Posted on 09/24/2007 6:18:26 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The world's top leaders should meet every three months, starting next year, until a plan is drawn up to reduce emissions blamed for global warming, former U.S. Vice President Al Gore said on Monday.
Gore, who has made climate change his signature issue since leaving the White House, told a U.N. meeting that presidents and prime ministers should go to Bali this year for talks on a follow-up pact to the Kyoto Protocol, which runs out in 2012.
Traditionally, environment ministers or lower-level negotiators attend the annual UN climate change talks, but Gore said leaders should go from now on and then have follow-up meetings.
"I would like to propose...that the heads of state around the world call an emergency session of this gathering for the beginning of next year to review the results of Bali," he said.
They should "continue to meet at the head of state level every three months until a treaty is successfully arrived at," Gore said. "We cannot continue business as usual."
The Kyoto Protocol requires 36 industrial nations to cut greenhouse gas emissions by at least 5 percent from 1990 levels by 2012. Leaders from the Group of Eight industrialized nations pledged in June to find a follow-up deal for Kyoto by 2009.
Reaching an agreement will not be easy, however. The United States -- which did not ratify Kyoto -- has long resisted binding emissions targets, while Europe insists that mandatory limits are the only way to effectively fight climate change.
President George W. Bush, who defeated Gore in the 2000 presidential election, did not attend the U.N. climate change meeting but was slated to attend a dinner with other leaders to discuss the subject on Monday night.
Former Vice President Al Gore poses in Los Angeles September 17, 2007. The world's top leaders should meet every three months, starting next year, until a plan is drawn up to reduce emissions blamed for global warming, Gore said on Monday. (Mario Anzuoni/Reuters)
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Former Vice President Al Gore speaks during a climate change lunch meeting at U.N. headquarters on Monday Sept. 24, 2007. (AP Photo/John Marshall Mantel)
Former U.S. Vice-President Al Gore, center, and his wife, Tipper Gore, left, greet United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon during a climate change lunch meeting at U.N. headquarters on Monday Sept. 24, 2007. (AP Photo/John Marshall Mantel)
Why not monthly?
That way his paychecks will be even more regular.
Will he be flying in his private jet to each one?
I want a pony.
All those people flying in on private jets every 3 months?
Brilliant!
What kind of light bulb is in that lamp, Al?
And I want a solid gold toilet, but it’s just not in the cards, baby.
Gore wants GWM’s every 3 months because he loves flying on the Gulfstream jets to these meetings and the huge SUV motorcades.
BTW
DoDo bird alert... LOL
Yeah, you *GO GUY!* !!!!!
(what an idiot)
LOL
Well 1rudeboy, you can always ask mommie dearest Hitlery.
She will give all the good little boy and girl voters everything their hearts desire.
all he has to do is find out where to stick the big thermometer, then he can get an exact temperature.
The commission should be empaneled permanently, with a special room in the UN, with the latest communications gear.
I expect 24/7/360 from these guys until they solve the problem.
He is not taking Anthropogenic Global Warming seriously with his current approach of half-measures.
Once the Global Committee to Save Earth is busily cranking out Important Messages for Earth, Gore should go to Congress for a Letter of Marque against the evildoers who are polluting Earth, poisoning the thin, life giving atmosphere of our only home, with carbon dioxide.
Actually I think this is a great idea, and one we should all support. Given the attention span of Americans hammered incessantly by some “BIG STORY”, a few rounds of this would just let it slide off to its natural place in the fringe weirdo world that lives forever but is ignored by everyone. It might even merit a tinfoil hat!
Shut up and go away you fat idiot! (not you Norm... algore) What a self-important nitwit he is.
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