I've been hearing a lot about Al Gore speaking out about global warming lately?

Question

But I was trying to think back when he was a powerful vice president of the United States. Was he speaking out then about it. Not trying to be confrontational, but I just don't remember him addressing it when he was in office. I'd like to know if anyone has information about that. I could be wrong. I didn't follow all political topics then. Can anyone quote speaches or give links. I want to gather some information to help me understand him better since he may run for president in the future and I find him to be very interesting. I'm having trouble validating his stance when he was vice president and could do something about it. Thanks to all!

Answer 1

Al Gore has spoken: The world must embrace a "carbon-neutral lifestyle." To do otherwise, he says, will result in a cataclysmic catastrophe. "Humanity is sitting on a ticking time bomb," warns the website for his film, An Inconvenient Truth. "We have just 10 years to avert a major catastrophe that could send our entire planet into a tailspin."

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Graciously, Gore tells consumers how to change their lives to curb their carbon-gobbling ways: Switch to compact fluorescent light bulbs, use a clothesline, drive a hybrid, use renewable energy, dramatically cut back on consumption. Better still, responsible global citizens can follow Gore's example, because, as he readily points out in his speeches, he lives a "carbon-neutral lifestyle." But if Al Gore is the world's role model for ecology, the planet is doomed.

For someone who says the sky is falling, he does very little. He says he recycles and drives a hybrid. And he claims he uses renewable energy credits to offset the pollution he produces when using a private jet to promote his film. (In reality, Paramount Classics, the film's distributor, pays this.)

Public records reveal that as Gore lectures Americans on excessive consumption, he and his wife Tipper live in two properties: a 10,000-square-foot, 20-room, eight-bathroom home in Nashville, and a 4,000-square-foot home in Arlington, Va. (He also has a third home in Carthage, Tenn.) For someone rallying the planet to pursue a path of extreme personal sacrifice, Gore requires little from himself.

Then there is the troubling matter of his energy use. In the Washington, D.C., area, utility companies offer wind energy as an alternative to traditional energy. In Nashville, similar programs exist. Utility customers must simply pay a few extra pennies per kilowatt hour, and they can continue living their carbon-neutral lifestyles knowing that they are supporting wind energy. Plenty of businesses and institutions have signed up. Even the Bush administration is using green energy for some federal office buildings, as are thousands of area residents.

But according to public records, there is no evidence that Gore has signed up to use green energy in either of his large residences. When contacted Wednesday, Gore's office confirmed as much but said the Gores were looking into making the switch at both homes. Talk about inconvenient truths.

Gore is not alone. Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean has said, "Global warming is happening, and it threatens our very existence." The DNC website applauds the fact that Gore has "tried to move people to act." Yet, astoundingly, Gore's persuasive powers have failed to convince his own party: The DNC has not signed up to pay an additional two pennies a kilowatt hour to go green. For that matter, neither has the Republican National Committee.

Maybe our very existence isn't threatened.

Gore has held these apocalyptic views about the environment for some time. So why, then, didn't Gore dump his family's large stock holdings in Occidental (Oxy) Petroleum? As executor of his family's trust, over the years Gore has controlled hundreds of thousands of dollars in Oxy stock. Oxy has been mired in controversy over oil drilling in ecologically sensitive areas.

Living carbon-neutral apparently doesn't mean living oil-stock free. Nor does it necessarily mean giving up a mining royalty either.

Humanity might be "sitting on a ticking time bomb," but Gore's home in Carthage is sitting on a zinc mine. Gore receives $20,000 a year in royalties from Pasminco Zinc, which operates a zinc concession on his property. Tennessee has cited the company for adding large quantities of barium, iron and zinc to the nearby Caney Fork River.

The issue here is not simply Gore's hypocrisy; it's a question of credibility. If he genuinely believes the apocalyptic vision he has put forth and calls for radical changes in the way other people live, why hasn't he made any radical change in his life? Giving up the zinc mine or one of his homes is not asking much, given that he wants the rest of us to radically change our lives.

Peter Schweizer is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution and author of Do As I Say (Not As I Do): Profiles in Liberal Hypocrisy.

Answer 2

Good question...and the best answer I've ever seen on this was by winemaker! Well said! I can't add anything to his answer. The proof is in "do as I say not as I do." Fasinating book. By the way I find it a bit ironic that the last two very important meetings on the imminent danger of global warming were cancelled due to unusal heavy snow storms lol

Answer 3

There is a house, 4000sq.ft that uses less than 25% of the average households energy consumption. Has underground piping to use nature to cool and heat the house. Has cisterns in the ground to clean the waste water and then use it for watering the landscape, just to name a few. This house is almost 100% green.

