From the new Wired
Al Gore? Five and a half years after leaving the political stage, only the fourth man in US history to win the popular vote for president without being inaugurated, Gore has deftly remade himself from an object of pity into a fearless environmental crusader. The new Gore is bent on fixing what he calls the “climate crisis” through a combination of public awareness, federal action, and good old-fashioned capitalism. He’s traveling the globe, delivering a slide show that, by his own estimate, he’s given more than a thousand times over the years. His one-man campaign is chronicled in a new documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, which made Gore the unlikely darling of the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year and will be released on May 26 by Paramount Classics. He has also written a forthcoming companion volume of the same name, his first book on the subject since the 1992 campaign tome Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit.
Along the way, Gore has become a neo-green entrepreneur, taking his messianic faith in the power of technology to stop global warming and applying it to an ecofriendly investment firm. The company, Generation Investment Management, which he cofounded nearly two years ago, puts money into businesses that are positioned to capitalize on the carbon-constrained economy Gore and his partners see coming in the near future.
Pedro,
When do you have time to be a “People Dr?” Most of the “people Dr;s” I know dont’ spend an inordinate amount of time in the blogosphere; have 15 minutes a patient; and 2 minutes in between.
Other than that, Al Gore is a good man who I would be proud to support as the Democratic nominee. I’d hope, however, that he would have learned from the lessons of 2000.
I guarantee you this. Al Gore would not be sporting a 32% approval rating.
And, after all, he did beat “King George” in 2000.
JK
In a Prius, I hope.
hehehe, the “unlikely darling of the sundance film festival”
Unlikely….ha!
What lefty hollywood type doesn’t like Algore?
What a wonderful propaganda piece THAT is….
(Please run for president, please run for president,please run for president!)
Whatever happened to the Separation of Church and State?
Pedro, you’re wrong about the whole cinema deal.
Sundance is very, very different from hollywood. The standard Hollywood studio films are extremely conventional, and while occassionally a good one comes out, the standard lately has been to make uncreative sequels and remakes. Films shown at Sundance are usually produced by non-Hollywood studios and are more offbeat and less conventional. Still, they often end up being successful (can someone correct me on this: was Napoleon Dynamite screened at Sundance?)
Of course, if you want to have the whole attitude of “them talking pictures are all devil stuff promoted by them godless liburls”, go ahead!
Don t you worry about my practice JK& ..no problems here& .”"
Classic.
Well, he got more votes than the Republican candidate the last time he ran.
Don’t you worry about my practice JK…..no problems here….
I would support Algore for the democratic nominee too!
As usual, all the right can do is throw bombs at someone who at least has the vision to speak up for their beliefs. That’s because their boy in the whitehouse is sitting at 32% in the polls because the American people have figured that “his ideas” either suck are they are created to make someone else rich off the government.
His plan (besides a little token technology bullshit) is chiefly removing more environmental regulations and drilling in ANWR (while letting the oil companies sell whatever they want overseas) then sticking the taxpayers with the cleanup bill everytime they make a mess! With his “plan” the oil companies will make even more money while the price of gas continues to spiral out of control.
He says “The prices we are paying at the pump reflect our addiction to oil”. I guess that means it’s all the American people’s fault! He and his neocon buddies in congress have blocked any new CAFE standards, claiming it would cost American jobs. Hello?? What does he think these gas prices are going to do?
He has ruled out taxing excess profits of the oil companies. I guess that’s so they can pay thier executives even more money and give them retirement bonuses in excess of $400 MILLION.
Congress and past presidents have known this was coming for a long time. And whenever somone brought the issue of energy conservation up it was demagugued by the right as “costing jobs” and “government interference” in private industry. Neither party has had the political will to actually do something about it.
