Al Gore Discusses Carbon Taxes, Detroit Bailout And The Dangers Of Illusion

Newsweek:

Former Vice President Al Gore--now a Nobel Prize winner and the world's most prominent environmentalist--isn't looking for another job in Washington. But his eloquent warnings about the dangers of global climate change have obviously helped shape the priorities of the incoming Obama administration. Gore sat down with NEWSWEEK's Fareed Zakaria recently to talk about a bailout for Detroit, the greening of China and the elusive promise of "clean coal." Excerpts:

ZAKARIA: Would you bail out the carmakers?
GORE: Whatever assistance might be forthcoming should be focused on speeding the changes that are absolutely essential to ensure that our companies are competitive in the global marketplace. When I was vice president, I initiated a program called the Partnership for a New Generation of Vehicles. The federal government invested over a billion dollars in partnership with the Big Three to focus on the accelerated development of advanced high-efficiency vehicles. But as soon as they felt they were off the hook at the end of 2000, they pulled the plug and walked away.

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Comments

[johnnyjust]

Environmental issues always seem to have at their base a hatred of people.

[HillaryClinton4Prez]

Theres hope for the auto industry in a bailout. Interesting recipe for fixing the industry: http://digg.com/autos/TheCarConnection_com_s_Plan_to_Fix_Detroit. Why does everyone have to be such a fatalist.

[1manisland]

Time to go out and find a new job Al . Don't you think !

[JEP57]

With all due respect to vice president Gore, If we're in the "crisis" we're told were in, it would be nice to lead by example. No more flying in jets, move to a five room ranch house with solar panels, drive around in a diesel bus converted to run on used cooking oil, etc. Why are "we" told to do these things but the ones leading the charge keep living a lavish energy consumption lifestyle.

[leevntheus]

How about this example:
I replaced all detergents and chemicals used by my service company with certified green elements. I fired all the workers and reduced the size of my company that I spent 20 years building by 90% back to mom and pop so that I could just live off past customers and referrals. This reduced my overall footprint but still left me with nearly same year end profits.

Then, at age 45, I enrolled in college FULL TIME for a BS in Renewable Energy Engineering, began a 14 month certification for Lobbying, and personal instruction of Brazilian Portuguese.

My home is controlled by a low voltage central command system, heated by waste, no cooling, composts all bio mass, and will have Honda Natural Gas Hydrogen Power Station installed by 2011 to power my fuel cell car.

So there.

[leevntheus]

Besides, everyone knows that the temperature and CO2 here is manipulated PURPOSEFULLY by the colonialist alien lifeforms that have taken over our institutions, intent on enslaving us to their intergalalctic empire.

[whosyourdaddy]

Good grief! I thought I was the only one who knew this.

[AngieMom57]

Hello, I knew it too.

[leevntheus]

The Exploiters baseline rationalization is, "THIS happens to earth all the time and it always rebounds with life!!" So get off our case and let us rape it and pollute it until there is no life so it can start again. Wow , what a vision for our gradchildren and great grandchildren.

Do you knuckledragging flat earthers understand the MAGNITUDE of the exponential increase in population and the SPEED at which we are shoving our planet into oblivion?

And why...oh, why...since there ARE alternatives...that work right NOW....do flat earthers still cling to ancient industry and exploitation?

They want their portfolio to last through their retirement.

sH!TB@GS.

[leevntheus]

you are just an Illuminati­/Rothschil­d propogandistic co- conspirato­r...donchy­a know?

LOL

millions of cars...hundreds of thousands of jets....tens of thousands of energy plants....tens of thousands of manufacturing plants...millions of tons of pollutants - many of forms not ever conjured up by the Planet...ALL....ALL chugging away every second..every minute...d­ay..year..­.

changing a razor thin atmosphere that hangs on the thinnest of threads capable of sustaining our life form

Humans are the single stupidest form of animal on this planet

[Purobi]

Thank you and please keep on talking. We are breeding so rapidly that it is getting more than scary. Without a population policy everywhere, including in the USA we have no future for our grandchildren.

[jsarets]

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The uncertainty in climate science is all the more reason to address greenhouse gas emissions.

We know for a fact that human industry has substantially altered the balance of carbon dioxide and oxygen in the atmosphere. We know that the Industrial Revolution is responsible for the vast majority of the corresponding spike in atmospheric CO2 concentration. We know that, while CO2 concentrations have been as high as they are today at times during the pre-human history of the planet, we have no evidence that the atmosphere has ever changed this rapidly in the absence of a geological catastrophe such as meteor collisions or volcanic eruptions.

In short, we know that humans are directly responsible for a geologically unprecedented rate of change in the composition of the atmosphere and oceans. We know that the molecular balance of these bodies is crucial to Earth's life-supporting ecosystems. What we don't know to any high level of certainty is just how our civilization's undeniably dramatic affect on this delicate balance will affect these ecosystems and what challenges these changes will pose for humanity.

