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Al Gore: One of the greatest gifts of our democracy is the opportunity it offers us every four years to change course. It's not a guarantee; it's only an opportunity. The question facing us, simply put, is will we seize this opportunity for change? That's why I came here tonight: to tell you why I feel so strongly that we must seize this opportunity to elect Barack Obama president of the United States of America. Eight years ago, some said there was not much difference between the nominees of the two major parties and it didn't really matter who became...

Ask Democrats which of their leaders they like (other than Barack and Hillary, of course) as they gather for their national convention in Denver, and Jimmy Carter and Al Gore lead the pack. More Democrats have a Very Favorable opinion of Independent Senator Joe Lieberman than of the party's Senate Leader Harry Reid and up-and-comer Mark Warner, the former governor of Virginia now running for the Senate. But the Connecticut Democrat, the party's vice presidential nominee in 2000 who is now expected to speak at the Republican national convention next week, has much higher negatives. .............. Fifty three percent of...

"Alright," you say, "You've convinced me about cloth diapers, and I understand using cloth gift bags and napkins. But toilet paper??" For some people, making the switch to cloth toilet wipes is a huge leap, that's true. But it doesn't need to be! Using cloth toilet wipes actually has many advantages. For one, it's a lot more comfortable and soft on your most delicate body parts. It's also more economical, uses less paper, and saves you those late-night trips to the store. And cloth wipes can be used wet without any of the sopping disintegration that regular toilet paper is...

NEWSFLASH! GLOBAL GOOSEBUMPS GUT GORE’S GRAVY TRAIN As reports continue to pour in that the planet is actually cooling rather than warming, other reports detail Al Gore’s depression over this revolting development. Word on the street is that Al is in seclusion in his Nashville mansion scarfing bon bons and Twinkies and re-writing his book, An Inconvenient Truth and that the new title will be, How Dare Reality and True Truths Mess with My Truths? Subtitle: Why’s Everybody Always Messing with Me? The reports that have caused Gore’s funk include these: “An uncharacteristically wet, cold July in Anchorage and across...

The San Francisco Chronicle said it best: "Gore insists the only real obstacle is the reluctance of America's leaders to seek bold solutions to high energy prices and global warming. He likened his challenge to President John F. Kennedy's 1961 call to put a man on the moon." "The goal is the most ambitious energy plan by a major U.S. political figure - and one many energy experts say is unrealistic." But it seems Gore's plan could have been ripped from a fellow Democrat, Rep. Ron Klein of Florida's 22nd District. Klein boasted of a ten year energy independence plan...

Inflatable or not, you wouldn't want to meet the dog that laid this. This giant inflatable faeces (actually a sculpture by the American artist Paul McCarthy) broke free from its moorings at a modern art museum in Switzerland before bringing down a power line. The artwork, named 'Complex Sh*t', was lifted by a sudden gust of wind from its home at the Paul Klee centre in the city of Berne.

LONDON (Reuters) - The first half of 2008 was the coolest for at least five years, the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) said on Wednesday. The whole year will almost certainly be cooler than recent years, although temperatures remain above the historical average. Global temperatures vary annually according to natural cycles. They are driven by shifting ocean currents, and dips do not undermine the case that man-made greenhouse gas emissions are causing long-term global warming, climate scientists say. Chillier weather this year is partly because of a global weather pattern called La Nina that follows a periodic warming effect called El...

Jimmy Carter, John Kerry and Chicago Mayor Richard Daley will be among the speakers at next week's Democratic National Convention, organizers announced today. Former Vice President Al Gore also is scheduled to speak at Invesco Field at Mile High on the night Sen. Barack Obama accepts his party's nomination, according to published reports. The convention will gavel open the first three nights — Aug. 25 to 27 — at 3 p.m. Mountain time, the Democratic National Convention Committee announced. It will end each night at 9 p.m. Mountain time. No times have been annnounced for the final night. The schedule...

Here we are in the doldrums of August. The summer Olympics are more than half complete. Michael Phelps is predictably on his way to winning the most gold medals in a single Olympics. So, what’s left to talk about at this weekend’s cocktail parties, charity events and dinners? Politics of course. At NYSD we like to create a bit of journalistic stir while providing some political insight and speculation. Let’s talk about a vice-presidential pick- specifically, Barack Obama’s. The question about politics I am most often asked is, Could it still be Hillary Clinton?” Unfortunately for Hillary’s supporters, I think...

