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Gore's Global Warming Speech Gets Icy Rebuke
CNSNEWS.com ^ | 1/16/04 | Melanie Hunter

Posted on 01/16/2004 2:50:37 AM PST by kattracks

(CNSNews.com) - Former Vice President Al Gore's speech on global warming Thursday is getting booed by a public policy research group, after the Democrat called the president a "moral coward" who abandoned the public's environmental interests to placate his financial supporters.

Gore made his speech to a crowd at New York's Beacon Theater on the coldest day in the city in decades. He said at times it seems "the Bush-Cheney administration is wholly owned by the coal, oil, utility and mining industries."

"While President Bush likes to project an image of strength and courage, the real truth is that in the presence of his large financial contributors, he is a moral coward," the former vice president said.

Gore also took the administration to task for its efforts to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling. He accused the White House of gutting environmental laws and not doing anything to prevent global warming.

But the National Center for Public Policy Research, one of Gore's many critics, said "the speech is full of demagoguery, misleading statements, formulations intended to deceive, unsupported allegations of wrongdoing and hypocrisy."

"From a scientific and environmental perspective, Al Gore's speech today should be ignored. No serious policy person could give the speech Al Gore gave today," said Amy Ridenour, the center's president.

"It is impossible to draw any conclusion other than that Gore is keeping his options open for a future presidential run, and is throwing red meat at the left-wing activist base of the Democratic Party in order to keep his presidential hopes alive," Ridenour added. "Time constraints forbid one from commenting on all the speech's inaccuracies."

Ridenour said "the science on global warming is not settled. Even the models and theories of those who support the theory disagree with one another. Climate science is too complex to be settled."

In challenging Gore's claims, she said the Democrat failed to fight for the Kyoto Protocol during the Clinton administration.

"But if Gore believes the science is settled, why didn't the Clinton-Gore Administration submit the Kyoto global warming treaty to the Senate for ratification? Gore condemns Bush for not supporting a treaty Bush believes is harmful and unnecessary -- yet Gore, holding the opposite view, didn't fight for it where it counted," Ridenour said.

Instead, she believes, Gore is using the speech as "an opportunity to troll for votes, yet he hypocritically tells his audience that those who disagree with him have been bought by industry."

"The 'bought by industry' canard is a nice applause line for politicians to use while addressing a left-wing crowd and convenient way to undermine those who sincerely disagree without actually debating the merits of the case," Ridenour added.

"For the record, there is more money available to those on Gore's politically-correct side of the global warming issue. The money and power whores tend to be with Gore. And a serious man wouldn't be afraid to seriously examine the scientific merits of the global warming case," she added.

Ridenour also pointed out that Gore "intentionally deceived his listeners by leaving the most important facts out."

"Listen to Gore and you'd suppose the Clinton-Gore administration regulated mercury emissions from power plants, while Bush eliminated or loosened the regulation," she said.

"In fact, the Clinton-Gore Administration DID NOT regulate mercury emissions from power plants, despite eight years in office. It just talked about doing so. Bush is actually doing it. Gore's actual complaint is that he would have written the rule differently. Why did he waste eight years?" Ridenour asked.

See Earlier Story:
On A Cold Day, Gore Blasts 'Global Warming'

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KEYWORDS: algore; climatechange
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To: Wright is right!
The sad thing is, they were probably striving to make him look BETTER than he really looks. Pathetic, isn't it?
41 posted on 01/16/2004 7:52:36 AM PST by mywholebodyisaweapon
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To: hellinahandcart
The Gore family is owned by the Russian commies. The Gores take second place only to the Kennedys in the corruption sweepstakes.
42 posted on 01/16/2004 7:59:22 AM PST by hgro
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To: hellinahandcart
"Can you say Riady, Al?"


Can you say Occidental Petroleum or Uncle Armand Hammer, Al?
43 posted on 01/16/2004 8:00:47 AM PST by Inwoodian
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To: kattracks
The Occidental tourist eats foot again.
44 posted on 01/16/2004 8:00:47 AM PST by ctonious
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To: kattracks
Gore is keeping his options open for a future presidential run, and is throwing red meat at the left-wing activist base

This is the reality -- he knows the Clintons will go 'moderate' for the 2008 General Election, so he is positioning himself for the left half of the Party. It will be bloody between Gore and Hitlary in '08 -- and we can't afford to let either one of them become President (esp. Hitlary).

45 posted on 01/16/2004 8:09:50 AM PST by expatpat
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To: wayoverontheright
The Democratic party is like a married man who is secretly having an affair with another woman (socialism). None of them can publicly own up to what they are really about

Nice analogy -- I may steal it.

46 posted on 01/16/2004 8:12:36 AM PST by expatpat
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To: freeangel
My husband likes Gore and wants to vote for him in 2008. Even he thought this speech made Gore look ridiculous. He thought the entire thing was very funny. But my husband, unlike many of his dem associates, has a sense of humor. And I have 4 years to work on him before the 2008 election.
47 posted on 01/16/2004 8:15:01 AM PST by twigs
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To: hgro
Gore was connected to Move.on from the start......I wonder if he brought Soros into the mix. Or that Soros bought and paid for Gore to be in the mix.
48 posted on 01/16/2004 8:28:52 AM PST by OldFriend (Always understand, even if you remain among the few)
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To: kattracks; Ace2U; Alamo-Girl; Alas; alfons; alphadog; amom; AndreaZingg; Anonymous2; ...
Rights, farms, environment ping.

Let me know if you wish to be added or removed from this list.
I don't get offended if you want to be removed.


If this is taxes with reprsentation
Give me taxes without representation
I much prefer a tax on tea!
Instead of everything else.

49 posted on 01/16/2004 10:52:57 PM PST by farmfriend ( Isaiah 55:10,11)
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To: kattracks
Gore's Global Warming Speech Gets Icy Rebuke, From God!
50 posted on 01/16/2004 10:56:06 PM PST by reg45
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To: farmfriend
BTTT!!!!!!
51 posted on 01/17/2004 3:19:41 AM PST by E.G.C.
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To: hellinahandcart
He has a hell of a sense of timing.
52 posted on 01/17/2004 5:40:53 AM PST by sauropod (Graduate, Boortz Institute for Insensitivity Training)
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To: sauropod
Well, he has a point. It's not like the Clinton administration declared the only source of clean-burning coal in the Western hemisphere to be a National Monument, off limits to mining, solely because he was in the pocket of foreign coal interests, or anything like that...
53 posted on 01/17/2004 5:47:07 AM PST by hellinahandcart
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To: hellinahandcart; AAABEST; countrydummy
Ain't nothing like a JBT in a Park Ranger hat, is there?
54 posted on 01/17/2004 5:53:06 AM PST by sauropod (Graduate, Boortz Institute for Insensitivity Training)
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To: kattracks
Hey Al, when you can win your own state in a Presidential election like every other candidate, get back with us. Until then, STFU. Even your own constituents think you're an idiot.

2000 Results:
George W. Bush Richard Cheney Republican 1,061,949 51.15%
Albert Gore Jr. Joseph Lieberman Democrat 981,720 47.28%

55 posted on 01/17/2004 6:01:33 AM PST by HighWheeler (Death is better than taxes because death doesn't get worse every year.)
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