Al Gore in Helsinki [USA join Kyoto at the latest "15 minutes after a new admin. takes office".]

HELSINGIN SANOMAT ^ | Wednesday 6.9.2006 | staff writer

[yankeedame]

www.helsinginsanomat.fi/english

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Al Gore in Helsinki - expects USA to join Kyoto Climate Treaty soon Former US Vice President Al Gore predicts that his country will join the Kyoto Climate Treaty before President George W. Bush leaves office.       Up to now, Bush has categorically refused to give US approval to the treaty aimed at limiting emissions of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide.       Speaking in Helsinki on Tuesday, Gore said that he had discussed the matter with an unnamed key researcher for the Bush Administration. The researcher had told Gore that the USA would join Kyoto at the latest "fifteen minutes after a new administration takes office".       However, Gore added that Bush might also change his mind, as several key researchers are "pushing him in that direction".       Gore sees the global oil business as a receding one, with growth expected mainly in renewable energy sources, whose use is being advanced by the Kyoto Treaty. Consequently, Kyoto has begun to interest investors, who constitute a key political support group for Bush.       Since his defeat in the US Presidential elections in 2000, Gore has devoted much of his time to speaking about the dangers of global warming. Gore’s documentary film on the issue, An Inconvenient Truth, will have its Finnish premiere next week.       According to Gore, the polluters are trying to obscure the issue, but he sees that attitudes are changing even in the political mainstream.       Gore says that both the political system and the climate operate in a non-linear fashion, with long periods of slow movement, after which change can be very rapid.       He read out a long list of significant climatic events in recent years, including the record-warm summers that Finland has been experiencing. He also welcomed the recent decision by the state of California to implement its own emission limits and to introduce a system of trade in emissions.       Gore came to Helsinki mainly to promote his Generation Investment Management company, which has entered into cooperation with the Finnish company Sampo Fund Management. Gore’s company is to begin managing a Sampo fund which invests in companies promoting sustainable development. So far, the Sampo fund has only EUR 15 million in investment capital, whereas its new American portfolio manager is administering capital worth about 400 million US dollars. Helsingin Sanomat

[SAJ]

Your recollection is exact. Kyoto has exactly zero chance of ratification.

However, the Marxist greenies and their syncophants fully intend to (try to) implement it one paragraph at a time, principally by surrendering small pieces of US sovereignity over its own territory to assorted international NGOs.

[rock_lobsta]

Thank you Florida!

[pepperdog]

Money, money, money....who is funding all this crap? You can bet it is a flaming/famous liberal/mega-rich who has already invested in or bought up all EPA credits for the next century and stands to make billions. Someone pays for a loser Presidential candidate to trot all over the world screaming the sky is falling, I'd just like to know who it is. Soros maybe?

[dead]

We're all really stoked on Al Gore. We just don't know it.

I'm cereal.

[IrishRainy]

How does a man without a name get a job in the first place...

LOL! And he's on speed dial at the NY Slimes, too! (Although that Roladex filing thingy might be a bit tricky...)

[Rb ver. 2.0]

NYT Rolodex card on file for the "unnamed source"

[RonF]

Environmentalists in the US did not oppose forest fires. It was the forest managers whose timber harvests the fires interfered with and the park managers whose tourist trade the fires interfered with that opposed them. Get your facts straight.

[redbaiter]

Four hundred million US dollars that need a new home. Who, exactly, is letting this fool manage their money?

[mund1011]

Best line in the whole article:

"Since his defeat in the US Presidential elections in 2000"

God how I love to hear these words.

[Hoodat]

Any word on why the US didn't sign on while Gore was VP?

[napscoordinator]

You get your facts straight and stop mouthing off on something you have no idea about.

[Mike Darancette]

Where does Gore think he is going to get the Senate votes for this?

[redstates4ever]