Gore's Oscar win could be good for climate (Barf ALERT!!!)

news.com.au ^ | 27 February 2007 | Deborah Zabarenko

[Aussie Dasher]

THE double Oscar win for An Inconvenient Truth, former US vice-president Al Gore's expanded slide-show on global warming, could spur grassroots support for the fight against climate change, environmental advocates say.

That was because a movie, especially one that many people had seen on home video, took the issue beyond the realm of distant policymakers and put it on a more personal footing, according to Carl Pope, executive director of the Sierra Club.

"The funny thing about the Oscars is, they're very intimate - people watch them in their living rooms," Mr Pope said.

"Global warming has seemed abstract, distant, something `for people who know more than I do'.

"I think what (the Oscar victory) really does is it puts this issue into people's living rooms," he said.

"While the climatology is really complicated, they're going to see that the solutions are pretty common sense, and people will talk about them and get excited."

An Inconvenient Truth won two Academy Awards: one for best documentary and another for best song.

In a related boost for the environmental movement, Mr Gore appeared with actor Leonardo DiCaprio, who announced that this year's televised ceremony had gone "green".

[Aussie Dasher]

oh, pleeeeeeze.....

[saveliberty]

:-) Tim Blair has this idea that there is a Gore effect: when he appears snow and very low temperatures happen

http://timblair.net/ee/index.php/weblog/gore_effect_worse_than_ever/

http://timblair.net/ee/index.php/weblog/gore_effect_by_proxy/

[jim35]

Yep. Barf alert.

[Eddie01]

www.climatepolice.com

[Enduring Freedom]

grammy

nobel prize

oscar

name 3 propaganda awards rendered meaningless and laughable by left-wing socialists (and looking back probably always were)

[Enduring Freedom]

gorebull warming

as coined by another freeper, i think it will stick

[Eastbound]

GoreBull Warning! Watching this film may slip your brain out of gear.

[Man50D]

Socialists have attempted to create the illusion human beings have, do and will impact climate changes when in fact the cause of climate changes is the sun and has been since the earth was formed.

The communists use this excuse to take power from the individual and put it in the hands of the select few who run our federal, county and state governments.

[MadIvan]

I predict that as a lack of disaster unfolds that the Green lobby will say this was due to their timely intervention, and use this as an excuse to demand even more concessions.

Regards, Ivan

[DeaconRed]

Too Funny
ALGORES home in Tenn uses 20 Times the power of the average home.
Will the MSM pick up on that?
We already know the answer.

[highlander_UW]

Gore claims that he and his businesses are carbon footprint zero because he pays someone else to cut back. What a joke...so prove they cut back to counter you Gore, AND, this is just a wealth redistribution scam.

[100-Fold_Return]

Everyone who has downloaded from ITunes, or has clicked on [The] Google can be thanked for putting the Demoncrat party back into power.

algore is sure getting obese off all you trendy, hip folks!

[mewzilla]

Al Gore’s Personal Energy Use Is His Own “Inconvenient Truth”

Conservation is for the little people.

[sergeantdave]

Former Vice-President Al Gore, inventor of the internet, hopes to train 1,000 storytellers to spread the myth of man-made global warming.

Gore is on a one-pony carnival tour to promote his fanciful movie titled “An Inconvenient Truth.” The film is a hodgepodge of dramatic scenes of violent nature at work, concluding that ordinary people doing ordinary things are the quintessential evil force causing global warming and destroying the earth.

Gore complains that awareness of the “climate crisis” peaks and then is washed away as sane people turn to more important matters like buying cereal for the kids or cleaning the cat box.

Because normal people won’t stay permanently fooled by Gore’s chicken little warnings, he hopes to train a small army of fog peddlers to confound and indoctrinate small children, gullible college students and a stray dog or two.

The Gore hustlers will come armed with a slide show and heads filled with junk science to promote the global warming religion at Rotary Clubs and high schools.

[Irishguy]

i was forced to watch 20 or so minutes of the oscars before i actually felt ill, and left my better half to it..

i saw whats her face singing about the internet designer al gore and now profit (intentional misspelling) guru al gore..

anyone else see the messages on the screen behind the song..

take public transport, walk rather then drive...jeeze i nearly fell off the sofa...here they were telling the great unwashed about how they should not drive, each and every one of them flying in on private jets...i mean how dumb do they think we are!!

so next year all oscar nominees get the bus...anyone taking bets...

the oscars is so embarassing....i actually felt embarased watching it....fake people slapping fake people acting as fake people on the back..

[wodinoneeye]

Of course his private jet trip there produced more CO2 than several entire families generate in a year......



They arent called 'Hollywood Idiots' for nothing.

[Leo Farnsworth]

Gore did not win an Oscar.

He acted in a movie.

The movie won an Oscar for 'Best Documentary' (choke, cough, gag).

The headline is deceiving. 'Jack Nicholson's Oscar win...' for the Departed would be just as foolish of a headline.