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[jsarets]

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Climate change is sort of like the financial crisis. We know we really did a number of our economy. Despite years of warnings from the periphery, "we" didn't see this coming, but now we're into something big, and it keeps defying the conventional wisdom by getting bigger. But we really don't just how bad it will get, how it will effect the economy in the long-term, or how best to operate the financial industry going forward.

How many climate deniers suggest that we continue unregulated derivatives trading? After all, our foremost experts admit they don't completely understand the dynamic interactions of these complex instruments in the financial markets. We could be making a big deal out of nothing. And regulating the derivatives trade will make credit more scarce and expensive, "hurting" the economy. So we should just adapt, right?

[MyTake]

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Gore never even changed his light bulbs or went solar. His electricity consumption at his mansion kept going up year after year while he was collecting his prize.

Now back when the Bush thug said, in his second State of the Union speech, that a child born today would be driving a pollution free hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicle in 20 years time. How come he knows about hydrogen fuel cells and Obama doesn’t! Well, just 6 years later, Honda has the technology ready to go, but the American oil cartel don’t wanna install hydrogen gas pumps on their service station lots, go figure!

Oh, did I mention that the Rockefeller syndicate still controls the U.S. oil cartel, not by stocks, but by who is assigned CEO along with board membership appointments.

So, I say put Gore in a hydrogen powered boat (they build them in Germany), send him up to the Artic region and let him count the polar bear population. While he is up there, let’s release the Hydrogen and Hemp economies which will eliminate carbon pollution and allow the trees to remain alive and standing in order to do there job absorbing the carbon molecules and regulate some surface temperatures.

But you will have to take to the streets and mass protest first which is something the satiated Americans tend not to do.

[MyTake]

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Ah, the man with only 4 words in his vocabulary; Global Warming and Climate Change. Now if he had just 4 other words in that vocabulary; Hydrogen Economy and the Hemp Economy, one might have minor sympathy of the man.

Few understand what gave rise to Gore and his polar bear pics and phony hockey stick graph.

The combined Rothschild­/Rockefell­er syndicates, in the 90's, dispatched one of their agents, Maurice Strong, to set up/run the Earth Summits in Brazil. This scam initiative was a front from the get-go. Behind the scenes, this was design to introduce global taxation using a carbon tax and secondly to enable Rothschild controlled international banks to profit from handling the international scale of cap & trade financial transactions.

So Strong moved over to the UN, as a adviser to Anon, and laid the groundwork for the climate change scare, the administrative framework for carbon taxation and tried to sign up governments to buy the global cap & trade scam. But they needed a “big name” guy to try and sell this scam, so they trot out Gore and arm him with his pics, hockey stick graphs, a documentary, a peace prize, corporate media cover and a bunch of pre-programmed propaganda.

[BSERIUS]

Al Gore discusses???? A discussion needs some one to discuss with Al and his sci fi Ganggreen gang have yet to discuss with any who have the audacity to opine in dissent.. Say john Coleman???

[shockmagog]

'Meteorologists are not required to take a course in climate change, this is not part of the NOAA/NWS [National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administra­tion/Natio­nal Weather Service] certification requirements, so university programs don’t require the course (even if they offer it). So we have been educating generations of meteorologists who know nothing at all about climate change.'
http://climateprogress.org/2007/11/14/are-meteorologists-climate-experts/

In other words, "we know the Earth is a sphere--and now for an opposing viewpoint..."

[DrDemon]

Acknowledge The Danger Of Not Acknowledging The Dangers!

[Jezuswazademocrat]

so in the last decade:

terrorism will destroy the world
the financial meltdown will destroy the world
global warming will destroy the world

lets tax the worlds military's. Im sure those missiles and cluster bombs produce some carbon emissions.

[naturallight]

RELAX !! I am suprised your hysteria is not muted by the article at the top of the page about "ocean current harvestiong" for electricity, See no more coal fired power plants...it's all good now! Bring the hummer's and other civilian tanks back to the showroom.



Maybe there is no debate about global warming. There is mucho debate about MANMADE global warming. like, how did man make the SOLAR FLARES go away? How did man make the last ice age stop? How did man make the last ice age begin? Why were the poles tropical and have a fossil record to rival the freaking amazon?

Seriously al gore. Does he address these issues? or is he just trying to sell more WORTHLESS CFL bulbs that have to be replaced monthly you know, if you actually USE them?

[shockmagog]

We use CFL bulbs in our home and our condominium complex. They save a lot of money and last a year to several years, depending on hours of use. Sometimes you can buy 2 for a dollar at the 99 cent store.

The rest of your post makes no sense. Please rephrase and re-post.