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Yahoo!Al Gore wants an electricity superhighway.
"The new grid will be so much more efficient," he told an audience of America's corporate high and mighty at the Wall Street Journal’s ECO:nomics conference today at Bacara. Following a morning presentation by T. Boone Pickens about America's increasing inability to move toward energy independence, Gore lobbied for an imaginative nano-optimism. When faced with two hostile energy scientists during the Q&A session that was part of his on-stage conversation, Gore roared like a Nobel laureate.
Some highlights:
* After offering a detailed analysis of the divide separating homeowners from lenders, Gore claimed that "conflicts of incentive can be fixed."
* Commenting on Pickens’ plan to achieve energy independence, Gore went global, saying, "U.S. confusion in the debate about goals started with Nixon, who began this pursuit of energy independence. In a global market and ecosystem, we have found a purely national idea of energy independence to be a chimera."
* When asked about how the U.S. economy should retool, Gore spoke about how a company that made the bolts for the Golden Gate now makes windmills.
* On the stimulus plan, Gore said that a "synchronized global stimulus in aggregate will create green jobs for a green world."
* Two consecutive critics of Gore's priority on reducing carbon dioxide emissions brought out his passionate side. To one he said, "Climate comes first. Health depends on stable microbial populations and climate change disrupts this. Ticks come to Canada when you have global warming." When another man asked, "What do we get from controlling CO2?" Gore said, "We get to save human civilization as we know it, and the conditions for life on the planet. How is that?"
* When the second question brought another attack on CO2 as a top priority, Gore said that the "approach is misleading. It's not 'either or.' There is an 80 percent chance that north polar icecap will be gone during the summer within five years. Do we want to explain that to our kids?"
Toward the end of his discussion, Gore explained, "We have what we need right now except political will, but in the U.S., political will is a renewable resource." It was a stellar performance by the new king of green.
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Here's a quote from an EdHat reader:
"That is as green as it gets! Why did they not do a teleconfrence? Gore represents the "do as I say not as I do" government. How much has traveling around the world hurt the environment. If you look hard enough you can see a direct correlation between Gore's speaking engagements and global warming."
How do we get Hot Air Al to shut up???
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osotoh (anonymous profile)
March 6, 2009 at 8:46 a.m. (Suggest removal)
We are being hoodwinked by these eco-elitists and their crazy carbon dioxide theories. If our country finally started living up to protecting the private property rights of everyone, not just the polluting corporations, then this would protect the environment and we would stop polluting toxic chemicals. In other words, the laws against polluting have been on the books, in fact in our constitution, since the inception of this country. However, as a Republican candidate for President in 2008 has said (Ron Paul!), corporations during the industrial revolution colluded with government and eroded private property rights so that they could pollute their toxic chemicals into our environment.
Forget about carbon dioxide. It is a distraction, and besides global warming is a myth anyway. It is a distraction for those concerned about the environment so that they focus less on the toxic chemicals that industries are polluting and focus on... CARBON DIOXIDE which happens to be air that feeds plants and trees!! I mean, this seems like common sense, but if you do your own research you will find that Al Gore and his global warmning theories are complete nonsense. The icecaps are melting on one side, but are being created at least at the same pace on the other side. Scientists have used ice cores to measure the temperatures of the last few hundred years, and we are not in a hot spell by a long shot. In fact we're in a cool spell still. The medieval warming period was quite a bit hotter and the ocean was not at higher levels during that time. The earth has it's own regulation processes that even Al Gore doesn't understand.
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March 6, 2009 at 9:57 a.m. (Suggest removal)
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