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Throw off complacency: 100% renewable electricity

July 17th, 2008 · Comments Off on Throw off complacency: 100% renewable electricity

Al Gore has set a challenge: 100% clean electricity, 100%! Get us (the US, and eventually, all the globe) off coal. And, determine to do this within a decade. People are going to scream that this is impossible. They will be wrong.  This is possible, difficult to do in the timeline perhaps, but possible. They […]

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Tags: Al Gore · carbon dioxide · carbon neutral · Energy · environmental · government energy policy · green · politics · pollution · renewable electricity standards · renewable energy

Deniers Descend to Outright Deceit

May 10th, 2008 · Comments Off on Deniers Descend to Outright Deceit

Global Warming Deniers (and their extreme right-wing enablers) are showing their desperation. Rather than continue with simply confusing people with distortion of data (lies, damn lies, statistics, and statistics from Global Warming deniers), we have before us a case of deliberate doctoring of evidence to distort events. For too many in the American right wing, […]

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Tags: Al Gore · climate change · environmental · Global Warming · global warming deniers · politics · truthiness

WE … WashPost Reporting Balanced vs Objective

April 1st, 2008 · 7 Comments

Tomorrow, Al Gore and the Alliance for Climate Protection are launching a $300 million advertising campaign to mobilize American support for serious action to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in “one of the most ambitious and costly public advocacy campaigns in U.S. history.” One of the real challenges when it comes to press reporting on […]

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Tags: Al Gore · an inconvenient truth · bjorn lomborg · carbon dioxide · climate change · climate delayers · coal · Congress · emissions · Energy · environmental · Global Warming · global warming deniers · government energy policy

CEI: Truthiness, rather than truth, to destroy the future

March 11th, 2008 · 2 Comments

The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) is launching a national advertising campaign attacking Al Gore. And, via the attacks on Gore, seeking to undermine a growing understanding by Americans that we must act in face of global warming or face quite serious consequences. CEI is focusing on attacking the messenger, rather than the message, since it (and […]

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Tags: Al Gore · astroturfing · Global Warming · global warming deniers

Talking Environment to America’s Baptists

March 2nd, 2008 · Comments Off on Talking Environment to America’s Baptists

Al Gore talked to the Southern Baptist Convention with a somewhat unheralded talk that, reportedly, went over strongly.  From Robert Parham’s editorial at Ethics Daily.COM, Gore Delivers Most Important Baptist Address in 30 years Former Vice President Al Gore delivered the most energetic, substantive and potentially transformative speech made by a Baptist to a Baptist […]

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Tags: Al Gore · Global Warming

49 People to Save the Planet? And, one to kill it?

January 7th, 2008 · 3 Comments

The Guardian‘s 50 People who could save the planet is an interesting mix. There are some that I’ve heard of and admire. Many that I’ve never heard of and now admire. And some who I’ve heard of and ‘admire’ is far from a word that I would use for them.  What was their guiding principle? […]

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Tags: Al Gore · Global Warming

Talking to Kerry post vote

December 14th, 2007 · Comments Off on Talking to Kerry post vote

We went backwards today on the Energy Bill. While, perhaps, this is better than the 2005 Energy Bill, the air has been drained out of my (and many others’) enthusiasm for the bill.  Better than nothing. Probably.  Guess what, Senator Kerry would have supported a much better energy bill, without a doubt.  He wants a (far) better energy […]

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Tags: Al Gore · democrats · Energy · Global Warming · government energy policy · politics

Gore’s new venture … clean energy tech

November 12th, 2007 · 2 Comments

Well, Al Gore is taking on another venture.  As Fortune phrased it,  The recovering politician, environmental activist, and Nobel laureate is adding another title to his résumé: venture capitalist.

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Tags: Al Gore · business practice · carbon dioxide · climate change · emissions · Global Warming · investing

Gore: Media, take note, the world is NOT flat!

November 6th, 2007 · Comments Off on Gore: Media, take note, the world is NOT flat!

“There are still people who believe the world is flat … you don’t go and search out people who believe the world is flat and give them equal time.” Al Gore was on NBC yesterday and ripped the media for providing a platform for “outliers”, people who merit being taken as seriously as card-carrying members […]

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Tags: 746 · Al Gore · an inconvenient truth · journalism · media

Al & Me: a chance to see AIT briefing in person

October 12th, 2007 · Comments Off on Al & Me: a chance to see AIT briefing in person

Wow. The news is in. What an absolutely deserved and merited Nobel Peace Prize. And, that Peace Prize is part of something, a discussion that has not stopped, that has not “succeeded”, but must maintain and continue momentum to help affect change to move us on a path toward a Prosperous, Climate Friendly Society. Part […]

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Tags: Al Gore · Global Warming · The Climate Project