Gore Launches $300 Million Climate Change Initiative

Huffington Post   |   March 30, 2008 10:07 PM


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Former Vice President Al Gore is set to unveil a three-year, $300 million climate change campaign Wednesday, one of the most ambitious and costly public advocacy campaigns in U.S. history, the Washington Post's Juliet Eilperin reports:

The Alliance for Climate Protection's "we" campaign will employ online organizing and television advertisements on shows ranging from "American Idol" to "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart." It highlights the extent to which Americans' growing awareness of global warming has yet to translate into national policy changes, Gore said in an hour-long phone interview last week. He said the campaign, which Gore is helping to fund, was undertaken in large part because of his fear that U.S. lawmakers are unwilling to curb the human-generated emissions linked to climate change.


"This climate crisis is so interwoven with habits and patterns that are so entrenched, the elected officials in both parties are going to be timid about enacting the bold changes that are needed until there is a change in the public's sense of urgency in addressing this crisis," Gore said. "I've tried everything else I know to try. The way to solve this crisis is to change the way the public thinks about it."

Private contributors have already donated or committed half the money needed to fund the entire campaign, he said. While Gore declined to quantify his contribution to the effort, he has devoted all his proceeds from the Oscar-winning documentary "An Inconvenient Truth," the best-selling companion book, his salary from the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers and several international prizes, such as the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, which add up to more than a $2.7 million. Paramount Classics, the documentary's distributor, has pledged 5 percent of the film's profits to the group, and some of the money raised through the 2007 Live Earth concerts will help the campaign, along with Gore's proceeds from an upcoming book on climate change.

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Watch the new "we" campaign from the Alliance For Climate Protection:

Gore also made news over the weekend discussing the 2008 election cycle. Speaking to 60 Minutes' Lesley Stahl on Sunday, former Vice President Al Gore said that Democratic presidential candidates Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are courting his endorsement. And many Democrats are looking to the former standard-bearer to help end the increasingly bitter Democratic primary fight. But Gore said "I'm not applying for the job of broker." Watch the exchange below:

Gore also touched on other subjects in his interview with Stahl.

Watch the former Vice President discuss the Supreme Court decision that handed George W. Bush the presidency:

Gore on those who don't believe in global warming:

And Gore also answered whether he would be running for another office in the future:

Click here to read Stahl's entire interview with Gore.



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"What Al Gore has set out to do is what scientists are not very good at - raising public awareness and instigating political action that would lead to remedies of the impending danger to all life. As such, there is no higher morality than preservation, continuation and betterment of all life on our planet. There is no higher or nobler cause. We should be thankful to Al Gore for his dedication to a cause that would not just improve conditions on our planet for us, but for generations to come."
~~HumeSkeptic

You stated this so eloquently, Hume. I am in complete agreement and appreciate that you've posted other comments re: Keeling, scientific research and evidence, and facts. With dedicated people like you, Mr. Gore, the IPCC and other notable environmental groups, we may stand a chance of halting, then reversing the damage we humans have done.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 01:57 PM on 04/03/2008

I see censorship is alive and well hear on HuffPo.

All of my comments earlier in the day were deleted.

It's nice to know that liberals don't believe in free speech, they only believe in free "liberal speech".

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 10:04 PM on 03/31/2008

i would personally like to thank the huffpo censors who were on duty sometime between last night and this afternoon for censoring and scrubbing EVERY single comment i made to this thread in the wee hours of the morning. my comments concerned the high cost of energy, the fact that the energy industry commits illegal acts daily in order to fix prices, something they are specifically forbidden to do by law. evidence of this was presented to the public a couple of years ago in the form of a memo between conoco phillips and bp that was leaked to the press by someone inside the companies. my comments were germane to the topic that was being discussed by those of us who were awake at that hour, contained no profanity, and what is more, appeared to have been accepted at that time -after- having been vetted once by the "moderators," because they did in fact appear on this thread. i abided by every one of the rules, went through the process of "this comment is pending approval and won't be displayed until it is approved," saw my comments put up on the thread, and now today it is as though they never existed. some of the comments related to mine have also vanished into thin air.

what on earth made them decide to simply take them away today is a complete mystery. but then, blatant censorship doesn't require logic or fairness, now does it?

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 05:49 PM on 03/31/2008

Welcome to the club of the censored.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 09:39 PM on 04/01/2008

It's pathetic what they have done to this place.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 06:50 PM on 03/31/2008

Another thing - a let's see how long this comment lasts - whoever is doing the deleting has a DEFINITE agenda. This place must be a cesspool of spooks, because any time I call out Clinton, Gore, Paulson, whomever, on nefarious doings unacknowledged by the MSM - poof! away they go!

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 12:01 PM on 04/01/2008

AMEN. I don't know what angers me more: Refusing to allow a perfectly reasonable and/or well-sourced comment, or deleting it after the fact.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 11:58 AM on 04/01/2008

It is nice to see that you are still alive. I have tried calling you. I thought we were friends. I am very saddened because I have been only left to wonder if you are a typical internet fake. I noted that you were still posting here after you moved, but yet you made no connect with me. Why is that?

