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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On Al Gores Blog – March 18, 2010:
http://blog.algore.com/2010/03/witnesses_to_the_climate_crisi.html
Lost in translation?
I have a problem with my birdfeeder. A hugh bloated dove has set up shop under it and, by chasing off the other birds, hogs the seed knocked off the feeder.
I have named him Fat Albert.
I am not too worried. My intrepid cat, Killowatt, will sooner or later get him.
stan stendera (18:12:04) :
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I am not too worried. My intrepid cat, Killowatt, will sooner or later get him.
It should just take an hour.
John Silver (23:39:21) :
It clearly says: Repo America.
He’s got his Freudian slippers on.
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If you make the first few letters into an acronym you also get the ReAm Campaign. Truth in advertising is indeed refreshing to behold.
1) Jeff Alberts (21:52:08) : Uranium is running out? I don’t think so. At least not in any meaningful way.
2) R. de Haan (22:35:40) : 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/
A1) You are correct on the totals. I’m not saying there isn’t any to find and I’m not saying we won’t find it. The amount that can be economically mined fluctuates depending on who’s report you read. We haven’t done much if any exploration for conventional uranium sources in 30 years. Worst case scenario we can only economically mine and use what we have today (i.e. no new mines allowed to open etc).
A2) I know. Geologists I know laugh when I say 5-6 decades but I’m assuming a worst case scenario. No advances in shale gas tech beyond what we have today, all coal plants taken offline, all nuclear plants at or past their original decommission date replaced with natural gas, no improvements in energy efficiency, no breakthrough tech seafloor natural gas recovery etc.
Even in the worst possible case for both we still have 5-6 decades of a relatively clean fuel. The idea that we need a carbon tax is just laughable when you consider the amount of natural gas we have (amongst other reasons to be sure).
By the way I’ve been a big supporter of the clean coal idea and I think it is very possible. From burning it in a pure oxygen environment and other approaches it could be great except for political reasons (i.e. CO2). It is insane but oxy-combustion of coal produces exhaust streams that are close to pure CO2. Harmful pollutants like nitrogen oxides, sulfur compounds, and mercury are virtually eliminated yet the “evil” CO2 prevents this from being considered.
That is the great thing about natural gas. It removes and reduces a lot of real pollutants and the hallucinatory pollutant CO2 so it corners them into admitting that there is no real problem. Getting a nuclear plant online is similarly hard for political reasons whereas a natural gas plant is relatively simple technologically and politically.
I am definitely also with Tim here. CO2 is good for life. The accusation that it causes warming is the biggest hoax this world has ever seen. We must just reduce the impurities in the fuel and improve the combustion so that we get less of the harmful substances,like SO2, CO, etc. I am not so sure about nuclear, especially what they are doing with the waste.
Al Gore is the Vice President??
Gee, I thought Joe Biden is.
This seems like a Freudian slip, methinks
Tim (21:42:46) :
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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/
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WSJ, August 16 2006:
South Africa Has a Way to Get More Oil: Make It From Coal
Note: If WSJ makes a “subscriber only” type fuss, here is an alternate source (text only).
Interesting article with some history of the process. Looks like what is already out there and producing is profitable and doing well.
It Has One Major Drawback.
It generates lots of
EVIL CARBON DIOXIDE
thus
IT WILL DESTROY THE WORLD!
Therefore the greenies won’t let us have any more of it, and will be taking away the little bit we have. Nyah-nyah!
Remember, ALL fossil fuels are EVIL in ANY form, so we can’t have them. Didn’t you get you scientific peer-reviewed brochure from Al Gore explaining that? Better check your mailbox.
There appears to be an all-out effort by the Warmist community to convince the public that it’s really a lot worse than they think, and getting really bad very quickly.
Louis Hissink (00:27:05) :
Al Gore is the Vice President??
Gee, I thought Joe Biden is.
Didn’t you get the memo? He’s been promoted to: President of the Planet
This automagically gives him extraordinary powers, like upgrading the interior of earth’s temperature from mere thousands to millions of degrees.
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. </p?
Actually, I have to respectfully disagree … and my disagreement is based on personal experience. Within the past 12 months, I have submitted at 25 letters to the editor of the newspaper where I live and none of them have been published. The reason why? None is ever given but it is painfully obvious. The message in each of my letters is something that goes against the grain of the newspaper’s agenda so they just flat won’t print it. Never think that these people play fair… Newspapers are good at playing a rigged game and can’t be trusted for a moment.
I have the same experience as Vern. I also cannot get anything in a newspaper or magazine. I am pretty sure there are a number of reasons.
the obvious ones
1) left leaning media are usually also supported by ‘green” people, so they will take sides
2) middle stream and rightwing newspapers and mags have to go with mainstream thinking, otherwise they might lose readers, hence, like many other big institutions they steer clear of controversial topics, if at all possible.
3) a lot of money has already been invested in green technology that excludes the production of carbon dioxide. This will include your and my pensionfund money.
Nobody will rock that boat too much.
So we have to change tactics. we have to become more alarmist. We have to start warning that global cooling is coming. But what evidence do we really have that this is the case? What is happening with the sun (lately)?
Bill Clinton does comedy at the annual Gridiron dinner:
Wrote my letter. For all the good it may do.
Can’t hurt. Might help.
@DirkH (09:03:46) :
Maybe kadaka means reprocessing:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_reprocessing
the german wikipedia has a nice picture about the fuel cycle
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiederaufarbeitung
Beware though that 90% of the waste still needs to be deposited as radioactive waste.
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So even with reprocessing, it doesn’t solve the nuclear waste problem. Reprocessing isn’t done at all in the USA.
Oh noes! The Oil And Gas Is Running Out!
…
If we stop using oil and gas, will it still run out?
(I remember a time on TV shows when they would say ‘Your answer on a postcard, please, to…’)
Gore and others are obviously trying to profit from the “believers”. His unintended service to humanity is that he has triggered a fraud so obvious that society will reign in abusers sooner than they would have if he, and Mann, et al, had been less overt.
Gore bores…are we masochistic?