Saturday, April 30, 2011

More from delusional fraudster Al Gore

Want to save the planet? Al Gore has an app for that | Grist
[Photo caption] Al Gore "Buy my app or the planet gets it."
Q. How would you envision people using this app? Would it be a way to, say, combat a climate skeptic at a dinner party?

A. I'm sure that some people will use it for making the case. It even draws an analogy in that regard to the faux-controversy over Barack Obama being born in the United States.
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Q. Climate skeptics seem to be more convinced than ever that climate change is some sort of conspiracy theory. What is the best response to climate naysayers?

A. I do think that the case has been made, just as the case has been made that President Obama was born in the U.S. The analogy holds when you acknowledge that, no matter what the facts, there will still be people who dispute them. But over time, the balance will continue to shift. The reality of the climate crisis is indisputable, and the real-world manifestations are ever more threatening. I do think that it is time to focus the conversation on how we solve the climate crisis.
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Q. Were there things that you had hoped to do with the app that you weren't able to do?

A. Sucking CO2 out of the atmosphere -- that's the only thing it won't do.
 ...I just spend my time between this app and Grist.
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Q. What have you seen in the last year that's given you hope for the climate movement? Are you seeing signs of hope out there that things are moving along?

A. Absolutely. [At the recent Power Shift conference,] there were 6,000 to 10,000 young people present. They were very enthusiastic.
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Most important of all, I've seen the emergence of the most powerful grassroots movement that the world has ever seen. There are, by some estimates, as many as 2 million new NGOs around the world focused on the environmental crisis and the climate crisis. I'm very encouraged by that.

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