So whatever Al Gore can do, whether its making a movie or whatever that will wake people up is OK by me.
couple of interesting points…
I am aware of what they screen at Sundance. I would likely agree the movies are better than the average hollywood dreck, but, the same Hollywood leftist liberals show up and act like their usual asshat selves. How do I know? (At the risk of more guffaws that I am making this up..) my wife is a VP at a major studio.
So Ollie, you are backing a big run by Algore then? He’s your man this time around?
Bushwacked you did a great job summing up the whole “sky is falling” environmental movement with “who at least has the vision to speak up for their beliefs”
See, this is about BELIEFS you toothless yahoo. This is about SCIENCE. I don’t give a rats rectum what you “believe”, and I don’t care if that hurts your “self esteem”. Algore is making a living out of his slide show, so it behooves him to continue to hock his particular form of weird bullshit pseudoscience.
Cindy Sheehan was in Hilo, Hawaii, where I live, yesterday. When questioned as to whom she would support for President, she said that she could not go along with Hillary for the various reasons we all know. Hillary Clinton’s collusion with the Bush administration has tainted her.
Cindy said she wished there were a woman she could support, which set off encouraging shouts from the audience that SHE should run, but she smiled and said, “Why not Al Gore? He won in 2000, and he could do it again.” I would like to see him run again. I was angry at him then, but now I know it was my fault and the fault of people like me that he lost. We thought we needed to back Ralph Nader. What piffle on our part.
Anyway, I sure hope he gets the nomination and the presidency in 2008.
And before we get into the obligatory “and besides, Gore believes in all that global warming mumbo-jumbo”, may I suggest that all and sundry check out the NOVA broadcast from last week, Dimming the Sun? Some of the most powerful summations of the latest climatological research and one of the most frightening things I’ve seen in a long time… well, at least since Seymour Hersh’s article on Bush’s plans to nuke Iran.
yea I thought you would like that one…
Pedro, you have the cure for cancer, don’t you? Keerist.
And still, Pedro thinks it’s the height of wit to deploy “Bush Derangement Syndrome” Keep whipping that froth, dude! Pseudoscience, Pseudoscience, OI OI OI!!
Yeah, that’ll bring prices down! Corporations never pass along costs to the consumer. Please define the profit percentage that equals “excessive” (5%, 10%, 15%, 20%…which is it?) and does this “excessive” definition apply to all businesses?
Pedro,
You nailed it with Sundance remark. Gee, filmakers honoring a rabid environmentalist. Now who would believe that! Next thing you’ll be telling me is that have made a bunch of cooked-the-books corny enviro-disaster movies.
Enact code*&^. And I really think you are wrong about AlGore running , Pedro. Our secret Rovian polls say he would be a shoo-in to beat any Republican candidate. Our greatest fear is the the Dems will discover this and RUN BIG AL AGAIN. Really, really hope that doesn’t happen (that is, that the Democrats RUN BIG AL AGAIN) – since he would a shoo-in to win. Yep, a lead pipe cinch, if Democrats RUN BIG AL AGAIN. BTW, this last part of the post is in a special code so that progressives can’t read it. Got it from Mary Mapes’ document specialist. We wouldn’t want progressives to discover that their key to success is to RUN BIG AL AGAIN. deenact code %$#
Dugger, Thank You, I’ll be here all week and Special Thanks to Mary Mapes Document Specialist without whom the secret part of this post, wherein we talk about how successful it would be for Democrats to RUN BIG AL AGAIN, would not have been possible.
Yes, the decrease in pollution (damn that Bush) is allowing more sunlight, and therefore heat, to reach Earth. Pollution is bad…except when it is good.
Let’s see, Gore embraces technology and free market practices to grow his vision of enviro friendly businesses and the right hates him! JWG says he’s a scientist and pedro says he physician and yet neither can seem to embrace the view that the vast majority of scientists have in global warming. What a group of right wing thinkers you have here OW.
Funniest thing I’ve read all day. Thanks for the lift!
Since I am not a patient of yours, I’m not worried about your practice, Pedro.
