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Gore: Take Personal Responsibility To Stem Crisis [had adopted a "carbon neutral lifestyle."....]
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Posted on 07/24/2006 11:52:05 AM PDT by Sub-Driver

Gore: Take Personal Responsibility To Stem Crisis

POSTED: 2:27 pm EDT July 24, 2006 UPDATED: 2:30 pm EDT July 24, 2006

CHAUTAUQUA, N.Y. -- Former Vice President Al Gore said his conscience is regularly challenged by a consumerism that contributes to the global warming he has made it his mission to reverse.

"It is so hard for those of us who want to live according to our values," Gore said Monday at the Chautauqua Institution, during the latest of countless lectures he has given on the topic.

"We're embedded in a culture that makes it so easy to just go with the flow and support a pattern that's horribly destructive," he said. "And so we need to address this personally."

For Gore, it was a return visit to the western New York think tank used by former President Bill Clinton and his wife, Sen. Hillary Clinton, for debate preparation during campaigns. Gore lectured on global warming here in 1990.

Since then, the consensus that the planet is in crisis has grown stronger, he said, and the ability to make the point is not cluttered by campaign issues like the economy and health care.

"This is by far the most serious challenge that we face or have ever faced," he said during the 90-minute appearance. "None of the other ones will matter if we don't get this right."

Later, Gore planned to sign copies of his book, "An Inconvenient Truth." The related documentary film was being shown on campus.

(Excerpt) Read more at wnbc.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: climatechange; environment; gore; goregonewild; kook; manbearpig
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To: Sub-Driver

Seeing how we are all carbon-based life forms, to truly be "carbon-neutral" wouldn't Gore have to disappear?

This could bode well for us!


101 posted on 07/24/2006 12:47:59 PM PDT by ushr435
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To: mike70
Well, yes, but us nuclear types know you can ignore the electrons.

The electron's mass is statistically insignificant, and therefore, can be deleted in any meaningful calculation. And, even if the electrons did something useful, they'ed be balanced out by positrons, so why bother counting them in the first place?
102 posted on 07/24/2006 12:51:08 PM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but Hillary's ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: dashing doofus; Starboard
"Manganese" is just Norman French for "Magnesian" - referring to the area of Greece called Magnesia, which is not far north of Athens.

Manganese oxide was known in the Middle Ages as "the Magnesian stone" and the Norman invaders of England called it manganese.

103 posted on 07/24/2006 12:51:36 PM PDT by wideawake ("The nation which forgets its defenders will itself be forgotten." - Calvin Coolidge)
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To: Sub-Driver

Perhaps he will also want to pay FR to expose his lies and then he can claim he is 'truth neutral.'


104 posted on 07/24/2006 12:51:59 PM PDT by DancesWithBolsheviks (Fatigued with the party always being in my backyard.)
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To: Sub-Driver

So he's got a horse.


105 posted on 07/24/2006 12:52:24 PM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: Sub-Driver

What's YOUR carbon footprint?


106 posted on 07/24/2006 12:54:49 PM PDT by ichabod1 (I have to take a shower.)
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To: wideawake

Thanks. Do you know if there is carbon in beer?


107 posted on 07/24/2006 12:56:21 PM PDT by dashing doofus
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To: tdewey10
I agree. Cobalt makes me blue.

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108 posted on 07/24/2006 12:58:48 PM PDT by LonePalm (Commander and Chef)
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To: dashing doofus

There are two carbon atoms in every molecule of ethanol, right?


109 posted on 07/24/2006 12:58:54 PM PDT by wideawake ("The nation which forgets its defenders will itself be forgotten." - Calvin Coolidge)
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To: Sub-Driver
Maybe he needs to move in with these folks:


110 posted on 07/24/2006 1:01:35 PM PDT by TravisBickle (Are you talkin' to me?)
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To: wideawake

Its been a long time since I took organic chemistry in college. We used to abbreviate ethyl alcolhol as ET-OH.
I guess the "ET" part contains the carbon.


