Posted on 03/14/2009 2:29:48 PM PDT by Shermy
...There is a very impressive consensus now emerging around the world that the solutions to the economic crisis are also the solutions to the climate crisis," he says. "I actually think we will get an agreement at Copenhagen."
..."[Obama's election] is one of the main factors," he says. "But we also have a big ally in reality the planet is under assault. This collision with human civilisation ... is increasingly dire."
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Gore says he has also detected a shift in the view of many business leaders. "They're seeing the writing on every wall they look at. They're seeing the complete disappearance of the polar ice caps right before their eyes in just a few years," he says. "They're seeing the new US administration. They're seeing Gordon Brown and David Cameron both advocating dramatic changes here in the UK."
Gore warns business leaders who did not yet "get it" that they should look to the collapse of the sub-prime mortgage market as a warning. "We now have several trillion dollars worth of sub-prime carbon assets whose value is based on the assumption that CO2 is free and there is nothing wrong with 70m tonnes of it entering into the atmosphere every 24 hours," he says. "That assumption is also in the process of collapsing and the remedy for it will include ... a change in business practices."
Responding to James Lovelock, the originator of the Gaia theory, who said the European trading system for carbon was "disastrous", Gore says: "James Lovelock has forgotten more about science than I will ever learn. But in analysing political systems he is perhaps allowing his ... frustration ... to obscure some of the opportunities for change in the political system. There are tipping points in nature, but there are also tipping points in politics."
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"They're seeing the writing on every wall they look at. They're seeing the complete disappearance of the polar ice caps right before their eyes in just a few years," he says. "They're seeing the new US administration. They're seeing Gordon Brown and David Cameron both advocating dramatic changes here in the UK."
What they are seeing is that they better hop on board in order to be able to game the system to the harm of their competitors.
Al is pretty cute with his threats.
Death economy on the rise. Inheritance based liberals want to suck your world out, rip your eyeballs and count on your stupidity and lack of scientifical knowledge to rape your dead bodies.
Please.
We ALL know who will pay, if anyone.
Al's a moron.
He just cant stop flapping his fat decadent face can he?
It would be poetic justice if Al suffered some climactic inconvenience... not heat stroke, of course, because he’d say that proves his point....., but maybe a slip on the ice, or a bout with the flu, or a case of minor frostbite on a jetsetting vacation.
Isn’t there some expert out there who can shut this idiot up once and for all with nothing else but the simple facts?
Algore is sounding more and more like a cross between Elmer
Gantry, Sister Aimee, and Marjoe.
Algore and Jimmah...two former national political leaders, despite being useless POSs, continue to stick their noses into and generally screwing up the nation and the world.
Dear Al,
The Rainmaker was only a movie.
Get a job.
elmer fudd is more like it.
IMO This is just another ploy to burden Industrialized/Mature Economies and improve the situation of Third World Economies, many of whom are Dictatorships or otherwise Totalitarian. The so-called ‘Kyoto’ Protocols were just that type of surrender.
He’s a lunatic. Hardly an original comment but that doesn’t make it any less true.
Algore will not believe the facts even if it stares him in the face.
Losing to W in 2000 and the emotional aftermath caused his current insanity.
Of course the gummits want it, they want the tax Trillions it represents.
Pray for America, Our Troops and obama’s Failure
When the crooks and frauds like Gore and Obama are done feeding on the carcasse of western civilization there won’t be much left to emit carbon with anyway.
AL is a MORON.
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