Be careful with Al Gore…you may get what you wish for.
>>You see, Intelligent Design is Sound Science, while Global Warming is Pseudoscience.
LOL. (Can feel the heat coming off of Pedro’s head as I type this.)
And Dugger…you contiue to be dumb, and you continue to not make sense. Particularly, your second paragraph. Perhaps Pedro can up your meds.
JK
Thank you JK. My mind eases a little. See, I was afraid you guys would get the message that the pathway to progressive utopia is to RUN BIG AL AGAIN. But evidently, the message to RUN BIG AL AGAIN did not get through the Mapes decoder.
Dugger, Sure Hope they don’t RUN BIG AL AGAIN
You see, Intelligent Design is Sound Science, while Global Warming is Pseudoscience. The only good schools are bible colleges, and the ivy league is full of liars. The only scientists you can trust are the ones who do not work for NOAA or NASA, but who work for corporate-funded lobbying firms.
Yup. I bet a friend of mine that it wouldn’t be long before the wingnuts start arguing that “This proves you environmentalist wackos were wrong, air pollution is good!”
The point, you ignorant git, is that particulate pollution’s dimming effect masks the heating from increased greenhouse gases. Which means, in short, that the greenhouse effect may in fact be even stronger than any of the extant models predict. While wingnuts seem to be quite happy with the Hobson’s choice of lung cancer from dirty particulate pollution vs. coastal flooding/drought/species extinction due to long term warming, some of the rest of us would like our children to have a chance to live in at least as good a world as we had when we started.
And by the way, what does Bush have to do with the decrease in pollution? The cleaner air due to lower emissions in industrialized countries over the last 2 decades is due to the implementation of a number of technologies from catalytic converters to smokestack scrubbers from well before Bush was in office. Which is a good thing, because there’s no way any of these things would have been deployed on Bush’s watch because of the unconscionable interference with almighty free market/pie-in-the-sky environtalism, yadda yadda yadda.
Another perfect example of the inability of some people to comprehend what they read.
Point to anything I have ever said in any thread that claims global warming (or more specifically, climate change) is not occuring. Additionally, point to anything I have said that claims man has no role in the current situation.
ID is crap, and our current understanding of the anthropogenic effects on climate change is not as certain as many people like to pretend (which does not mean it’s not “likely”).
JWG – I see. So your posts are just more examples of attacking the man, in this case Al Gore, without addressing the message or points he’s trying to make?
I was making a sarcastic joke. Obviously, pollution is bad. Lighten up, Francis.
In this case, I made a comment about Gore driving a Prius around the world (in reference to the article) and decreasing pollution making the Earth heat up more (in reference to a comment). Like I stated to Reinhard…lighten up, Francis.
1) I think pollution is bad, even if cleaner air lets in more light.
2) I think we should be concerned about how we may be affecting the climate.
3) Is everyone happy?
Are you not able to list even one helpful environmental accomplishment under the Bush administration?
Reinhart
I’m glad someone else saw that NOVA too.
Just got my WIRED last night. haven’t read the article yet.
duros – I like puppies too. My dog, a yellow lab and former breeder for Guide Dogs for the Blind had 33 of them in her breeding “career”.
JWG
Are you not able to list even one helpful environmental accomplishment under the Bush administration?
Can you?
Dave, it seems pretty clear that whatevr you are in favor of, the right will oppose it sight unseen. If Christ arrived tomorrow and declared his candidacy for President as a Democrat, they would still oppose.
I am still in favor of puppies. No one on the right has declared.
JWG – I’m glad you straightened that out. But I wonder… you post three negative missives about Gore and respond to me and my interpretation by implication of those posts, “Another perfect example of the inability of some people to comprehend what they read.” But yet I (and Reinhart) are supposed to lighten up? Good to know how that works for some people.
Can you [list even one helpful environmental accomplishment under the Bush administration?]
One
Okay. That’s one. From today. Guys’ been in office for how long?
