Al Gore Praises Wine Industry, Mentions Sequel To An Inconvenient Truth

[RestoreGore]

http://www.decanter.com/news/181457.html
Excerpt:

Climate change: Al Gore praises wine industry
February 19, 2008
Maggie Rosen

snip;

'To those who are in your industry and not participating in this meeting, I would like you to deliver a message: they really must respond to this crisis. It is here now and it is growing.'

Gore emphasised the importance of monetising carbon dioxide via national taxes, caps and tradeable emissions credit instruments.

'We are not currently putting a price on the horrible destruction that carbon is causing,' he said.

'The things we measure get more attention than the things we don't measure. So C02 has historically been treated as irrelevant.'

Gore said he could not think of any industry that 'stands out as a hero in this crisis'. While deriding the coal, oil and auto industries for their general lack of coalescence, he said there were individual countries and companies worthy of praise.

He singled out Norway for imposing a carbon tax on oil and gas companies operating within its waters, and BP for its carbon capture and storage programme in the Salah gas fields in Algeria.

'Once we accept the challenge of the crisis and that it must be solved, we have to summon the poltical will to change it,' he said.

'It means bringing about change in every industry – I wish every industry was doing what you are – I wish the auto and oil industries would do more, and more quickly.'

Gore said there would soon be a sequel to his climate change documentary film 'A Convenient Truth'.

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Mr. Gore gave the keynote to this conference via satellite from Kentucky... he praised the wine industry's attempts to address Co2 emissions and to green their industry which is already seeing the affects of climate change in Europe. He also reportedly mentioned that there would be a sequel to An Inconvenient Truth. If true that is great news, and I hope he is in this as well showing us all how we can be the solution to the climate crisis.

Also, kudos as well to the wine industry for aggressively addressing their Co2 emissions. I just hope that sequestration is not their final solution but just a transition to actually lowering emissions to begin with. Whether you put it in the air or bury it under the ground it is still there. The key is to lower output initially, so I hope more industries look to doing that.... of course, that will not happen seriously until a price is put on carbon and consumers and investors begin to aggressively demand that from businesses.

But wow, a sequel to AIT? I sure hope so. I can't wait!

[shain from kane]

1. Sequel? You mean he's still whining? n/t

[crispini]

3. .

:eyes:

You sure you're at the right website? Maybe you meant to go here:

http://www.rushlimbaugh.com

[Spoonman]

7. Maybe you should try this link

http://www.generationim.com/

Generation is based in London, with its U.S. offices in Washington, DC. The firm will manage the assets of institutional investors such as pension funds, foundations and endowments, as well as those of select high net worth individuals.* Generation expects to make extensive use of long-term performance based fees.

* like Al Gore

Gore's company, (he's the founder and CEO), GIM was specifically established to take financial advantage of the Global Warming concern of the world.
Can an individual who stands to make millions from Global Warming really be trusted as an honest broker on that topic?

What's the difference between war profiteering and this? NONE!!!!!!

[Kolesar]

8. they don't trade on insider-knowledge or arrange crony-contracts like Halliburton, do they?

:peace:

[tinrobot]

4. He said wine, not whine.

n/t

[crispini]

2. I'll kick that!

And recommended, too. Good news about the sequel.

[RestoreGore]

10. yes. Too bad they let people from free republic post here though

[phantom power]

5. IT2: Oh Fucking Hell -- coming to theaters this August

[Kolesar]

6. I start the happy talk after I have finished a glass too!

then the morning comes

[XemaSab]

9. Fuck the wine industry

They cut down heritage oaks to make a buck. Vineyards are biological deserts.

[NNadir]

11. I probably don't want to know the answer to this question but...

...what is the status of the California Oak?

There was some kind of disease ravaging them last time I looked.

One of the most beautiful moments of my entire life involved the Oak Grove on the hills of Pfeiffer Big Sur State Park. You had to hike about an hour to get to them and these giant branches swept from about ten meters up back to the ground.

I think of those oaks often - this was 1985 - and I cannot bear to think that they are dead.

[XemaSab]

12. Sudden oak death has hit a lot of trees on the north coast

it looks like it's down as far south as Monterey, including in Big Sur.

I don't think it's as bad as people were originally thinking it was going to be. There are areas of trees that have been pretty hammered, but there are still large chunks of forest that are doing okay.

Healthy oak trees aren't as hard hit as stressed oak trees. A lot of oaks in the state are overcrowded due to fire suppression, and in some areas baby oaks aren't regenerating.

Oaks in some areas are protected under the environmental laws here, but the laws aren't always strong enough.

A major irritation and annoyance to me is cutting down oaks for vineyards or housing. There's still a lot of oak habitat in the state, but especially in the foothills I wonder how much will be left in 20 years. :(

Thanks for asking! :hi:

[NNadir]

13. Well it's nice to know that some groves are surviving.

I hope that grove that means so much to me is among them.

I have this photograph of my wife - it was before we married - in that grove that is, I think, the most wonderful picture ever taken of her.

Whenever I hear of a new disease striking trees, I shutter, because of the thing with the American Chestnut, which is one of the most awful environmental disasters ever to strike the Eastern United States, if not the most tragic environmental disaster to strike the US, this side of climate change.

The situation with the elms was pretty damn bad too.

Here in the east, our oak forest is being supplanted by red maples. I'm not sure why it's happening, but it's noticeable.