Ike’s second warning, hint: it is not the “military-industrial complex” « Watts Up With That?

“…that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite.”

GORE LIED: Al Gore: "There's an old African proverb that says if you want to go quickly go alone, if you want to go far go together. We have to go far, quickly."

A search at Afriprov.org found no such proverb. And I didn't expect to find one given Al Gore's history with these types of quotes which we documented on Al Gore's opportunistic contention that the Chinese characters for the word "crisis" = danger + opportunity.

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The incontestable truth of climate change is that a decision not to act is in fact an active decision – an active decision to place the next generation at grave risk.
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11 of the 12 hottest years in history have all occurred in the last 12 years.
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If we accept the premise that we will all be living in a carbon constrained world in the future, it follows that the economically responsible course of action is to prepare for that constraint today.

Did you know that Australia has a "Department of Climate Change" with its own extensive web site?

Australia's Low Pollution Future - the Economics of Climate Change Mitigation (Treasury Modeling)