GORE: CIGARETTE SMOKING 'SIGNIFICANT' CONTRIBUTOR TO GLOBAL WARMING
Fri Sep 29 2006 09:04:05 ET
Posted on 09/30/2006 1:42:18 AM PDT by Brainhose
GORE: CIGARETTE SMOKING 'SIGNIFICANT' CONTRIBUTOR TO GLOBAL WARMING
Fri Sep 29 2006 09:04:05 ET
Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore warned hundreds of U.N. diplomats and staff on Thursday evening about the perils of climate change, claiming: Cigarette smoking is a "significant contributor to global warming!"
Gore, who was introduced by Secretary-General Kofi Annan, said the world faces a "full-scale climate emergency that threatens the future of civilization on earth."
Gore showed computer-generated projections of ocean water rushing in to submerge the San Francisco Bay Area, New York City, parts of China, India and other nations, should ice shelves in Antarctica or Greenland melt and slip into the sea.
"The planet itself will do nicely, thank you very much what is at risk is human civilization," Gore said. After a series of Q& A with the audience, which had little to do with global warming and more about his political future, Annan bid "adios" to Gore.
Then, Gore had his staff opened a stack of cardboard boxes to begin selling his new book, "An Inconvenient Truth, The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It," $19.95, to the U.N. diplomats.
Developing...
Does he feel guilty when he farts?
"Throughout most of my life, I raised tobacco. I want you to know that with my own hands, all of my life, I put it in the plant beds and transferred it. I've hoed it. I've dug in it. I've sprayed it, I've chopped it, I've shredded it, spiked it, put it in the barn and stripped it and sold it." -- The Surreal Al Gore
Consider that the United States spends tens of billions of dollars on frenzied programs to upgrade and improve the technology of bombers and fighter planes to counter an increasingly remote threat to our national security, but we are content to see hundreds of millions of automobiles using an old technological approach not radically different from the one first used decades ago in the Model A Ford. We now know that their cumulative impact on the global environment is posing a mortal threat to the security of every nation that is more deadly than that of any military enemy we are ever again likely to confront. Though it is technically possible to build high-mileage cars and trucks, we are told that mandating a more trepid transition to more efficient vehicles will cause an unacceptable disruption in the current structure of the automobile industry. Industry officials contend that it is unfair to single out their industry while ignoring others that also contribute to the problem; I agree, but their point only illustrates further the need for a truly global, comprehensive, and strategic approach to the energy problem. I support new laws to mandate improvements in automobile fleet mileage, but much more is needed. Within the context of the SEI [Strategic Environmental Initiative], it ought to be possible to establish a coordinated global program to accomplish the strategic goal of completely eliminating the internal combustion engine over, say, a twenty-five year period. -- The Surreal Al Gore
I always thought AlGore grew up in a hotel in D.C. while his daddy was Senator.
bttt
According to Wikipedia:
"Al Gore was born in Washington, D.C., to Albert A. Gore, Sr., a former U.S. Senator from Tennessee, seated 1953-1971, and Pauline LaFon Gore, one of the first women to graduate from Vanderbilt Law School. Since his father was a veteran Democratic senator from Tennessee, Al Gore Jr. divided his childhood between Washington, D.C., and Carthage, Tennessee. During the school year, the younger Gore lived in a hotel in Washington; during summer vacations, he lived in Carthage, where he worked on the Gore family tobacco farm."
It sounds like the Gores are liable for reparations to the world for the damage done by generations of tobacco farming.
Well, I'm about to make some toast for breakfast. Apologies to all if it causes a 30 foot flood on the Eastern seabord!
the fact that such a "big lie" is believed completely by so many, or that sane people feel compelled to respond rationally to overtly insane assertions.
We are in The Matrix. The end is nigh.
Re: Al... {s..piffffff
Is it me or is Al beginning to look like Jaba the Hut?
Looks like he used four "dabs" too much!
No, he immediately sniffs them, thereby cleansing the offensive offal with his lungs...as he does, he breathes a
smugly satisfied "ahhhhhhh."
Come to think of it......maybe that's why he's so damn nuts! I guess breathing too much methane can make you stupid....
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