AlGore: Corporate America can't ignore global warming "Television induces a quasi-hypnotic state,"

tallahassee.com / AP ^ | 3-12-2004

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	Posted on Fri, Mar. 12, 2004
	Corporate America can't ignore global warming, Gore says RACHEL KONRAD Associated Press   STANFORD, Calif. - Detroit automakers and other American companies must stop ignoring the mounting scientific evidence of global warming or else the United States will become an economic laggard and the environment will deteriorate beyond repair, former Vice President Al Gore told students at one of the nation's top business schools. "The American auto companies have sat around, and instead of hiring more engineers to solve the problem they hired more lawyers to fight the requirement that they do the right thing," Gore said Thursday night to about 200 students at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business. The former Democratic presidential candidate seemed particularly upset at a deal announced this week in which Ford Motor Co. will purchase hybrid engine technology from Japanese giant Toyota Motor Corp., which can't keep up with demand for its fuel-efficient Prius sedan. "Detroit should be embarrassed," Gore admonished, arms flailing and voice booming in a campus auditorium on Stanford's palm-studded campus. "We ought to make this a massive strategic goal - an organizing principle whereby we focus our research dollars and attention and effort to focus on these problems," he said of environmentally friendly technology. Gore, a Tennessee native and frequent visitor to Silicon Valley, said development of solar and other alternative energy sources could create thousands of new jobs and revive the flagging U.S. tech sector. The Arctic ice cap will disappear within 50 years if it continues melting at its current pace, causing massive flooding, heat waves and catastrophic storms, Gore warned. During a question and answer session, one student asked why many U.S. citizens seemed unconcerned about the environment and why politicians seemed more focused on terrorism. Gore said that the Bush administration has misled Americans about the connections between Saddam Hussein and the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, and mainstream media have failed in their jobs as watchdogs on the government. "Television induces a quasi-hypnotic state," said Gore, a former newspaper reporter. "The immune system that used to protect our democracy against big lies and faulty perceptions no longer protects us as it used to."

[GraceCoolidge]

Gore, a Tennessee native and frequent visitor to Silicon Valley, said development of solar and other alternative energy sources could create thousands of new jobs and revive the flagging U.S. tech sector.

Let's review: Al Gore is really really smart. He knows all the answers, especially related to technology and the environment. Developing these technologies could create all these new jobs and stimulate the economy. He has lots and lots of time on his hands (the ones at the end of those flailing arms). Question: why doesn't he go to work on this problem instead of talking about it? Then he could save the environment, revitalize the economy, and maybe make enough cash so he could buy his mother-in-law those arthritis pills that she now has to get from the veterinarian.

[TheBigB]

Gore, a Tennessee Washington, DC native and frequent visitor to Silicon Valley the planet Mongo...

Geeze, don't these people have editors?

[Phantom Lord]

"Television induces a quasi-hypnotic state," said Gore

Algore would know. Don't forget, he is a former Chicken Hypnotizer!

[Guillermo]

Al Gore thinks that a glass of ice water will overflow if the ice melts...

[AmishDude]

I want more global warming! The more, the better.

[linn37]

Did he or did he not hypnotise chickens?

[TheBigB]

Al invented television!

[ClearCase_guy]

I am afraid of quasi-hypnotic states, so I will put my television in a lock-box.

[TheBigB]

I am afraid of quasi-hypnotic states

Like California?

[Restorer]

The Arctic ice cap will disappear within 50 years if it continues melting at its current pace, causing massive flooding, heat waves and catastrophic storms, Gore warned. Al Gore thinks that a glass of ice water will overflow if the ice melts...

Presumably Mr. Gore mean the Antarctic ice cap, which will indeed raise sea level if it melts, although I've seen a wide variety of numbers as to how much.

As the statement is a summary, not a quote, you can't tell from the article which idiot was responsible for the mistake: Gore or the reporter.

[finnman69]

Wait till the enviro scare movie "Day After Tomorrow" comes out this summer. Watch the movie make people think it's real. It's by the Independence Day director and he shows LA destroyed by tornadoes, Tokyo by softball sized hail, Americans fleeing the US to Mexico to escape the ice age that flooded NYC with a tidal wave and covers it with a glacier. Very cool effect BTW in the trailer, but toal garbage. The premise is a large piece of ice shelf breaks off changing the atlantic thermal currents, causing a new ice age and nutty weather.

http://www.thedayaftertomorrowmovie.com/index.php

http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox/dayaftertomorrow/

[Guillermo]

I wonder why the trillions of gallons that rivers around the world pour into the oceans everyday doesn't raise sea levels...

[Restorer]

I looked up an apparently accurate source, and they claimed that complete melting of all icecaps in the world would raise sea level by about 80 meters or 262 feet.

This would indeed be a catastrophe for much of the world. Among other things, most of FL and the Central Valley of CA would disappear.

Luckily, it is not likely to actually happen.

[Restorer]

Americans fleeing the US to Mexico

That would be a switch!

[Semper Paratus]

600 votes from having Hans Blix's favorite American as President.

[finnman69]

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

"Television induces a quasi-hypnotic state,"

How about that? I didn't think they aired wood boy's speeches anymore.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

Here the thread I posted about this movie in January.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1060757/posts
"The Day After Tomorrow". Stealth liberal movie plot alert.

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Tipper on the sidewalk yelling "run Al run!.."