I'm NOT giving up my IPA for the likes of Algore! That blowhard Gore will have to pry my mug out of my cold dead fingers!


111 posted on 07/24/2006 1:02:28 PM PDT by dashing doofus
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To: Sub-Driver

When I first read the headline and quick blurb I thought it said carbohydrate.

I thought Al was admitting and taking responsibility for his weight, LOL!


112 posted on 07/24/2006 1:02:54 PM PDT by prairiebreeze (I am a proud friend of Israel. We're all Jews now.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Must be tough riding a bicycle to all his speaking engagements as driving a car or flying in a plane will add to global warming. I hope the winter back home in Tennessee isn't too cold as heating homes dumps vast amounts of CO2 into the air. I'm sure Gore like RFK jr. jets around in a private plane while extolling the rest of us to walk.


113 posted on 07/24/2006 1:05:09 PM PDT by The Great RJ ("Mir wölle bleiwen wat mir sin" or "We want to remain what we are." ..Luxembourg motto)
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To: Bacon Man; Hap

EXCELLENT thread going on ping!


114 posted on 07/24/2006 1:06:34 PM PDT by Xenalyte (Anything is possible when you don't understand how anything happens.)
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To: Hemingway's Ghost

"carbon-neutral lifestyle"

The big global-warming fear comes from dumping huge amounts of carbon into the atmosphere as a result of burning carbon-based chemicals (oil primarily, wood & coal also) to obtain cheap energy (i.e.: drive, cook, etc.). This produces lots of CO & CO2 which in turn allegedly, in large enough quantities, cause global warming (which of course means various mind-bogglingly awful horrible things). Gore is finally realizing that he personally is contributing to this horror (esp. with things like burning a half-million pounds of jet fuel to attend a global-warming conference) and thinks he should take some personal responsibility to clean up after himself (a laudable goal - good friggin' luck).

A "carbon-neutral lifestyle" means that for every pound of waste carbon one dumps into the atmosphere, one actively seeks to do something to balance out that pound (or to avoid creating that pound of carbon waste in the first place). This is a warm-fuzzy goal, with visions of planting trees to turn CO2 into pretty woods and O2, reducing emissions elsewhere (like making cars more efficient), avoiding causing CO2 emissions (walking instead of driving), etc.

The reality is: he's silly & selfish. Fact is, when the next global-warming conference arrives, he'll be jetting off with his entorauge (sp?!) burning thousands of gallons of fuel and dumping tons more carbon waste into the atmosphere - for which he will justify with paper agreements whereby third-world countries will get paid trinkets in exchange for their "carbon budgets", i.e. "here's $1 if you agree to not travel, cook, or manufacture X amount."

It's actually a nifty idea if taken seriously. Then one comes back to reality and carries on as before.

In reality, Gore claiming a "carbon-neutral lifestyle" is about as laughable as Barbara Streisand telling people to conserve electricity by turning off air conditioners and line-drying clothes, while utterly failing to do so herself and using electricity on a massive scale. Unless Gore actually takes to growing & eating raw veggies by himself, and doing little else, he won't meet his goal - and will likely continue out-carbon-produce most people by orders of magnitude (but he'll make it look good on paper).


115 posted on 07/24/2006 1:06:52 PM PDT by ctdonath2
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To: DManA
Actually diamonds are not rare at all

Well, thanks for that bit of info, but I don't see what it has to do with my post.

116 posted on 07/24/2006 1:10:02 PM PDT by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: Izzy Dunne

I'm quite carbon friendly, myself!


117 posted on 07/24/2006 1:12:12 PM PDT by GatorGirl
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To: Sub-Driver
Here's another good form of carbon:


118 posted on 07/24/2006 1:13:20 PM PDT by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: wideawake

119 posted on 07/24/2006 1:15:29 PM PDT by Dr.Deth
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To: Sub-Driver
Then again, carbon can be on the other side of the steak:

120 posted on 07/24/2006 1:16:09 PM PDT by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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