I was sent this email (below) from Al Gore’s Repower America Campaign, with a request to “make it personal” by writing to every representative. Apparently they are worried about that dastardly oil lobby again. This paragraph caught my eye:
“Writing these letters is easy and important — and we’ll show you how. We will provide sample letters, talking points, and your Senator’s address — all you need to bring is a passion about the climate crisis and a commitment to America’s clean energy future.”
Well gosh, I can play letter motivator like Gore and play that game too. Here’s your chance to “make it personal” and write your own letter to the editor, and/or letter to your Senator. Unlike Gore’s followers, I won’t offer helpful hints, talking points, or sample letters, because you see there’s a backchannel network for newspaper editors to flag such letter campaigns so they don’t get published.
But if you write your own letter, in your own words, with no common talking points, or fill in the blank forms, chances are your letter will get published. As for legislators, they generally don’t read them, they just count “for and against” on issues. Just write what you know and are concerned about. Send the same letter to both. You can use the links provided by Gore’s website for mailing addresses.
WUWT readers have plenty of material to work with, have at it if you wish, and feel free to post letters in comments here. Or not. I’m only pointing out an opportunity, don’t feel obligated.
Here’s Gore’s call to action, WUWT has more than 10,000 visitors a day, so it should be easy to outdo their effort. Funny, they still think he’s the Vice President. – Anthony
Dear Friend,
On Monday, Al Gore made an impassioned call-to-arms for a clean energy revolution.More than 10,000 supporters like you joined the Vice President on a call to discuss the next steps in our fight for strong climate and clean energy legislation. Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown shared his positive perspective on prospects for bill passage in the Senate this spring, the need for grassroots supporters to get involved right now, and the difference you’re already making.
The U.S. Senate is in the process of drafting clean energy and climate legislation. But with lobbyists from big oil and their front groups whispering in Senators’ ears every day and corporate polluters pouring millions of dollars into ads, we have to fight back with all our strength to make sure we pass a strong bill this year.
We’ve heard directly from Senate offices that one of the most meaningful and effective ways to deliver a message to our elected officials is with a handwritten letter. And by sending a personal letter, we’re demanding that our Senators respond. Which is why we’ve set an ambitious goal: delivering over 150,000 handwritten letters demanding the Senate pass a strong bill this year!
Will you take a few minutes to listen to an update from Al Gore and write your Senator a personal, handwritten letter in support of strong clean energy and climate legislation?
http://cpaf.repoweramerica.org/lettersn
If there’s one thing our elected officials cannot deny, it’s the voice of their constituents.
Writing these letters is easy and important — and we’ll show you how. We will provide sample letters, talking points, and your Senator’s address — all you need to bring is a passion about the climate crisis and a commitment to America’s clean energy future.
So please take just a few minutes and write your Senator today.
The time is now. The revolution has arrived. And the voice for change is yours.
So please, make sure our Senators know that this time, it’s personal.
Thanks for all you do,
Dave Boundy
Campaign Manager
The Climate Protection Action Fund’s Repower America campaign
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The common sense of Nixon’s “silent majority” will save us from the abyss; of this, I am confident, and I don’t worry.
good night all
Dear congress/senate person (is that PC enough?):
You may not be aware of this but we have 5 to 6 decades of natural gas that we can now get access to with shale gas technology. While not perfect it does give us the following: 100% reduction in mercury, 99% reduction in nitrous, 40% reduction in sulfur and 33% reduction in CO2 compared to coal.
To top it off it is available right where we need it the most in the northeast of the country! Can you believe our good fortune? We get jobs here developing it, money stays here using it and it is cleaner than the coal we now use.
We should be looking into thorium reactors over the next 50 years because uranium is running out and eventually the natural gas will too.
So in the mean time could you tell Al Gore to shove the carbon tax where the sun don’t shine and just get on with using the shale gas we have?
Thanks
These people are like a tsunami. The waves just keep coming and coming, hoping to wear people down. Working the phones and emails on healthcare for 3/4 of a year, now amnesty, then cap and tax…
Unfortuneately my senatorial representative is Dick Durbin so it’s sort of pointless to send a letter of anything. But maybe we could replace those terrorists at GITMO with CO2. By the way, I actually did send a handwritten letter to my congressional rep, Lipinski, about Waxman/Markey. Guess what? No reply. But then, my letter wasn’t about reducing our carbon footprint; quite the contrary. So I guess a handwritten letter isn’t all that important after all.