Puppies shit all over the place. I m against them.
There you go, I rest my case.
Post #1) Gore driving a Prius
Post #2) Taxes won’t lower prices…Please define “excessive” profits
Post #3) Response to Dimming the Sun: “Pollution is bad& except when it is good.”
What was that about reading comprehension again? Only one of my posts was in reference to Gore…and it was a bad joke concerning Gore traveling the world. My second post was a legitimate point with a good question (and remains unanswered). And I would have thought the irony of decreased pollution raising temperatures would have been obvious (dark humor…if I may make a bad pun).
One
There are others, but I understand how some people can never see any positive actions by their political rivals.
Al Gore has already achieved his quest: To be a whiny bore with a broom up his ass, trying to pretend he’s a powerful person, because he didn’t a chance to “Play President on TV.”
Puppies shit all over the place. I’m against them.
Settling two pollution suits, one of which was brought under the Clinton administration, while simultaneously moving to ease pollution regulatons for aging power plants? We’re setting the bar high I see.
Jesus, if Cheney doesn’t shoot anybody else in the face for the rest of his term can we chalk that up as the administration’s contribution to national gun safety?
peedro
Stick to Clenis and Monica, you know a hell of a lot more about that than you do environmental issues, which is zero.
Puppies are great, I like them with barbeque sauce….LOL (I have a greater swiss mountain dog…)
But I want to know what PETA would think about Dave’s puppy mill, and the obvious pet abuse of forcing his bitch to have 33 puppies!
hell I think PETA are crackpots….but most of them are leftist democrats so I don’t have to deal with them much.
I ALWAYS choose the rights of humans over animals….
Hey Pedro – talk to Guide Dogs for the Blind. She was their dog at the time. My late girlfriend (who died of cancer – maybe you could make that cancer cure public it would have been nice) was her keeper. Now I have her. I suppose they could take the guides from the blind folks using them if it makes you feel better.
Speaking of crackpots, I’m afraid Al Gore has gone mad. He is unfortunately trashing his credibility by his new movie. It makes a mountain out of a mole hill. There is scientific evidence to prove that global warming isn’t a serious issue…if it even exists at all. I worry about a leader that doesn’t get all of the information before running with what they have.
“I worry about a leader that doesn t get all of the information before running with what they have.”
Holy keerist I hope this is satire.
There is scientific evidence to prove that global warming isn t a serious issue& if it even exists at all.
Most of the evidence supports global warming and you only need to look at the changes in Alaska’s glaciers to see that.
This picture is from Alaska’s Glacier Bay in 1941:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object/article?o=4&f=/c/a/2004/12/17/MNGARADH401.DTL
Same place 53 years later (2004):
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object/article?o=5&f=/c/a/2004/12/17/MNGARADH401.DTL
I worry about a leader that doesn t get all of the information before running with what they have.
I guess you are really concerned about Bush’s rush to war in Iraq then.
I worry about a leader that doesn t get all of the information before running with what they have.
Oh, sweet, sweet irony.
NYC 1888
http://www.vny.cuny.edu/Search/search_res_image.php?id=337
NYC 2006
http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3068/740/1600/Blizzard%207.jpg
Looks the same to me…
I’m reminded of a story:
This underclassman comes home from class, and tells his rommate, “I heard today the sun is going to explode in 8 million years!”
His rommate panics, runs around scooping up his belongings, and grabs a suitcase, packing his clothes, yelling, “I’m gettin’ out of here!”
The underclassman says,”Did I say ‘million’? I meant ‘billion’.
The roommate drops everything, and says, “Oh… OK”
Do Democrats want to win? The way to do it is to push environmentalism and to get behind Gore. Most of us in this country would like a future, and Gore thinks about the future.
Most of us in this country would like a future
And that future can only come to pass, if there’s a Democratic in the White House?
Now, there’s a campaign slogan — “If you want to live, vote for Gore!”