Al Gore Appointed International Advisor

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Al Gore to advise Gordon Brown on climate change

MICHAEL SETTLE and CATHERINE MacLEOD October 30 2006

Gordon Brown will today announce that Al Gore, the former US Vice-President, has agreed to become his international adviser on climate change. The appointment of the leading Democrat politician, who has won worldwide acclaim for his film, An Inconvenient Truth, on the dangers of global warming, follows that earlier this year of Alan Greenspan, the former chairman of the US Federal Reserve, as the Chancellor's international economic adviser. It comes as Sir Nicholas Stern this morning issues a dire warning of the devastating economic consequences if the world fails to act decisively to meet the environmental challenge.

http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/73261.html
More at the link

Looks like many people had the same idea I did ;-). Congratulations, Mr. Gore.

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1. A Shame People Don't Really Seem To Care

This to me along with many threads posted on many forums proves somewhat that people seem to not really care about Mr. Gore's environmental endeavors. If I had written just one line in this post, "Gore/_______08 without any thought behind it this would have made the front page. However, because it is announcing that he was made an international advisor regarding climate change (which is a big thing) it doesn't seem worth responding to.

I read an article yesterday where it was noted that North America isn't even close to being energy efficient yet, and that on the whole we here have a long way to go. And since we are the ones putting most of the global warning pollution in the atmosphere and the effects of that are already being felt in our world elsewhere by those less fortunate than we are, we have a moral obligation to step up to the plate now before that 10-15 year window closes.

There is nothing more important than stepping up to that plate now. But in this article it was also stated that politcians and people really do not understand the urgency of this crisis, which tells me that Mr. Gore and others who are spreading this truth have a 24 hour seven day job just trying to do that!

And while there are some groups in this country and a few thousand people working to change how business is done in order to hopefully mitigate the effects of our destrutive behavior in time, it still does not seem to have reached the level of urgency in this country that it needs to reach. As one of those who does understand the urgency, all I know is that it better reach that level soon.

This is why I am very excited for Mr. Gore regarding this appointment and any appointment he gets regarding this issue, because he understands the urgency and that this is a moral issue that requires all of us doing our part now, which means a fire has to be lit under people's asses to move, and that doesn't mean just posting 'run al run' everyday.

Will it have to take part of the Greenland or Arctic ice shelf falling into the ocean or some other catastrophe to make people see the urgency of what we are doing here and how important Mr. Gore's contributions to this are now in lighting that fire on a moral level? Or is that simply too much to expect on a "political" forum?

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2. Here's a chance to show that we care

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=115x70433

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3. For Anyone Interested:

http://progressivesforgore.blogspot.com/2006/10/al-gore-appointed-international.html

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4. I still want him to run in '08 for president, BUT

It is likely that this position of International Adviser on Climate Change will give Mr. Gore a much broader reach in influencing international policies re: climate change than the Presidency could.

We need a leader right now, and he's it. In the interests of dealing with global warming, worldwide, I guess I'm willing to give up my dream of a Gore presidency.

Well, at least for now. :)