March 30, 2008
Al Gore's New Campaign
Tells 60 Minutes That Doubting Global Warming Is Man-Made Is Akin To Believing Earth Is Flat
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The Gore Campaign
The former vice president and former presidential candidate Al Gore talks to Lesley Stahl about his campaign to make the world aware of global warming.
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Al Gore is uniting "strange bedfellows" in the fight against global warming. And he has recently been criticized for owning a mansion that contradicts his green message. Lesley Stahl comments.
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And yet while 70 percent of Americans believe global warming is a big problem, they still rank it near the very bottom of their list of top 25 concerns.
And so Al Gore is about to wage a new campaign to emphasize the urgency of what he says is the greatest challenge facing our time. But as correspondent Lesley Stahl found out while spending time with him and his wife Tipper, for the moment at least, there's another campaign Americans care about most.Photos: Al Gore "Green" Media Star
"We were with you in the San Jose Airport. And a man came over to you and he says 'Who are you supporting, Obama or Hillary? Who are you supporting? Who are you supporting?'" Stahl asked.
Gore's response to the man? "Uh ha."
"So, let me ask you. Who are you supporting?" Stahl asked.
"I'm tryin' to stay out of it," Gore replied.
Getting Al Gore to talk about politics these days is hard work. But as a party leader and uncommitted superdelegate, his staying "out of it" isn't easy.
"Are they calling you every minute?" Stahl asked.
"Not every minute," Gore said.
"No? Lotta pressure though, I'll bet," Stahl remarked.
"We unplugged the phones for this interview, so I can't say with authority. But no, everyone -- they both call. And I appreciate that fact," Gore replied.
"And what about the idea of the honest broker who goes to the two candidates and helps push one or the other of them off to the side?" Stahl asked.
"Yeah, kind of a modern Boss Tweed," Gore remarked.
"Except his name would be Al Gore," Stahl said.
"Well, I'm not applying for the job of broker," Gore replied, laughing.
He's not ruling it out, but he says he already has a job, as he puts it, "P.R." agent for the planet.
"You have said, and I'm going to quote you, 'If I do my job right, all the candidates will be talking about the climate crisis,'" Stahl said. "I can't think of a time I've heard the candidates talk about it."
"Right. Well, I'm not finished yet," Gore said.
The Gore campaign on global warming went into high gear when his documentary "An Inconvenient Truth" was an unexpected hit. What he's been doing is holding seminars, where he trains other people to give his famous slideshow about the effects of greenhouse gases.
So far in all, he's coached about 2,000 people, teaching one little workshop at a time.
His slideshows are tailored to his audiences. For example, when he talks to evangelical Christians, he includes passages from the Bible.
Gore is trying to redefine this as a moral and spiritual issue. "We all share the exact same interest in doing the right thing on this. Who are we as human beings? Are we destined to destroy this place that we call home, planet earth? I can't believe that that's our destiny. It is not our destiny. But we have to awaken to the moral duty that we have to do the right thing and get out of this silly political game-playing about it. This is about survival," he said.
Produced by Richard Bonin and Karen Sughrue
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See all 2432 CommentsThe earth is actually cooling... since 1998. Even the ocean temperatures are getting cooler.
No doubt CBS gave Gore 20 minutes of free commercial time.
TexGEOas
I''ve been looking for him. I''ve been concerned that I have been overusing my carbon quota all winter when I used my snow thrower to clear my driveway. I was hoping that he might be able to send one of his true believers over to shovel it by hand. We still have at least 4'' of snow around the house.
If this is global warming I''d sure hate to see it when the cycle reverses and we start to get global cooling as I''m sure we will.
We know AL Gore is a complete liar and a robust egomaniac. When Al, a consumate politician and erstwhile B.S.er thinks that hundreds of SCIENCE PROFESSIONALS with rigorous PHDs in fields relative to the earth sciences who objectively dispute the "Church of Global Warming", are stupid; then he causes us to realize what we have already known; that Al really DOES think he is smarter than everybody.
Remember boys and girls, this is all about Al Gore. If biting the heads of chickens would give him the adulation he craves, he would do it.
