Guest essay by Eric Worrall
I guess after getting the science wrong so many times Al Gore feels safer predicting a political tipping point than another dodgy “Ice Free Arctic” prediction.
Al Gore: America Is Close to a ‘Political Tipping Point’ on Climate Change
The former vice president discusses how the politics of the environment have changed considerably over his decades of advocacy.
EDWARD-ISAAC DOVERE
JAN 3, 2019…
Isaac Dovere: Where do you see the politics of climate change right now?
Al Gore: I think that we are extremely close to a political tipping point. We may actually be crossing it right about now. The much-vaunted tribalism in American politics has contributed to an odd anomaly, in that the core of one of our political parties is uniquely—in all of the world—still rejecting not just the science, but also the messages from Mother Nature that have pushed toward, and perhaps are pushing across, this political tipping point right now.
More and more people on the conservative side of the spectrum are really changing their positions now. This election, in 2020, is almost certainly going to be different from any previous presidential election in that a number of candidates will be placing climate at or near the top of their agenda. And I think that by the time the first primary and caucus votes are cast a year from now, you’re going to see a very different political dialogue in the U.S.
The climate-related extreme-weather events are causing millions of people who had successfully pushed this issue into the background and into the projected distant future to now be finding ways to talk about it and to express their deep concern.
Dovere: When you were in politics and talking about climate change, you were made fun of for it. Is that weird to think about now?
Gore: Forty years ago, it was not easy to get people’s sustained attention for this looming crisis. It’s much easier now.
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The Democrat leadership certainly seems on board with Al Gore’s theory, their new Congressional climate committee is to be called “United States House Fellowship of the Climate Crisis Select Committee on the Climate Crisis“.
What do you guys think?
I’m aware far too many schools have been doing damage over the years by focussing on green indoctrination rather than education, trying to turn our kids into little eco-warriors, but despite this I am optimistic.
A funny thing happens after the kids graduate; they get their first set of bills, they run up debts and mortgages, and suddenly the importance of economic growth and the cost of expensive electricity and fuel becomes a lot more real to them.
If you speak French, take a listen to this old guy.
A potted history of French barricades and insurrections.
It’s not pure romantic BS, some of the French ideas are neccessary to get fight back against plain abuse…. same fight, modernising health and safety that was a century behind:-
The Asbestos industry that murdered a generation of people and still dying…(a friend’s daughter just died of it at 30 thanks to being exposed to it in a school as a child…..
The Uranium mining industry that dumped their tailings any old where polluting the ground water or building roads with it (!)
Impact of gold mining on mercury contamination and soil degradation … French Guiana…
WTF… what sort of world is this?
When the fridge is empty on the 20th day of the month or you have to eat dog biscuits somehow to get by….
Fascinating.
That laughable Gore
“Gore: Forty years ago, it was not easy to get people’s sustained attention for this looming crisis. It’s much easier now.
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himself
confesses to lying since “Forty years ago,”
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These habitual petty criminal liars and cheaters Al Gore vice whatever.
Lying since “Forty years ago”. Fasten seat belts heading to | light / lied | speed.
The tipping point is that the observing public no longer finds AL Gore’ s story that humans are heating up the Earth to be believable. Instead, serious signs of a cooling trend are becoming obvious. Look out your window! See Paullitely.com for the full story…
It was only when I reached :
“Forty years ago, it was not easy to get people’s sustained attention for this looming crisis. ”
that I broke out laughing .
So it’s a political tipping point now is it? Well at least they’re starting to tell it like it is rather than the same old hackneyed line masquerading as science-
https://dailycaller.com/2015/05/04/25-years-of-predicting-the-global-warming-tipping-point/
a number of candidates will be placing climate at or near the top of their agenda.
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Could be true. The important thing is, where are the voters placing climate change on their agenda?