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 06:40 PM on 03/31/2008

Instead of this high flying glossy alleged "climate change campaign" Gore should go to Kansas and post his position in agreement with the Kansas Governor regarding stopping a 1,000 megawatt coal fired facility from being constructed. He should do the same regarding Iatan II in Missouri and any proposals for new coal fired plants. The $300 million climate change campaign would have more impact if aimed at specific future coal plants

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 05:24 PM on 03/31/2008

Notice to the censors on Huffpo: These threads become awfully boring once all the interesting stuff is deleted, leaving the brats to post their inane "nyah nyahs" at each other. I see perhaps 5 constructive comments here. What happened to the others?

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 05:01 PM on 03/31/2008

only the shadow knows........

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 05:50 PM on 03/31/2008

http://www.lindafrum.com/NewsDetail.aspx?newsid=74


Linda Frum
National Post
http://www.lindafrum.com/NewsDetail.aspx?newsid=74

Saturday, April 21, 2007

This Earth Day, Professor Richard Lindzen, an atmospheric physicist and the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology at MIT, wants you to calm down. The Earth, he says, is in good shape." . . A leading critic on the theory of man-made global warming, Professor Lindzen has developed a reputation as America's anti-doom-andgloom scientist. And he's not, he says, as lonely as you might think.

(etc etc, too long to post here but I loved the last part)

Q What do you find to be the attitude among your MIT undergraduates on global warming?

A I find that they realize they don't know enough to reach judgments. They all realize that Gore's book was a sham. They appreciate that Michael Crichton at least included references.

Q That's encouraging. Because I find the indoctrination at schools to be pretty relentless. On a recent Grade 7 test my daughter was asked something to the effect of, "How are you going to educate your parents about global warming?"

A I know. It's straight out of Hitlerjugend.

Q Having said that, are there any behaviours we should be changing, as a society, in order to protect our planet?

A Yes. We should learn math and physics so we don't get fooled by this idiocy.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 04:57 PM on 03/31/2008

The "National Post"?!????

.....please.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 05:00 PM on 03/31/2008

The quotes are from atmospheric physicist and the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology at MIT. Are you suggesting this man doesn't know what he's talking about? Who cares if it's the National Post?

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 11:57 AM on 04/01/2008

Did all the liberals here check in with master soros and get the talking points for the day?

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 03:17 PM on 03/31/2008

Lowering the bar again?

Pisspoor, you are.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 03:22 PM on 03/31/2008

The bar was lowered when Hollywood bigshots like soros started funding vile hate filled websites like moveon.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 03:33 PM on 03/31/2008

Soros is not a Hollywood big shot. He is an investor and speculator.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 03:45 PM on 03/31/2008

Hollywood big shots? LOL! Do you even know who Soros is?

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 03:43 PM on 03/31/2008

Don't confuse the poor thing.... he's just getting all of his talking points mixed up.

Pity.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 04:48 PM on 03/31/2008

All hail the great Goracle

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 02:49 PM on 03/31/2008

Everyone hear that thinks this is the first time the earth has warmed like this is a fool. The earths climate goes in cycles. Anyone here ever read about the ice age?????????? What is gore's plan?
Is he going to keep the earth at a stable temperature for the rest of this planets life?? This is a rediculous politically driven joke.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 02:18 PM on 03/31/2008

redisright, you are absolutely correct, but completely missing the point.

Yes, the Earth has been warming for the last 10,000 years. GRADUALLY warming. That is perfectly natural.

But when that same warming takes place in a hundred years, that's not natural. That's what we're doing, speeding up the warming 100 times faster than normal.

When you increase something 100 times, you don't just make it larger, you completely change the nature of the thing. Six inches of rain might cause some minor flooding, but take 60 inches and you've got wide spread disaster. Six hundred inches and you better have Noah's Ark on hand.

Driving though the school zone at 10 MPH is perfectly safe, but speeding though at 100 is extremely reckless. It's not even possible to drive at 1000, but if you could, it would not be good.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 02:22 AM on 04/01/2008

Another idiot trying to play scientist.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 02:29 PM on 03/31/2008

And assertions are not arguments.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 04:35 PM on 03/31/2008

Neither are tomes by Arthur Robinson.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 05:14 PM on 03/31/2008

Honestly. Apparently a fool is someone who realizes that explanations and solutions are not always simple.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 02:39 PM on 03/31/2008

seriously, please don't reproduce.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 02:37 PM on 03/31/2008

If we could stop Republicans from reproducing we would have a chance of raising the average IQ in America.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 03:31 PM on 03/31/2008

If Democrats could learn how to reproduce without aborting their babies, maybe we all could benefit from your vaunted intellects.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 03:38 PM on 03/31/2008

LOL Democrats figured out what contraception was for, when Republicans were still wondering if they can get someone pregnant by swimming in the same pool.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 03:49 PM on 03/31/2008

Having a hard time coming up with a smart retort, bunky?

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 03:14 PM on 03/31/2008

I think your a closet conservative. You yearn for reality.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 03:19 PM on 03/31/2008

It's "you're".

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 03:20 PM on 03/31/2008

srry, I don't take time to edit my blogs. Is that ok with you. Are you the blog grammar police? What pride you must have.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 03:24 PM on 03/31/2008

You apparently don't take too much time to THINK about your "blogs" either.

BTW.... they're "comments' on a thread.... NOT "blogs".

Moron.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 03:28 PM on 03/31/2008

my apologies mr. policeman. I have taken the time to read some of your posts on here. All negative attacks. No substance whatsoever. Have a mirror?