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Climate bill shaped by compromise
Original at Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
• Sun, Jun 28
By info@ecologicalinternet.org (LA Times: Jim Tankersley) LA Times: In mid-spring, when the prospect of a global warming bill passing Congress seemed like an Al Gore pipe dream, President Obama invited Rep. Henry A. Waxman (D-Beverly Hills) down to the Oval Office. "He realized that this was a very tough bill to get through," Waxman remembers. At a ti...
Global Warming Deniers on the Rise
Original at Reason Online
• Fri, Jun 26
By acarey@reason.com (Amanda Carey) According to The Wall Street Journal, Australian Senator Steve Fielding recently met with the Obama administration seeking reassurance that human-caused global warming was a real concern. After the meeting, Fielding promptly returned Down Under and announced he would not vote for a...
The Shrinking Consensus
Original at National Review Online Blogs
• Fri, Jun 26
By Jonah Goldberg Kim Strassel: Among the many reasons President Barack Obama and the Democratic majority are so intent on quickly jamming a cap-and-trade system through Congress is because the global warming tide is again shifting. It turns out Al Gore and the United Nations (with an assist from the medi...
Obama Pinch Hits for Gore
Original at National Review Online Blogs
• Thu, Jun 25
By Iain Murray With Al Gore no longer coming to Washington to rally support for Speaker Pelosi's cap-and-tax bill, it was up to one of his support acts in the green industrial lobby, Barack Obama, to try to persuade reluctant Democrats to back the bill. Speaking at the White House just now, he said that thi...
US climate change bill to face key House vote
Original at Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
• Thu, Jun 25
By info@ecologicalinternet.org (Agence France-Presse: Emmanuel Parisse) Agence France-Presse: Supporters and foes of sweeping US legislation to fight climate change squared off Thursday as the giant bill faced a hard-fought vote one day later in the House of Representatives. Former US vice president Al Gore scrapped a planned visit to the Capitol to woo hesi...
Democrats push for votes on climate bill.
Original at news.yahoo.com
• Thu, Jun 25
Democrats scrambled for votes Thursday on a climate bill that would for the first time limit the pollution blamed for global warming as the White House stepped up pressure on reluctant lawmakers and former Vice President Al Gore tried to stave off any defections.
Rob Everett, a friend of Euna Lee, wipes away a tear at a vigil ...
Original at Yahoo! News
• Wed, Jun 24
By (Reuters) Reuters) - Rob Everett, a friend of Euna Lee, wipes away a tear at a vigil in San Francisco, California, June 24, 2009. Journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee of U.S media outlet Current TV were arrested in March near the border between North Korea and China while working on a story for the company...
Al Gore & Davis Guggenheim Part 1Original at fr.truveo.com
• Thu, Jun 11
Al and Davis received the David Attenborough Award for Excellence in Nature Filmmaking tonight at the Arlington, and we were on the red carpet to ... fr.truveo.com
Al Gore Invests Millions to Make Billions in Cap-and-Trade Software
Original at Say Anything
• Sat, Jun 6
By thecynicaleconomist Kleiner Perkins, a venture capital firm in which Al Gore is a partner, invested in Hara just last year. Chatterjee told Reuters that, “This company would not have existed if Al Gore had not bought off on the idea.” Here is the video from April 24, 2009. Is Al Gore lying? I say - yes.
Why it's easy to be a global warming skeptic
Original at Examiner.com
• Tue, May 26
And Al Gore was one of his students. And boy, was Al Gore convinced, as we see today. The problem is that Dr. Revelle began to have second thoughts about the resulting hysteria, writing that 'the scientific base for greenhouse warming is too uncertain ...
AP: Democrats’ security feud may cost them
Original at Say Anything
• Sat, May 16
By Last Best Hope Increasingly, President Barack Obama and Democrats who run Congress are being pulled between the competing interests of party liberals and the rest of the country on Bush-era wartime matters of torture, detention and interrogation of suspected terrorists.
