Gore Defends
Chinese Position on Fighting Global Warming
http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/020807EC.shtml
The
Associated Press
Thursday
08 February 2007
Says
emerging economies are justified in holding back until richer polluters do
more.
Madrid
- Emerging economies such as China are justified in holding back on fighting
greenhouse gas emissions until richer polluters like the United States do more
to solve the problem, former U.S. vice-president Al Gore said Wednesday.
The
world's top climate scientists warned in a report last week global warming is
very likely caused by humanity and will last for centuries.
Chinese
officials said they will act after industrial countries such as the United
States and others make changes, Mr. Gore said, addressing a conference in
Madrid on global warming.
"They're
right in saying that. But we have to act quickly," said Mr. Gore, who was
nominated last week for a Nobel Peace Prize for his work in drawing attention
to global warming.
"China's
reaction to the scientific report last week was disappointing, but it was
instructive," Mr. Gore said.
The
United States is the world's leading emitter of greenhouse gas and has refused
to ratify the 1997 Kyoto Protocol on curbing such emissions. President George
W. Bush contended it would slow the U.S. economy intolerably and should have
required reductions by poorer but fast-growing countries, such as China and
India.
Mr.
Gore narrated an hour-long slide presentation with graphic evidence of global
warming: Antarctic ice shelves cracking and collapsing into the sea,
before-and-after shots of glaciers reduced to lakes and small patches of ice
and forecasts of heavily populated land masses such as Florida shrinking
drastically if glacial meltdown reaches a worst-case scenario and floods the
seas.
"Never
before has all of civilization been threatened," Mr. Gore said.
"We
have everything we need to save it, with the possible exception of political
will. But political will is a renewable resource."
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Al Gore Sides With China
Instead of U.S. on Global Warming
http://newsbusters.org/node/10696
Posted by
Noel
Sheppard on February 8, 2007 - 09:41.
Following in John KerryÕs
footsteps, former Vice President Al Gore was in Madrid, Spain, Wednesday
basically blaming the worldÕs problems on the country that made him a very
wealthy man.
As reported
by the Associated Press (h/t Drudge, emphasis mine throughout): ÒEmerging
economies such as China are justified in holding back on fighting greenhouse
gas emissions until richer polluters like the United States do more to solve the problem,
former Vice President Al Gore said Wednesday.Ó
Of course, Gore didnÕt
mention that one of the fastest growing economies in the world is ChinaÕs, or
that it is believed that nation has been buying twice its actual need for
oil in the past five years to stockpile it for the future. Such facts are
unimportant when youÕre trying to sell junk science.
Getting back to the
recent announcement by China blaming America for global warming:
"They're
right in saying that.
But we have to act quickly," said Gore, who was nominated last week for a
Nobel Peace Prize for his work in drawing attention to global warming.
"China's
reaction to the scientific report last week was disappointing, but it was
instructive," Gore said.
Never
mind that any cuts in emissions by America will easily be matched by increases
from China in the coming years, and that this will give that nation an even
greater economic advantage thereby increasing the trade imbalance that people
on the left like Gore claim is going to lead to a devaluation in the dollar and
our own financial ruin. That, too, is unimportant when youÕve got snake oil to
sell to an interested crowd.
But
maybe the following, in the middle of a war on terror, and just decades
after two world wars and one cold one, best represents the real absurdity in
this whole discussion. Better remove fluids, sharp objects, and combustibles
from your work area:
ÒNever
before has all of civilization been threatened," Gore said. "We have
everything we need to save it, with the possible exception of political will. But
political will is a renewable resource."
Would
somebody show me to the nearest water closet.
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