New York City – Al Gore, the former vice president and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, is nothing if not passionate on the issue of global warming. But his usual fired-up remarks on the subject took a step into the Gandhian realm on Wednesday when he told an audience at the Clinton Global Initiative meeting in New York that the crisis was so severe and intractable that it was time for direct action.
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“If you’re a young person looking at the future of this planet and looking at what is being done right now, and not done, I believe we have reached the stage where it is time for civil disobedience to prevent the construction of new coal plants that do not have carbon capture and sequestration,” he said at the third annual meeting of former President Bill Clinton’s initiative, which arranges partnerships between the very rich and the very needy.
Mr. Gore said the civil disobedience should focus on “stopping the construction of new coal plants,” which he said would add tons of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere — despite “half a billion dollars’ worth of advertising by the coal and gas industry” claiming otherwise. He added, “Clean coal does not exist.”
The audience at the Sheraton New York Hotel and Towers, which was composed of hundreds of heads of state and chief executives, as well as representatives of philanthropic groups, reacted with scattered applause. There was a lot of shifting in seats.
Mr. Gore did not elaborate on his call for action. And almost as soon as the words “civil disobedience” were out of his mouth, Mr. Clinton, moderating a panel that Mr. Gore shared with the singer Bono (with him below), the president of Liberia, the chairman of Coca-Cola and Queen Rania of Jordan, turned to the queen to ask whether Middle Eastern countries might ever become “models of clean energy usage.” The discussion continued in a less-fiery vein from there.
there’s nothing wrong with that. its part of our great american tradition.
if we jews can do it to protest a stupid mel gibson movie, why cant those sensitive to pollution?
Oh this guy is stupd
it looks like he is looking for a job.
Mr Gore please give me a call I got a Shabbos Goy job for you. , But you can’t act crazy.
he is a brilliant man
If only he’d keep his mouth shut there would be less polution. What a hypocrite, ask him how he got to NY. private jet, limo security vehicles, etc.
Shocking? For Gore? Not really!
#1 do you know the definition between us jews protesting peacefully and leftist radicals in a civil unrest!
your talking like a leftist radical .
There was an article in one of the newspapers before the summer about Gore’s hypocrisy. In the article they obtained a copy of one of his electricity bills for his mansion. The bill ran in excess of $2000 for one month. My bill never over 140, that means that his one house uses nearly as much electricity as 20 of ours. How does he expect to keep it going without coal plants? His response to the article was that he will try to find more energy efficient appliance and bulbs for his mansion. Now lets not forget the private jets and limos that he and clinton use. What a bunch of mamzeirim!!!!
he won the presidency in 2000
He needs to make sure the proven energy gets smashed so he can make money off of his “clean” investments. We’re on to this huckster. Global cooling is on the way.
Anon 1041,
Get over it. He LOST the election. Thats the problem with you libs, you refuse to get over it. If Algore would have been president we would have done NOTHING after 9/11 and Tu B’Shvat would have been a national holidy.
Algore should be tried for treason to his country for inciting riots. Chutzpa for a former VeePee do say these things over his fake cause.
GORE LOST THE ELECTION. These are the FACTS.
Gore is like…
A Wooden Indian…
Lock & Load
gore won the popular vote. that means more people voted for him than for the space cadet we got stuck with.
For all of you folks who love breathing in coal fumes, even if you doubt global warming and the effects of burning fossil fuels on climate change, do you also deny that burning coal and gas and the resulting smog and particulates is linked toincresed heart attacks, strokes and respiratory disease? Do you also deny the science linking coal burning to acid rain? Do you really want to take that big a gamble on your children’s and grandchildren’s futures just because you hate Al Gore?
By the way, he said civil disobenience, not civil unrest. The tradition of civil disobedience includes the willingness to be arrested and go to jail for activities such as sit-ins. It involves peaceful protest and is an American tradition.
” gore won the popular vote. that means more people voted for him than for the space cadet we got stuck with.”
1) That’s debatable. There were serious allegations of Dem vote fraud in many areas, such as Wisconsin, where college students were given multiple absentee ballots and told by “community organizers” to submit them under a variety of false names, and Cleveland, where NAACP-affiliated “community organizers” were caught submitting bogus names “registered” to vacant lots. Let us not also forget the usual political shenanigans in places like Chicago, where Sen. Obama’s political patron, Mayor Daley II, presides over a political machine sustained by phantom Democratic “votes” of the dead, presumably also including Mayor Daley I (died in 1976 but probably still carried on the rolls as a registered “voter”.
2) Even if Gore did win the total popular vote, it’s constitutionally meaningless — the popular vote winner does not necessarily win the presidency (and has not, several times in our history) — the electoral college winner does.