Nobel laureate and environment champion Al Gore, seen herein ...
Original at Yahoo! News
• Fri, May 15
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By (AFP/Getty Images/File) AFP/Getty Images/File) - Nobel laureate and environment champion Al Gore, seen herein April 2009, said Friday that a bill to fight climate change currently before the US Congress "is a good start."(AFP/Getty Images/File/Mark Wilson)
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Al Gore talks with Alec Loorz, 14, of Ventura, Calif., right, ...
Original at Yahoo! News
• Thu, May 14
By (AP) AP) - Al Gore talks with Alec Loorz, 14, of Ventura, Calif., right, at a meeting for The Climate Project in Nashville, Tenn., Thursday, May 14, 2009. Loorz is one of the volunteers who presents a version of the climate change program produced by The Climate Project. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)
NYT Corrects Article Gore Cited in Congressional TestimonyOriginal at NewsBusters.org
• Sat, May 2
By Noel Sheppard In today's You Really Can't Make This Stuff Up moment, the New York Times has issued a correction to a front page article that was highlighted by Nobel Laureate Al Gore in his recent climate change testimony before the House Energy and Commerce Committee on April 24.
Podcast: On CNN, Obama Advisor Hits Cheney: Not a 'Statesman' (Skips Gore's Attacks on Bush)
Original at NewsBusters.org
• Mon, Apr 6
By Warner Todd Huston It is always interesting to see the Democratic pot calling the Republican kettle black and here we have only the latest example of that with Obama's top advisor attacking former Vice President Dick Cheney for his outspoken position on the failures of the Obama administration's early ef...
Opinion: Al Gore vs. The Aristotelian Method - or The Moral Irrationality Of Climate Scaremongering
Original at omniclimate (WordPress)
• Tue, Mar 3
By omnologos Overall remarks As a complete non-expert in the field of documentary movies, my opinion is that Gore is a natural born actor and “An Inconvenient Truth” (AIT, directed by David Guggenheim) such a well-paced work, that it is hard not to feel the involvement.
Presidential Performance in Congressional District: Where Democrats Lost Ground, And Why
Original at Daily Kos
• Sun, Feb 22
By Arjun Jaikumar aka brownsox NEW YORK TENNESSEE TX-01 Gohmert (R): Gore 33%, Obama 31% TX-04 Hall (R): Gore 34%, Obama 30% TX-08 Brady (R): Gore 31%, Obama 26% TX-11 Conaway (R): Gore 25%, Obama 22% TX-12 Granger (R): Gore 36%, Obama 36% TX-13 Thornberry (R): Gore 26%, Obama 23% TX-14 Paul (R): Gore 36%, Obama 33%
Fox News' Hemmer, Gallagher, Wilson baselessly suggest short-term weather impacts global warming debate
Original at Media Matters for America
• Thu, Jan 29
HEMMER: Meanwhile, former Vice President Al Gore braving the snow in Washington to testify on global warming today. The environmental activist making his case to a Senate committee, pressing for U.S. leadership in fighting climate change. Now, the elements outside on the Hill today makin...
Podcast: BANKRUPTCY OF THE ATMOSPHERE
Original at The Radio Ecoshock Show
• Thu, Jan 29
By noreply@blogger.com (Alex Smith) opening Quote from John Kerry on the looming catastrophe in climate change] Al Gore told the Senate that top scientists are screaming from the roof tops: this is our last chance for action to stop a massive heat shift on planet Earth.
Opinion: Guess Where THIS Comes From
Original at blogs.heraldtimesonline.com
• Sun, Jan 4
By Cory Franklin You are probably wondering whether President-elect Obama owes the world an apology for his actions regarding global warming. The answer is, not yet. There is one person, however, who does. You have probably guessed his name: Al Gore. Again, Mr. Gore, I accept your apology.
