From EcoWatch:
For the third time in the last few years, Al Gore, founder and chairman of the Climate Reality Project, spoke at the festival on Friday. Naturally, his interactive discussion focused on addressing the climate crisis. The former vice president focused on the need to “punish climate-change deniers, saying politicians should pay a price for rejecting ‘accepted science,’” said the Chicago Tribune.
Gore said forward-thinking investors are moving away from companies that invest in fossil fuels and towards companies investing in renewable energy. “We need to put a price on carbon to accelerate these market trends,” Gore told the Chicago Tribune, referring to a proposed federal cap-and-trade system that would penalize companies that exceeded their carbon-emission limits. “And in order to do that, we need to put a price on denial in politics.”
He called on the tech-minded SXSW crowd, which is dominated by Millenials, to harness technology to launch a grassroots movement to tackle climate change and call out climate deniers. “We have this denial industry cranked up constantly,” Gore said. “In addition to 99 percent of the scientists and all the professional scientific organizations, now Mother Nature is weighing in.”
Years from now, Gore said the next generation will look back at us and ask: “How did you change?,” according to Macworld. “Part of the answer may well be that a group of people came to South by Southwest in Austin, Texas in 2015 and helped to make a revolution,” Gore said.
Gore wanted these young, tech-savvy attendees to start a grassroots movement using social media like they did when “net neutrality was threatened or when the Stop Online Piracy Act threatened to blacklist websites that offered so-called illegal content,” said Macworld. That means signing petitions to fight climate change, utilizing social media to call out climate deniers in Congress and streaming the Live Earth Road to Paris concert on June 18, an event designed to draw attention to the climate talks in Paris this December.
The former Veep even gave a nod to Pope Francis during his talk, showing a slide of the pontiff and saying “How about this Pope?” Pope Francis celebrated his two-year anniversary as Pope on Friday, riding a wave of popularity “that has reinvigorated the Catholic Church in ways not seen since the days of St. John Paul II,” said the Chicago Tribune. Gore said he was looking forward to the Pope’s highly anticipated encyclical on the environment which is due to be released in June or July. “I’m not a Catholic,” Gore said, “but I could be persuaded to become one.”
He should stick to making gory movies.
Andres, don’t you mean he should hockey stick to making ‘gorey’ movies?
As we know, Gore majored in diviity studies,.
1John,2:22 “…He is Antichrist that denieth (catastrophic anthropological global warming”)
Those who control the media control the message. The Liberals/Progressives control of MSM is overwhelming in the US….and probably elsewhere. People like Gore are not only protected but supported as well by the current administration and media to act without fear of reprisal but encouraging witch hunts against the opposition will backfire. It’s a sign of desperation that can’t be hidden.
“Climate Reality Project”
Ironic name.. for a group trying to alter the present paradigm away from reality.
Gore did pay a price for rejecting accepted science, causing West Virginia to move by 40 points towards the Republicans and handing George W Bush the presidency.
You folks in the USA sure churn out some doozy Vice Presidents.
And at the moment – a really doozy President.
Tony should have at least gone a half-speed short-round with him. He would have, ya’ know. 😉
politicians should pay a price for rejecting ‘accepted science,’
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Voter punish politicians. Evidently Gore isn’t too happy with that system (remember Florida!) and wants something where politicians punish other politicians that won’t tow the line.
>> “punish climate-change deniers, saying politicians should pay a price for rejecting ‘accepted science,’”<<
ummm, could be voters deemed you one such politician and denied you the position to which you aspired, Al.
To quote the great Ronald Reagan, “There he goes again.”
’nuff said.
So a career politician (son of a high politician) comes within a hanging chad of the White House.
Then he subsequently does not try again. Circular files the whole idea.
It’s not like Gore was a Ben Carson, didn’t know – Biblically – what he was in for. Or even a Barack Obama.
How does a guy put in all those years, all the sweat & tears, then with the prize so close turn and walk away?
Some major gaping gaposis in that calculus, ya ask me.
“I’m not a Catholic,” Gore said, “but I could be persuaded to become one.”