The candidacy of Barack Obama has energized millions of Americans who have turned out in record numbers to participate in the 2008 presidential primaries. Much of his candidacy’s success has been built upon the blank slate he has presented onto which voters have projected their innermost desires. Now, here at last, is a look into the future of America under an Obama presidency, based upon the candidate's own words and policies. Penetrating Insights into the Obvious

August is the wettest and often the muggiest month of the year. Yet, summer heat continues in short supply, continuing a trend that has dominated much of the 21st Century's opening decade. There have been only 162 days 90 degrees or warmer at Midway Airport over the period from 2000 to 2008. That's by far the fewest 90-degree temperatures in the opening nine years of any decade on record here since 1930. This summer's highest reading to date has been just 91 degrees. That's unusual. Since 1928, only one year—2000—has failed to record a higher warm-season temperature by Aug. 13.

When cocaine prices shot up last year, White House Drug Czar John Walters touted it as "the best evidence" that the War on Drugs was working. So when gas prices were shooting up this year, we ought to have heard cheers from those who claim we're addicted to oil. They should have pointed to those record gas prices as a sign that we're winning the war on oil addiction. But instead of celebrating, they've been gnashing their teeth. President Bush isn't leaping for joy, even though he gave the oil-addiction phrase its highest imprimatur when he used it in his...

WACO, Texas – About this time eight years ago, Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore warned that dipping into the nation's Strategic Petroleum Reserve as a way to lower gasoline and heating oil prices would be foolhardy. With only weeks to go before the election, Gore did an about-face and called for a raid on the nation's crude oil reserves established as a backup for national emergencies. In another instance, Gore called for higher taxes on gasoline as a way to make alternative energy sources more economically competitive. As the election neared, Gore flip-flopped. In both instances, Gore was right the...

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It was two weeks ago, that Al Gore challenged Americans to "move quickly and boldly to shake off complacency, throw aside old habits and rise, clear-eyed and alert, to the necessity of big changes" by jumping on his alternative energy bandwagon. In a much-hyped speech July 17, the former vice president urged the nation "to commit to producing 100 percent of our electricity from renewable energy and truly clean carbon-free sources within 10 years." Gore acknowledged that achieving his ambitious goal would be difficult: "To be sure, reaching the goal of 100 percent renewable and truly clean electricity within...

Al Gore has a new boat and even it is green. The boat is docked at Hurricane Marina on Center Hill Lake in Smithville, about 70 miles east of Nashville. While it doesn't have solar panels yet, a spokesperson at Gore's office told News 2 they are scheduled to be installed Wednesday. The boat is named Bio-Solar One and has been called the "Toyota Prius of boats"...

Local Tennessee conservative talker Steve Gill has revealed yet another example of the hypocrisy of the Global Warming fanatics, especially Al Gore. The former veep, who last year was revealed to have a house in Nashville burning many times the electricity of the average American family, has recently bought a huge houseboat to enjoy summer boating in Tennessee. The houseboat that Gore has christened the "Bio-Solar One" (conveniently shortened by Gill to the BS-1) is pictured at this web site (http://www.gillreport.com/dn_archive.php) Perhaps someone with better editing skills than I have can get the picture and post it here. From the...

Last week, Rush Limbaugh celebrated the 20th anniversary of his national show. As part of the festivities, he played a number of well-loved and famous clips from his archives. One such clip was a television spot where he debated Al Gore on the environment and on global warming. During that debate, Al Gore attempted to explain himself, and the urgency behind global warming, by quoting the oft-cited story of the frog in a pot of water. If, he said, you drop a frog directly into a pot of boiling water (and why didn’t PETA complain about this analogy?), the frog...

IT has been a tough year for the high priests of global warming in the US. First, NASA had to correct its earlier claim that the hottest year on record in the contiguous US had been 1998, which seemed to prove that global warming was on the march. It was actually 1934. Then it turned out the world's oceans have been growing steadily cooler, not hotter, since 2003. Meanwhile, the winter of 2007 was the coldest in the US in decades, after Al Gore warned us that we were about to see the end of winter as we know it....

On July 17, Nobelist and Academy Award winner Al Gore issued a stirring challenge to our nation to produce 100 percent of our electricity from renewable energy and carbon-free sources within 10 years. Gore asserted, "The quickest, cheapest and best way to start using all this renewable energy is in the production of electricity. In fact, we can start right now using solar power, wind power and geothermal power to make electricity for our homes and businesses." This massive push for no-carbon electricity production would help prevent climate change and cut our dependence on foreign oil. Of course, great-souled visionaries...

