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Jon Stewart Interview With Al Gore for His Book, 'Our Choice'[Extended Version, Canada]


Environment  (tags: Al Gore, climate-change, globalwarming, government )

Janet
- 47 days ago - watch.thecomedynetwork.ca
In this complete, unedited interview, Al Gore says we have all the tools to solve the global warming crisis except for political will.
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Janet Solomon (249)
Thursday November 5, 2009, 7:38 am
as I am unable to get the US version [being in Canada]--I can't even get the URL!!--if you're in the good ol' USA, it's located at this site:
Al Gore and Jon Stewart on Global Warming
Namaste!
 

Judy Cross (84)
Friday November 6, 2009, 6:09 pm
Stewart didn't go anywhere important.

Gore conflict of interest publicised

Buried deep in a Newsweek profile of Al Gore's new book is an accusation that staff of the world's 'first carbon billionaire' tried to get a scientist to stay silent on a promising new method of combating the effects of CO2, because it would undermine support for carbon trading markets and tough emissions legislation.

The devastating new claim is in this paragraph of the Newsweek story:

"If we feed the biology and manage grasslands appropriately, we could sequester as much carbon as we emit," says Timothy LaSalle, CEO of the Rodale Institute, who presented at two summits. The political clash is this: if you tell people soils can be managed to suck up lots of our carbon emissions, it sounds like a get-out-of-jail-free card, and could decrease what little enthusiasm there is for reducing those emissions—as one of Gore's assistants told LaSalle in asking him to dial down his estimate.

Given Gore's heavy investment in carbon trading, and his instrumental role in supporting the political sledgehammer to usher the new regime in at Copenhagen, the question has to be asked whether Gore's people truly want CO2 neutralised, or whether they merely want to enjoy the money and power associated with appearing to combat it.

Gore has been fighting a rearguard action to quell growing media cynicism, after comments by Marc Morano's Climate Depot hit the front page of the New York Times this week
http://briefingroom.typepad.com/the_briefing_room/2009/11/gore-conflict-of-interest-publicised.html
 

Chris Otahal (460)
Saturday November 7, 2009, 7:00 am
Judy and the same denialist prapaganda (cut-and-pasted over and over again by the blind parrot) - the denialists really FEAR this man and the work he has done to call for ACTION
 
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