Gore unveils $300 million warming campaign

[IDemo]

Former vice president calls for U.S. to reduce greenhouse emissions

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23881040/

MSNBC staff and news service reports
updated 2 minutes ago

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Nobel prize winner and former Vice President Al Gore launched a three-year, $300 million advocacy campaign calling for the United States to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions.

The "We" campaign by Gore's Alliance for Climate Protection will combine advertising and online organizing with grassroots groups. It is aimed at educating the public about global warming and urging solutions from elected officials.

"This climate crisis is so interwoven with habits and patterns that are so entrenched, the elected officials in both parties are going to be timid about enacting the bold changes that are needed until there is a change in the public's sense of urgency in addressing this crisis," Gore told The Washington Post.

Gore said the campaign will be funded, in part, from all his profits from the Oscar-winning documentary "An Inconvenient Truth" and its companion book, his salary from the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers, and his $750,000 share of 2007 Nobel Peace Prize cash award.

Gore reiterated his intention of staying out of the presidential race and asked DU'ers to cease and desist bringing up the topic every 12th post.

OK, I added that last line myself.

[melody]

1. Great post, though I would add

>Gore reiterated his intention of staying out of the presidential race and asked DU'ers to cease and desist bringing up the topic >every 12th post.

Too bad, Al. ;)

[panader0]

2. Three Hundred Million!!!

Hell, that would almost pay for ONE F'ING DAY IN IRAQ!!!

[TheDonkey]

3. I do not know how goofy ads with Sharpton and Pat Robertson is going to get anything done

sorry but that is how I feel. Seems that money could be used to invest in green technology or funding green minded candidates.

[IDemo]

5. Gingrich --- argues that conservatives are natural environmentalists

Hmmmmm.........B&^%s#@*t!

[Mike03]

4. Thank Christ he inaugerated this program to signal that he has his own passions, and that

the Presidency is not one of them.

There's no quicker way to ruin and destroy Al Gore than to force the Presidency upon him. It would be no win situation; he could accomplish what the maniacs here expect of him, and he would lose his focus on the things he CAN do, like attend to the dire matter of Global Warming.