Posted on 01/24/2008 12:04:50 PM PST by Sub-Driver
Changing light bulbs not enough: Gore
From correspondents in Davos
January 25, 2008 05:23am Article from: Reuters
CLIMATE campaigner Al Gore overnight urged world policymakers to change laws "not just light bulbs" in tackling global warming, and a UN official said world market turmoil must not be allowed to delay action.
An annual meeting of world political and business leaders in Davos, Switzerland, this year has scheduled a record number of sessions and workshops on global warming. But a sharp downturn on markets and fears of recession have dominated discussion.
"If we get distracted by the aberrations that you see in the financial market right now it would clearly be very unfortunate," said Rajendra Pachauri, head of the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Mr Gore, in a swipe at US President George W. Bush's environmental record, said the election of a new president in November could only bring an improvement.
"In addition to changing the light bulbs, it is far more important to change the laws and to change the treaty obligations that nations have," Mr Gore told delegates, in apparent reference to what he sees as the Bush administration's reluctance to initiate legislation on environmental control.
"Whoever is elected is going to have a different position and a better position. But let's be clear: Whoever the leaders are, this issue is going to be dealt with responsibly and effectively only when there is a sufficient degree of urgency on the part of the people themselves."
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Unfortunately for Gore — I’m not even changing any light bulbs.
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I feel like I am living in a science fiction movie.
But I refuse to participate.
I am really glad I don’t have TV. You guys must get inundated with this stuff...
I like my light bulbs just the way they are so neither am I!
His non stop traveling and blabbing is causing more global warming than anything I am doing.
More like in a joke without a punch line.
Those who surrender personal liberty to lower global temperatures will receive neither.
If a Democrat moves in to the White House next January, the MSM won’t give Algore the time of day, and he’ll be totally baffled by it. He redefines the meaning of ‘clueless’.
“Mr Gore, in a swipe at US President George W. Bush’s environmental record, said the election of a new president in November could only bring an improvement.”
Oh Al,whose home is more enviromentally friendly, yours or Bush’s Crawford ranch?(cue the crickets..........)
Buy more light bulbs when ever they go on sale.
How many greenies does it take to change a light bulb?
None. They’d rather sit in and dark and tell us how enlightened they are.
Just think of how much of Al Gore’s hot air has contributed to “global warming”. I have friends of mine who are concerned with the polar ice caps melting. I just pose this question to them. “how long can you keep an ice cube out before it melts?” They give a answer of 4 to 5 minutes. Well I say, the polar ice caps have been around for millions of years, so there is bound to be some some of melting.
Hey Gore, keep your hands off my bulbs!!!
So we have movements for better insulation, energy-star appliances, light bulbs that take a quarter of the electricity, LCD TV’s and monitors instead of CRT’s, higher gas mileage vehicles, natural gas power plants, large investments in solar energy, wind farms, ethanol-spiked gasoline, smokestack scrubbers, electronics without lead, huge recycling programs, biodegradable plastics, corn-starch packing material, and it’s still not enough while China gets a pass?
This isn’t about the environment, this is about making the U.S. uncompetitive on the global market.
Let’s start by no longer having the secret service burn fuel in traveling with former VP’s, and limit the rich to owning one home, say 2000 sq. feet and having to travel in not limos but bicycles...and if they go overseas, how about a balloon?
Gore could walk and ride bikes and balloons and that’ll make the air cooler AND he’ll be more healthy! Win win for eveyone!
No more french fries for him either. The obesity problem is costing tax payers ALOT of money and since HIS healthcare is free, we have that say over him more than anyone else!
What a total fraud!
“”to change the laws and to change the treaty obligations that nations have,””
In plain language,
institute cap and trade for carbon credit markets. Al Gore has a special money interest in that.
Don’t bother, LED lightbulbs coming out will have much better efficiency, color, brightness, and longevity than anything out there including the best incandescents.
I wonder if Gore went with a cfr bulb in his fridge? That one seems to get the most work in the Gore mansion.
“This isn’t about the environment”
It’s about creating a 1/2 trillion dollar global carbon credit scheme.
They never say it outright, because they know candor would be their downfall. Therefore they speak in codes like “Kyoto treaty obligations” or “global cooperation.” Invoke “the world” and the idea that America is “against” “the world” and white liberals and lefties get all glassy eyed and suggestive.
In the eyes of these enviro-socialists, the perceived welfare of "Mother Gaia" takes precedence far beyond the welfare of the human race. Earth-worship is a cult activity.
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