Opinion: Mr. Gore: Apology Accepted
Original at Huffington Post
• Sat, Jan 3
By Harold Ambler You are probably wondering whether President-elect Obama owes the world an apology for his actions regarding global warming. The answer is, not yet. There is one person, however, who does. You have probably guessed his name: Al Gore. Again, Mr. Gore, I accept your apology.
Opinion: Memo to Gore: Don’t call coal ‘clean’ seven times in your adOriginal at Climate Progress
• Thu, Dec 4
By Joe Al Gore and a bunch of enviro groups have launched the “Reality” Coalition to tell the public there is no such thing as clean coal. The three words Americans are looking for in an environmental policy, they are “safer”, “cleaner”, and “healthier”.
It Always Comes Down to Jocks vs. Nerds
Original at policomic (WordPress)
• Sat, Nov 1
By policomic I've always had a hard time understanding what people had against Gore in 2000. And by "people," I guess I mean Democrats. At my caucus in Iowa City (a college town in what Iowans call "The People's Republic of Johnson County"), the "cool kids" all supported Bill Bradley. Bradley was supposed...
Podcast: Rosen said he's "reluctant to make cavalier comparisons to Adolf Hitler," but has done so several times
Original at Colorado Media Matters
• Tue, Aug 26
As Colorado Media Matters has documented, on his radio program and in his weekly Rocky Mountain News column, Rosen on several occasions has used allusions to Hitler or the Nazi Party to criticize Obama, former Vice President Al Gore, and the work of filmmaker Michael Moore:
Podcast: Flashback to 2000 VP Picks: Dan Rather Chided Bush-Cheney and Championed Gore-LiebermanOriginal at NewsBusters.org
• Mon, Aug 18
By Brent Baker Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore officially introduced his history-making running mate today, Senator Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut. History-making because Lieberman is of Jewish heritage and faith. The two started running right away. In their first joint appearance th...
Energy and the Sinking Economy
Original at Observer.com
• Sun, Jul 20
By Steve Cohen, Executive Director, Columbia University’s Earth Institute Last Thursday, former Vice President Al Gore joined the many voices that have been calling for a crash program-a "moon-shot" national effort to get us off of fossil fuels. Senator Obama applauded the speech saying "For decades, Al Gore has challenged the skeptics in Washington on climat...
Podcast: Gore-spel, or The Al Gore Bible: How the Waylay, the Inconvenient Truth and the Lies Began
Original at scottthong (WordPress)
• Tue, Jun 24
By Scott Thong The Creation According To Saint Albert 1:3 And The New York Times said, “Let there be sales:” and there were sales of The Book. ….. …… ….. ….. This is probably what was meant when Jesse Jackson Jr. said Obama’s achievements merited a new chapter added to the Bible:
Opinion: Bozell Column: Gore Endorses Obama, So What?
Original at NewsBusters.org
• Tue, Jun 17
By Brent Bozell In the New York Times, reporter Jeff Zeleny found no space for negative evaluations of Obama or Gore. Instead, Zeleny passed along how Obama smiled as Gore compared Obama to George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and Christopher Columbus, all of whom accomplished great th...
Clinton/Obama, Florida/Michigan, and confusion over ‘popular will’
Original at The Carpetbagger Report
• Wed, May 28
By Carpetbagger Well, the Democrats’ attachment to the unadulterated popular will has gone the way of the hanging chad. Suddenly, Democrats are sticklers for rules. […] The Democratic National Committee is bracing itself for protests outside its Rules and Bylaws Committee meeting on Saturday in Washi...
Opinion: How Al Gore Almost Stole an Election
Original at Flopping Aces
• Mon, May 26
By Wordsmith President Bush won. So how could he steal what was already his? It was Al Gore and his blitzkrieg of lawyers who attempted to steal the 2000 presidential election, by being selective in their recount methods. Enjoy your HBO fantasy movie, and dream on, Democrats!
