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.
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LOL! Great bunch of quotes. Thanks.
How about kryptonite?
Former Vice President Al Gore said his conscience is regularly challenged
What's next? Voting for reduced flow toilets so that you can feel OK about having a dam release billions of gallons of water to keep your canoe afloat?
Excellent compilation of Gore's quotations. Where'd you get 'em? Any on Clinton and Carter?
That lard ass Gore should know that it takes 10 carbons to produce 1 calorie using farming methods (including organic). He should go on a diet and lose about 100 lbs. and quit jetting around the globe.
I wish one of these tree hugger types would pay me for my non-used CO2 credits. I think you can get a pack of 12 credits at the Piggly Wiggly pretty cheap.
An element is defined by the number of protons in a nucleus. The atomic weight of an element is the geometric average of the weights of all isotopes of the element (geometric because it is weighted by their relative abundance.) Deuterium is called deuterium because each atom has a neutron in addition to the proton. It is the same element with a different atomic weight (tritium is hydrogen with 2 neutrons). If you look at a periodic table of the elements, the atomic weight of hydrogen is 1.008, 1 for the proton and .008 for the extra neutrons in deuterium and tritium which are naturally occurring.
The first time I heard that question, I thought the cashier was referring to cash versus credit card. Series. You can tell I seldom shop (other than car and boat stores).
YES! I Want to Join SELF’S Carbon Neutral Club
That’s great! It’s a quick, easy two-step:
Step One: Calculate your emissions by choosing a carbon calculator to work out what your personal emissions were for last year. For a choice of calculators, see www.earthfuture.com/climate/calculators.
Step Two: After using the calculator, click here to make your contribution to SELF, at $10 per ton. Welcome to SELF’s Carbon Neutral Club!
You can also offset the emissions from a flights, or holiday. Go to www.chooseclimate.org/flying to calculate your emissions from flying, then return here to offset them, at $10 per ton.
Typical liberalism. I pledge $10 bucks! And get this: the organization that published this tripe is called SELF (Solar Electric Light Fund). You can donate money so they can use it to offset the emissions of the little people in "Bhutan, the Solomon Islands, Tanzania or one of the other countries where SELF works." Narcissus would be proud.
people of "substance" get to do that
everybody else can ride a bicycle
Another thing to ask Gore would be "Why just "carbon neutral"? Why not "carbon negative"? If you were at a concert where the concert goers left a bunch of trash and someone said it would destroy the earth don't you think they would pick up more than their own soda cup?
http://www.americasfuture.net/1997/nov97/97-1123a.html
DeWeese calls global warming "the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the people of the world, bar none. Those who have been fighting against the green agenda have been warning that modern-day environmentalism has nothing whatsoever to do with protecting the environment," he observes. "Rather, it is a political movement led by those who seek to control the world economies, dictate development, and redistribute the world's wealth."
In high school, it was either biology or chemistry that we learned that life on Earth is carbon based. If Al is carbon neutral, no wonder he looks like a stone carving.
Actually diamonds are not rare at all - except in the retail market which is controled by a cartel.
With its 4 valance electrons, it's kinda hard not to be neutral toward carbon.
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