3) Bush legitimately won the Florida electroal votes needed to put him over the top. He led at EVERY step of the way in Florida, except for the biased and officially meaningless exit poll projections of the major networks too eager to call the state for the Dems. After-the-fact analysis by major media outlets (no friends of Bush to be sure) of the various recount scenarios, including the biased, unfair, selective and ultimately unconstitutional recounts of just Dem areas that Gore demanded showed Bush the likely winner anyway.
4) The election was so close electorally that Florida would have been moot if only Al had carried either his own home state of Tennessee (11 electoral votes) or Bill Clinton’s (4 electroal votes). But he did not. Those voters who knew Gore and Clinton best, rejected him.
5) With name recognition as the sitting vice president of an administration that had allegedly brought peace and prosperity, with plenty of Buddhist Temple/Lincoln Bedroom/Hollywood fat cat cash, and with a supposedly stupid, inexperienced opponent, Gore should have won easily — but did not because the voting public came to see him as a pompous, preening, eye-rolling buffoon who showed more different personas and changing policy stands than Clinton had girlfiends and mistresses (Buddhist Temple Al suddenly changed into Campaign Finance Reform Al, etc). The election was Al’s to lose — and he did so, big time, all by himself. As Bill is alleged to have said once to one of his ladies, put some ice on it and get over it already.
Modern day conveniences all have risk involved, and we are willing to risk it. We talk on cell phones with a risk of cancer, we eat fast food with a risk of heart disease, we fly in planes with high radiation, we drive cars with a risk of mva’s, we drink alchohol with a risk of deformed children, and the list goes on. Why when it comes to burning coal for electric that powers our luxury life, do we all of a sudden have to go crazy? This is utter stupidity. Today, with all the increase risks, we are still living longer than ever with the average life expectancy well over 90, when only a decade ago it was barely 80.
Al Gore and his cronies need to stop selling us this crap math and science.
If he was really so concerned about the environment, let him start by setting an example himself, and cut his own carbon footprint.
Anonymous 9/25 7:47 am:
I agree that particulate pollution from coal plants is a much bigger problem in the short term than global warming. Anyone who’s ever been to a coal plant doesn’t need a politician or scientist to tell him that they’re dirty. And those who worry so much about mercury in children’s vaccines should know that children are exposed to much more mercury from coal plants than from vaccines.
Of course the answer is more nuclear power. Nuclear power produces no particulate pollution or greenhouse gases.
To authentic Satmar: You might want to take the risks of turning to coal for power, but you share this planet with others. Those of us who like clean air shouldn’t be subject to your decision. We all now recongnize that non-smokers shouldn’t be forced to breath in smoker’s second hand smoke. It should be the same with burning coal.
coal powers over 50% of our electricity.
imagine al gore knocked on your door and asked you to please be civilly disobediant and cut off half of your electric power.
oh and while your at it – why dont you purchase some “alternative energy” from my stock portfolio. hey i know its 10 times more expensive, but you see im out of a job and i need more money to power my very polluting luxorious lifestyle…
THIS GUY IS A BLOB.he looks silly, talks nonsense and i believe he has a piece of yerushalmi Kugel as a brain.
Authentic Satmar wrote:
“Today, with all the increase risks, we are still living longer than ever with the average life expectancy well over 90, when only a decade ago it was barely 80.”
Actually, life expectancy in the United States is 78.1 years according the the CIA World Fact Book. While 45 countries are healthier than the US according to this measure, none have a life expectancy longer than 84.3 years (Macao) and no country of significant size has a life expectancy longer than 82.1 years (Japan). (Israel is #13 , at 80.6 years. Australia, Canada, France, Sweden, and Switzerland also are higher than Israel.)
Regarding coal….
Forget global warming. Coal is deadly. It kills miners, it kills the people who breath the sulfur dioxide and particulates from its combustion. And yes, there is mercury in it, too, unlike contemporary vaccines.
And there is no form of energy production more damaging to the environment. It is certainly consistent with Torah principles not to despoil what does not belong to us.
By comparison, offshore oil drilling is much better for the environment and for human health. I’m an environmentalist and I’d be quite happy to allow offshore oil drilling just about anywhere if we also banned new coal fired power plants.
FrumDem,
Lemme teach you something again here. Winning the popular vote means nothing in this country. There is something called the Electoral College where each state gets a “vote” based on the number of members they have in the House & Senate. It was set up this way by the founding fathers so that the smaller states have “more” of a say in the election. This system works.
He may have won the popular vote – this can be debated due the voter fraud the donkey party is known for – but thats not what wins elections. Dont change the rules just because your guy screwed up. This has happened MANY times in our history yet Algore & his phoneys are the ones complaining about it the most.
What do you hate about the President so much? Do you really think the country would have responded like it did after 9/11 with Gore in charge? He would probably still be sitting there trying to find a way to blame the Islamonazi attacks on ourselves.
Your dude lost so get over it. Besides if he was so popular, why didnt he run again in 04 against John “F Student” Kerry, who by the way served in vietnam before screwing his fellow soldiers?