Posted on 12/13/2007 9:31:02 PM PST by Roberts
Al Gore savaged the US government’s “obstructing” attitude and urged delegates at the UN conference on climate change to ignore Washington if necessary to pursue the “moral imperative” of a new global regime.
“My country is principally responsible for obstructing progress here in Bali,” the former US vice-president told 2,000 of the 12,000 people attending the conference on Thursday. “[But] over the next two years the United States is going to be somewhere it is not now.”
European Union nations said they might boycott a U.S.-led climate meeting next month unless Washington compromises to achieve a deal on Bali.
‘‘No result in Bali means no Major Economies Meeting,’’ said Sigmar Gabriel, top EU environment official from Germany, referring to a series of separate climate talks initiated by President Bush in September. ‘‘This is the clear position of the EU. I do not know what we should talk about if there is no target.’’
The US invited 16 other major economies, including European countries, Japan, China and India, to discuss a program of what are expected to be nationally determined, voluntary cutbacks in greenhouse gas emissions.
Mr Gore, fresh from receiving the Nobel peace prize jointly with the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, said delegates must “find the grace to navigate around this enormous obstacle, the elephant in the room that I have been undiplomatic enough to name.”
The US delegation in Bali has repeatedly said it is committed to finding a consensus and reaching a deal but numerous countries have accused it, as well as Japan, Canada and Saudi Arabia, of blocking progress.
A substantial part of Mr’s Gore’s hour-long address was a recap of material he has used on numerous occasions since making An Inconvenient Truth, his Oscar-winning film, in 2006. He described how scientists are warning of a rapidly escalating crisis unless greenhouse gas emissions are significantly reduced.
He sought to inspire the audience by telling them they had the privilege of being some of the few people in the world who can make a difference in saving “the world’s civilisation”.
“The way ahead from Bali is difficult,” he said. “The truth is that is the maximum now considered possible even here in this conference is still far short of the minimum that will really solve this process. So we have to expand the limits of what’s possible. We must have the moral imagination of humankind to see ourselves as the symbol of global civilisation.”
The audacity of this ass never ceases to amaze me.
We've got to be in the end times because I can't even imagine how children studying American history in school 50 years from now won't be able to see what a bunch of evil bastards are 'running' the world even with the biased re-writing of history that occurs.
Gore hates America because of the close 2000 election that he lost.
He only spends his time smashing, trashing and bashing the US rather than do anything positive like help keep his son off drugs and stop speeding on the public roads like a crazed manic that is going to get innocent people killed.
The only thing I got for Gore is the middle digit (two in fact). Go ahead and get angry about that, Sore Loser Man!
Chilling words them,considering how much airplay this crap gets.
"...saving “the world’s civilisation”."
"...we must have the moral imagination of humankind to see ourselves as the symbol of global civilisation."
Who does he think he is,'Flash Goron'?
For years we here in Oz had to put up with the left calling Prime Minister Howard 'Bush's lapdog',now we can sit back and watch Rudd kiss Gore's fat ass and everyone will nod sagely in agreement...forgive me while I gag!
"What a pompous windbag!"
Boy oh boy did you ever get that right!
I heard Al and George Soros were an item at Oslo. Tongues are wagging. Think he’ll leave Tipper for George?
Yes!!!
Lets be like Europe, where you have to go to a government approved “station” to wash your car. It’s illegal in Germany to wash your car at your residence.
Hooray Europe!!!
This man is illiterate.
Global warming politics.
New age imperative for imperialism.
I always thought it curious that the USA would be opposed whereas the less developed nations had an indifferent attitude. Why? Because based on my experience, the developing world does a lot more nasty polluting than the developed western societies. I’ve seen the smog that hangs over Big Bend all the way to the lower valley El Paso because of Mexican trash burning and diesel engines. I’ve flown over the entire length of Belize and seen hundreds of fires belching fumes in the air. I’ve seen what Mexican field burning in the Yucatan could do to the quality of life in Houston as the sun disappeared for about 6 weeks one spring. I knew the places out of control were not developed.
So this seemed to me like an excuse for the developed to interfere in the politics and destiny of the developing regions. And now you are hearing these people make noises exactly like I presumed. Al Gore is the world’s salesman for western imperialism.
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