Bush snubs Gore's global warming film

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Bush snubs Gore's global warming film

Former VP shoots back, offers to host viewing at White House

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Is President Bush likely to see Al Gore's documentary about global warming?

"Doubt it," Bush said coolly Monday.

But Bush should watch it, Gore shot back. In fact, the former Democratic vice president offered to come to the White House any time, any day to show Bush either his documentary or a slide show on global warming that he's shown more than 1,000 times around the world.

"The entire global scientific community has a consensus on the question that human beings are responsible for global warming, and he has today again expressed personal doubt that that is true," Gore said in an Associated Press interview from France, where he attended the Cannes Film Festival.

Bush and Gore have had bitter disagreements about the environment and other issues. Bush defeated Gore in a disputed presidential election that was finally settled by the Supreme Court in 2000.

Gore's documentary, "An Inconvenient Truth," chronicles his efforts to bring greater attention to the dangers of climate change.

"New technologies will change how we live and how we drive our cars, which all will have the beneficial effect of improving the environment," Bush said.

"And in my judgment we need to set aside whether or not greenhouse gases have been caused by mankind or because of natural effects and focus on the technologies that will enable us to live better lives and at the same time protect the environment."

Gore said the causes of global warming should not be ignored.

"Why should we set aside the global scientific consensus?" Gore said, his voice rising with emotion. "Is it because Exxon Mobil wants us to set it aside? Why should we set aside the conclusion of scientists in the United States, including the National Academy of Sciences, and around the world including the 11 most important national academies of science on the globe and substitute for their view the view of Exxon Mobil. Why?"

"I'm a grandfather and he's a father and this should not be a political issue," Gore said. "And he should ask the National Academy of Sciences ... whether or not human beings are contributing to global warming."

The White House said Bush already has acknowledged the impact of human behavior on global warming.

"The president noted in 2001 the increase in temperatures over the past 100 years and that the increase in greenhouse gases was due to certain extent to human activity," said White House deputy press secretary Dana Perino.

"Since then, he has committed tens of billions of dollars to the science and technology programs that he initiated and we are well on our way to meeting the president's goal of reducing greenhouse intensity by 18 percent by 2012," she said.

Gore's movie debuted at last winter's Sundance Film Festival and opens in U.S. theaters Wednesday.

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[__Kratos__]

Gore just lashing out to anybody that will listen? 18% is something towards ending those emissions, since we signed the Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate agreement.

[IronGhost]

At least Al Gore uses solid scientific facts to formulate his policies.

Bush is a luddite living in the Dark Ages. He thinks evolution is "only a theory." He thinks global warming is "unproven." He thinks God told him to invade Iraq. Bush said he believes in a powerful evil being called "Satan" is fomenting trouble on planet earth.

I tremble to think a Medevil-minded C-student like Bush has his finger on the nuclear button.

[I am me]

At least Al Gore uses solid scientific facts to formulate his policies.

Bush is a luddite living in the Dark Ages. He thinks evolution is "only a theory." He thinks global warming is "unproven." He thinks God told him to invade Iraq. Bush said he believes in a powerful evil being called "Satan" is fomenting trouble on planet earth.

I tremble to think a Medevil-minded C-student like Bush has his finger on the nuclear button.

Hate to burst your bubble but evolution is only a theory, and I am an atheist. Global warming is proven but the cause is not.

I dislike Bush probably more than you do but you are just babbling crap just like the next guy.

Al Gore stands behind a lot of statistics which can be taken anyway he wants them to be. I'd take it with a grain of salt.

[Celumnaz]

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GLOBAL WARMING ALERT: GORE BURNS 439,500 LBS OF FUEL TO ATTEND SUMMIT

"The most vulnerable part of the Earth's environment is the very thin layer

of air clinging near to the surface of the planet, that we are now so

carelessly filling with gaseous wastes that we are actually altering the

relationship between the Earth and the Sun - by trapping more solar

radiation under this growing blanket of pollution that envelops the entire

world," Vice President Gore told the U.N. Global Warming conference of 159

nations this morning in Koyto, Japan.

In what was one the most dramatic speeches in recent memory, Gore announced

to world leaders: "Whether we recognize it or not, we are now engaged in an

epic battle to right the balance of our Earth, and the tide of this battle

will turn on when the majority of people in the world become sufficiently

aroused by shared sense of urgent danger to join an all-out effort."

Applause filed the halls of the Kyoto International Conference Center. "We

must achieve a safe overall concentration level for greenhouse gases in the

Earth's atmosphere."

carbondioxidemethanenitrousoxidehydrofluorocarbonsperfluorocarbonssulfurhexa

chloride.

The message is serious. So serious in fact, the DRUDGE REPORT has

calculated that Vice President Al Gore is burning more than 439,500 pounds

of fuel, or 65,600 gallons, at a cost of more than $131,000 on his 16,000

mile daytrip, just to deliver the warning.

Now that's commitment.

Air Force II's Global Warming Express features an itinerary that takes the

vice president from Washington to Florida to Washington to Alaska to Japan

and back -- all in just 72-hours.

Saturday, December 6, 1997

9:45 a.m. Air Force II departs Andrews AFB enroute Fort Myers, Fla.

12:05 p.m. Air Force II arrives Southwest Florida Regional Airport. Gate 69-A.

2 p.m. Vice President Gore addresses the 50th Anniversary/Rededication,

Everglades Municipal Airport, Everglades National Park.

6:40 p.m. Air Force II departs Florida en route AFB.

8:35 p.m. Air Force II arrives at Andrews Air Force Base.