DHAKA (AFP) - New data shows that Bangladesh's landmass is increasing, contradicting forecasts that the South Asian nation will be under the waves by the end of the century, experts say. Scientists from the Dhaka-based Center for Environment and Geographic Information Services (CEGIS) have studied 32 years of satellite images and say Bangladesh's landmass has increased by 20 square kilometres (eight square miles) annually. < > The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has predicted that impoverished Bangladesh, criss-crossed by a network of more than 200 rivers, will lose 17 percent of its land by 2050 because of...

<p>Republican presidential candidate John McCain tried to strike a balance at a town hall meeting Tuesday between the independence he boasts of and his avowed conservatism.</p> <p>McCain also told a disabled woman that he would step up enforcement of the Americans With Disabilities Act and assured a self-described cancer survivor that he supported stem cell research.</p>

In 1961, John Kennedy challenged America to put a man on the moon in 10 years; eight years later, Neil Armstrong took mankind's giant leap. Therefore, Al Gore says, America can produce all of its electricity from "renewable energy and truly clean carbon-free sources" — wind, solar and geothermal, but not emissions-free nuclear — within 10 years. It's official: Al Gore is insane. In a speech long on non-sequiturs and devoid of real detail, Crazy Al told an energy conference last week it is vital America follow his vision of a fossil-fuel-free society to bring about a fundamental reordering of...

Is Al Gore nuts? I’m serious. Is it possible that the disappointment of losing the presidential campaign eight years ago destabilized him? If you think about it, since then, he’s been a changed man. First he got fat. He went through a dramatic physical change. He put on a significant amount of weight and grew a beard and got reclusive. Then he lost the weight and found a cause. Manmade global warming. It absolutely became his theme in life. After being largely silent on the issue during eight years as the vice president and a good run in the Senate,...

Gore’s Got Another Idea by: Ben Giles, July 28, 2008 Al Gore has a challenge for Americans: produce 100 percent of the nation’s electricity with alternative energy within ten years. At a packed Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) Constitution Hall on July 17, the former Vice President spoke on behalf of the We Campaign, an extension of his organization The Alliance for Climate Protection. Beyond his usual call for a drastic reaction to the global climate crisis, Gore argued that an end to our reliance on carbon-based fuels would solve more than climate change. “When you connect the dots,...

They've got that global warming thing down coldPosted on Wed, Jul. 23, 2008 By GLENN GARVIN ggarvin@MiamiHerald.com • Penn & Teller's Bull----! 10-10:30 p.m. Thursday, Showtime I've seen lots of things on Penn & Teller's Bull----!, television's only investigative-journalism program run by comic magicians: Hidden-camera pranks where yuppie fools blather on about designer water that actually came from a garden hose. New Age health nuts allowing mollusks to crawl around on their faces to soak up the health benefits of slug slime. Naked people floating around in a zero-gravity chamber for a show on NASA. I don't actually know what...

LOOK OVER THE DESCRIPTIONS OF THE FOLLOWING TWO HOUSES AND SEE IF YOU CAN TELL WHICH BELONGS TO AN ENVIRONMENTALIST. HOUSE # 1: A 20-room mansion (not including 8 bathrooms) heated by natural gas. Add on a pool (and a pool house) and a separate guest house all heated by gas. In ONE MONTH ALONE this mansion consumes more energy than the average American household in an ENTIRE YEAR. The average bill for electricity and natural gas runs over $2,400.00 per month. In natural gas alone (which last time we checked was a fossil fuel), this property consumes more than...

Note to readers who may not understand my position regarding climate change and environmentalism: I support conservation and responsible ecology and action. I do not support alarmism, pseudo science, hypocrisy concerning special interest and excessive governmental intervention into matters which a free market will easily handle much better without imposing additional and unecessary taxes. Please read this post with that in mind. I haven't taken the time to put together a round up of the Enviro-nitwit Supreme and all the other fun, so now seems like a good time. I do want to note one thing though, and that...

There's an elephant in global warming's living room that few in the mainstream media want to talk about: the creators of the carbon credit scheme are the ones cashing in on it. The two cherub like choirboys singing loudest in the Holier Than Thou Global Warming Cathedral are Maurice Strong and Al Gore. This duo has done more than anyone else to advance the alarmism of man-made global warming. With little media monitoring, both Strong and Gore are cashing in on the lucrative cottage industry known as man-made global warming. Strong is on the board of directors of the Chicago...

What is it with Al Gore? Why is he compelled to exaggerate climate change (excuse me, “the climate crisis”), and then to propose impossible policy responses? It’s like he’s inventing the Internet all over again! OK, it’s pretty much standard rhetoric in Washington to say that if you don’t do as I say, there will be massive consequences. But to say, as Gore recently did: “The survival of the United States of America as we know it is at risk;” and: “The future of human civilization is at stake” — that’s a bit much, even for the most faded and...

