Al Gore: Stand With Me In Bali

[RestoreGore]

Received from Nobel Laureate Gore:

Dear Friend,

In Bali, Indonesia thousands of delegates from nearly 190 countries have gathered at the UN Conference on Climate Change. In ten days, I will address the conference to urge the adoption of a visionary new treaty to address global warming and I want to bring your voices with me.

Click here to sign my petition today and I will bring your signatures on stage with me as a clear demonstration of our resolve: http://climateprotect.org/standwithal

Together, we will call on the US government to assume a new leadership role in solving the climate crisis.

World leaders including British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, French President Nicolas Sarkozy, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and newly elected Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd have all agreed to aggressively battle the climate crisis - yet our country still lags behind.

Over the next ten days, I would like you to help me get people from across the country to sign our message to the global community. We can demonstrate that the American people understand the immediacy of the climate crisis and want to work with the nations of the world to solve it. Time is short - we need to mobilize everyone to bring this message to Bali:

http://climateprotect.org/standwithal

The American people want a visionary treaty to address climate change and for the US government to play a positive leadership role in its development.

Thank you,

Al Gore

P.S.After signing the petition, please urge your friends and family to sign the petition and join the movement. http://climateprotect.org/standwithal
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I stand with Al and ask that you stand with him in Bali as well. Please pass this on so he has many signatures to carry onto that stage with him in Bali. This is our moment to save our planet. With Al Gore leading the way, I am so very hopeful we will be successful.

Thank you.

[Cha]

1. I got mine, too..

I just haven't gotten to read it yet and "stand by" him.

[hedda_foil]

2. Done! K&R

[RestoreGore]

3. Thank you

[NNadir]

4. Do we all have to go to Bali? Can't some of us just stay home?

I understand policy makers and scientists travelling to Bali, but I'm rather tired of yuppie affectations on this matter.

Climate petitions at this point, don't amount to very much.

It's over, basically, except for the bulk of the dying.

If every single person on this planet lived on 2000 watts of continuous average power, the world would still consume over 400 exajoules of energy.

Even though Cambodians consume about 20 watts of power, world average power consumption is about 2400 watts and rising.

Americans, who have no clue about how to cut their power demands to one sixth of the current output, which is close to 12,000 watts, now seem to think that signing petitions will make them all better.

Fuggettaboutit.

As for the "Al Gore will save us" mentality, we all used to hope for such a thing. But if you think about it, if your doctor comes to you and diagnoses lung cancer, he may be a good doctor, but chances are that he has almost no clue about how to cure your cancer. Diagnosis is a very, very, very different thing than a cure.

That Al Gore has diagnosed the implications of climate change means zero, absolutely zero, about whether he has a clue about can be done about it. I suspect that he has no idea about what to do.

Ditto, one hundred percent of the Presidential candidates from both parties.

[RestoreGore]

7. I don't care what you do

And thank God all of us aren't as negative and pissy as you are or we would really be screwed.

[diane in sf]

12. well said

[earth mom]

11. Gore could have made the changes necessary as Prez. I'm disappointed, but I give him the benefit of

the doubt. I'll wait and see what he will do next before I throw in the towel on him.

As for the rest of the candidates...well you are probably right about them. I have seen little talk about Global Warming from any of them, and it should be of major importance to all of them.

But to be fair, your gloom & doom post really isn't so far off really because time is of the essence and we are really no further along with this than a year ago. :argh:

[diane in sf]

5. Done from my email, thanks.

It is past time to deal with global warming. This will not only help to save our coastal cities and prevent worldwide famine (of course no guarantees--change at this point is probably inevitable), it will also ensure a large amount of local jobs and wealth if we do it through generating renewable energy: efficiency, wind, tides and solar, not toxic nukes and coal.

Only people as dumb and psychopathic as the unelected George Bush and his neocon friends could ever oppose setting new standards to work to ensure humanity's survival.

[RestoreGore]

8. Thanks

Yes, we need caps on GHGs and we need to see real progress regarding generating renewable energy and bringing more innovative technologies and thinking into all we do, and that includes everything from how we drive and what we drive to how we construct buildings and work to conserve the resources we have. I do hope this will lead to a global treaty that includes the US and China and that we can truly work to mitigate where it is still possible, and adapt where it is necessary.

[razzleberry]

6. what does AG want?

I'm kinda tired of the
'trust me, sign this blank check' story.

just my opinion,
but the (hoped for) coming of the electric car,
is a lot more important that the
phoney 'carbon offset BS' being peddled
by certain ex-politicians that shall
remain nameless.

[RestoreGore]

9. Good.Then tell him that

[YankeyMCC]

10. Done

I hope it helps