9:45 p.m. -- Air Force II departs Andrews Air Force Base en route Elmendorf

Air Force Base

Sunday, Dec. 7

1:15 a.m. -- Air Force II arrives Elmendorf Air Force Base, Anchorage, Alaska

2:45 a.m. -- Air Force II departs Elmendorf Air Force Base en route Osaka, Japan

Monday, Dec. 8

5 a.m. -- Air Force II arrives Osaka International Airport, Osaka Japan

11:15 p.m. -- Air Force II departs Osaka, Japan en route Elmendorf Air Force

Base

12:35 p.m. -- Air Force II arrives Elmendorf Air Force Base, Anchorage, Alaska

2:05 p.m. -- Air Force II departs Elmendorf Air Force Base en route Andrews

Air Force Base

Tuesday, Dec. 9

12:45 a.m. -- Air Force II arrives Andrews Air Force Base

----

"The extra heat which cannot escape is beginning to change the global

patterns of climate to which we are accustomed. Our fundamental challenge

now is to find out whether and how we can change the behaviors that are

causing the problem."

Gore's plane, a Boeing 707 gas guzzler burns on average 4.1 gallons a mile.

The complete Washington to Florida to Washington to Alaska to Japan and

return to Washington trip calculated from commercial air mileage tables is

just over 16,000 miles total. Gas gallons needed for AIR FORCE II to go

16,000 miles: 65,600. Applying the average price of $2.01 per gallon of

Jet A to the 16,000 mile r/t -- the fuel cost alone passes $131,000.00.

There are 6.7 pounds per gallon of jet fuel. Total pounds of fuel burned on

Gore's Global Warming Express -- 439,500.

Unprecedented Leadership.

[Reincarnated]

GLOBAL WARMING ALERT: GORE BURNS 439,500 LBS OF FUEL TO ATTEND SUMMIT

Unprecedented Leadership.

i guess he should of rode his bike instead. nothing like attacking the person rather than the issue AGAIN. its ok, its an ignorant mans escape route well traveled by in these forums.

[Celumnaz]

Connecticut River is raised 8 inches for Gore "rowboat" photo-op; "Environmentalist" Veep wastes 4 billion gallons, worth $7.1 million

WASHINGTON (July 23) - What's it take to float Vice President Al Gore's boat? 4 billion gallons of water, that's what - at a cost of more than $7.1 million. All for a good cause, however (at least according to the "environmentalist" Vice President), since it provided Gore a photo-opportunity to highlight a $100,000 grant to the Connecticut River Joint Commission.

According to The Washington Times and The Associated Press, the Secret Service and the Connecticut River Joint Commission directed Pacific Gas & Electric to unleash approximately 4 billion gallons of water yesterday into the Connecticut River so Gore's rowboat wouldn't get stuck during a 4-mile photo opportunity. The release of the 4 billion gallons from a dam upstream raised the level of the river by 8 to 10 inches, and has drawn the ire of environmental officials in the region.

"They won't release the water for the fish when we ask them to, but somehow they find themselves able to release it for a politician," said Vermont Department of Natural Resources Director John Kassel in The Times. Kassel, who accompanied Gore on the trip, said that "the only reason they did this was to make sure the Vice President's canoe didn't get stuck."

"It was a bit artificial, to be honest with you," Kassel told The Times. "But the river was pretty dry and no one wanted the canoes to be dragging on the bottom. Vice President Gore's people were concerned that we not raise the level too high, either, because they didn't want it to be dangerous."

"So much for the environmentalist Vice President," remarked Republican National Committee Chairman Jim Nicholson. Citing Gore's book, "Earth in the Balance," Nicholson recalled that Gore "once lectured us that 'increasing per capita use' of fresh water, combined with 'global climate change,' could lead to 'poverty, hunger, and disease,' 'revolutionary political disorder,' and 'wars fought over natural resources like fresh water.'" ("Earth in the Balance," pp. 111, 113, 279)

According to revised federal standards contained in the 1992 National Energy Policy Act and supported by the Clinton-Gore administration, toilets manufactured after 1994 must have a maximum capacity of 1.6 gallons. Under those standards, Nicholson jokingly noted, Gore's 4 billion gallon photo-opportunity wasted the equivalent of 2.5 billion toilet flushes, or 2,110 flushes for each of New Hampshire's 1,185,000 residents.

According to water usage rates published by the Pennichuck Water Works, Inc., which serves the region, the value of the 4 billion gallons wasted was approximately $7.1 million, Nicholson said.

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[Celumnaz]

follow the money

http://www.sepp.org/reality/greenscashin.html

http://www.pewtrusts.com/ideas/index.cfm?issue=19

http://yosemite.epa.gov/oar/globalwarming....gEPAGrants.html

http://www.law.stanford.edu/programs/acade...IsSomething.pdf

http://www.eere.energy.gov/regions/western/pdfs/airpoll.pdf

[IronGhost]

I'm a big fan of Al Gore, but there is some truth in pointing out his perhaps hypocritical behavior.

It reminds me of that story about Gandhi

I woman approaches Gandhi with her small son, and asks Gandhi to tell her son to stop eating so many sweets.

Gandhi turns to the boy and ask him if he eats too many sweets. The boy says, "Yes."

Gandhi says nothing to the boy, and tells the mother to bring him back in two weeks.

The mother is perplexed, but does so. Two weeks later, she brings the boy back to Gandhi, who promptly tells the kid: "Stop eating so many sweets!"

The woman thanks Gandhi, but is puzzled and asked why he needed the two weeks.

Gandhi said: "Two weeks ago, I ate too many sweets as well."