Gore's Message To Climate Change Skeptics (on 60 Minutes Sunday "You're talking about Dick Cheney")

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/03/27/60minutes/main3974389.shtml

Tells 60 Minutes That Doubting Global Warming Is Manmade Is Akin To Believing Earth Is Flat

(CBS) Self-avowed "P.R. agent for the planet" Al Gore says those who still doubt that global warming is caused by man - among them, Vice President Dick Cheney - are acting like the fringe groups who think the 1969 moon landing never really happened, or who once believed the world is flat.

The former vice president and former presidential candidate talks to 60 Minutes correspondent Lesley Stahl in an interview to be broadcast this Sunday, March 30, at 7 p.m. ET/PT.

Confronted by Stahl with the fact some prominent people, including the nation’s vice president, are not convinced that global warming is manmade, Gore responds: "You're talking about Dick Cheney. I think that those people are in such a tiny, tiny minority now with their point of view, they’re almost like the ones who still believe that the moon landing was staged in a movie lot in Arizona and those who believe the world is flat,” says Gore. "That demeans them a little bit, but it's not that far off," he tells Stahl.

Gore’s campaign to make the world more aware of man’s role in global warming won him the Nobel Peace Prize last year. He donated the $750,000 prize money to The Alliance for Climate Protection, the non-profit he started to help him on his quest. He and his wife, Tipper, tell Stahl they not only matched the Nobel money with their own, but they are also donating to the organization the significant profits from his book and Oscar-winning documentary film about global warming, "An Inconvenient Truth." The funds will help The Alliance for Climate Protection execute a new $300 million ad campaign on global warming set to start next week.


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[Kurovski]

1. K&R#5. (nt)

[superkia]

2. I cant wait until they get their global carbon tax like they want, that...

way the corporations can pass the cost right on down to us and put us all farther into poverty.

[kestrel91316]

3. Corporations can't pass a carbon tax on to you unless you

buy their product(s). I am 100% in favor of end-users paying for carbon emissions.

You could always opt out of buying so much crap. Most Americans buy too much stuff, anyway.

See "The Story of Stuff".

[superkia]

5. I have seen "the story of stuff" and thought it was very interesting...

and true. Even if I didn't buy as much of this useless stuff (which I don't cuz I'm broke and pay for my mothers medical expenses as they come because we cant afford insurance for her) I still would be driving to work and I would think that things related to autos would be hit with an increase. Food and gas being the main ones I use, I think the last thing I bought myself was a cordless phone and that was about two years ago. I spend most of my money on necessities and when I need certain things, the local salvation army has some great deals.

I took someones advice from here on DU and bought a water purifier due to our water issues here, to do away with the disposable bottles and that has been a blessing. I doubted it would take care of the chemical smells and taste but it did, I cant say I wont die from cancer or something else from the water but at least it smells and tastes good.

I would have liked to have seen our politicians and media work on wind and solar instead of focusing on a carbon tax. The carbon tax wont cut down on the problem, in my opinion, the companies will still pollute and again pass the cost on to consumers. The carbon tax is being sold to us by saying that they are going after the bad guy companies and thats just not the case.

If there were truly a serious cause of concern to these politicians and media types, they would have pushed wind and solar but have not. Their corporate friends could have made a killing on a new industry but instead worry about keeping fuel costs up and pimping global warming for a carbon tax. Something just doesn't seem right to me?

[kestrel91316]

6. I favor a carbon tax as apparently the only thing that MIGHT get

people to conserve, or at least think before they generate CO2.

[gear_head]

4. voluntary poverty, going to be a tough sell

especially when the peddlers
are rather well to do.

[eppur_se_muova]

7. Gore is still too much of a 'gentleman' to make the obvious point ...

that DDDDDick knows as well as anyone that GW is real. Continued dumping of GHG's is profitable for DDDDDick and cronies, so they argue that it doesn't hurt anyone, knowing FULL WELL it's a damned lie. They're not fools enough to believe it, but they know lots of voters/consumers (whatever the difference is) are.