I DEVOTED six years to carbon accounting, building models for the Australian Greenhouse Office. I am the rocket scientist who wrote the carbon accounting model (FullCAM) that measures Australia's compliance with the Kyoto Protocol, in the land use change and forestry sector. FullCAM models carbon flows in plants, mulch, debris, soils and agricultural products, using inputs such as climate data, plant physiology and satellite data. I've been following the global warming debate closely for years. When I started that job in 1999 the evidence that carbon emissions caused global warming seemed pretty good: CO2 is a greenhouse gas, the old...

In a Washington speech last week, former Vice President Al Gore argued that America can produce "affordable" 100 percent carbon-free electricity within 10 years. My question: Why not five years? As long as Gore sees virtue in proposing completely unrealistic solutions - as in moving America from getting 3 percent to all of its electricity from renewable energy sources in a mere decade - wouldn't five years be twice as good? And it matters that Gore is all wet - because the longer Washington pols live in energy la-la land, the loonier and more costly America's energy situation becomes. For...

Isn’t it interesting how just a small drop in gasoline consumption – coupled with polls that show almost 60% of the American public favor greatly expanded drilling (and President Bush’s largely symbolic canceling of the existing executive order limiting drilling) – can cause such a large drop in the world market price of oil? Obviously the market-makers for petroleum think that America may, at long last, be starting to get serious about drilling our way out of our dependence on foreign countries that hate us. The price has dropped today to $126 from a high of $146.

Gores to host Obama fundraiser Nashville | July 24, 2008 12:01:13 AM IST Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore is preparing to host a Nashville fundraiser for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, say officials. A spokeswoman for Gore, has confirmed that Al and Tipper Gore have agreed to the event although a date and location have not been set, nor even whether Obama himself would attend, The Tennessean, a Nashville newspaper, reported Wednesday. Wade Munday, a spokesman for the Tennessee Democratic Party, said we would certainly welcome the senator with open arms should he arrive in Nashville before the October...

BUT WILL THEY RESPECT HIM IN THE MORNING?July 23, 2008 Back before the Republican Party was saddled with John McCain as its nominee, The New York Times called him "the only Republican who promises to end the George Bush style of governing from and on behalf of a small, angry fringe." The paper praised him for "working across the aisle to develop sound bipartisan legislation" and predicted that he would appeal to "a broader range of Americans than the rest of the Republican field." At the same time, the Times denounced "the real" Rudy Giuliani as "a narrow, obsessively secretive,...

Former Vice President Al Gore recently took his climate-change show on the road for the benefit of liberal bloggers, Sunday morning TV aficionados and other innocent bystanders. This week he laid out his demand for a miraculous transformation in U.S. energy use over a mere 10 years. As for drilling for more oil? "Absurd," the Nobel Laureate scoffed. "When you're in a hole, stop digging." The same might be said for Mr. Gore. For while his message hasn't changed, the political realities of the energy debate have. Suddenly, Mr. Gore's inconvenient speechifying only tightens the vise Democrats find themselves in...

Comments and reports about global warming are getting silly and even ridiculous.  Al Gore says we have ten years left. We’re told cooling is due to warming. More rain and flooding and less rain and drought are both due to warming. More hurricanes are predicted while fewer occur. Global temperatures declined as much in the first few months of 2008 as they increased in the previous 100 plus years due to warming. Recently we were told global warming is causing an increase in kidney stones in a travesty of geographic correlation assuming cause and effect. One blogger who began recording,...

It is unlikely that a Nobel laureate, Oscar winner and former vice president of the United States would return to the nuts and bolts of the federal bureaucracy, but it is obvious who Barack Obama or John McCain should make either energy secretary or administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. Given the impact each agency has on the other, they could hand both over to Al Gore so the nation has a shot at a coherent energy and environmental policy. Last week, Gore called for an effort akin to President Kennedy's mission to put a man on the moon to...

July 22, 2008, 6:00 a.m. Gore ElectricEnvironmental crusader, serial killer of polar bears. By David Freddoso When Al Gore spoke on climate change last week at the Daughters of the American Revolution Hall downtown, the free-market group Americans for Prosperity was there. They brought their camera to confront the many Gore fans who pulled up in air-conditioned taxi cabs and ask them why they were killing the earth. They had failed to walk, bike, or take public transportation, despite the recommendation printed on their tickets. (One argued that taxis are public transportation.) Tipper, Al, and Karenna Gore did not...

