/14/2015 10:58:57 AM PDT by mowowie (`)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Did Algore aka Ozone-man issue his edict while flying around on his private jet?


53 posted on 03/14/2015 11:00:40 AM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (Say no to amnesty, say no to treason.)
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To: fhayek
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?

If there was ONE real reporter at the New York Times, Gore would be asked that question... but there's not ... oh well...

54 posted on 03/14/2015 11:01:28 AM PDT by GOPJ (Obama on Hillary: "I did not have TEXT with that woman"... Freeper hoosiermama)
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To: mowowie

Actually, I’m surprised that a sudden blizzard didn’t pop up.


55 posted on 03/14/2015 11:03:24 AM PDT by rktman (Served in the Navy to protect the rights of those that want to take some of mine away. Odd, eh?)
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To: Zathras

Tom Steyer, Warren Buffet, and Pickens. I forget his first name.


56 posted on 03/14/2015 11:07:02 AM PDT by Wiser now (Socialism does not eliminate poverty, it guarantees it.)
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To: rktman

Al is getting greedy in his wealth.


57 posted on 03/14/2015 11:07:36 AM PDT by Wiser now (Socialism does not eliminate poverty, it guarantees it.)
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To: Zuben Elgenubi

Real science knows melting ice doesn’t raise the water levels anyway.


58 posted on 03/14/2015 11:09:03 AM PDT by Wiser now (Socialism does not eliminate poverty, it guarantees it.)
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To: rktman

Shall we revive the Inquisition?


59 posted on 03/14/2015 11:10:23 AM PDT by Savage Beast (During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. --George Orwell)
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To: Savage Beast

A la Mel Brooks?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUMkcBctE7c


60 posted on 03/14/2015 11:29:47 AM PDT by rktman (Served in the Navy to protect the rights of those that want to take some of mine away. Odd, eh?)
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