Algore.
The most confused evah. Romm, Algore and James Hansen are having a horrible year. How about the blizzard in the plains. Gore flakes galore.
This could be fun! 🙂
I think I’ll write them to tell them that if they vote for this crap I’m going to take all my government tax cuts, cash for clunkers, house purchase rebates, solar panel and inslation upgrade rebates… and donate it all to their opponent next time around
/sarcoff
“Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown shared his positive perspective on prospects for [a climate] bill passage in the Senate this spring, …”
After expending all their political capital on getting socialized medicine, I doubt that it will be easy to push through any climate control legislation. But then…if all the past rules are replaced with what we have seen transpire with healthcare … anything is possible!
In my opinion the legislative branch has been overreaching its consitutional limits. If this continues, we may have to have the judicial branch put the House and Senate back where they belong – in D.C. and out of our pocket$.
@ur momisugly Tom Judd (21:18:14) :
Actually, Tom, those are the people who need to get letters contrary to their view the most. It is possible to become out of touch just by being in Washington, and forget that there is a large block of population that doesn’t feel the same way you do. A la Durbin.
Sorry Al. You don’t get to waffle out of your climate crisis with a “repower clean energy blah blah” campaign because you’re stuck with AGW. That is your only issue. You invented global warming and you willingly played lap dog for the morally corrupt “climate scientists” who manipulated “science” to prove it. Now that it has all but collapsed, do us a favor – suck it up and own your part.
IF you are willing to come forward and admit that the “climate crisis” is a fevered figment of your and your comrades’ imagination – THEN you can pitch a new campaign based on clean energy blah blah. In other words Al, straighten up and accept responsibility for sending the world on a hysterically expensive, unethical witch hunt against CO2 and the human beings that emit it. IMO, you are a self-righteous misanthrope deserving of absolutely nothing but the derision you are getting from me. Sorry Al. That’s just how I feel about people who attack my people.
So, like they say in the game… Good luck pal.
To make it easy to find those you need to write:
http://www.house.gov/house/MemberWWW_by_State.shtml
http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm
Write now, write often!
This Dakota paper has some handy hints for letter inclusions…
“It stands to reason that if you deal in a commodity that does not exist, accomplishes nothing discernible, and affects nothing that exists, you’re probably going to run into problems with fraud and abuse, doesn’t it?”
http://www.dakotavoice.com/2010/03/european-carbon-market-scandal-illustrates-insanity/
Uranium is running out? I don’t think so. At least not in any meaningful way.
Tim (20:57:33) :
“You may not be aware of this but we have 5 to 6 decades of natural gas that we can now get access to with shale gas technology”.
Hello Tim,
Our shale gas reserves will last much longer than 5 to six decades.
Between 200 and 250 years is a better estimate.
Besides that a new coal to oil technology has been developed that enables us to produce gigantic amounts of oil at a price of $28 per barrel.
http://www.heliogenic.net/2010/02/24/new-coal-to-oil-process/
This will enable us to skip the conventional nuclear power generation and make the jump to fusion. Fusion will enable us to perform the process of molecular engineering to create any resource we need.
The spin off from this process will provide us the energy to generate electricity and enable us to cope with the onset of the next ice age.
For now the availability of shale gas will kill wind and nuclear energy simply by price. Some US producers have said they can make money at $1MMBTU or below, especially considering how close new supplies are to population centers.
Peak oil and the demonizing of fossil fuels is the other great scam besides AGW!
Gore makes use of the peak oil and energy independence argument to make his point for wind and solar.
These arguments now have turned into lies as well.
Big oil isn’t big any more. By far the biggest oil companies are national oil companies now. A national oil company (NOC) is an oil company fully or in the majority owned by a national government. According to the United States Energy Information Administration, NOCs accounted for 52% global oil production and controlled 88% of proven oil reserves in 2007.
Due to their increasing dominance over global reserves, the importance of NOCs relative to International Oil Companies (IOCs), such as ExxonMobil, BP, or Royal Dutch/Shell, has risen dramatically in recent years. NOCs are also increasingly investing outside their national borders.
It looks like no nothing Al is pandering to public prejudices but he knows even less about oil than he does about climate.
Jeez – how stupid are the masses that Gore can claim as his own?