Podcast: Gore Used Fictional Video to Illustrate ‘Inconvenient Truth’Original at NewsBusters.org
• Tue, Apr 22
By Noel Sheppard TOMMY LEE JONES (ACTOR) CLIP FROM "AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH" Voiceover) Al Gore's 2006 documentary, 'An Inconvenient Truth," makes the same point with actual video of ice shelves calving. Which shots have more impact? AL GORE (FORMER UNITED STATES VICE PRESIDENT)
NST Letters: Al Gore Lied About Drowning Polar Bears
Original at scottthong (WordPress)
• Fri, Apr 4
By Scott Thong Remember: Environmentalists in general, global warming scare-mongers in particular and Al Gore especially have a vested interest in NOT TELLING YOU THE SCIENTIFIC TRUTH. —————————— —————————— Example of mainstream media using the polar bear pic in a misleading way to stir up fear of g...
Bono confesses sins to ‘father’ Al Gore
Original at Aftermath
• Fri, Jan 25
By pjwalker911 Irish rock singer Bono listens to former U.S. Vice-President Al Gore (on screen) during a session on “A Unified Earth Theory” at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos January 24, 2008. Is Global Warming a Sin? Global Warming: Religion, not Science
Podcast: Albright Critical of Presidential Campaign Media Coverage; Blames Minnesota Bridge Collapse on Iraq War
Original at NewsBusters.org
• Sun, Jan 20
By Jeff Poor On NBC’s January 8 “Today,” Albright revealed she was working with Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign. Clinton had faced criticism, which was heavily covered by the media, for saying the successes in the civil right's movement of Martin Luther King, Jr. were due in large part to Pre...
Podcast: NR’s Goldberg: Global Warming Alarmists Tactics Akin to Fascism
Original at NewsBusters.org
• Wed, Jan 16
By Jeff Poor Goldberg appeared on January 15 at a Borders Bookstore in downtown Washington, D.C. to promote his new book, Liberal Fascism. According to Goldberg, tactics like comparing climate change skeptics to people "who believe that the Earth is flat," is comparable to those used by the power brok...
Opinion: A Short History of Recent U.S. Presidential Politics - Part 9: The Press v. Bill Clinton Al Gore Hillary Clinton
Original at The Left Coaster
• Mon, Dec 31
By eriposte THE PRESS v. HILLARY CLINTON (paging Eric Boehlert :-)) THE PRESS v. BILL CLINTON Let us not forget how the New York Times (and the Washington Post as well), participated in the extensive fraud against the Clintons - and never apologized for it.
Opinion: Which came first: The Intellectual or the Leader?
Original at whateversowhat (WordPress)
• Thu, Dec 20
By Angie There's been a lot of talk within the past, oh three election cycles, about how the "smartest" or most "intellectual" candidate would make the best president. Coincidentally, they are all Democrats: In 2000, Al Gore was considered more "intellectual" than George W. Bush, despite the fac...
Opinion: Al Gore's Nobel acceptance speech
Original at Northwest Progressive Institute Official Blog
• Tue, Dec 11
By Andrew In the last year of that war, you gave the Peace Prize to a man from my hometown of 2000 people, Carthage, Tennessee. Cordell Hull was described by Franklin Roosevelt as the "Father of the United Nations." He was an inspiration and hero to my own father, who followed Hull in the Congress and the...
Podcast: CNN’s Mann: ‘For the First Time... We Can All Share the Nobel Prize’
Original at NewsBusters.org
• Mon, Dec 10
By Matthew Balan CNN International’s Jonathan Mann, during an hour-long "love fest" in honor of Al Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s reception of the Nobel Peace Prize, gushed over the former vice president. "You went from being 'Ozone Man' to 'The Goracle.' This became -- the Nobe...
Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore (R) and Rajendra Pachauri, ...
