bonnie Posted October 12, 2009 Posted October 12, 2009 http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/article_dacf39c7-c2f8-5718-a5a0-d0cfb39f80bc.html By MATTHEW DeFOUR mdefour@madison.com 608-252-6144 | Posted: Saturday, October 10, 2009 7:55 am | 99 Comments Former Vice President Al Gore shared his optimism about the "shifting momentum" of the climate change debate with about 500 environmental journalists Friday in Madison. "We're very close to that political tipping point," Gore said at the Society of Environmental Journalists annual conference at the Madison Concourse Hotel. "Never before in human history has a single generation been asked to make such difficult and consequential decisions." He said he expects the Senate to pass a carbon emissions reduction bill before a December United Nations conference in Copenhagen, Denmark. The House passed a similar bill in June. He also said he expects President Barack Obama to attend the Copenhagen conference, which could boost an international framework for emissions reduction. Obama hasn't announced his plans. "I am optimistic," Gore said. "I think there has been a very powerful recognition, not only in this country, but in many countries, that there is a linkage between the climate crisis and the economic crisis and the national security crisis that is in part derivative of the world's ridiculous over-dependence on carbon-based fuels." Some who attended the speech tempered Gore's hopefulness, characteristic of his lauded yet controversial effort to educate the public about carbon dioxide emissions and their link to rising temperatures. "His optimism isn't shared by a lot of other folks," said Tim Wheeler, an environmental reporter for the Baltimore Sun. Gore may have been trying to push politicians to action, Wheeler added. Conservative groups led by Collegians for a Constructive Tomorrow and Americans for Prosperity held a demonstration Downtown that drew about 200 people, including U.S. Rep. James Sensenbrenner, R-Menomonee Falls, who also participated in the conference's panel discussion following Gore's speech. The demonstrators worried Gore's policies would push American jobs overseas. Gore has been criticized for not publicly debating his position since the release of his 2006 Oscar-winning documentary, "An Inconvenient Truth." In what organizers said was a rarity, Gore took half a dozen questions from journalists, including one from Phelim McAleer, an Irish filmmaker who asked Gore to address nine errors in his film identified by a British court in 2007. Gore responded that the court ruling supported the showing of his film in British schools. When McAleer tried to debate further, his microphone was cut off by the moderators. In a nod to a local supporter, Gore recognized former UW-Madison professor Henry Hart, who attended the speech and at 93 is the oldest person to have been trained to present the climate change slide show featured in Gore's film. "You are really an inspiration to me," Gore said. Quote Everything you do is based on the choices you make. It's not your parents, your past relationships, your job, the economy, the weather, an argument, or your age that is to blame. You and only you are responsible for every decision and choice you make, period ... ... Wish more people would realize this. Quotes by Susan Gottesman
Guest Posted October 12, 2009 Posted October 12, 2009 Well, isn't that special. Algore can't take any real questioning, so he has them cut off the mike. I guess the truth would be very inconvenient for him. Quote
Members phkrause Posted October 12, 2009 Members Posted October 12, 2009 I for one I'm glad that he didn't win 8 years ago. pk Quote phkrause When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice; But when a wicked man rules, the people groan. Proverbs 29;2
Guest Posted October 12, 2009 Posted October 12, 2009 I for one I'm glad that he didn't win 8 years ago. pk You can say that again. Quote
Members phkrause Posted October 12, 2009 Members Posted October 12, 2009 I for one I'm glad that he didn't win 8 years ago. pk Quote phkrause When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice; But when a wicked man rules, the people groan. Proverbs 29;2
Woody Posted October 13, 2009 Posted October 13, 2009 I for one I'm glad that he didn't win 8 years ago. pk You can say that again. But then now that we have Obama ... I doubt he could be worse than what we got. Algore Algore Algore. Quote May we be one so that the world may be won. Christian from the cradle to the grave I believe in Hematology.
Woody Posted October 13, 2009 Posted October 13, 2009 Quote May we be one so that the world may be won. Christian from the cradle to the grave I believe in Hematology.
Guest Posted October 13, 2009 Posted October 13, 2009 I saw the video of algore shutting that guy with the good question down. He was making too much sense for algore to rebutt, so they cut him off. Quote
Guest Posted October 13, 2009 Posted October 13, 2009 Algore had just said something about Polar Bears, and the guy pointed out that the Polar bear population had actually gone up. Quote
Ted Oplinger Posted October 13, 2009 Posted October 13, 2009 Algore had just said something about Polar Bears, and the guy pointed out that the Polar bear population had actually gone up. Yet another inconvenient truth gentleman Gore can't dare acknowledge. Sort of like the poor "endangered caribou" when the Alaskan pipeline was being built...and populations exploded due to the presence of warmer breeding lanes around the pipelines? What was that quipped on another thread about "never letting facts change a predestined mind"??? Hmmm.... Quote "As iron sharpens iron, so also does one man sharpen another" - Proverbs 27:17 "The offense of the cross is that the cross is a confession of human frailty and sin and of inability to do any good thing. To take the cross of Christ means to depend solely on Him for everything, and this is the abasement of all human pride. Men love to fancy themselves independent. But let the cross be preached, let it be made known that in man dwells no good thing and that all must be received as a gift, and straightway someone is offended." Ellet J. Waggoner, The Glad Tidings "Courage is being scared to death - and saddling up anyway" - John Wayne "The person who pays an ounce of principle for a pound of popularity gets badly cheated" - Ronald Reagan
Woody Posted October 13, 2009 Posted October 13, 2009 Quote May we be one so that the world may be won. Christian from the cradle to the grave I believe in Hematology.
Members phkrause Posted October 13, 2009 Members Posted October 13, 2009 I'm sure Redwood, that you wouldn't want to really see if that would be true. pk Quote phkrause When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice; But when a wicked man rules, the people groan. Proverbs 29;2
Woody Posted October 13, 2009 Posted October 13, 2009 Ya Got That Right pk. Quote May we be one so that the world may be won. Christian from the cradle to the grave I believe in Hematology.
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