Of course that all depends on whether the Pope’s encyclical on the environment is in full agreement with Al Gore’s existing environmental beliefs. In other words, Gore is not going to convert or change his views, but he will become Catholic if the Church converts to his way of thinking.
It makes no sense to coerce the measly 3% holdouts into believers if this is what this is all about. It’s got to be something else. If Inhofe is responsible for swaying over half the population, this man should be seen as a national asset! He must have charismatic powers and be saying the right things. Why would Al be surprised that an Oklahoma Senator would be supportive of their main industry. According to Al they have 99% of the scientists, why is the other 1% able to cause so much pain? Why would you want to punish the meager skeptic crowd. Inhofe and skeptic scientists are grossly outnumbered, the skeptic ‘clique’ is unfunded and really only fighting with words. They haven’t enlisted the communications consultants and advertising psychologists that the clime syndicate is always working with.
We don’t have the cable networks and only a handful of newspapers and a couple of radio stations. We don’t get any support from the wealthy NGOs and foundations. We don’t get any Nobel prizes or Academy Awards. Those now worrying about skeptics getting the upper hand must be wondering what wizardry we possess. Skeptics don’t have any universities, any scientific societies any agencies, governments supporting them – hey we’re all alone out here with only our computers and a few wonderful blogs like WUWT to keep us warm. Don’t forget to mention this in your engagements with the warmers. Regarding the products of indoctrination of lefty education who have been taught not to think for themselves but how and what to think, like Joe:
Joe
March 16, 2015 at 2:09 pm
“What’s the big deal? Gore’s just saying that the people who lie about climate change should have to account for that. Shouldn’t Jim Inhofe have to explain to the voters why he’s so deep in the pocket of energy companies that he feels compelled to deny an overwhelming scientific consensus?”
Why should we recant, Joe and Al, if its overwhelming and skeptics are caught up in a losing cause. Leave skeptics alone to suffer the outcome – that’s the only way I would accept to account for it. Man, I knew when that old Iron Curtain fell down, we were in for trouble from professionals who really know how to control their ‘fellow man’ Nearly all wanted freedom but there were enough apparatchik career types, Stasi, well educated professors of Marxist history, philosophy, economics, sociology, etc. who had no other skills and were unemployable in their newly liberated societies. They went abroad to the institutions, the agencies, academia, UN, the big NGOs and were patient. Joe and Al may not know it but Putin funded anti-fracking protests mainly in the EU and probably in the US.
They may not also know that the oil companies weren’t against windmills and solar panels. They openly embraced it. These guys are engineers and businessmen. They new that the technology was a joke and that it would only half-assed work with large subsidies from government. They had the money to invest and away they went. They talked renewables up. They even bad mouthed coal to worm their way into the hearts of the ‘movement’. Here’s a bit of news for you to choke on:
http://cleantechnica.com/2011/05/02/wind-power-is-making-electricity-cheaper-exxon-wind-to-be-cheapest-source-of-electricity/
It’s the tired old leftist story short on facts high on censorship. A small close minded buffoon. He and that idiot Kerry ,the whole democratic party really, have been operating out of same sorry playbook for decades.
Gore couldn’t be a Catholic. Thou shalt not lie. And he’d have to go to confession to confess his sins. Like he would want to do that.
Maybe he’s doing this in revenge for not making him president. And for the money. Money is the root of all evil, Al.
Tragedy here is, NYT just ended the Pope Francis honeymoon.
They didn’t get the memo at SXWS in time.
Sheesh! Some of the worst liers I know/knew are Catholics!
To clairfy, the commandment doesn’t say “Thou shalt not lie”, it says “Thou shalt not bear false witness.” That’s lieing uder oath.
“I’m not a Catholic,” Gore said, “but I could be persuaded to become one.”
So he could be persuaded to be “pro-life”? What a sleazy opportunist.
“I’m not a Skeptic,” in other words, “but I could be persuaded to become one.”
Just bring on the eco-porn and you might have yourself a hot deal!
