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World will agree new climate deal, says Al Gore
The Guardian ^ | March 14, 2009

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."

(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: capandtrade; enrongore; goreenron
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1 posted on 03/14/2009 2:29:48 PM PDT by Shermy
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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.

2 posted on 03/14/2009 2:31:27 PM PDT by Shermy ("The whole world has financed the United States, ...they have a reciprocal debt with the planet.")
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To: Shermy
James Lovelock labels Europe's carbon trading scheme a 'scam'
3 posted on 03/14/2009 2:32:19 PM PDT by Shermy ("The whole world has financed the United States, ...they have a reciprocal debt with the planet.")
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To: Shermy

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.


4 posted on 03/14/2009 2:33:23 PM PDT by JudgemAll (control freaks, their world & their problem with my gun and my protecting my private party)
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To: Shermy
A regressive tax on carbon worldwide, when 60% of the world lives on less than $1 per day?

Please.

We ALL know who will pay, if anyone.

Al's a moron.

5 posted on 03/14/2009 2:34:18 PM PDT by Mikey_1962 (Obama: The Affirmative Action President)
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To: Shermy

He just cant stop flapping his fat decadent face can he?


6 posted on 03/14/2009 2:36:08 PM PDT by mylife ( The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: Shermy

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.


7 posted on 03/14/2009 2:39:55 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine (Is /sarc really necessary?)
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To: Pearls Before Swine

Isn’t there some expert out there who can shut this idiot up once and for all with nothing else but the simple facts?


8 posted on 03/14/2009 2:40:42 PM PDT by curth ( http://www.conservatives4palin.com/)
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To: Shermy

Algore is sounding more and more like a cross between Elmer
Gantry, Sister Aimee, and Marjoe.


9 posted on 03/14/2009 2:40:48 PM PDT by EggsAckley ("The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.")
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To: Shermy

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.


10 posted on 03/14/2009 2:41:02 PM PDT by Vaquero ( "an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: Shermy
In case you’re wondering why Algore requires such a large aircraft, it’s because he takes his ego with him wherever he goes.

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11 posted on 03/14/2009 2:41:31 PM PDT by Dick Bachert
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Dear Al,

The Rainmaker was only a movie.

Get a job.


12 posted on 03/14/2009 2:41:47 PM PDT by This_far
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To: EggsAckley

elmer fudd is more like it.


13 posted on 03/14/2009 2:42:33 PM PDT by Vaquero ( "an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: Shermy; Horusra; Delacon; CygnusXI; Entrepreneur; Defendingliberty; WL-law; Genesis defender; ...
 




Beam me to Planet Gore !

14 posted on 03/14/2009 2:42:46 PM PDT by steelyourfaith (Yo, Washingtonians, the American people called. They DEMAND their country back.)
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To: Shermy
Oh, I am certain all of the Third World Countries and those to whom our Manufacturing and many of our Service Sector jobs are being exported to would definitely agree - That is if they are excused from any compliance.

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.

15 posted on 03/14/2009 2:43:39 PM PDT by TCats
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He’s a lunatic. Hardly an original comment but that doesn’t make it any less true.


16 posted on 03/14/2009 2:44:58 PM PDT by Nipfan (The desire to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it - H L Mencken)
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To: curth

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.


17 posted on 03/14/2009 2:45:14 PM PDT by max americana
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To: Shermy

Of course the gummits want it, they want the tax Trillions it represents.

Pray for America, Our Troops and obama’s Failure


18 posted on 03/14/2009 2:45:21 PM PDT by bray (Welcome to the USSA!)
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To: Shermy

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.


19 posted on 03/14/2009 2:46:37 PM PDT by Argus (We've gone downtown to Clown Town, and that's where we'll be living from now on..)
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To: Shermy

AL is a MORON.


20 posted on 03/14/2009 2:46:44 PM PDT by VRWC For Truth (Throw the bums out who vote yes on the bail out)
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