Al Gore has sought to inject fresh momentum into the Copenhagen build-up, saying he is certain Barack Obama will attend and predicting a rise in civil disobedience against fossil-fuel polluters unless drastic action is taken over global warming.
Amid increasing incidents of climate protesters disrupting the operations of fossil-fuel industries and airports in Britain and elsewhere, Gore suggests the scale of the emergency means non-violent lawbreaking is justified. “Civil disobedience has an honourable history, and when the urgency and moral clarity cross a certain threshold, then I think that civil disobedience is quite understandable, and it has a role to play,” he says. “And I expect that it will increase, no question about it.”In his only UK newspaper interview to mark the publication of his new book, entitled Our Choice, Gore says it is crucial for Obama to attend Copenhagen in person, adding: “I feel certain that he will.”
I’m by no means a man made climate change sceptic, and I fervently believe that dissent is the essence of a democracy, but isn’t Gore essentially calling for revolution? I’m uneasy about this guy’s motives.
Did you know that if we stop all human activity from producing CO2 for 30 years, we maybe, MAYBE able to cool the planet by 1 degree C. And while we do this, you cannot burn wood to get warm or cook food.
Any level of cuts we will push, costing trillions of dollars, we have an impact on the climate that will be less than the precision of the measurements we can do on the global temperature inside 100 years.
Climate changes are REAL, we simply need to adapt. Like I explain on my blog, we may have 50-100 years of warm climate before we jump into another little ice age.
So if you want you grand kids no to freeze to death and be able grow food, we need to start thinking now about the future and adapt.
Following Goracle and his plan, will do nothing to help. It will only consume more fossil fuels and plunge humanity faster into another dark age.
Funny how a quick search shows none
of the U.S. MSM has bothered to pick up this story..
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-this just means the CIA will be “making a few rucus crowds” soon to create “Gore the Prophet and his merry band of lemmings”
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OR..the new script handed to the media instructs that he no longer
exists.
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the people that still believe anything
this man says should be neutered, -or at least be smacked in the back of the head every morning when they first wake up, -for a month.
-then educated about how space “weather” effects the earth it’s weather, -and your mood.
Oh, and maybe told what sunspots are and how they effect *everything*
..Every planet in the system is heating up..
..Cycles.
oh and that NASA doesn’t know J…
-and, and, and..
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Hotter summers? Colder winters? Check the earth’s precession. But I’m sure that will not make you richer ‘cuase you won’t have the carbon credit excuse anymore.
On a more realistic twist, all this talk from Algore and the greenies about saving the planet is extremely deceptive. Imagined dangers 50 to 100 years away – what is that?
A bit closer to home – with Iran getting ready to launch the world into a nuclear age of fire and destruction maybe the world’s priories are a bit out of phase IF saving the planet is the true goal.
Dr Dodd – I’ve said it before, if Iran goes nuclear, global warming is solved!
#25 Great angle. I think nuclear program development should create a huge carbon footprint, yet I haven’t seen Gore saying a peep about this. Is it because he cannot get carbon offsets from that?
#25-Animby
You got that right. Bet we can even break out the weenies and marshmallows.
# 12 does a fair job summing up Gore and his ilk. They have the carbon footprint of a small city but everybody else is supposed to sacrifice while he makes a profit off it.
#15 Um you seem to have missed a few things.
With Iran about to go nuclear the odds are decent that in a few years we’ll have a nice little nuclear war with lots of fallout. That should do wonders to reduce the carbon footprint of humans.
And people thought the Obama policies in the middle east were mere mindless stalling. He has a plan to save the planet and is going forward with it. He just didn’t tell the public what it was.
Of course I could be wrong about that because he seems to take both sides on a lot of issues depending on the audience and I find him as transparent as asphalt or at least he tries to be. I think people are getting a lot better at reading him.