Al Gore likens fight against climate change to battle with Nazis

[stephanie]

good gawd, call in the men in the white coats, please..the Bore is still a Bore..and a nutjob..


(Adrian Sherratt/The Times)
Al Gore: we have everything we need except political will

Ben Webster, Environment Editor and Robin Pagnamenta, Energy Editor
Al Gore today compared the battle against climate change with the struggle against the Nazis.

The former US Vice President said the world lacked the political will to act and invoked the spirit of Winston Churchill by encouraging leaders to unite their nations to fight climate change.

He also accused politicians around the world of exploiting ignorance about the dangers of global warming to avoid difficult decisions.

Speaking in Oxford at the Smith School World Forum on Enterprise and the Environment, sponsored by The Times, Mr Gore said: “Winston Churchill aroused this nation in heroic fashion to save civilisation in World War II.”

He added: “We have everything we need except political will but political will is a renewable resource.”

Mr Gore admitted that it was difficult to persuade the public that the threat from climate change was as urgent as the threat from Nazi Germany.

“The level of awareness and concern among populations has not crossed the threshold where political leaders feel that they must change.

“The only way politicians will act is if awareness raises to a level to make them feel that it’s a necessity.”

Mr Gore, who brought the issues around climate change to a mass audience with the 2006 documentary An Inconvenient Truth, said the great hope for the future lay in a high level of environmental awareness among young people.

He said sceptics who refused to believe dramatic cuts in carbon emissions could be delivered should consider the example of the young scientists in the NASA team which put a man on the moon on 1969.

the rest here..
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article6658672.ece

[Insein]

Its funny how close to accurate he is. Except in reverse. Nazi's tend to silence opposition with the guise that action is imminently needed or else 'bad things will happen.' That way when people realize that nothing bad happened, the policy is already through and we're on to a new strawman.

[red states rule]

I swear, if Gore can get himself rich with all this moonbat, chicken-little "sky is falling" crap, I'm gonna invent some liberal global emergency to sell to the left.

First I must lay the foundation by getting some street cred with the liberals. Hmmm, maybe I'll start a thread and trash Sarah Palin's name....yep, that should score me some points with the birkenstock crowd.

Maybe Gore will press Obama to spend a few trillion to fix the real cause of "climate change". If Obama could turn off the sun for just one day - the issue of "climate change" would go away, and more important, Gore and his global warming believers would vanish.

[actsnoblemartin]

are you fricking serious?

:lol:


good gawd, call in the men in the white coats, please..the Bore is still a Bore..and a nutjob..


(Adrian Sherratt/The Times)
Al Gore: we have everything we need except political will

Ben Webster, Environment Editor and Robin Pagnamenta, Energy Editor
Al Gore today compared the battle against climate change with the struggle against the Nazis.

The former US Vice President said the world lacked the political will to act and invoked the spirit of Winston Churchill by encouraging leaders to unite their nations to fight climate change.

He also accused politicians around the world of exploiting ignorance about the dangers of global warming to avoid difficult decisions.

Speaking in Oxford at the Smith School World Forum on Enterprise and the Environment, sponsored by The Times, Mr Gore said: “Winston Churchill aroused this nation in heroic fashion to save civilisation in World War II.”

He added: “We have everything we need except political will but political will is a renewable resource.”

Mr Gore admitted that it was difficult to persuade the public that the threat from climate change was as urgent as the threat from Nazi Germany.

“The level of awareness and concern among populations has not crossed the threshold where political leaders feel that they must change.

“The only way politicians will act is if awareness raises to a level to make them feel that it’s a necessity.”

Mr Gore, who brought the issues around climate change to a mass audience with the 2006 documentary An Inconvenient Truth, said the great hope for the future lay in a high level of environmental awareness among young people.

He said sceptics who refused to believe dramatic cuts in carbon emissions could be delivered should consider the example of the young scientists in the NASA team which put a man on the moon on 1969.

the rest here..
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article6658672.ece