Gaia doesn’t have a bank account. Even if you are the most rabid warmer you might ask yourself… How much CO2 has been taken out of the atmosphere for the hundreds of billions we have ‘paid’ to the cause. You may truthfully arrive at the answer … not one ppm and then see that ‘Al’ has a much bigger house and Lear Jet than you do. To paraphrase “Father Ted Crilly” .. “the money was just resting in my account”.
Thieves all.
Dear (Senator, Representative, Mom),
I am writing you because I am deeply (troubled, religious, in debt). I am shocked that our (world, country, family) has (ignored, squandered, magnified) our situation to the point that (humanity, WalMart, Tiger Woods) is on the precipice of destruction.
If you are in any way (responsible, intoxicated, fashion conscious), you will realize that (immediate action, a large government check, a cute intern) is essential if we are going to be able to pass on our (planet, man cave, stamp collection) to our children and grandchildren.
Thank you for your (prompt attention, cavalier attitude, base venality) regarding this matter.
Sincerely,
JE
I wonder if the folks that write letters for Al know they are helping to make him very wealthy.
From here (next to last paagraph)
http://blogs.wsj.com/environmentalcapital/2009/08/17/astroturfing-the-climate-bill/tab/article/
There’s Repower America, which is funded by the Alliance for Climate Protection and its lobbying arm, Climate Protection Action Fund. It’s chaired by former Vice President Al Gore and much of the funding comes from the renewable and clean-energy holdings Mr. Gore has as a partner in venture-capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, or KPCB.
This is a kind of incredible attitude from such a superficially powerful person as Gore is – sending spam and encouraging to send similar spam with hysterical pseudoscience. One can’t fail to notice that Gore acts just like when he promoted ManBearPig:
Why would nobody listen to him? In some sense, the work of a generic alarmist website such as RealClimate.ORG is more influential and more professional than what the ManBearPig is doing, despite his hundreds of millions.
Jeff Alberts (21:52:08) :
Uranium is running out? I don’t think so. At least not in any meaningful way.
Gee, and here I thought I heard that if we actually start reprocessing old nuclear fuel in this country, as opposed to chucking it deep underground, we would have enough fuel to power the US for a century without digging up any new uranium.
I’m probably exaggerating that a bit, but possibly not by much.
Rather ironic given the Gore money came from tobacco, zinc mining, and Occidental Oil.
Anybody else notice how the logo looks more like REPO America? That’s more accurate, no? Is Gore telling us something…
R. de Haan (22:35:40) :
“Besides that a new coal to oil technology has been developed that enables us to produce gigantic amounts of oil at a price of $28 per barrel.”
The article simply links to itself at a different URL for a reference. If this were possible, oil wouldn’t currently be trading at $80 a barrel and Brazil and Russia wouldn’t be considering technologies for deep ocean drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. We’ve long been staring at the shale in the Rockies and haven’t figured an economical way to harvest it.
“This will enable us to skip the conventional nuclear power generation and make the jump to fusion.”
Are you saying this will give us enough time to perfect fusion, or something else?
“Fusion will enable us to perform the process of molecular engineering to create any resource we need.”
Yes, as long as the only end result of the molecular engineering process you need is helium.
“Gore makes use of the peak oil and energy independence argument to make his point for wind and solar. These arguments now have turned into lies as well.”
The Alberta shale pits are an abhorrence, peak oil will become a fact as we’re consuming it logarithmically faster than it is produced, and the need for energy independence is not a lie, it’s good domestic policy.
I’m going to wrap myself in an extra layer of tin foil tonight as I fear the electro-nuclear carbonization of the northern magnetic storms will be attenuated by the recent success of the Air Force in the AURORA project, and the anti-gravitonomical field array waves will flow over K.C. as I sleep.
It clearly says: Repo America.
He’s got his Freudian slippers on.
Jeff Alberts (21:52:08) : “Uranium is running out? I don’t think so. At least not in any meaningful way.”
From the IAEA
http://www.iaea.org/NewsCenter/News/2006/uranium_resources.html
“Uranium 2005: Resources, Production and Demand – also called the “Red Book” – estimates the total identified amount of conventional uranium stock, which can be mined for less than USD 130 per kg, to be about 4.7 million tonnes. Based on the 2004 nuclear electricity generation rate of demand the amount is sufficient for 85 years, the study states. Fast reactor technology would lengthen this period to over 2500 years.”
That was written in 2005, so already the Fast Reactor supply period is down to ‘over 2495 years’ …….