Original at Yahoo! News
• Mon, Dec 10
By (Reuters) Reuters) - Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore (R) and Rajendra Pachauri, the head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), attend the Nobel Peace Prize 2007 award ceremony in Oslo December 10, 2007. REUTERS/Ints Kalnins (NORWAY)
Podcast: KOA's Newman, KFKA's Oliver repeated myth that Gore claimed to have "invented" the Internet
Original at Colorado Media Matters
• Tue, Nov 27
Oliver alluded to Gore's purported claim to have invented the Internet while discussing an upcoming United Nations Climate Change Conference in Bali, Indonesia, scheduled for December 3 through December 14. During a March 1999 CNN interview, while trying to differentiate himself fr...
Opinion: Al Gore for science czar?
Original at MSNBC
• Mon, Nov 19
By Charlie, Washington, DC I have a degree in meteorology and can tell you that we can't even accurately measure temperature around the globe. We measure it best at weather stations, mostly at airports, that experience a lot of growth in population and industry around them. Temperature is only one of the atmospher...
Al Gore for science czar?
Original at MSNBC
• Sun, Nov 18
By Matthew Kennel, San Diego CA The change of CO2 from the roughly 200 parts per million to 300 parts per million was extremely significant in climate change, it corresponded to the difference between the Ice Age and today. On the Kelvin scale (true physics) the change was maybe 5 degrees (C or K), about the same as what gl...
Podcast: MD003 - Obama, Hillary, or Gore?Original at blip.tv
• Tue, Nov 6
Al Gore sure has been in the news a lot lately! First he won an Oscar, then a Nobel Peace Prize, and now some people are saying he should throw in his lot with another bid for President. But up against juggernaut Hillary Clinton and the favorite of the stars, Barak Obama, would Al Gore stand a cha...
35 Scientific Errors (or Intentional Lies) in An Inconvenient Truth
Original at scottthong (WordPress)
• Tue, Oct 30
By Scott Thong So last you heard, Al Gore’s propaganda film, ‘A Collection of Convenient Outright Lies’ ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ was found to contain at least 9 serious errors… By the British High Court no less. THE 35 BLATANT ERRORS OR LIES IN ‘AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH’
35 Errors Discovered in Al Gore’s Film
Original at NewsBusters.org
• Sun, Oct 21
By Noel Sheppard It should come as no great surprise that such was forecast in April when NewsBusters warned readers of the dangers associated with Gore’s propaganda. For those that have forgotten, a federal judge cited “An Inconvenient Truth” in his ruling against the government for its financing of ov...
James Boyce: Al Gore: How To Count To 2,182
Original at Huffington Post
• Mon, Jul 23
By James Boyce Last week, I wrote about Al Gore and the need for him to start an Exploratory Committee by September 1 and explore the possibility of running for President in 2008. In this post, as the other Democratic contenders gather for... Al Gore can raise the money. Al Gore can get to 2,182.
Opinion: The Gore/Nader conflict all over again, but this time its inside the DemParty
Original at TPMCafe
• Sat, Jul 14
By csampson In 2000, I was quite aware that BushCo. LLP, would be bad for the US. He'd ruined our state of Texas as governor and now suddenly after one term as Gov. he wanted crack at the White House, er...I mean,...a crack at the White House. The two viable options on the table were of course Al Gore, and his...enemy?...Ral...
Podcast: Presidential politics getting attention here
Original at Wisconsin Radio Network
• Wed, Jun 20
For democrats, unannounced candidate Al Gore and Hillary Clinton with Gore actually beating Clinton by two points. But Walsh thinks that's because the candidates have been so much time in Iowa prior to the straw poll and Iowa caucuses next year.
Opinion: Nader - Still In the Crosshairs
Original at tribe.net
• Fri, Feb 2
By Dave-Leon Felt compelled to post this as a spin off from a conversation in another thread - d. Nader - Still in the Crosshairs by MickeyZ posted on Guerilla News Network gnn.tv I was at the gym, walking by a television tuned to one of the many insipid morning chat shows…but that’s not what stopped me dead i...