Al Gore gave a speech last week "challenging" America to run "on 100% zero-carbon electricity in 10 years" -- though that's just the first step on his road to "ending our reliance on carbon-based fuels." Serious people understand this is absurd. Maybe other people will start drawing the same conclusion about the man proposing it. The former vice president has also recently disavowed any intention of returning to politics. This is wise. As America's leading peddler of both doom and salvation, Mr. Gore has moved beyond the constraints and obligations of reality. His job is to serve as a Prophet...

He's a former vice president of the United States, Nobel Prize winner and best-selling author, so the lavish news coverage of Al Gore's latest brainstorm was inevitable. Less understandable is why an idea so irresponsible - in economic terms, in fact, just this side of deranged - attracted so little ridicule. Gore proposed last week that the United States "commit to producing 100 percent of our electricity from renewable energy and truly clean carbon-free sources within 10 years." Not just all new electricity, mind you, which would be challenging enough. But all existing electricity, too. This would of course require...

Gore's surprise visit highlights Netroots conference Former vice president speaks at Austin convention for liberal bloggers. By Patrick Beach AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF Sunday, July 20, 2008 Name-dropping Al Gore and his call for a switch to clean, renewable energy within 10 years was enough to pull whoops of approval from the 2,000 or 3,000 marauding liberals gathered for Netroots Nation at the Austin Convention Center on Saturday morning. So when the former vice president and Nobel Prize co-winner made a surprise — and cleverly scripted — appearance during U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's talk, it looked like the conference might turn...

The Austin American-Statesman caved to pressure from the Daily Kos-Netroots Nation and pulled an article from the newspaper's website that poked fun at the liberal convention being held in Austin last weekend.The article, entitled Gore's Surprise Visit Highlights Netroots Conference was published on the front page of Sunday's paper.It was written by feature writer, Patrick Beach--meaning the article was not a straight news piece (think Dana Milbank.)Greg Mitchell, a writer for Editor & Publisher who blogs at the Daily Kos attended the conference as a panel speaker.He brought attention to the article by posting about it the Daily Kos. Mitchell...

Al Gore gave a speech last week "challenging" America to run "on 100% zero-carbon electricity in 10 years" -- though that's just the first step on his road to "ending our reliance on carbon-based fuels." Serious people understand this is absurd. Maybe other people will start drawing the same conclusion about the man proposing it. The former vice president has also recently disavowed any intention of returning to politics. This is wise. As America's leading peddler of both doom and salvation, Mr. Gore has moved beyond the constraints and obligations of reality. His job is to serve as a Prophet...

Expect the coming week to be one huge Obamafest as all three of the major network anchors join Obama on his much feted (taxpayer funded) Middle East and European tour. We're already seeing stories about how the troops are "overjoyed"...you get my drift. For my take on the media coronation of Obama, check out 'Obama's Magical Mystery Tour.'Obama gave his first speech in Afghanistan, decrying the lack of political progress in Iraq. Our media anointed president in waiting must have missed the news that Iraqi lawmakers have approved the appointment of six Sunni cabinet ministers after a yearlong boycott by...

On Thursday, former U. S. vice-president Al Gore delivered a major address calling on his country to abandon all fossil fuels within 10 years. By 2018, U. S. electricity and fuel should come entirely from "renewable energy and truly clean, carbon-free sources," he said. Tickets to the event encouraged attendees to "please use public transit, bicycling or other climate-friendly means" to reach the lecture hall. So how did Mr. Gore and his retinue arrive? In two Lincoln Town Cars and a full-sized SUV that sat idling with the air conditioners blasting while the Gore party was inside. It was 34...

Al Gore did not claim he invented electricity last Thursday. But the words he uttered in his challenge on energy carried just as much fantasy. According to Gore, the goal of producing every kilowatt of the nation’s electricity from carbon-free renewable sources like solar, wind, and geothermal within 10 years is not a far-fetched vision. In his address at the Daughters of the American Revolution Constitution Hall, Gore challenged America to abandon its fossil fuel usage altogether. "This goal is achievable, affordable and transformative,” the former vice president said. To achieve Gore’s lofty objective, the American way of life will...

algore has come up with an improbable reality, his 10-year, all fossil fuels replaced by wind, sun and other things. A couple of thoughts crossed my mind. 1. Installation. Build enough wind and solar capacity to replace our current use which was 2005 was approximately 4,000 TWh (trillian watt hours) in 2005 http://www.iaea.org/inisnkm/nkm/aws/eedrb/data/US-elp.html . Remember, it goes watts, kilowatts, megawatts, gigawatts and then terawatts. Of this number you can see that the conventional (coal/natural gas aka thermal) usage was about 70% or 2,800 TWh. This is a s__t pot of power! In 10 years we build enough windmills and solar...