The earth is actually cooling... since 1998. Even the ocean temperatures are getting cooler.
No doubt CBS gave Gore 20 minutes of free commercial time.
TexGEOas
The earth is actually cooling... since 1998. Even the ocean temperatures are getting cooler.
No doubt CBS gave Gore 20 minutes of free commercial time.
TexGEOas
Every time I clicked PUBLISH it said the button had been disabled and to try back later.
Al Gore is still a liar.
And, I do believe it was Al Gore that didn''t want the absentee military vote to count in Florida. Yes, that Al Gore.
Posted by Darrell7887
Don''t forgeet the other distinguished scientists: Rev. Al Sharpton; Rev. Pat Robertson; Toby Keith; Nancy Pelosi; and Newt Gingrich.
Sure, when you can make a movie or do softball interviews, you don''t get challenged on your views. It''s easy to attack opponents who don''t even get a change to present their views, let alone defend themselves.
Rather than generalize, I''ll speak specifically about Al Gore now:
Mr. Gore, you are an intellectual coward. You literally hide behind your arrogance. Don''t tell the world people like me are wrong or ignorant...put up or shut up! Debate, publicly, a critic of your environmental theories. Let THEM put forth THEIR argument instead of setting up your fake straw-men and knocking them down.
Debate ME, if you have the stones. Surely you''re not afraid of an unknown flat-earth type like me, are you?
Wait...you''re afraid of ANYONE who doesn''t believe in Man-bear-pig...I mean global warming fanatacism.
Ozone Al suggests that ...
Shoeshine, after prayer with the Rev and Socks the Cat ...
consider Monika for a *** job.
Gore is a socialist *** who is as big a tool of the old soviet-style anti-american campaigns as the nutcases who marched through the streets of D.C. in the 1980s trying to end ''nukes''.
I''ll go ahead and take the mystery out of all this for you liberals now. Algore will never, ever, ever admit that he was wrong. No matter how much real science is stacked up to prove that his PR campaign about CO2 was complete *** it will still never result in an admission from Algore or the UN or any other Lefty organization that they have come to their senses. The real war is not against CO2 but against Capitalism. And its real easy to become a celebrity by taking on ''evil corporations'' and ''big polluters'' but its much harder to get famous by being in favor of actual solutions to poverty, crime and war.
Algore will be a millionaire 100 times over and his religion of Global Warming will go the same way as the Coming Ice Age (another ''catastrophe'' which has failed to occur). And we somehow didn''t get our apology for that last hoax, did we?
There must be something else they can lie about to extort BILLIONS of dollars from the useful idiots they prey upon. Al Gore is the main snake oil salesman speaking for this group.
On another subject. How about that Al Gore for president idea they have started floating, again?
For what? For people to believe Al Gore?
Once there is a DISCOURSE on global warming, people will begin to listen and to decide. CONDESCENDING LECTURING by Al Gore will never win people over.
The earth is cooling if you believe things like recording thermometers.
Are you kidding me? How about a follow up question: "Okay, fine, now that your house is green, it uses 15 times the normal house instead of 20. Don''t you think you''re still a big fat hypocite???"
What about his private jet trips????
*** Cheney??? Yeah, that''s a tough one to deflect. How about the thousands of actual scientists who are calling this whole thing a pile of dung???
SHAME on Leslie Stahl!!! SHAME on 60 minutes. You''re worse than Dan Rather. What a joke!
Posted by berettacx4
I''ll second this.
Just a thought. I mean, its not like Iraq (an issue for which there could only possible be on viewpoint which is even remotely valid as the 9000 pieces 60 Minutes has done to prove).
1) Given a body of data, when you develop a theory that explains the data, it must explain ALL of the data. Data points that fall outside of your explanation mean that your theory is WRONG
2) You must be willing to debate your theory in front other trained scientific minds.
As to point one: The man made global warming crowd keeps changing their theories to suit the data, yet every time new data is brought forth, it is outside of their theory.Temperatures have not increased in 10 years, they have plateued for 5, last year globally was .5 degrees cooler than the "norm". Cold, snowy winters are not predicted by the models, so they change the model
As for point 2: Well, we all know the answer to that, Algore is totally unwilling and afraid to openly debate his assertions
BUT WE WILL GET MORE RANTS AND RAVING FROM HIM!