He might as well have said “as long as the pope says what i want him to, I’ll pretend to be his supporter”.
Sounds pretty good, let’s identify these SXSW’s and deprive them of our energy and materials … not allowed to use electricity from ‘fossil fuel’ generators, no cars, no flying, no stocks and shares in any corporation involved in our generation’s investment, nada, turf them out of their homes and let them live in caves and under trees … the homeless and betrodden would be grateful for this.
Reminds me of The Austrian Lieutenant in the ‘Zombies’ spin offs of the ‘Black Ops’ Series.
“You are dirty …. Dirty! You Must Be ,… Punished!”
Well after all, back in the day of the ’80s, Tipper wanted to “Punish” Ozzy! Cut of his ‘Thingy Dingy’ and eat it on camera … for a heavy PRICE $$$$$$ … of course. Oh Yea. And the CD warning Labels … Ha Ha.
Piss in the Face of Tipper and Piss in the Face of Gore.
Ha ha.
not for the first time in recent weeks, another Gore presidential run is being floated!
16 March: Vox: Ezra Klein: Al Gore should run for president
The most ambitious vision for the Democratic Party right now rests with a politician most have forgotten, and whom no one is mentioning for 2016: Al Gore…
PIC CAPTION: In addition to some interesting ideas, Al Gore has a sun-powered death ray that can obliterate the earth if he is not elected president.
Climate change is a real and growing threat to the world’s future. In 2009, nearly every country in the world agreed that global warming must be held to less than 2 degrees Celsius. We’re on pace to blow through that — warming the planet four degrees or more is horrifyingly plausible…
Income inequality is a serious problem. But climate change is an existential threat…
When it comes to climate change, there’s no one in the Democratic Party — or any other political party — with Gore’s combination of credibility and commitment. Bill McKibben, founder of the climate action group 350.org, calls Gore’s work on the issue “the most successful second act of any political life in U.S. history.” Perhaps that’s hyperbole, but it speaks to the regard in which Gore is held by climate activists…
Moreover, in an era in which very little moves through Congress, climate change is an issue where the president has real unilateral authority…
He begins with a powerful asset in presidential politics: credibility…
He serves on the board of Apple, as a senior adviser to Google, and at the mega-venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers. He’s also carved a path through finance and telecommunications, becoming fabulously wealthy — richer, even, than Mitt Romney — as an investor and mogul. And then there’s his centrality in the environmental community, which is, itself, quite rich — it’s easy to imagine, say, billionaire Tom Steyer gathering some friends and putting some massive Super PAC money behind Gore…
http://www.vox.com/2015/3/16/8220537/al-gore-president-2016
Oh, another Con Man in Chief.
These lizards had best watch their collective arses. Karma can be quite cruel and brutal.
Gore has devolved from a middle of the road effective politician to a bloviating self-enriching bigot. Someone who nearly won the Presidency is actually promoting the idea that free speech must be crushed in those who dare to disagree with him.
What a profoundly evil man he has become.
In general, people who try to harm those who merely disagree with them are sociopathic.
‘Gore said forward-thinking investors are moving away from companies that invest in fossil fuels and towards companies investing in renewable energy. “We need to put a price on carbon to accelerate these market trends,” ‘
This translates as: ‘forward thinking investors need a subsidy to guarantee them profits in our risk-based market economy’…..
Very forward-thinking, demanding that the rules of capitalism don’t apply to you, isn’t it?!
‘punish the deniers’.
can’t help it but that’s exactly what happens the very minute I type that phrase into my millenium gadget.
this very minute. from middle east to somalia to west africa.
97pct conscencors to Al Gore.
Regards – Hans
comment still awaiting …
that’s OK with me. It’s not the time for plain truth. YET.
Hans
my point –
the skies ARE falling.
our ‘experts’ defeated, tired.
mind less.
correct me if I’m wrong. ‘d be glad.
Hans
mod: eyes only
So, if the Pope does what Manbearpig wants he’ll switch his religion from AGW to Catholic?
“God, I’ll be a good person … if you just let me win the lottery.”