Do you know who's it is and where it is?

Nope it ain't Ralph Nader or Algore. It is the Crawford Ranch belonging to President and Mrs. Bush.

So Mr. Algore, blow it out your shorts! It can be done and without "energy credits". By the way, The company that Algore buys his credits from he owns major stock in and is an officer in said company: One way to keep your money and try to look green

Answer 4

Don't let his Mr. Nice Guy act fool you. He is doing all of this for 1 thing - Al Gore.
Really also for A Money and B Celebrity.
He hopes to win lots of prizes, maybe movie awards, the peace prize, money to be made in book and video sales etc. I am sure he has a lot invested in the creation of a carbon based economy which would create a fake economy to make profits in. I am sure he also has plenty invested in so called green technologies.

Answer 5

Even back in 1992, Al Gore was interested in the phenomenon of global warming. He wrote a book called "Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit" which talked about global warming and other ecological issues facing people in the future.

Also please check out the following website which will show you how Al Gore has felt on different issues, including the environment and global warming, over the last 2 decades:

http://www.issues2002.org/Al_Gore.htm

Answer 6

Al Gore, like many VP's, served at the pleasure of the President. Bill Clinton did not have a widespread policy to combat items believed to contribute to global warming, because he understood the negative effect it would have on the national economy.

Indeed, the Republican's "boogyman" appears to be terrorists - for Democrats - the "boogyman" appears to environmental catastrophe. Watch how scientists that don't adhere to the global warming scenarios put forth by Gore - watch how they are belittled and ridiculed.

Your best bet to find Gore quotes would probably be during the election cycles.

Answer 7

Excellent observation. Of course you didn't hear about it when he was VP. Back then, he didn't need an "issue" to remind people he was still around. Now, he does. His movie has nothing to do with global warming. It has everything to do with Al being forgotten and needing to be in the public eye. He was getting bored paying his exorbitant electric bill back at the mansion.

Answer 8

According to a 27 February 2007 article in The Concord Monitor, "Gore was one of the first politicians to grasp the seriousness of climate change and to call for a reduction in emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouses gases. He held the first congressional hearings on the subject in the late 1970s."[52] During his tenure in Congress, Gore co-sponsored hearings on toxic waste in 1978–79, and hearings on global warming in the 1980s.

Answer 9

Or did he hv an awakening... a change of heart... did he see the light?
it happens. Or did he find out that outside of THAT office is where ppl will hv a voice.
When u hold the office of pres or vice pres you don't hv your OWN voice...
no matter what party u fly with....

Answer 10

Joke.

That movie is full of lies. Global warming is a joke.

1) 6,000 years ago, the earth was hotter than it is today. 6,000 years is less than a second when compared with the age of the earth.

2) Temperatures dropped in the 1950's and 1990's when CO2 levels were increasing.

3) 140,000 years ago the earth had record CO2 levels and there were no gasoline powered cars.

4) 20,000 years ago, Canada was one big ice cube and half of the U.S. was covered with Ice. The grand canyon was formed by melting ice ages over 20 million years.

5) The temperature of the Earth has only increased by 0.65 of a degree in the last 110 years. There were faster increases in temperatures around 10,000 years ago and there were no gasoline powered cars during that time


7) NASA has said that great temperature changes are normal. Just 10,000 years ago, the earth warmed up extremely in less than 20 years. There were not many people around at that time.
NASA:
"Rapid changes between ice ages and warm periods (called interglacials) are recorded in the Greenland ice sheet. Occurring over ONE OR TWO DECADES, the warming of the Earth at the end of the last ice age "
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Study/Paleoclimatology_Evidence/Images/gisp2_temperature.gif

8) NASA scientific data has shown most of the changes of temperature are due to changes in the Sun. Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and Pluto all have global warming right now

9) Also, strong hurricanes are normal. Hundreds of years ago, they used to sink ships off of the coast of Florida.

10) THIS GLACIER DIDN'T EXIST 7,000 YEARS ago. And that was after the Ice Age.
"A few thousand years ago, there were no glaciers here at all"..."Back then we would have been standing in the middle of a forest"
http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/spiegel/0,1518,357366,00.html

Russian Expert Predicts Global Cooling from 2012
http://www.mosnews.com/news/2006/02/06/globalcold.shtml