Posted on 12/18/2007 7:21:08 AM PST by Ooh-Ah
I may be old fashioned, but I think it's wrong to publicly attack and criticize your own country overseas. It is doubly wrong to do so in the presence of those who hate the United States.
Al Gore,....said, he is "not an official of the United States," he is free to attack his native country anywhere.
This month in Bali, Indonesia, the United Nations held a conference on global warming for the purpose of extending the Kyoto Protocols, which will formally end in 2012. The United States -- concerned about Kyoto's effect on economic growth -- has refused to ratify the Protocols. On July 25, 1997, the U.S. Senate rejected then Vice President Gore's advice and voted 95-0 to reject the Kyoto Protocols.
...Al Gore appeared at the Bali conference and said, "I am not an official of the United States and I am not bound by the diplomatic niceties. So I am going to speak an inconvenient truth. My own country, the United States, is principally responsible for obstructing progress here in Bali. We all know that."
Oh, really? And just how do we all know that? Is it true that the U.S. is "principally responsible for obstructing progress" in Bali? The New York Times, which applauds the former Vice President, reported on December 14 that "[t]he emerging economic powers, most notably China and India, also refuse to accept limits on their emissions, despite projections that they will soon become the dominant sources of the gases." The same Times article stated while the U.S. opposes an agreement that would include numerical targets, so do "a few other countries, including Russia."
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Unregulated emissions from China, India and other developing countries are likely to account for most of the global increase in carbon dioxide emissions over the next quarter-century.
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
He has lost weight since that picture. He felt he had to slim down for all the awards ceremonies.
I understand that he did is with a strick diet of Dolphin, Polar Bear meat and liquid CO2.
Do you have to buy carbon offsets to compensate for treadmill use?
Yum, roasted baby penguin! Does it taste anything like spotted owl?
Yes he is. And he's been one for a very long time.
Meet looks like chicken, tastes like bluefish.
The yearlings are nice and tender.
Eggs are pretty good when fresh.
Uh.........No?
BTTT
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