FUNNY BUT THE REPORT THAT THE OCEANS TEMPERATURE HAS NOT RISEN, PERIOD! THAT COVERS 3/4 OF THIS PLANET!
Maybe she will ask Algore why the latest NASA data on ocean temperatures is showing that oceans are actually gettin COOLER? Or that global temperatures are not matching the IPCC climate models and going DOWN instead of UP like ''global warming'' predicted? Or maybe Algore could explain how CO2 (which comprises about 1% of the entire atmosphere) can create a greenhouse effect all by itself? Or maybe how CO2 is supposed to affect precipitation cycles which have a far more important effect on actual temperatures on any given day?
Or, maybe Algore can explain how he can predict what the temperature of the entire Earth will be 100 years from now when even the daily forecast for a single US city takes nearly 1,000,000,000 calculations (according to the US Weather Service)? Just a simple question Al.
Instead with those billions lets feed the 2 million children that DIE of hunger in africa every year
This guy is really pitiful.
Carbon Emissions do not cause globlan climate change. The climate has changed many time in our past history when there was no carbon being emitted. Just look back a little bit to the Little ICe Age and to the Medieval Warm Period that caused Greenland to be named Greenland.
Emissions might affeft health, but are not responsible for climate changes. Hell, ice has been melting and reform for eons.
For more, read JOEY: http://www.Journals.aol.com/Chonors686/JoeyPage1/
CBS leads the mainstream media in such Democratic party and leftist bias.
BUT HE DID INVENT THE INTERNET
it tells me that when looked straight in the face and lied to by has been politicians and the fawning media, in spite of a huge base of facts that contradict them, the American public will rebel.
What''s it tell you?
This guy is really pitiful.
Carbon Emissions do not cause global climate change. The climate has changed many times in our past history when there was no carbon being emitted. Just look back a little bit to the Little Ice Age and to the Medieval Warm Period that caused Greenland to be named Greenland.
Emissions might affect health, but are not responsible for climate changes. Hell, ice has been melting and reforming for eons.
For more, read JOEY: http://www.Journals.aol.com/Chonors686/JoeyPage1/
I haven''t been able to put this book down. Packed with facts and humor about the alleged crisis:
http://www.amazon.com/Politically-Incorrect-Global-Warming-Environmentalism/dp/1596985011
From volcanoes like Mt. St. Helens (which spewed as much greenhouse gas into our atmosphere in two weeks as all of human industrial history in over a century) to the fact that hurricane experts, paleo-climatologists and other top scientists studying weather and climate have come out publicly disputing the creed that global warming is manmade, Gore wants us to ignore the man behind the curtain.
His dishonesty about the issue is astounding. His desire to exploit our fears is reprehensible. He is a charlatan who acts to divide our society for his own benefit. His hypocrisy apparently knows no bounds.
What a disgraceful individual.
Maybe the deniers of your claims are actually more like Copernicus, which placed the Sun at the center of our system, not earth.
My point is there are a lot of things we still don''t understand about the Sun and our solar system. My guess is the Sun probably plays a bigger role in our climate than we realize.
I used to live at the beach in Newport Beach, Ca. and I guarantee if I went back there today, the beach and tide levels are exactly as they have been. The oceans are not rising.
Eventually, it will be all about raising taxes on the Oil companies and more control of us, the people. Those were Al''s first words (raising taxes on Oil) when he was interviewed back stage after winning his Oscar.
Higher taxes-less freedom.
Al Gore is a charlatan.
Al, please, just go away.
From volcanoes like Mt. St. Helens (which spewed as much greenhouse gas into our atmosphere in two weeks as all of human industrial history in over a century) to the fact that hurricane experts, paleo-climatologists and other top scientists studying weather and climate have come out publicly disputing the creed that global warming is manmade, Gore wants us to ignore the man behind the curtain.
His dishonesty about the issue is astounding. His desire to exploit our fears is reprehensible. He is a charlatan who acts to divide our society for his own benefit. His hypocrisy apparently knows no bounds.
What a disgraceful individual.
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