Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 05/05/2008 4:55:23 AM PDT by Loyal Buckeye
Last night, Al Gore preached to the choir.
The polar ice caps are melting at an alarming rate, droughts are dragging on, floods are getting stronger and today alone, an additional 170 million tons of carbon dioxide has been dumped into the Earth's atmosphere, he told a crowd of believers at Value City Arena.
"The planet has a fever," he said. It needs to be saved, to be fixed immediately.
"This is our home. We don't have another planet to go to. Don't let anybody tell you we're going to get on rocket ships and go to a new planet. We couldn't even evacuate New Orleans."
Ohio State University students got free tickets to yesterday's show, which was casually called a lecture but drew a crowd of about 3,000. Gore, a former vice president who ran for president twice and has become a publicist for planet Earth, cracked jokes about his life as an environmental crusader.
He said this, by way of introduction: "I am Al Gore. I used to be the next president of the United States of America."
Nonstudents shelled out $37.50 plus service fees to hear the same call to action that Gore has been delivering for years in his even-keeled southern drawl.
There was nothing flashy. Gore's backdrop was a simple stage with red curtain. He didn't show clips of his 2006 movie, An Inconvenient Truth, which won two Academy Awards.
He didn't hawk the accompanying book. He didn't speak of his Nobel Peace Prize. He said he was not interested in re-entering politics and he would not say which of the presidential candidates he prefers.
And he didn't care if the media attended. No credentials were issued to reporters who wanted to cover the event, although the promoters said they couldn't explain why.
"He's not saying anything new. He's just collecting everything and presenting it in a forceful manner. He just makes the point very convincingly," said Christian Schnell, a graduate student from Germany who is studying math.
A volunteer from the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium and an ambassador for polar bears came to learn and advance the cause of climate-change awareness.
"We lost 1 million square miles of ice last summer alone, and if you don't have ice, you don't have polar bears," said Robert Buchanan, president of Polar Bears International.
Buchanan was in town to help promote the zoo's upcoming polar bear exhibit.
Gore told the audience, "I don't know if you've noticed, but the price of oil is going up and coal is dirty. The climate crisis is, in my opinion, the single biggest challenge the human species has ever confronted."
And this, he said, is how to confront it: Force politicians to hold major polluters accountable for their contributions to global warming.
"We can change our light bulbs, but we also have to change our laws," Gore said.
Inform yourselves, he told the crowd, spread the word and, most importantly, log on to www.wecansolveit.org, a project of Gore's Alliance for Climate Protection.
The sponsor tried selling tickets for about $40 each.
Operation Choas must have spilled over to the environmental movement.
chicken little
Gore’s little carbon crdit scam is dying before his eyes,he’s trying to grub the last dollars from the uninformed.
Gee, Jennifer certainly seems to be in the tank.
You beat me to it. He's desparate to make his case because it is falling apart right now!!!!!
Here’s a suggestion for the ever bloviating AlGore: Quit breathing and you won’t be a cause of CO2 getting into the atmosphere. One problem solved!
Too Late Al, you blew it. Won't be getting many new converts.
Nobody that is sane will........
I read here about a week ago that he had pulled some 6 million something out of a foundation to 're-invest' it in some sort of green tech. thing. (Sorry, I burnt all my memory cells out doin' acid in the '60's).
He needs quick action because in about a year, no one, even the MSM will be talking about “warming”.
“The planet has a fever,”
“Take my wife... please.”
“Just flew in from the coast ... boy are my arms sore!”
“Is this thing on?”
John Coleman, the founder of the Weather Channel, has said he'd like to sue AlGore to get him into a deposition so he can be questioned about global warming, since Gore's consistently refused to debate people who disagree with the GW hypothesis. The problem with Coleman's proposed lawsuit idea up to now, IMHO as a lawyer, is that either he, or another person acting as plaintiff, needs to prove standing to sue.
Standing generally means being actually and specifically injured by the defendant's activity in a legally cognizable way. Being hit by a vehicle the defendant's negligently driving while you're walking across the street is a good example. OTOH, if you're injured by legislation obtained by another person exercising his constitutional right to petition Congress, you do not have standing to sue that individual for damages. Gore's activity seems to fall primarily in the second category, meaning that, on the surface, a suit against him doesn't look like a particularly viable proposition.
However, if a potential plaintiff could be found who invested in one of Gore's GW climate change scam operations on the basis of Gore's false representations about climate change, and lost the money she invested, that individual would have standing to sue him based on allegations of fraud. Hence, the way to get a suit going against Gore that would have a reasonable chance of success, including forcing Gore to give a deposition, would be to find such a representative plaintiff and get him or her to sue.
Big snake god, him plenty, heap angry. Must smoke kinninkinnic and give much Ben Franklin wampum to al gore.
The climate crisis is, in my opinion, the single biggest scam the human species has ever confronted.
LOL! That says it all.
Please tell me he was wearing a furry polar bear costume!
Wheel this imbecile down the hall to the operating room for an overdue frontal lobotomy.
it appears al is the one with the fever.
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