Posted on 09/23/2013 1:36:24 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Al Gore: ‘There needs to be a political price' for climate 'denial’ By Ben Geman - 09/23/13 02:20 PM ET
Former vice president Al Gore on Monday called for making climate change "denial" a taboo in society.
“Within the market system we have to put a price on carbon, and within the political system, we have to put a price on denial,” Gore said at the Social Good Summit New York City.
“It is simply not acceptable for major companies to mimic the unethical strategy of the tobacco companies in presenting blatantly false information in order to protect a business model,” Gore added, alleging that’s what some oil and coal companies are doing. “There needs to be a political price for denial.”
Gore last week cheered the Environmental Protection Agency’s draft rule to set emissions limits for future power plants, calling it an “important step forward.”
But the former vice president has called for a more sweeping policy to impose a cost on carbon emissions; Gore has called for a “revenue neutral” carbon tax.
He urged attendees to challenge denial of climate change in conversations in families and communities and elsewhere. “We can win this conversation and winning a conversation can make all the difference,” Gore said. “Don’t let denial go unchallenged.”
Gore noted how racism and later homophobia have become increasingly unacceptable.
He pointed to news accounts of an instance in which two gay men were subjected to anti-gay insults by another customer in line at an Ohio pizza spot.
The other people in line and the employees uniformly condemned the insult, according to reports. A January New York Daily News account is here.
Gore reiterated his view that “we are at a political tipping point” on climate, citing high-profile extreme weather events in recent years such as Hurricane Sandy.
“I think we are right at a political tipping point, because people are hearing from their parents and grandparents and elders that it has never been like this before. These are new weather and climate conditions,” Gore said at the event.
The multi-issue Social Good Summit is hosted by Mashable, the United Nations Foundation and others.
Wow “unethical strategy of the tobacco companies”, this from the Gore tobacco family, who made their bones growing the stuff?
Yes... that is how you say it and yes al is one! :-)
His family made their fortune on tobacco, and influence peddling.
If there’s going to be a political price for corporate actions, let it begin with him.
I think politicians should be personally liable for their public policy decisions. You think that would be either fair, or popular?
He’s harmless. Every couple of years he has to appear in public to exercise his groin muscle.
That price should be called “Victory!”
His 20K+ square foot mansion in Tennessee paid for by the global warming nuts must need some more lighting. He is looking for suckers to toss a few bucks his way. He needs to be put out of business for fraud.
For some. More, they like to compare it to denying the holocaust.
This is part of a plan I read about recently. They seek to take legitimate issues and stop all debate by making the people who would disagree objects of derision.
They do the same with religious believers.
All because of a now obvious scam.
Ahh, but the global warming that’s... that’s where I had them. They laughed at me and made jokes but I proved beyond the shadow of a doubt and with... geometric logic... that global warming DID exist, and I’d have produced that evidence if the temperatures hadn’t started going down. I, I, I know now they were only trying to protect some fellow climate deniers...
And there needs to be a criminal price for fraud. Right al?
Gore noted how racism and later homophobia have become increasingly unacceptable.
Let us make promoting the lie of man made global warming/climate change/leprechaun heating/disruptification increasingly unacceptable.
A few years ago I tried to coin the phrase “global alarming” but it sadly never caught on :)
The tipping point happened when you said that there was a “consensus”. A few people noticed that you were a liar when you said that it's “millions of degrees” beneath the Earth's surface on Conan's show. It's only 10,000 degrees on the surface of the Sun.
Al gore should have a restraining order if he comes within 500 yards of the word “Science”.
Scientists all over the world had their BS detectors go off at a setting of eleven.
Few believe the lie any more, al. Go and sell swampland in Florida, or try and get a new immigrant to purchase the Brooklyn bridge from you. Stop beating the dead horse.
It's as if the Wizard of Oz was 8 hours long and the last 5 and a half hours the Wizard was trying to convince everyone that he wasn't the man behind the curtain.
How about if algore gives all the money back and apologizes for lying.
Al Gore is a big fat idiot, thank god Bush stole the presidency from him!
Hell yea.. It's you goina get ya re-elected.. Ha!
We are payable a terrible price Al. It’s you.
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