Al Gore Compares Climate Change Skeptics to Racists. Al Gore: Climate change skeptics are like racists. Al "ManBearPig" Gore is on a roll again!
Yes, just a few weeks after publicly flipping out about global warming, Gore compared the struggle against racism in the South to his personal crusade to convert climate change skeptics. "There came a time when people said, 'Hey man, why do you talk that way? That's wrong, I don't go for that, so don't talk that way around me. I just don't believe that,'" Gore said in a recent interview with FearLess Revolution founder Alex Bogusky. "That happened in millions of conversations, and slowly the conversation was won.
The former VP and one-time presidential candidate also proposed that the masses adopt an organic vegetarian diet, as industrial agriculture "is part" of the problem. "[We simply must find] more productive, safer methods that put carbon back in the soil to produce safer and better food,” Gore insisted emphatically.
Al Gore On Climate Change Deniers: It's Crucial To 'Win The Conversation' In the video below from Mediaite, former Vice President Al Gore suggests that people today need to “win the conversation” against skeptics of climate change in the same way people stood up to racist comments during the civil rights movement.
Speaking with Climate Reality Project’s Alex Bogusky, Gore argues that in some places, even the words “climate change” have become politically incorrect. Bogusky explains that it is often difficult to stand up to climate change deniers, but Gore says, “it is no more difficult than it was for Southerners to talk about the evils of racism.” Gore agrees that explaining the science beyond climate change may be more difficult than confronting racism, but says the moral component is the same. In the same interview, Gore takes on comments by Texas Governor and presidential hopeful Rick Perry, who has been an outspoken critic of climate change scientists. Gore says members of the scientific community did not enter their profession to make money.
U.N. Climate Conference: Geoengineering Could Save Earth. DURBAN, South Africa (AP) — Brighten clouds with sea water?
Spray aerosols high in the stratosphere? Paint roofs white and plant light-colored crops? How about positioning "sun shades" over the Earth? At a time of deep concern over global warming, a group of scientists, philosophers and legal scholars examined whether human intervention could artificially cool the Earth – and what would happen if it did. A report released late Thursday in London and discussed Friday at the U.N. climate conference in South Africa said that – in theory – reflecting a small amount of sunlight back into space before it strikes the Earth's surface would have an immediate and dramatic effect. Within a few years, global temperatures would return to levels of 250 years ago, before the industrial revolution began dumping carbon dioxide into the air, trapping heat and causing temperatures to rise. But no one knows what the side effects would be.
"No government asked us to do this. Global Climate Campaign. Al Gore: United States an "Obstacle to Progress" in Global Climate Talks. World Economic Forum/CC BY 2.0 Global climate talks are currently underway in Durban, South Africa.
However, few are holding out hope for any serious progress towards forging an international treaty that would reduce worldwide carbon emissions worldwide. The negotiations have long been held hostage by a familiar dynamic: The United States (and now, Canada) says it won't agree to reduce its carbon pollution unless developing giants like China and India do, too.
This, of course, is primarily an excuse to validate inaction. The United States has been unable to pass meaningful emissions-reducing measures at home, and therefore has little actual leverage in the proceedings. "Today the international negotiating session is opening in Durban, South Africa, former Vice President Al Gore said today. Gore was addressing a small audience at an exclusive 'Games for Change' salon organized by PSFK when he gave the remarks. But Gore sees signs of hope outside the parameters of state-level climate policy.